A moon probe has found millions of tons of water on the moon’s north pole, NASA reported Monday. The vast source of water could one day be used to generate oxygen or sustain a moon base. |
A NASA radar aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I lunar orbiter found 40 craters, ranging in size from 1 to 9 miles across, with pockets of ice. Scientists estimate at least 600 million tons of ice could be entombed in these craters. Read more at www.wired.com |
Honestly, when you listen to the audio, this doesn’t seem like such a big deal to me. But I’m sure a bunch of people will get fired.
Canadian hockey players seem like a lot of fun…. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — The women of the Canadian hockey team politely accepted their gold medals and waved to an adoring crowd. And then the real celebration began. |
More than half an hour after they beat the United States 2-0 on Thursday, the players came back from the locker room and staged a party on ice — swigging from bottles of champagne, guzzling beer and smoking cigars. |
Meghan Agosta and Marie-Philip Poulin posed wearing goofy grins. Rebecca Johnston actually tried to drive the ice-resurfacing machine. Haley Irwin poured champagne into the mouth of Tessa Bonhomme, gold medals swinging from both their necks. Read more at www.nytimes.com |
He’s a national treasure.  There have been some tense moments during today’s health care summit at the Blair House, but not for Vice President Joe Biden, it seems. |
Just moments before the afternoon session got underway, C-SPAN’s cameras picked up audio of Biden chatting casually with participants. |
In a partnership with the U.S. Curling Association, Kodiak Technology Group debuted the Hurry Hard Condom in December. Named after the common chant — “hurry hard!”– that curlers yell at teammates to encourage faster ice sweeping, the provocative product lends a racy edge to an often-overlooked sport. |
The condom is actually a fundraiser in disguise. Sold on eBay for $4.99 each, the condoms’ proceeds are split between the U.S. Curling Association and Monterey County AIDS Prevention, a California organization that focuses on HIV and AIDS education. Read more at money.cnn.com |
Like the last administration, the current one say you have “no reasonable expectation of privacy.” Feds push for tracking cell phones |
Even though police are tapping into the locations of mobile phones thousands of times a year, the legal ground rules remain unclear, and federal privacy laws written a generation ago are ambiguous at best. On Friday, the first federal appeals court to consider the topic will hear oral arguments (PDF) in a case that could establish new standards for locating wireless devices.
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In that case, the Obama administration has argued that warrantless tracking is permitted because Americans enjoy no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in their–or at least their cell phones’–whereabouts. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers say that “a customer’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when the phone company reveals to the government its own records” that show where a mobile device placed and received calls.
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A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer
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Shon R. Hopwood was not a particularly sophisticated bank robber. |
“We would walk into a bank with firearms, tell people to get down, take the money and run,” he said the other day, recalling five robberies in rural Nebraska in 1997 and 1998 that yielded some $200,000 and more than a decade in federal prison. |
Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it turned out he was better at understanding the law than breaking it. He transformed himself into something rare at the top levels of the American bar, and unheard of behind bars — an accomplished Supreme Court practitioner. Read more at www.nytimes.com |
Be careful what you type….. The authorities are watching. Frustrated air passenger arrested under Terrorism Act after Twitter joke about bombing airport |
An air passenger was arrested under the Terrorism Act and held in a police cell for seven hours after joking on Twitter he would blow an airport ’sky high’ if his flight was delayed. |
The money is small compared to what’s needed, but huge to demonstrate the positive power of the network effect. Text donations raise $5M for Red Cross Haiti effort |
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Donations via text message raised $5 million for the American Red Cross’s Haiti relief efforts as of 5 p.m. Thursday. |
Soon after a 7.0-magnitude quake struck near capital city Port-au-Prince late Tuesday, the Red Cross mobilized fundraising efforts via social networking site Twitter. Just before midnight, @RedCross tweeted: “You can text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross relief efforts in #haiti.” |
I love this heartwarming Christmas story. Escaped criminal taunts police on Facebook as he enjoys Christmas on the run |
An escaped prisoner has celebrated his first Christmas on the run by taunting police with photos of himself on Facebook. |
On Christmas Day, Craig ‘Lazie’ Lynch, 28, even posted a photo of himself
adorned in tinsel, making a rude gesture and holding a turkey. |
Lynch has been on the run from Suffolk’s Hollesley Bay Prison since September but rather than hide from police he has regularly updated them on his movements via the social networking service. Read more at www.dailymail.co.uk |
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