Decompose plastic bag

Is this true? High school student invents a way to decompose plastic bags in a short amount of time with bacteria.

I am getting this scary Andromeda Strain vibe for some reason.

Good luck Phoenix

Half of all spacecraft that have been sent to Mars in the last fifty years have failed.

The sun is still blank...

no sunspots. Check out SpaceWeather.com.


The sun controls the Earth's climate more than anything that humans can do, so it is good to stay informed about it.

Check out the section about sunspot numbers also (currently, of course, it's 0). There is an interesting graph of the number of sunspots between 1610 and 2000. NASA also has a site here with further information about the sunspot cycle. Interesting reading also about the Maunder Minimum.

Small oil

Check out this article at Power Line -- bet you didn't realize that the US actually doesn't have any big oil companies.

Coming soon

(from Matteo)

I need to start teaching this skill

Lost Parrot Returns Home After Telling Veterinarian His Address (Fox News, via Kibo)

Oh yeah, pal?

eBay is moving to accepting only PayPal payments in Australia, but they claim that they have no plans at all to do such a thing in the U.S., and they imply that we would be crazy to think otherwise.

Do you believe them? I don't.

eBay To Move To PayPal Only In Australia (WebProNews)

After negative publicity about an eBay plan to require users in Australia to use PayPal-only, its online payment system, rumors about a similar policy in the U.S. were met with a forceful denial from the company.

"In the U.S., we are not mulling, planning, or otherwise seriously considering a move to PayPal-only," wrote spokesman Usher Lieberman on the company's eBay Ink blog. "There are U.S. market-specific reasons why PayPal-only is something we simply cannot do in the U.S."

Caesar

At the linked site, check out the photo of the new bust of Caesar that has been found.

More about the man that we never knew before. There is still much to discover out there.

Divers find Caesar bust that may date to 46 B.C.

PARIS - Divers trained in archaeology discovered a marble bust of an aging Caesar in the Rhone River that France's Culture Ministry said Tuesday could be the oldest known

Why can't I think of good names like this?

Continental Termite & Investment Corp
Diamond Bar, CA 91765

More news from the revolution

Here is some more inside info on what happened at the Nevada Republican Convention. And the Ron Paul insurgents are also raising some money at this site to continue their revolt.

The Nevada Republican State Convention of 2008 - What Happened and Why

Are you afraid of heights?

Gavin sends this along.

Doing nothing

Best insight I've seen in a while on the credit crisis. (John Carney at DealBreaker, commenting on an NYT article.)

Stockpiling food yet?

If you haven't visited it yet, check out the site What You Ought To Know.

Haunted dog house

nataliedee.com

I have to admit I laughed

From the comments on this article about the collapse of the Yahoo/Microsoft negotiations (Seeking Alpha):

Lonnie Devereaux
May 04 11:17 AM
Yahoo should just focus now on their chocolate milk business. It's still the best one on the market.

Them's fightin words

Around these parts XTP is Xpress Transport Protocol, not "Extreme Transaction Processing", whatever the heck that is.

So about that middleware

The best part was, after a one hour presentation on "Oracle Fusion Middleware", by quite a polished speaker, he asks for questions...

Too Big to Explain (Clever Elephant)