THE GUARDIAN: The US military has warned that surplus oil production capacity could disappear within two years and there could be serious shortages by 2015 with a significant economic and political impact. The energy crisis outlined in a Joint Operating Environment report from the US Joint Forces Command, comes as the price of petrol in Britain reaches record levels and the cost of crude is predicted to soon top $100 a barrel. “By 2012, surplus oil production capacity could entirely disappear, and as early as 2015, the shortfall in output could reach nearly 10 million barrels per day,” says […]

INQUIRER: A victim of Philadelphia’s March 20 flash mob, Anna Taylor was referred to in media reports only as the 27-year-old woman injured on South Street. Little was known or said about her. That will change Wednesday night, as people gather in a Frenchtown, N.J., restaurant for a benefit for Taylor, an uninsured waitress who faces $7,000 in medical and dental bills after being punched in the face by a youth still being sought by Philadelphia police. Taylor, who is separated and lives in Chalfont with a son, 9, and a daughter, 3, said she has thought a great deal […]

Post post-punk, new New Wave, neo-No Wave — take your pick, all or any are suitable starting points for wrapping your head around the Liars’ 2001 epileptic dance party of a debut, They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top: CB radio vocals, guitars like a chain saw falling down a flight of stairs, gonad-vibrating bass, shitastic synth squiggles and a springloaded snare drum splatter. Nine years and four albums later, the new Sisterworld continues to up the ante. Led by 6-foot-6-inch Aussie ex-pat Angus Andrew, the Liars are part and parcel of a posse […]

INQUIRER: SEPTA officials defended a decision not to call for medical help when a bus driver reported that a passenger – who later died on the Nite Owl bus – was unresponsive and drooling and had wet his pants early Sunday. Agency spokesman Richard Maloney said Tuesday that it was “not that unusual” for bus or train operators to encounter passengers who were very intoxicated. In this case, Maloney said, the bus driver and supervisors believed that the man, Leonard Sedden, 68, was drunk and asleep. Willie Brown, president of the union that represents bus drivers, criticized SEPTA, saying the […]

TECH CRUNCH: Developers and pundits can cry foul all they want about Apple’s lack of openness. But remember, companies are only open when it is convenient for them. The fight with Adobe has always been about making developers play by Apple’s rules. And right now they can make those rules because they have all the customers.In the desktop era, Windows had the most apps, which translated directly into sales. Today on mobile, the iPhone has the most apps and Jobs wants to keep it that way. Allowing Adobe or Microsoft to port apps developed for other devices to the iPhone […]