Recently in Science & Nature (& Technology) Category

I read about Data Privacy Day today over at GeekDad. I then went over to the main project site to read up on the whole thing.

Honestly, give it a look over and maybe check out your online settings.

I found this to be really indicative of how quickly technology has advanced in just my lifetime (so far! I'm not done yet!) The original is here and it covers more than just music.

I found this over at Geekologie.

Apparently my son was born in Rochester, NV.

At least, that's what Google Maps says. It's some form of screw up, and no one knows why, but part of Henderson (a big suburb of Vegas) is called Rochester. Check it out:

And check Google itself. As of this moment, it still isn't fixed.

That said, Henderson *is* a real city. It exists, even if misnamed. Check out this story about Argleton, a town in the UK that only exists on a map. In reality, it's a farm field.

Ah, the future. So full of mistake-free promise.

This poll may contain the most jacked results I have ever seen. Take a look for yourself. Does ANY result show how Bing has been user approval than Google? Did Microsoft buy Time while I wasn't looking?

John Stewart points out that John McCain is still an idiot and should stay away from technology.

Someday I'm gonna have a garage and be able to do stuff like this.

A refresher course on the rules of the internet.

GeekDad points out the obvious reason why that little kid supposedly in the balloon was definitely not in the balloon.

Reason? The bottom of the balloon never sagged from his weight.

Ta da! Science!

Freaky stuff. And these are real!

This is kind of a hoot concerning tiny particles, time travel, and irony. Give it a read.

Mucilage. Yeah, it's as nasty as it sounds.

See that picture? It's basically aquatic snot. Mmmm.

GeekDad reminded me that I had heard a story about this earlier. Check the reminder story here.

National Geographic has the original story on the substance, along with some video:

Plus, Bill Nye (the Science Guy) spoke on the subject on Rachel Maddow tonight:

Willie Nelson is on the cutting edge of the future. First with his biodiesel venture, now with roadworthy broadband.

I'm not a country fan by any stretch of the imagination but I've always had a spot set aside for Willie. He seems like good people. Can't pay the taxman for shit, but everyone's got a fault.

Since I don't catch a lot of CNN anymore I don't get to hear from Sanjay Gupta that often. Here he is with a great interview, some of it focusing on our (incorrect) thoughts on the subject of "brain dead".

Holy crap! You see, this is what amazes me about science. You get stuck in a rut thinking there's only one way to do things and then you find out it might only take five weeks to get to Mars.

I mean, yeah, sure, I can't take more than a week off right now, but what if we're all able to have a shot at getting to the Red Planet for some extreme tourist once we get old?

This, unfortunately, says a lot about this nation. We almost had a cadre of female astronauts to lead our nation into the Final Frontier. The only thing holding them back? The United States Air Force. Yeah, the same Air Force that is full of Talibangelical End Times idiots that are trying to turn our nation into a theocracy. The same Air Force that should have their academy in Colorado Springs disbanded and burned to the ground for their backward beliefs and religious thuggery.

These are the sexist pricks that kept women grounded when we could have used them to advance science, adventure and democratic ideals back in the 1950s and early 1960s.