It's Fracking Happening

Remember hydraulic fracturing? It's come to Pennsylvania and Upstate New York, and it's already contaminating our water.

The DEP [Department of Environmental Protection] has found that Cabot operations have caused unacceptable levels of methane to get into private water supplies. Four wells have been taken offline to prevent explosions and at least a dozen are being tested regularly. The company also installed systems at some homes to either take out natural gas or other contamination that has been linked to drilling.

What can we do to stop these people from poisoning our watershed?

Kanye!

Kanye!

Sentence of the Day

Written by Jonathan Zwickel for Spin online:

"For her encore, she was lowered by trapeze into a vat of unidentifiable goo."

Yes indeed.

For You Alone You Are The Everything

R.E.M. are one of pop music's great masters of bittersweet heart-tugging nostalgia, and there is perhaps no better example than the song used in this video. MoveOn.org is one of the best purveyors of videos that turn political issues into heart-tugging personal stories. This video has some of my favorite things mashed-up: R.E.M. and healthcare reform. Bittersweet.

Controllerism

Moldover is also the inventor of the Octamasher, a Burning Man installation and generally supercool musical collaboration device. It reminds me a bit of the setup Here Are The Facts You Requested used at the Loop festival in Oakland back in 1999. Ours was not interactive though. I'm totally jealous.