factcheck.org In this election year let me recommend this site run by the Annenberg School at UPenn

New York 50 Percent of Sequoia Voting Machines Flawed. Don't allow vendors hack the vote.

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver, orders-of-magnitude smaller than any previous radio, from a single carbon nanotube. The single nanotube serves, at once, as all major components of a radio: antenna, tuner, amplifier, and demodulator. Moreover, the antenna and tuner are implemented in a radically different manner than traditional radios, receiving signals via high frequency mechanical vibrations of the nanotube rather than through traditional electrical means.

offbeat angle on the iPhone mania: "Talking to God on a Two Way Radio" in honor of the recently-passed George Carlin.

The FCC commissioners heard about privacy, fairness and commercial possibility. Rep Mike Doyle (D-PA) helped organize the event saying it was intended to address two major concerns -- the so- called "digital divide" between those who have broadband access and those who don't, and "Network Neutrality," or the openness of the Internet.

Amazing Animal True Story about two men who adoped a 35 pound lion cub from Harrod's dept. store, raised, then released, and reunited with him in the wild.

Letters, prose, poems, drawings mailed by soldiers and other servicemen and women during world war two.

What are your skills worth on the open market?

This is not a guide on how to plan a wedding, but rather on how to find information on the business of weddings.

FDA is updating healthcare professionals about recent changes made to the Boxed Warning, Warnings, and Contraindications sections of the prescribing information for micro-bubble contrast agents, a sterile suspension of perflutren gas microspheres, indicated for use in certain patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, to opacify the left ventricular chamber and to improve the delineation of the left ventricular endocardial border.

NASA's Spaceward Bound: Arctic 2008 Follow along as American, Canadian and Inuit teachers work side by side with NASA scientists studying remote and extreme environments in the Arctic July 25 through Aug. 2, 2008 and Space Kaleidoscope Science Institute in Baltimore. "It's an exciting time for the field of astrokaleidoscopics, or anyone interested in the vast, wacked-out nature of space."

"What Your Broadband Provider Knows About Your Web Use: Deep Packet Inspection and Communications Laws and Policies." Contact Congressman Ed Markey, John D. Dingell(chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce) and Joe Barton (ranking member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce opt out of NebuAd, Frontporch, ContxtPlus, 121Media, Phorm and PeopleOnPage

School Teachers and other scholars Deadline for proposals: September 1, 2008 for October through December 2008. December 1 for January through August 2009.

U.S. 6th Circuit says there is no meaningful risk of hardship to the plaintiff! read more . . .

You are invited open to the public The Federal Communications Commission today announced a public en banc hearing to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Monday, July 21, 2008.

Bush brings us back to the dark ages: "The Department proposes to define abortion as 'any of the various procedures -- including the prescription and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action -- that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation,"' it said.

CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations explains how misguided federal farm policies have encouraged the growth of massive CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) by shifting billions of dollars in environmental, health, and economic costs to taxpayers and communities. As a result, CAFOs now produce most of the nation's beef, pork, chicken, dairy and eggs, even though there are more sophisticated and efficient farms in operation.Instead of favoring CAFOs, the report recommends that government policies provide incentives for modern production methods that benefit the environment, public health, and rural communities. The report also shows that several smart alternative production methods can offer meat and dairy at costs comparable to CAFO products.

Text of Obama's speech: Remarks to the 80th Convention of the American Federation of Teachers Senator Barack Obama July 13, 2008

"I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen's ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc — outrageous and I will fight them," Representative John Culberson, Republican of Texas

Bank failures to surge in coming years.IndyBank Fails. There are 90 banks that may fail. No one tells you which bank. It could be your bank, but how would you know?