Author: wuog

It was 40 years ago today that the famous Earthrise photo was taken aboard the Apollo 8 space shuttle. Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to achieve a velocity sufficient to allow escape from the gravitational field of planet Earth.

1968 was a year of upheaval, riots, and assassinations, but the orbiting of the moon gave humanity hope for their planet; it was humanity at their best after a year of seeing us at our worst.

As the shuttle orbited the moon, the crew spoke to 2 billion people on Earth, describing the landscape then reciting the creation story from Genesis. Photo after the jump. . .

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These Reality commercials are great. All “clean” coal really does is transfer one waste stream (air) to another (water). Oh, and it’s not even viable until 2020. Wikipedia on Clean Coal

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKC5YV2yrFk&fmt=18[/youtube]

Teenagers in Maryland have discovered how fool the cameras at intersections that give tickets to those running red lights.

It’s pretty easy. Here’s how.

1. Find a target. Get their license plate number
2. Find a template of their state’s license plate
3. Photoshop the template to include the victim’s plate number.
4. Print the fake plate on photo paper and place over your license plate
5. Run a red light at a camera protected intersections (Alps and Broad)
6. Repeat step 5

Original source: Ars Technica

MELBOURNE restaurateur Peter Leary has used Facebook to track down bill dodgers in his up-market establishment, Seagrass.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24714093-5014239,00.html