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As funny as Colbert is, his parody and punts reveal a LOT of truth on how corrupt politicians can be… Â Read on… and watch the clips…
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Stephen Colbert had a superPAC. Jon Stewart has it now. But they’re totally not coordinating with each other — or so they explain when parodying campaign finance laws as part of Colbert’s latest operation.
from NPRÂ News
Well shutdowns prompted by fracking-induced seismicity may inspire technology tweaks.
Geophysicists are increasingly certain that expanding production of shale gas is responsible for a spate of minor earthquakes that have upset some communities and prompted authorities in Arkansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and the U.K. to shut down some natural-gas operations. The question now, say the experts, is whether the underground operations causing the trouble should be scaled back or more closely monitored to minimize future quakes—and whether the relatively small quakes may yet have the potential trigger truly destructive ones.
You might’ve noticed that the other Mat and I talk a lot about coffee and coffee gear, and occasionally we say some things that sound crazy, like the French Press is the most brutal “French” invention since the guillotine, or that we’d sooner drink water from a muddy elephant footprint pressed into a swamp fed by nightsoil runoff than anything that comes out of a Keurig. We’re not trying to be jerks, really. Honest. Mostly. More »
from Gizmodo
It has been a royal pain to get the ‘net to do things for me. Getting links to share and posting them on my site has been a pain. That’s why you rarely saw any updates. ifttt came to the rescue! ifttt stands for “if this then that”. How simpler can you get?!
If you haven’t heard of them, I am not surprised. ifttt implies like you would assume. It allows you to create “if… then…” type of scenarios on big level and scale. I for example, set up the following:
It calls each of these services “channels”. So you have to setup the 2 channels, Google Reader and WordPress, which is very simple! Once you set it up, it allows certain logic to be set. Best of all, it’s FREE! :-D  You will see more and more of posts from me sharing stuff that interests me and I think you should know!
Since going on sale last April, Samsung has moved some five million Galaxy S IIunits in its native South Korea. According to the company, that number means that roughly one in every four phone owners in the country now rocks the popular handset, enough for the company to unofficially declare it the nation’s “national smartphone,” a fact that’s pretty tough to deny, given that South Korea’s total population is somewhere in the ballpark of 49 million. All in all, not a bad haul for a handset that launched around nine months ago.
from Engadget
Planet Solar’s Turanor, the world’s largest 100% solar-powered boat, is about to complete its 18 month journey across the globe. I climbed aboard while it docked in Abu Dhabi to take a look.
