Science and Technology

Green Technology Makes OC Register See Red

Media Matters for America, the progressive watchdog counterpart to Accuracy in Media, takes issue with an Orange County Register editorial that uses the financial woes of nearly dead electric car company Fisker Automotive to argue against government investment in green technology: "Despite the incre ... More >>

Why Does Spotify Keep Ripping People Off?

One reporter goes on a hellish journey to retrieve her $9.99 subscription fee

Bill Morgan Is Captain Creationist

The activist is waging a war against evolution, one lecture at a time

As Orange County Register Denies Climate Change, Media Matters for America Burns

We here at the World Weekly HQ have our platters full when it comes to passing along racism, immigrant bashing and let-them-eat-caking in the pages (virtual and otherwise) of the Orange County Register. So, it's been up to Media Matters for America, a progressive national watchdog, to chronicle the ... More >>

[UPDATED with Correct Coastkeeper:] Orange County Clean Beaches? App-solutely!

See update at the end of this post.ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 1, 6:34 A.M.: Heal the Bay's Beach Report Card unveiled last week showed 94 percent of Orange County beaches received A and B grades for water quality during dry weather last summer, while a still-respectable 87 percent got A's and B's in the ... More >>

DNA May Explain Why Some People Are Nice and Others Are Assholes, Co-UCI Study Suggests

If some punk just cut in front of you in the Starbucks line and then told a kid that Santa's not real and snarled at a puppy, you may want to have some compassion.   He may not have niceness in his genes.Researchers at UC Irvine and the University at Buffalo have found that DNA can he ... More >>

Orange County Logs 836 DUI Arrests and No Fatalities Over Winter Holiday Crackdown

​The final numbers are in from "Avoid the 38"--as in avoid the 38 Orange County law enforcement agencies that coordinate strategies to take you off the road if you're driving drunk. Over the Winter Holiday DUI Mobilization crackdown that ran Dec. 16-Jan. 1, 836 people were popped for driving under ... More >>

Oracle Corporation Slammed By Federal Court For Cheating Employees

Stotler​A high-ranking federal court handed good news today to California's labor pool.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has overturned an Orange County Republican federal judge who'd granted Oracle Corporation summary judgement against employees who claimed the company had systemati ... More >>

Bullying of Youths is Down Online But Up Via Text, Says Locally Produced National Study

​The good news: kids are not being bullied as much online.The bad news: bullying by text messages is on the rise.That's the takeaway from a study whose lead author is Michele Ybarra, president and research director of the nonprofit Internet Solutions for Kids in San Clemente.

BlizzCon 2011 Highlights

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​BlizzCon 2011 took place in the Anaheim Convention Center over the weekend. As a celebration of some of gaming's most popular franchises, Blizzard used this opportunity to make many announcements of release of new content for their WarCraft, StarCraft, and Diablo gam ... More >>

Lazy-Deputy Cases Keep Stalling

[Moxley Confidential] Two mistrials save a sheriff's deputy from charges she falsified official reports

Storm of Biblical Proportions as Likely as Big Quake

​Screw the "Big One": a coming storm of biblical proportions may prove to be an even greater threat to Southern California than a mega-earthquake along the dreaded San Andreas fault.So say more than 100 scientists and experts gathered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to create an "ARkStorm Sce ... More >>

Toyota Prius Critic Turns a New LEAF

An electrifying ride​Electric-car advocate/Toyota Prius critic Doug Korthof of Seal Beach is bullish on the hybrid Nissan LEAF.

Calvary Chapel to Crucify Darwin this Weekend!

​While Rick Warren goes around eating ice cream, the mothership Calvary Chapel campus will host a two-day conference starting Friday on the evils of Charles Darwin. Titled, appropriately enough, "Darwin was Wrong," a press release promises many lectures on the subject by scientists who "will prese ... More >>

Global Warming Activists as Inescapable as Global Warming this Weekend

​Last week, we posted about the Global Climate Change Day of Action event taking place at Irvine Regional Park tomorrow. There'll be bells tolling, bikes biking, and a bunch of people forming a "350" for an aerial camera.But there are a bunch more of these shindigs tomorrow all over the world, inc ... More >>

Foodbuzz Nominates Local Foodies For Blog Awards

​The food blog network Foodbuzz has come out with the nominations for The Foodbuzz Blog Awards and it's as if the Oscars were actually smart enough to nominate The Dark Knight for Best Picture -- something I can get behind.

Coburn Ready to Blow Over UCI Computer Games Center?

Coburn: Ready to blow?With UC Irvine's announcement of the establishment of the Center for Computer Games & Virtual Worlds, you've got to wonder if U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn's head is going to explode. At least his virtual noggin must be staining a carpet in some sims world somewhere. The Okla ... More >>

Californians Fare Best in NRDC Oil-Dependence Rankings

​The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) just concluded a press conference in Washington, D.C., where the environment protectors released a report ranking states by: a) how vulnerable its citizens are to the combined effects of the economic downturn and changing oil prices and, b) significant ... More >>

Instant Gratification Polaroid Party

Hibbleton Gallery

Marine Wildlife Cruises

Ocean Institute

Will an Alternative Fuel Revolution Begin in Santa Ana?

Santa Ana may find itself at the center of this country's clean-burning alternative fuel future beginning next month, when IMPCO Technologies begins manufacturing "innovative alternative fuel solutions for the North American transportation market," according to a release from IMPCO's holding company ... More >>

A Psychoanalyst Represses a Murder in Hanif Kureishi's New Novel 'Something to Tell You'

The Wire: Haidl and Carona Caught on Tape

Today at ex-Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona's federal corruption trial, prosecutor Brett Sagel introduced the following inflammatory excerpt of a secretly recorded July 7, 2007, conversation between then-Sheriff Carona and Don Haidl, who had served as assistant sheriff. At the time of the conver ... More >>

Handle With Care

Bolsa Chica Preservation

Tyde You Over

The Tyde

To Do This Weekend 8/22-8/24

Debra's Girls Present: Going Green Theme Party, Friday 7 p.m. Long Beach's favorite gay bar pitches in to help the environment. Ripples 5101 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, CA 562-433-0357 Hootie & The Blowfish, Friday 8 p.m. Hold My Hand! House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. Anaheim, CA 714-778-2583 ... More >>

Game On

Hot Mama: Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat

Fun with Computers (Friggatriskaidekaphobia edition)

If your plan for getting your taxes done before the looming deadline involves using Turbo Tax's online service, you may want to reconsider. According to NBC 4 in Washington D.C., a customer wanting to check her tax info Turbo-ly, discovered something big and bad by accident. ""I knew immediately ... More >>

'Devo Mixed With Seventh Grade'

Single Cell debunks black holes

Baby, It's Warm Outside

The Inconvenient Truth is on its way to becoming the box-office champeen of documentaries (pound sand, Michael Moore!). Orders are already brisk for the DVDs that won't be out until November. However, because Truth starred Satan's spawn Al Gore, there's a good chance many holy rollers skipped it and ... More >>

Remote Hog

Global Warming: What You Need to Know With Tom Brokaw

Drilling Bit Players

Further proving that otherwise politically conservative Newport Beach has an environmental streak when it comes to its own shores (but no one else's): Rep. John Campbell (R-The Arches) joined Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) as the only members of the Orange County congressional delegation to v ... More >>

Who Is 'Jubal'?

Republican activists engage in right-wing circle jerk on the Net

Change in the air?

This is certainly a refreshing development, although the participation of a gubernatorial candidate smacks of political posturing. NEW REPORT ON COMPANIES IN CALIFORNIA, ELSEWHERE TO FIND WIDE DISPARITY IN CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSES; INVESTORS WILL PUSH POOR-PERFORMING FIRMS TO SHAPE UP NEWS ADVISOR ... More >>

The Darkish Side

UCIs Observatory No, really

Infinity, IYI

David Foster Wallace stares into a mathematical abyss and lives to write about it

Shuttle Diplomacy

Uncle Sam Bets Big Money on Iraq

Victory Through Tote Bags

Downloaded

Bleccccccccccch!

A peoples environmental impact report on El Toro International Airport

Duck and Cover-up

"Atomic City" Doesn't quite reveal the whole truth of our curious relationship with Nukes

Napster Up Your Asster

What's Humming Through the Skulls of Orange County?

Bitter Pill

Anti-radiation pills may never be fashionable in California

Counter Culture

Census officials join with OCs street vendors to count Latinos

Y2K Ready, Set, Doh!

Microsofts home remedy for the millennial bug: Download more products

Approaching His Limits

Numbers, failure and Josh Kornbluth

Prescription for Disaster

If San Onofre is so safe, why are federal officials pushing anti-radiation pills on its neighbors?

The Year in Cyberspace