CNN Breaking News: Severe storms are ripping through parts of the South, leaving at least 31 people dead and damaging an untold number of homes and businesses, authorities said. At least 25 people have died across Alabama, Emergency Management Director Art Faulkner said. Video showed a massive funnel cloud darkening the sky in Tuscaloosa. “It literally obliterated blocks and blocks… Read more »
No doubt you’ve heard about the latest Apple security/privacy controversy, whereby it’s been revealed that iPhones, ever since the release of iOS4 last summer, have been automatically and secretly creating a hidden (but unencrypted) file called “consolidated.db,” which keeps a running log of the phone’s location — apparently using cell towers and WiFi network data, not GPS — timestamped down… Read more »
For a purported weather nerd, I’ve been shamefully lax in my blog coverage (or rather, the total absence thereof) of the massive, historic tornado outbreak across the South from Thursday through Saturday — I blame a general lack of free time — but Capital Weather Gang has a good summary, including this illustrative graphic from NOAA: (Hat tip: AMLTrojan.) See… Read more »
Why isn’t there an iTunes-like service where I can go online with my iPhone, find the local radio broadcast for basically any sporting event, and pay $0.99 per game to listen to it? Maybe not for sports like Major League Baseball that already have fairly advanced systems for listening/watching online, but for other sports? Like college basketball and football, say?… Read more »
The Space Shuttle Discovery is wrapping up its final mission, and this morning the crew was awakened by none other than William Shatner, putting a new twist on the “Star Trek” opening-theme voiceover: When I heard this on CNN, it gave me goose bumps. I kid you not. (NERD!!!)
I offer this not because of the political message, but simply because the late, great Carl Sagan — and wow, has it really been 14-plus years since he died? — rocks:
It snowed again Monday night and Tuesday, and the wind blew a good bit of the white stuff onto our covered front porch, resulting in this pretty scene:
As if global warming, er, cooling … “climate change” isn’t a big enough reason to PANIC!!!, now we have the magnetic poles flipping: Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun’s magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet’s own magnetic field. When the field shifts, when… Read more »
I headed down to the Denver "Marade" for lunch. Lots of people honoring Dr. King. Also some miscellaneous protest causes, like these "Yes, Tunisia Can" folks. Love it. More pics at www.twitter.com/brendanloy.
