Bitcoin has crashed!!!! It’s everywhere in the news this week. Do a quick Google search for Bitcoin and you will be inundated with doom and gloom, charges that it is a ponzi scheme, stories of theft, real life hacking tales, and all things negative about Bitcoin. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” I am [...]
A great photo on We Are the Second Amendment! wr2a.com
Are we living in such a dystopic society that we now expect this kind of behavior? io9.com reported: Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle age. In [...]
A committee is a group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. – Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960 File this under: Definitions.
Prep time: 15 minutes Grilling time: 8 to 10 minutes Sauce 1/2 cup ketchup 1/2 cup low-sodium beef stock 1/4 cup water 1/4 cup strong brewed coffee 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon molasses 1/2 teaspoon pure chile powder 1/2 teaspoon granulated onion 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt 3 tablespoon [...]
Radio Scanners! One of my earliest interests as a kid was anything that had to do with radios. I was nuts for walkie-talkies. As I got a little older, I discovered the short-wave radio bands and became an avid (SWL) short wave listener. All of this paled in comparison when I finally saved enough money [...]
From USAWatchdog: In the wake of the Cyprus banking crisis, Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Precious Metals says, “There’s no question a crisis is on its way. The end game is a huge crisis.” With that in mind, Schiff says, “Why would you leave any extra money in a bank to get zero percent interest. [...]
From Yahoo: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has made it clear that his company supports same-sex marriage, and at the coffee titan’s annual meeting in Seattle, he had a heated exchange with a shareholder who criticized that stance, Gabriel Spitzer at KPLU reported. “If you feel, respectfully, that you can get a higher return than the [...]
Prep time: 10 minutes Marinating time: 1 to 2 hours Grilling time: 4 to 6 minutes Marinade 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1-1/2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 16 [...]
From PetaPixel: If you had to quickly flee both your home and country, what one possession would you make sure you take with you? It’s a question that reveals a lot about your life and values, and, unfortunately, is one that many people around the world actually have to answer. NYC-based photographer Brian Sokol has [...]
Taking the bailout model to extremes: The EU has given Cyprus an ultimatum – either force savers to save banks, or go bankrupt. United Kingdom Independence Party MEP Nigel Farage gives his perspective on the deposit levy and Cypriot parliament vote. Even in my direst predictions, in this Parliament over the years about the [...]
From NPR: A new study of preschool-aged children published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a sister publication of the British Medical Journal, finds that low-fat milk was associated with higher weight. That’s right, kids drinking low-fat milk tended to be heavier. And it took how many decades to figure this out? It’s not [...]
From TPM: Elk, deer, antelope and moose: If Montana residents can scrape it up, they can eat it. State lawmakers are poised to say just that after the Senate gave its initial backing Wednesday to a bill that would allow people to salvage roadkill for food. The measure is now a final vote from heading [...]
Before entering the New Jersey courthouse to face his sentencing on March 18, 2013, Andrew Auernheimer (Weev) gave a short speech to the press and to his friends. Auernheimer was sentenced to 41 months in prison followed by three years supervised release. Auernheimer revealed a security flaw in AT&T’s iPad user database, allowing him to [...]
At CPAC, Luke Rudkowski interviewed Congressman Timothy Huelscamp on his decision to vote against the NDAA which was due to the unconstitutionality of the indefinite detention provision. They also discussed Obama’s Disposition Matrix and the large ammunition purchases made by the DHS. That’s right. Don’t fund DHS until they answer Congress.
Urban Ghosts just published their list (with photos!) of the 20 wonderfully haunting ghost towns of the world: Humans have always excelled at being an unsettled, roving species. It’s only in the last 12,000 years (though historians constantly debate this figure) that we really began to set down permanent roots, eschewing our hunter-gatherer lifestyle and revelling in [...]
Dictators are known for telling you exactly what they are going to do. Hitler, Stalin, and Mao wrote extensive treatises on how they viewed the world – and – how their ideologies would re-shape and re-make the future. (Your wishes be-damned.) With that in mind, let’s listen to Paul Saffo. Paul Saffo is a technology [...]
Let’s eat grandpa. Let’s eat, grandpa. Correct punctuation can save a person’s life.
Rub 1/2 teaspoon pure chile powder 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 4 halibut or salmon fillets or 2 of each (with skin), each about 6 ounces and 1 inch thick Vegetable oil Slaw 3 cups thinly sliced green cabbage 1/4 cup coarsely chopped [...]
Minivanjack of YouTube has put together a fantastic video highlighting the myriad of privacy problems resulting from Smart Meter installations. Here is his sample letter of non-consent: FROM: Certified U.S. Postal Mail #…. Energy Customer’s Name Street Address City State Zip TO: Energy Provider Street Address City State Zip Date of letter NOTICE OF NO [...]
When you’re the craziest country in the world, how do you earn that street cred? You make a sweet video. Lots of yelling? Check. Shirtless synchronized karate? Check. Hip firing run-and-gun? Check. RPG-ing cardboard cutouts of cartoonish S Korean President? Check. 80′s VHS feel? Check. I almost don’t believe that this is real. Check it [...]