Category Archives: Science

2010 Jun 11 Friday

BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally (via Boing Boing)

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BP Oil Spill: Daily Dead Wildlife Tally – Boing Boing

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:28 pm

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2010 Jun 09 Wednesday

The View From Prostitution Mountain (via Gizmodo)

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Creator Doug McCune has 3D topographical maps of seven more types of San Francisco crime, from assault to vandalism. The View From Prostitution Mountain

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:33 am

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2010 Jun 08 Tuesday

Rig survivors: BP ordered shortcut on day of blast (via CNN.com)

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The rig workers have filed a negligence suit against BP, Transocean, oil field services contractor Halliburton and other companies involved with the deepwater rig. "I've seen gross negligence, and this conduct is criminal," said Steve Gordon, the lawyer representing the men. "There's a crime scene sitting 5,000 feet below the water." Rig survivors: BP ordered [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:52 pm

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2010 Jun 08 Tuesday

PJ Hahn: ‘BP has lied to us from day one. We could have stopped the oil’ (via The Independent)

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"Hell," says PJ Hahn, the man at the very tip of the sharp end of America’s oil spill disaster, "we’re under siege here. If somebody was breaking into your house, would you get on the phone to friends and neighbours to discuss it? You’d shoot the sonofabitch. It’s that simple." PJ Hahn: ‘BP has lied [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:41 pm

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2010 Jun 07 Monday

An Environmental Disaster Unfolds – Photographs (via NYTimes.com)

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Our government must hold BP accountable for this disaster! Obama says he’s done everything he could have done since the spill started: That is why, from the beginning, we have worked to deploy every tool at our disposal to respond to this crisis. Today, there are more than 20,000 people working around the clock to [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:05 pm

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2010 Jun 04 Friday

Pointing to the future of UI by John Underkoffler (via TED.com)

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You’ve seen the movie-version of Philip K. Dick‘s Minority Report, right? You remember those goofy-looking hand gestures Tom Cruise made while interacting with the computers of the future, right? Those gestures have been the source of many jokes between UI/UX experts, but yesterday I found out they were nothing to laugh about. Those gestures were [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:33 pm

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2010 Jun 03 Thursday

@BPGlobalPR sticks it to The Man

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All eyes are now on BP. No other company or agency involved in the Deepwater Horizon disaster is as visible to the public as BP. This also means that BP is the number one culprit that the public is able to hold to account. Thanks to the “Social Web,” public and private organizations no longer [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:47 am

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2010 Jun 01 Tuesday

Awesome BP oil spill datasmut from Mother Jones

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Media companies today have the power to aggregate all available news and information about a media event, and so do readers. The news outlets that make readers do that legwork will lose popularity. Kudos to Mother Jones for taking advantage of Dipity.com’s visual aggregation services: To help keep track of the events, we’ve put together [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:33 am

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2010 May 29 Saturday

‘Top Kill’ Effort Hasn’t Stopped Oil; Leak Meter Restarted (via PBS NewsHour)

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BP’s Suttles: ‘Top Kill’ Effort Hasn’t Stopped Oil; Leak Meter Restarted | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:03 pm

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2010 May 28 Friday

Gulf Oil Leak Suppressed For Now; Leak Meter Stopped (via PBS NewsHour)

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Finally a silver lining in the gulf oil leak story: Adm. Allen: Gulf Oil Leak Suppressed For Now; Leak Meter Stopped | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS Here’s some more info on the “Top Kill” technique that seems to have worked to stop the oil leak: Watch Animation of the Oil [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:48 pm

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