So, a flu virus has mutated from pig influenza to be able to spread person to person? Contains parts of human virus, bird virus and pig viruses from North America, Europe and Asia ( Read more... )

Repost with abandon

EARTH HOUR is 8:30-9:30 tomorrow!

NYC will be dark, including the Empire State Building to show support for the environment.

Turn off all your lights and power for just one hour. Maybe you can see some stars you've never seen.

http://www.earthhour.org

"Based on the latest forecast track of the storm, it appears as ( Read more... )

snooOoowww COMING ( Read more... )

Here's my simpleton idea to restart the economy. I have solved the entire problem:

SMALL BUSINESS GRANTSTake the $2 Trillion and divvy it out to people willing to start their own business. Mrs. Smith needs $70K start-up, here ya go; Mr. Doe needs $300K, so be it ( Read more... )

TO dragonintherain

Think Mikhail will make a return this season?

Alaska counted the majority of the remaining votes today, and it looks like the secretary of state updated the vote totals.

http://www.elections.alaska.gov/08general/data/results.htm

Bye bye Mr. tubes man.

saw this on a comment in slashdot today. I lol'd.

So, if you are running Linux at home and pop open a terminal shell, this could be a fun game:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "You live"

So ( Read more... )