President and CEO of the Motion Pictures Association of America Chris Dodd has issued a strongly-worded statement regarding tomorrow’s planned outages and protests relating to the SOPA and PIPA legislation. If you didn’t already think the MPAA was a ship of fools, this will convince you once and for all. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/lRZPmmMMuYY/ lindsey vonn lindsey [...]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] AP – Food and water are running dangerously low in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, with frantic cries for help from residents amid government shelling that pounded rebel strongholds and killed at least 30 people Tuesday, activists said. Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria droid 4 tom brady sister dad shoots daughters laptop [...]
A pair of European space telescopes has snapped a stunning new view of one of the most iconic deep-space objects ever seen: the Eagle nebula.
The Eagle nebula is a distant star-forming nest of gas and dust about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. The nebula gained notoriety in 1995, when [...]
Digging into old newspaper reports and a 2006 PricewaterhouseCoopers UC compensation memo (PDF), however, I was able to piece together five decades of salary history. And it turns out that today’s high pay has hardly been the historical norm. A 1969 Oakland Tribune article shows Davis’ second chancellor, Emil Mrak, earning a quaint-sounding $37,000?or $226,778 [...]
