Brian Gongol
Watershed affecting one-third of Nebraska's population needs flood upgrades
Does America need a national infrastructure fund?
NOAA will spend $3 million on UAVs for hurricane surveillance
That could be about the best $3 million the Federal government has ever spent
Pilot who cracked in-flight is a good reminder why you have two pilots on passenger flights
Fake food for rent
Do we have a President or a reckless-spender-in-chief?
The President has asked for a $3.11 trillion Federal budget. Astonishing. The spending has to end sometime.
Firefox 2.0.0.12 is out with three critical updates
If it hasn't been updated automatically, the update link will take care of that
Romney's out of the race
What'll be interesting to watch is whether social conservatives who don't like McCain will be angry enough to bolt from the party. Romney is still young and could run again. Given McCain's age (71), the GOP vice-presidential nominee will be an especially important post. Romney may want that pretty badly. McCain is way out in front on the delegate count.
US Representatives ask GAO to study formation of a national Clean Water Trust Fund
The economic stimulus package is really a bank bailout
Consider this: If the government puts anywhere between $150 billion and $200 billion into circulation through rebates and subsidies, it's going to place a lot of money in lots of hands. On average, the average pair of hands in this country owes $3,100 in revolving debt, like credit cards. The stimulus package is going to end up, on net, landing in the banks that need new capital right now.
The Senate is supposed to be the place for more serious deliberation
Instead of acting like a brake on bad policy, the Senate appears to be trying to make the bad plan for an economic stimulus package even worse by making it bigger and bigger. The Senate added $40 billion to the plan sent to it by the House, tallying up a full $204 billion in tax credits, subsidies, rebates, and the like.
Graphic of the day: New Citizen
Long-term study says switchgrass could be very good for ethanol
2.7 million gallons of sewage dumped into waters near San Francisco
Yahoo pulls plug on subscription music service
Newspaper buyouts may have been unaffordably leveraged
Huzzah for Craig Ferguson
The late-night host from Scotland has become an American citizen. The coverage on his own show last night was actually kind of moving in a patriotic way. For as much hassle as a lot of Americans give to immigrants, it's a really neat way to see that there are still thousands of people who are eager to become "us." Ferguson has stood out from the other late-night hosts for some time, thanks to his natural and honest demeanor, and seeing him take enormous pride in becoming an American was just another worthy moment.
Getting light to stop moving
It appears to be possible, once one gets near absolute zero, which has recently become possible
How many people are enough to take something from "strange hobby" to "organized movement"?
If the founder of Wikipedia is right, about five...now that we have the Internet
Security hole with Yahoo Jukebox hits the streets
Weight loss with R2D2
Stanford University researchers figure out that a PDA programmed to remind older adults to get physically active actually worked extremely well at getting them to exercise. Now, combine that kind of very simple technology with something like the Roomba, and you can see how robotics may become a very commonplace part of our daily lives in the very near future. The future certainly looks different from how it did just a few years ago.
High-fiber whole-grain diet leads to better weight loss than dieting alone
For what it's worth, you can call a random Iranian from a phone bank in New York City
"Rock the Casbah" may have been about the ban on rock music in Iran
Then again, that might just be a misinterpretation of the lyrics
Religion interfering with public health
Some medical students in the UK say they don't have to follow new practices mandated to help offset the risk of the MRSA superbug because that would cause them to reveal the skin on their forearms, in violation of their religious preferences. Related: Even with hand-sanitizing gels available, there's still just not enough hand-washing going on in American hospitals.
How to get a human being on the phone when calling an (800) number
The real in-flight entertainment you're missing back in the passenger cabin
A French aircrew engaged in a striptease in the cockpit, and the video has found its way onto the Internet. More was revealed than in the swimsuit calendar some stewardesses from Ryanair posed for a few months ago...or in the hot-stewardess video for the remix of "Star to Fall".
How much water for ethanol?
Show notes from the Brian Gongol Show on WHO Radio - February 3, 2008
The radon threat to health
Fourth Internet cable cut in the Middle East
If this isn't the result of an actual campaign of malice, then it represents the strangest set of coincidental events in technology history. In other words, something's up.
Google is already trying to mess with the Yahoo-Microsoft merger offer
Darfur trouble could be multiplied by possible coup in neighboring Chad
42% of convention delegates are up for grabs on Tuesday
The role being played by the Internet in this election is one of the lesser-told stories
Seriously: Don't panic
Columnist succinctly puts together some of the reasons why Benjamin Graham's value-investing principles are still completely relevant right now