In my late night jaunt around Ether Universe, I found some other news to draw me away from all that madness of last week.  I thought I'd share my finds as a word, picture and music diary. 

Last week seemed to me to be particularly insane with regard to news.  It seemed that every time we turned around we had fresh hurls  from AIG/CITI.  Geithner-Geithner-Geithner/Krugman-Krugman-Krugman. Oy. Financial sector's ups and downs, TARPS, Joseph Cassano. And of course Dick Cheney in Israel with his lopsided smile and runaway mouth, scaremongering.

Please, can't he be kept out of politics now.  His brand of politics has caused enough  wreckage.  And lets not forget the strange and unforgettable way that Revolutionary Michelle Bachman did Marx. Or perhaps she's smoking what kept Bushco-Cheney in style the last 8 years, along with all the hate and vitriol of Limbaugh and Hannity and others.  What -- they did not get enough?  

Here's to them --


1) VOTE EARTH at Earth Hour:  --  did you switch off your lights for one hour -- 8:30 - 9:30 on Saturday?  I was not home for that event, but when I got home late Saturday night, I found some friends at my house, laughing and telling stories by candle-light.  No TV, no radio, no lights, no computer.  Lots of candles, food, drink and my battery operated Travelsound Zen-stone putting out some music, laughter and story telling.  And of course cat petting.



2) Some people believe that the world was created in 7 days and it is 6000 years old. Really, it is, Bill Maher told me so in Religulous. Dubai is now in the process of making The World and it's going to take a little longer than Biblical Time, and it will destroy corals and other habitats to do it.  The real question is who will live there?  Who can afford it? Seriously, how far away from the madding crowd do some people have to get to feel well and safe?



Choose your Dubai created island... Yeah, right.  Oh, and it will have an African game preserves which recreates the Serengeti?  Jeez.  How about helping the relevant game preserves, the relevant people and preserving the Serengeti in real time instead of building billionaires private island system called "The World" which is also endowed with its own private "Serengeti."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SofOfVYiRI 

3)  I hope these doctors understand what they are doing.  Seriously.  Worse than cannibalism.  And where are these harvested organs and tissues being sold?   Do the buyers care? What a horrible choice, really, for the person with that failing organ and their only way to life is through getting one of these harvested organs. 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2y5LyhnMAU


4) Online dating not just for humans anymore.  Very cute.


5) The next new cheap car but the world will have to wait for more than a Nano second.  Hopefully, their roads will begin to look different.



6) They went diving off the Bahamas looking for big-eyed glowing animals, adapted to the dark and instead found oceanic balls that move and leave tracks and are in fact protoza.  Reading that made me think of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.

7)  Virus hunters, I love this tribe.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/499

8) Ok --  It's now official in my book -- Ross Douthat is a full sized cretin! And that's on the passable level.  He is assuredly no gentleman.  Why, oh why, did the NYT take him?


What stories did you encounter that you thought were interesting and any vids?

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UPDATE:  some of the links had not attached properly.  I fixed it. Sorry about that.