ixie Alley is starting to catch up to Tornado Alley as being the worst place to live when it comes to tornadoes.

Tornado Alley vs. Dixie Alley « Weather Blog

Of all the teams that will rely on defense and goaltending this spring, Nashville has the best collection of talent and depth at those positions and will be a surprise winner of the Stanley Cup because of it.

One CAN hope...

Why Nashville will win Stanley Cup - Ducks v Predators - 2011 Stanley Cup Conference Quarterfinals

After several false starts, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) is starting to deploy a growing army of robotic helpers to restore sections of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility that are too radioactive for humans.

The 'mighty' robots of Fukushima - The Week

Happy Easter!

YouTube - Peep Microwave Disaster

Several news services are reporting that the son of Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky Labs, has been kidnapped for ransom in Russia.nullnull

Security firm founder Kaspersky's son reportedly kidnapped in Russia - Computerworld

Terje Sorgjerd:

This was filmed between 4th and 11th April 2011. I had the pleasure of visiting El Teide.

Spain's highest mountain @(3715m) is one of the best places in the world to photograph the stars and is also the location of Teide Observatories, considered to be one of the world's best observatories.

The Mountain

A gigantic laser experiment intended to study the nature of gravity and an x-ray telescope designed to look at black holes are being swept into the dustbin of history, too big and too expensive to survive the federal budget ax.

Citing Cost, NASA Bows Out Of Two Astrophysics Projects, Including Building the Largest Scientific Instrument Ever | Popular Science

Security researchers presenting at the Where 2.0 conference have revealed a hidden, secret iOS file that keeps a record of everywhere you've been.

iOS devices secretly log and retain record of every place you go, transfer to your PC and subsequent devices - Boing Boing

noteworthy wrote:
Joseph L. Hoffman and Nancy J. King:

The never-ending stream of futile petitions suggests that habeas corpus is a wasteful nuisance. We need a new approach.

You can see this appeal fatigue in the recent radical expansion of police search powers at the border. You usually don't get to raise a constitutional point unless you're guilty because the only consequence of illegal searches is that evidence is expunged and you can't expunge evidence from a trial that isn't happening. So judges see guilty people trying to get out of it and they come up with rationalizations for upholding those convictions that aren't carefully considered. It is enormously frustrating the see the quick and sloppy logic with which appeals courts hack away at our fundamental rights. Over time the police find themselves with the power to randomly drill holes in people's cars and read through their private emails without suspicion because the alternative is that the courts would have to let a guilty person go, and the courts are clearly being asked to do that so frequently that a kind of blindness has developed wherein they are no longer trying to recognize when it is appropriate anymore.

RE: Justice, Too Much and Too Expensive

Teaching in Christian seminaries, or to largely Christian undergraduate populations, who wants to denigrate the cherished texts of Scripture by calling them forgeries built on lies? And so scholars use a different term for this phenomenon and call such books "pseudepigrapha."

Bart D. Ehrman: Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters