Archive for August 1st, 2008

Daily round-up! anthrax + adorable baby chickens edition

The Tale of Wasted Resources, FBI Edition: Was Bruce Ivins the anthrax man? According to the Guardian, the US microbiologist, a civilian bio-defense researcher at a top military research laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, was notorious for his unauthorized Anthrax testing. A government scientist for 18 years, his office was found positive for “Ames” anthrax [...]

Say Wha? Youtube gets wordy

youtube_t.jpg Youtube’s videos get translated to text. Is this the end of a million transcriber’s careers?

Photo: GOP on Election Day
Slideshow: Nov. 5 Newspapers
Photo: Election Day in LA