Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. “Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific [...]
March 10, 2010
The Guardian is reporting that Apple has requested for German publisher Springer to censor one of its iPhone apps which allows iPhone users to “undress” a model. The “Shake the Bild Girl” app features a girl dressed in a winter parka, jeans and a scarf — each time you shake your phone, she sheds a layer until, [...]
Read Full PostMarch 9, 2010
Did you know that the first time a moving sidewalk was proposed for New York City it was 1871? It was brought up again in 1902 for the Brooklyn Bridge, according to EphemeralNY, after which it was debated in the newspapers. Eventually Mayor Seth Low spiked the idea, forcing generations of pedestrians to use their own two [...]
Read Full PostMarch 4, 2010
NEW YORK (WABC) — An Eyewitness News investigation talks to a police officer who reveals the pressure they are under to make quotas. When Officer Adil Polanco dreamed of becoming a cop, it was out of a desire to help people not, he says, to harass them. “I’m not going to keep arresting innocent people, I’m not [...]
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March 3, 2010
If you watch Transformers for story line/plot and special effects, than you must be gay. I’m just saying.
Read Full PostMarch 3, 2010
The American Family Association, a religious right group, is urging that Tillikum (Tilly), the killer whale that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, be put down, preferably by stoning. Citing Tilly’s history of violent altercations, the group is slamming SeaWorld for not listening to Scripture in how to deal with the animal: Says the ancient civil code of [...]
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