After reading TFA, I say this: "Not surprisingly, Hamm considers some of the current administration's loans and subsidies for alternative energy ventures to be misplaced." is a pretty disingenuous statement. He seemed not to be against the new energy subsidies so much as pissed they were harrassing his company over a minor bird kill... and if the situation is as de describes I agree with him. Anyways, we should be able to do both... help kick start new energy sources and allow the market to continue to develop traditional ones.

after the last 30 years here in this country (US) let me be the first to say... Doh!

As long as they keep putting that cute girl in the taffeta dress on my computer, I don't care!

Yep. It's like at some point we just sort made a collective decision in this country to just suck. Seems like we're giving up on big science and engineering altogether.

Hooray! The ISS has finally been named! For Mr. Burns!

Think of the advertising and sponsorship possibilities! I am Larry Ellison, and my Oracle giant green energy penis is 30ft taller than Steve Jobs's Apple giant green energy penis! NO! I'm Zuckerburg, and even tho I don't have much geek cred, MY facebook green energy penis is 30ft taller than Larry Ellison's Oracle giant green energy penis! Really, with all the corporate cash on hand right now in some of the techs, investing in a giant green energy penis size war might make some sense.

My wife buys me space-operish sci-fi at Goodwill.. 1.99 for a paperback.

From the Wall Street Journal last two lines of the article: "In February, Zynga reportedly raised around $500 million from a group of investors at a valuation as high as $10 billion. The company is expected to go public with a valuation of up to $20 billion."

I'm not going to try to understand the whole prospectus, but if they're "raising" 1B, their total valuation will be over that unless the current stockholders want absolutely nothing for their shares. Somehow I doubt that's going to happen.

Does anybody know what the estimated market cap will be?

I'm sad that there's so much valuation in this virtual crap as opposed to investment in solid manufacturing or infrastructure, like solar and LED companies, probably becuase that's what I'm in. But some folks obviously think the relentless march to Idiocracy (buying shit in the real world to better play games with your friends in the virtual world???) in this country will be quite profitable, and they may be right.

not if you got you your radioactive hamsters!

AFAIK, freon and many other of the refrigerants are no more toxic than water... you CAN drown in them, and that is a hazard in enclosed spaces. And some of the refrigerants were ozone depleters, but the new stuff isn't.

Yes, and just think if they'd (someone in a police agency) wanted to screw with this guy for other reasons, say, political views. He'd be in jail right now. How many people have the technical skills to prove that they weren't the ones browsing the child porn logged to their IP? Is it even possible?

Only 10 years after Apple put Unix on consumer desktops!

Under 1000ft, seawater is usually under 4C. All the processes and critters that break down the oil work much slower in the cold. A lot of that area will probably remain dead until more silt falls over it and its recolonized from scratch. This is sad, but I doubt it was unexpected by anyone who knew anything.