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Water from the Air

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:53:06 GMT

clipped by: tashindri
clipper's remarks: All my colleciton of thins of water from the air

Clip Source: www.theaustralian.news.com.au

FOR all sorts of personal and political reasons, Max Whisson is one of my most valued friends. We first made contact at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, when this most ethical of men was a principal guardian of our Red Cross blood supply. More recently he's been applying his considerable scientific skills to the flow of another precious fluid. Water.

It involves getting water out of the air. And he’s not talking about cloud-seeding for rain. Indeed, he just might have come up with a way of ending our ancient dependence on rain, that increasingly unreliable source.

rises from the surface of the oceans to a height of almost 100 kilometres. You feel it in high humidity, but there’s almost as much invisible

Fay’s rains put a dent in drought

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:49:06 GMT

clipped by: Manatee Warrior

Clip Source: www.gainesville.com

Tropical Storm Fay frustrated forecasters with its twisted, crawling trek across Florida, where it dumped more than 30 inches of rain in some parts of the state.

But in North Central Florida, where many escaped the storm’s worst effects, Fay’s rainfall has helped by improving drought conditions.

“It does look like maybe a lot of Florida is not considered abnormally dry anymore,” said Marie Trabert with the National Weather Service in Jacksonville. “We definitely are making strides to alleviate a drought.”

As of Tuesday, the Gainesville area had 3.30 inches of rain more than normal for the month. The total for the year still stood below normal by 2.95 inches.

Rainfall totals at the Gainesville Regional Airport over a four-day period during Fay came to 4.5 inches of rain.

rain clouds

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:58:18 GMT

clipped by: tanyanava

Clip Source: www.weather.com

even the bad weather follows Poms

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:25:19 GMT

clipped by: boozich

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Jetting off on weekend breaks to the Mediterranean to enjoy some sun could be pointless, according to a new study which suggests that that is when it is most likely to rain.

Researchers in Spain have uncovered a "weekly weather cycle" which shows that rain falls more often on the weekends than on other days.

They found that during the summer months more rain fell at the weekend than during weekdays.

Scientists already know that air pollution can affect weather patterns.

The researchers behind the study believe that the higher amounts of air pollution produced during the week, and the lower levels at weekends, could create a weekly weather cycle, bringing rain just as the working week finishes.

Unbelievable

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:45:46 GMT

clipped by: bmeuppls
clipper's remarks: Can't believe he's going the pop star route...

Rising out of the stage? Way too over the top.

Clip Source: www.ace.mu.nu

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's big speech on Thursday night will be delivered from an elaborate columned stage resembling a miniature Greek temple.
...

Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president.

He will stride out to a raised platform to a podium that can be raised from beneath the floor.

...

Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall.

Worst Analogies Ever Written In A High School Essay

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:08:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Hah.

Clip Source: www.iainbrown.net

She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

"Worst analogies ever written in a high school essay" was a writing contest sponsored by the Washington Post,

Tags: analogies, comedy, funny, humor

Shelfari joins the Amazon.com family

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:51:53 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: shelfari.typepad.com

It’s an exciting day here at Shelfari. The rain has stopped, the birds are chirping and the biggest news of all – we are being acquired by Amazon.com.

Tags: amazon books catalog

Gustav and Oil Prices = the world sucks!

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:30 GMT

clipped by: crom74

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Hurricane Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hurricane Gustav barreled into Haiti on Tuesday, toppling trees, dumping rain and sending global fuel prices soaring on fears the storm could become "extremely dangerous" when it reaches the Gulf of Mexico.

The hurricane roared ashore with top sustained winds near 90 mph (145 kph) at about 1 p.m. EDT, 10 miles (16 kms) west of the city of Jacmel and 40 miles (65 kms) from the capital of Port-au-Prince. Heavy rains pelted the area, bending palm trees and kicking up surf along waterfronts of dilapidated wooden buildings.

Bartering sex for stuff or services

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:45:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cont...

Ben Corbett, a 39-year-old contractor from Boulder, Colorado, credits his tool belt with prompting the barrage of come-ons he fields from female clients -- most of them married -- on a regular basis.

"It starts with the flirting, and it just progresses," says Corbett, who has run a construction and remodeling business for 20 years. "They'll touch my hand, and there's all this physical contact. Or they'll run around in their pajamas."

"Once," he says, "I was painting the hallway right outside a client's bedroom, and she was lying on her bed like a girl at a slumber party with her legs up and her arms crossed and her head resting on them, asking me if I had a girlfriend.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

(LifeWire) -- While she was studying in Brazil during college, the one thing Stephanie Gerson longed to do before leaving was spend time in the thick of the Amazon rain forest. Unfortunately, she couldn't find a tour that would take her past the forest's edge.

Then he told her that he'd grown up in the jungle in a nearby indigenous community. That was all Gerson needed to hear. Although she wasn't attracted to the guy, Gerson flirted right back in the hopes that he would be her jungle tour guide. It worked. The busboy wormed his way out of work, and the two headed into the rain forest.

"It was amazing," Gerson says of her adventure in 2000. "We built our homes out of palm leaves, I saw animals I'd never seen before, he taught me the medicinal properties of all the plants, we picked fruit off the trees, we swam with and ate piranhas. And, of course, we had sex ... for almost two weeks."

Body currency system

The handyman hookup

It's the biology, stupid

Tags: sex, barter, joy, work, stuff, fun

7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:46:24 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: 'Retarded is right' - doing more harm than good?!

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

#7.

Paul McCartney Gets a Hybrid... Flown to Him by Private Jet

Paul McCartney bought

a hybrid car from Lexus

The car was specially flown in from Japan, thus creating several hundred times more emissions than it would ever save.

#6.

Jennifer Aniston Brushes Her Teeth in the Shower

because every two minutes of showering uses as much water as an African person has for an entire day

#5.

Sheryl Crow Uses One Sheet of Toilet Paper Per Visit

Sheryl Crow took time out

to tell people to use only one square of toilet paper back in April 2007

"I'm clearly not familiar with standard pooping."

#4.

Woody Harrelson Has "Vegan" Clothes... Flown by Private Jet

had them flown in from California on a private jet

Clip Source: www.cracked.com

#3.

Coldplay Offsets Their Carbon Footprint Via Dead Trees

#2.

Harrison Ford Waxes His Chest Hair to Save the Rain Forest

#1.

Al Gore Holds Green Concerts, With Artists Flown by Private Jet

150 artists

222,623 miles

31,500 ton of carbon emissions into the atmosphere

average American releases twenty tons. A year

Tags: green, environment-friendly, recycling, carbon footprint, emissions

15 Spectacular Lightning Images

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:47:31 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Somehow, I'm reminded of the song 'Greased Lightnin!'

Clip Source: digital-photography-school.com

15 Spectacular Lightning Images

Clip Source: digital-photography-school.com

Our wonderful forum administrator NaturesPixel has put together a brief how to photograph lightning tutorial in our forums that tackles the question. At a little inspiration in your lightning photography you might also enjoy some of these 15 great lightning shots.

Tags: lightning, electrical charge, physics, phenomenon, rain, clouds, s torm, photography

Eastern Europe Can Defend Itself

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:41:37 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: The small number of interceptors are designed to shoot down an equally small number of Iranian missiles -- not the overwhelming numbers that Russia deploys. Poland and other states should be under no illusion they can count on the U.S. in a crisis. In the past we left Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in the lurch. More recently we haven't done much to help Georgia.

We have already seen how the tiny Georgian armed forces -- with fewer than 30,000 men -- were routed by the Russian invaders.

According to the CIA's World Factbook, Georgia has over 900,000 men between the ages of 16 and 49. It could easily create a larger military force than it has, but that would require spending more on defense. By the CIA's estimate, its defense budget was just 0.59% of GDP in 2005.

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, one country in Eastern Europe spends more than 2% of GDP on defense. Bulgaria at 2.2%. Romania is in second place at 1.9%, followed by Poland at 1.8%.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Eastern Europeans are rightly alarmed about the brazenness and success of the Russian blitzkrieg into Georgia. For many living in Russia's shadow, this is reviving traumatic memories -- of 1968 for Czechs, 1956 for Hungarians, 1939 for Poles. It does not help that senior Russian generals are threatening to rain nuclear annihilation on Ukraine and Poland if they refuse to toe the Kremlin's line

Even those states which, unlike Georgia and Ukraine, are already in NATO can take scant comfort. As Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, says, "Parchments and treaties are all very well, but we have a history in Poland of fighting alone and being left to our own devices by our allies."

Warsaw's response has been to draw closer to the United States, by rapidly concluding an agreement in long drawn-out negotiations over the basing of U.S. interceptor missiles on Polish soil. That's a good start, but it's a move of symbolic import only

Tags: eastern europe, georgia, ukraine, poland, hungary, czech republic, bulgaria, romania, nato, russia

Consumer Power-

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:04:54 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: What if we all were to really do something, like only buying stuff from stores that are GREEN.
Than move on to only buy products that are GREEN! Things could be a lot GREENER

Clip Source: weblog.greenpeace.org

Carrotmob - consumer power

[Video]

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Full update on the Carrotmob site.

The little 'rain on the parade' voice inside my head said, "Yeah, but that's a bunch of work to change one store out of 20."

Then I thought... What if instead of rewarding the one store that actually does something, you make it more of a competition. Reward them after they take action, and the one that does the most - gets the most.

Lot's of business will act because they won't know exactly how much their competitors are doing.

Maybe this is even already your plan?

dd

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:25:48 GMT

clipped by: savagevalyn

Clip Source: www.whats-your-sign.com

Native American Pueblo Indians would pay homage to the Feathered Sun which is a symbol of the cosmos and the center of existence. Another symbol meaning of feathers also revolves around prayer, and the Pueblo use feather sticks as they dance in prayer for rain during solstice rituals.

Truth

Speed

Lightness

Flight

Ascension

A quick summary on symbol meaning of feathers:

dundas square night rain

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:53:38 GMT

clipped by: chandler12
clipper's remarks: nice picture

Clip Source: wvs.topleftpixel.com

Tags: square, night, photography