The German government doesn’t want to alarm anyone but … one of its decommissioned satellites is expected to fall back to Earth at some point between October and December, and there’s a decent chance that the 2.4-ton contraption won’t entirely burn up on re-entry, reports Der Spiegel . Which means it…
Continue reading …The good news is that San Francisco’s embrace of low-flow toilets has cut annual water consumption by 20 million gallons. The bad news is the smell. Because the water doesn’t have enough oomph to push waste out of sewer pipes, a not-so-pleasant odor wafts throughout the city at times, explains…
Continue reading …The Republicans are back in control of the House, and they’re bringing something with them: styrofoam cups. The cups, along with plastic forks and a number of other things seen as not eco-friendly, were done away with four years ago by Nancy Pelosi to reduce Congress’s carbon footprint. Now, the…
Continue reading …Florida Democrats are having fun with an AP story noting that the Republican president of the state senate got the princely sum of $152,000 to write a book on politics for Brevard Community College. The kicker is that only one copy of Florida Legislative History and Processes exists—at…
Continue reading …A Pennsylvania pizza shop owner was arrested yesterday after allegedly attempting to plant mice in a pair of rival shops, in what the local police chief termed an act of “food terrorism.” Nickolas Galiatsatos, 47, walked into a bathroom at Verona Pizza carrying a plastic bag, police tell My Fox…
Continue reading …To get Hollywood producers to shoot movies in their states, governors love to throw around bigger and bigger tax breaks. In fact, “in less than a decade, the absurd notion of welfare for movie producers has evolved from the kind of weird thing they do in France to an unshakable…
Continue reading …Steve Jobs came thiiiis close to being an honorary knight—before then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown stepped in and put the kibosh on his nomination, one former lawmaker tells the Telegraph . What had Jobs done to earn the honor? Why make nifty-looking gadgets, of course!
Continue reading …The Anti-Defamation League accused Charlie Sheen of “borderline anti-Semitism” when he called Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre by his Hebrew name, Chaim Levine . But Sheen, via a letter from his lawyer obtained by TMZ , says that’s not fair—and demands that the ADL issue a retraction. His…
Continue reading …The Chevy Volt may be the cover girl of April’s issue of Consumer Reports , but the magazine doesn’t have a lot of glowing things to say about it. Economically, the car “doesn’t really make a lot of sense,” the magazine’s director of auto testing told the Detroit News and other…
Continue reading …Remember Sarah Palin’s (alleged) secret Facebook page ? Well, it turns out she may also have a secret Twitter account. And, seeing as the mysterious “Lou Sarah” Facebook page was used to “like” things on the official Sarah Palin Facebook page, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that…
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