[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- New approach (BBC News)
- How UK foreign policy will shape under its coalition
- Five Creatures That Prove Life Could Exist On Other Planets (Or In Space) [Mad Science]
- Want to know what life will look like on other planets? Look no farther than these five creatures, who are already prepared for life on Saturn's moon Titan – or in the hard vacuum of deep space.
[I am skeptical. -L]
- Keep Your System Clean with BleachBit (Linux Today)
- "With just a few mouse clicks, this nifty little utility can help you to purge all the junk produced by the system and installed applications."
- A Truly Touching Moment (Must Read)
- Survivors from the exploded oil rig out in the Gulf arrive on shore after 27 hours on a rescue boat. Transocean, the owner of the rig, takes them to a hotel in New Orleans. Want to leave the hotel? All you have to do is sign this little form saying you haven't been injured and didn't see anything wrong that might have caused the accident. That's what some of the rescuees are now claiming.
- Levin Wants DADT Repeal in Defense Authorization Bill; Needs 15 Votes in Committee (Firedoglake)
- This is entirely doable, but a helping hand from the guy who promised repeal this year in his State of the Union address would help.
- Spring Re-Runs (Echidne)
- Recycling is a very good thing, right?
Here are three of my posts which are still worth reading. They are on the argumentative side. Well, they are nasty posts, but I still like them. You might, too.
The first one is about obesity as a metaphor, the second one about the complicated relationships between oppression and goodness and the third one about farting in the wind.
- Once Again: California Is Not Greece (Calitics)
- Dan Walters examines the comparison and, though noting that California's current debt is FAR lower than Greece's a fraction of GDP, says California is on track to become another Greece…
California also has resources Greece simply doesn't have, besides the fact that our economy is much, much larger than theirs. California is not only part of a single currency, but has financial and monetary institutions to match that single currency (that's what the US Constitution was all about – facing a situation in 1787 very similar to what the eurozone faces now, the US chose greater integration). The US government has the power to backstop California debt, and although the Obama Administration has been reluctant to use such power, they have been willing to help send financial aid to Sacramento and appear willing to do it again.
Ultimately the "California is Greece" comparison obscures the deeper problems we face. California isn't facing a debt problem and we're not facing a spending problem…
[Other places and things which Google tells me are not Greece:
Venezuela
United Kingdom
Spain
Portugal
Athens (??)
New England
the real news story today (it's Fannie and Freddie, apparently)
Macedonia
Crete
Australia
Ireland
Mersyside
Cyprus
the worry (it's the Euro Zone)
The Kingdom of Greece
Germany
Japan
Canada
Turkey
MACEDONIA IS NOT GREECE!!!!!!!! NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL BE!!!!!!! P.S.THESSALONIKI IS OURS!!!!!!!!! LONG LIVE MACEDONIAN REPUBLIC.In conclusion: Canada.
-L]
- A Giant Oarfish, The Sea Serpent Of Yore, Washes Up in Sweden [Monsters Among Us]
- A specimen of the 11-foot-long giant oarfish – the world's longest bony fish – was found yesterday in Bovallstrand, Sweden. The fish, also known as the "king of herrings," hasn't been seen in Sweden in the last 130 years.
- Use an Extra Drive As a Scratch Disk for Increased Speed and Space [Hardware]
- When you edit photos and video, files are constantly cached to your internal drive by default, which can slow you down quite a bit. You can make your system run faster by caching these files to an external drive instead.
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