colouring outside the lines (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Summer Hazel ~ from the Celtic tree calendar, including symbols of the salmon and the planet Mercury This one was more troublesome than the first, especially when my pen started to run out of ink!
Motor Authority (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
The future of Mercury, one of Ford's subsidiary brands, is once again the subject of open speculation and this time its Mercury's own dealers that are asking Ford the tough questions. Members of the Lincoln Mercury National Dealer Council have asked Ford to reveal their plans for Mercury in order to determine if the brand [...]
Science Daily (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
Songbirds feeding near the contaminated South River are showing high levels of mercury, even though they aren't eating food from the river itself, according to a new article in Science. Mercury is one of the world's most troublesome pollutants, especially in water. “The birds eat a lot of spiders... The spiders have a lot of mercury in them and are delivering the mercury to these songbirds,” one of...
Space Spin (Free subscription) | 20/03/2008
The Caloris basin on Mercury is one of the youngest large impact basins in the Solar System, and MESSENGER images are enabling scientists to study it in ways not previously possible. This image, acquired by the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), was taken on January 14, 2008, and shows an area that is about 280 kilometers across (about 170 miles) on the floor of the...
Watts Up With That? (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
Click on image to enlarge. Given its proximity to the sun, Mercury is one of the more difficult planets to image. Before today, maps of the planet Mercury were mostly blank. Views by telescope revealed little detail. Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s had photographed only a portion of the planet. When Mariner 10 flew past Mercury three [...]
The Motorcycle Blog Aggregator (Free subscription) | 18/11/2007
From Twisting Asphalt - It seems that back in July of this year journalist Michael Martinez of the San Jose Mercury News — one of the left coasts better newspapers imho — wrote a flattering bit about his experience touring the Ducati Factory in Bologna with his wife… My wife and I had come a long way to find this [...]
Social Media (Free subscription) | 05/11/2007
Bloggers who are fed up with traditional media may scoff at this, but I find it exciting. Today the San Jose Mercury News (one of the three papers I read) is announcing a Rethinking the Mercury News program that forthrightly lays out the paper's woes and invites the community to...
Canadian Christian Conservative (Free subscription) | 02/11/2007
Liberal media anyone? I was doing some research on the ousted candidates, and found some interesting and totally biased stuff. The Guelph Mercury, one of the local media outlets of ousted candidate Brent Barr has been reporting the story by quoting Liberals more than Conservatives when it comes to the local ouster of the local candidate! Hello? DUH! Isn't that sort of like quoting
Physorg (Free subscription) | 15/10/2007
(AP) -- Mercury Interactive, one of the first companies to reveal its financial records were faulty because of stock options tampering, has agreed to pay $117.5 million to settle a group of lawsuits accusing the business software maker of duping investors, the company and shareholder lawyers said Monday.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 15/10/2007
Mercury Interactive, one of the first companies to reveal its financial records were faulty because of stock options tampering, has agreed to pay $117.5 million to settle a group of lawsuits accusing the business software maker of duping investors, the company and shareholder lawyers said Monday.
