Yostivanich

“South Amer­i­can lead­ers at a regional sum­mit have expressed fresh con­cerns over Colom­bian plans to grant Amer­i­can troops access to its mil­i­tary bases. But at the gath­er­ing in Ecuador, they rejected a pro­posal to for­mally con­demn the pro­pos­als, which would allow US access up to seven Colom­bian bases.” The US will be using the base to con­tinue anti-drug operations.

“Fox News anchor Gregg Jar­rett falsely claimed that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “sort of sug­gested that any Amer­i­can cit­i­zen who dared voice an objec­tion in a protest is a Nazi, appar­ently based on one iso­lated inci­dent.” How­ever, Pelosi actu­ally said of the pro­test­ers, “They’re car­ry­ing swastikas and sym­bols like that to a town meet­ing on health care,” a claim that is true, and swastikas have appeared at more than “one iso­lated incident.””

“The Express­Jet Air­lines that oper­ated the plane says the flight was diverted to Rochester because of Twin Cities thun­der­storms, and that air­line reg­u­la­tions pre­vented pas­sen­gers from get­ting off the plane. Christin is incred­u­lous that the air­line couldn’t fig­ure out an option besides trap­ping pas­sen­gers on the plane for nine hours.” This is insane.

“Lisa points out that this movie is actu­ally being touted as con­tro­ver­sial and “edgy,” when in fact “there is noth­ing orig­i­nal about rape and sex­ual objec­ti­fi­ca­tion.” For seri­ous. I mean, the sex­u­al­iza­tion of dead women is hardly new. I think in honor of this shit­show of a movie, I’ll go rent Teeth.” Edgy does not equal mysgony.

“A New York woman has became the first per­son to receive a pace­maker wire­lessly con­nected to her doc­tor, enabling mon­i­tor­ing and check­ups with­out all that muck­ing about exam­in­ing peo­ple.” Very cool.

“A Stan­ford engi­neer has invented a new tech­nol­ogy for decod­ing DNA and used it to decode his own genome for less than $50,000. Dr. Quake’s machine, the Helis­cope Sin­gle Mol­e­cule Sequencer, can decode or sequence a human genome in four weeks with a staff of three peo­ple. The machine is made by a com­pany he founded, Heli­cos Bio­sciences, and costs “about $1 mil­lion, depend­ing on how hard you bar­gain,” he said.”

“Plan­e­tary sci­en­tists are keenly observ­ing an equinox on Sat­urn on 11 August, in a bid to learn more about the gas giant’s ring sys­tem. At equinox, the Sun is high over the rings, so irreg­u­lar­i­ties show as long shad­ows on the oth­er­wise flat surface.”

“I want to release the art­work for these icons as open source. They’re free for you to use and (hope­fully) improve upon. I hope that you’ll find these use­ful for any web or print design projects that you’re work­ing on. All you need to get started is a vec­tor illus­tra­tion pro­gram that can open up an EPS file.”

“The thing is—and this is based on like 10 min­utes of research—any change to a con­tract that ben­e­fits one part over the other rep­re­sents a chance for the other party to can­cel the con­tract with­out fac­ing any penal­ties or fees.”

“For Myth­busters Jamie Hyne­man and Adam Sav­age, DIY isn’t just for their Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel TV show—it’s a way of life. Jamie and Adam guest edited the Sep­tem­ber issue of Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics, and gave PM exclu­sive tours of their work­shops. In this fea­ture, the Myth­busters show us around, explain­ing the his­tory of the show and demon­strat­ing how they develop—and test—their favorite ideas.” Fun article.

“Face­book has acquired Friend­Feed, we’ve learned.” And con­firmed by both parties.