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POPSWhat is Clipmarks? I just read this description of clipmarks by {{pokkets}} and literally got the chills. I believe one of the odd things about clipmarks is that it is very misunderstood by the general web population. Unfortunately, I think that is mostly a product of me being unable to properly explain it. So, when i see a description that so totally nails it, i get such a rush of excitement. Thanks {{pokkets}}!
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POPSSilly String saves US soldiers' lives Odd as it sounds, Silly String helps soldiers detect booby traps safely. You can help - several groups are collecting the stuff and sending it over there. I'll post more information as I get it.
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POPSThousands of GI's cope with brain damage. My father died due to contracting Hep-c in Vietnam, he was 17 years old when he went to serve his country. He died 4-18-07 wile I held his hand. I'll miss him... sorry, my point was this government never really owned up there part in his illness, never helped him get a liver transplant,and never seemed to be grateful for what he gave them, his life.
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POPSStaying alive: the women who are immune to Aids This is a long piece, and it's difficult in places. But it's worth it. More from the piece. I lay down to test the mattress: it was lumpy and totally unyielding, not the sort of place one would want to spend much time, which seemed a little odd, given the purpose of this room. Agnes Munyiva saw my wince, laughed and patted the bed. 'You need it to be hard, because otherwise you could get hurt when the men are pushing on you,' she explained. The mattress, stuffed with lumpy cotton and resting on a plain metal frame, fills most of her room, just one metre by two. The walls are made of mud, the roof of scraps of tin. The air has a tang from the raw sewage and rotting food scraps in the alley outside, and Agnes tries to keep the clouds of flies at bay with a crisp white muslin curtain in the doorway. Remnants of linoleum, pieced together like a quilt, cover most of the dirt floor. She has a kerosene burner for making tea and a gas lantern.
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POPSRupert Murdoch Loves The Communist Chinese Government Does politics really make strange bedfellows? Is it so odd that Murdoch should support another corrupt, brutal and authoritarian goverment? We should read this and ask ourselves: what is it that Rupert Murdoch and his ilk really believe in? Are they really conservatives or simply autocrats mascarading behind a "small government" agenda? What is meant by "small" anyway? From one angle, the smallest government possible is a single dictator, while the largest government possible is a democracy where everyone holds equal share in the governance of their society.
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POPSTasercops Gone Wild I wonder if anyone is keeping count of these taserings of already incapacitated people. At least the cops receive severe punishment: time off with pay.
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POPSPentagon plan to implant chip in soldiers brains. This is old news. This has been going on now for at least 20 odd years. Don't believe me? If you have children whom you adore and love with all your heart, start watching what they are being exposed to (school books, television cartoons, comics etc) and you'll see ideas and concepts preparing them for this technology full implementation. Its already happening on this little island of Ireland!
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POPSRay McGovern: Creeping Fascism - History's Lessons
Were the appropriate leaders in Congress informed that within days of Bush’s first inauguration the NSA electronic vacuum cleaner began to suck up information on you and me, despite the FISA law and the Fourth Amendment? What’s going on here? Have congressional leaders no sense for what is at stake? Lately the adjective “spineless” has come into vogue in describing congressional Democrats. Are they all complicit? "There are few things as odd as the calm, superior indifference with which I and those like me watched the beginnings of the Nazi revolution in Germany, as if from a box at the theater." (Sebastian Haffner, “Geschichte eines Deutschen” - The Story of a German - “Defying Hitler”). In his journal, Haffner decries what he calls the “sheepish submissiveness” with which the German people reacted to a 9/11-like event, the burning of the German Parliament (Reichstag) on Feb. 27, 1933. You don’t have to be a Nazi. You can just be, well, a sheep.
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POPSHow to wreck $100,000,000 worth of cars Mazda Corp. decides to destroy almost 5000 new vehicles after an almost-sinking freighter exposes them to unknown environmental stresses. Turns out wrecking a lot of new cars isn't as easy as it sounds: they created a "disassembly line."
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POPSHiding In Plain Sight Not only are containers of rubber ducks being lost in the high seas, but huge shipping containers of floating athletic shoes and other debris that pollute the oceans. The up side of this pollution dilemma is that scientists are able to study the movement of ocean currents based on the travels of this objects. If you find any odd piece of debris at the beach, contact an oceanographer.
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