Super-size you: Fried coke becoming popular in the USA

There seems to be no end to food “bombs” in the US. Now it’s “Fried Coke” as the inventor of the calories-heavy gooey balls has called his latest creation.
The whole thing is deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. It’s best served with Coke fountain syrup drizzles over it. The “Fried Coke” is then topped with whipped cream, [...]

FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way

Timing couldn’t have been worse - with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers.
Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]

HotSoup.com: Now live and cooking

Much talked about social network site for political issues HotSoup has a few hours ago opened its gates and is now online.
Created by …four Democratic strategists, three Internet entrepreneurs, two Republican strategists and one journalist… they are planning to bring together 80+ celebrity opinion leaders with grass roots opinion drivers (?consumers) to engage them [...]

Military Commissions Act: Yay, Nay who voted what?

Those of you American citizens that would like to know who is so freely giving away your civil rights should check the BORDC website.
Currently only the Senate voting record is online but the house voting from yesterday should be available soon.

More on the Military Commissions Act of 2006: UK’s highly popular website The Register [...]

The Economist: On issues with US voting machines

In his last edition top European business and political magazine The Economist has an interesting brief article on US voting machines.Crash and re-boot, that’s how the article is titled, is looking into how the wrong kind of voting machines could bring chaos to the mid-term elections. Even the Economist that rarely is using stronger [...]

Full length (updated: was) online: Who killed the Electric Car?

Those of us that did not get a chance to watch Chris Pane’s documentary “Who killed the Electric Car?” when it was released during June 2006 now, thanks to Google Video, got a chance to watch it in full length from our computers.
Wikipedia and IMDb both provide additional information on the movie.
We have [...]