Republican Rep. Eric Cantor was one of the GOP operatives behind this week’s push to cut public funding to National Public Radio (this Juan Williams drama still has legs) because that would be a “common sense” move to … (continued) Related Entries November 15, 2010 Rangel Leaves His Own Ethics Hearing November 1, 2010 Impending Midterm Election Doom
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The House ethics committee’s chief counsel recommends Rep. Charles Rangel be censured in connection with a finding that he engaged in improper financial and fundraising conduct. This is the most serious punishment, short of expulsion. (Nov. 18)
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Ireland is inching toward a bailout from the EU and the IMF. The country’s Central Bank Governor said Thursday he expected Dublin to accept a loan. (Nov. 18)
Continue reading …The Stitching Studio: Beautiful Products With Flawless Fabrics, Helping Refugee Women
November 18, 2010 No Comment
Photos: Seema Krish. Helping refugees from hotspots like Sudan, Bhutan and Iraq that are based in the US with limited language skills and no work is the goal of soon to be launched project The Stitching Studio. Founded by designers Seema Krish and Fran Z. Slutsky, it seeks to do so through a training program to teach them sewing and embroidery skills in Boston, which they will then use to make beautiful products with fair trade artisan fabrics from India. More inside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Photo: Honda Coming to the US Market in 2012 (If All Goes Well) Well, that didn’t take long! I was recently writing about how Honda might be about to change direction and embrace electric cars , in good part because its new CEO is more excited about them than his predecessor. But I wasn’t expecting Honda to have something concrete to show so quickly, yet today in Los Angeles, the company unveiled its Fit EV concept, which gives us an idea of what the production Fit EV should look lik… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …The Android landscape’s certainly getting crowded, isn’t it? We can still vividly remember the days when the T-Mobile G1 was the only game in town, and now here we are — just two years later — flush with options covering virtually every market segment from the ultra-high end to the ultra-low and everything in between. One niche market that’s usually underserved, though, is the beat-the-crap-out-of-your-phone market. You know who you are: you work hard, you play hard, or you’ve just got an incurable case of butterfingers — but whatever the case, you need a phone that you aren’t breaking, bricking, melting, freezing, or otherwise destroying every few weeks. It’s not that rugged phones haven’t existed, of course. Far from it: Nextel and Motorola practically invented (and thrived off of) the concept, and options like AT&T’s Samsung Rugby and Verizon’s Casio G’zOne series have been available for some time. By and large, though, it’s been a field devoid of smartphones — and these days, that’s just not going to cut it. The kinds of people that need a phone that can take a few knocks don’t necessarily want to buy them at the expense of power or capability anymore. On that note, Motorola’s new Android-powered Defy for T-Mobile USA (and other carriers abroad) is one of the few to take a shot at elegantly combining environmental resistance with a no-compromise smartphone experience, featuring Blur atop Android 2.1 with a 5 megapixel autofocus cam, LED flash, 800MHz TI OMAP3610 core, and a 3.7-inch 854 x 480 display. In other words, on paper, it’s no slouch — but can it hang? Let’s find out. Gallery: Motorola Defy review Continue reading Motorola Defy review Motorola Defy review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Photo via jonrawlinson Shark finning is thankfully on more people’s radar as intensely damaging to our oceans. Sharks are wiped out at a rate upwards of 70 million per year according to expert estimates — far faster than they can possibly replace themselves. Yet as an apex predator, their presence is essential to a functioning marine ecosystem. The voices of those working to stop shark finning are getting louder, which means more educatio… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Want to Radically Slash the Methane Emissions of Dairy? Simple, Go Organic
November 18, 2010 No Comment
photo: Jean / Creative Commons Want to reduce methane emissions from dairy farming ? Reminder: You should, in the US the greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy industry alone are about 2% of the nation’s total. Just switching to organic methods instead of conventional intensive farming can make a big dent, not to mention improving the welfare of the … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A New Jersey pastor is asking his parishioners to drop their facebook accounts. Rev. Cedric Miller says the social networking site is ruining marriages and tearing families apart. (Nov. 18)
Continue reading …Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’
November 18, 2010 No CommentSome comments attributed to Steve Wozniak caused quite a kerfuffle this morning — according to Dutch paper De Telegraaf , Woz said that “Android phones have more features,” which would help Google’s OS become the dominant smartphone platform. Obviously, a statement like that from Apple’s co-founder rocketed around the web, and it’s set off yet another round of furious Android-vs-iOS debate. There’s just one problem, though: Woz never said anything like that. Turns out Woz is an Engadget commenter just like you, and when we saw that he’d left a clarification on the post, we called him up for a quick chat to sort everything out. Woz says he gave the De Telegraaf reporter a lengthy demonstration of voice commands on iOS and Android, pointed out that Android offered the ability to say “Navigate to Joe’s Diner,” and suggested that Apple would catch up through its purchases of Siri and Poly9 . According to Steve, that’s about it — he says he’d “never” say that Android was better than iOS, and that “Almost every app I have is better on the iPhone.” Woz did say he lightly prognosticated that Android would become more popular “based on what I’ve read,” but that he expects Android “to be a lot like Windows… I’m not trying to put Android down, but I’m not suggesting it’s better than iOS by any stretch of the imagination. But it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy.” He’s not shy, that Woz — listen to him say it all for yourself after the break. Continue reading Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’ Exclusive: Woz misquoted! ‘Almost every app that I have is better on the iPhone’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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