FMRS....

Something I think would be neat in FMRS, select the text of an article you're browsing then right-click to the menu where there is a "Post" option.

I'm still using it BTW. I like how it's integrated together. I can't wait to see what they come up with when they get it outta beta.

 

On with the show....
So the Bloggies are done. Interesting. I didn't know we were having a contest. 

Let's get those "birds" flying again....
NASA already planning shuttle changes, return to flight. NASA is currently investigating a number of safety improvements to the shuttle program as it... [spacetoday.net] 

An Insider looking in from the Outside....

Cameron Barrett is back with both guns blazing. He's been to Siberia, and now is in Austin. I don't agree about the US, but he states is point of view very powerfully. A must-read. [Scripting News]

Cam IS back. And with an interesting point of view, some revelations about America and the Bush Administration, and advice for those traveling abroad.

It has become fashionable overseas to hate America because of the stupidity of Bush's foreign policy decisions. Among ex-pat communities, Americans are telling each other to tell people they are Canadian and to keep their passports out-of-sight. How sad is that? One American I talked to in Moscow even told me that this trick doesn't work anymore and now Americans should say they are from New Zealand, because as he puts it "Hey, who hates New Zealand?"[CamWorld]

 

Let's hope they don't notice....

As a hiker, backpacker, fly fisherman, and outdoors man I maintain vigilance with the world around me. Unspoiled land and habitat may be the savior of the human race. Even now pond-slime in an English bog has yielded a possible cure for AIDS. So when I see things like this it makes me stop and think.

Another Bad Bush Administration Announcement For America's Environment
It's TGIF for the Bush administration.  Now that Friday has rolled around,they can announce their latest plans for America's environment, safe in the knowledge that it will attract the minimum amount of scrutiny from the press and public. Today, a decision that paves the way for logging in America's largest rainforest, the Tongass National Forest in Alaska.  The U.S. Forest Service is expected to deny Wilderness protections for as much as 9 million acres of rainforest, lands that the government itself has categorized as being pristine and free of roads.[SierraClub]

The scariest part of the whole article is something I've been noticing myself. Carl Pope, Sierra Club President points out how the current administration continues it's policy of "public ignorance is political bliss" (let's make that bold shall we?).

"By slipping controversial proposals in under the radar, the administration seeks to accomplish their goals quickly and quietly, without full public knowledge, public debate or public consent."

Fridays and holidays are typically times when the public is distracted.

Think about it, what did YOU read in the news yesterday? Can you remember? Exactly.