CainTV Teaser

Following in the footsteps of fellow conservative Glenn Beck, it appears that former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is staking out his own terrain in the internet television world with a project called “Cain TV.” While much of the details are not available yet, Cain has teased that he will discussed the matter today on the Hannity radio show, launched a Twitter and Facebook site and, most importantly, a trailer. The trailer is the best worst thing you will see all day.

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Our underground future

A finished basement can be a beautiful thing. With the right accoutrements and enough effort, what might otherwise be a damp, empty space lined with concrete can be turned into a cozy playroom, or a den, or an office and gym. Properly planned, the basement can become an integral part of a household, even a kind of engine that powers it from below.

Nanoporous graphene can strain salt molecules from water

Thirsty? No? You will be. It's just a matter of time. It's also just a matter of time until the expansion of humanity makes fresh water a more precious commodity than a new iPhone, butgraphene sheets with lots of little holes in them could soon solve the problem by making fresh water from salt water with incredible efficiency.

Salt water is salt water because it has salt in it. That is to say, amongst all of those little molecules of H2O (water), you'll also find slightly larger molecules of NaCL (salt). The salt molecules cause lots of problems, not the least of which is that they render the water undrinkable by anyone except fish.

Army admits to investigating Bradley Manning supporters

The US Army has confirmed that they are investigating the Bradley Manning Support Network, an international activism group that advocates on behalf of the imprisoned accused whistleblower.

A letter from the US Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC) dated May 18, 2012 has been published to the Web in which Susan Cugler, the director of the Army’s Crime Records Center, responds to a Freedom of Information Act request for information pertaining to any internal files which may involve the Bradley Manning Support Network.

Barclays Chairman Marcus Agius resigns in rate-fixing probe

The British investment bank Barclays announced its first big casualty of a scandal involving attempts to manipulate key interest rates: Its chairman, Marcus Agius, will step down.

Authorities in the United States and Britain announced last week that Barclays agreed to pay more than $450 million in fines for its attempts to fix key rates that determine interest paid by banks and consumers around the world. The rates in question are the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR, and the euro interbank offered rate, or EURIBOR.

Defying China, thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to streets of Hong Kong

HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters took to the streets of Hong Kong hours after Chinese President Hu Jintaoswore in the city's new leader and urged him to resolve what he called "deep disagreements" among the islanders. 

The by-now annual July 1 demonstration - marking the end of British colonial rule in 1997 - was the biggest in years as people took advantage of Hong Kong's laws that make it the only place in China where public protests are permitted.

Researchers to announce evidence of ‘God’ particle that explains universe

GENEVA — Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher plan to announce Wednesday that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought “God particle” answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.

But after decades of work and billions of dollars spent, researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, say they aren’t quite ready to say they’ve “discovered” the particle.

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