People That Drive Me Nuts

People that suck their teeth!
Like what the hell is the deal!?!? If you've got something stuck in your teeth then go and get a fucking toothpick and take care of that shit. Don't sit there and suck your teeth and act like it's not driving everyone fucking crazy!!! For crying out loud!

FedEx Thunderstorm deviations

A FAA Radar track sequence of a bank of FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport.

Cyclopian Child Born in Chennai

From Trailing Technology

A one-eyed child suffering from a rare chromosomal disorder known as cyclopia was born in a hospital in Chennai earlier this week. The disorder occurs during pregnancy when the cells that constitute the forebrain fail to develop properly and fuse into a single eye. Instances of cyclopia are generally attributed to outside factors like ambient pollution, radiation, drugs and the introduction of other agents that can alter fetal development.

The pictures bare an eerie resemblance to images of Love Canal, a suburban community built on top of the most notorious toxic waste dump in New York State. While the small town was still populated, several children were born without eyes and cancer was hundreds of times the normal rate.

With waste burned openly in the streets, old MRI machines leaking radiation into local dumps, red alert toxic ratings for the city's air and water, and now one-eyed infants, Chennai is looking more like Love Canal every day.

Via Boing Boing

MMmmm Yummy love canal similarities...
When the fuck are governments going to fucking the people!?!?!
Scumbags... all of them

Local Blogger Josh Wolf Jailed for Mission Protest Video

First Amendment Trampled. Man put in jail for taping protests!
From violet blue

...The protest got out of hand, as protests sometimes do, and fireworks were set off, and a police officer was hit in the head. But after Josh posted part of the video he shot on his blog, the feds showed up *at his house*, demanding the entire tape and not saying why -- but that because Josh's video contained federal property in it, they had a right to it.

Josh refused, and in his incredible presentation I saw at Vloggercon 2006, explained that he was concerned about the feds' intentions -- worried that they might be indiscriminately compiling antiwar, "terrorist" group lists. Josh is 24, and a friend. So now... shoot a video locally and go to jail? Our lame-duck SFGate has its head stuck up its ass because they're defending the mainstream media with an article the totally sidesteps the story (ha!), but CNet is on it.

Via Boing Boing

Talk to his mom on his blog.
Donate to his legal fund

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

From Google Video

Apparently we are running out of oil. And there is nothing we can do about it. We are down a path that is unreversable. One would think that we could come up with someother solution. But we can't. We're too entrenched with out lifestyles. We can't turn back!

It really drives home the point and consecuences of running out of oil. It's not just as easy of a fix just switching over to hydrogen. That hydrogen has to get created somehow.

Quote From the Movie:
"We are headed for a shit storm"

"It's a wonderful prospect... All you need is electricity and water... Where are you gong to get that electricity? That electricity has got to get created somehow?!? Usually by natural gas or oil. What are you going to do when it runs out?!" "How are you going to transport your food? Ethanol?? You would have to grow so much corn that there wouldn't be room to grow our food!"

Via Hugg.com

The smart man would go and buy some open land out in Montana and set up a wind farm or something. Just build the house underground, grow the food on top in between your windmills and pump sunlight into you cave with fiber-optics... That is if you can figure out how to make fiber without fuel...

Fuck is that depressing... Actually, it's only depressing at first thought. The aftermath might just be a utopia...


Eventually.

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream

From Google Video

Apparently we are running out of oil. Very scary movie. It really drives home the point and consecuences of running out of oil. It's not just as easy of a fix just switching over to hydrogen. That hydrogen has to get created somehow.

Quote From the Movie:
"We are headed for a shit storm"

"It's a wonderful prospect... All you need is electricity and water... Where are you gong to get that electricity? That electricity has got to get created somehow?!? Usually by natural gas or oil. What are you going to do when it runs out?!" "How are you going to transport your food? Ethanol?? You would have to grow so much corn that there wouldn't be room to grow our food!"

Via Hugg.com

The smart man would go and buy some open land out in Montana and set up a wind farm or something. Just build the house underground, grow the food on top in between your windmills and pump sunlight into you cave with fiber-optics... That is if you can figure out how to make fiber without fuel...

Fuck is that depressing... Actually, it's only depressing at first thought. The aftermath might just be a utopia...


Eventually.