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The "Like" button is doing a lot more than just showing opinions

The “Like” button on Facebook has become a cultural icon for our generation. It is a way that people can instantly give their approval and/or association with a thought, picture, quote or meme. It may seem like an innocent and small aspect of our [...]

Caffeine is a total Scam

Everybody knows Caffeine is a drug. It does psychoactive stuff to your brain and the rest of your body. Click here to find out more about caffeine. But what many people don’t realize is that not only is caffeine a drug that changes how your mind and body works, but that [...]

An example of an Unemployment Check

On July 12th, 2010 the Senate will once again vote on the Unemployment Benefits Extension issue. This is a very important issue because there are currently over 1 million people that will be effected by the decision of the senate. This bill has been voted down more than once over [...]

Let's trim the fat of government programs and spending

I’ve been examining how the economy has been going for a while now. And it looks like even though the economy hasn’t “double dipped” quite yet, people are saying there is a 20% chance that it could still happen. Double Dipping is when the economy is in [...]

SPOILER WARNING

At the end of Toy Story 3 the antagonist bear gets crucified. You see him with his arms wide open on the front of a truck. I think everything in Toy Story 3 had little significance except for that last scene. It symbolizes that we are at the end of an era. A great deal [...]

Hulu Commercial shows Alec Baldwin as alien

Hollywood has a great sense of humor. It does so especially when it talks about itself. In this Hulu commercial, Hulu.com basically says that they are trying to reduce people’s brains into mush. And I’m pretty sure Alec Baldwin says that they are aliens. Now, I know that they [...]

Hotties the Next Generation

I observed some hot girls walking up the street when I was ordering my drink at Starbucks today. I thought to myself, “Those girls are so fine that they’re Hotties: The Next Generation!” As usual I wasn’t planning on actually talking to them. But then they walked inside Starbucks and ordered a [...]

Light Wavelength

Wavelength means the distance between two successive peaks of a wave. People can only see electromagnetic energy that has a wavelength of 390 – 750 nm. But what we see is not all that is actually there. In fact there are many different things happening in my kitchen that I can’t actually see. There [...]

Russian Desalination Plant

Have you ever heard the term “Desalination” before? This is becoming a hot topic (pun intended) for populations and their growing drinking water needs. In a nutshell, Desalination means taking the salt and unwanted minerals and materials out of either sea water or other water. This process requires heavy machinery and infrastructure as [...]

California Unemployment Rate SOURCE: California Employment Development Department

California Unemployment as of April 2010, is a whopping 12.6%! That is a huge number. If you think about it, one in every ten people who are California Residents are out of a job. From the looks of the graph to the left, it doesn’t look like this [...]