Ayden with Spider-Man. Just one of the movies we are anticipating this year.

The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision that said the NSA need not confirm or deny any relationship with Google, because its governing statutes allow it keep such information secret

The top-secret US National Security Agency is not required to reveal any deal it may have with Google to help protect against cyber attacks, an appeals court ruled Friday. The US Court of Appeals in Washington upheld a lower court decision that said the NSA need not confirm or deny any relationship with Google, because its governing statutes allow it keep such information secret

Remember the asteroid Vesta? Turns out now that scientists say it is actually a tiny planet

Call me crazy, but I had a hunch that Richard C. Hoaxland Hoagland was on to something..

Remember the asteroid Vesta? Turns out now that scientists say it is actually a tiny planet

Chile asks fishermen to help save birds caught in nets; Chilean beaches littered with dead fowl

There is always something about news accounts of animals beaching themselves or thousands of dead birds being found in a single week that freak me out a bit. 

Animals many times are harbingers.. They are sometimes more clued in to earth and how things work than humans.

We can learn a thing or two perhaps if we stopped and thought about these profound numbers of dead birds along Chilean beaches. If we care.

Chile asks fishermen to help save birds caught in nets; Chilean beaches littered with dead fowl

No room left on land.. so we are turning our oceans into a giant landfill of plastic waste. Good show, humans.

….There will be ramifications. Don’t we care?

No room left on land.. so we are turning our oceans into a giant landfill of plastic waste. Good show, humans.

HOLD THAT END TIMES SCENARIO! A new calender from the Mayans seems to point to life after 2012. Like we should be shocked..

…I know, I know. You were hoping for destruction and mayhem on December 21, 2012. 

Well.. being earth, that is entirely possible. But surely not the end …. Mayhem and destruction never has an end.

HOLD THAT END TIMES SCENARIO! A new calender from the Mayans seems to point to life after 2012. Like we should be shocked..

The EPA weighs in

The agency says that Dimock, PA water is safe… so anyone in the mood for bottled Dimock water ?!?

The movie ouster graphic design industry: Cutthroat to say the least

The movie ouster graphic design industry: Cutthroat to say the least

DARK SHADOWS is being released this week. No way it will outdo what AVENGERS did last weekend.. and maybe it should not. I like Tim Burton, or at least liked him. His films are creative.. interesting. The whole Johnny Depp/Burton constant connection is nice in a way, but also.. unsettling. I don’t necessarily think that every film Burton makes needs to have Depp in the main role. 

Even more, the true question I have about this is whether DARK SHADOWS was meant to be a dark comedy or more of a true horror. A lot of good horror and creative scares could have been done. Instead, as Burton would predictably do, he turned it seemingly into a 21st century BEETLEJUICE. Which in itself isn’t bad.. but is it what should be?

I am interested in reactions of you all care to share any. Did you see the film, and what did you think?

If anyone out there is like me you’ve been paying close attention to sunspot AR1476. I realized this sunspot looked familiar and just figured it out: It’s in the shape of Hawaii. Except Hawaii doesn’t blow off massive CMEs that could devastate Earth’s power grid.

Well there’s region 1476. Let’s wish ourselves good luck for a day..

Now this is cool.

Why look for UFOs when there are UWOs (underwater weird objects) right beneath us!?

This video was taken by cameras looking at an underwater drill recently near England. It shows a massive blob of a brown creature. 

The brown blob has a name: A Deepstaria enigmatica jellyfish.

While the entire video is fascinating, I really started getting amazed around 3:15 seconds into it..

This video clearly defines the reasons I am frightened of the deep, dark ocean. I don’t even have to add words to explain..

(Source: http://tampa.cbslocal.com/)

A cool breeze.. a shower.. and a rainbow. All in a spring day.

This photo was taken at Bloomsburg University.

( Compliments Kate. Good picture. )

The newest edition of PLAYBOY. Oh wait.. That’s TIME mag. This month featuring a Vladimir Putin centerfold spread.

Trying desperately to keep print alive, TIME? …

Feet don't fail him now

Tough night last night .. Little Ayden sprained his foot trying to play soccer in the house. He may be a sports star one day. But not at age 1.5..

The little person is doing ok, though. Getting a good sleep now after a very long day at the emergency room and eating Wendy’s French Fries last night … Yes, we let him splurge, Michelle Obama would not be fond of his post-sprain diet.

In the old days you got a recovering child a toy. Now toy stores are closed.. so we just add to childhood obesity. I guess. Or something like that.

I knew parenthood was stressful.. But I guess I just never understood that stressful meant….it’s stressful !!

IS EARTH SUNSPOT READY?

Earth looks to the sky: Monster solar event may soon occur..(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141488/Monster-sunspot-Earth-crosshairs-powerful-solar-storms.html?ITO=1490) Big sunspot dramatically developing..

Heard someone say .. a solar flare would do us good. But think of how much reliance we have on .. technology. No hands. Just keys.

The just in time life we have lived for a half century would potentially end with a burst of the sun

So no.. I don’t hope for a flare to end all satellites. Instead I pray it won’t happen. But as we know, everything is eventual..

So is monster sunspot1476 the one? The killshot? Cue Dr. Doom Ed Dames. Somewhere on some mountain, he must be ready, right?

Besides impending solar doom, everything else here on the pale blue dot seems to be .. as erratic and insane as ever..

think-progress:

Russians protest Putin’s return to power, and police are out in force.

An amazing photo from Julia Ioffe.

A boy on a bike vs. the military.. This is an amazing photo. Putin takes office *again*…  

Earthquakes.. tsunamis.. nuclear disaster.. and now this!? Tornado rips through area near Tokyo..

…rare…

Dozens injured.. one killed..

The world is just getting .. scary.

I'd venture to say, this is a pretty big deal.. Sarkozy voted out of France..

I'd venture to say, this is a pretty big deal.. Sarkozy voted out of France..

FBI asking for wiretap ready websites--now

FBI asking for wiretap ready websites--now