J.Tatar and a number of other readers alert us to the shooting death of an anti-government webmaster while in police custody in Ingushetiya, a volatile province in southern Russia. Police took Ingushetiya.ru owner Magomed Yevloyev off a plane that had just landed in Ingushetiya. “Yevloyev… was a prominent opponent of the pro-Kremlin president of Ingushetia, […]

This is sooo wrong and on sooo many different levels.http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/4628/sarahpalinla4.png

My buddy tells me at least once a week how scary his Rottweiler is. This is what happened when his wife brought home a kitten the other day.http://www.break.com/usercontent/2008/8/Rottweiler-plays-with-Kitten-563979.html

Own Wilson hangs out with the Girl skateboard team to give them some encouragement for their latest video pieces. As soon as they start asking him about *his* footage he doesn’t hesitate to bust out the skills. Everyone’s biting his shit. You know how that goes.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyH0qTF9CjY

Dr. Horrible hasn’t given up on his plans of world domination — and neither have his creators.http://splashpage.mtv.com/2008/08/29/dr-horrible-sings-again-gets-moist/#more-1323

While we’re waiting with bated breath for a possible new updated Nintendo DS model that has been rumored, we thought we would take a look at some of our favorite DS mods. Some are weird, some are awesome, some will make you wonder what’s in the modder’s local water supply, but all are creative.http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/08/11-cool-nintendo-ds-mods/

The Peruvian alternative energy company Iberoperuana Inversiones SAC has commenced construction on a 240 megawatt wind energy farm. It is Peru’s first major alternative energy project.http://ecoworldly.com/2008/08/31/large-wind-power-park-will-be-perus-first-major-alternative-energy-project/

If the lessons being learned by scientists about the demise of the last great North American ice sheet are correct, estimates of global sea level rise from a melting Greenland ice sheet may be seriously underestimated.http://www.physorg.com/news139410176.html

Obama plans to activate volunteers and donations through his email list, without parachuting in for a photo op that hinders local operations. Guess which option McCain chose? Same as happened in Iowa — and same as happened with their VP picks; Obama focuses on what he can do for the country, McCain focuses on what […]

Boom it is…The number of cyclists has doubled in a decade in cities as disparate as Berlin and Bogota. Global bicycle production has increased for six consecutive years, according to a report by the Earth Policy Institute. Sales at Giant have doubled since 2002 and continue to accelerate, up 24 percent in the first half […]