1 day ago by Keith

It’s that time again. This week the guys take turns skipping out on Dave in the middle of the show, but we still managed to pull together a ton of great content, and a couple of surprise guest appearances toward the end of the show. Show Notes Welcome Tech News Google Map Adds Disaster Alerts Boffin ...

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2 days ago by Weldon Berger

First, let me say that those to whom Glenn Greenwald is anathema should just move along now, because his Salon column is where I ran across this item and I know some people just shut down their forebrains when they see his name. For a very long time now, I have been saying that if George Bush did so ...

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2 days ago by quierosaber

The whole world knows how useful and advantageous social networking sites have been in toppling dictatorial regimes. The whole world, likewise, knows how distance between nations have been ‘shrunk’ by social media, as well, in that events anywhere are easily known by anybody. This could never be mor ...

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5 days ago by The Medievalist

Do you keep every odd bit of paper that floats into your life? Do you have random piles of junk mail, old receipts, antique bank statements, odd scraps of paper with strange or cryptic messages? "Call Charles--cat caught in disposal--need plumber or animal control?" But you not only don't recognize ...

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5 days ago by Michael Zhang

Photographer Brock Davis likes playing with food. Among his food related experiments are recreations of famous explosions done with cauliflower. The image above shows the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Here’s the original famous photo taken that day: The Hindenberg airship disaster in 1937: The ...

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5 days ago by BNO News

TAYASAN, PHILIPPINES (BNO NEWS) -- A powerful earthquake struck the central Philippines on late Monday morning, destroying scores of buildings and generating a small tsunami, officials said. At least seven people were killed. The 6.9-magnitude earthquake at 11.49 a.m. local time (0349 GMT) was cente ...

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6 days ago by Kimmer

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6 days ago by Rob Bluey

President Obama has used his executive power in many ways to expand the role of government. But there’s one area that stands out: Obama’s frequent and repeated use of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to issue emergency and disaster declarations. Heritage’s Matt Mayer reports that Obama “evisc ...

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6 days ago by Crof

Via The Mainichi Daily News: Falsified labor deals rampant at Japan's nuke plants, says suspect. Excerpt: A power plant construction and maintenance firm has falsified worker contracts for temporary labor at nuclear plants across Japan for years, according to statements by one of the company's emplo ...

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7 days ago by 911threa

Timeline: Major peacetime ship disasters since the Titanic Reuters Following is a timeline of some of the major peacetime shipping disasters since the Titanic sank 100 years ago: April 15, 1912 – CANADA – The White Star passenger liner Titanic sank on its maiden voyage off Newfoundland after hitting ...

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