Why do articles (the summary included) talking about power-generation always mention oil and it's coming scarcity or price.?

Practically, no one uses oil for power and if they do it's almost rarely more than a sliver of the pie. In the United States it's about 3.25% and in most countries it's far lower.

Sure if you're talking about energy usage in general it makes a lot of sense to mention oil, but for power-generation, not really.

Just walk in, open up Safari, and load the latest iPhone warning piece on Slashdot. Nothing "illegal" and it still gives the next chump something to think about before they buy it. :)

Seeing is believing: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:45683.asx?bkup=45684 Odds are the feed will cut out after a few seconds with how swamped it is now. Oh and if you're really interested here's one of the bottom of the BOP which is being watched so it doesn't explode. http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:31499.asx?bkup=31500

Skytruth is a great organization that has been buying Satellite time to survey the area. Turns out that while surveying the oil spill from DWH they found another leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The story was confirmed this morning. Makes you wonder how many leaks have occurred that have been "small enough" that they are simply forgotten about for years.

BP has been providing live feeds of all the ROV missions to the wellhead for the last few days. For those who are curious, here's a pretty decent site hosting all the feeds from the ROVs. Pretty fascinating to watch all the work going on around the BOP, occasionally you can follow a few of the ROVs as they wander off to find old pipelines or prepare the Q4000 direct connection. In a tragic way it almost feels like watching the Titanic discovery all over again.

Great, now I sound like a real nerd. Is it too late?

It already happens with us.

As a 17 year old who listens to about seven hours of music a day and has a subscription to Rhapsody, an unlimited music service, I switch genre about every month. With Rhapsody, (Well this is sounding like an advertisement) I don't have pay wall barrier that a lot of kids have and don't require friends to buy and expose them to new music (Same could be said to some degree for pirates.) and that frees things up enough that I get so overdosed with music that I transition the moment something get's "boring".

Yes, I'm completely spoiled that I can't enjoy a genre of music for more than a month, but a year later, I'll be coming back to that genre after doing a 360 around the music world only to find new artist and new releases to enjoy. Some things stick, even if you move on. And now with software giving us perfect recall of what you listened to a year ago, you can come back to an artist that you like a lot.

It's not as bad as you think it might be.

Damnit, we've lived in fear of them going 600 miles an hour in airplanes and crashing into things. Now what the fuck are we going to do when they start falling from the sky at 800 miles an hour?!

I was watching this thinking, hey, that music sounds awfully familiar? Dug through my music collection and found the music in the video (Which does add a good deal of the "awesome" factor.) is a splicing of the song "In The House- In A Heartbeat" from the original soundtrack of 28 Days Later by John Murphy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYYEDXaGo0

So both Apple and AT&T are denying responsibility for the Google Voice app. There is only one possibility then; the App Store has gained sentience and is now taking Apple's directives to their logical conclusions. Expect news of Pre and Android users mysteriously disappearing in the next few days.

Flextronics didn't care for another reason: They made huge amounts of money fixing the broken Xbox 360s in their Chinese factories.