Browsing archives for September 13th, 2008

More McCain-Palin Lies: Travels, Rally Size

Politics 13 September 2008 | 0 Comments

Lie: After Sarah Palin was nominated as McCain’s running mate, aides stated that she had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait and Iraq to meet with members of her state’s National Guard. She said on ABC that she had visited Canada and Mexico
Truth: Her trip to Ireland consisted of a refueling stop. She never set foot in [...]

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You’re an Idiot, Jonah Goldberg

Election08, Politics 13 September 2008 | 2 Comments

Barack Obama released an ad yesterday (video) that uses John McCain’s self-professed lack of knowledge regarding computers as (one of the many) signs that McCain isn’t a messenger of change. As attack ads go, its fairly tame. Especially when you consider that the McCain’s campaign released ads this week that implied that Obama is a pedophile [...]

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While LHC Beamed, Computers Were Hacked

Uncategorized 13 September 2008 | 2 Comments

While the first beam of protons made their way around the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday, a team of Greek hackers set out to prove a point: 

Now it has emerged that, as the first particles were circulating in the machine near Geneva, a Greek group had hacked into the facility and displayed a page with [...]

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