Aphex Twin - Rhubarb (the track that hooked me up to ambient music)
BBC: CIA ‘foils underwear bomb’ plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen
Reports said no target had been chosen and no plane tickets purchased by the time the alleged plot was foiled. There is no indication on the status of the would-be bomber. It is not clear who built the device.
I blogged this just because I can.
Bilder von heute
Harvard Magazine: Who Built the Pyramids? - Not slaves. Archeaologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers
Rooted firmly in the popular imagination is the idea that the pyramids were built by slaves serving a merciless pharaoh.
This notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in Judeo-Christian tradition and has been popularized by Hollywood productions like Cecil B. De Mille’s The Ten Commandments, in which a captive people labor in the scorching sun beneath the whips of pharaoh’s overseers.
But graffiti from inside the Giza monuments themselves have long suggested something very different.
Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google executives may be an asteroid mining project
MIT’s Technology Review has just gotten news of a mysterious new project that claims it will “create a new industry and a new definition of ‘natural resources.’”
Besides the audacious announcement, which promises to “overlay two critical sectors — space exploration and natural resources — to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP,” what makes this unique is its high-profile support group.
The venture is backed by Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, director James Cameron, and politician Ross Perot’s son, among others.
ASIMO advanced features 2011
Monkey Island Theme (ukulele and ubass)
Mal zur Abwechslung was Positives: Connecticut schafft die Todesstrafe ab.
Legislators in the US state of Connecticut have voted to repeal the death penalty for all future cases, after a 10-hour floor debate.
