the hits just keep comin'

200 km from Eureka, off the Northern CA coast.

Nothing from the tsunami people, maybe it's not a risk for those?

Edit: No tsunami warning. The PTWC doesn't see this one as a risk. Go back to bed!

America! FUCK YEAH! (from the Guardian)

We are all the Tuskegee Syphilis Study now.

US agency 'giving green light' to human toxin tests

"In violation of ethical standards, the experiments appear to have inflicted harm on human subjects, failed to obtain informed consent, dismissed adverse outcomes and lacked scientific validity," the report found. "In many of the experiments, the subjects were instructed to swallow capsules of toxic pesticides with orange juice or water at breakfast."

The "informed consent" forms were often loaded with jargon, hard to understand or deliberately misleading about potential health risks. Some studies dismissed unfavourable results. In one test, all eight subjects became sick after exposure to a pesticide, but in the report their symptoms were discounted and attributed to "viral illness".

I o'erreach myself with linksmanship

1. We're using moats in Iraq. That'll stop 'em.

2. Sammy Safety Says: Siphoning mistakes suck!

3. Ahh, Chernobyl in the Spring. You can almost smell it!

4. Did anyone else see a fake-looking dog?

5. Way to handle your domestic issues, Mr. Siphethu.

Priceful.

MasterCard International Identifies Security Breach

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2005--MasterCard International reported today that it is notifying its member financial institutions of a breach of payment card data, which potentially exposed more than 40 million cards of all brands to fraud, of which approximately 13.9 million are MasterCard-branded cards.

The rest of the release is blamesmanship and self-congratulation for finding the problem, etc. etc.

Via Wall St. Journal news alerts.

Category 4 or 5 tornado storm

Catagory 4 or 5 tornado storm, originally uploaded by lilone2.

I love my feed of flickr images tagged with "storm".

flowchart.