Congresswoman shot in head at Tucson event →

sasquatchmedia:

Holy mother of god. Tell me this isn’t true?

Christ. I hope she makes it. My thoughts are with all the people who’ve died or were injured.

A short video featuring [Homeland Security Secretary Janet] Napolitano will appear on TV screens at select checkout lanes, asking Wal-Mart shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

Wal-Mart and DHS are rolling out a “spy on your neighbor” PSA system at 588 stores. Gives me the creeps. I wonder what “suspicious activity in the parking lot or the store” was deemed worthy of the Secretary’s attention? It strikes me as a way of getting shoppers and local law enforcements to do Wal-Mart’s loss prevention for them.

Additionally, this made me very, very sad:

“Wal-Mart is a place where people gather, it’s a place where you sometimes see your neighbor the most,” Fogleman said.

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“Regular folks” houses are always so starkly lit in the New York Times. (photo: Andrew Spear)

The Atom’s Everywhere

What’s going on?? Gizmodo’s had two fusion energy posts in the last week, and both claim that their devices are the most realistic hope:

LLNL LIFE/NIF Project

No Sleep ‘Til Fusion

Full Disclosure: I work on the first one, and I’m mildly insulted that the second article totally ignores ICF and acts like it’s not one of the biggest-investment fusion research tracks in the Department of Energy. Tokamaks and other magnetic systems are cool, too, but it’s always kind of irritating the way they dismiss ICF as a possibility.

If you want to read more about Suppes’ results, he publishes everything, which is very cool of him.

As for Gizmodo, this is a big step up from buying stolen phones and then complaining about getting investigated for it.