Friday, January 21, 2011

Breakthrough Laser Could Revolutionize Navy's Weaponry

Fox News: Scientists with the Navy's Office of Naval Research have demonstrated a prototype system capable of producing from thin air the electrons needed to generate ultrapowerful, "megawatt-class" laser beams for the agency's next-generation system. 

Verizon Sues FCC over Net Neutrality

Politico: The company on Thursday filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which has previously ruled that the FCC does not have the authority to adopt such sweeping regulations.

DVR alert - Onion Sportszone

Some funny shit - Tuesday nights at 10:30.

Here's the Who would you kill? segment from the last one.

The flip side of the 60's sexual revolution

Daily Mail:  "Most of us girls, at least those on the London rock scene as I was, didn’t have a clue as to what sex could be like when it was good. When we weren’t crying, we’d giggle, like the schoolgirls we were, about our exploits, without realising how damaging our sexual behaviour was both to our self-esteem and our souls."