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The Washington Times reports: Eric Ruff, a political appointee at the Pentagon, left the notes at a Washington Starbucks Sunday, either before or after meeting with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in advance of his television appearance. The notes were turned in to the Center for American Progress which has made scans of the notes available, [...]
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I just watched a bunch of trailers online and saw one for a Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin movie called The Last Shot that’s apparently based on a “true story.” Broderick plays a screenwriter who thinks he gets a lucky break when he’s hired to direct a script he wrote called Arizona. Unfortunately his producer [...]
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NASA’s prototype hypersonic scramjet is set for a flight test this weekend. The 12-foot scale mockup of the X-43A aircraft is expected to reach Mach 7 (approx. 5,000 mph) at an altitude of 100,000 feet. A scramjet, having few to no moving parts (unlike a conventional jet engine), is propelled by the combustion of the [...]
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I just started interning with a local documentary film group called Kartemquin Films. You may not know the name, but you’ve no doubt seen their work which includes Hoop Dreams, Stevie, and Vietnam, Long Time Coming. Kartemquin’s latest documentary is a three-part series on recent immigrants to the U.S. called The New Americans. I watched [...]
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Watch Donald Rumsfeld get caught lying. Very satisfying!
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The rumor of a tenth planet has been bandied about by practical jokers and space geeks forever, so why did it take so long for scientists to confirm that this object exists? These images comparing orbits clears it up a bit, and there’s this: “The planetoid is so far from the sun, it takes 10,500 [...]
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Spanish voters held the Popular Party dominated government of Jose Maria Aznar accountable for it’s stand on terrorism and the war in Iraq by electing opposition Socialists to a majority of government posts. According to Reuters, “Opinion polls showed as many as 90 percent of Spaniards opposed the Iraq war.” Spain’s violent history with Islam [...]
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The Grand Challenge, a race between privately built robotic vehicles, ended without a winner today. The Department of Defense’s DARPA held the challenge as a fast and cheap way of advancing the field of unmanned autonomous vehicles for the military, but will have to parlay the $1 million prize to the next challenge in 2006. [...]
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is coming this October. Read the press release here.
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