I was thrilled to find out Chris Bowers will be managing our political action efforts, in part because I've always admired him, and especially because I know he's been an unflinching champion of science:
From the lightless depths of the marine biosphere to the vacuum of space, from raw research to practical applications, science is critically important to our future. As progressives we are committed to pursuing policies that promote the best of what science can offer, free of political expediency. That's why legitimate science and wise science policy will be among the issues this list will actively defend and promote. -- Chris Bowers
This will be a powerful tool to steer away from anti-science lunacy and back to the tried and proven path that made this nation the leader in science and technology. There is power in numbers and this list is anonymous, first name or screen name only: Sign up here.
- One great spin off from technology is exposing wrong doing by police offices like this soon to be hopefully unemployed asshole who threatens a cameraman with arrest and rape simply for filming him.
- Under the category of epic fail, a word of advice to businesses large and small on IT: in this dismal economic environment, why in the hell would you waste precious resources
ruining fixing what isn't broken?
The enter key doesn't work; no graf breaks, it takes a second and a half before typed characters show up on the page, copy and paste functions lag and sometimes don't work at all ... I've had two total lock ups so severe I had to reboot ...
- Jeff Masters at the WeatherUnderground is doing first rate work. Up this week, the first likely powerful Cape Verde storm and potential hurricane, and more fallout form the Pakistan rains.
- I've heard the old creationist argument that the sun is shrinking, looks they were off by about 93 million miles: it's the moon that's becoming more petite.