Republican National Convention Speeches Now Available FREE in iTunes

Many speeches from the Republican National Convention are now available from C-SPAN and Audible.com through the iTunes Music Store, and the rest are coming soon.

Unfortunately, I am unable to give you a direct link to the RNC speeches (and the link I provided earlier to the DNC speeches is now broken). So, instead, I’ll just link you directly to iTunes Audiobooks (link requires Apple iTunes software, a free download).

Mysterious Signals From 1000 Light Years Away

The information about this finding is very preliminary, and it’s possible that this is a bizarre problem with the Arecibo radio telescope (all three readings were taken from Arecibo), but it is fascinating. It will be interesting to see what we find (if anything) when we start pointing other radio telescopes at these coordinates.

Puerto Rico has an Olympic Team?

Okay, hopefully I won’t offend any of my readers with this (I assume that some people take this kind of thing very seriously), but Puerto Rico is not a country. It is a territory of the United States. Its citizens are U.S. citizens. Its money is U.S. money. It is protected by the U.S. military. You can read about all of this from The World Factbook.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.