Solar Sky-Lighting Ideas and New Inventions for a Fun Swing on Modern Energy from Sunlight

Seeded on Mon Mar 9, 2009 12:28 AM EDT (CleanTechnica)

Also it is a known fact that sunlight increases productivity by sixteen percent. All of these options are designed to inspire ways to harness sunlight, and creatively capture it in playful ways that illuminate our lives with healthy vitamin D and joy designed into them.

science, green

Why I Should Be Conan O'Brien's New Co-Host

Seeded on Wed Mar 4, 2009 3:20 AM EST (CRACKED.com)

I've never abused this blog. While others used it to try and get free Watchmen tickets (which, honestly, I would have done if I'd thought of it first), I maintained my blogging integrity by sticking to the important issues, like crazy sex romps and goading PC vs.

odd-news

Clown Outfit Among Items Confiscated by Police at UK Protest

Seeded on Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:25 PM EST (Planetsave)

Thanks to a freedom of information request by justice spokesman David Howarth, police have revealed a list of 2,000 items confiscated from protesters at the Climate Camp protest at England's Kingsnorth coal plant last August.

odd-news

Nearly complete Columbian mammoth discovered at La Brea Tar Pits

Seeded on Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:40 AM EST (TG Daily)

A nearly complete set of fossils from a gigantic Columbian mammoth was discovered by scientists at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, along with a collection of other bones from Ice Age animals.

science, mammoth

GM workers say wages comparable to nonunion laborers'

Seeded on Sat Dec 13, 2008 4:18 AM EST (The Dallas Morning News)

The wage issue in part led to Republican senators' opposition to a $14 billion rescue plan for the automakers Thursday night. The United Auto Workers reportedly refused to agree to wage cuts next year, preferring to push them to 2011.

business, bailout, autos, work

What's In Your Honey Nut Cheerios, and Where's It Come From?

Seeded on Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:45 AM EST (The Daily Green)

The United States normally consumes somewhere between 400 - 450 million pounds of honey each year, but produces between 150 and 200 million pounds. This year's crop will be in the 150 – 175 million pound range when all is said and done.

home-garden, cheerios, food

Microsoft interested in Yahoo search deal, again

Seeded on Sun Dec 7, 2008 12:02 AM EST (TG Daily)

Microsoft would want to talk to Yahoo rather sooner than later. And realistically, few actually doubt that there won't be an agreement between the two companies. It is more a question of when Yahoo is finally screwed enough and ripe for a deal.

technology, microsoft, yahoo

Obama summons nation's governors to Philadelphia to talk stimulus

Seeded on Thu Nov 27, 2008 12:38 AM EST (The L.A. Times)

Atop the agenda: The economy, in the midst of a perfect storm of financial and manufacturing breakdowns that could dominate much of the new chief executive's initial term.

politics, economics, obama, stimulus

Can Obama Undo Bush's Anti-Environment Legacy?

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:21 AM EST (The Daily Green)

Green leaders also hope that Obama will curtail the number of leases sold altogether, in part by forcing extraction firms to develop sites they already have rights to before leasing more acreage. Oil companies have already leased 68 million acres of lands they have yet to access.

politics, obama, bush, environment