This isn’t my content; it’s the original work of Redditor /u/AustinTreeLover and I’m reposting it here because I think the message is important. If you like it and have a Reddit account, go give him some more upvotes.

Here’s the TL;DR: Read it or don’t. Not everything can be summed up in one or two sentences.

I don’t think we should confuse “ ( Read more... )

I was going to write a long post ranting about traffic disruptions caused by collisions. However, I can’t find a good way to say what I want to say without it making me sound like a complete jerk. Thus, I am forced to conclude that said feelings do make me a complete jerk and have instead decided to quash those feelings in an effort to engage in ( Read more... )

A story has been going around about a group of students that managed to send a balloon “to the edge of space” on a shoestring budget. While there, it snapped pictures of the Earth, the atmosphere, and space.

This story is factually incorrect and misleading. This balloon did not make it to the edge of space.

First, balloons rely on buoyancy. You ( Read more... )

Man, I’m on a posting roll today…

Anyway, for those not aware, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued an American cargo-ship captain being held hostage by pirates this weekend. The story is pretty epic, and I highly recommend you read the article.

Today, the same pirate group vowed to kill U.S. and French sailors if they’re found among the crews of their future ( Read more... )

Every so often, I come across a story about simple technological solutions to big problems that makes me smile. This is one of those stories. A guy spent the weekend with his daughters working on a little project: a solar-powered oven. They succeeded. The total cost of their invention? About $5.

From CNN.

When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two ( Read more... )

Jerry Falwell is dead.

scha·den·freu·de -noun
satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune.

"If you're someone from one of the think tanks that dreamed up the Iraq war, and who predicted that we'd be greeted as liberators, and that we wouldn't need a lot of troops, and that Iraqi oil would pay for the war, that the WMDs would be found, that the looting wasn't problematic, that the mission was accomplished, that the insurgency was in its ( Read more... )

(Cross-posting from a forum reply)

This very topic has been weighing heavily on me with increasing pressure ever since 2001 (which is more or less when I started becoming 'aware' of politics). Everything [Darth] Wong and the others have said is essentially true ( Read more... )

Jon Stewart pwns GWB.

Chris Matthews pwns some random Republican congressional candidate who tries to pass off a bunch of bullshit.

I love it when journalists actually get their shit together and get hold asshats to the fire.

I honestly don't know a great deal about the Israel/Palestine conflict, in a historical context. I've read through the wikipedia entry on Israel to try to prime myself, but it yielded little that I didn't already know. One's stance on this conflict seems to be "important" in terms of one's political stance in the modern era, though, so one ought ( Read more... )