Ivy Bean is the World’s Oldest Facebooker at 102, Edna Parker is the Oldest Person Alive at 115, The World’s Tallest Woman was Edna Parker’s neighbor, Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days, Timothy a Greek Tortoise lived to 160, Greenland sharks can live up to 200 years, Cinachyra antarctica sponge can live to 1,550 years, the Sacred Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is the oldest living human-planted tree, descended from the Bodhi Tree where Buddha became enlightened, Sacred Fig, Prometheus, a 5,000 year old Great Basin Bristlecone Pine was chopped down by a grad student in 1964, the Methuselah tree of California is still alive at 4839 years, the Old Tjikko tree in Sweden is 9,550 years old (via Science Daily), Pando, a Quaking Aspen in Utah may be 80,000 years old, Posidonia oceanica seagrass may be up to 100,000 years of age, the Hydrozoa species Turritopsis nutricula can cycle from mature adult back to a polyp

evolution vs. peanut butter, evolution vs. banana, laraque vs ivanans, bush vs. all people, bush standing vs bush standing, don imus vs. black people, geraldo vs. oreilly, mother vs. son, rumsfield vs. evidence, newt vs. spanish people, list of logical fallacies from the art of reason, post hoc, appeal to majority, appeal to force, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, begging the question, diversion, non sequiter, subjectivism, straw man, false alternative, ad hominem, tu quoque, poisoning the well, appeal to ignorance, complex question

G8, 34th G8 Summit in Hokkaidō, Japan, The Cost of Food: Facts and Figures, Food Prices on the Rise, World Commodity Prices from 2000-2008, Percent change in food prices from 2007 to 2008, The Rising Demand for Commodities, Does Ethanol Deserve the Blame for Rising Food Prices?, Surface Air Temperature Increase 1960 to 2060, Income Spent on Food 2006, The World’s Growing Food-Price Crisis , Rich country leaders wrestle with shaky world economy

A week before the release of the new 3G iPhone, several people have formed a line outside of the Apple 5th Avenue cube store in New York City in hopes of obtaining a World Record for the most time spent waiting in line for a purchase.

story links: chaos theory (via), gaston julia, julia set, benoit mandelbrot, madelbrot set, fractals, earthquake predictions chaos, darpa security chaos, artificial intelligence chaos, pathology chaos, cardiology chaos, invader set

Battle of the Browsers continued, Firefox vs Internet Explorer, Classic Rocketboom episode from Firefox Release 2, Music Invisible Is Not Invincible by Podington Bear

Story Links: Iraq Tag Galaxy, Iraq on Arc, Iraq on Kartoo, Iraq Newsmap, Obleek Iraq War Coalition Fatalities, Iraq on Flickr, Iraq on News Spectrum, Iraq on Bigspy, Iraq on Summize, Iraq on Stack, Iraq on Think Map Visual Thesaurus, Iraq on Google News Cloud, Iraq on Searchme Visual search, Music: Pythagorean Theorem by Podington Bear

Story Links Wiimbledon 2008, Barcade, music by Podington Bear, Wiimbledon 2007 by Rocketboom

story inks: robert millis of american microphone interviews 1st lt. paul rieckhoff founder of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, george bush responds to a question about private contractors, audit finds u.s. hid actual cost of iraq projects, contractors in iraq make costs balloon

story links: Blackwater, Representative Waxman on Blackwater, DynCorp, KBR private contractor job listings, Army Pay 2007, Additional figures on security contractors, Council on Foreign Relations, memo to Oversight Committee October 1st 2007, Co-written by Hal MacDermot

What is Epistemology?, Thales says Everything is Water, Anaximander says Everything is Air, Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth , Skepticism entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The New England Skeptical Society, music by podington bear (nature kid), image credits: leap, annonymous, god hands, puppeteer, brain in vat, baby hands, bre, brain messages, scary girl, poltergeist kid, trees, fame guy, brain neurons, space pics (1, 2)

The Internet Bench from Gdansk, Poland, The Cat Residence, Watching Plants Grow, Watching Pigs Grow, The Church of St. George located Sofia, Bulgaria, the cyber-enabled single crystal X-ray diffraction facility at Case Western Reserve University, Bridge in Umeå, Sweden, D & D Family Billiards in Thorndale, Pennsylvania, Universeum in Göteborg, Sweden, Plusnet Customer Support Center, Ustream, Justin.tv, Real Tokyo Life, SpaceVidcast, Nekomimi Lisa, KCJJ Raw, Live From The UK, Austincast, Zane Savage Live, Laura News, Louiscast, Music by Podington Bear

Story Links: Memorial Day, Henry C Welles, Waterloo, New York, Comparative death rates of selected US wars from 1775 - 2008, Documented civilian deaths from Iraq War, Military and civilian war related deaths through the ages

Story Links: Artist Ben Wilson paints pictures on chewing-gum left on the streets of High Barnet, North London.

Happy Valentine’s day from the vegetables.

Story Links: Happy 199th birthday to Charles Darwin, Evolution, animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage

story links: evolution vs. peanut butter, evolution vs. banana, laraque vs ivanans, bush vs. all people, bush standing vs bush standing, don imus vs. black people, geraldo vs. oreilly, mother vs. son, rumsfield vs. evidence, newt vs. spanish people, list of logical fallacies from the art of reason, post hoc, appeal to majority, appeal to force, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, begging the question, diversion, non sequiter, subjectivism, straw man, false alternative, ad hominem, tu quoque, poisoning the well, appeal to ignorance, complex question