It seems that the oil companies will stop at nothing to cover up the whole “world getting warmer” bit.  A public relations firm is astroturfing a anti-”Inconvenient Truth” video on YouTube in an attempt to fight back against accusations of warming the planet.
Ever see one of those goofie kids shows where evil villians with some […]

Looks like the folks of the US are finally wising up to fuel efficiency.
Of course, prices upwards of 3$/Gal. at the pump are probably a contributing factor.  Nothing hurts like an empty wallet.
At any rate, Toyota got the jump on Ford, bumping the Japanese based auto maker (that builds cars in America, go figure)  up […]

Just picked up on this repost over at OSDir.
Check out the wording on that one, then read the title: “United States Cedes Control of the Internet”.
So, they’re reaching for a title with some “shlocking awe” qualities from an article that doesn’t say what the title implies.
The actual body of those statements are so vague and […]

The homeless apparently create unsafe parks by, and this one’s a bit tricky, eating in them.
So Orlando is now banning feeding the homeless. Much like we ban feeding Canadian Geese here in CT.
Oddly for much the same reason. Orlando is going to eliminate the “homeless threat” before the “homeless win”. Because once […]

After Israel’s PM has expressed his dissapointment at the UN’s harsh statements concerning Israel’s bombing of their peacekeeping force (hopefully that wasn’t too adjective ridden) it turns out the Israelies simply ignored the UN peacekeepers request that they not be killed.
That’s, uh, kinda strange.
Apparently they care so little about whom they fire on they’ve now […]

Wow.  I guess there isn’t much keeping of the peace going on over in Baghdad.  100 people being killed every day without an active war is pretty devastating.
Pretty hard to see a bright spot there.  The conclusion that “it was still worth fighting the second war in Iraq” by politicians in the USA might be, […]

After recently crushing a woman in a car, the Big Dig in Boston has been found to have many additional problems.  Mitt “Can I Be President Now” Romney is naturally passing the buck onto the transit authority.  He’s taking full responsibility credit for taking charge.
Now that people have been killed, he’s all over the problem.  […]

Anytime I hear that someone’s mounting an automated lazer system to zap things out of the sky I always get a little worried.  The thought occurs, wrong though it may be, that an automated system fast enough to blast out things flying at the planes could either:
A) Be tampered with to blast the actual plane
or
B) […]

Overall I like the reporting at the Register.  They’ve got a sense of fun to go along with their tech reporting that adds in some “flare” to an otherwise hum-drum topic.
But they occasionaly slip out “facts” in articles that are anything but.  These “facts” are more of the nudge nudge, wink wink, we all know […]

Seems that Microsoft is having a tougher time buying off persuading officials in Europe of it’s rightousness than in the US.  The European Union slapped fines of 357m USD on the firm for not complying with it’s landmark ruling that should have forced MS to play fair in the server market.
What they ended up doing […]