Uncontacted native tribes

Friday, 30 May 2008, 11:50 | Category : News, Technology
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I am always amazed when I hear news of uncontacted native tribes being “discovered.”  There is a story that I saw from the Yahoo pages about a tribe in Brazil that includes pictures from a recent “flyover.”  The natives are photographed aiming flaming arrows at the aircraft that is taking the pictures.  Can you imagine [...]

Rolling Thunder

Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 21:03 | Category : General living, News, Politics
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I saw on the news where there was a huge motorcycle rally called “Rolling Thunder” in Washington DC last Sunday.  This was an annual event held by a motorcycle club of veterans; they hold it on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend every year to honor and call attention to all of the service men [...]

Using algae to make fuel

I think that instead of using salt water to create fuel to run our cars, using algae to create fuel is a more reasonable path to take.  I’ve been reading a lot of articles about making fuel from algae, and I saw that some companies are already using fuel made from algae, including an airline [...]

Fuel from salt water?

Sunday, 25 May 2008, 12:51 | Category : Business, Environment and/or Green, General living, News, Shopping, Technology
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A friend of mine sent me a link to a blog that was talking about how someone has found a way to burn salt water, and that the possibility was there to further develop that to actually be able to run cars with that technology.
So I was just googling “fuel from salt water” and was [...]

Senior Pranks

Saturday, 24 May 2008, 11:11 | Category : General living
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I’ve always admired the Senior Pranks that some high school seniors come up with, as long as there is no one injured, and no destruction of property.  This morning’s local paper reports a great senior prank at a local high school where several seniors managed to haul a port-potty up onto the roof of the high [...]