It seems the internet has gone out again at the fortress of solitude...

no one go to this site \/

http://www.documentarywire.com/

At first you might think "oh theres some interesting videos on here"
-smh- more than half of them fail to stream, or are set to private or are not even on the page to begin with, even though there are links and everything.
Just avoid this waste of time and cyberspace.

Greece on track towards current account surplus in 2013, Oct. data show

Greece is heading towards its first current account surplus this year since it joined the euro area over a decade ago, central bank data showed on Friday.
The country posted a surplus of 2.2 billion euros in January-October, from a deficit of 3.4 billion in the same period last year thanks to record tourism receipts, the Bank of Greece said.

Tourism receipts, the country's biggest money earner, rose 15 percent year-on-year to 11.6 billion euros, already ahead of a government target of 11.5 billion euros for the full year.

Arctic sea ice melted less in 2013, but climate change isn't slowing, NOAA says

More Arctic sea ice survived the summer months in 2013 than it did in 2012. Arctic temperatures did not soar quite as high, and the ice sheets did not retreat as much.
To the naked eye, it might seem climate change is slowing. But taking climate science in one-year chunks is not effective, because there is always year-to-year variability.
More important, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials, is looking at overall trends.
"The Arctic caught a break, if you will, in 2013, but one year doesn't change the long-term trend toward a warmer Arctic," said Martin Jeffries, a University of Alaska geophysicist who is the science adviser to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission. Jeffries is the editor of NOAA’s 2013 report card on the Arctic.

Is the Fed trying to blame the economic bust on bitcoins ?!?

Switch to open source successfully completed, city of Munich says

Munich’s switch to open-source software has been successfully completed, with the vast majority of the public administration’s users now running its own version of Linux, city officials said Thursday.
In one of the premier open-source software deployments in Europe, the city migrated from Windows NT to LiMux, its own Linux distribution. LiMux incorporates a fully open-source desktop infrastructure. The city also decided to use the Open Document Format (ODF) as a standard, instead of proprietary options.
Ten years after the decision to switch, the LiMux project will now go into regular operation, the Munich City council said in a document published on its website.
As of November last year, the city saved more than €11.7 million (US$16.1 million) because of the switch. More recent figures were not immediately available, but cost savings were not the only goal of the operation. It was also done to be less dependent on manufacturers, product cycles and proprietary OSes, the council said Thursday.
”All project objectives were achieved and in some cases even exceeded,” the council said. One of the goals was to migrate 12,000 desktops to LiMux, but in the end, the city managed to create over 14,800 LiMux workspaces for its approximately 15,500 desktops.
The vast majority of users and administrators have been familiar with the OS for a long time, the council said, adding that despite the migration of many thousands of PC workstations, the city government always remained operational.
The city also managed to develop a form management system called WollMux, which includes numerous features such as templates and letterheads. WollMux was released as open-source software and shared with municipalities, companies and private individuals, the council said.
Munich’s deputy mayor, Christine Strobl, said in the announcement that with the project’s success and the sharing of results and solutions with the public, the city took an important step toward more openness and independence from individual software makers.

San Francisco after the fire

23 incredible new technologies you’ll see by 2021

matadornetwork.com/life/24-incredible-new-technologies-youll-see-by-2021/

30,000 more signatures needed, then Obama will have to take a position on warrantless access to email and texts

Act now

Scientists discover new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide

A new greenhouse gas that is 7,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at warming the Earth has been discovered by researchers in Toronto.

good idea of the week

What if, instead a tombstone on our grave we'd all plant a tree on our grave?
1. That would turn all graveyards into forests. Those forests would be out of reach for all those assholes cutting down our green sources of air and would preserve a better future for our future generations.
2. People die, all the time, unfortunately, but that would mean that the forests will grow forever.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. — John F. Kennedy

WTF?

Forbes Thought Of The Day

“ The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. ”
— Anonymous 


wow.....could they be more direct about what they're doing to this country, those guys ? lmfao

Ice disc found in North Dakota

Sphinx in 1878

skool of life

Water on Earth

All the Water on Earth : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Toothpain ?

Cure a Toothache

Just rub ice on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger. A Canadian study found that this technique reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.