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A NASA investigation team is trying to determine why a protective nose cone failed to detach during the launching of a climate satellite on Tuesday morning, dooming the $278 million mission and leaving scientists without a much-anticipated advance in the tracking of global carbon dioxide emissions.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory lifted off on schedule at 1:55 a.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a four-stage Taurus XL rocket. But about three minutes later, seven seconds after the ignition of the third stage, the payload fairing — a nose cone that protects the satellite as it rises through the atmosphere — failed to separate as commanded.

“It’s a huge disappointment to the entire team that’s worked very hard over years and years and really did their best to see it through,” Charles P. Dovale, the launching manager, said at a news conference. “The reason not everyone is able to do this is it’s hard. And even when you do the best you can, you can still fail. It’s a tough business.”

It’s a tough business my ass! More like tough for the tax payers to have to pay $278 million to cover their fucking  bullshit mistakes!!

NYtimes.com

The newest product made from goat’s milk is not a tangy cheese, but a drug that could prevent fatal blood clots.

Ushering in a new era of both agricultural and pharmaceutical technology, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first pharmaceutical product made in the milk of genetically engineered animals.

The 200 goats, which are assiduously cared for at a secure farm in central Massachusetts, contain a human gene that causes them to produce a human blood protein in their milk. After the goats are milked, the protein can be extracted for sale as a drug.

I mean what the fuck is this about? Can’t I sell my breast milk for this shit?

Get the whole article at NY Times.

This is pretty late, but check out John McCain = Cylon. So vote for him if you want to be enslaved.

Obviously not paid for by Obama

When I read about the NES Emulator for iPhone, I ran out to the Apple Store and bought an iPhone. No joke. Then I read some more and found out that it had no sound and it was still really buggy. That and it doesn’t have a good UI yet, nor does it even have an icon for the iPhone.

Today I propose the iPhone NES Emulator get renamed. I am also proposing a new icon, which I have yet to create… but it will be grand.

I will now officially call the the iPhone NES Emulator the pNes. Icon wizards, have at it.

And for those curious about my iPhone? I couldn’t get it activated yet because I don’t have OS X 10.4–I installed it, but I then need to patch it to 10.4.10… then update iTunes. I’m doing that now.

More information about the “pNes” here…

Condoleeza Rice is a definite Bush administration whore. Whatever your opinion of the Bush Administration, be it good or bad, you cannot be blind to Iraq and the increasing threat of terrorism. But wait? How can this be? I thought we were making headway into thwarting terrorism! I hate to break it to you, but terrorism is like a non-evaporative liquid that just stays around like an unwanted houseguest. They don’t quit. They will never quit. The only way to deal with terrorism is to thwart their ideals through education, not force. We can’t even begin to educate people when we’re fighting an insurgency which the rest of the world thinks is doing no good.

Then again, why should we care? We’re the United States of America. I’ll tell you why we should care, we aren’t arrogant pricks. You are. Bush Administration lackey’s. We cherish our freedom, that which can be taken away by our powerful government at many moment. But we cherish our way of life even more. It is not to be disrupted by the powers in office that think they know better than us. We are the government. And when this government is no by-the-people, it is by 50% or even 51%.

New republican election reforms aim to suppress voter turnout according to democrats. These reforms require identification to vote. Democrats are idiots when believing that minorities and the elderly aren’t capable to produce identification, however, it is likely that some of the laws require too much, such as proof of citizenship. Hell, I don’t even have proof of citizenship. The republicans are even bigger idiots because they say documentation will prevent voter fraud. Election law officials cite the most common and prevailent voter fraud is through absentee balloting, which if I recall my general atomic theory, doesn’t require you to produce identification at a polling place.

So who’s the bigger fool? We will never know. Just like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Toll Tootsie Pop.

Yesterday there were quite a few news bytes about Apple. Today, there are quite a few news bytes about Microsoft. Blah. I’m a Gizmodo whore. And as much as I love my Powerbook G4, I don’t need to be reminded about how I am spending thousands of dollars to have my software and hardware obsolete within months by Apple; as cool as the software and hardware may be.

Today on Gizmodo, a user comments:

Ok, the Apple news was annoying, but substituting Apple with some other company is not a freak’n improvement. If you post more than two times for the same company in one day it better be news like “Microsoft resurects Jesus and brings second coming!” and “Microsoft moves headquarters to moon” and “Microsoft enters porn industry!” not: “A new mouse! yeay!” unless the mouse is some how connected to the porn announcement.

Agreed. I whore myself out to Gizmodo daily. That makes me a whore… probably.

Gizmodo Loves Their Mice