Hubble measurements support Einstein prediction
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dark unseen energy is steadily pushing the universe apart, just as Einstein predicted, suggesting the universe may have a more peaceful end than recent theories envision, according to striking new measurements of distant exploding stars by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.
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The
"giant sucking sound" Ross Perot used to talk about is back, only this time it is not Mexico sucking away American jobs. It is China sucking away Mexico's jobs. And jobs from Taiwan and South Korea, Singapore and Thailand, Central and South America, and even from Japan. Globalization is entering a fateful new stage, in which the competitive perils intensify for the low-wage developing countries much like the continuing pressures on high-wage manufacturing workers in the United States and other advanced economies. In the "race to the bottom," China is defining the new bottom.
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Alcohol snorting craze sets off alarm signals
Drinks such as vodka and absinthe can be "snorted" into the nose or inhaled into the mouth through a tube attached to a device known as an Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) vaporiser. It costs about $4000. English bar Il Bordello, in Bristol, offered its customers the device at $16 a snort last week and owner Liz Lewitt said it had proved a big hit. The inventor, Dominic Simler, claims this method of consuming alcohol reduces a hangover and is calorie-free. For details of how to buy AWOL, call 08708 508 508.
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Microsoft Agent is a software technology that enables an enriched form of user interaction that can make using and learning to use a computer, easier and more natural.
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"President Bush had a great time at the Daytona 500. He told reporters, 'I like speed.' And today he got a call from Rush Limbaugh: 'Hey, I like speed too! Can you get me some?"
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The California Highway Patrol recently had one of its squad cars appropriated by a perpetrator, and no one wanted to argue with
the 300-pound sea lion that was sleeping on the trunk. The highway patrol has no idea how "Chippy" got there because it didn't happen along the California coast, but near
Fresno, which is far inland.
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So rise, Man, and be joyful! For
WAR you shall have in abundance. Pretend no more to seek after sterile peace, that holds no pleasure for your active soul. Revel in the multiple delights of
WAR. Feel the bloodlust rising in your veins, the mounting, tense anticipation of the moment before battle is joined. Feel the firm grip on the sword hilt, the cold hardness of the steady gun butt. Smell the blood and the cordite. Hear the battle cries mingled with the screams of those that die. And see the surging of the armies joined in mortal combat, and the smoke, the all enveloping smoke that swirls and billows, and then hangs suspended, blotting out the sun. And know where man's fulfilment lies. Know that life is worthless unless it is lived in the very teeth of death, that peace is nothing except as a fleeting moment in the midst of
WAR, that love is empty save as a transitory oasis in a world of violent hatred, that to create is only meaningful in order to destroy.
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