National Geographic has a neat little application that serves as a teaser for their two hour special on May 30th. (Click Launch Interactive.) Sit back and let the imagination take control. It's an interesting ride. That upcoming special looks pretty good, too.

This commercial is a couple years old, but I still love watching it. Tell me this isn't the coolest commercial ever. Go ahead, tell me. (Gotta love Rube Goldbergs.)

The best part of this headline is "baffles scientists". I just love that. I'll be following this one.

Maybe The Matrix was on to something.

Looks like somebody won the "find a blimp" contest.

South Korea leading the way in cell therapeutics? Well done, Seoul. But I hate to think that U.S. scientists will have their hands tied on this because of politics. I think Bush is wrong on stem cells and it's frustrating that he's determined to delay the inevitable. It's going to happen, George. Don't put American scientists behind the 8-ball. (Why does all the talk focus on the concern about cloning humans, as if we're going to see carbon copies of Adonis walking the streets...? Isn't this about the ability to grow replacement tissue and finally get a leg up on our most debilitating diseases?)

How about real-time earthquake forecasting?

The Onion's new "News in Pictures" section is hilarious. Check it out. #6 kills me.

Not Cool. Not At All.

When CNN determines that American Idol merits a front-page headline, you realize that you really are in the twilight zone.

I thought I was done with this, but this subject is like a Medusa head. Are dark corners of the American media determined to help create another 9/11? I don't know, but it seems as if I'm forced to ask myself this at least weekly. And then there's the ACLU. Hiding behind their false platform of civil liberties, you have to wonder what really motivates this group. You have to wonder what their real goals are. Again, we have the IMPLICIT message that the strategic claims of terrorist prisoners are true, while the word of the U.S. military is not to be trusted. I hope the ACLU doesn't lull the world into thinking that they are all about justice and freedom. They have an ugly underneath.

I once did some volunteer work for Amnesty International, back in the early 90s. They've done some good things. But they're not all good, either. Likening Guantanamo Bay to a gulag should piss off any American possessing more than a limbic system. This is such bullshit. I'm getting so sick of this anti-American BS all over the media. Gee, Amnesty...why didn't you say anything about Saddam's torture camps that terrorized its citizens for decades?

If you need more evidence that the (worldwide) media is out of control, full of shit, and determined to undermine the U.S., Google Iraq torture camps and count how many articles there are on Saddam's (former) torture camps versus articles that either implicitly or blatantly bash the U.S. military for their treatment of captured terrorists.

The world is going insane.

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