another week closer to the eschaton…

A visualisation of US Debt in 100 dollar bills – 😮 WTF? No Way…

Man Gets $330,000 Home for $16 – get ready for more of this kind of thing… my guess is that it’s going to get a lot more common…

Norman Foster Rebuilds Buckminister Fuller’s 1933 Fuel Efficient Vehicle – this is from october of last year, but i just noticed it… and i have to wonder why a guy who rebuilds a fuel-efficient (35 mpg is better than most modern american-made cars) car from 1933 is not advocating that manufacturers should bring it back… is he crazy?!?

Study: Marijuana Not Linked With Long Term Cognitive Impairment – isn’t it time we gave up on this whole “war-on-drugs” mentality and changed our minds? it is not really that difficult…

BP Spills 2,100 to 4,200 Gallons of Oil in Arctic Tundra – unregulated, BP is up to its same old tricks…

Dear House GOP Member: Raise the Debt Ceiling. Love, Ronald Reagan and 40% Less Government Will Be Fun! and What if the Government Defaults? – if the government defaults, it will be because the republicans didn’t do anything… remember that the next time you have a penchant for voting republican…

FAA to shut down at midnight – a preview of things to come if the government defaults. are the republicans really ready for this? i think not…

Teens arrested while waiting for parents in OKC curfew sweep – it’s getting to the point where, if you don’t have the right “papers”, the nazis cops don’t care if what you’re doing is legal, they’re going to take you to jail anyway, and figure it out later… 😐

i don’t usually do this, but Filtered news 7/18/2011 is one of the blogs that i regularly cull for news of a terrorist nature, and on this particular date, he’s really impressed me by hitting every one of them on the head… why read my blog, when you can just go to Russ’ Filtered News

Resist the Temptations of the Cloud! – Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983, so you should listen to him when he speaks about things like this…

Monsanto’s ‘Superweeds’ Gallop Through Midwest – maybe it’s because of the ancestral roots i have as a midwest corn farmer, but i could have told them that this very thing was going to happen when they started marketing “roundup-ready” crops… now they’ve got “roundup-ready” weeds, which adapt more quickly and are more resilient clogging fields and they don’t know what to do about it… i say “learn to eat weeds”… 😐

Comcast Hijacks Mac Firefox Users’ Homepage; Offers Blame Game And Faux Apology In Return – it’s the old “mac-vs.-windoesn’t” battle again, this time involving comcast/xfinity… which makes me really glad that i don’t use xfinity services…

Statehood questioned, so North Dakota to vote on fix – there are only 49 states?

Abu Dhabi Oil Sheikh Writes His Name In The Sand, Two Miles Wideit’s true

Confirmed: All non-African people are part Neanderthal and Genetic research confirms that non-Africans are part Neanderthal – 8)