The Beer Barrel

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2058114,00.html

Three hours after I gave my name and e-mail address to Michael Fertik, the CEO of Reputation.com, he called me back and read my Social Security number to me. "We had it a couple of hours ago," he said. "I was just too busy to call."

In the past few months, I have been told...

'60s LSD figure Owsley Stanley dies in Australia


By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press Rod Mcguirk, Associated Press – 1 hr 37 mins ago

CANBERRA, Australia – Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture icon who worked with The Grateful Dead and was a prolific LSD producer, died in a car crash in Australia, his family said...

After Julian Assange crashed and burned in his threat to release documents that expose fraud at Bank of America, many thought he had been only bluffing, and that BofA is actually clean. Not so fast. A member of the hacker collective Anonymous, which singlehandedly destroyed “hacker defense” firm HB Gary, who goes under the handle OperationLeakS...

CNN) -- Facebook announced two new safety features Thursday in conjunction with a White House summit on bullying.
A new reporting tool will let Facebook users, including teens and younger users, to privately report troubling content not just to the site itself but to parents, teachers and others in their support system.
And an improved Safety...

Mertdown? What Mertdown?

The trick, of course, is to *keep* it cooling.... from the ever-interesting Dark Poritricks:

http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2011/...hem-recede-as-nuclear-reactor-starts-to-cool/