Archive for September, 2008
HP Pioneer Tom Perkins Shows Off World’s Largest Yacht
Did the stock market tank? No one told Perkins. Check out this slideshow of an uber-yacht. Freakin’ huge.
Ha. Those words were written by digg friend Amy Vernon. She’s a highly intelligent gal who has an interest in the Hudson Valley. At first I wasn’t that interested in this submission, but after a few changes it turned out well. I deleted one of the pictures, because it had a duplicate within the slideshow. Diggers and Redditers don’t take too kindly to mistakes on submissions. It had 52 diggs by 58 minutes. Very happy that Amy liked it — as she is a digger who always reaches out to people and looks for good stories.
Facebook Drunks Start Group, Raise Career Questions (PICS)
A Facebook group that appears to glamorize excess drinking among young ladies is growing in popularity but could spell disaster for members’ career hopes.
Surgeons Reattach Girl’s Hand After Freak Jump Rope Accident
6-year-old Erica Rix was riding in the back of her mother’s SUV on the way back home from soccer practice. Erica was dangling a jump rope out of the window…
California Company Builds Amphibious FLYING Hot Rod (PICS)
It can touch down on land and sea. You haul it on a trailer. It’s a two-seat plane that could become as popular as a jet ski some day.
IKE AFTERMATH: The Worst Of The Worst (PICS)
Ike did damage all over Texas. These pictures show some of the worst damage that the hurricane inflicted.
America and The World - BITTER and UGLY?? (PICS)
With news that some South American leaders have recently kicked out U.S. Ambassadors this week, the question now is, who gets along with the U.S. and who does not?
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That’s Enough From You Yankees!! - Chavez Tells US To Leave
President Hugo Chavez says the U.S. ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela and he’s recalling his ambassador from Washington. Chavez said he’s asking U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy to leave as a means of showing solidarity with Bolivian President Evo Morales, who expelled Washington’s envoy in La Paz.
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Celebrities Who Needed Braces (PICS)
The usual suspects are here, but there are also people like Brett Fav-ra and Oprah.
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Chavez Tells U.S. Ambassador To Leave Venezuela
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is recalling his ambassador from Washington.
The move comes less than a day after Bolivia’s leftist president, Evo Morales, ordered the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to leave the country, blaming him for intensified opposition protests that shut down a natural gas pipeline to Brazil.
A State Department spokesman in Washington said Morales’ accusations were “baseless” and that the U.S. Embassy in La Paz had not received any request for Ambassador Philip Goldberg to quit the South American nation.
Morales, who is a close ally of Venezuela’s fiery leftist leader, Hugo Chavez, frequently lashes out at Washington and previously accused Goldberg of siding with his rightist opponents in a power struggle gripping Bolivia.
“The ambassador of the United States is conspiring against democracy and wants Bolivia to break apart,” Morales, a former coca farmer, said in a speech at the presidential palace in the Andean city of La Paz.
Morales said he had asked his foreign minister to send a letter to the embassy telling Goldberg to “urgently return to his country” — a decision applauded by Chavez, who accuses Washington of backing a failed 2002 coup against him.
“The same thing is happening in Bolivia, it’s the imperial aggressor, the genocidal U.S. empire,” Chavez said in a speech.
Morales’ opponents concentrated in resource-rich eastern regions have stepped up protests against his leftist reforms in recent days, storming public buildings and attacking facilities linked to the impoverished nation’s key natural gas industry.
Protesters occupied public buildings for a second day on Wednesday in the eastern city of Santa Cruz, an opposition stronghold and Bolivia’s economic hub.
They want a bigger share of state energy revenues to stay in their region, Bolivia’s richest, as well as greater autonomy from the central government in La Paz.
Cal Scientists: One Step Closer To Spiderman-Like Substance
Cal Scientists: One Step Closer To Spiderman-Like Substance
Researchers Developing Gecko-Inspired Material That Shakes Off Dirt
