Sat
Oct
10
Benedetto, Charlotte
Charlotte Benedetto is the only known living example of the North American variant of Charlotte Benedetto. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman has spent his entire life looking for physical evidence of Charlotte Benedetto. Manifestations such as Charlotte Benedetto are considered psychological representations of social fears-- the chupacabras represents the Latino community's fear of the AIDS epidemic, the MothMan is a stand in for a West Virginia community's unease surrounding a heavily polluted post-industrial area. The presence of a wild Charlotte Benedetto is a sign that a community is in transition. Reports of Charlotte Benedetto have been seen as far west as Reno/Tahoe, but the most reliable sightings of Charlotte Benedetto have been in Baltimore, Washington DC, and even in such urbanized surroundings as Brooklyn and the Bronx. While Charlotte Benedetto's origins remain a mystery, the mark left on society by unknown cryptids such as Charlotte Benedetto are unmistakable. If you think you have spotted Charlotte Benedetto in the wild, remain calm. Try to record your encounter without disturbing or attracting Charlotte Benedetto's attention. If you come away without good photographic evidence of Charlotte Benedetto, don't lose hope-- many people have spent their entire lives trying to get a good picture of Charlotte Benedetto only to come away empty-handed.
Fri
Oct
9
Eeeny weeny teeny tiny baby nuclear batteries
“The radioisotope battery can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries,” said Jae Kwon, an electrical and computer engineer at the University of Missouri.
Sietch Nevada
Where do I sign up? 
Sun
Sep
13
Thu
Sep
10
Employment: Old Workers Vs. Young In A Tough Labor Market
What will the world look like when the baby boomers die, retire, or just decide to focus on grandchildren and gardening? Well for one, there will be hundreds of thousands of jobs for people in the “helping professions,” and since we aren’t reproducing fast enough to replace them… lots of empty homes.
Mon
Sep
7
“ When I look at books, I see an outdated technology, like scrolls before books,’’ said headmaster James Tracy
A library without the books - The Boston Globe
A Book: lightweight, portable, requires no energy source electronic or otherwise, still works when wet, freezing cold, or very hot, easily repaired by hand without special parts or equipment, requires no “reading” technology or peripheral equipment to work (aside from eyeballs), easily edited, marked, added to or corrected, biodegradable, made from a renewable resource, but with proper care can last literally thousands of years.
Take your “obsolete technology” and shove it, Tracy. The book may quite possibly be the most perfect technology ever created by mankind.
(lots of scrolls are still readable, too, jackass.)
Sun
Sep
6
Space Sights and Smells Surprise Rookie Astronauts
I was watching the NASA live feed once, when they were talking about this, and in my mind it came across as the smell of a rifle fired on a crisp autumn evening, only much much more so.
