SMBC on Surveillance & Privacy

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: 'via Blog this'

$#! + Roni Sez

So we took the kids to eat at Raising Cane's, a local chicken tenders chain Saturday. Roni takes her kids meal bag and crushes the top closed, saying that she is "saving some air".

We didn't think much of it at the time. When we got home later, she said "here... Smell the air, it smells like chicken & French fries! ", while she held out the bag. We got a kick out of it.

The next morning, she was very upset. We asked why and her reply was that "all of the air was gone and it didn't smell like chicken anymore!"

The shit that kid comes up with...

WH Petition to Investigate HAARP, CHEMTRAILS, and...

Editor's Note:This was supposed to go in my Interesting News Items blog not sure if it was my mistake or if the updated Blogger for Android app sent it to the wrong blog.

Not sure what they are trying to accomplish with this petition...if this is really going on, do you think that the government would actually admit to it?

We, the People, DEMAND an immediate, thorough and honest investigation into GEO-ENGINEERING, HAARP, & "CHEMTRAILS" | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government

Fairly Accurate Though Sensationalized Article on Deepwater Oil and Gas Industry

This guy has most of it right, though he makes it sound like they are using a lot of untried tech. Also, the water depth that he states is not the deepest water drilled in for the Gulf of Mexico.

The offshore drilling life: cramped and dangerous - Yahoo! Finance

OFTAS Podcast (Or Roni Giving Game TIps for Wipeout on X-Box)

I have been thinking about starting a podcast...mainly about the same stuff or similar things I post about here. I have been waiting for the time and the motivation to do it.
Well, I finally got it. My youngest daughter was playing around with my wife's iPod Touch and decided that she was going to pretend that she was a host on the X-Box game from ABC "Wipeout". So she recorded an intro and then started giving game tips. It was too cute coming from a 5 year old, so I had to post it somewhere.

I found a free podcasting host called Podbean. They have free and paid solutions, so I signed up for a free account. It was really easy to do from my PC, but I had trouble when I initially attempted to create the account from my Android tablet. Unsure what the issue was.

They host *.mp3 files, so I found a free *.m4a converter and turned it into an *.mp3. Uploading was easy on the Podbean platform. Now the OFTAS Blog has a podcast also. I embedded a player here to the right that will play the latest episode.

Click to DOWNLOAD an *mp3 file of Roni's first podcast.

Podcast Powered By Podbean

7 Signs We Are Heading for a Mass Extinction?

7 Signs We Are Heading for a Mass Extinction

So what I want to know is if this has been building up for a while (ref. Part about extinction of megafauna), and the climate change we are experiencing is not entirely the fault of human activity, how can we avert a Mass Extinction? I am all for conservation and preserving/repairing the environment where we can, I don't see how we can impact this natural process enough to change this trend.

Photo Christmas Card Giveaway

Go read this post and comment for a chance to win a discount on some photo Christmas cards.

Valeroni: Shutterfly Christmas cards!! (and a giveaway!)