I walked into my local convenience store this morning and caught the aftermath of two workers trying to dry out their lottery ticket by microwaving it. They thought the microwave would thoroughly dry the paper, but did not realize that it would set it on fire as well..
Yep, we are the world and this is our future..
The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who has waited 18 months for a lung transplant are waging a fierce fight to change an organ allocation regulation that they say is keeping their desperately ill daughter from the life-saving treatment she needs. But organ transplant &
A must read..
Not to be outdone by Google, APPLE is now hinting that you will soon be able to wear their technology.. which propels me to re-re-re-state my prediction from ten years back concerning wearable devices. At some point in our near future we will have technology implanted. Your phone will be your hand. Your brain will be wired to the Net.
Unless that big solar flares gets us all..
So yes, that means if the world doesn’t end, you’ll be on Tumblr will be literally in your fingertips. But do you really want Yahoo to be that close to you?
By now you may have heard of those persistent rumors of a ‘tsunami’ in the Atlantic resulting from solar activity. Here is the video of Dr. Simon Atkins that started it all..
For the record, here is his bio
Parenting 101: Don’t do this. Ever.. Two parents are facing chargesfor a choice to put their 10-year-old daughter in a dog cage—and then driving through the Pennsylvania turnpike. They are now facing charges for endangering a minor..
If you read the the snews a few days back, you’ll remember the story and controversy of whether the Pope exorcised a demon from a man from Mexico.. The Vatican said no. Other priests said yes. Now the man has weighed in..It turns out that the man named ‘Angel V’ is 43, from Mexico, and claims to be possessed by demons.. Could he be wrong, too?
Changing times..
40% of moms are now the family breadwinners..
Don’t think for a second that it means women are making more.. Women are still underpaid when compared to men in certain positions. Equal pay remains an issue..
This story also means everyone is making less, fewer have pensions, only some have 401Ks, and finally, unemployment has hit construction and manufacturing—industries that primarily have affected men. I think this is less a good thing and more a sign of bad economic times. They say the Great Recession is over. If that’s true, it’s certainly a long time to recede..
The disastrous states of America.. a new study releases the list of the ten most dangerous states to live in when considering where natural disasters hit..
Sadly some of those states are some of the poorer states in our union. How unfair Mother Nature can often be..
It’s a long video from 1941 about the great American company, Coca Cola. But I’d love to hear people’s thoughts?
Ham and Bean’s big day out at the Jersey Shore.
Bean couldn’t get a touchdown, but Ham nailed it on the first try.
And he got to take home the prize..
The teacher got the lyrics wrong. The FBI never questioned the maker of the song to see what the actual words of the song were. So how much money did the FBI super snoopers spend on investigating this one way back in 1964?
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
If you were paying attention to Coal Speaker a few days back you’ll already know this. But hopefully will not be unphased by the possibilities of what this means …
A tool called ThinThread, a US spy device, has reportedly been tested on the public of New Zealand.. A spy expert told the NEW ZEALAND HERALD this information.. the Prime Minister and other officials that could potentially be involved with this issue have not made public comment and refuse to speak to the HERALD about the allegations..
Earth may lie in the path of a lethal gamma-ray burst that could wipe out a quarter of our atmospheric ozone.
This is a serious news story. It’s gone mainstream.. WR 104, a ‘Wolf-Rayet star’ about 8,000 light years away, could go supernova any day now.. Really, ANY DAY NOW. And if it does, rays from the explosion deep in space could actually reach our our little blue dot known as earth.
As FOX news reports:
"We could see it go supernova anywhere from tomorrow to 500,000 years from now," astronomer Grant Hill told Forbes. "For all intents and purposes, the gamma-ray burst and optical photons from the supernova would arrive simultaneously."
A quarter of our atmospheric ozone could be wiped away..?
The earth should follow this story as closely as it can…
Dozens of quakes in one week…
1811 here we come again?
In Scotland, the government plans to give every child a ‘state appointed overseer’ from birth on.. There would be a government employee mediating the bond between parent and child, with the intention on preventing abuse.
With plans like this your don’t need enemies…
There’s been a lot of people who we should pause for today.. the numbers tell the story on their own.
Thanks to TLC, we can all watch the world’s fattest man, Ricky Naputi die.
And this is ‘entertainment.’
Another example of the sick society we have become..
Fans of wearable computers can capture what is happening around them with a wink or a subtle click, which raises the question of whether bystanders have a say in being recorded.
Nick Bilton, who wrote this article for the NY TIMES, presents quite a stark question: What do you do at a party when someone you are talking to is wearing Google Glass? Stare at the all seeing camera, or just leave the room?
I wonder what will happen with the Google Glass future. We have accepted most of the internet’s privacy defects. We are seemingly ok with Google snapping photos of our houses .. we appear alright that every movement we make online is snapped, cataloged, and often given over to government entities for ‘national security’ reasons.. But Google Glass? A contraption that will snap your life in images? One that will also see everything you do.. and if you can see it, Google can see it? … creepy. With a capital C.
But this is the future. Where privacy isn’t existent.
It once was said that, on any given Street Corner, USA, you did not possess any true privacy. No presumption. But what about that dark corner in a bar room late on a Friday night… and someone wearing Google Glass snaps your image? Or .. in your own home .. or.. anywhere.
I have had some major problems with friends who send me “People of Walmart” jokes. Do I chuckle at the first image or two I glance at? I did. I do.. But I often send back a reply telling them to take me off of their list of folks who get these ‘jokes.’ After all, what is it that is funny about them? The odd images of people shopping late at the store…. or the souls of those who mock and degrade them..? We are just fine with people snapping photos of other people, posting them online, just to make light of their either mental or physical conditions? I am not ok with it. I never liked the People of Walmart forwards, still don’t like them… and sadly… I’m outnumbered.
You know why? Because we are going to be entering the new phase of life.. the GOOGLE GLASS phenom.
Get ready..You may be recorded .. all of them time. Without knowing it.
And what happens when People of Walmart turns into the next ‘joke’ …? What happens when your privacy has been compromised?
We may have no presumption of privacy in public places. But for God sakes, don’t we at least have a presumption that other humans will be thoughtful? Other humans .. .being thoughtful? Nah. They will simply just forward the next best joke, making light about someone else..
We are turning into a very different society than we once were..
A big heads up on this for you, this may very well be a huge story that you’ll never hear about on tonight’s evening news..
Memorial Day weekend continues. Three days for many, but the pain that occurred to create this holiday is purely evident.
It all began as a celebration of those who perished during the Civil War.. Perhaps just too many other wars had taken place by the time it was expanded to dedicate a day to all lives lost during warfare.. We celebrate with barbeques and picnics, family outings and trips.. but pause for a moment and hear the distsant and faint sound of canon fire, musket fire, and gunfire from the past. And realize that even today wars are continuing (for better or worse) that will lead many more names and lost lives to be cherished for Memorial Days to come..
