Saturday, May 24, 2008

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.

Friday, May 23, 2008

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.

Thursday, May 15, 2008

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."