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A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 161.5 km ( 100.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:16:45 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) Northeast of Pucallpa, Per... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 8 minutes ago
f journalism is the first draft of history, the current phase of journalism with blogs, tweets and miscellaneous bells and whistles is once-over-lightly history that bears little relation to reality. Merc... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
Twelve people have died in national protests that erupted in Malawi, government officials said as demonstrations continued for a second day Thursday. Nine people died in Mzuzu, in the northern part of Mal... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 26 minutes ago
The state of Florida made $63 million last year selling what many think is personal information. Local 10 has learned the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is selling people's names, address... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes ago
The burst of enthusiasm for the "Gang of Six" debt reduction plan as a way out of the debt ceiling crisis has appeared to fade as Democratic and Republican lawmakers studied and found fault with the detail... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 27 minutes agoAs Congress and the President wrangle over who will pay for the New Austerity—guess who!—and Larry Summers seeks a guarantee that no big financial institution in any country should be allowed to fail, the ...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 27 minutes ago
*Index note: The "Thurber (et al.) Tonight" index has (finally) been updated, and should now be current!* *"The Lemur sleeps all day long and nobody tells him that he is a tramp. When disturbed he sort of... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
The bones of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, have been removed from their grave in a small Bavarian town that had become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis. Before dawn Wednesday, workers exhumed Hess's ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes agoTexas inmate Mark Anthony Stroman was executed Wednesday for the killing of a man from India in what Stroman believed to be revenge for the September 11, 2001, attacks, a spokesman for the Texas Departme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
TWO people are confirmed dead after a helicopter crashed in bushland in a northern Sydney suburb this morning. About 9.15am, police responded to reports the Bell 206 helicopter had crashed into bushland a... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
The Mexican Attorney General's Office says 111 of its officials have been charged with fraud, embezzlement and abuse of power and 192 others have been fired for botching investigations. Inspector General ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said that about 16,200 police officers - more than one in ten - will be axed by 2015 amid fears crime could go up by 3 per cent. Up to 1,800 community support of... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Lawmakers in Washington are racing to reach a deal to save the country from defaulting on its debt, but on Wall Street, financial players are devising doomsday plans in case the clock runs out. These comp... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Iran must respect its borders with Iraq, authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan said on Tuesday, after Tehran's forces clashed with Iranian Kurdish rebels leaving several people dead. Iranian security officials, ... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
Anonymous said Thursday morning that it had breached the databases of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and was sitting on about 1GB of data. "Yes, #NATO was breached. And we have lots of res... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
It is obviously good news, if true, that Republicans and Democrats may be approaching compromise in the negotiations over raising the federal debt ceiling. Yet one has to wonder whether the so-called Gang... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
A female polar bear swam for a record-breaking nine days straight, traversing 426 miles (687 kilometers) of water—equivalent to the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston, a new study says. The pre... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
We're seeing records fall in all directions this year—wettest, driest, warmest, coldest, snowiest, stormiest, fieriest—across the globe. In the US alone, in the month of July alone, 1,079 total heat record... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 28 minutes ago
A jury has decided that a set of rare gold coins found in a bank deposit box rightfully belongs to the U.S. government. The decision, made on Wednesday, caps an unusual civil case that combined history, c... - posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoRecent heavy rains in North Korea have slightly injured 96 people and destroyed thousands of houses in a border city alone, an international relief agency said Thursday. Among the injured people, 14 patie...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 32 minutes agoAn enraged, barking chihuahua succeeded in foiling a robbery attempt by two armed men at Ace Gifts and Tobacco, in Altadena, California. You read that right! The attempted robbery took place around 7:30 ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 33 minutes agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 12 km, the quake hit at 05:39 Friday 22nd July 2011. The epicenter was 40 km West of Christchurch No damage or injuries reporte...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 1 hour agoWhich Lie Do You Buy? « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke *A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.* *– Winston Churchill* So over at his place, @cityslikr's on...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 2 hours agoJim Hansen is my hero. Besides being the visionary who foresaw the perils of climate change decades ago, he is the only scientist who has had the moral courage to incur condemnation, vilification, and eve...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours agoCenk Uygur, host of the popular show, "The Young Turks," decided to leave the not so popular MSNBC channel after experiencing what can only be called a "Howard Beale moment" with MSNBC's corporate executiv...
- posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 3 hours ago*Why Cenk Uygur Left MSNBC, Part 1* *"I'm holding onto the story that I've been talking about the whole time on The Young Turks, about how the problem with the mainstream media is they're desperate to get...
- posted by calgarygrit at CalgaryGrit - 4 hours agoPolitical excitement at the federal level may have evaporated faster than water in downtown Toronto, but the provincial scene is still very much alive this summer across Ontario. Among this week's highlig...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 4 hours agoThe remains of Rudolf Hess have been exhumed in Germany and his grave destroyed after it became a shrine for neo-Nazis.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 5 hours ago* Imagine a ‘Party X’ that was actually committed to opposing statism ,and to advocating for free enterprise. Imagine such a party had a cabinet committing to rolling back the state, and an environmen...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoHome to the biggest counterfeit market in the world, China appears to have moved from forging products to forging stores.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 5 hours agoTwo boats equipped with sonar monitor open-water swimmers.
- posted by PC at Not PC - 6 hours ago*A post from the archives offering advice for any putative Party X wanting to roll back the state.* Two bakers are talking politics. "How do you roll back the state?" asks the first. "One roll at a time...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAngela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy held crisis talks in Berlin amid warnings that a failure to break the debt crisis deadlock within 24 hours would send shockwaves around the global economy. Early on Thurs...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn Oklahoma City man who wore diapers as part of a con was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison. Mark Anthony Richardson II also must serve five years on probation after his release and register a...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAn Indiana couple is facing public indecency charges after they allegedly had sex for 30 minutes Sunday afternoon in a community pool while dozens of witnesses, including children, watched the illicit aqua...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFor 17 days straight, the Dallas-Fort Worth Area has reached triple digit temperatures. With the hot weather and lack of rain, nearly the entire state remains in a serious or severe drought. Currently, ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoI recently visited Garissa, Kenya -- a city of at least 180,000 people not far from the border with Somalia -- and areas to the north to see how this year's drought has impacted families in the area. From...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoBlood tests designed to detect active TB are inaccurate and should be banned, the World Health Organization has said. More than two million such tests are carried out annually, but the WHO says they are ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoStony Stratford calls itself the jewel of Milton Keynes, a real corker of a catchline, a bit like rebranding Nunhead the pearl of Peckham. Yet putting aside jokes about applying lipstick to a pig (and then...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA New Zealand newspaper group is reporting that the deadly February earthquake in Christchurch unearthed a suspected Israeli spy ring. Three Israelis died in the quake that killed 181 people. Other Israeli...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAs the eurozone lurches from one crisis to the next, UK gilts have become seen as something of a safe haven asset. The yield on ten year gilts is not quite at Germany or US levels, but it’s not far off. Ev...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSabotage by an insider at a major utility facility, including a chemical or oil refinery, could provide al Qaeda with its best opportunity for the kind of massive Sept. 11 anniversary attack Osama bin La...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoA new promotional video released by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, as Big Sis continues its relentless drive to cement the m...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoUnhappy that a Lafayette Road car dealer wouldn't take back the van he bought on Monday, David Cross drove "the lemon" back after the dealer closed on Tuesday and crashed it into six cars parked on the lot...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoTHE BBC was criticised by climate change sceptics yesterday after it emerged that their views will get less coverage because they differ from mainline scientific opinion. In a report by its governing bo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoThe last of the more than 60,000 Confederate veterans who came home to Alabama after the Civil War died generations ago, yet residents are still paying a tax that supported the neediest among them. Despit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoConsumers in the U.S. are increasingly using credit cards to pay for basic necessities as income gains fail to keep pace with rising food and fuel prices. The dollar volume of purchases charged grew 10.7 ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoSome 141 million Americans over nearly 1 million square miles were under a heat alert on Wednesday, the result of a heat "dome" that's only slowly moving away from the central U.S. — and into the East Coas...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoFor aid donors and humanitarian agencies, it is a Faustian bargain: reach and save tens of thousands of people on the verge of starving to death. The price: come to an "understanding" with one of the mos...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 6 hours agoAl-Qaeda supporters say they are making an animated children's film aimed at inspiring them to take up armed struggle with the militant group. Stills were published on the Arabic-language al-Shamouk jihad...
- posted by Suzan at Welcome to Pottersville 2 (U.S. Says "Huh?") - 6 hours agoI love this man! He speaks to my heart and my heart is on the street again.(Desperately need donations now!) July 21, 2011Welcome to the RecoveryCompanies Step Up Layoffs.In Washington-speak, coming from bo...
- posted by KRandle at A Different Perspective - 7 hours agoWhile sitting at my table in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, I heard a woman behind me say, “That was my father.” She was pointing to a picture of one of the soldiers assigned ...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 7 hours agoLast month I was in Nepal and writing about how deplorable their system of aviation is... as well as their environmental controls and food safety regulatory systems. Their capital, according to the UN, is...
- posted by Geezer Power at GEEZERPOWER - 7 hours agoGuardian Sunday 17 July 2011 Syria• Troops backed by tanks entered the town of Zabadani near the border with Lebanon and are carrying out a campaign of arrests, according to activists, the Independent r...
- posted by Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 7 hours agoFuck MSNBC. Fuck CNN. Fuck Fox News. Fuck CBC. Fuck BBC. Fuck Them All. Establishment Media = Enemies of Mankind, Enemies of The Truth, Enemies of Justice And Enemies of Freedom. The U.S.-Israeli State T...
- *The word is out!* Meteorologist *James Madden* from Exacta Weather UKpredicts a prolongation of the Winter 2010-11, worse so: an even harsher one. He writes: *"It is therefore vital to start preparing now ...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 8 hours agoWhistleblower* Sean Hoare* is believed to have died some time around *17 July* 2011. On *17 July* 2011, *three* men fled from the scene of a road crash, 'less than two minutes drive' from the premises of...
- posted by Nic Halverson at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe system electronically measures the antioxidant powers of juice, fruit and fruit puree.
- posted by Tim Wall at Discovery News - Top Stories - 8 hours agoThe U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to enforce national water quality standards, giving upstream states greater authority over rive...
- posted by Denis Rancourt at Activist Teacher - 8 hours agoMakes a whole lot more sense than most academics I have ever heard, and explains why.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 8 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 51.5 km ( 32 miles), the quake hit at 19:12:00 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 151 km (94 miles) from Raoul Island,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 9 hours agoA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Southern Greece at a depth of 8 km ( 5 miles), the quake hit at 16:44:23 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 76 km (47 miles) SSW of Kalamata, Greece No Tsun...
- posted by DB at Biased BBC - 9 hours agoHere's Jonnie... The poor lad is a victim of the Murdoch spin machine, apparently. He's on R5L tomorrow (Victoria Derbyshire's show, he thinks). It's a pre-recorded job - let's them cut out any mention...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers onboard, had a mid-air scare over Lucknow today, triggering panic aboard, passengers said. Sources say the Boeing 737 Jet aircraft - flight number 9W 2280 - from N...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 10 hours ago12 million people are battling hunger and disease as the worst drought for 60 years grips the region.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoHealth and fire officials are looking into what caused a dozen people to become sick at the Ronald McDonald House in downtown Baltimore on Wednesday evening. Fire officials said nine adults and three chil...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoTrees fallen on railway tracks caused disruptions and significant delays on several rail lines due to the heavy storm and rain overnight, the communications office of Hungarian State Railways (MAV) told MT...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours ago*AT least 80 cars have crashed in Sydney's torrential rain, with the city bracing for the wettest July in more than 50 years, as a severe weather warning is issued for coastal areas. * Torrential rainfal...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoJust when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... This diver almost got sucked into the mouth of a massive whale shark while it fed on thousands of plankton. The shark, the sea's largest fish, ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 10 hours agoTwo minutes ago, the Fermilab has released a new press release: Fermilab experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range (interactions.org) ------------------------------ Science Daily, Phys ORG, NewsTV....
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA six-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a shark in 18 inches of water off the coast of North Carolina. The unidentified girl was playing on a bodyboard in shallow water on Ocr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoA five-year-old girl was found weighing just 19lbs - half the average weight for her age - after her mother allegedly forced her to live in a closet because she looked too much like her father. Asusena Ma...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 10 hours agoAl Qaeda sympathisers are planning to produce a children's cartoon film to inspire young Muslim viewers to take up armed violence against the West, security specialists who monitor militant websites say. ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA penny-pinching council left a shopkeeper stunned when it refused to hand over CCTV crime footage... because it would cost too much. Amanda Wright, who runs Wright's Family Bakers in Walton on the Naze, E...
- posted by Marianne English at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoYet another in the long list of negative health effects of secondhand smoke.
- posted by Emily Sohn at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoExtensive sailing experience and tons of preparation allowed a family with two young children to enjoy a three-week trip across the Atlantic.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoMice from different countries have likely interbred, producing a super mouse, resistant to a common poison.
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoA magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck South of Tonga at a depth of 20.2 km ( 12.6 miles), the quake hit at 15:35:29 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 330 km (205 miles) South of Nuku'Alofa, Ton...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoThree adopted children 'rescued' from their drug addicted parents went on to suffer a decade of systematic abuse and neglect at the hands of two doctors which was 'predictable' and 'preventable', a serious...
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 11 hours agoI have no idea if wine drinkers or beer drinkers-- or non-drinkers-- are more or less likely to favor marriage equality. But the new issue of *Out*has a cute survey by the World Wine Guys Mike DeSimone a...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 11 hours agoScientists today revealed the mathematical formula for a perfect slice of toast, showing that it is best cooked for exactly 216 seconds. A team of researchers carried out a study which found the optimum th...
- posted by Rob Pegoraro at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoAfter years of delay, Spotify is available and a great way to discover new music -- if you can get an invitation.
- posted by Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News - Top Stories - 11 hours agoThe eggs were good eats, as well as home, to numerous scavenging insects.
- posted by Megaan at Current news updates, World current news - 11 hours ago[image: long-term debt deal] One of the most influential Republican operatives on Thursday give conservatives in Congress a loophole on their "no tax" pledge that can keep prospects alive for a long-term ...
- posted by Engineer-Poet at The Ergosphere - 11 hours agoThere are a lot of companies and websites who want space on your sidebar. I've received dozens of requests for link exchanges over the years. I've turned them all down, not even putting my blogroll there...
- posted by PC at Not PC - 11 hours agoGuest post by *Jeff Perren* From English History, 1914-1945 by A. J. P. Taylor: Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state,...
- posted by Penny at Penny for your thoughts - 11 hours agoI was reading a mainstream business author who was writing about the Greek debt crisis. He mentioned that Greece "cooked" their books for admission to the EU. He forgot to mention who the chefs were, of cou...
- posted by New Orleans Ladder at New Orleans Ladder - 11 hours agoLouisiana lawmakers evaluate progress of Federal Flood/Katrina recovery Class-Action Suit Filed After Katrina Hospital Deaths Settled for $25 Million ~ProPublica Corps decides on armoring for New Orleans ...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe army has been deployed in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, to quell anti-government protests. At least eight people were killed and 44 wounded on Wednesday in clashes in the northern city of Mzuzu, hospit...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA fake immunisation programme used to trace Osama bin Laden has undermined medical aid and put lives at risk, says Frank Swain. Last week it was claimed that the CIA had set up a fake vaccination programm...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoccording to a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the 18-month recession has cost over $7,300 per person in foregone consumption as of May 2011 — that’s an average of $175 a month lost...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe world’s second largest economy is putting on the brakes. But will it be a slow decline, or a rapid stop? China’s red hot economy eased, with second quarter figures showing Beijing’s GDP dropped to 9.5...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChina says the Philippines infringed its sovereignty on Wednesday by sending a delegation of politicians to a disputed island in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said China had "i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA bomb attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed at least two oil workers and injured seven, medics say. Police say the oil workers' convoy was attacked near the town of Jafarabad in the south...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoSeveral cars were crushed after part of the metal roof of the main terminal of airport in Thunder Bay, Ont., blew off Wednesday, but there were no injuries, police say. Sgt. Sharon Komar said debris was s...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIn yet another sign that the job market is still stuck in a rut, more Americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week than the week before. There were 418,000 initial unemployment claims fi...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThe five corpses floated disfigured and bloating in the murky bottom of the water tank. Wearing green soldiers' uniforms, the men lay belly down, decomposing in the putrid water. The streaks of blood, sme...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoRupert Murdoch’s Fox News television channel had a “black ops” department that may have illegally hacked private telephone records, a former executive for the station has alleged. Dan Cooper, who helped l...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt’s going to hit hard and it’s going to hurt – made worse because most aren’t expecting it. They think the world is slowly returning to our modern “normal” – steadily increasing growth, with occasional an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoChina says the Philippines infringed its sovereignty on Wednesday by sending a delegation of politicians to a disputed island in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said China had "i...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoA bomb attack in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed at least two oil workers and injured seven, medics say. Police say the oil workers' convoy was attacked near the town of Jafarabad in the south...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoIt’s going to hit hard and it’s going to hurt – made worse because most aren’t expecting it. They think the world is slowly returning to our modern “normal” – steadily increasing growth, with occasional an...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 12 hours agoThese are tough times for the nation, and for defense. The U.S. financial system is broken and the country is in dire fiscal shape. The defense budget is under enormous pressure. The extent of future cuts ...
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 12 hours ago*In the beginning was the Debs (and by beginning, I mean some time in the 1980s) and the Debs was awesome (1 Blog 1:1).* Yes, it's that time of year again, the time where Debra's husband hijacks her blog ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 12 hours agoWhat do FOX News and North Korea have in common? Possibly, quite a bit. Rupert Murdoch's American crown jewel apparently has a very dark underbelly, at least according to Dan Cooper, FOX managing editor...
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 13 hours ago*New Report: Peabody's Black Mesa Coal Mine draining* *region's water supply* *By Black Mesa Water Coalition, Dine' CARE, To' Nizhoni Ani, Center for Biologial Diversity and Sierra Club* Photo by Leslie M...
- posted by Ian O'Neill at Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoIf you think the auroral displays we have on Earth are impressive, spare a thought for aurorae erupting in the atmospheres of massive gas giant exoplanets orbiting close to their parent stars.
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 13 hours agoNepal is planning to launch a new GPS survey to re-measure the height of Mount Everest.
- posted by derekshowerman at Contaminated Nation - Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste locations - 13 hours agoMacArthur-winning activist, Majora Carter details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx and shows how minority neighborhood suffer most from flawed urban policy. It is an emotional speech...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoA magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck Zambia at a depth of 13.5 km ( 8.4 miles), the quake hit at 13:55:55 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 222 km (137 miles) North of Livingstone, Zambia No d...
- posted by killing Mother at killing Mother - 14 hours ago*I should be working instead of blogging...* * * I’ve been reading a book called The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies by the famous skeptic Michael Shermer for my independ...
- posted by Rossella Lorenzi at Discovery News - Top Stories - 14 hours agoFrench knights may have lost to a smaller army of English soldiers in 1415 because they had to slog it out in heavy armor.
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoDavid Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and all their minions are running a PR campaign on the *News International* scandal, telling people to keep it "in perspective." It's not really a big deal or at least tha...
- posted by Anon at aangirfan - 14 hours ago*Warwick Spinks* "*Warwick Spinks* ... built 'businesses' and bought properties in South Africa, Namibia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, France and England... "He lives in Czech Republic...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoAmerica's UN ambassador, Susan Rice, must have a bottomless well of gall, given the way she chastised other Security Council members cold to the idea of declaring climate change a security matter meriting ...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoNo, crime isn't going away but, even as Ruler Steve indulges his prison fetish, crime rates continue to go down - a lot. StatsCan said police-reported crime rates fell a whopping 5 per cent last year from...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 14 hours agoWith his kind permission, it's my great pleasure to post this essay written by Mr. Tim Murray: Hi there! We're the Percapitas. We've cut per capita consumption and our per capita waste. We compost, we c...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 14 hours agoTwo more patients linked to contaminated saline at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport have died. It comes after *27-year-old nurse Rebecca Leighton was arrested on suspicion of murdering patients*. She...
- posted by The Mound of Sound at The Disaffected Lib - 14 hours agoImagine yourself among the thousands and thousands of people gathered for the final game of the Canucks/Bruins Stanley Cup. It's easy to assume you're virtually invisible in the sea of faces. It's not. ...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 15 hours agoThese sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently many people have been doing ...
- posted by Katherine Noyes at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoPart terracotta planter, part barbecue grill, this stealth device lets you plant your herbs and then use them for grilling.
- posted by Benjamin Radford at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoWhy do some missing persons cases stay in the news, while others fade away?
- posted by Scott Tharler at Discovery News - Top Stories - 15 hours agoThe WattStation is capable of fully charging a 24 kWh battery in just 4 to 8 hours.
- posted by DownWithTyranny at DownWithTyranny! - 15 hours agoThe middle class and the working class have sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed... up the wazoo. We paid when the greed-driven banksters drove the economy off the cliff and demanded mammoth bailouts-...
- posted by Rufus at News From Atlantis - 15 hours agoAnti-Racism is a key weapon of our Zionist enemies. Love of one's own people does not mean hatred of others. Indeed, protection of your own family is a natural instinct. I love my family; that doesn't mean...
- posted by laura k at wmtc - 16 hours agoJames posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read. Of course, politicians with a privatization agenda never let the fac...
- Discovery News - Top Stories - 16 hours agoThe shuttle's smooth landing closes the curtain on a 30-year program that carried people to space.
- posted by brendanorrell@gmail.com at CENSORED NEWS - 17 hours ago*Kuiu Kwaan Tribal Court issues declaratory judgment upholding gathering rights of Northern Paiute 'Kwassuh' Wesley Dick* Article copyright by Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHolidaymakers have been warned to be vigilant this Summer as Britain's coastal seas could to be turned into 'jellyfish soup'. Pollution, over-fishing and climate change are among the theories being used t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoMexican authorities went on high alert Wednesday as Hurricane Dora upgraded into a Category 4 storm off the country's Pacific coast. The Mexican National Meteorological Center, citing initial reports, said...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoThe Japanese government will announce new "hot spots" recommended for evacuation near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant possibly "within the next couple of days," Kyodo News reported Thurs...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoTen bats recently found in Moorpark have tested positive for rabies, Ventura County health officials confirmed Wednesday. The bats were collected from several homes in a neighborhood next to Moorpark Col...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoHot weather is causing trouble for a Prairieville neighborhood. However, it's not just the heat causing trouble. People there are dealing with a lake, full of dead fish. About 15 houses surround the lak...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 17 hours agoAt least 32 wedding guests, including women and children, were poisoned in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. Col. Noor Gul, the district police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the i...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAnother northern Alberta oil pipeline has been shut down after operator Pembina Pipeline discovered a leak in a remote area north of Swan Hills. An estimated 1,300 barrels were released from the undergroun...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThousands of people were evacuated from a packed Harlem park Wednesday afternoon after an explosion triggered a roaring fire at a sewage treatment plant that spewed a 30-foot plume of fire into the air, of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTHUNDER BAY – The fire situation across Northwestern Ontario remains severe. There were twenty new fires reported since yesterday. Across the province the current scope of the area covered by fires is 300,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoU.S. authorities are investigating what could be killing hundreds of fish and other marine animals - including sharks and manatees - which in recent days have been washing up on beaches in southwestern Flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least three dozen children have taken ill due to the outbreak of chicken pox in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, locals said on Wednesday. The outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease- chicken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHere's something you never want to hear: "That loud booming sound is coming from inside the house!" That's what one Inocenta Hernandez from Guatemala City learned after a noise caused her to run outside,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoU.S. authorities are investigating what could be killing hundreds of fish and other marine animals - including sharks and manatees - which in recent days have been washing up on beaches in southwestern Flo...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoAt least three dozen children have taken ill due to the outbreak of chicken pox in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, locals said on Wednesday. The outbreak of the highly contagious viral disease- chicken...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThousands of people were evacuated from a packed Harlem park Wednesday afternoon after an explosion triggered a roaring fire at a sewage treatment plant that spewed a 30-foot plume of fire into the air, of...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoTHUNDER BAY – The fire situation across Northwestern Ontario remains severe. There were twenty new fires reported since yesterday. Across the province the current scope of the area covered by fires is 300,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHere's something you never want to hear: "That loud booming sound is coming from inside the house!" That's what one Inocenta Hernandez from Guatemala City learned after a noise caused her to run outside,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoHUNDREDS of people were evacuated, some suffering breathing difficulties, after a mysterious chemical leak at the city’s tax office on Wednesday afternoon. The city went into red alert as more than 100 p...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe Taliban claimed today that their mobile phones, email accounts and website had been hacked to send out false messages suggesting their leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had died. The one-eyed, reclusive ...
- posted by éminence grise at Cherchez la Verite - 18 hours agoPermalink *Obama Is A Bankster Puppet “Who Brought On The Depression That The Republicans Never Could Have Gotten Away With”* July 18, 2011 In a recent interview with *Guns and Butter*, Michael Hudso...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThey could be trailers for a horror movie. But actually these dark, dramatic adverts, with their undertones of sexual abuse and exploitation, were created by the U.S. Government to combat human traffickin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThis was the moment a jet of water was blasted more than 100 feet into the air after a suspected car-jacker crashed into a fire hydrant. Two houses were evacuated after the crash sent the torrent in to the...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoMajor cities in the U.S. are being invaded by a 'super mosquito’ which returns to bite even after being swatted away. The Asian tiger mosquito is tougher and harder to kill than its regular counterpart an...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 18 hours agoThe three-year-old son of a police officer accidentally shot and killed himself with a gun he found in a bedroom at home - and his father responded to the emergency call. Daniel Metz died in hospital afte...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoTwo New Jersey teenagers face registering for life as sex offenders under Megan's Law for what their lawyers claim was horseplay. An appeals court agreed the boys, who were 14, engaged in sexual contact w...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA teenager knocked off his scooter during a crash in New York could have been saved if onlookers had not been distracted by an NBA star in one of the cars involved. Awsaf Islam, 15, lay dying in the roa...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThree hikers who jumped a guard rail at Yosemite National Park were playing close to a massive waterfall before being pulled by raging water. Hormiz David, 22, Ninos Yacoub, 27, and Ramina Badal, 21, all f...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoThe blistering heat wave sweeping east across the U.S. has killed at least 22 but utilities are urging customers to turn down their air conditioners to prevent a devastating stress on the nation's power gr...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours ago'Frankenstein' insects dating back 120 million years have been discovered among fossils from Brazil. The monster bugs had the wings and body of a dragonfly, wing veins like those of a mayfly and a prayin...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoCatholic Bishops flouted Irish law and were encouraged by the Vatican not to tell police about suspected paedophile priests, it has been claimed. The astonishing accusations were made by Ireland's lawmaker...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoA wild leopard which mauled six people after wandering into a village in deepest India has died from injuries sustained during the attack. The fully grown beast savaged several policemen and forest rangers...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoColonel Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government conceded yesterday. In a statement which is likely to infuriate Britain, France’s foreign minister, Alain Juppe, suggested...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNASA has announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has found a fourth moon circling the icy dwarf planet, Pluto, but it is just eight to 21 miles wide. Until astronomers decide upon a name, this moon will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNOTE: Yesterday 20th July it was reported that the person killed by this car bomb was a Dutch National - this is an updated article A British expat was killed by a suspected terrorist car bomb in Yemen ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoColonel Gaddafi could be allowed to remain in Libya, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government conceded yesterday. In a statement which is likely to infuriate Britain, France’s foreign minister, Alain Juppe, suggested...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNASA has announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has found a fourth moon circling the icy dwarf planet, Pluto, but it is just eight to 21 miles wide. Until astronomers decide upon a name, this moon will ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 19 hours agoNOTE: Yesterday 20th July it was reported that the person killed by this car bomb was a Dutch National - this is an updated article A British expat was killed by a suspected terrorist car bomb in Yemen ye...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoAs an aid worker who spent time in Iraq, Noelle Berney would have had her fair share of close calls. But nothing prepared her for the crashing down of her own house - which has left her with no hot water,...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoBritain's weather took a strange turn today when this mini twister appeared over a UK town. The tornado-like cloud was seen racing through the sky above Leamington Spa, Warkwickshire, just after 2pm. It ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThey lived in a magnificent £5million listed mansion built by royalty, complete with 200 acres of land stocked with sheep and cattle. Pamela Palmer and her son Joseph told neighbours they came from a wealt...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA Japanese man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker in 2007. Tatsuya Ichihashi admitted killing the 22-year-old but said her death was accide...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoThe Russian army is blowing up everything in sight - from rocket launchers to radar stations, fighter jets and arms factories. But those fearful of a new world war need not worry as the Red Army has simpl...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Nias Region, Indonesia at a depth of 31.6 km ( 19.6 miles), the quake hit at 06:48:05 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 244 km (151 miles) Southwest of Si...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoInflation could soon hit levels not seen for two decades, the Bank of England warned yesterday. Prices are already rising at a crippling 4.2 per cent, more than double the 2 per cent target the Bank is su...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoA truck overloaded with sand has caused a bridge to collapse in China - leaving a scene that looked like the aftermath of an earthquake. The vehicle, which was weighed down with 160 tons of sand, crushed ...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 20 hours agoEurozone leaders will later meet for an emergency summit to thrash out a solution to the Greek debt crisis that threatens to bring down the euro. The 17 leaders of the eurozone countries have been urged t...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 20 hours ago*Update:* ATLAS at 1.02/fb saw no ZZ events near 325 GeV, among the 12 in general, which - as far as I can see - largely falsifies any theory starting with the assumption that the CDF signal reported bel...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoInterpol and Greek police have launched a fresh investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Ben Needham 20 years ago. A retired Greek doctor has come forward claiming he saw a blond-haired tod...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoThe alert level for an Alaska volcano is being raised after officials say persistent thermal anomalies have been spotted in satellite data. The Alaska Volcano Observatory on Wednesday raised the level Cle...
- posted by Robin Horbury at Biased BBC - 21 hours agoI wrote yesterday that the BBC Trustee's report into science coverage is a travesty. It is worse. Professor Steve Jones says that too much space is given to climate "deniers". Yet at least five years ago t...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Southern Alaska at a depth of 87.2 km ( 54.2 miles), the quake hit at 06:20:11 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) West from Happy Valley, A...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Rat Islands, Alaska at a depth of 35.1 km ( 21.8 miles), the quake hit at 05:45:53 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 87 km (54 miles) South of Semisop...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southeastern Iran at a depth of 15 km ( 9.3 miles), the quake hit at 03:09:24 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 143 km (88 miles) Southwest of Iranshahr, I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 33.5 km ( 20.8 miles), the quake hit at 01:55:37 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 158 km (98 miles) East of Raoul I...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Kermadec Islands Region at a depth of 20 km ( 12.4 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:51 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 160 km (99 miles) East of Raoul Isla...
- posted by Lynsey at The Coming Crisis - 21 hours agoA magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck off the East coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 11.4 km ( 7.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:03:28 UTC Thursday 21st July 2011. The epicenter was 197 km (122 miles) ESE...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoResearchers from Texas A&M University have returned from a trip to examine the scope and size of this year's "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico and have measured it currently to be about 3,300 square miles,...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoBritons love to lecture the world about integrity and the rule of law, but the News of the World phone hacking scandal has laid bare a web of collusion between money, power, media and the police. Far from...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoWhen former astronaut Story Musgrave addresses an expected huge throng of UFO believers in California next week, he'll delight the crowd when he tells them he believes we're not alone in the universe. But...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 23 hours agoAt first glance, that may sound like a crazy question. The two giants of the global economy appear to be heading in opposite directions. China is the world's up-and-coming superpower, propelled forward by ...
- posted by Luboš Motl at The Reference Frame - 1 day agoPC World and many others bring us some great news about the future methods of transportation. Cars have become obsolete and they consume too much energy. So the EU has started an official EU project MyCo...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThe Fish and Wildlife Service determined Monday that whitebark pine, a tree found atop mountains across the American West, faces an “imminent” risk of extinction because of factors including climate change...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoLamb, beef and cheese generate the most greenhouse gases of 20 popular meat, fish, dairy and vegetable proteins, according to a new study from the Environmental Working Group. The Meat Eater's Guide, relea...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoMassive global greenhouse gas pollution is changing the chemistry of the world's oceans so much that scientists now predict it could severely damage shellfish populations and the nations that depend on the...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoSuzanne B. McLaren, the collection manager in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's section of mammals, extends the wing of an approximately 3-inch specimen of a Seminole bat, rare in Pennsylvania, whic...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoDiscovery Channel is set to announce a potentially controversial new series: A docu-soap reality show set in the country’s largest medical marijuana distributorship and starring a pot reform activist. This...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy will fly into Berlin today for a summit with Angela Merkel aimed at forging a common stance on the Greek rescue package as the eurozone lurches closer to collapse. Chancel...
- posted by Matthew at The Coming Crisis - 1 day agoThieves made off with more than $20,000 worth of copper wire from two far southwest suburban businesses sometime between Monday afternoon and early Tuesday. The theft happened sometime between 4:30 p.m. o...
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Creator vs. Curator
July 21, 2011 — permalinkPost by Lisa Ding, Community Manager
Of the blogs that I read every day, more than half are blogs that link me to news articles, websites, or other blog posts on the web. It used to be that bloggers were expected to write original content. While original content remains highly valued by many readers, it's no longer taboo to simply share things that you find elsewhere on the Internet. Followers will read your blog to see the great content that you surface. Essentially, every blog can be a small gallery of a blogger’s interests and taste.
One of my go-to blogs for Internet trends is Brandflakes for Breakfast, which states its mission is to “read the internet, so you don’t have to.” The posts are short and quippy, and the contributors work for a digital creative agency, so I trust the content that they’re surfacing will be relevant to the Internet, marketing, and branding -- some topics that interest me.
While I’m a fervent reader of blogs, I’ve struggled to post original content on a regular basis. Fortunately, I’ve discovered a couple of sharing tools on Blogger that will help me post more often. As long as I keep finding interesting things on the web, I’ll be able to use these two shortcuts to help me generate quick blog posts:
- Blog This! tool for Chrome: If you're using Chrome as your browser, simply install this extension and you'll be ready to write a blog post with a prepopulated link.
- If you want to share a post from another Blogger blog, select the ‘B’ sharing button at the end of the post. A link and blurb of the post will pre-populate, so simply type an intro, and voila! you have a new post. (Note: If you don't see the sharing buttons on your own blog, you can enable them by going into the Design tab and editing the Blog Post page element.)
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