From Drudge: OBAMA: ‘Harry doesn’t move real quick’… Dem pollster: Reid’s campaign close ‘underwhelming’… Reid loss would leave Obama ‘politically wounded’… VIDEO: Angle targets Obama, not Reid, in new ad… Vegas: Record 15% Unemployment… Reid defends million-dollar RITZ-CARLTON condo… The race is still close, but I think you’ve got to give the edge to Angle. Reid simply is not a likable person and can be held responsible for jamming through much of the Obama agenda.
Continue reading …Matt Richardson MacGuyvers a Google Reader pedal out of just these items, zero duct tape (video)
October 23, 2010 No Comment
The definition of a good friend is someone who, if you say to them “Gee, I’d really like a foot pedal to advance my overflowing Google Reader feeds,” turns around and builds you one. From scratch. In this way we know that modder Matt Richardson is a good friend, as that’s what he crafted out of a little electric pedal and a disused keyboard (of the Dell variety). It’s not the most complex hack we’ve ever seen, but it is a good one, and he’s happy to show you exactly how to do it in the video below. Oh, and the friend’s response? You can see it for yourself at the end of the embed. Continue reading Matt Richardson MacGuyvers a Google Reader pedal out of just these items, zero duct tape (video) Matt Richardson MacGuyvers a Google Reader pedal out of just these items, zero duct tape (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Greening the Ways We Get Around: Why Attitudes Can Be As Important As Infrastructure
October 23, 2010 No Comment
Street scene in Tehran. Photo: kamshots / Creative Commons . In the latest example of how tough life can be for would-be women cyclists around the world, the new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan has decreed it a crime for women to ride a bike or roller-skate in public — an infraction he said would be “severely prosecute[d.]” It’s little wonder, then, that twice as many Iranian women as men are obese…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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President Barack Obama is warning voters that Republicans seeking control of Congress would roll back his hard-won Wall Street overhaul bill.
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Photo: Flickr According to a story on Mother Nature Network , the SanGar plant in San Antonio, Texas was closed after health officials linked six of 10 known cases of listeriosis to chopped celery produced at the plant. Five deaths have been reported thus far. So what’s listeriosis anyway, and how did get into chopped celery?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …On Maher, Rob Reiner Equates Tea Party to Hitler: ‘All They’re Selling is Fear and Anger and That’s All Hitler Sold’
October 23, 2010 No Comment
Prefacing his remarks by proposing “you never get into a political discussion unless you bring the word Hitler in. You have to have Hitler, so let's put Hitler out there,” as if that caveat lessened the vulgarity of his impending comparison, on Friday night’s Real Time actor/director/writer Rob Reiner ( IMDb page ) contended all the Tea Party needs to match Adolph Hitler is a charismatic leader: He wasn’t a majority guy, but he was charismatic and they were having bad economic times – just like we are now – people were out of work, they needed jobs and a guy came along and rallied the troops. My fear is that the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader, because all they're selling is fear and anger and that's all Hitler sold. “I’m angry and I’m frightened and you should hate that guy over there.” “Right,” Bill Maher chirped in as Reiner, to applause from HBO's Los Angeles audience, declared: “And that’s what they’re doing.” (Apparently, that means he at least doesn’t consider Sarah Palin to be a Hitler-like charismatic leader.) Audio: MP3 clip . read more
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Photo: iStockphoto With a slew of fur-free celebrities and PETA’s racy anti-fur campaigns , sporting a fur coat is controversial. For reasons that range from the philosophical to the stylistic, Planet Green notes , thousands of old fur coats are sitting in closets, unused. Next month, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and second-hand re… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose
October 23, 2010 No Comment
For web designers, tools that give instant color codes from anywhere on their display are invaluable. How much, then, would a tool that can do that in the real world be worth? Hopefully you said $649, because that’s what Pantone is charging for its new CAPSURE. It’s the latest in a long line of tools and utilities designed to help graphics-minded people get accurate color information, a sort of handheld scanner — just place it on anything and it’ll ID your hue in a variety of formats including CMYK, sRGB, and good ‘ol HTML. Think of it as a physical eye dropper that won’t get your subjects wet, a device that just about anyone who’s ever created a webpage would love to have. Sadly, at that price, it’s bound for only the most well appointed of utility belts. Continue reading Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose Pantone’s CAPSURE tells you what color anything is, easily separates salmon from rose originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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