AccuWeather, “Gulf Coast Prepares for Gustav”
Hurricane Gustav has strengthened into an extremely dangerous storm and will remain a major hurricane by the time it reaches the central Gulf Coast early in the week. Uncertainty still remains about whether Hanna will add to the misery by late next week.
By early Saturday afternoon, Hurricane Gustav strengthened into a Category 4 storm, packing winds near 145 mph. The dangerous hurricane will slam western Cuba this afternoon.
CNN, “McCain taps Alaska Gov. Palin as vice president pick”
(CNN) — Sen. John McCain has chosen Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential candidate on the Republican ticket for the White House, the campaign said Friday.
Palin, 44, is a first-term governor who unseated incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski in the Republican primary in 2006 and went on to defeat former Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, in the general election.
Gizmodo, “MythBusters Build a 1100-Barrel Paintball Gun to Paint the Mona Lisa, Instantly”
In a presentation made at Nvidia’s NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively.
Of course, the reality of parallel computing is much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but as with many of the experiments on their TV show, the sheer ridiculousness of this demonstration makes its questionable veracity completely, totally, seriously excusable. Now that they’ve built this thing, the MythBusters have a clear and undeniable responsibility to turn it on a human and put the results on TV. Thanks in advance, guys.
CNN, “Putin accuses U.S. of orchestrating Georgian war”
SOCHI, Russia (CNN) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates.
In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia.
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