Red State offers a pretty good list: The ballot we cast is as much against the Democrat/Socialist/Progressive agenda as it is for all that we love about our country and wish to see restored. Those ballots are much larger than any of us could have realized two years ago. Multiplied by millions, they give us a voice, a voice that won’t stop with November 2nd, 2010. It is a vote of such vastness it cannot be contained. First, let me tell you what we are voting against in November.
Continue reading …DVD2Blu trade-up scheme lets you swap any old DVD (plus $4.95) for a Blu-ray
October 27, 2010 No Comment
We may have to rethink our original stance comparing Warner’s DVD2Blu trade-up program to a particular Maine shop owner , now that it’s announced it will accept any DVD (only studio releases sold at retail and no porn, please) as trade towards one of its selection of 105 Blu-ray releases with most priced at $4.95 each . Add in the offer to waive the $4.95/per shipping fee for orders above $35 and you’ve got a pretty quick way to fatten up one’s Blu-ray library, assuming you like films like 2001: A Space Odyssey , American History X , National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation , etc. Hit the source link for a full list of titles available and other details (U.S. only, sorry Canada.) DVD2Blu trade-up scheme lets you swap any old DVD (plus $4.95) for a Blu-ray originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image: Creative Commons, via IO9 If you live in the United States, and you’re not a conservation wonk or Harrison Ford, you’re likely unaware that there’s a massive UN conference in Japan that’s seeking to outline a plan for protecting the world’s biodiversity. Don’t worry, it’s not your fault — the media has by and large ignored this hugely important gathering, deeming instead to focus on far more important stuff like the latest Christine O’Donnell witchcraft/masturbation revelation. Thankfully, Harrison Ford, who’s … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo: Flickr , CC Squeezing More From Every Drop in Stop-and-Go Traffic Honda is updating the stop-start system (aka anti-idling) in its Insight hybrid to allow the car’s gasoline engine to stay turned off for longer periods, allowing it to be more fuel efficient in certain situations (especially good in really bad stop-and-go traffic, but won’t affect highway driving). So far, the Insight’s stop-start only allow the engine to be turned off for 30 consecutive seconds. This has been changed to 90 seconds…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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In an attempt to cut down on back on consumer waste , one toilet paper manufacturer has unveiled perhaps the biggest change the product has undergone in over a century — replacing that old cardboard tube with, well, nothing. If the advancement in TP technology seems unremarkable, consider just how much waste it will keep from the landfill. Each year, a million miles worth of cardboard tubing … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The United States used to call wayward members of NATO back to the reservation with a whistle or a shout. It decided what was deviation from doctrine, and that decision was pretty much law. When the Obama administration stamped its foot this time, no one snapped to attention. Rather, Germany and France, meeting with Russia in Deauville, northern France, last week, signaled that they planned to make such three-cornered get-togethers on international foreign policy and security matters routine, and even extend them to inviting other “partners” – pointing, according to diplomats from two countries, to Turkey becoming a future participant. That can look like an effort to deal with European…
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Curious where Palm model number P102UNA — the North American UMTS variant of the Pre 2 — might be headed? Since Bell and Telus rolled out their HSPA networks, Canada’s become far more averse to CDMA than the US has, so it makes sense that they’d be getting Palm’s latest handset in a GSM flavor, not a CDMA one (
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Images: Both work of U.S. Government, public domain. The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) is a piece of land owned by the United States federal government located west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). While it gets less press than ANWR, it is another target of the “drill baby drill!” crowd. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has just released a revised estimate on the amount of “undiscovered” oil and gas that is likely to be found in the area, and let’s just say that it is a cold shower for fans of more drilling in Alaska…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev knows a thing or two about warfare in Afghanistan, having ordered Soviet troops out of the country two decades ago, and Wednesday he passed on a little advice to the NATO troops and allied forces fighting there now: Victory is “impossible” on that battleground.
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