NASA could be closed for more than a week

"Damage assessments from Hurricane Ike at NASA's Johnson Space Center continued on Sunday, and a space agency spokesman said it could be late this week or sometime next week before the facility is ready to reopen for normal operations. Johnson, which employees 16,500,...

How Can Google Give Me A 404 SiteLink

"So, eventually Google shown down on my little Internet Marketing business and rewarded me with some sitelinks for the phrase “North South Media”. I have been noticing this for sometime in Google Webmaster Tools and with each new option they proposed I batted down because...

Boom of “Village Bloggers” - A Big Thank You for “Chiliad minds”

"Boom of “Village Bloggers” - A Big Thank You for “Chiliad minds” Nov 2nd, 2007 by tbnandasiriwanninayaka Today I was very happy to see the post about “Village Bloggers” in “Chilliad minds” blog. Please visit...

Paranoid About Neighborhood Kids, MASS man kills family, then himself on RR t...

"Neighbors knew Robert McDermott as a man who believed neighborhood children were plotting to gang up on him. He hid in the bushes with a camera to catalog their identities, they say. He also had a volatile relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, with whom he...

Petraeus Ex Machina by Arianna Huffington

"So Petraeus says it will take 120,000 soldiers to succeed. Instead, he's being asked to do it on the cheap -- and pretend that he's getting what he needs. And this is just in terms of troops. Petraeus' manual also says that a muscular military presence is just 20 percent of...

Same-Sex Intercourse In The Muslim World

"The practice of pederasty in the Muslim world seems to have begun, according to surviving records, sometime during the 800s and ended, at least as an open practice, in the mid-19th century. Throughout this era, pederastic relationships, poetry, art and spirituality were...

Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness

"Terror in Terai: Missing Seriousness (Nepalnews Special) - By Sanjaya Dhakal While Nepal basks in the post conflict glow of relative peace and freedom, some districts in the southeastern plains of the country continue to reel under perpetual fear and terror as bands of...

Seekr Search Engine Follows the Political Money

"If you're a regular visitor to our site you noticed sometime last week, on the left side of our home page, our latest widget - we've dubbed it Sunlight Seekr. It's the first step to a one click search engine that culls through multiple databases. We put it up last week to...

Laying the Groundwork for a 'Cabinet Reshuffle' in Iraq

"A flurry of meetings in Baghdad and Washington suggests Iraq may be about to see another regime change. But will it do any good? Regardless of whether President Bush is more inclined to heed the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group or to listen to its skeptics, Iraqi...

Microsoft: Windows Vista is done

"Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has completed work on its long-delayed Windows Vista operating system and plans to release it to consumers January 30. The announcement means Microsoft is on track to meet its revised release schedule. Jim Allchin, co-president of the...

Stepfather Arrested In Child Death Case

"A baby is dead and the child's stepfather faces several charges. Investigators say the child's stepfather, Jermaine Reaves faces several charges including aggravated battery and neglect. "The child was taken to Methodist and sometime between there and later on that day,...