“Dictionaryofsign.com is a brand new community compiled international dictionary of sign language. With your help we would like to create a massive searchable database of sign languages from around the world - available to all for free…” Full Slice

Die humans die!
So the planet stays exactly as it is today
Die everyone else die!
So I have plenty of room to play
The only way to stop global warming
Is to stop human borning
Hybrids are just a needle in the hay.

“The Second Young Engineers’ Satellite (YES2) was activated and separated from the Foton-M3 spacecraft…The Fotino capsule was due to be deployed on a 30 km long tether in space, the longest ever. As the tether deployed slower than planned, it reached a length of 8.5 km before a preprogrammed command cut Fotino loose from the spacecraft…” Full Slice

what we do is

compound our own text

codeworded all-bother

unpackish

from lossy condensed plage

to pack’d autodidacta

Oh I love nature for fashion’s sake
and living on eastside is great
but commuting to Google I hate to wait
“save the whales, and pave the lake”

I gave a dollar to world peace
and three more to help stamp out disease
but whale killin Injuns I really hate
“so save the whales, and pave the lake.”

Back to nature, that is my line
you know I drink only “Red Mountain” wine
and admire nature along the interstate
“save the whales and pave the lake.”

Blatantly ripped off from Sushi Bandana who wrote most of it.

As promised from last issue, we now present something just a little bit different…  If GOOD radio could truly be called mind candy, you are in for a caloric overload of monumental proportions…  With Wonder Bread in hand, and a BIG thanx to the kindly local Cafe Dionysus crowd, and a special thanx to the Head Waiter hisself, we twist the dial and present for your listening pleasure KGFO AM and FM:

http://www.etext.org/zines/ASCII/Humus/humus.003

“…“Our findings suggest that lifespan regulation is linked to metabolic regulation…“The findings also suggest a tight connection between aging and diabetes. And we may have a new laboratory model for studying diabetes and other metabolic diseases.”” Full Slice

“The spacecraft itself will only have to carry a relatively small amount of fissionable material as fuel and will be able to reach speeds of approximately 10% of the speed of light.“

Nick Szabo’s blog is the first one I’ve mentioned, here on Baloney, that I specifically recommend.

Icon’s 50^th anniversary issue had 50 leading designers, architects, and thinkers expound upon design.

“…there may be no better indication of how well the niche social network is growing than a recent post on TechCrunch, “9 Ways to Build Your Own Social Network,” which lists nine different sites that help people build their own specialized network. Whether it’s Ning or Haystack, these applications aren’t for people setting up Facebook competitors. They’re for the niches, and they’re becoming increasingly successful…” Full Slice

Craig Venter’s genome is the first to have transcribed itself accurately and entirely into a completely different medium: this interactive, zoomable poster.

“…”The building sector is responsible for close to half of all energy consumption in this country and close to half of all greenhouse gas emissions,” he said. Buildings are the single largest contributor to global warming, he said, emitting more than even automobiles.

To demonstrate Mazria’s point, Architecture 2030 has compiled a report that features images depicting the dramatic effects of sea level rise — from about 3 to 16 feet — on 21 cities around the country.

The chief villain contributing to global warming, Mazria said, is coal that is burned in power plants to generate electricity in buildings…” Full Slice Nice graphics irrespective of the truth of his claims and a grass roots movement could take advantage of them as a communication tool. [HINT - manifest the potential shoreline]

“…”The differences we observed were independent of other known risk factors for inflammation, such as health status, age, weight, and medication use. The changes were even independent of the objective size of a person’s social network. What counts, at the level of gene expression, is not how many people you know, it’s how many you feel really close to over time.”…” Full Slice

Now that everything’s melting, we can start using up the ocean itself:

http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

“An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the “most remarkable” water science discovery in a century.

John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn.

The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel.”