This is decidedly ironic: Rolling outages affect most chilly Texans all day By ANGELA K. BROWN Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — A high power demand in the wake of a massive ice storm caused rolling outages for more than eight hours Wednesday across most of Texas, resulting in signal-less intersections, coffee houses with no morning java and some...

Ok, here’s an idea. The Dervaes family have decide to make the phrase “urban homestead” a registered trademark (1 2 3 4 5; also see the EFF post). Presumably, they are doing this to make money. They have gone so far as to send DMCA takedown notices to other persons…persons who, presumably, thought they all were colleagues of some sort. I guess not. So,...

This is a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jschroe/2213298226/in/photostream/">photo of a blonde zebra, or href="http://www.wildwatch.com/sightings/is-it-an-albino-zebra">albino zebra. title="Blonde Zebra 2 by jschroe, on Flickr"> src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2129/2213298226_9b843081fa.jpg" alt="Blonde Zebra 2" height="375" width="500">...

After the 2010 elections in the USA, headlines proclaimed, “ href="http://www.theolympian.com/2011/01/08/1498746/with-new-republican-majority-let.html">With new Republican majority, let the investigations begin,” and “ href="http://www.mmail.com.my/content/59595-new-republican-majority-congress-promises-tough-ride-obama">New Republican majority Congress...

A little less than one year ago, the major environmental news pertained to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  From Wikipedia: The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout)[4][5][6] is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed for three months...

Agave lechuguilla, commonly called lechuguilla or shin dagger, is a type of agave that grows in northern Mexico and southwestern USA.  It is highly tolerant of drought and alkaline soil; it is somewhat tolerant of cold.  Each plant blossoms exactly once, then the entire plant dies.  I have read that if you cut off the stalk when the plant starts...