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Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:39:22
- https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/apple-approved-14-new-iphone-fart-apps-yesterday-alone/
It's astonishing to me that there are even 14 different names
that developers can come up with, but there they are.
- https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-nearly-10000-a-day/
The sweet, sweet smell of money.
- https://www.fag-detectoriii.de/ENG/index.html
Gaydar officially becomes so last decade.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/evolutionexampl.html
12 Elegant Examples of Evolution
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/29/iran-gender
Maybe they should try Purity Pledges.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html
Because they've really worked for us.
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475306,00.html
Or, convince the teen-agers there's somebody watching.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122802005.html
It's odd how much Allah and Jehovah care about sex.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://onlatte.com/blog/2008/10/27/you-did-what-with-a-guinness/
A new medium.
- https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Bronze-Boy-Holding-a-Girl-Up/3189572/product.html
A suggestion for your after-holiday shopping.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.johnsack.com/report_from_practically_nowhere_chapter_1.htm
That was the start of a glad, somewhat mad, and quite
out-of-the-ordinary trip around the world. In Lundy, I happened
to hear of Sark -- the only feudal state surviving in Europe,
according to the feudal old lady running it -- and I couldn't
help hurrying to Sark, and I couldn't help hurrying to Andorra,
and I couldn't help finding myself, soon, on a trip to
practically nowhere, to the countries nobody hears of.
[A sample chapter from John Sack's "Report From Practically Nowhere",
a tour of thirteen places which are either countries or close to it.]
- https://drhelen.blogspot.com/2008/10/should-you-tip-less-in-obama.html
Posing the tough questions.
[Warning: Political]
- https://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121694247343482821.html
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark
Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history,
is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral
courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of
terror and war.
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2834/is-yellowstone-park-sitting-on-a-supervolcano-thats-about-to-blow
Nobody's saying Yellowstone is going to blow in time to mess up
your summer vacation plans. But it's a question of when, not if.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel
Normative rules are determined by power relations.
[Warning: Political]
- https://firedoglake.com/2008/12/29/the-third-rail-of-israel-cools-in-the-blogosphere/
For years, the subject of Israel has been the biggest third rail
subject we have to deal with. Any time we wanted to mention
Israel in a post we had to alert the mods to strap on their
hazmat suits, because the comments section would invariably turn
into a shitstorm.
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5430133.ece
Shooting rockets at a nuclear plant is bound to result in peace.
[Warning: Political]
Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:39:22
- https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/apple-approved-14-new-iphone-fart-apps-yesterday-alone/
It's astonishing to me that there are even 14 different names
that developers can come up with, but there they are.
- https://venturebeat.com/2008/12/23/iphone-fart-app-pulls-in-nearly-10000-a-day/
The sweet, sweet smell of money.
- https://www.fag-detectoriii.de/ENG/index.html
Gaydar officially becomes so last decade.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/evolutionexampl.html
12 Elegant Examples of Evolution
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/29/iran-gender
Maybe they should try Purity Pledges.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html
Because they've really worked for us.
- https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475306,00.html
Or, convince the teen-agers there's somebody watching.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122802005.html
It's odd how much Allah and Jehovah care about sex.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://onlatte.com/blog/2008/10/27/you-did-what-with-a-guinness/
A new medium.
- https://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Bronze-Boy-Holding-a-Girl-Up/3189572/product.html
A suggestion for your after-holiday shopping.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.johnsack.com/report_from_practically_nowhere_chapter_1.htm
That was the start of a glad, somewhat mad, and quite
out-of-the-ordinary trip around the world. In Lundy, I happened
to hear of Sark -- the only feudal state surviving in Europe,
according to the feudal old lady running it -- and I couldn't
help hurrying to Sark, and I couldn't help hurrying to Andorra,
and I couldn't help finding myself, soon, on a trip to
practically nowhere, to the countries nobody hears of.
[A sample chapter from John Sack's "Report From Practically Nowhere",
a tour of thirteen places which are either countries or close to it.]
- https://drhelen.blogspot.com/2008/10/should-you-tip-less-in-obama.html
Posing the tough questions.
[Warning: Political]
- https://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121694247343482821.html
There seems to me no question that the Batman film "The Dark
Knight," currently breaking every box office record in history,
is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral
courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of
terror and war.
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2834/is-yellowstone-park-sitting-on-a-supervolcano-thats-about-to-blow
Nobody's saying Yellowstone is going to blow in time to mess up
your summer vacation plans. But it's a question of when, not if.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/29/gaza-hamas-israel
Normative rules are determined by power relations.
[Warning: Political]
- https://firedoglake.com/2008/12/29/the-third-rail-of-israel-cools-in-the-blogosphere/
For years, the subject of Israel has been the biggest third rail
subject we have to deal with. Any time we wanted to mention
Israel in a post we had to alert the mods to strap on their
hazmat suits, because the comments section would invariably turn
into a shitstorm.
[Warning: Political]
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5430133.ece
Shooting rockets at a nuclear plant is bound to result in peace.
[Warning: Political]
Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:28:22Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:02:07Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:22:35Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:51:42Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:46:02
- https://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/01/pro-life_group_up_in_arms_over.php
- https://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/01/pro-life_group_declares_victor.php
File this under "Overreationary Wing Nuts".
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/arts/design/09remb.html
But art changes all the time, according to what's going on around
it. Now I was looking at Dutch painting from inside an economic
collapse, with a market on the rocks, and a Gilded Age revealed
as fool's gold. The art looked different.
- https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.criticize.html
When you care enough to really anger somebody.
- https://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/joyce
The Bible says 'be fruitful and multiply.' That's my belief system.
They don't believe in God, so they think we have to conserve what
we have. But in my belief system, He's going to give us a new earth."
Overpopulation isn't a problem in a universe where God promises a
clean global slate.
- https://www.amazon.com/Bush-Boom-Misunderestimated-President-Economy/dp/1594670870/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
I bought this book in a bundle along with "19-0: The Historic
Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots" and
both were excellent. Highly recommended!
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1021
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1052
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1043
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1033
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1027
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1018
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1014
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1120
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1122
- https://partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1146
10 from the first year of PartiallyClips.
[Warning: Adult Content]
https://www.reason.com/news/show/29944.html
But our concern here is with one such story that is put forward
as part of a case against the effectiveness of free markets and
individual choice. This story has consequences.
- https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=24807
Of course, worse is better is a much catchier slogan than better
depends on your goodness metric.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dnasurprise18-2009jan18,0,5045230.story
But withholding the information means that the woman's husband
lives with the false belief that he is a carrier of a genetic
disorder.
That sort of information is far from benign, said Dr. Wayne
Grody, a UCLA geneticist. It could convince him to give up on
the idea of having children. And in the event that the wife
becomes pregnant by her husband, perpetuating the lie could
require unnecessary prenatal testing.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4247756/Vatican-reveals-secrets-of-worst-sins.html?whaargarbl
While priests and bishops can deal with confessions of sins as
grave as murder or even genocide, the tribunal is reserved for
crimes which are viewed by the Church as even more serious.
- https://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/does-piracy-matter--501330
If you're going to be in the software business, your stuff is
going to get stolen.
Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:54:04
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/world/europe/23crapstone.html
As for Penistone, a thriving South Yorkshire town, just stop
that sophomoric snickering.
- https://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
Oh, God! Oh, God! I'm (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2!
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/21/guantanamo/index.html
Still, this order clearly signals that Obama -- even for one day
-- did not want his name anywhere near the grotesque mockery of
justice known as the "Guantanamo military commissions."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
See also: conventional wisdom.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozkBd2p2piU
Ant city.
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/01/at-britannica-something-wiki-this-way-comes.html
At Britannica, something wiki this way comes.
- https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/satellite-inauguration.png
The inauguration from space.
- https://benwikler.com/news21all.html
Headlines from the big day.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tt-WIdmCVQ
Put apostrophes when you need 'em,
And otherwise just delete 'em.
- https://FantasticContraption.com
Physics Game O' The Day
- https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28354324/
Cash crop now accounts for two-thirds of Mendocino County economy.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0YYAdVtcgg
Who opposes an end to the drug war?
- https://tech.mit.edu/V128/N64/squidvswhale.html
Wait -- better update my Twitter, my guild is going to be so
geeked out when they hear about this. "Crash landed plane in
Hudson, gtg, being rescued. CU at Naxx tonight 7 p.m. EST k l8r."
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:31:41
- https://www.mychildspack.com/1417.html
Simply insert the panel in your favorite bag for instant Threat
Level IIIa Ballistic protection. That's protection up to and
including 44 Magnum! You can even swap your panel(s) from bag
to bag.
- https://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/video_player/index/php/975858.phtml%27,%27725%27,%27660
Great moments in Presidential speeches.
- https://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/25/america/emanuel.1-414971.php
When Emanuel lost part of his middle finger while cutting meat
at a fast-food restaurant as a teenager, Obama joked, the
accident "rendered him practically mute."
- https://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/25/speaker-system-built.html
Don't even ask where the subwoofer went.
- https://www.10news.com/education/18209396/detail.html
"If it was a demon, I would have tore that school up. I would
have thrown desks and everything. I didn't say no cuss words at
all."
- https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aOvUsHxFSAeM
Afternoons take a turn for the better.
- https://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/?hp
A mirror with a memory.
- https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/60minutes/main4749723.shtml
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/28/60_minutes/index.html
Demographers predict that within ten years Arabs will outnumber
Jews in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. Without a separate
Palestinian state the Israelis would have three options, none
of them good. They could try ethnic cleansing, drive the
Palestinians out of the West Bank, or they could give the
Palestinians the vote. That would be the democratic option but
it would mean the end of the Jewish state. Or they could try
apartheid - have the minority Israelis rule the majority
Palestinians, but apartheid regimes don't have a very long life.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/01/26/patriarchy_movement/index.html
- https://www.truewoman.com/assets/files/TW_Manifesto.pdf
The Patriarchy Movement
- https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/canon.babies/index.html
"In a massive misunderstanding, Japanese calculator sales
skyrocket." -- Brian Pawlowski
Mon, 2 Feb 2009 21:19:03
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/28/prosecutions/index.html
The United States imprisons more of its population than any
other country on the planet, and most astoundingly, we account
for less than 5% of the world's population yet close to 25% of
the world's prisoners are located in American prisons.
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/1/28/1760/11550/428/690133
I'll put a good, old-fashioned U.S.A. born and raised, brain-eater
against any of those [terrorists].
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5622156.ece
Culinary ethnic cleansing.
- https://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1876113,00.html?cnn=yes
We can get participants, but they're taking Ritalin or
Wellbutrin or Prozac or anabolic steroids, or they're taking
birth control pills or they're taking cocaine, or something
which alters their brain chemistry. Science is not easy.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/01/29/billy_powell_and_freebird/index.html
What song is it you want to hear?
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16492-nazi-angel-of-death-not-responsible-for-town-of-twins.html
Now *that's* a headline!
- https://www.forwardon.com/view.php?e=Id11f1863f00f18fe5
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/7853328.stm
I took a sip of [the whisky] and thought, well this isn't too
bad.
- https://dabagirls.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/ain???t-messin???-with-no-broke-banker/
- https://dabagirls.com/
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/01/30/daba_part_two/index.html
Free from the scrutiny of feminists.
- https://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/31/card-oval-office/
... kind of a locker room experience.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/your-money/credit-and-debit-cards/31money.html
"Other customers who have used their card at establishments
where you recently shopped," one of those letters said, "have
a poor repayment history with American Express."
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 10:23:44
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DDA3VE?ie=UTF8&tag=wwwviolentkicom&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B001DDA3VE
When this item will be back in stock? Well, hopefully never.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/02/06/lashing_out_at_latisse/index.html
"... a brand-new cosmetic treatment nobody needs, at a more
recession-friendly price point!"
- https://michaelgr.com/2009/02/01/science-is-a-process-not-just-a-bunch-of-facts/
The whole point of science is not to simply take things on
faith, but rather to figure out how things work using evidence.
- https://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/NCSA/Content/NiTS/811085.pdf
Exploding Tire (7)
Vehicle Window Asphyxia (5)
Closed in Trunk (3)
Vehicle window asphyxia, which also usually involved children,
accounted for an annual average of five fatalities per year and
occurred from the closing of power windows as well as from
partially open (stationary) windows
- https://www.frankejames.com.php5-10.websitetestlink.com/debate/?p=118
Dinner with a stranger.
- https://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20.html
People do not like to wait.
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/02/think-of-this-layoff-as-your-gateway-to-an-exotic-cross-cultural-adventure.html
- https://www.informationweek.com/news/management/outsourcing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=213000389
"It's more of a vehicle for people who want to expand their life
experience by working somewhere else," said the spokesman. "A
lot of people want to work in India."
- https://proof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/the-tipsy-hero/
The most famous of these is described in Plato's "Symposium",
where Socrates and his friends, still hung over from the
previous night's carousing, decide on an evening of light
drinking. The temperance pays off: in the ensuing discussion,
they summon an overarching vision of love that has endured in
the Western imagination for more than two millennia.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/02/06/obama_dreams/index.html
"And unlike previous presidential couples, they are our age,
have children the same age and (just imagine the stress of daily
life on the campaign) by all accounts should have been fighting
even more than we were.
- https://io9.com/5147720/the-mysterious-cones-of-the-egyptian-desert
Big art.
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:36:52
- https://www.wireshark.org/migration.html
Casually mention to a support person that you heard a quacking
noise near the data center.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/opinion/04dowd.html
The New York Post revealed that Sandy Weill, former chief executive
of Citigroup, took a company jet to fly his family for a Christmas
holiday to a $12,000-a-night luxury resort in San Jose del Cabo,
Mexico. No matter that the company just got a $50 billion federal
bailout and laid off 53,000 worldwide.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08halfmill.html
Therefore, even if it is not for sympathy but for sport, consider
the numbers.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/movies/08ande.html
"In Part 10 the earth is destroyed, Jason becomes a cyborg and
lands on an alien planet. Where could the series possibly go at
that point? A reboot is the only sane answer."
- https://www.bridesofmarch.org/Brides/BridesOfMarch.html
All you need for this event is a white wedding dress.
- https://www.wordspy.com/words/yarnbombing.asp
Word O' The Day
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnCnRuoYMxE
Suspect on the loose, last seen near his wheel.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7844192.stm
"... because, he says, French does not have the right cadences
for true rock."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html
Also helpful, he said, is to "let kids have two dogs and a cat,"
which will expose them to intestinal worms that can promote a
healthy immune system.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LllWriqxgVc
Penguins love ice cream!
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/limited-posting-for-the-next-few-days/
How many Nobel Laureates are LOLcats fans?
Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:33:21Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:53:18Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:52:23
- https://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/tigerpig.asp
Snopes corrects a recent posting.
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"How about President Barack Obama's first primetime press conference
last night? He was cogent, eloquent, and in complete command of the
issues. I'm thinking to myself, what the hell am I supposed to do with
that?"
-- David Letterman
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- https://www.theonion.com/content/news/nations_blacks_creeped_out_by_all
"But giving us the thumbs up for no reason, or saying hello
whenever we walk by, is really starting to freak us out."
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/184815
The best predictor, in a backward sort of way, was fame: the
more feted by the media, the worse a pundit's accuracy. And
therein lay Tetlock's first clue. The media's preferred pundits
are forceful, confident and decisive, not tentative and balanced.
They are, in short, hedgehogs, not foxes.
- https://wiseperception.com/node/181
Stop (in the naaaame of love).
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO1KsU1rG7s
It's easier than I thought it would be.
- https://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/080324.jpg
No. No! This stops right NOW.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.fastcar07feb07,0,6912369.story
"It's not unusual to have a fast street car, but his has cup
holders and power windows."
- https://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/02/yes-virgina-there-is-a-magenta.ars
Yes, Virginia, there is a magenta.
- https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/firstcard.html#owen
And so John David Sweeney, Jr. is the closest thing we have to
the first person to have received a Social Security card --
although his status is more symbolic than actual.
- https://xkcd.com/545/
If only I had an extra million dollars.
- https://www.collegehumor.com/video:1901172
One last kind of porn and I'll call this search a wrap.
[Warning: Adult Content, Graphic Content, Graphic Language,
Strong Sexual Content]
Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:07Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:37:17Fri, 6 Mar 2009 07:23:06Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:32:26
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/icolbert-reporti-takes-gl_n_172088.html
Dude, you are rocking it. I know some people say you're an unstable
individual. And to give you a public forum is grossly irresponsible.
But remember -- they crucified Jesus. Crank up the crazy, and rip off
the knob!
- https://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/04/iceland200904?printable=true¤tPage=all
What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide,
around 2003, to re-invent itself as a global financial power?
In Reykjavk, where men are men, and the women seem to have
completely given up on them, the author follows the peculiarly
Icelandic logic behind the meltdown.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACDSkCeEfWs
Can the DEA be far behind?
- https://www.maniacworld.com/Record-New-Years-Eve-Jump.html
Now comes... the hardest part.
- https://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-03-09-american-religion-ARIS_N.htm
The percentage. of people who call themselves in some way
Christian has dropped more than 11% in a generation.
- https://www.cringely.com/2009/03/the-neokast-mystery/
But I'll tell you right now that some big company somewhere has
snapped-up Neokast, is continuing to develop the software and
intends to introduce it soon with a big splash. I just wish I
knew who it was.
- https://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/03/03/ilife-education
Damn Apple's ease-of-use.
- https://www.otoh.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/HowHardCanItBe
This is the road to Hell, and after the first few times you get
to recognize the handbasket as you climb in.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnOyOns1otQ
The videos where absolutely nothing went wrong.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LALgWz0xc0
When cultures collide.
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:30:45Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:56:21
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/03/14/portugal/index.html
There is clearly a growing recognition around the world and even
in the U.S. that, strictly on empirical grounds, criminalization
approaches to drug usage and, especially, the "War on Drugs,"
are abject failures, because they worsen the exact problems they
are ostensibly intended to address.
- https://www.sevennationarmy.net/blog/?p=335
Why Vader went bad.
- https://www.gladwell.com/2005/2005_10_10_a_admissions.html
You can imagine my confusion, then, when I first met someone who
had gone to Harvard.
- https://www.fmylife.com/top
FML
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/189293
The world used 14 trillion watts (14 terawatts) of power in
2006. Assuming minimal population growth (to 9 billion people),
slow economic growth (1.6 percent a year, practically recession
level) and -- this is key -- unprecedented energy efficiency
(improvements of 500 percent relative to current U.S. levels,
worldwide), it will use 28 terawatts in 2050.
- https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/03/uae-manly-women.html
The script for a sequel to the early-'90s ghetto drama "Menace
II Society" just writes itself, doesn't it?
-- Tracy Clark-Flory
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ymkoh-vKzM
Pick me.
- https://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/health/1485253,CST-NWS-birth19.article
More babies born in 2007 than any other year.
- https://www.moolf.com/interesting/the-deepest-step-well-in-the-world.html
The Deepest Step Well in the World.
- https://www.worth.com/editorial/the-secrets-of-his-success/
- https://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/12/05/askthepilot301/index.html
The Secrets of his Success review, and discussion of the Korean
Airlines topic.
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:08:16
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw
Extreme sheepherding.
- https://www.doublehandshake.com/2009/03/09/on-the-viability-of-exporting-guinea-pigs-from-peru-to-china/
Yummers!
- https://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1348321
Most power systems math can be summed this way: take a really
big number and multiply by the square root of two. You can use
three sometimes, but only when things are totally out of
control.
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB123680870885500701.html
At a brainstorming session in 2007, Dr. Wood, the Star Wars
architect, suggested using lasers on mosquitoes.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfr7k4IVnSI
Sometimes love sounds like a piledriver.
- https://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9810/09/fringe/australia.crocs/
A plan with "disaster" written all over it.
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16826-brain-quirk-could-help-explain-financial-crisis.html
Blindly taking advice.
- https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover/print
In the final three months of last year, the company lost more
than $27 million every hour. That's $465,000 a minute, a yearly
income for a median American household every six seconds,
roughly $7,750 a second.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc357.html
The child had, for the taxable year in which the kidnapping
occurred, the same principal place of abode as the taxpayer for
more than one-half of the portion of such year before the date
of kidnapping.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_vM5hKE_-c
"And you're all a bit freaked-out now, aren't you?"
[Warning: Adult Language]
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 12:12:10
I've begun cross-posting /dev/null to Facebook, as the group /nev/dull.
There are now 3 ways to get /dev/null: by email (nevdull@bostic.com),
an RSS feed from rss.bostic.com, and the Facebook group /nev/dull.
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- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22-2009mar22,0,931431.story
"What do you usually do with things like that?" she asked.
"We usually destroy them," he replied.
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB123811509991753625.html
Oh, the irony! It burns, it burns!
- https://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202429342339
No tool and no technique extant today can recover overwritten
data on 21st century hard drives. Nada. Zip. Zilch
- https://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml
Secure Erase Q & A.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7h08RDYA5E
Thus I refute global warming.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28Tartakovsky.html
"Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert?
Because he can eat the sand which is there.
But what brought the sandwiches there?
Why, Noah sent Ham, and his descendants mustered and bred."
- https://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/03/18/things_i_wont_work_with_chalcogen_polyazides.php
Spirited stuff, that tetra-azide.
- https://justinelai.com/statement.html
The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable
institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to
locate something intimate and mortal.
- https://wjz.com/local/kidney.surgery.2.966770.html
A woman who's over 75 has 60 percent less access to transplantation
than her male counterpart," said Dr. Segev.
- https://www.gunaxin.com/a-lesson-in-hanging-toilet-paper/15802
Can we please settle this one once and for all?
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article5993187.ece
Technology really is driven by only one thing...
Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:11:32
- https://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler
on their first trip.
- https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/295808
There's a truly amazing sheep joke in here somewhere.
- https://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/tobacco/articles/entry/1230/
Our neighbors to the north are running their own Prohibition
experiment.
- https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/30/rules-for-conservative-radicals/
So now that the right is vanquished and thoroughly out of power,
why doesn't it learn from its conquerors and employ similar
tactics?
The answer is obvious. The right, for the most part, embraces
basic Judeo-Christian ideals and would not promote nor defend
the propaganda techniques that were perfected in godless communist
and socialist regimes.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/29/thousands-of-toxic-toads-_n_180469.html
"To see the look on the faces of the kids as we were handling
and weighing the toads and then euthanizing them was just...,"
Townsville City Councilman Vern Veitch said, breaking off to let
out a contented sigh. "The children really got into the character
of the event."
- https://www.jesusandmo.net/2009/03/27/eggs/
Now that's just silly.
- https://en.rian.ru/video/20090327/120770953.html
Only 1 pound, and eliminates the need for, and cost of, body
armor.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTby_e4-Rhg
A Finite Simple Group (of Order Two).
- https://www.metafilter.com/78177/PLEASE-UNSUBSCRIBE-ME-FROM-THIS-LIST#2408665
Sometimes, five, simple words is all it takes.
- https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/578/police_drug_corruption
Narcs gone wild, narcs cheating on their pay, narcs stealing
dope, narcs lying on the stand, a perverted sheriff heads to
prison, and that's just the half of it. Let's get to it.
Sat, 4 Apr 2009 11:57:26
- https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/05/business/congress-passes-wide-ranging-bill-easing-bank-laws.html?sec=&spon=&emc=eta1&pagewanted=2&pagewanted=print
If anything, the supporters said, the new law will give
financial companies the ability to diversify and therefore
reduce their risks. The new law, they said, will also give
regulators new tools to supervise shaky institutions.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/us/30walkaway.html
In Buffalo, where officials said the problem had reached epidemic
proportions in recent months, the city sued 37 banks last year,
claiming they were responsible for the deterioration of at least
57 abandoned homes; the city chose a sampling of houses to
include in the lawsuit, even though the banks had walked away
from many more foreclosures.
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/31/714712/-Cheers-and-Jeers:-Tuesday
Change I believe in.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-7e70uNq5o
Talent comes in many forms.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7973747.stm
"They also recommend us to only use national toilets."
- https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223279/march-31-2009/the-10-31-project
We surround them!
- https://creativity-online.com/work/view?seed=5284d9f5
Mow the lawn!
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kuvat/2009/04/03/mideast-israel-missing-women
- https://news.stv.tv/world/86389-pakistani-taliban-flog-girl-accused-of-having-affair/
The major religions look for common ground.
- https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/
I'm not giving up.
- https://www.rethinkingschools.org/just_fun/games/mapgame.html
Yeah, well, let's see how well *you* do.
Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:48:55Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:35:35Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:36:03
- https://www.tweenbots.com/
One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had
just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, "You can't go that
way, it's toward the road."
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/193487
America's cumulative cost overruns add up to more than the total
annual defense budgets of China, Russia, Britain and France combined.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/12/sound-of-music-train-stat_n_186016.html
Ray: a drop of golden sun.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/12/tea-party-insanity-burn-a_n_185991.html
A big steaming Cup O' Crazy.
- https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=QW-CHEATSHEET
Don't worry. Your clothing has this one covered.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG18gW7rlGQ
It's good to have a skill to fall back on, in hard economic times.
- https://www.komonews.com/news/local/42916587.html
The parks department is warning area residents that it plans to
blast squirrels all week, and to not be alarmed by noises that
sound like gun shots.
- https://www.newsweek.com/id/184156/output/print
The ones with metronomic heartbeats, Morgan says, shoot more bad
guys and kill fewer hostages. Unfortunately, this metronomic
effect is usually associated with early heart disease and even
sudden death.
- https://www.freepatentsonline.com/5443036.html
Get a laser-pointer, find your cat, violate someone's
intellectual property rights.
- https://brendancalling.com/2009/04/14/more-proof-the-right-wingers-are-short-sighted-and-not-very-bright/
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/14/surveillance/index.html
We tried to warn you, and you just wouldn't listen.
Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:12:41
- https://www.bmwblog.com/wp-content/uploads/3427670079_fa8f403233_b.jpg
Take that.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPVw4nfESz0
And that, and that, and that!
- https://www.walkingwithwinnie.com/home.php
Taking a little walk.
- https://www.geocities.com/droppedit2003/movieslist/TEXTMOV2
Whatever you care about, there's someone else out there that
cares a lot more. In fact, that cares a little too much.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzl6LEfouEE
Gadzooks!
- https://www.badscience.net/2009/04/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice/
... since the media commentariat have proven themselves to be
morons.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc
"I want to do it the right way, with the rubber bands."
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2009/04/16/aclu/index.html
In a just-released statement, Barack Obama announced that -- in
response to an ACLU FOIA lawsuit -- he has ordered four key
Bush-era torture memos released, and the Associated Press,
citing anonymous Obama sources, is reporting that "there is very
little redaction, or blacking out, of detail in the memos."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4107524.stm
Moving boldly forward into the 14th century.
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/94/how-could-the-romans-use-corn-its-american
Isun England, for example, corn is the word the natives apply
to wheat.
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:57:53Fri, 15 May 2009 11:27:02Sat, 16 May 2009 09:05:42Mon, 18 May 2009 13:39:26Mon, 18 May 2009 13:42:54Fri, 22 May 2009 08:31:35
- https://www.engadget.com/2009/05/07/mpaa-suggests-teachers-videotape-tvs-instead-of-ripping-dvds-se
MPAA suggests teachers videotape TVs instead of ripping DVDs.
Seriously.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3kyNGVK-hI
Nathan Fluetbox Lee and Beardyman @ Google, London
- https://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2009/#post-1072
Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b7mwTK564o
I think this may be an Al-Qaeda recruiting film.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.100-the-science-of-voodoo-when-mind-attacks-body.html?full=true
It's not easy, after all, to get ethical approval for studies
designed to make people feel worse.
- https://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25426774-13762,00.html
I bet this cuts insurance costs, too.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8061031.stm
"Has anyone else tried pouring this stuff over dry cereal?
A-W-E-S-O-M-E!"
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5351378/Milex-2009-Belarus-arms-fair-and-military-expo.html
Belarussian special forces soldiers break flaming bricks with
their foreheads.
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
And let's remember why Goliath made that rule: when the world has
to play on Goliath's terms, Goliath wins.
- https://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/mf.ten.important.kisses/index.html
In 1927, two soldiers kissed tenderly in the silent movie "Wings",
which won Best Picture at the first Academy Awards. When the
film was released, no one raised an eyebrow about the scene,
partially because kissing in the trenches was remarkably common
during World War I.
Tue, 26 May 2009 10:43:52
- https://vimeo.com/4505537
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas
- https://kokogiak.com/solarsystembodieslargerthan200miles.html
All (known) bodies in the Solar System larger than 200 miles in
diameter.
- https://vimeo.com/4433312
Curiously enough, barium is also used in fireworks.
- https://www.flixxy.com/beethoven-fifth-symphony-breakfast.htm
"Asagohan" means breakfast in Japanese.
- https://ineedfile.com/montana.html
Run, Forrest, Run!
- https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/Fatalah/5-1.jpg
No. Let me in. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
- https://www.truckspills.com/
There's a web site for everything, I tell you.
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090520/REVIEWS/905209993/1001
Like ectoplasm from a medium, it is the visible extrusion of a
marketing campaign.
- https://articles.latimes.com/2009/04/08/metro/me-mooning-amtrak8
"What was originally just a fun, family-type of event of showing
your rear end to the train has just gotten out of control," said
city Police Chief Linda Solorza.
- https://www.spectrum.ieee.org/may09/8788
First, the teams then in fifth and sixth places merged, combining
their talents to vault into second place, making us nervous enough
to submit our best effort, which we had been saving for a rainy day.
- https://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/epic-greek-firework-battle/
The tradition started in 1889, when Ottoman occupiers confiscated
the islanders' cannons...
Thu, 28 May 2009 22:00:23
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/05/18/kramer_breast_cancer_genes/index.html
Mutated BRCA1 genes cause breast cancer -- ha! I did it again!
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/feature/2009/05/20/busted/index.html
How could someone who knew so much about what was going on make
such bad decisions?
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/05/19/testosterone_poisoning/index.html
The neuroscience of bubble mania: When derivatives traders take
big risks and score big profits on a daily basis, their brain
chemistry gets out of whack.
- https://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j238/foxhack/Other/20090407.jpg
Cutest Kid Ever
- https://imgur.com/nb3e3.png
Think of it like a movie.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lancashire/8003757.stm
The data lost was encrypted but the password had been written
on a note which was attached when it was misplaced.
- https://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/23/yearbook-smile-marriage.html
Smiling's link to divorce.
- https://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/fw/2009/05/10/
Comic O' The Day
- https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/223/why-did-the-peoples-of-the-new-world-fail-to-invent-the-wheel
The general sequence of friction-reducing inventions is thought
to have been runners, rollers, rollers held in place by guides,
rollers held in place by guides and thickened on the ends to
make them roll straighter, the wheel and axle, and from there
it's pretty much a straight shot to the Chevy Impala.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html
In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers
were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.
- https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/05/login_2009_keynote_gaming_in_t.html
One factor that's going to come into play is the increasing cost
of semiconductor fab lines. As the resolution of a lithography
process gets finer, the cost of setting up a fab line increases
and it's not a linear relationship. A 22nm line is going to cost
a lot more than a 33nm line, or a 45nm one. It's the dark shadow
of Moore's Law: the cost per transistor on a chip may be falling
exponentially, but the fabs that spit them out are growing
pricier by a similar ratio.
- https://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hc111-121
Whereas...
Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:23:06
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs
10 Things I Hate About Commandments
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://imgur.com/hrFkp.jpg
Oh mighty Ymir, father of arctic frosts, terrible giant of storm
and ice, blast this vessel with thy glacier breath, in Odin's
name!!
- https://www.gadling.com/2009/06/01/phd-student-curtis-melvin-uses-google-maps-to-uncover-north-kore/
North Korea via Google Maps
- https://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab
Our three dimensional fabricator is now fully operational and
we have used it to print several large, low-resolution, objects
out of pure sugar.
- https://www.pinkcoyote.net/creativegrooming.html
After the contest Cindy will be shaved.
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
McAllen, Texas, the most expensive town in the most expensive
country for health care in the world, seemed a good place to
look for some answers.
- https://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson15.html
- https://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson112.html
Daily Lessons in Science, Literature, Love, and Life.
- https://www.27bslash6.com/strata.html
The ducks in the bathroom are not mine.
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190002/Masterstroke-Man-draw-stickmen-wakes-life-saving-brain-surgery--artist.html
When Alan, 49, emerged from a gruelling 16-hour operation
following his stroke, he found he had become a reborn
'Michelangelo' and was able to paint and draw with incredible
detail.
- https://soccerlens.com/the-15-greatest-sports-cheats-of-all-time/29838/
The 15 greatest.
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 18:21:16Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:42:52Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:14:32Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:55:06
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/06/24/raccoon_dog_testicles/index.html
How it came to pass that the melody of an American Baptist hymn
was transmogrified into an ode to raccoon dog testicles, I
cannot tell you.
- https://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/16/state-department-to-twitter-keep-iranian-tweets-coming/
The revolution is being twittered.
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/06/the-fog-of-cyberwar.html
The fog of cyberwar.
- https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=a62_boqkurbI
It almost fits with the surreal nature of today that a couple
of travelers have more U.S. debt than Brazil in a suitcase and,
well, that's life.
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/06/15/mystery_bonds/index.html
... growing at the speed of conspiracy theory light.
- https://techdirt.com/articles/20090620/1836345299.shtml
Ringtones as "public performance".
- https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29/moon_landing_tapes/
The Parkes Observatory tapes were apparently shipped to the
Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland a year after the
landing, but in 2006 NASA confirmed that despite an extensive
search, their whereabouts was unknown.
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/06/just-human-nature-jackson-outpouring-floods-web.html
- https://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/internet-groans-under-weight-of-michael-jackson-traffic.ars
Jackson floods the web.
- https://www.sportsshooter.com/port_popup.html?mem_id=7144&i_id=830599
Hitting the high notes.
- https://www.macworld.com/article/141364/2009/06/hpcalcapps.html
Is HP going to kill the calculator market?
- https://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/06/quote-of-day_25.html
We can't do anything to stop it, I gave everything I had to stop
it here in South Carolina, my wife's left me -- the hell with
it! I'm gonna enjoy life, what little time I've got left!"
- https://www.renesys.com/blog/2009/06/the-proxy-fight-for-iranian-de.shtml
And don't wait until the tanks are in the streets to figure this
out, because by that point, you may have already lost the proxy
war.
Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:02:54
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
"Bottle of basically, just water, in one hand, and a huge
invoice in the other."
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3351540/Dr-Stewart-Adams-I-tested-ibuprofen-on-my-hangover.html
That was testing the drug in anger, if you like.
- https://www.zuzafun.com/finger-size-creatures
Finger-size creatures.
- https://www.foundationsmag.com/civility.html
Put not another bit into your mouth till the former be
swallowed. Let not your morsels be too big for the jowls.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Frye
There was a Dwight Frye Fan Club at one time, but it is
currently dormant.
- https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6509336.html
- https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/resources/personpanprep.html
In just three months the virus has zipped around the world,
sickening at least 80,000 and killing 327 in 121 countries.
It now stalks the southern hemisphere, where winter flu season
rages.
- https://imgur.com/6pNUh.jpg
"And your gums are in terrible condition!"
- https://www.blurtit.com/q5838352.html
The spite house.
- https://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090706/BUSINESS/907060348/-1/nletter02/Bourbon+shortage+hits+Knob+Creek?source=nletter-business
Thanks for nothing.
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ic3a4730761c7eaf6aac2de4e28ef8e67
As opposed to today's games, there is no story line or fancy
world-building mythology, so the studio would be creating a
plot from scratch.
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:58:05
- https://www.culturepub.fr/videos/rubber-cement-colle-les-nonnes.html
For sticking, and correcting.
- https://imgur.com/uIcbU.gif
I mean, really?
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002358.html
Fixing the economy is women's work.
- https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
Bill Moyers show on the health industry.
- https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php
So the Decepticons made a slutty robot to attend his college and
enrolled her in classes and put her in on-campus housing just
in case Sam ended up being important at some point in the future?
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/
Gosh mom! I'm just shakin' what you gave me...
- https://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1909187,00.html
- https://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/smashed-guitar-youtu-4850/
Revenge is a dish best served with country accompaniment.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3VdDIHJkbQ
Morpheus, before escaping the Matrix.
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-lost-my-health-insurance-at-the-hairstylists
"I look at people's skin tones all day long and try to decide
the best coloring for their hair, and I can tell you this: gray
is not a normal human skin tone. Get out of here right now and
go see your doctor."
- https://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/11/1/174.pdf
The insurer can refuse health insurance to the whole group,
impose a substantial surcharge on the premiums of all members
in the group, or refuse to write a policy for the high-risk
individual(s).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/movies/12powe.html
"We were so gloriously contentious, everyone bitching at
everyone", said Andrew Sarris, 81, nattily attired in gray
slacks and a blue sport jacket, his hair slicked back. "We all
said some stupid things, but film seemed to matter so much."
Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:58:05
- https://www.culturepub.fr/videos/rubber-cement-colle-les-nonnes.html
For sticking, and correcting.
- https://imgur.com/uIcbU.gif
I mean, really?
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR2009071002358.html
Fixing the economy is women's work.
- https://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
Bill Moyers show on the health industry.
- https://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/bonus_robs_transformers_2_faqs.php
So the Decepticons made a slutty robot to attend his college and
enrolled her in classes and put her in on-campus housing just
in case Sam ended up being important at some point in the future?
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://myparentsjoinedfacebook.com/
Gosh mom! I'm just shakin' what you gave me...
- https://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1909187,00.html
- https://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/smashed-guitar-youtu-4850/
Revenge is a dish best served with country accompaniment.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3VdDIHJkbQ
Morpheus, before escaping the Matrix.
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-lost-my-health-insurance-at-the-hairstylists
"I look at people's skin tones all day long and try to decide
the best coloring for their hair, and I can tell you this: gray
is not a normal human skin tone. Get out of here right now and
go see your doctor."
- https://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/11/1/174.pdf
The insurer can refuse health insurance to the whole group,
impose a substantial surcharge on the premiums of all members
in the group, or refuse to write a policy for the high-risk
individual(s).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/movies/12powe.html
"We were so gloriously contentious, everyone bitching at
everyone", said Andrew Sarris, 81, nattily attired in gray
slacks and a blue sport jacket, his hair slicked back. "We all
said some stupid things, but film seemed to matter so much."
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:05:14
Folks, after a week of fighting with Google Groups, I haven't managed
to transfer nevdull. (I've always been, and remain, a huge fan of
Google, but Google Groups has serious issues -- I wouldn't recommend it
to anyone.) I'm still hopeful I'll eventually get it working, but it's
going to take a least another one or two weeks. You should receive
notification you've been added to the nevdull list at Google Groups
sometime over the next few weeks. Once I get the two lists running in
parallel, I'll try to switch over again.
So, without further delay -- HTML O' The Day.
--keith
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- https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2006/08/things-you-really-need-to-learn.html
This is probably the hardest thing of all to learn, and the
least taught.
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090708/REVIEWS/907089995/1001/reviews
If he decides to tap Cohen on each shoulder with his sword, I
want to have my eyes closed.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6KGZ4UQjgc
"This is the first time we've had a full manifestation of that
anointing."
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/13/world/europe/13sweden.html
They never leave home for a stroll in forests or fields without
their geologists' hammers, with their 30-inch handles, and their
magnifying eyepieces, dangling from ribbons around their necks.
- https://vodpod.com/watch/1548742-sweden-got-talent-naked-guys-dancing
Sweden got talent.
[Warning: Nudity]
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/conductor-edward-downes-a_n_231204.html
Switzerland got clinics.
- https://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/07/fireworks-hammers.html
Explosives at the end of sledgehammers!
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17credit-t.html?pagewanted=all
"Uh, when we hear a story like this, how are we going to ask
them for money?"
"We'll get to that later," the instructor, Sheri Roberts, replied.
- https://www.pandemicflu.gov/storybook/index.html
Pandemic Influenza storybook.
- https://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=109968852372&h=Asto_&u=vOfy2
Cursing to ease the pain.
Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:11:56 -0400
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann?currentPage=all
John Lentini says of the Lime Street Fire, This was my epiphany.
I almost sent a man to die based on theories that were a load of
crap.
- https://imgur.com/jFMDL.jpg
Taunt the kitties, taunt the kitties!
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,645375,00.html
The incident in the Ukrainian capital is part of the secretive
daily routine of a little-known but highly lucrative branch of the
medical industry, in which companies use corpses to make medical spare
parts. In doing so, they reuse almost everything the human body has to
offer: bones, cartilage, tendons, muscle fascia, skin, corneas,
pericardial sacs and heart valves. In the jargon of the profession,
all of this is referred to as tissue.
- https://textsfromlastnight.com/best-nights/
(214): Sex on bubble wrap = best decision ever.
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
Using a checklist for takeoff would no more have occurred to a
pilot than to a driver backing a car out of the garage. But this new
plane was too complicated to be left to the memory of any pilot,
however expert.
- https://freakymartin.com/nitro/fishki/476758bd6747672737819.jpg
It's a cat rolling a watermelon out of the way of high tide. What
about that surprises you?
- https://www.amazon.com/tag/wtf/products/ref=tag_gam_ptcn_istp
Amazon WTF.
[Amazon allows users to associate keywords with products. In this
case, the keyword is "WTF".]
- https://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/twitters-golden-ratio-that-no-one-likes-to-talk-about/
And no one likes being told that theyre not a beautiful and
unique snowflake, so Ill understand if this upsets some of you.
- https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/jobs/casting/home.aspx
A different job.
- https://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1919127,00.html
"Designers have always thought of Ikea as one of their own,"
Barbarasa notes. "So now, in a way, the design community feels
betrayed."
Fri, 4 Sep 2009 08:06:32 -0400
- https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-amazing-new-inventions-that-will-doom-humanity/
Doomed, I tell you doomed!
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://truckbearingkibble.com/comic/2007/11/08/the-gods-must-be-tasty/\
The Gods Must Be tasty.
- https://www.yikebike.com/
Yikes!
- https://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/09/how-fun-well-all-do-the-monkey-boy-dance-then-head-out-back-for-the-vista-bonfire.html
Each of these gatherings will consist of a small group of
pleasant-looking people representing all races and ages gathered
around a single laptop, expressions of joy, excitement and surprise
flitting across their faces.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/opinion/03collins.html
In the real world, after whacking off Levis mullet, Sarah had to
veto his plans to go partying and force him to hang around the hotel
with her pregnant daughter.
- https://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things
13 more things that don't make sense.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/02/julie_myerson/index.html
It is no small thing to, in Jake's word, "tar" your own kid "with
the addict's brush" -- even if he is an addict -- especially when that
kid is a 20-year-old, navigating landlords, friends, college
admissions officers and future employers.
- https://www.slate.com/id/2226512/
Unfortunately, that will probably send even more Meryl Streep
wannabes straight to bookstores looking for food porn. And they will
be sold bibles.
- https://nextround.net/2009/08/28/15-durex-ads-so-clever-they-almost-make-you-want-to-buy-condoms
15 Durex Ads So Clever They Almost Make You Want To Buy Condoms
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/science/01feath.html
I really do think we are moving from dinosaurs in black and white
to dinosaurs in Technicolor.
Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:31:54 -0400
- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Little_Rock_integration_protest.jpg
Everything old is new again.
- https://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/09/04/japan.children/index.html
Cash for kids.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4L6-0WRfSA
"But the question is, can we ask the right questions when it comes
to these very difficult ethical issues, about how we preserve value in
the long term."
- https://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/74943.html
"At the beginning, after the fall of the old regime, I chose the
political path with Dr. Chalabi. They chose the path of resistance
against the occupation," Lami said. "I asked him, 'So, Sheikh Qais,
which is better: your military way or my political way?"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgcGlMyAg2g
"Thinking about my kids... having to listen to that... really upsets me."
- https://blag.xkcd.com/2009/09/02/urinal-protocol-vulnerability/
This leads us to a question: what is the general formula for the
number of guys who will fill in N urinals if they all come in one at a
time and follow the urinal protocol?
- https://mrdeity.com/
Mr. Deity
- https://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/miraculous-wine.php
It's a glass for drinking a lot.
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0938923/bio
However, the California Supreme Court extended a statute that
prohibited "negroes and Indians" from testifying against Caucasians in
court to the Chinese, for the "logical" reason that in Christopher
Columbus's time, Oriental countries were called "Indian."
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm
The Onion takes another head.
Wed, 9 Sep 2009 14:59:33 -0400
- https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/
Photography lost its innocence many years ago.
- https://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/puff_daddy/
What if he could, in fact, find a way to eat just by breathing?
- https://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/2170484.html
Duvall has also been removed from the Assembly Rules Committee,
which oversees members' ethics issues.
- https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/Site/Home.html
Two great tastes, that taste great together!
- https://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=1487
Do!
- https://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=281
Do!
- https://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=591
Do!
- https://www.viceland.com/int/dd.php?id=634
Don't.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-osborne/glenn-becks-2-week-video_b_277028.html
Obama's Secret Negro Army?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZbckwYY9r4
You may not know that Christopher Walken can freakin' dance.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06jonze-t.html?pagewanted=all
Bringing Where the Wild Things Are to the Screen
[WTWTA is directed by Spike Jonze, who also directed Fat Boy
Slim's video, "Weapon of Choice".]
- https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/04/a_library_without_the_books/?page=full
This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000
books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of
Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a
traditional library.
- https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/03q4/dodge_sprinter_2500-road_test
That's 4.4 seconds behind, say, a Chevy Express AWD, but it's
exactly the performance of a Porsche 911 Turbo if you stop along the
way to pick up wholesale plumbing supplies.
Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:18:50 -0400
- https://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090909/wr_nm/us_safrica_pigeon_2
Another victory for RFC2549.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6173399/Charles-Darwin-film-too-controversial-for-religious-America.html
"A silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it
despite over a century of trying."
- https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/gallery_dinoauction/
The main event will be Samson, one of the best T. rex skeletons ever found.
- https://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1921373,00.html
You don't have to be a Wall Street analyst to do the quick math:
with a carrier cost of one-third of a penny, when a customer pays 15
cents to send a message, 98% of that 15 cents is pure profit. (Of
course, you already knew that in your gut; that's why your stomach
turns every time you examine your cell-phone bill.)
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8251914.stm
The company behind the enterprise says it is saving about $300,000
per vessel by using the northern route.
- https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6829735.ece
Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain
nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear
that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
- https://imgur.com/ceBFI.jpg
Now we know who Bogarted.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/14/2/FeynmanLosAlamos.htm
So, in making the tests with the gold, we had these pieces of gold
and somebody had the clever idea of using that great ball of gold for
a doorstop for the door of the room that contained the plutonium.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8245290.stm
3,000 members of the genetic minority.
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/11/politico/index.html
Our political mores demand vehement repudiation of petty acts of
incivility, while tolerating and even approving of extremely
consequential acts of indecency as long as they're advocated with
superficial civility.
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:56:02 -0400Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:26:09 -0400
- https://www.beingmarcecko.com/blog/2008/11/10/carbon-copy-rip.html
I'm oddly intrigued.
- https://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Google%20digital%20books%20become%20instant%20paperbacks/2014117/story.html
"An ATM for books."
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/21/iran/index.html
It's hard to overstate how aberrational -- one might say "rogue"
-- the U.S. is when it comes to war.
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/20/784011/-A-Walking-Pre-Existing-Condition
In case you missed the name, it was the rat-bastards at American
Community Mutual Insurance, which the state of Illinois has apparently
investigated 12 times since 2007 for rescission.
- https://www.leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/
Mom says goodbye to us. She stayed behind to study for her nursing
board exams. We would come back about 20 ns older compared to her.
- https://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/10/pretend-to-be-a-time-traveler-day-this-weekend/
Stand in front of a statue (any statue, really), fall to your
knees, and yell NOOOOOOOOO
- https://www.huggablepeturns.com/
Awwwwwww....
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6189803/Amazon-hijacked-10-funniest-review-threads.html
Why it took off: Everyone has a view on zebra-striped trousers.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/health/15mind.html
In practice, according to an impressive collection of data by Dr.
Deci and others, unconditional acceptance by parents as well as
teachers should be accompanied by autonomy support: explaining
reasons for requests, maximizing opportunities for the child to
participate in making decisions, being encouraging without
manipulating, and actively imagining how things look from the childs
point of view.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/world/asia/20tuna.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Catching a tuna is like winning the lottery, said another
fisherman, 23-year-old Takeshi Izumi, who said his boat had yet to
catch a tuna this season.
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:42:29 -0400
- https://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/How-the-Spaceship-Got-Its-Shape.html
How the spaceship got its shape.
- https://imgur.com/GL4Nv.jpg
And his friends are all like WTF.
- https://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/news/world/2833157/Bomb-in-anal-cavity-raises-new-airline-concern
I fear my next TSA inspection.
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,651748,00.html
Arrr!
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8279276.stm
When cultures collide.
- https://abcnews.go.com/Business/monopolys-hidden-maps-wwii-pows-escape/story?id=8605905
Get out of jail!
- https://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1160517/index/index.htm
At age 17 Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team
championship all by herself. Then she did it again.
- https://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/25/homeless_doll/index.html
But Im not sure that giving girls the option of playing with
characters who arent doe-eyed princesses is such a terrible thing.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/23/AR2009092304711.html
The reason for this fight lies in toilet-paper engineering. Each
sheet is a web of wood fibers, and fibers from old trees are longer,
which produces a smoother and more supple web. Fibers made from
recycled paper -- in this case magazines, newspapers or computer
printouts -- are shorter. The web often is rougher.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27out-t.html?pagewanted=all
I told my cousin, my cousin told this other girl, she told her
mother, her mother told my mom and then my mom told me, Austin
explained.
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:05:42 -0400
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/1/788619/-The-Relativity-of-the-Public-Option
Oh chainsaw pawed bear of reform! Have mercy on your opponent's soul!
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/chicagos-loss-is-passport-control-to-blame/
- https://www.skatingonstilts.com/skating-on-stilts/2009/10/who-is-syed-shahid-ali.html
- https://www.skatingonstilts.com/skating-on-stilts/2009/10/blaming-dhs-for-copenhagen.html
... pointed out that entering the United States can be a rather
harrowing experience.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20031002125716/lostcosmonauts.com/readers.htm
The boys' sister, Maria Theresa, a pert and pretty teenager, got
one of the most difficult assignments. She was to learn Russian so she
could translate messages from manned Soviet flights.
- https://gizmodo.com/5376774/how-watch-the-moon-bombing-in-real-time
How to Watch the Moon Bombing In Real Time
- https://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigbest.pl
The Furred Reich.
- https://conservapedia.com/Conservative_Bible_Project
It's time to re-write the Bible, and eliminate the liberal bias.
- https://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/feature/2009/10/06/conservative_bible/
We think it's an important project, and that you're all heathens,
or worse, Unitarians.
- https://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_03_10_a_rock.htm
John Rock's error.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb1bhf-fweg
From the 1976 (?) movie "Revenge of the Cheerleaders." It's
important to remember that when this movie was made, dancing had not
yet been invented.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/28/sex-women-relationships-tanya-gold
We also get data which confirms that, due to the chemicals your
brain produces dopamine, norepinephrine and phenylethylamine you
are, when you are in love, technically what I have always suspected
you to be mad as Stalin.
- https://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/01/science/sci-tennis1
The human brain is hard-wired to misread the true position of
fast-moving objects, including tennis balls whizzing by at more than
100 mph.
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:45:11 -0400Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:33:25 -0400
- https://www.sej.org/publications/alaska-and-hawaii/magic-number-a-sketchy-fact-about-polar-bears-keeps-goingand-going-an
I hope this thoroughly clears things up.
- https://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-mind-of-man-the-freakiest-sex-i-ever-had/
Ignore the fact that I had just been wrung like a ShamWow.
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/44b3d8f432/the-button
The Box: Why do the movies make things so complicated?
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/18/african-children-denounce_n_324943.html
"Even churches who didn't use to 'find' child witches are being
forced into it by the competition," said Itauma. "They are seen as
spiritually powerful because they can detect witchcraft and the
parents may even pay them money for an exorcism."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WK44cH2J0
You probably want to ignore this one -- it's just some kids jumping rope.
- https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/16/goldman/index.html
I owe Adam Storch an apology for unfairly questioning whether he's
really the most qualified person for the position of COO in SEC
enforcement. After all, in 2002, he was named as a Co-Winner by
SUNY-Buffalo of the prestigious Intern of the Year Award, for his
sterling summer work in sorting mail and fetching coffee at Deloitte &
Touche.
- https://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Puddle-Splashing-Driver-Charged-For-Splashing-School-Kids-In-Plymouth-Devon/Article/200910215405349?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15405349_Puddle_Splashing:_Driver_Charged_For_Splashing_School_Kids_I
"Puddle at the bottom of the hill coming up, kids at the bottom of
the hill - come on!"
- https://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231
Roughly equal to about a septillion
(1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond
Yottabytes haven't yet been named.
- https://www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending#InContextUSMilitarySpendingVersusRestoftheWorld
WTF O' The Day
- https://www.ft.com/cms/4fe40d1a-07b4-11dd-a922-0000779fd2ac.html
- https://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/15/bird_and_fortune_explain_the_financial_crisis/index.html
Q: How is your bank doing?
A: My bank? Well we're doing quite well. We're quite profitable.
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:12:44 -0400Sun, 25 Oct 2009 08:53:15 -0400Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:51:16 -0500
- https://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/252735/october-26-2009/the-word---don-t-ask-don-t-tell
And folks, the gays have no right to out those people.
https://twitter.com/big_ben_clock
Why the net was invented.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20091026/ml-israel-elevator-debate
Opponents say that while the riders push no button, the weight of
the passengers still increases the amount of electricity required to
power the lift, thus violating Jewish law.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02ratings.html?pagewanted=all
Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people
watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching
messages about movies, cars and beer.
- https://gizmodo.com/382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail
Alternatively, the press could ask for banning knives from the
homes of demonstrably stupid people.
- https://www.villafanestudios.com/pumpkins.htm
Predator pumpkin.
- https://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/college_for_99_a_month.php?page=all
The same courses would have cost her over $2,700 at Northeastern
Illinois, $4,200 at Kaplan University, $6,300 at the University of
Phoenix, and roughly the gross domestic product of a small Central
American nation at an elite private university.
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427311.500-probably-guilty-bad-mathematics-means-rough-justice.html?full=true
You've just been diagnosed with a rare condition that afflicts 1
in 10,000. The test is 99 per cent certain. Hope or despair?
- https://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/10/25/in_the_muslim_world_creationism_is_on_the_rise/?page=full
While Islamic creationists borrow from the literature of their
Christian counterparts, their concerns are not always the same.
Without a Book of Genesis to account for, for example, Muslim
creationists have little interest in proving that the age of the Earth
is measured in the thousands rather than the billions of years, nor do
they show much interest in the problem of the dinosaurs.
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB125693458626119361.html
The American Civil Liberties Union has fired off a letter accusing
the police of violating citizens' constitutional rights to express
whatever it is they're expressing when they slip hollowed-out pumpkins
over their heads and race buck naked down the Pearl Street pedestrian
mall.
Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:43:22 -0500Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:51:48 -0500
- https://fun.drno.de/pics/english/2256_87ea.jpeg
Geocaching explained.
- https://gizmodo.com/5398271/10-terrible-tips-for-longer-battery-life
If you're worried about finding it again, just mark your spot with
a rock that has no earthly business in a hayfield. I favor black
volcanic glass.
- https://www.hahakiri.com/images/show.php/5057_CrazyWeddingCake.jpg.html
The wedding cake you should have had.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6LgYDyU2ag
Spokesjerk.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDE51hAG-1Y
Thanks for clearing that up.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-juice8-2009nov08,0,5809992,full.story
"It's such a normal part of the American diet," Greer said. "A
glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice for breakfast, my goodness!"
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/automobiles/autoreviews/08bugatti.html
I say roughly, because the Bugattis price can fluctuate about
$14,000 a day simply from one-cent adjustments in exchange rates.
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2009/11/06/dogs_vs_suvs_vs_the_earth_debunked/index.html
Turns out Fido vs. the SUV wasn't true after all.
- https://www.inc.com/magazine/20091101/does-slow-growth-equal-slow-death.html
Once the apparent leader-to-be emerges, pragmatists will support
that company, virtually regardless of how arrogant, unresponsive, or
overpriced it is.
- https://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/in-praise-of-budweiser-contains-extended-footnotes/
Its also just the ticket if you happen to be drinking beer for
breakfast, as the fresh taste of the rice content goes particularly
well with most cereals (it is not coincidental that nobody has yet
marketed Barley Krispies).
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/world/europe/08britain.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Who is a Jew?
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:10:21 -0500Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:29:08 -0500
- https://i.imgur.com/nAqPa.jpg
The collected memos of Bill O'Leary, job hunter.
- https://consumerist.com/5404837/kelloggs-finally-explains-eggo-waffle-shortage
Breakfast hasn't been the same.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RLqLx1iYI
Or don't. I don't care.
- https://i.imgur.com/tk4N6.jpg
The LAPD just killed my childhood.
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/06/AR2009110603465.html
At Boston University, researchers studying the brains of several
deceased professional football players with a history of head trauma
found a degenerative brain disease linked to paranoia, aggression and
progressive dementia. And a recent study commissioned by the National
Football League found that former players ages 30 to 49 were many
times more likely than their peers to have received diagnoses of
dementia and other memory-related diseases.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvASnyOy5B4
I am in awe of this technique -- wheelbarrow races revolutionized!
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091111/REVIEWS/911119994/1001
The Eiffel Tower? Quel dommage!
- https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-neil13-2009nov13,0,7051260.column
In order to get the doors past the Feds' safety standards, the
engineers had to build in pyrotechnic hinges so that, if the car
should overturn, the hinges would blow and passengers could escape.
Dear God, that's cool.
- https://i.imgur.com/xKicC.jpg
I think the dog ate the baby.
- https://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/11/07/no-viagra-no-peace-philly-transit-workers-rise-up-in-protest/
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!
Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:46:02 -0500
- https://www.kplr11.com/news/kplr-impaled-by-tree-110609,0,2214233.story
- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/16/truck-driver-impaled-on-metal-pole-tells-boss-i-m-in-a-spot-of-bother-115875-21825293/
- https://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7017031608
Theme O' The Day
- https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/22/806680/-On-Cancer-Screening,-Politics,-and-Communication
On Cancer Screening, Politics, and Communication
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/6632518/Conscious-man-in-coma-for-23-years.html
Yeah, your life could be worse.
- https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703683804574533840282653628.html
One vat of wine considered extremely inferior, for example, was
labeled "Salable as Beaujolais to Americans."
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/1118091taser1.html
The subject was actively resisting arrest at the time.
- https://daily-nail.blogspot.com/
Yes, that *is* why we invented the web.
- https://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html
Unemployment rates by county.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzKK2tVrsQ
Best costume ever!
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/20/gadhimai-festival-nepal-m_n_364790.html
Which is stupider: the guy who hasn't eaten since 2005, or killing
animals to end evil?
- https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/holiday-open-house-for-the-sanfords/
They will adorn their tree with sand dollars and seashells from
Sullivans Island as well as shotgun shells to represent the hunting
they enjoy while living on the coast, the release states.
Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:40:48 -0500Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:58:46 -0500
- https://www.luisaviaroma.com/index.aspx#getData.aspx|CallType=Product&prodId=R103&des=&cat=0&gender=women&group=jewellery&vendorColor=QVJHRU5UTw==&season=actual&seasProdID=49I
Import fees and shipping included.
- https://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002390/
Nation -- let's gather around together!
- https://www.minnpost.com/scientificagenda/2009/11/30/13812/in_the_brain_seven_is_a_magic_number
If long-term memory is like a vast library of printed tomes,
working memory is a chalkboard on which we rapidly scrawl and erase
information.
- https://i.imgur.com/RJjap.jpg
Shock O' The Day
- https://wtfcalls.net/reddit/xmas_light_wtf.php
Decoration ideas for the holidays.
- https://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/12/01/the-great-iphone-death-watch/
The great iPhone death watch.
- https://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26443857-5003402,00.html
Damn, I've already got tickets.
- https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091203/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_unusual_egg
The Norrells said eating the egg is not an option.
- https://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2009/12/mayor-obama-muslim-and-he-scuttled-xmas.html
The bastards will stop at nothing!
- https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=pompeii,+italy+ruins&ie=UTF8&hq=pompeii,+italy+ruins&hnear=Lincoln,+MA&radius=15000&ll=40.749728,14.486383&spn=0,359.997353&z=19&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=40.749425,14.486414&panoid=4PNukXposeiuKV5MJOpJBQ&cbp=12,67.18,,0,2.54
Google adds Pompeii to Street View.
Tue, 8 Dec 2009 21:41:58 -0500Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:33:05 -0500
- https://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/microsoft-users-gullible-advertising/
That of course would bring you back to point No. 1, that they are
more valuable to advertisers.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMiuOhtlZw
Ninja vs. Sumo
- https://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/25/garden/26cousins-map.html
Another site you'll want to bookmark.
- https://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/a-not-so-brief-chat-with-randall-stephenson-of-att.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/business/13digi.html
Now there was a lot of demand for that record so much that the
plant that printed the records could not keep up. Now heres the
lesson. Do you think the guys who were running Capitol Records said,
Gee whiz, the kids are buying up this record at such a crazy pace that
our printing plant cant keep up wed better find a way to slow
things down. Maybe we can create an incentive that would discourage
people from buying the record. Do you think they said that? No, they
did not. What they did was, they went out and found another printing
plant. And another one and another one, until they could make as many
records as people wanted.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.asylum.com/2009/12/15/claw-crane-games-vending-machines-secrets-rigged/
I knew it!
- https://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/13/the-end-of-hand-crafted-content/
The end of hand-crafted content.
- https://www.theangrydrunk.com/2009/12/14/ive-seen-things-you-people-wouldnt-belive/
Its somewhat amusing to see writers shift seamlessly from
screeching about monopolies and anti-competitive behavior to
breathless screeds about the next X Killer, where X is usually the
iPhone, Apple, or a game console. Again, these people are ignoring the
vast population of consumer products where competing brands offer
different products, and it all works famously. Has anyone ever
seriously made a comment such as The new Vizio HDTV is totally a
Panasonic killer? No, they havent and if they did they would be
laughed at. But somehow, if a device connects to a computer then were
living under Highlander rules.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.fakesteve.net/2009/12/operation-chokehold.html
- https://www.tuaw.com/2009/12/15/watch-out-atandt-operation-chokehold-is-coming/
Si, se puede.
- https://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/10/14/eye-contact/
Has anyone seen Aunt Telcia?
- https://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/12/16/white_house/index.html
White House as helpless victim on healthcare
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