In 2004 NBC’s news show “Dateline” began airing “To Catch a Predator” segments, in which a vigilante group posed online as minors to lure sex predators into in-person meetings — where they were then arrested by police. Although there were only twenty episodes of the series, in three years, it’s Read more…
Scientists say tht measured over a 20-year period, methane “packs about 80 times the climate-warming power of carbon dioxide,” according to the Associated Press. “And according to the International Energy Agency, methane is to blame for roughly 30% of the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution.” And Read more…
If you push the “extra ice” button on the soft drink vending machine, you won’t get any ice. If you push the “no ice” button, you’ll get ice, but no cup.
America’s federal government “is planning a post-midterms push for antitrust legislation that would rein in the power of the world’s largest tech companies,” reports Bloomberg, “a last-ditch effort to get a stalled pair of bills through Congress before a predicted Republican takeover in January.” The lame-duck period after Tuesday’s U.S. Read more…
In March the U.S. Senate passed a measure making Daylight Saving Time permanent. Key senators who backed permanent daylight saving time say they’re mystified that their effort appears doomed, and frustrated that they will probably have to start over in the next Congress. At least 19 states in recent years Read more…
“There is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain
In late October, a Swedish software engineer named Linus Akesson unveiled a playable accordion — called “The Commodordion” — he crafted out of two vintage Commodore 64 computers connected with a bellows made of floppy disks taped together. A demo of the hack debuted in an 11-minute YouTube video where Read more…