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Americans select dilithium crystals to power the next generation
 

In a Gallup poll released today, Americans chose dilithium crystals as the top choice of fuel to run both cars and power plants, with 84% of Americans choosing the crystals over other options including nuclear, hydrogen, corn ethanol, shale gas, and photovoltaic solar panels.
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The Last Mountain

Miller-McCune profiles a new documentary about destroying the environment to get coal.

 

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Cut Outs

Back around 1992, I bought a pile of cassettes from a cutout rack somewhere. One was The Stone Roses, by a Manchester band of the same name that produced this breakthrough album before becoming entangled in legal problems. Even though the album was released in 1989, SR sounded to me like a jumble of Dave Clark Five, Kinks and Doors with a bit of the wall of sound thing going on.

I Wanna Be Adored

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Big Babe Semifinals

Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and Bobby Riggs were each 5'-7" tall. Jimmy Connors was 5'-9 1/2".

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Lifeline to a drowning state

I found the TED video above on McClatchy's Mexico unmasked blog: 

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Wimbledon Men's Quarterfinals

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga -his father was Congolese but no one questions his French citizenship.

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New Blood at Wimbledon

Looks like Peter Bodo was right:

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Third Strategic Oil Release, Theory Update

We are in US summer driving season, but Tom Whipple observes that both oil and gasoline stocks are unusually low :

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Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

A vimeo about the badass code weapon for Hungry Beast on Australia's ABC1. 

Another interesting vimeo by Patrick Clair is How Green is Your Internet?

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