this is just painful. (see xkcd)
EPICponyz: PIXELS by Patrick Jean
This is incredible. WATCH IT.
NYC and retro pixels.
(Source: https://www.dailymotion.com/)
Exxon Mobil Paid No Income Tax in 2009
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:
Exxon tries to limit the tax pain with the help of 20 wholly owned subsidiaries domiciled in the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands that (legally) shelter the cash flow from operations in the likes of Angola, Azerbaijan and Abu Dhabi. No wonder that out of $15 billion in income taxes last year, Exxon paid none of it »
Your Secret is safe with me C.H.
C.H.: you can solder some RCA jacks onto the board and get a much cleaner line-level out
C.H.: ugh
C.H.: don’t tell anybody i just said that
C.H.: what have i become
The people behind Mag+ got together with Popular Science and are releasing Popular Science + with the iPad. If a few more publishers get on board with this it might be hard to resist the next version of the iPad.
New Scientist, Seed, The Economist, I’m looking at you.
Area 51 Vets Break Silence
When the first jets were being tested at what Muroc Army Air Field, later renamed Edwards Air Force Base, a test pilot put on a gorilla mask and flew upside down beside a private pilot.
“Well, when this guy went back, telling reporters, ‘I saw a plane that didn’t have a propeller and being flown by a monkey,’ well, they laughed at this guy — and it got where the guys would see [test pilots] and they didn’t dare report it because everybody’d laugh at them,” says Barnes.
(Link)
I love having a president who is actually funny.
Photo of the Day: At the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City.
Presidential troll is presidential.
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Among Weathercasters, Doubt on Warming
Such skepticism appears to be widespread among TV forecasters, about half of whom have a degree in meteorology. A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.”
“The split between climate scientists and meteorologists is gaining attention in political and academic circles because polls show that public skepticism about global warming is increasing, and weather forecasters — especially those on television — dominate communications channels to the public. A study released this year by researchers at Yale and George Mason found that 56 percent of Americans trusted weathercasters to tell them about global warming far more than they trusted »
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: What’s my point with all of these recent posts?
Jay Parkinson + MD + MPH = a doctor in NYC: What’s my point with all of these recent posts?
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I’m not anti reform. I’m pro questioning. I’m for trying to tackle the real issues. I’m for removing corporate interests and doing what’s best and right for the American people. And this “first step” has corporate influence written all over it. I don’t want to be negative. But Congress and the Corporations produced this reform. And they’re surely not omniscient.
A lot of good points here. Brought up by a doctor, not a politician. His points are worth looking into.
(via freshphotons)
Carl Sagan will always be a super hero in my heart.
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video, but it never gets old.
from Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense [blu-ray] [cd]
(Source: http://www.amazon.com/)
“We just have to get over it- thats science.”
– Siddiq (age 8)
(via: freshphotons – NOVA)
To say the Grammys are a reflection of music today is akin to saying what airs on NBC defines America. It doesn’t.
Bob Lefsetz (via jenrobinson) (via mikehudack)
Which is precisely the problem, at least from my perspective.
Last night our President made an impassioned plea to Congress, to the media, to corporate and special interests. He asked them to stop lining their pockets with wealth and power, just for a moment, and do what’s right for the people they’re supposed to be serving. They sat and listened politely, stood and clapped at the appropriate times, and then went back to business as usual.
The real failure is our own. If we want any sort of meaningful change we have to whip up the same kind of frenzy that got Obama elected in the first place. We have to demand representation. We have to fight teabaggers with phone banks and canvasing. We have to talk, and gather, and march.
Call me a cynic, but I don’t see it happening. We’re all »
Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.
Howard Zinn