Actually, "US Manufacturing is alive and well. The real issue is manufacturing employment, which is dropping like a stone. And the reason for the drop is an increase in productivity. "

"Since 1960, the index of industrial production has risen from a little below 30 to its current level of about 100. And the increase is continual -- meaning the number didn't just hover around 30 for most of that time only to spike up in one big move. The index has continually risen over that entire period."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/02/us-manufacturing-is-not-dead.html

Not according to the internet:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nookie

nookie -
        "sexual activity," 1928, perhaps from Du. neuken "to fuck."

Sorry shit does happen. I work at a scientific institute (not climate, but weather), and we produce lots and lots of data. Petabytes of it. Sometimes we have 10 different copies of data all slightly different (this one had QC1 run on it, this one had derived field X calculated, this one is just the data that correlates with the field program in 2000, etc.) Sometimes this data is on 10 different machines. These machines get old, get replaced, etc. If no one is currently working on that data set, sometimes it gets wiped because everyone figures, "oh there's another copy somewhere". Sometimes there is not another copy somewhere. Or it's on some format we can't read anymore. Or the DVDs went bad. Or the disk crashed.... Shit most certainly does happen. Not often, but sometimes.

The Colorado Daily publishes (on their front page, everyday) facebook status updates of people who have 'friended' this paper on facebook. I recently talked to someone who had their status update published on the front page, and she had no idea this could even happen. I wonder if they could be sued in this case, or does the fact that you have to 'friend' them give them an implicit right to republish your status?

Have you tried "give me back my google".com?
http://gmbmg.com/about.php

I think it might be what you are looking for.

Benefits include reducing the amount of poisons (herbicides) used in sensitive areas. In addition the goats provide fertilizer and till the ground with their hooves,

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/jun/20/grazing-mowers-herd-of-goats-takes-on-the-rez/

Ugh - I hate cnn's website. Opening a single page on cnn, is usually enough to nearly bring my browser (firefox) to a halt.

This is not necessarily a bad idea. We get 1% cash back on our credit card, so it made sense to put most of our car on it, and then pay it off 100% the next month.

I'm not sure how this happened. Our personal little website (prestopnik.com), got hit by these guys. The put some redirect rules into our .htaccess file, such that if you were visiting our site from one of about 6 different domains, it redirected you to their site. We didn't see it for a long time, because we usually just visit our site directly, but if you were coming from a link in yahoo mail, or found it via google or something you got redirected.

Our hosting tech support said one of our computers was infected, but from looking online, I didn't see signs of an infection on our side, but I'm still not 100% sure what happened, and if we are clean now. I think we run on our shared machine for hosting (linux though), maybe they got in like that?

I've noticed this also while listening to "wait wait". I'm pretty liberal in my beliefs, but some of their comments made me squirm a bit to hear them on NPR. *BUT*, "wait wait" is a comedy show, not a news program. The weekend shows on NPR are much more biased than their weekday shows.

In general I think their news shows are pretty fair. They may be biased in their selection of topics. For example on NPR you are likely to hear a 10 minute story about how hard it is to live as an illegal immigrant. You'd never hear that on Fox News.