Sunday November 08, 2009 at 21:00
![“A 35-mile long volcanic rift in the Ethiopian desert that opened up back in 2005 has been confirmed as likely being the beginning of a new sea. That’s the word from an international team of scientists, whose work has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:
The rift began when Mount Dabbahu erupted, for the first time in recorded history, and in a matter of just three weeks spread to up to 25’ wide along a fault line in the Afar desert. Heading towards the Red Sea, it could eventually split off Eritrea, Djibouti and part of Ethiopia from the rest of the continent. […]
In all, the processes at work here are “nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world’s oceans” the report said.”
Volcanic Rift in Ethiopian Desert Confirmed As Beginning of New Sea : TreeHugger](http://20.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kstn0q0Kzk1qz5f77o1_400.jpg)
“A 35-mile long volcanic rift in the Ethiopian desert that opened up back in 2005 has been confirmed as likely being the beginning of a new sea. That’s the word from an international team of scientists, whose work has been published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:
The rift began when Mount Dabbahu erupted, for the first time in recorded history, and in a matter of just three weeks spread to up to 25’ wide along a fault line in the Afar desert. Heading towards the Red Sea, it could eventually split off Eritrea, Djibouti and part of Ethiopia from the rest of the continent. […]
In all, the processes at work here are “nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world’s oceans” the report said.”
Volcanic Rift in Ethiopian Desert Confirmed As Beginning of New Sea : TreeHugger
Friday November 06, 2009 at 15:29
“Since coming to office ten months ago, Panetta’s boss, Barack Obama, has authorized as many aerial attacks by C.I.A.-operated drone bombers in Pakistan as George Bush did in his final three years.”
— Scott Horton on the CIA’s Secret Drone War (via azspot) (via jhnbrssndn)
This post was reblogged from jhn brssndn!.
Friday November 06, 2009 at 15:28
Thursday November 05, 2009 at 12:10
“We had maps in many forms and tastes: San Francisco in jell-o or New York in Lego or a Subway Map as Bathroom Tiling.
Karen O’Leary has another take: cutting out streets out of large blank sheets of paper, or cutting out the streets from real street maps, all by hand. Maps already sold include Paris, London and New York.
Conceptually, the unique maps remove the unnecessary, leaving valuable information to navigate the main defining paths of the city. All city blocks are cut by hand to reveal the paths, nodes, circles, boulevards, parks and streets of each of the cities.
Via Paper Taste Buds.”
(via Hand-Cut Street Maps of World Cities - information aesthetics)
good luck folding that.
Thursday November 05, 2009 at 9:57
“If we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs now, how can we afford to pay for doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical drugs, in addition to a new federal bureaucracy to administer a government-run medical system?
Nothing is easier for politicians than to rail against the profits of pharmaceutical companies, the pay of doctors and other things that have very little to do with the total cost of medical care, but which can arouse emotions to the point where facts don’t matter. As former Congressman Dick Armey put it, “Demagoguery beats data” in politics.
Economics and politics confront the same fundamental problem: What everyone wants adds up to more than there is. Market economies deal with this problem by confronting individuals with the costs of producing what they want, and letting those individuals make their own trade-offs when presented with prices that convey those costs. That leads to self-rationing, in the light of each individual’s own circumstances and preferences.
Politics deals with the same problem by making promises that cannot be kept, or which can be kept only by creating other problems that cannot be acknowledged when the promises are made.
”
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Thomas Sowell : The “Costs” of Medical Care: Part III - Townhall.com
[via carpe diem h/t devin]
Wednesday November 04, 2009 at 16:59
“About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren’t saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren’t saved.
… .
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs. “If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,” HHS spokesman Luis Rosero said.”
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The Associated Press: STIMULUS WATCH: Salary raise counted as saved job
This administration is shameless.
When you make an mistake, it’s an error. When someone points out your mistake, and you still refuse to acknowledge it, it’s a lie.
(via jeffmiller)
This post was reblogged from The Trunk.
Wednesday November 04, 2009 at 9:03
This is an excellent resource!
via rand0mflora: 12minds: thegrammarnazi: thekeri: jesuismilena: hoppzor
This post was reblogged from My sentiments exactly.
Wednesday November 04, 2009 at 8:43
“When we are completely immersed in a society of people who consider a particular idolatrous attachment normal, it becomes almost impossible to discern it for what it is.”
—
Tim Keller in Counterfeit Gods [via craig dunham]
i have not yet read this book, but i’m excited to do so.
Tuesday November 03, 2009 at 13:45
Intentions and Results
“Here’s a letter that I sent on Friday to the New York Times:
Writing about health-care, Paul Krugman asserts that “conservatives … don’t want Americans to have universal coverage” (”The Defining Moment,” Oct. 30).
Among the earliest lessons that I teach my freshman economics students are (1) intentions are not results, and (2) to oppose a government program is not necessarily to object to the intentions stated by that program’s advocates.
Paul Krugman obviously teaches his students differently, for he clearly believes that (1) if government intends for Americans to have universal health coverage, then the result will be that Americans actually get universal health coverage, and (2) anyone who opposes a government program promising universal health coverage is a person who objects to Americans actually getting universal health coverage.
Mr. Krugman’s reasoning is evidence that he’s forgotten some of the most foundational lessons of economics. Pity his students.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux”
succinctly & accurately said.
[h/t devin]
Tuesday November 03, 2009 at 11:07
“My roommate stole my girlfriend and all I got was this lousy teapot.”
—
it’s actually a quite nice teapot.
Monday November 02, 2009 at 15:19
Home Movies - Hiatus [3 of 3]
“we’re fresh, focused…
this still sucks.
somehow it’s gotten worse.”
Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 18:43
Home Movies - Hiatus [1 of 3]
i’m going on hiatus.
Wednesday October 14, 2009 at 13:25
![i need a whole box of these. i might even put a couple on my desk with a note that says, “If I’ve offended you, please fill out this form & tell me how I’m supposed to feel. Thanks! MGMT”
[via digg]](http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/1141/is5vb.jpg)
i need a whole box of these. i might even put a couple on my desk with a note that says, “If I’ve offended you, please fill out this form & tell me how I’m supposed to feel. Thanks! MGMT”
[via digg]
Tuesday October 13, 2009 at 23:09
“[K]nowledgeable sources say that Bloomberg’s cash offer is in the $2 million to $5 million range and that it has agreed to assume liabilities, including potential severance payments.[…] At its peak in 2000, BusinessWeek had a record 6,000 ad pages and operating profits of $100 million. Some analysts at the time valued the magazine at $1 billion.”
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Bloomberg Wins Bidding For BusinessWeek - BusinessWeek
1) another sign of the waning power of print media.
2) more importantly, how that valuation failed to translate into digital.
the times, they are a-changin’…
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