Space News
- NASA STS-126 Report #09 Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 10:00 p.m. CST
- What to do with rotten, smelly garbage when the nearest dumpster is 100 million miles away
- NASA UAV test pilot; distinguished astronaut; two technology investors join Astrobotic Technology Board of Directors
- NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report 18 November 2008
- NASA’s QuikSCAT Ocean-Observing Satellite Mission Honored
- USRA to Participate in NSF/NASA Mission to Study Link Between Lightning and Gamma Ray Flashes
- NOAA SATOPS Morning Report: Tuesday, November 18, 2008
- Scientists Discover New Planet Orbiting Dangerously Close to Giant Star
- NASA Solicitation: Instruments for U.S. International Lunar Network (ILN) Lunar Missions
- NASA Solicitation: Joint Dark Energy Mission Telescope Assembly
- NASA Solicitation: Draft New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity Released for Community Comment
- NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 18 November 2008
- NASA STS-126 Execute Package FD 05
- NASA OIG Report: NASA’s Most Serious Management and Performance Challenges
Political
- DAP Doing An OK Job In Penang
- Quezon Intervention in Justice Commitee, Minutes
- MCAD Portfolio Updated with Professors
- A Colbert Christmas
- HILLARY APPOINTMENT: THE AUDACITY OF BROKEN PROMISES
- The NBA, Soccer, or the Montana Republican Party?
- SAYING GOODBYE TO ANOTHER OF ALASKA’S FINEST
- Republicans Look To The Future
- The Big 3 Bailout, or, is this the end of the road for Detroit
- Lieberman Keeps Chairmanship
- Hugs & Kisses for ‘Joe the Traitor’
- Being Joe Lieberman
- 11/17/08
- Politics & Policies of PPP & Asif Zardari
- Mike Rodgers is a political genius
- Why Chinese Goods Flood the U.S.
- Ted Eats It
- When the wheels fall off
- Dershowitz the Tummeler*
- Czech Republic: Anniversary of Peaceful Revolution
Huffington Post
- Dean Basks In Election Results, Offers Hints Of The Future
- Shepard Smith Goes Nuclear Over Viewer’s Email
- Intense Vetting Underway For Obama Hires: “You’re Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
- Tina Brown: Bush Library To Be “Halloween Shop Of Horrors,” Presidency “A Chapter Of Hideous Accidents”
- McCain returns to Senate, is welcomed by Kerry
- Financial Crisis Changing Art Gallerist’s Approach To Buying, Selling Gold-Plated Excrement
- Democrats Demand Bush Halt Efforts To Place Political Appointees In Career Jobs
- McCain Running For Reelection in 2010
- Ad Sales Down For TV Sports
- Natalee Holloway: New Witness Emerges In Case Of Missing Teen
- Auto Industry Execs Hammered By Congress, Bailout Looking Increasingly Unlikely
- Chuck Norris Likens Prop 8 Fight To Anarchy
- Pelosi Announces New Majority Leadership Team
- Joe Lieberman Katie Couric Interview To Air Wednesday
- Claim: 25,000 Mile Battery For Plug-In Hybrid
UFO Cases
- UFO Casebook Magazine 333-Five New Articles
- UFO Footage from Peru, Taken 11-01-08
- Astronomers Capture First Images of New Planets
- Cigar Shaped UFO in Soviet Airspace-Recently Released Footage
- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Provides Insights into UFO Phenomena
- Government Calls in X-Files Team
- Video of Unknown Object/Helicopter-Mexico
ATS
- The Bankers Manifesto of 1892 - MUST READ! (46 flags)
- Real Contrail Science, why they persist and why they spread out and why they are not chemtrails (41 flags)
- Must See! Video:38 levels above Top Secret! (33 flags)
- Introduction to Atlantology (32 flags)
- Ufo filmed in France,16/11/08 is this for real ?Very bizarre. (20 flags)
- Stacking - astronomy technique applied to UFO videos (18 flags)
- IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming (17 flags)
- Alzheimers Disease Now Striking Americans in Their 40s (16 flags)
Iraq War
- 2 GIs, 2 U.S. Workers Killed In Iraq Blast
- GI Killed In Ambush Outside Baghdad
- Aussie Combat Troops Home From Iraq
- Big Oil Poised To Do Business With Iraq
- Iraqi Troops Arrest Senior Sadrist
- Baghdad Calm Shattered By Deadly Bombing
- Pentagon: Shooting Of Journalist Justified
- Iraq Turns A Corner, But Can It Last?
- Marine Cleared In Haditha Massacre
- Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraqi Soccer Fans
- U.S.-Iraq Security Talks Hit “Dead End”
- Militias Gone But Fear Remains In Basra
- U.S. Launches Airstrike In Northern Iraq
Top Science News
- Black Holes Are The Rhythm At The Heart Of Galaxies
- Broccoli May Lower Lung Cancer Risk In Smokers
- NASA Tests First Deep-Space Internet
- New Equation Provides More Accurate Estimates Of Kidney Function
- What The Social Lives Of Brewer’s Yeast Say About Evolution
- The Psychology Of Deja Vu
- Long-lost ‘Furby-like’ Primate Discovered In Indonesia
- Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Shows
- Light Inside Sponges: Sponges Invented (and Employed) The First Fiber Optics
- ECG Tests No Better Than Routine Clinical Assessment At Predicting Future Heart Disease, Study Finds
- Student Achieves Control Of Collagen Nanofibers To Manufacture Synthetic Knee Cartilage
- Necessary Lattes? People Short On Self-control Categorize More Items As Necessities
- New Planet Discovered Orbiting Dangerously Close To Giant Star
- Patient’s Own Stem Cells Can Be Used To Treat Heart Failure
Homeland Security
- General Aviation Fact Sheet
- Secretary Chertoff, Irish Minister on Aviation Preclearance Agreement
- Agreement with Ireland on Aviation Preclearance
- Requirements for Private Aircraft Arriving and Departing the U.S. Fact Sheet
- Secretary Chertoff’s Remarks on Aviation Security Measures
- Visa Waiver Program Expansion Fact Sheet
- New Private Aircraft Requirements
- ESTA Authorization Required for All Visa Waiver Program Countries Beginning January 12
- $7.5 Million Grant for Workforce Training in Gulf
- Transparency Initiative’s Second Phase Launched
- Security Standards for Freight, Passenger Rail Systems
- Fact Sheet: Freight, Passenger Rail Systems Security Standards
- DHS Signs Agreement with Republic of Korea on Combating Crime
- O’Dell Encourages Miami Construction Industry to Invest in New Orleans and Gulf Coast
- DHS Has Radiological/Nuclear Detection Exercise
- Secretary Chertoff’s Statement on Transition Efforts
- Chertoff’s Statement on Resignation of Asst. Secretary of ICE
- Fact Sheet: FY 2009 Grants
- Secretary Chertoff’s Remarks on FY 2009 Homeland Security Grant Program Guidance, Allocations
- DHS Announces FY 2009 Grant Guidance for over $3 Billion
Alternative News
- The War at Home
- The Power Elite Playbook, Japan, Land of Western Industrialization Part 16
- BPA leaches from ’safe’ products
- Malthusian Snobs Pray for Birdflu to Cure Overpopulation
- On The Road to Moronity
- Corporate Media Selling “Personal Genomics”
- Prince Charles Wants to Speak out as King
- Obama Dips Into Think Tank for Talent
- Outing of ‘born collector’s’ rare Garters, Thistles, Fleeces and more
- The End of A World
- The Saudis’ dubious interfaith agenda at the UN
- An Offer They Couldn’t Refuse
- Why Obama Will Be Worse Than Bush
- Secret Directed-Energy Tech Protecting the President?
- Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition)
Alternative News II
- Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout
- Priority #1 for Working America — Make It Easier to Unionize
- Vancouver’s Radical Approach to Drugs: Let Junkies Be Junkies
- Dems’ Big Risk: Lieberman Keeps Chairmanship, Caucus Membership
- Why Prop 8 Passed in California: The Myth of the Black/Gay Divide
- Having a ‘Better’ Economist in Obama’s Treasury Won’t Cut It
- Mark Weisbrot: South America: Can Recession Be Avoided?
- Deb Price: Yet Another Reason the GOP Failed
- Amy Goodman: Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout
- Robert Scheer: Cold War Hawks Hovering Around Obama
- Sean Gonsalves: Obama’s Opening Moves
- David Sirota: Bush Playing Chicken With Detroit in Last-Gasp Effort to Demoralize the Dems
- Norman Solomon: Obama Has a Mandate to Spread the Wealth
- Jim Hightower: The Five Most Wanted Rip-off Artists from Wall Street and Washington
- South America: Can Recession Be Avoided?
- 2008 Results: Fewer White Voters, While Minorities Set Records
- The Prospects for Drug Reform in Obama’s Washington
- 2008 Results: Fewer White Voters, While Minorities Set Records
- Having a ‘Better’ Economist in Obama’s Treasury Won’t Cut It
- Afghanistan Abyss Awaits Obama
Alternative News IV
- Israeli Authorities Order Evacuation of al-Kurd Family from Protest Tent in East Jerusalem
- Israeli Government Criticizes UK Government’s Move to Clearly Label Settlement Made Products
- Jerusalem Diaries: Home Demolitions in the Palestinian Village of Um Tuba
- Israel Demolishes Homes, Animal Shelters in Palestinian Village of Shuqba
- Continued border closures force UN to suspend food aid to 750,000 Gazans
- Municipal Elections in Israel: Continuity and Change
- Thousands of Palestinians Demonstrate against Construction of “Museum of Tolerance” …
- Blackout in Gaza due to Tightened Israeli Restrictions
- False Equivalence: The Israeli Military Calls for Action against the Left to Project Balance to …
- Israel Evicts al-Kurd Family from Home in East Jerusalem
Alternative News III
- Congress taking admin to court on subpoenas…
- Judge: Why? Congress can arrest admin officials
- Terror attack a ‘big advantage’: McCain strategist
CNN’s Cafferty: ’stupidity’ - Obama camp: ‘complete disgrace’
- Feingold: ‘Farce’ FISA deal may hide impeachable offenses
- Fox’s Ingraham: Kim Jong Il supports Obama
- Bush neocons ever-present in McCain camp
- Dobson: Obama ‘distorting’ Bible, has ‘confused theology’
- Asian-American to McCain: We pay taxes, too!
- Muslims feeling shunned by Obama?
- McCain adviser: Public financing like being POW
- Obama: I’ll close ‘Enron loophole’
- Clinton, Obama rally Friday
- ‘Perfect storm’ to attack Iran coming soon: former CIA officer
- Studios: AM/FM radio ‘a form of piracy’
- EU-Russia talks tripped by Irish
- Houston enjoying high oil prices?
- Obama drops ’silly’ campaign seal
- Food-seeking crowd in WI ‘became unruly’
- Beatles explore video game venture
Digg Science
- Women Find Scarred Men Attractive When Looking For a Fling
- 7 Depressing Environmental Stories
- X-Ray Discovery Sparked 19th-Century DIY Craze
- How Cells Take Out The Trash To Prevent Disease
- New Cost-Effective Battery Tested to Store Wind-Power
- Search for life on Mars is frozen, says leading Professor
- Hunger among U.S. children skyrockets
- Why does the Sombrero Galaxy look like a hat?
- APOD: Restored: First Image of the Earth from the Moon
- Unhappy People Watch Lots More TV
- Large Hadron Collider repairs to cost $21 million
- NASA Restores Historic Lunar Orbiter Image
- Invention: Healing accelerator
- New evidence of oceans on Mars!
- Is Recycling Worth It? The Economic and Environmental Impact
- Forgotten but not gone — how the brain takes care of things
- Skinny models a ‘turn off’ in advertising, claim scientists
- Sci-Fi Space Robots: Top Five
- We Used To Recycle Everything; What Happened?
- MIT - A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner
Buzzle Science & Tech
- No More Errors with the Duplex Scanner
- Get Started with Renewable Energy
- Reducing Fuel Costs and Increasing Fleet Productivity
- Nokia Mobile Phones: Star of the Mobile Brand in the World
- The Background of an Alternative Source of Energy
- Nokia N96 - Has Incredible Memory and Multimedia Features
- Assessment in Education
- Paper Made From Rocks? - Meet New Energy Steward
- Run Your Car on Water and Gas - Myth Busted!
- Building Your Own Solar Panels - Save $1000s Per Year
- Pulse Smartpen - College Just Got Smarter
- Biotech Companies Hit Investment Milestones by Outsourcing to Expert Partner
- Water Power Cars - How to Use Water to Get More MPG
- FDA Continues to Warn about Counterfeit Drugs
- Hybrid Electric Vehicle Power Systems Receive Major Upgrade
Fark Tech
- [Cool] Nineteen high-scoring old-school video games. In those days, we clicked on slideshow links, and we loved it
- [Cool] JPL/NASA unveils interplanetry internet, brings Caturday to Mars
- [Spiffy] Woman becomes first person to receive organ transplant grown using her own cells
- [Cool] Dubbed g-speak, the mind bending OS is “the first major step in [a] computer interface since 1984.”
- [Interesting] And my lady, she went downtown/ She bought some ber-ra-ccoli/ to stop smokinnnn’/ She’s chop’in broccoli/ Chop’in brocco-li/ Chop’in brocco-loco -lay -eaa -eaa -eaa–eeee
- [Amusing] “Lord of the Matrix,” “Grand Theft Indiana Jones,” and other video game collisions we’d like to see
- [Amusing] Having trouble thinking of new douchey Facebook statuses? Then this tool is for you
- [Cool] 25 online multiplayer games for iPhone. Great, another gaming platform where you can get your ass handed to you by pre-teens
- [Cool] Dwarf planet shows signs of weather. Sadly, no indication of actual dwarves
- [Obvious] World’s flattest car goes 100mph, but still looks stupid doing it (pic)
- [Followup] Another day, another “Arrested Development” movie confirmation. This time, Ron Howard
- [Interesting] Video games that will probably suck this Christmas buying season
- [Obvious] Scientific consensus is that scientists avoid politically unpopular research
- [Spiffy] Boycott of Kentucky ends after state backs down on gambling domain forfeitures. “For some of us here the hardest part of this boycott has been abstaining from bourbon.”
- [Scary] Spider goes missing on International Space Station. What could possibly go wrong?
- [Cool] Google finally found its voice…and it sounds like phone sex
- [Obvious] Watchmen answers the “squid or no squid?” question (warning: spoiler in link, probably in thread, too)
- [Interesting] Kangaroo genome very close to humans’, explaining their propensity to punch each other, jump around, and lock children in their basements
- [Dumbass] Schoolboy collapses and goes into convulsions playing World of Warcraft, which inadvertently gives him more exercise than he’s had for months
- [Interesting] National Geographic to start making video games. Sequel to Big Game Hunter likely not in plans