Zeppelin Comeback

Interesting story about a boom in airship construction. I hope these people realize that Helium on Earth is produced as byproduct of petroleum drilling..If the return to airships is an effort to escape oil dependance we need to look somewhere else.
A blimp is shaped by the gas inside of it, whereas a zeppelin has a rigid skeleton inside. The helium-filled sky balloons, or aerostats, used over Afghanistan are neither blimps nor zeppelins. But they all fall under the term “airship.”

How starfish Tube feet work

Interesting science blog here about starfish fish. FYI:: Not 100s of tiny plungers!

3 sponsors drop out of presidential debates

Apparently in order to debate in a presidential debate you have to be approved by the "Commission on Presidental debates" ...which is shockingly funded by a bunch of large corporations. 3 of which dropped their funding of the CPD over the complete exclusion of 3rd party candidates. Some would say they arnt "popular" enough..but its a chicken and egg problem..how do you get nationally popular without any media coverage? Without being invited to debate? Its a rigged system.

Mostly Northwest News Links!@

World of Warcraft barcodes your screenshots
Ratpocalypes
Malaysian schools on the hunt for gay kids
Pro-Life Christian start adopting embro cells..instead of real kids
Cell phones in India but no toilets
Wa state pays doctor 600k for vendetta, conspiracy against him
Russian sub caught in Gulf of Mexico
new theory reopens closed case on FTL travel
6 kids escape Wa states largest kiddie prison
Undead Zombie bees invade Wa
Man arrested for complaining about Seattle PD released
Police officer gets 3 years PAID leave for use of excessive force
Facepage page outs Tacoma residents who talk to police
Iran news agency prints Onion fake story as real
Newest in Japanese women's Fashion? underskin Bagel implants
9yo executes 9yo with gun

Looper review

Caught the Bruce Willis movie "Looper"..good entertainment, absolutely worth the $5.50 that I paid (did movie prices go down?). Included were elements of Terminator and Matrix along with Willis' movies ala Mercury Rising and Sixth Sense. Joseph Gordon-Levit is apparently having a career resurgence which is well deserved. Like Prometheus, this movie included what I thought was a fairly random sex scene brought on by the female lead's boredom. I'm not sure if this scene was included as some sort of feminist "ya women get horny too" bit, but with her 5yo sleeping in the next room, mom misuses a panic button to summon up Gordon-Levitts character for a roll in the sheets, who btw she has only known for less than 12 hours and had recently unload a shotgun into his chest. She's spent more time pointing a gun at him than speaking thus far but I guess she's in the mood and has nothing better to do so lets throw cation to the wind. It does leave open a possible plotline where that one time spawns a child..and with time travel movies that can have all sorts of ramifications. Shrug.

Music Video: Break it Slow (at Costco of all places)

Allen Doyle (of Great Big Sea) playing Break it Slow at the Halifax Costco. I heard an interview with him on NPR and really liked this song. Costco should support local artists everywhere in this way.

Eve Pew Pew

Here is a good example video of a battle in Eve, the space game that diplomat in Libya was a player in. Too complicated for me but I love to download podcasts of the pilots and listen to them talk.