Science and Technology

The World's Coral Reefs Are Being Decimated, All for a Few Gaudy Trinkets

Florida Republican Reps Vote to Pass CISPA, Let the Government Root Around in Your Internet Data

For all their talk of small government, Florida's Republicans sure do like a bill that would let Big Brother spy on all the stuff you've been doing online.The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act would remove the legal barriers between the websites that have your data and the governmen ... More >>

If Climate Change Melts Greenland's Ice Sheet, Will South Florida Drown?

A giant sheet of ice that covers most of ​Greenland might be a serious problem for South Florida in a few hundred or few thousand years, give or take. A new study in Nature Climate Change warns that a 1.6 degree Celsius jump in global temperatures could completely melt&nbs ... More >>

Mummy Called

A giant sheet of ice that covers most of ​Greenland might be a serious problem for South Florida in a few hundred or few thousand years, give or take. A new study in Nature Climate Change warns that a 1.6 degree Celsius jump in global temperatures could completely melt&nbs ... More >>

Rick Scott Announces Boeing Creating 550 Jobs, Fails to Mention it Depends on NASA Funding

thecomedynews.com​Gov. Rick Scott was happy to announce yesterday that Boeing is creating 550 jobs in Florida by 2015 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.Aside from the fact that 500 jobs in four years doesn't quite offset the few thousand people laid off after the space shuttle progr ... More >>

FAU Study: Coping With Climate Change in Florida May Cost as Much as $1 Billion

randompixels.blogspot.comThat's not exactly a transportation "plan."​Not long after the Broward County Natural Resources Planning and Management Division released its report detailing how rising sea levels could cause major flooding across Fort Lauderdale, Florida Atlantic University has released ... More >>

Orgy.xxx and Other Future Porn Websites Sold Yesterday at Fort Lauderdale Auction

sikworld.com​The future porn websites of American were sold at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Fort Lauderdale yesterday afternoon, with both normal ".com" suffixes and the newly released ".xxx" domain names up for auction.The company hosting the auction, TRAFFIC, had listed 120 domain names to be aucti ... More >>

Broward County Commission to Oppose Everglades Drilling (Which Already Exists)

Flickr/boggerthelogger​In next Wednesday's meeting, the Broward County Commission will move to adopt language in its state and federal legislative programs "opposing any oil drilling or exploration in or around the Everglades."The legislative programs are a set agenda of issues that the County Com ... More >>

.xxx Domain Names Will Soon Be Available for That Porn Website You've Always Wanted

​You know that porn website you always wanted to start? Yes, the one with the 7-foot-tall women and the action figures. Well, you'll have to wait a bit longer to register for the .xxx domain on it, since the company is allowing only preexisting porn sites to register for now.ICM Registry, the Palm ... More >>

"Brain-Eating Amoeba" On the Loose, if British Tabloid Is to Be Trusted

The Daily Mail​A little-known killer is making its way through the southern United States, according to the British tabloid The Daily Mail: a "brain-eating amoeba" called Naegleria fowleri. Victims so far include one 16-year-old girl from Florida, Courtney Nash, who reportedly died after swimming ... More >>

Naked Jogger Stopped by Cops in West Palm Beach; Unfortunately, There Are Pictures

via Twitter user toughguy1967​Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do -- like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp t ... More >>

Touchy-Feely Activism

via Twitter user toughguy1967​Sometimes the Twitter universe finds the news before we do -- like the handful of people who happened to witness an elderly gentlemen allegedly jogging naked down Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach.West Palm Beach police spokesman Chase Scott tells the Pulp t ... More >>

Yuri Gagarin Flew 50 Years Ago: A Melancholy Anniversary

Gagarin in Cairo.​We are fifty years and one day into the era of manned space flight. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin's successful of into Earth's atmosphere and safe landing in the Saratov region of Russia made him a hero the world over, in Communist and capitalist countries alike. Everywhere, pe ... More >>

"Vatican Splendors" at the Museum of Art|Fort Lauderdale Feels Reconstituted

Gagarin in Cairo.​We are fifty years and one day into the era of manned space flight. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin's successful of into Earth's atmosphere and safe landing in the Saratov region of Russia made him a hero the world over, in Communist and capitalist countries alike. Everywhere, pe ... More >>

Sexting To Be Decriminalized -- Unless It's Sexy.

Stop it! No erections!​Sexting: The process whereby one individual sends naughty pictures to another via text message. Why don't you want your 15-year-old daughter sexting booby-pics to her boyfriend? Because he might spread them around. The boyfriends of 15-year-old girls are notoriously immature ... More >>

Florida's Nuclear Worries?

​A two-page report on a proposed Turkey Point nuclear power plant appeared this weekend in the Sun Sentinel, but calling it a "two page" report doesn't really begin to cover it. These are massive pages, 1,600 words in total. Feature-length pages, in Sentinel terms. And why? Is there a radiation le ... More >>

New Florida Senate Bill Officially Defines "Sexting"

...all the kids are doing it...​If a new Florida Senate bill becomes law, the Sunshine State will finally have a legal definition of "sexting" - sending sexual advances or photos via text message. That may sound like a silly thing for the state legislature to be working on during a period of such ... More >>

Cocaine at NASA!

​A week ago Monday, an observant worker at Kennedy Space Center noticed some unusual white powder laying about. (Where, exactly, we haven't been told.) The worker alerted the proper authorities, the substance was tested, and whaddaya know? It was coke! A hefty 4.2 grams of the stuff. I don't know ... More >>

Meltdown Fears Growing

Two explosions in three days have rocked the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. An endless stream of nuclear industry cronies has claimed there is really not much to worry about, but the money is doing the talking: Nuclear industry shares have already lost more than $1.5 billion ... More >>

Anti-Evolution Bill Hits State Senate

Great apes. Which one did you elect?​In a perfect world, we'd have no reason to pause over the language of Florida's Senate Bill 1854, which reads, in part:Members of the instructional staff of the public schools... shall teach efficiently and faithfully... the following: (a thorough presentation ... More >>

iPads for Autistic Children Coming Soon to Nova's Baudhuin Preschool

Proloquo2go.com iPad appvia proloquo2go.com​iPads are more than just very cool toys for early adopting techies. After a successful fund-raising campaign, "18 iPads in 18 Days,"  Baudhuin Preschool at Nova Southeastern University's Mailman Segal Center for Human Development will soon be a ... More >>

In Case You Missed It: Lunar Eclipse Photos

​Photo by Justin Terveen​Last night, the universe decided to gift humans with an early Christmas present: a total lunar eclipse. This all came the morning of the Winter Solstice, the day of the year with the fewest hours of daylight for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. Sure, lunar ec ... More >>

".XXX" Domain Suffix Looks Promising for a 2011 Release

via ICM​Palm Beach Gardens company, ICM Registry, was established in 1999 for the sole purpose of gaining approval for ".xxx" web addresses and subsequently selling them. After a 10-year battle, ICM took one step closer to its goal on Friday, when ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and ... More >>

Congressman John Shimkus Suggests That God May Sink Florida, But That's Okay

God has mellowed since then.​Sometimes it helps to look abroad for one's news to capture the peculiar absurdities of American politics. Case in point: The Daily Mail, of the UK, yesterday ran an item discussing a potential chair of the US energy committee, Congressman John Shimkus (R - IL). For Sh ... More >>

Palm Beach Lawyer Had Too Many Fancy Phones, Created an App

Photo courtesy Christopher HopkinsFather of the CLaw.​Mark your calendars, ladies and gents, as the day a Palm Beach lawyer didn't charge you for a service -- not a lump sum, not by the hour, not by your first- born. Christopher Hopkins, an attorney with Butzel Long on Worth Avenue, has developed ... More >>

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

The Next Big Tech Money Maker: Virtual Goods

​​A couple of years ago, if you'd have said "virtual goods" to someone, they would have assumed you meant digital consumer items like electronic books or music. Not anymore. Now, Virtual Goods are the hottest new market on the Web and it's expected to hit $1 billion or more next year in the U.S. ... More >>

The Domain Name Industry, South Florida, and Professionalism

​Last week, I attended the SouthFloridaDomainers.com event, which was put on by the company Oversee.net. Most of the early innovation in domain name trading, development, and selling originated right here in South Florida. The founders of SFD, Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, and Brian Diener, are some loca ... More >>

What Is a Social Media Expert Anyway?

There is nothing magical to social media​Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in "instant gurus" is to title yourself a "social media expert." Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talki ... More >>

Chairlift

There is nothing magical to social media​Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in "instant gurus" is to title yourself a "social media expert." Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talki ... More >>

Will the Internet Be Full Next Year?

​If you haven't gotten an iPhone, registered your preferred web address, or otherwise secured your location on the internet, you might want to do so now.  According to the European Commission in a recent survey of organizations, most have not upgraded to the new IPv6 internet protocols and ar ... More >>

Foodbuzz.com Brings Food Blogs to the Forefront

​This weekend, self-proclaimed "foodies" with a gift for prose will descend on San Francisco for the first ever Foodbuzz.com Blogger Festival. The three-day gathering will culminate with an awards ceremony where Foodbuzz will hand out golden forks to the top food blogs in a number of categories (e ... More >>

Koch's Spokesman: Wind Farm is a "Boondoggle"

Flickr user: andjohan​Yesterday, The Juice brought you the tale of Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire energy mogul who has spent millions of dollars to oppose an offshore wind farm that will sully his view of Nantucket Sound. We speculated that Koch's opposition might have something to do with ... More >>

Palm Beach Billionaire Sailor Fights to Stop Wind Farm

Flickr user: andjohanWind farm? NIMBY!​You'd think Bill Koch might be a fan of wind energy. The billionaire Palm Beach energy magnate made some of his fortune off eco-friendly geo-thermal and natural gas power plants. He's also an avid sailor who won the America's Cup in 1992.But it appears that w ... More >>

Nuclear Energy: South Florida's Misunderstood Friend

Thanks for that, Smithers. Now that we're in the midst of the public hearings on whether to build two new nuclear power plants on Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light is asking you to think of nuclear power as an adorable, avuncular, and perfectly harmless cartoon character.Keep Smilin' Joe Fiss ... More >>

And You Thought Twitter Was Worthless: Buy-One-Get-One Tickets to the Miami International Wine Fair

​When Facebook started gobbling up MySpace users, you were one of the first to jump ship. These days, your Twitter account has hundreds of followers and you update your status bi-hourly (4 minutes ago: I remembered why I used to love Captain Crunch so much as a kid). Well now all that social netwo ... More >>

49 States Green With Envy Over Florida's Environmental Progress

Radio Green Earth: Making the world safer for tree frogs​Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for "best strip malls" or "extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife" than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the to ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Cook To Bang... mmmm PoonchiladasAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on less-local blogs:Serious Eats is a... well a serious food blog. Professional ... More >>

Tweet Tweet: Sun-Sentinel Getting Social

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Blogged To Death

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Tego Calderon

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Are We There Yet?

Jeez, can we just embrace the electric car already?

“Anyway, This Cake is Great”

“It’s so delicious and moist.”

Jukebox in the Sky

“It’s so delicious and moist.”

Car Club Crazy

The South Florida Dubs go scrapingly low

Scramble Me Up a Universe

Florida Stage and the physics of fun and fear

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Outgrowing Tom

Bugged by MySpace's clutter and limitations, some musicians turn to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

Is Arthur Anderson Accountable?

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.