Decode the Political Lies: DecodeDC

From OnTheMedia (Aug24, 2012):

NPR Congressional Correspondent Andrea Seabrook left NPR recently, citing frustration with the daily grind of covering politicians who "lie" to her face, all day, every day. Seabrook is starting a new project called DecodeDC, where she hopes she can blog and podcast her way to some deeper truths about Washington. Bob does an exit interview with Seabrook to discuss why political reporting is broken, and what might be done to fix it.

Slightly off topic, Marketplaces Tess Vigeland points out Super PAC App, which will listen to the adds you hear on TV or radio, and tell you if they are lying, and where the money comes from to produce it.  

Nikola Tesla rocked and Thomas Edison was a douche

Matthew Inman from The Oatmeal wrote a great comic outlining Why Nichola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived.

As pointed out in NPR, this caught the eyes of Jane Alcorn, the president of the nonprofit group The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe who is trying to save Tesla's laboratory and turn it into the only museum dedicated to Tesla. She asked Inman for help with great success. 

Now The Oatmeal is running Operation Let's Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum, where they asked for (and got) $850k to be used to purchase Tesla's lab.  It was a HUGE success and  now they are looking for more money to actually build the Museum from individuals and businesses.

Sunday Drive Through SF

As pointed out in SFGate, Ken Block manages to get some quality time on the streets of San Francisco. (very fine bit of driving)

More about Coffee

Not only is it better for you then MtDew, but it's also more interesting, thanks to The Oatmeal!  Note that you can even get a poster for above your coffee machine!

Things that go boom!

Japanese artist Isao Hasi put together this nice 7 minute video clip showing a time lapse of when and where all the nuke explosions on earth have happened.