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Oh great! As if solar flares weren’t enough, apparently scientists have discovered “space quakes“.

Every day we learn something new about how this planet works. It’s a good thing those discoveries lead to new technological breakthroughs.

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Like practically everyone else in the civilized world, I have a number of cherished photos from “pre-digital” days. I’ve long wanted to scan them in to share and preserve, but my cheap nature has kept me from dropping >$100 on a new scanner that I would use infrequently. However, ( Read more... )

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That’s the random question of the day.

After Leia was captured at the beginning of New Hope and brought before Vader, she said “Vader. I should have recognized your foul stench as soon as I was brought on board.” (Really, Lucas? You’ve got to give props to Carrie Fisher for ( Read more... )

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Do you use Google Buzz? I’m a die-hard Google Reader user, and I click the “share” button every time I hit a post that I think other people would enjoy. Those entries appear here on Flametoad.com to the right in the “Items of Interest” box, but they also appear in my Google Buzz ( Read more... )

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I can’t say exactly how long I’ve wanted to be a writer. It was probably around the same age I stopped dreaming of traveling the globe catching wild animals for zoos. Though, to be fair, I think there was a period when I planned on doing both. I wrote my first book in junior high. ( Read more... )

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The US isn’t the only country facing looming water shortages. Parts of China are draining groundwater and aquifers up to twice as fast as rainwater can replenish their supply. If this continues, “China will lose the ability to feed about 10% of its 1.3 billion people.” (Bonus material ( Read more... )

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“In the last 30 years, the teachers’ unions have contributed nearly $57.4 million to federal campaigns, an amount that is about 30 percent higher than any single corporation or other union.” The linked article is long but well worth reading. Interestingly, Governor Good-Hair decided ( Read more... )

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Former teen hacker turned security consultant Mike Maiffret has some interesting things to say about the relative security of Microsoft, Apple, and Adobe.

This sounds like a major medical breakthrough, to me. Researchers have found an agent that appears to stop metastasis in cancer ( Read more... )