Dispatches

Just as climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and dangerous, NOAA says its best tracking satellite is failing and there’s no plan to replace it until 2012.

DeSoto report leaked.

The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report.

Echos abound.

The neocons were right so far: civil war is erupting throughout the middle east and Iran is feeding the flames. Is this really what we (or anybody) wanted?

Paralyzed: they can blow our helicopters out of the sky, and now they’re [destroying the roads and bridges][2]. Are we prepared for [another surge in Iraq][3]?

[2]: http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BB12C79AD-2CBF-41AB-9B5E-5B80936A00D2%7D)&language=EN [3]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/07/no-2-us-commander-in-ira_n_38040.html

APM Marketplace: news of a British model home. Highly insulated, carbon neutral, just 40% more$. Not just a demo, it’s going to be the law: all new UK buildings to must be carbon neutral by 2016. Economies of scale are said to reduce or eliminate the added cost by then.

After being down for fifteen years straight, milk consumption is up. Up big, and prices are rising to meet it.

New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners?

WWDC: Safari for windows!?!? Leopard looks sweet, but delayed ’till October. iPhone apps = web apps.

Presidential candidates chasing rural votes? Worth remembering that 60% of US libraries serve towns of 10,000 or fewer people.

R-Fed defeated, K-Fed mourns.

I missed the paper airplane contest in Concord NH today!?!?

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They vaccinate ducks against H5N1 bird flu, but not enough. It’s active again in Vietnam, where the first human case since 2005 has now appeared.

Why isn’t the US supporting regime change and democracy in Packistan? We’ve given General Perv US$10B in aid since 2001!

Bush gets queasy stomach when facing other world leaders at G8. The poor fellow is being shamed by his peers.

Libby to scoot in for 30 months. Is it enough?

“What is an atomic bomb good for?”

Congressman Sensenbrenner: “what’s so bad about shorter winters and global warming?”

Lightning struck the steeple of the Saint John the Baptist Church in Allenstown NH Saturday.

Men At Work lead singer has new album: “are you lookin’ at me?”

Thought: industrialized transportation first aggregated passengers onto railroads, the broke up into cars…technology empowered the individual, and they embraced it.

“YouNiversity”

Huh, the NASA Administrator doesn’t think global warming is big issue. What’s his stance on evolution?

Harry Potter finale out soon, does Book Embargo have details?

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