Saturday, June 30, 2012
Rubio book tour, but no White House campaign - yet
Sen. Marco Rubio kicked off his bus tour in southern Florida on Saturday, meeting hundreds of well wishers who told him that he is the person they would most like to see in the White House.
Life as a Reviewer for The Gadgeteer
Do you ever read The Gadgeteer and other tech blog sites and think “That’d be a cool job – people send you free things, you review them, then keep them. Sounds cushy to me!”. Well I know I did at one time, but over the last 10 months my view has changed a bit Read [...]
2012 Assen MotoGP Saturday Round Up: Of Title Races, Lorenzo's Engines And Bridgestone Tires
There is a danger to thinking any championship is a foregone conclusion, especially this early in the season. Just as there is a danger to thinking that a race will pan out the way you thought it would after practice and qualifying. At Assen, everyone was afraid of three things: the weather, Jorge Lorenzo and Pol Espargaro. All three turned out differently than expected.
Best of all was the weather. After treacherous conditions on Friday, with rain falling, stopping, wetting the track just enough for Casey Stoner to bang himself up badly in the morning, though that did not stop him from blasting to pole, Saturday dawned bright and only got better: the big skies of flat-as-a-board Drenthe were mainly blue, with the occasional sighting of fluffy white clouds to provide a little cover and prevent egregious sunburn. But best of all, it stayed dry: no complications, just sunny, dry and calm weather.
Snoop Dogg was busted for weed. In Norway. Somehow.
According to the CIA, Norway is somewhere between 94 and 98 percent white, whereas Snoop Dogg is 500 percent black, so it maybe wasn’t the greatest idea in the world for him to carry weed through their airport.
All the randomly strewn about ellipses can only mean this comes from TMZ:
Snoop Dogg was detained [...]
All the randomly strewn about ellipses can only mean this comes from TMZ:
Snoop Dogg was detained [...]
Britain seeks Security Council sanctions on Syria
GENEVA, June 30 (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary
William Hague called on Saturday for the United Nations Security
Council to start drafting a resolution next week setting out
sanctions against Syria. 
William Hague called on Saturday for the United Nations Security
Council to start drafting a resolution next week setting out
sanctions against Syria.
Bye-Bye Bristol Palin: Lifetime Rips 'Life's A Tripp' From Lineup
Bristol Palin's Reality Show Off Primetime
Photo credit:
Getty Images
Ouch! Bristol Palin can't catch a break lately (unfortunately, judging by the ratings of Life's a Tripp, no one cares). First, she was sued, then she was sued again, and now her reality show is getting canned.
OK! NEWS: BRISTOL PLAIN IS GETTING SUED BY FORMER DANCING WITH THE STARS FRIEND
AgLocal Raises $1 Million From Andreessen Horowitz & Others To Enable Sustainable Meat Production
AgLocal, a startup that's using the power of the Internet to disrupt how animal farmers connect with meat buyers and distributors, has just scored $1 million in funding from�Andreessen Horowitz, Midwest VC firm OpenAir Equity Partners and other angels including John Fohr (Partner at Lux Capital), Thad Langford (former CEO of Zave Networks), Dan Carroll (founder of Leap2 and AdPredictive), Andy O'Hara (Partner at Tradebot Ventures), and Matt Watson (Founder of Vin Solutions and Stackify). The additional funding will help the company build out its technology platform, hire additional engineers, and establish relationships with potential partners in advance of its late summer/fall launch planned for later this year.
UV exposure may lower pancreatic cancer risk, study suggests
Karen Rowan,MyHealthNewsDaily
Exposure to ultraviolet radiation may lower the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study from Australia.
Researchers looked at 1,400 people and found that those born in areas with the highest levels of ultraviolet (UV) radia …
Exposure to ultraviolet radiation may lower the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new study from Australia.
Researchers looked at 1,400 people and found that those born in areas with the highest levels of ultraviolet (UV) radia …
Awesome underground: 6 amazing Aussie caves
by Bruce Holmes
From show caves for tour groups to a taste of white-knuckle, hard-hat adventure, we plunge underground to visit half a dozen of Australia?s most amazing cave locations.
To orient yourself as we cave-hop around the country, click here to open an interactive map of the sites featured in a new window.
Yarrangobilly Caves
A guide explains how the formations were created by the dripping of carbonated water.?What happens when lemonade gets poured into a glass??
?It makes bubbles,? the child replies eagerly.
?Yes. Because the gas comes out,? the guide explains.
read moreFriday, June 29, 2012
Stout, In The Name Of Love
Yesterday afternoon, right before my friend Mike had to head back to Las Vegas after his quick visit to LA Wednesday evening, I ventured out of the house to meet up with Mike and Scott for a leisurely lunch at an amazing burger join in Hollywood called Stout. After lunch, Mike and I hung out [...]
Waiting for our son to wake up
A sand tunnel collapsed on Ryan Buchanan, depriving him of oxygen for more than 15 minutes. Now his parents are caring for him at home -- hoping one day they will be able to communicate with their son. 
Portel Retromodern Aged Leather iPhone Wallet
Portel is an Etsy shop that offers some beautiful hand-aged leather accessories for iPhone or iPod touch.� Shown is the Retromodern iPhone Wallet.� There’s room for cards and cash, plus a pocket for your iPhone.� The wallet snaps shut for security.� They also make an iPhone pocket to hold your phone and cards, a [...]
UPDATE 1-World Bank yanks funds for Bangladesh bridge
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - The World Bank on Friday
canceled a $1.2 billion credit for a Bangladesh bridge project
with immediate effect, saying it had "credible evidence" of a
high-level corruption conspiracy among Bangladeshi government
officials. 
canceled a $1.2 billion credit for a Bangladesh bridge project
with immediate effect, saying it had "credible evidence" of a
high-level corruption conspiracy among Bangladeshi government
officials.
Jon Stewart Skewers CNN Over Supreme Court Snafu (Video)
The "Daily Show" host takes gleeful aim at the news network's botched reporting on Thursday's health care ruling.
U.S. Trying to Extradite Brit for Sharing Links
Richard O?Dwyer and Jimmy Wales
The United States government is currently trying to extradite a 24-year-old British citizen, Richard O?Dwyer, to the U.S. for creating a site that linked to - but never hosted - online videos. It's another example of the federal government and Hollywood's antiquated sharing-equals-piracy mentality and their ongoing efforts to criminalize the same kind of activity that happens on Google, Facebook and Twitter every day. The case is so outlandish that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and various politicians and celebrities are stepping in to defend O?Dwyer.
In 2007 when O?Dwyer was 19, he created the website TVShack.net, a small website frequented mostly by Brits which acted as a crowd-sourced search engine for film, documentary and TV show content found on the Web. Users would post links to the content, some of which was illegally uploaded to the Internet, but the site itself did not host any videos; it was more of a forum like Reddit than a video platform like YouTube.
When sent a takedown notice for linking to copyrighted material over the three years the site was active, O?Dwyer said he deleted the offending post. That wasn?t good enough because in 2010, when O?Dwyer was 22, he was arrested in his Sheffield Hallam University dorm room by two local police officers, and two Immigration and Customs agents from the United States. O?Dwyer was charged with copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.
The U.S. deemed the $220,000 O?Dwyer made from advertising revenue on TVShack illegal and is currently trying to extradite him to the U.S., where he could receive a sentence of 10 years in a maximum security prison. In comparison, O?Dwyer?s case was investigated by British authorities and dropped, as linking to content is not illegal in the U.K. and is considered protected by free speech.
In an op-ed in The Guardian, Wikipedia founder Wales called O'Dwyer the ?human face? in the battle of big content producers versus the general public. Unfortunately, O?Dwyer is the example Hollywood seeks to make in its fight against online piracy, even if its chosen example didn?t pirate any content in the first place.
Visiting TVShack.net today reveals the domain has been seized by the U.S., and the site now automatically redirects to an anti-pirating spot emphasizing lost jobs due to content piracy. However, the allegory in the YouTube video - of a man giving away DVDs for free on the street - doesn?t fit O?Dwyer?s alleged crime: While O?Dwyer?s website revealed the location of content which may or may not have been uploaded illegally, he didn?t actually hand out pirated content to users for free.
This fact has not been lost on the #SaveRichard campaign, an online campaign seeking to stop O?Dwyer?s extradition to the U.S. started by O?Dwyer?s mother Julia, a nurse to terminally ill children. Wales threw his support behind the campaign on June 24, in the form of an Op-Ed urging readers to sign a change.org petition, which at press time had 170,000 signatures.
The reason for O?Dwyer?s persecution over Google?s, Twitter?s or Facebook?s for sharing copyrighted content is unclear. Why the U.S. seeks to try him across the Atlantic, despite O?Dwyer living and engaging in an alleged criminal offense in the U.K., is also unclear. O?Dwyer's lawyers have maintained the U.S. has no jurisdiction in the U.K.
Joining Wales in supporting the #SaveRichard campaign is the U.K. newspaper The Guardian, which called the whole thing ?absurd?; Irish comedian and writer Graham Linehan who called the case ?blood boiling? on Twitter; British Labor Party politician Keith Vaz; Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron who called the affair ?ludicrous?; and Labor MP Tom Watson, among others.
As U.K. resident Mrs Fong pointed out on Twitter in the wee hours of June 25, ?If we go down this road, we could in theory extradite almost every U.K. citizen for laws broken in other countries around the world.?
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