Embranglements

Following the Silk Road.

 

 Oh noes! Even our power strips are spying on us! Power Pwn: This DARPA-funded power strip will hack your network

Summary: The Power Pwn may look like a power strip, but it's actually a DARPA-funded hacking tool for launching remotely-activated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet attacks. If you see one around the office, make sure to ask if it's supposed to be there.

When did the first people arrive in the Americas?

Monsanto has actually something intelligent to say? Monsanto asks its scientists if global warming is real

There goes the other 50% of voters....Mitt Romney vows to ban pornography by installing a filter on every U.S. PC

 "Dramatic" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces Archaeological "gold mine" illuminates connection between king and sun god.

They still look horribly uncomfortable: 600-Year-Old Bras Found in Austria

Heading for the cliff.

I think the Mayans messed up

And it should be 2011 that the world ends. Or at least unravels. Or idiots take over....

Supermoon!

Radiation from Japan reaches California... just a little bit.

The 'small government' Republicans would like to make the IRS the uterus police.

The NRA goes off half-cocked.

The reason the neocons were begging Obama to attack Libya. Wait for it.....Surprise!! Oil.

Washington DC doesn't give a fuck about the jobless.

Ann Coulter declares that radiation is good for you... which explains everything about her.

The Mayans were right!!

2012 will bring the END OF THE WORLD!!!!1!

Except it's Iceland that's starting a bit early....

Iceland sits on a large volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge. Eruptions, common throughout Iceland's history, are often triggered by seismic activity when the Earth's plates move and when magma from deep underground pushes its way to the surface.

Like earthquakes, predicting the timing of volcanic eruptions is an imprecise science. An eruption at the Katla volcano could be disastrous, however — both for Iceland and other nations.

Iceland's Laki volcano erupted in 1783, freeing gases that turned into smog. The smog floated across the Jet Stream, changing weather patterns. Many died from gas poisoning in the British Isles. Crop production fell in western Europe. Famine spread. Some even linked the eruption, which helped fuel famine, to the French Revolution. Painters in the 18th century illustrated fiery sunsets in their works.

The winter of 1784 was also one of the longest and coldest on record in North America. New England reported a record stretch of below-zero temperatures and New Jersey reported record snow accumulation. The Mississippi River also reportedly froze in New Orleans.

"These are Hollywood-sort of scenarios but possible," said Colin Macpherson, a geologist with the University of Durham. "As the melt rises, it's a little like taking a cork out of a champagne bottle."

Unpack your survival gear

The world isn't ending in 2012....

"News is spreading quickly here that scientists writing in a popular science periodical (Dutch) have debunked the 2012 date (google translation linked) featuring so prominently in doomsday predictions/speculation across the web. On 2012-12-21, the sun will appear where you would normally be able to see the 'galactic equator' of the Milky Way; an occurrence deemed special because it happens 'only' once every 25.800 years, on the winter solstice. However, even if you ignore the fact that there is no actual galactic equator, just an observed one, and that the visual effect is pretty much the same for an entire decade surrounding that date, there are major problems with the way the Maya Calendar is being read by doomsday prophets."

Isn't that always what happens? You misread your Mayan calendar and everything gets out of whack....

David Neiwert ruins Apocalypto

by knowing too many facts.