A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM transactions, showed signs it was on its way late yesterday when the cycle’s first sunspot appeared in the sun’s Northern Hemisphere, NOAA scientists said.

“This sunspot is like the first robin of spring,” said solar physicist Douglas Biesecker of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. “In this case, it’s an early omen of solar storms that will gradually increase over the next few years.”

A sunspot is an area of highly organized magnetic activity on the surface of the sun. The new 11-year cycle, called Solar Cycle 24, is expected to build gradually, with the number of sunspots and solar storms reaching a maximum by 2011 or 2012, though devastating storms can occur at any time.

During a solar storm, highly charged material ejected from the sun may head toward Earth, where it can bring down power grids, disrupt critical communications, and threaten astronauts with harmful radiation. Storms can also knock out commercial communications satellites and swamp Global Positioning System signals. Routine activities such as talking on a cell phone or getting money from an ATM machine could suddenly halt over a large part of the globe.

Sunspot is Harbinger of New Solar Cycle, Increasing Risk for Electrical Systems

After her third-place finish in Iowa, there are reports that Hillary Clinton's campaign is thinking of running negative ads against Barack Obama. Humorist Brian Unger provides the Clinton campaign with some ready-made negative ads, free of charge.

Hahahah ! :P "Give it up..."

Unger Report:Making Negative Fun! {MP3}

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There is soem cool stuff here.. Check it out...

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At Oakland, Jul-1995.
Written by John Prine.
With Jackson Browne, Brian Adams, Bruce Hornsby, and Kim Wilso

Great song... Wish I could find the interview that Terry Gross did on fresh air
with John Prine... :P

YouTube - Bonnie Raitt - Angel from Montgomery

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Hmm ... The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine ...
I'm not conservative but I think it is funny that Google says that this website is harmful... Hahaha

:P

Google's quaf? or what? How does google mark a side as badware?

Malware Warning For the American Spectator?

So Ben was sentenced last Thursday for stock fraud. The grace note is this: after resigning from Yomu (to protect the company, of course), he found a $200,000 job as VP of Engineering for a company called MemeStreams. He implemented his same hiring practices there; at one point he hired a DBA who couldn't A a DB; she worked in his office with the door closed, and at about that time the BenCam went off-line. He was having relations with three of his female subordinates, including being caught in flagrante delicto in the "engineering pit" with two of them after a company party at a bar. The DBA was fired after that because she was entirely unqualified, but everyone else remained. Investors came in and evaluated the company, picking off a lot of deadwood (including one former Yomu employee who, while smart and capable, was in way over his head at MemeStreams), but again keeping Ben. But this past Thursday, there was an interesting revelation. It seems that while the CEO knew about Ben's precarious legal situation, full disclosure had not been made to the investors. MemeStreams closed on Friday.

The double-grace note is that I was dumb enough to do some minor contract work for MemeStreams, on the grounds that Ben didn't actually control the money. I doubt I will ever get paid; the company is insolvent with $750,000 in debt and $3,000 in the bank. Oh, well.

Who wrote this? It says it's fiction... Hua?

A Bizarre Little Tale

I like everything about their offering except for the fact that it’s a closed system. I’d like to be able to incorporate the features they offer into my current blog. It would be nice to have each of these features available as a web service. Maybe they’ll develop an API.

Did you not say this was in the works?

I Want MemeStreams as a Web Service

There is no text... just click the link and the end...

STFU

Ever imagine what it'd be like to play Asteroids against your friends? Want to savor the satisfaction of blasting people out of space in some addictive side-scrolling 2D spaceship shooter action?

Slap on some snazzy graphics, guns, bombs & big explosions and the beautiful revelry of flying past your enemy's debris as they cuss at you, and you have Continuum, the longest running massively multiplayer spaceship shooter game running today.

I have been playing this game for about 10 years now... It's silly but in 1998 I think it was one of the first (IMHO) great MMOGs....

Give it a go... and have fun... and I just might get to shoot at you too...

Free too..

Continuum - Meet people from all over the world...then kill them.

That's because at least one lawyer for the Recording Industry Association of America, the Big Four record companies' lobbying arm and primary legal weapon, considers the copying of songs from your own CDs to your own computer, for your own personal use, to be just as illegal as posting them online for all to share, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Arizona.

Crap! Here we go again on the battle for FairUse!

Was this not already ruled on in the whole VHS/BETA debacle?

Ripping MP3s Illegal, Grounds for Lawsuit