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Alright, let’s see what we have today.  First up, check out this amazingly scary decorative plate:

Next up, check out this cool short movie about the Pixar lamp.

Scientists are working on making strides to make phones that can be charged by shaking (or even voice).

And finally, you would think that the Republicans would have gotten some sense after the last election.  Now the right-wing members of the House (to be fair, the Republicans in the Senate passed it without any issue) are refusing to pass the Violence Against Women act…because it’s “too supportive of immigrants, the LGBT community and Native Americans.”

So yeah, they certainly couldn’t support those communities.  According to the far right, immigrants are just here to steal resources, the LGBT community is icky and going to hell, and well, I’m not sure why they don’t like Native Americans, it seems very strange and out or right field.

And on another note, why is this something that has to be reapproved?  I think we can all agree that we should be concerned about domestic violence and we can cut through the bullshit of having to reapprove it every year (or however frequently it needs to be).

So, please, please, please, just remember.  Unless you’re a straight, white, male millionaire, the Republican party doesn’t care about you.  But I do, however feel, that you can support conservative principles, but the Republican party, in its current form, doesn’t care about you.

That’s it for now, I’ll be back soon, have a great one!



Let’s see what we have today:

Maddow Blog has a follow up to a story about the lack of parades for vets coming home.  Aside from St. Louis (which was entirely citizen-funded), there has not been a parade for any returning troops.  But they can put together a parade in two days for Super Bowl champs.  Sad.

And speaking of the troops, an artist has done a project entitled “The impact of war on a young person’s face.”  Interesting stuff.

Virginia Senator Howell is amazing.  When faced with a bill that now (I believe it passed) makes it mandatory for women seeking abortions to get ultrasounds, she proposed an amendment (which barely lost) requiring men to get a rectal exam and cardiac screening if they wanted to get a prescription for ED medication.

I’ve been meaning to post this before, looks pretty awesome:

Here’s an update to the wall outlet I posted about last week.  These are more flush with the wall, and this time, diagrams on how to wire it!

Interested in SOPA/PIPA and what kicked it all off?  Information is Beautiful took a look at the actual numbers, and they are a bit surprising, check it out.

I know some people are excited about this, but honestly, I don’t think they will end up being very good.  Hopefully I’m proved wrong, but either way, DC is moving forward with the Watchmen prequel series.

Scientists are working towards making your internal monologue being able to be broadcast.  While this will of course help medical technology a lot (think of those in comas, the deaf and those with developmental disabilities), but holy crap, that would be awful if my inner monologue was public.  Then again, maybe the people who annoyed me would leave me alone finally.

JCPenny is redesigning all their stores.  Interesting to see, especially since my local store is moving from one of the mall to the other, so it’s good timing for them at least.

Remember how Republicans love to campaign against voter fraud, the boogeyman that is not really a problem according to all studies, but it’s a good way to push through legislation that disenfranchises those who tend to vote democratic.  But as it turns out, the latest verified case of voter fraud was by a Republican Secretary of State (of Indiana).  Oh the irony.

That’s it for now, have a great one!



Another quick update for everyone, here’s what we have this time:

This is such an awesome idea, glad it won a best-of at CES:

 

Aside from the whole vandalism thing, this is really well done, check out this Mitt Romney ad.

And then there’s this:

Lev Grossman has an update about The Magicians TV show which is being written, so excited!

Copyranter says it’s unfortunate placement, I think it’s hysterical:

 

Gardening with Doug (from the PG) has an article about plants that clean the air inside.  Sadly, spider plants are on the list.  I’m probably the only person in the world to have killed their spider plants.  Which is weird, I can usually grow most things.  Guess I’ll have to try again.



Couple quick things, and I’ll be back real soon with more (I think Google Reader is eating some of my saved items, so I need to get through them real quick!):

This comes from the Maddow Blog, not sure if it’s is real or not (I’m guessing not), but fun nonetheless:

 

It looks like we finally have the official Zelda timeline.  Gamers knew it existed, but I honestly never thought we’d see it.  I’m hoping the book this comes from gets translated and released in America.  Check it out here.

So, it turns out that Santorum may or may not have acted illegally to get a sought-after endorsement.  I don’t know enough about campaign finance law.  But the other story is that he had a million dollars in his war chest.  Who knew?

It always amazes me how different sockets are around the world, here’s a handy guide:

 

I’ll be back with more in a bit!

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