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CNET reports that startup company Terrafugia “is aiming to show off what it calls the Transition ‘personal air vehicle,’ an SUV with retractable wings, to the EAA AirVenture Conference in Oshkosh, Wis., at the end of July.” The performance figures sound intriguing, but I’ll believe it when I see it…
ScienceDaily reports that “Fifty years after MIT researchers pioneered the use of electron microscopy to study viruses, MIT scientists have helped produce the most detailed images yet of the tiny infectious agents.” Pretty wild…
In the post “Do Bush followers have a political ideology?”, Glenn Greenwald makes an argument for the statement that “Whether one is a ‘liberal’ – or, for that matter, a ‘conservative’ – is now no longer a function of one’s actual political views, but is a function purely of one’s personal loyalty to George Bush.” I think he’s right on the money…
I found myself strangely engrossed by the Wikipedia entry Strange Units Of Measurement.
Protests across Russia are taking place after a “Oleg Shcherbinsky, a railway worker whose car was hit from behind last summer by a speeding car carrying the Altai region’s governor,” was sentenced to four years in a labor colony. In case it’s not clear from the previous statement, Shcherbinsky was hit by a speeding, negligent driver making a dangerous and illegal maneuver, yet he was found guilty of “careless driving leading to the death of others and for not yielding to a car with priority.” As many of you may have heard, Russian traffic police are notoriously elitist and corrupt, and the privileged basically have free rein on the roads:
Nowhere is the privilege – and abuse – of power more visible to ordinary Russians than on the roads, where politicians and bureaucrats, who have special license plates and blue lights for their luxury vehicles, speed recklessly, force other drivers aside and generally flout the rules. At the same time, ordinary citizens are subject to constant harassment from traffic police, who routinely demand small bribes. These irritants have become the source of open anger because many motorists can easily imagine themselves suffering Shcherbinsky’s fate.
This is a crock of shit, and I hope that media scrutiny forces Russian authorities to rethink this shameful decision. Looks like not as much has changed in Russia as people think…
Check out Angry Alien’s latest creation, Star Wars in 30 seconds with bunnies. 🙂
The Star Wars Valentines at Something Awful are awesome. One of my favorites is above… 🙂
The Official Google Blog reports that Google Earth has been updated with high resolution imagery of the Torino, Italy area. Turn on the Terrain layer and check out the tilt view; cool…
All together now: Awwww… ;-p
MSNBC.com has a full 2006 Winter Olympics TV schedule, including programming on NBC, MSNC, CNBC, USA, and Universal HD. I’m looking forward to hockey and curling…
