This afternoon I watched the Puppybowl had the Puppybowl on in the background while I did homework. I wasn’t giving it my total attention but I couldn’t help but notice that Petfinder.com has a lot of advertisements. If you don’t know, Petfinder.com is basically an online pound —but you can also adopt dogs, horses, birds. You can [...]

I’m a little worried that too much of this upcoming Jobs bill is set on creating jobs through highway improvement. I’m all for lowering unemployment through public works projects but highways don’t provide as much bang for your buck as high speed rail or a greater emphasis on the infrastructure of cities would. With highways you [...]

Keyana Stevens at the excellent NYU Local notices that book publishers are getting on board the iPad: Several textbook publishers (including heavy hitters McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin) have just announced that they will start working with developers to make textbook applications for Apple’s iPad. Because of the iPad’s touch-screen interface, the new applications could be interactive, with [...]

Ars Technica mentioned this interesting study of drunkenness in fruit bats. The funny thing is, they don’t really get drink. The researchers found that, even after guzzling juice from fermented fruit, experimental group bats navigated an obstacle course just as well as their tea sipping control group buddies. There are a couple explanations as to [...]

Over in my homestate of Illinois there’s a bit of a scandal going on over the democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, Scott Lee Cohen. Turns out he was arrested for domestic battery after putting a knife to his girlfriend’s throat. Oh yeah, it turns out that this girlfriend was a prostitute… … I’m trying to [...]

The big news in South Africa is that President Jacob Zuma fathered a child through an extra-marital affair. The Christian Democratic Alliance of South Africa is calling for him to resign labeling Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, and Henry the VIII all in one. This isn’t the first time Zuma’s sex life has been brought to [...]