04/5/07
Deerhoof’s new album Friend Opportunity is outstanding. Also, Ann found a killer deerhoof video by Martha Colburn.
Deerhoof’s new album Friend Opportunity is outstanding. Also, Ann found a killer deerhoof video by Martha Colburn.
In one of its most important environmental decisions in years, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate heat-trapping gases in automobile emissions. The court further ruled that the agency could not sidestep its authority to regulate the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change unless it could provide a scientific basis for its refusal.
The 5-to-4 decision was a strong rebuke to the Bush administration, which has maintained that it does not have the right to regulate carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases under the Clean Air Act, and that even if it did, it would not use the authority. The ruling does not force the environmental agency to regulate auto emissions, but it would almost certainly face further legal action if it failed to do so.
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The impressive trailer for GTA IV seems to be directly inspired by the cinematography and time-lapse photography of Koyaanisqatsi. There’s even a derivative Phillip Glass soundtrack. Somehow the meaning of Koyaanisqatsi “life of moral corruption and turmoil, life out of balance” is oddly appropriate for Grand Theft Auto.
A great collection of Swiss Posters with amazing typography (some are more amazing than others).
Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation.Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford’s hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank.
“I just thought, ‘Oh my goodness!’ So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front,” Mulally said. “I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?”
US Home prices from 1890 to 2007, adjusted for inflation, and plotted as a roller coaster ride with Atari’s Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. The graph is here.
Geraldo and O’Reilly ‘debate’ illegal immigration’s role in the deaths of two girls in Virginia Beach in a drunk car crash. Watch their heads explode.
In an extended bonus scene from the new documentary ‘Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers’, Ben Carter, a former Halliburton/KBR water purification specialist, discusses discovering Halliburton was providing dangerously contaminated water to troops, and the serious long-term implications.
The Senate Democratic Policy Committee held hearings on the water contamination issue on January 23, 2006. Whistleblowers Ben Carter and Ken May testified that Halliburton subsidiary KBR knowingly exposes troops and civilians to contaminated water from Iraq’s Euphrates River. (Transcript of the hearing, Ben Carter’s testimony).
On March 16, 2006, the Associated Press released an internal 21-page Halliburton report which admits that KBR exposed U.S. troops to contaminated water throughout Iraq. The Defense Department pays Halliburton over $400 million each month for their work in Iraq.
