Warmest September on Record

Warmest September on record EVER for South Florida. It didnt feel that warm to me..averaging mid eighties is nice - not "hot". Daytona did have a few 116 degree days (heat indexed for humidity)  back in June-July..now that was hot

Ecuador in unrest

Apparently the the national police of Ecuador are not pleased with El Presidente's plan to curb entitlements. This situation sounds very similar to what happened in Greece when entitlements were cut there.

The question of course is why do we care? Well..Ecuador and Honduras have got something going on with the Zetas aka the huge drug gang killing thousands of people on the Mexico boarder. And the US was caught tinkering with Honduras..and my understanding is that President Correa is a friend of Venezuela's "president" Chavez..who we dont like..this could be the US tinkering in Ecuador like we have every other country down there..or maybe just lazy entitled government employees who also happen to carry guns.  

South America has been slow to join the world stage but sooner or later that dragon is going to wake up and things are going to get interesting.

Bellingham's Black Widow

I've been following this story my father sent me and its led me to an interesting urban legend.(here is another link) After trolling some of Western's student forums it appears many people beleive Clark may have been picked up by the infamous Bellingham "Black Widow". This Black Widow is a male serial rapist who dresses up like an Asian woman and offers rides to young man. If this was a gay party (and some students implied that Clark was gay by his choice of clothing) then the Black Widow might have known where that scene was having parties and could have been waiting for someone to stagger out. The other possibility being thrown around is that he was kidnapped by a gang of Lummi transients who have come out of the forest and setup camp on railroad ave. But the locals (and myself) felt that he was too far from downtown at the time, or the forested areas, to be involved with transients.Then of course there is this lead which apparently happened the same day. But a truck full of people with bats..sounds fake to me.

Exoplanets

Exoplanets are planets that resemble earth in their size and location in the habitability sweet spot (ie they orbit at an earth-like distance from their star). I dont beleive they are actually finding the planet so much as mathematically calculating a high probability there is a planet there based on gravity's pull on other things in the area..its very speculative but it gives people hope.

Wikileaks self-destructs

It looks like Wiki leaks is falling apart. Proving once again all government needs to do to win any battle against regular people is apply a little pressure and then play the long game of attrition.

Mindblowing

This guy put this ship together with 1000000000s of little tiny blocks..the scale involved melts one's mind..I've never played the game but it shows what one can do with infinite legos (and free time)

Swedish court rules public urination legal

What does this even mean? Its ok if it doesnt offend people??? Who isnt offended by someone wizzing in public?