LONDON (Reuters) – UK police said Monday they were searching for a man wearing just a diaper, who approaches women late at night and asks: “Are there any baby changing facilities around here?” Cleveland police in northeast England said the latest incident occurred around 11 p.m. Sunday when he surprised a women walking her dog…
U.S. Okays Virgin Galactic Spaceship Plans
A go-ahead was given last week by the U.S. Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) that clears the way for exchanges of technical information between Scaled Composites of Mojave, California and Virgin Galactic of the United Kingdom to build passenger-carrying suborbital spaceliners. LINK — U.S. Okays Virgin Galactic Spaceship Plans
Power of Pee Runs a Battery
Scientists have developed a way to turn pee into electricity. And there’s plenty were that came from, they point out. Cheap, disposable, and renewable, urine-powered batteries may be the perfect power source for disposable healthcare test kits called biochips, the researchers say. “We are striving to develop cheap, disposable credit card-sized biochips for disease detection,”…
The First Bernest Cast
(Bernest Ernstein has just sent me his first ever Podcast…from Japan…Profound doesn’t describe it as he discusses communication with God….cd) Bernest and God Podcast
Freelance Writers, Travel Writers
(I may have to write a Honolulu Guide for these guys…cd) Freelance Writers, Travel Writers theCitizen: is a unique travel guidebook written for the anti-tourist. If your idea of fun is taking a week off from work and heading out west to a dude ranch, theCitizen is not for you. If you lost your wallet…
Youthful Art, Aboriginal History – New York Times
Youthful Art, Aboriginal History Created half a century ago by a boy in an Australian internment camp, it is part of a trove of 113 artworks that emerged recently from a dusty Colgate University storage space. A bit of writing by the young artist, Parnell Dempster, survives as well. “Now I am 14 years old,”…
U.S. Marine opens fire outside Mass. nightclub
(Personally, I think he showed incredible restraint. If a bottle comes through my window, watch what happens….Semper Fidelis…cd) BOSTON (Reuters) – A decorated U.S. Marine, who had been treated for post-war stress since serving in Iraq, opened fire outside a Massachusetts nightclub, wounding two people, Boston media reported on Monday. Daniel B. Cotnoir will be…
SPACE.com — SpaceX Private Rocket Shifts to Island Launch
LOGAN, Utah—Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of El Segundo, California is putting in place private rocket facilities at a Kwajalein Atoll launch area in the western Pacific Ocean. Yet the going has been tough for the private start-up, bankrolled by Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of SpaceX. SPACE.com — SpaceX Private Rocket Shifts…
China to Build Offshore Wind Power Complex – Yahoo! News
(Go China!!!!!…cd) China to Build Offshore Wind Power Complex – Yahoo! News SHANGHAI, China – China plans to construct its first offshore wind power complex next year in hopes of easing chronic electricity shortages, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Monday. ADVERTISEMENT The complex, to be built in the Bohai Sea off the northern province…
Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter
(Personally, I think everyone that claims Hawaiian descent should be given a free parking pass…that would solve all of these problems…cd) Hawaii Reporter: Hawaii Reporter Aloha, Apartheid A Court Strikes Down a Race-based Policy in Hawaii, While Congress Considers Enshrining One By John Fund, 8/10/2005 8:42:44 PM For the seven million people who vacation in…