fafblog

http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/breaking-terror-update.html

hlj_dollslatest

http://www.hlj.com/product/AZNSAR177GRY?nav=rss

hlj_dollslatest

http://www.hlj.com/product/AZNBS028BLK?nav=rss

atrios

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/bRuz/~3/t-7QMPfUpa0/they-loved-myth.html

Yet both Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney, Farmer says, provided palpably false versions that touted the military’s readiness to shoot down United 93 before it could hit Washington. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Northeast Air Defense Sector had been informed of the hijacking, United 93 had already crashed. Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad rec­ords to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that “fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney.”

Farmer further observes that the Bush administration wrongly asserted that the chain of command functioned on 9/11; that President Bush issued an authorization to shoot down hijacked commercial flights; and that top officials at F.A.A. headquarters coordinated their actions with the military. Farmer’s verdict: “History should record that whether through unprecedented administrative incompetence or orchestrated mendacity, the American people were misled about the nation’s response to the 9/11 attacks.”

atrios

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/bRuz/~3/vLkDVJt3fIU/hard-work.html

boing_boing

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4moae9OmJs4/saturday-morning-sci-5.html

The Ruben's Tube: Proving that basic science concepts are more fun to learn when you add open flames since 1904. Want to build your own? There's an Instructables for that.

atrios

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/bRuz/~3/ttAt8qz250k/bye-bye.html

THE SUBJECT LINE on the e-mail simply reads, "The End."

As in, the end of the Valley Club, the small, sleepy Huntingdon Valley community pool that was thrust into the national spotlight this past summer, allegedly for discriminating against minority campers who'd signed up to swim there for 90 minutes each week.

Yesterday, Valley president John Duesler announced that the club's board of directors had voted 5-1 to file this week for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

cuteoverload

http://cuteoverload.com/2009/11/14/check-it-out-im-an-elephant/

http://cuteoverload.com/?p=34996

Guys, guys, lookit!  I got the big head, with the long nose thingy!  Wait, I’ll make the funny noise: Phhheeeaaaauuuuuuummmmpf! Hey, somebody throw me a peanut!

Peanut!  Because I’m an elephant, ya get it?  Guys?  Where’d everybody go?

Shot and submitted by Tod B., who was sooo in the right place at the right time.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Crawlies

atrios

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/bRuz/~3/2ERsCHRx5ww/good-morning-thread.html

pharyngula

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/pharyngula/~3/77OFly1PE6o/my_visit_to_purdue.php

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/11/my_visit_to_purdue.php

Jen has the full account, complete with a video, of my talk. I was a rude boy.

Right now, I'm in Bloomington, at the "Current Frontiers in Evolution, Development and Genomics" conference. I gave the keynote last night — which means I am now free to sit back and simply enjoy the meeting without fretting over a silly talk any more. I think I'll be able to get online in the auditorium, so you may be subject to more live-blogging of evo-devo over the course of the day.

I see we've got events scheduled all day long, up to 11pm. I might die.

boing_boing

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bkIKetuIjfQ/homemade-globe.html

here is the plastic beach ball covered in paint for the inside of the sphere-half mold...

the stand was made from scraps of red oak from a computer table i built...

boing_boing

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-o_-CQ6_nXE/tsa-bans-snowglobes.html

TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate the volume of a object by measuring its displacement. If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint. It would be a lovely counterpoint to your other scientific tests, such as the ducking stool and the spirit-rattles.

"Snow globes are not permitted to be carried through security checkpoints," said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Dwayne Baird.

The reason is that the globes contain liquids, and TSA rules say that only liquids, gels or aerosols in containers of three ounces or less are allowed through security in carry-on bags...

"I would think they would just say 'no,' because they can't really determine how many ounces are in there," Baird said.

boing_boing

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/L2TYNjOGz9M/remixing-the-default.html

Twitter Avatars (Thanks, Adam!)

neatorama

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neatorama/~3/jcJ_pGcKzeQ/

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/the-manhattan-bridge-turns-100/

Often overlooked and certainly overshadowed by its more famous neighbor, the Manhattan Bridge will, this December, become a centenarian.  Quite a feat, all told, as the bridge’s history has been full of issues to say the least.

Gustov Lindenthal’s first design was thrown out purely for reasons of aesthetics. He came back with another idea – incorporating two thin-profile steel towers. This idea was retained but his main plan – four cables made of immense chains of eye bars (lengths of steel at least ten foot long joined at each end by steel pins) was again rejected. Perhaps the thought of what was essentially a gargantuan bicycle chain put the chills up the spine of the city fathers.

Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by taliesyn30.

neatorama

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Neatorama/~3/L6KRrmAb9nI/

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/14/my-parents-were-awesome/

My parents are awesome has to be one of the best tumblr accounts to date – the simply concept is it posts retro pictures of parents, who are looking awesome. Your parents were awesome, too, so why don’t you send in an awesome picture?

Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome.

Link – via cakeheadlovesevil

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.