There are days when the news is just plain weird. Who knew that the Queen is the real enemy of your average Islamofascist terrorist? Who know that water is the cause of global warming, that there is now a way to deflect killer asteroids and that we may soon sense waves of gravity? Who knew that …

Woopee.  •  Paul McCartney is broadcasting a concert to astronauts:  •  “Sir Paul McCartney is to become the first musician to broadcast live music to an audience in space. His rendition of the Beatles' song Good Day Sunshine is to be beamed to the international space station crew. Sir Paul told …

Nice to see in all the impending blether like the Gomery Report implications (just hold the election, please) or faceless Lord Goog renewing its attack on law (hiring a PR lawyer instead of a IP one to solve its problems), it is nice to have some simple news astronomical. Two new Plutonian moons …

Will there be a day when two Segways crash into each other because the drivers were each intoxicated with the squinty fun of watching their iPod video players with their fantastic 2.5 inch screens. Maybe they were each watching a tiny Bono head. Isn't the future great? Where is my aluminum …

John Gushue plucks a quote from Tod Maffin's blog this morning:  •  “Listen. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are not a well-respected, branded "public radio station." In today's media environment, you are simply an option to add to the assembly line. Or not. They will pick, swap, mix …

Coming back Saturday, I was pleased to see a reasonably substantial wind turbine farm on the ridge south of the I-90 between Utica and Syracuse. But I took no photos and have no idea of the name of the project. All I had heard about in the near south was the 77 turbines of the Tug Hill project. It …

LRAD + Whisper 2000 = Scanners.

The oddest news I've seen for a while:  •  “Dr Christian Koch, 55, from Kleinhartmannsdorf, said his method uses old tyres, weeds and animal cadavers. They are heated up to 300 Celsius to filter out hydrocarbon which is then turned into diesel by a catalytic converter. He said the resulting "high …

Alert! Alert! Space fire approaching the planet or so sayeth spaceweather.com:  •  “A coronal mass ejection (CME) is racing toward Earth and it could spark a severe geomagnetic storm when it arrives--perhaps tonight (Sept. 14th and 15th). People everywhere should be alert for auroras.  •  The CME …