http://news.scotsman.com/world/Sheikh-to-splash-250m-on.3766617.jp
It’s conspicious consumption and waste like this that make my blood absolutely boil. He’ll spend nearly $60 million in painting the plane in gold leaf.
250m ($500m)… couldn’t he spend $20 / 10 million on a plane and use the other $480 miilion to do something worthwhile, like fucking help cure cancer or feed a small country for a while?
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1846
One of the emblems of the Antarctic, the king penguin, could be driven to extinction by climate change, say French researchers.
In a long-term investigation on the penguins’ main breeding grounds, investigators found that a tiny warming of the Southern Ocean by the El Nio effect caused a massive fall in the birds’ ability to survive.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/13/national/main3824247.shtml
If six suspected terrorists are sentenced to death at Guantanamo Bay for the Sept. 11 attacks, U.S. Army regulations that were quietly amended two years ago open the possibility of execution by lethal injection at the military base in Cuba, experts said Tuesday.
http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,8750_3134962,00.html
“In the interests of fairness, we take a look at the arguments for and against the 39th game of the Premier League and try not to just shout ‘Stick it up your Bollix’. Step this way and make up your mind…”
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080212-duckbill-dino.html
The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.
http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/02/conversation-with-matt-mullenweg.html
Interview with Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) at Yahoo!
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress-plugins-and-seo-mailing-list/
Joost De Valk who is a wordpress maven / savant / Godhead has created a WP mailing list for SEO and plugins.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/11/scioyster111.xml
In keeping with their supposed aphrodisiac properties, a study has revealed that oysters have exotic sex lives, with females and males producing thousands of types of eggs and sperm.
