09 March 2006

INTEREST RATES RISING WORLDWIDE

This from the Meltdown people: Japan is about to raise its interest rates, following the Europeans... I have no idea how serious this stuff is...

OCEANS GET SICKER

Wired has it all, courtesy of The Fall of Humanity and Out of the Mountains...

DATA MINING WON'T STOP TERRORISM

Just as torture won't provide the government with real information, data mining won't stop terrorism...

LA TIMES FINALLY COVERS OIL SPILL

Show's over, folks, you can all go home now... the Times article claims that "At least 20,000 gallons of crude oil have spilled from a corroded pipeline near Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska..." whereas the news in Anchorage is that whistleblower Chuck Hamel is saying the spillage is closer to 798,000 gallons...Notice a discrepancy? The LA Times didn't, though it did quote Chuck Hamel.



Today's relevant comic, thanks to The Seattle P-I and Bizarro...

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