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- https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=rugdeveien+39+bergen&sll=59.913801,10.73882&sspn=0.000449,0.001635&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Rugdeveien+39,+5097+Bergen,+Hordaland,+Norway&t=h&layer=c&ll=60.360883,5.369267&spn=0.001032,0.001996&z=19&cbll=60.360884,5.369468&panoid=vIlVwLm8kDoxekaRJ0MwdQ&cbp=12,284.43,,1,14.19
Don't let the Google car get away!
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/09/AR2010020903796.html
But he also said he shared concerns that the devices could someday
be used as the "mark of the beast" described in the Book of
Revelation.
- https://i.imgur.com/KzPk7.gif
Avoiding boredom on a Sunday afternoon.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MiG2fe8lE
Love train!
- https://www.fredsociety.com/astaire.html
... and occasionally Fred would dance when he heard a catchy tune
on the radio or on the television program "Soul Train."
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/12/utah-climate-alarmists
"Sometimes ... we need to have the courage to do nothing."
- https://i.imgur.com/UPmMh.jpg
I knew it.
- https://www.physorg.com/news185217892.html
Yeah, they're just too damn easy.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all
How Christian were the founders?
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0P-482RBSM-B2&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F31%2F1989&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=24c376a62787edc4a748946aefc4cecf
Studies you would have given anything to have participated in.
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7205452/Sleeping-Beauty-condition-means-teenager-sleeps-for-two-weeks.html
Miss Ball's sleeping episodes began to stretch to ten days at a
time, during which time her parents would wake her once a day to feed
her and take her to the bathroom, before she succumbed to sleep again.
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:58:07 -0500Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:40:16 -0500
- https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/944048.html
The fertility rate in the Haredi community of Beitar Illit dropped
from 8.9 children per woman in 2001 to 7.7 children in 2006, a
decrease of 13.5 percent.
- https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/webcams/
Animal cams.
- https://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2010/02/pentagon-synthetic-organism-splice.php
This is going to end badly.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qK9ZZPdPrM
- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/os-seaworld-orlando-shamu-injury-20100224,0,5560011.story
Shamu! Shamu! Shamu!
- https://backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/02/26/norway-skater-blames-excessive-porn-watching-for-silver-finish/
The Internet claims another victim.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1963522,00.html
You know why Priuses don't make any noise? Because they'll only
talk to other Priuses.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/garden/25fix.html?pagewanted=all
The tape, which is reusable, was so strong, Mr. Autumn said, that
when they tested it, he was able to stick his 50-pound, 8-year-old
daughter to a window with it.
- https://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_wont_work_with_dioxygen_difluoride.php
No, elemental fluorine has commanded respect since well before
anyone managed to isolate it, a process that took a good fifty years
to work out in the 1800s. (The list of people who were blown up or
poisoned while trying to do so is impressive).
- https://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1003.bobelian.html
In Pucketts case the actual chance of a false match is a
staggering one in three, according to the formula endorsed by the
FBIs DNA advisory board and the National Research Council, a body
created by Congress to advise the government and the public on
scientific issues. But the jury that decided Pucketts fate never
heard that figure. In fact, his lawyers were explicitly barred from
bringing it up.
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,679980-5,00.html
For several years now, Airbus has offered its customers a special
safety program - called "Buss" -- at a cost of 300,000 per aircraft.
If the airspeed indicator fails, this software shows pilots the angle
at which they must point the plane.
Up to now, Air France has chosen not to invest in this optional
extra for its fleet.
Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:35:23 -0500Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:54:46 -0500Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:33:16 -0400Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:47:44 -0400Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:07:50 -0400Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:58:52 -0400
- https://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mailing_listers/khr_MLM_51_h0di.htm
They are all labelled 'control'. They are, my friends, control
pants. Now, one thing alone is enough for me to know to know
instinctively, but absolutely about control pants. It is this: if I
gave Margret a pair of control pants as a present, she would lose
control. I might as well sign my own death warrant as sign the cheque
that bought Margret control pants. She'd think I was implying
something, and, next thing I knew, I'd be hanging upside down in the
freezer room of an abattoir with duct tape across my mouth watching
her tug on the starter cord of a chainsaw.
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/03/24/the_recycling_economy/index.html
Leading economic indicator: Someone poached our cardboard
recycling. Means rates are up, means China thinks we can buy more
tschotckes.
- https://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Matt/Women-have-feminism,-but-what-do-men-have.-Republicans-HEYOOOO.png
That's messed up.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI
Photo retouching moves forward a giant step.
- https://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=569163
Scientists have a term for the phenomenon of extra eggs in a nest:
a "supernormal clutch." But in the case of the albatross, they never
had a watertight explanation.
- https://www.france24.com/en/20100331-saudi-behead-lebanese-convicted-witchcraft-lawyer
Bewitched won't be showing on Saudi Nick-At-Night any time soon.
- https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100325-presidio-texas-battery/
Eight-hour, four-megawatt UPS.
- https://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/a-brief-yet-helpful-lesson-on-elementary-resource-locking-strategy/
Shed just acquired the lock, then left the resource unavailable
while she responded to a completely unrelated event.
- https://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100331/nibble-chocolate-healthy-heartstudy-id-10106072.html
Sure beats diet and exercise.
- https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/spiders-gallery/all/1
The Spider Awards: Wired.coms Arachnid Hall of Fame
Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:09:59 -0400
- https://pbh3.tumblr.com/post/491440339/dog-fml
FML.
- https://www.wimp.com/urbantag/
Urban tag.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/dining/20tweez.html
Every so often, a tool will leap across professional borders and
become standard in restaurant kitchens. The blowtorch, we now know,
caramelizes as well as it solders. Today, the woodworkers Microplane
rasp is far more likely to zest a lemon than shape a credenza.
- https://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-latest-threat-to-the-california-economy-legalizing-pot/19421390/
The prospect of legalization has some Humboldt County growers so
worried that an estimated 100 industry insiders met with community
leaders last week to discuss the possibility of a "post-pot" economy.
"The legalization of marijuana will be the single most devastating
event in the work force on the North Coast," organizer Anna Hamilton
reportedly said at the meeting. She estimates that the price of
outdoor marijuana could drop to as little as $500 a pound and result
in the loss of 15,000 to 30,000 jobs.
- https://www.shadyurl.com/
Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18745-japanese-gut-bacteria-gain-special-powers-from-sushi.html
Can X-Men be far behind?
- https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/
But there's an effect of special relativity which was observed,
if not understood, by the ancients: the yellow gleam of gold.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0
Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdnINaX9jM
I suspect his next video will be of a surgical broom-stick extraction.
- https://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/04/06/constance_mcmillen_fake_prom/index.html
God knows it's no great stretch to give teens and adults credit
for being ignorant douchebags, but seriously?
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XSAfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qacEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6862,5131613
It's been done before.
Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:13:32 -0400
- https://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_in_the_name_of_science3/
Moral confusion in the name of science.
- https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PG9h1CS1dfo/S8N0Q-pcLmI/AAAAAAAALyc/Wl9WufbH0hU/s400/imagesobjection_small.jpg
I wish to register an objection.
- https://www.google.com/governmentrequests/
And the winner is... Brazil (because of Orkut).
- https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001676.html
Adobe edges out Microsoft for the single most dangerous program you can run.
- https://nmvsite.com/terrorism-thats-personal
Terrorism thats personal.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hj5vOIrTEs
Reservoir Turtles.
- https://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/
The company noted that it would not be enforcing the ownership rights.
- https://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml
Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air
marshals than that story reported, quite a few for felony offenses. In
fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people
arrested by air marshals.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/the-ghost-of-bobby-lee/38813/
This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the
world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/04/yes-baseball-games-are-way-too-long/38934/
If pitchers are bad, though, batters are worse.
Mon, 3 May 2010 12:47:07 -0400
- https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/apollo-13-fate/
And if you ever correct someone on the presence of that helping
verb at a party, you join an elite club of pedants who love space and
grammar too much. Contact us immediately with a YouTube video of the
incident and well send you a pin, because its our club.
- https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0420101ferret1.html
Turns out placing a live ferret in an Express Mail box, affixing
$63.55 in postage, and mailing it to Puerto Rico is not actually
legal.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hpbOD5sCo
That one just never gets old.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8654337.stm
"I certainly don't understand why cinnamon is permitted, but
coriander is forbidden."
- https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-measure-20100502,0,1279704.story
- https://blog.skytruth.org/
The Exxon Valdez is now a few days in the rear-view mirror.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02liability.html
There's a possible liability limit of $75M.
- https://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_told_to_stop_circulating_se.html
That was fast.
- https://buybettermarriageblanket.com/
You owe it to your marriage.
- https://vator.tv/news/show/2010-04-28-bezos-dell-carey-want-health-insurance-dead
Bezos, Dell, Carey want health insurance dead
- https://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/04/27/courtney_love_returns/index.html
Courtney Love has the last laugh.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/alex-rodriguez-walks-on-m_n_549634.html
Breaking the rules.
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial/index.html
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial_2/index.html
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial_3/index.html
Susan Collins, the ranking Republican present on the committee,
followed up with an even more direct question: "Do you have a
responsibility to act in the best interest of your client?" Seems like
a simple enough question, but Sparks could not answer it either,
saying only, after much pressure: "I believe we have a duty to serve
our clients."
Sun, 9 May 2010 10:40:50 -0400Sun, 16 May 2010 09:23:11 -0400Fri, 21 May 2010 09:53:27 -0400Tue, 25 May 2010 08:50:32 -0400Mon, 31 May 2010 08:12:21 -0400
- https://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/24/24greenwire-website-offers-betting-on-spill-related-extinc-84733.html
Bluefin tuna is second on the bookies' list in the PaddyPower.com
pool, with a payout rate of 6-to-4.
- https://i.imgur.com/EXPm7.jpg
Everybody is famous for something.
- https://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/28/guantanamo/index.html
The worst of the worst.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/us/politics/29gitmo.html
The 48 Guantánamo Bay detainees whom the Obama administration has
decided to keep holding without trial include several for whom there
is no evidence of involvement in any specific terrorist plot,
according to a report disclosed Friday.
- https://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/05/proof-the-main-star-wars-characters-are-dumber-than-a-bag-of-hammers
Which bring us to Obi-Wan Kenobi: what a complete, unmitigated dumbass.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/28/tight-pants-ban-takes-eff_n_593796.html
Each woman was given a long skirt and her pants were confiscated.
- https://discovermagazine.com/2010/the-brain/04-stages-fear-attacked-mountain-lion-edition
In less than half a second, before her cortex even had time to
complete the match and recognize what she was seeing, her emotional
circuitry had already assessed the situation: It was bad.
- https://jezebel.com/5544903/the-10-worst-sex-stories-weve-ever-heard
Last week, we put out a call for the best (worst) bad sex stories.
And boy, did readers come through. In fact, the hundreds and hundreds
of submissions we received make us want to retire our genitals
forever.
- https://jezebel.com/5544642/your-worst-sex-stories-please
10 POINTS FOR GRYFFINDOR!!!
[Warning: Adult Content, Strong Sexual Content]
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7763578/Mobile-phone-number-suspended-after-three-users-die-in-10-years.html
"Outside network coverage."
- https://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0806/ref.shtml
All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and another twenty
years will see the extinction of zinc.
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100526/REVIEWS/100529983/1001
Zombies, as I have noted before (and before, and before) make
excellent movie creatures because they are smart enough to be
dangerous, slow enough to kill and dead enough that we need not feel
grief. Romero has not even begun to run out of ways to kill them.
[Warning: Mild Violence]
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100525/REVIEWS/100529986/1023
Carrie, honey, how can you endure life with this purring,
narcissistic, soft-velvet idiot?
Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:38:25 -0400Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:48:37 -0400
- https://ammolite.us/27ctlightningridgecollectoropal.aspx
Add to cart?
- https://www.gametheory.net/News/Items/019.html
To an economist, it's clear why people with limited sexual pasts
choose to supply too little sex in the present: Their services are
underpriced.
- https://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-10/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-hunted-by-pentagon-over-massive-leak/
Wed like to know where he is; wed like his cooperation in
this, one U.S. official said of Assange.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-of-men/8135/
With few exceptions, the greater the power of women, the greater
the countrys economic success.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/europe/10iht-sweden.html?bl
From trendy central Stockholm to this village in the rugged forest
south of the Arctic Circle, 85 percent of Swedish fathers take
parental leave. Those who dont face questions from family, friends
and colleagues.
- https://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf
We find that it is possible to bypass rudimentary network security
protections within the car, such as maliciously bridging between our
cars two internal subnets. We also present composite attacks that
leverage individual weaknesses, including an attack that embeds
malicious code in a cars telematics unit and that will completely
erase any evidence of its presence after a crash.
- https://blog-admin.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/DorkTower833.gif
The Internet makes everything more efficient.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD2HuByypmU
Either the best parents ever, or having to save "Mom" from "Dad"
is going to lead to years of therapy.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/science/08tier.html?pagewanted=all
Daring to discuss women in science.
- https://www.aolnews.com/world/article/saudi-clerics-advocate-adult-breast-feeding/19504280
Women in Saudi Arabia should give their breast milk to male
colleagues and acquaintances in order to avoid breaking strict Islamic
law forbidding mixing between the sexes, two powerful Saudi clerics
have said. They are at odds, however, over precisely how the milk
should be conveyed.
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:39:26 -0400Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:56:53 -0400Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:13:15 -0400Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:31:10 -0400Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:36:08 -0400
- https://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=13390
Several months ago, when we were all sitting on Jeff Bezoss
bumper drinking orange Mad Dog and trying not to be noticed, we heard
a voice in the distance yelling You kids better not scratch my
Mercedes or Im calling the cops! We ran. It was later that night
when Amazon came by the house and said they liked our style and also
wanted to get that money we owed them for messing up the chrome. We
like to think that our relationship with Amazon will continue at this
level for many, many, many years to come.
- https://wondermark.com/634/
Like math, but louder.
- https://www.apple.com/antenna/testing-lab.html
Very, very blue.
- https://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/07/15/skin_lightening/index.html
So when Vaseline came out with a Facebook application that allows
you to lighten the skin tone on photographs a few days ago, it
signaled the beginning of something new.
- https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20100707,0,1097810.column
Information also wants to be expensive.
- https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c8ad4aa802/wax-on-f-ck-off-with-ralph-macchio
To get back on top... he'll have to hit bottom.
- https://lifehacker.com/5093525/let-me-google-that-for-you-passive+aggressively-helps-your-friends
After all, give a man an answer, and he'll come back tomorrow
asking for more. Teach a man to search Google, and you'll have to
offer tech support when he ends up downloading malware while cruising
shadier purveyors of adult entertainment and file sharing software.
- https://thewondrous.com/humorous-egg-art-20-pics/
Eggsactly.
- https://www.familybiking.com.tw/lost_cat.html
Having worked with designers for a few years now, I would have
assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do
not welcome constructive criticism.
- https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119/
I call these things White Guy in a Tie events, a Canadian
friend of a friend named Jake told me during the recruitment pitch he
gave me in Beijing, where I live. Basically, you put on a suit, shake
some hands, and make some money. Well be in quality control, but
nobodys gonna be doing any quality control. You in?
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:42:22 -0400
- https://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/16/rube-goldberg-rat-ru.html
Dyson engineers rendered a helium balloon neutrally buoyant and
then fed it into a Mousetrap-style rat-run composed of Dyson bladeless
fans, through which it bumbled and slurped and bounced, drawn through
on invisible air currents. All it wants for total nerdvana is colored
smoke-streamers.
- https://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38358123/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-10712323
"I still like whales," Ms Werner told the BBC afterwards.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/22/want-to-waste-an-hour-or_n_654619.html
Besides serving as a time-waster, the game also has some
intellectual heft: after all, a user is forced to read various
Wikipedia pages and possibly learn something.
- https://i.imgur.com/UMAGp.jpg
He's got "pre-shake" face.
- https://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html
New York's Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees still
practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening.
- https://brickmag.com/current/excerpt1.html
The Lizard, the Catacombs, and the Clock: The Story of Pariss
Most Secret Underground Society
- https://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/03/15/michael-lewiss-the-big-short-read-the-harvard-thesis-instead/
Ah, the innocence of youth.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/nutrition/20best.html
It has to be real carbohydrates, though; the scientists used a
solution of water and a flavorless starch derivative called
maltodextrin. Artificial sweeteners have no effect.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17140265
"Bob, did you remember to bring Grandma's weed?"
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/18/poachers-kill-last-female-rhino
Record poaching this year.
Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:48:15 -0400Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:54:56 -0400Mon, 9 Aug 2010 20:48:06 -0400Sun, 15 Aug 2010 11:16:50 -0400
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html
Lets get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor
taxing less will help the country pay its bills.
- https://techcrunch.com/2010/08/10/gadget-porn/
Why you should carry the iPhone.
- https://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-adrenal-20100815,0,5576220.story
The cat is well and truly amongst the pigeons.
- https://lifehacker.com/5611547/top-10-ways-your-brain-is-sabotaging-you-and-how-to-beat-it
LifeHacker O' The Day
- https://www.woehr.de/en/projekte/budapest_m730/index.htm
Automatic car park.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/opinion/14collins.html
I know that a mothers advice is always the safest for a boy to
follow, Burn said, switching sides.
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/12/the-end-of-antibiotics-health-infections
Like oil, he points out, antibiotic usefulness is finite. And the
cost of drug resistance is not reflected in the price of the drug.
- https://badger.dinorodeo.com/2010/08/zombie/
As someone whos earned the zombie merit badge through diligent
reading and/or writing of zombie stories, you should already know the
most important thing there is to know: ZOMBIES MAKE ANY STORY BETTER.
Any story at all. It doesnt matter how classic or sacred or seemingly
ill-suited a book may beyou throw a zombie apocalypse in there and it
instantly gets at least 250% more awesome.
- https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/roundtable/greatest-of-all-time.php
The very best paid of thesein fact, the best paid athlete of all
timewas a Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who had
short stints with the Whites and Greens, before settling in for a long
career with the Reds.
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727733.500-fallible-dna-evidence-can-mean-prison-or-freedom.html
The findings suggest that the difference between prison and
freedom could often rest on the opinions of a single individual.
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:56:24 -0400Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:18:11 -0400Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:35:26 -0400
- https://i.imgur.com/J7wne.png
I feel your pain.
- https://www.theonion.com/articles/video,17950
TIME announces new magazine for adults.
- https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-mystery-of-the-tainted-cocaine/Content?oid=4683741
The mystery of the tainted cocaine.
- https://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8792000/8792008.stm
"Obviously a strongly elongated penis is the solution," says Dr Arkhipkin.
- https://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-08/23/c_13457295.htm
9-day traffic jam.
- https://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/24/robot-to-pair-socks.html
When our future robot overlords put us all on trial, this is the
video they're going to show the jury.
- https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/203951/big_brother_is_searching_you.html
Let's say a small town wanted to crack down on swimming pool
permit violations. If local police went house to house, telling people
they were going to look for swimming pools in everybody's backyards,
nobody would accept this because it would clearly violate the 4th
Amendment. However, if you do exactly the same thing using cameras in
space, it's somehow OK.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/marijuana-enforcement-massachusetts-towns-give-up_n_691752.html
"If they tell you their name is Yogi Berra or Ronald McDonald,
nothing allows for further positive identification," Sampson said.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/sports/18gehrig.html
Lou Gehrig might not have had Lou Gehrigs disease.
- https://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-23-2010/the-parent-company-trap
"If we want to cut off funding to the terror mosque, we must,
together as a nation, stop watching Fox."
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:15:19 -0400Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:50:14 -0400
- https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/phys-ed-the-men-who-stare-at-screens/
What was unexpected was that many of the men who sat long hours
and developed heart problems also exercised. Quite a few of them said
they did so regularly and led active lifestyles. The men worked out,
then sat in cars and in front of televisions for hours, and their risk
of heart disease soared, despite the exercise. Their workouts did not
counteract the ill effects of sitting.
- https://i.imgur.com/EhUUq.jpg
Worship. Teaching. Friends.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU
NSFW -- very, very, very, NSFW.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-jump-the-shark-20100903,0,6800871.story
It was when Fonzie jumped the shark.
- https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html?&pagewanted=all
Why is Russian water a she, and why does she become a he once you
have dipped a tea bag into her?
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/09/03/the_incomprehensible_hot_tub_explained/index.html
How many hours of human happiness have been sacrificed to bad
interface design?
- https://blog.frankchimero.com/post/1059696119/there-is-a-horse-in-the-apple-store
Cell phones and the ability to make a phone call to anyone from
anywhere is a tiny pony.
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,714936,00.html
Probably the only incorrupt people in Afghanistan are the Taliban.
If you want no corruption, give the government back to the Taliban.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMqM13EUSKw
Golf ball hitting steel.
- https://arbroath.blogspot.com/2010/09/student-who-electrocuted-his-nipples.html
Dubois parents say Kelley failed to warn the class about the
dangers of playing with the electrical cords.
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:39:31 -0400Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:08:41 -0400
- https://i.imgur.com/HJmjz.jpg
Oh, the irony.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXy42p3PKUs
Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam! Bam!
- https://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Leonardo+in+a+new+light/21415
Leonardo in a new light.
- https://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/09/22/walmarts_midnight_baby_formula_bread_line/index.html
Walmart's midnight baby formula bread line.
- https://9gag.com/gag/37786/
Stop Music Piracy!
- https://www.smh.com.au/world/we-know-best-doctors-tussle-with-miners-20100917-15g9b.html
In a show of strength, the miners have at times refused to listen
to the psychologists, insisting that they are well. "When that
happens, we have to say, 'OK, you don't want to speak with
psychologists? Perfect. That day you get no TV, there is no music -
because we administer these things,'" said Dr Diaz. "And if they want
magazines? Well, then they have to speak to us. This is a daily arm
wrestle."
- https://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercise-dieting-public-health
More and more research in both the UK and the US is emerging to
show that exercise has a negligible impact on weight loss.
- https://www.break.com/pictures/epic-win
Fatherhood done right.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc79iJnwvJ4
For real?
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://www.itnews.com.au/News/232831,us-hunters-shoot-down-google-fibre.aspx
"Every November when hunting season starts invariably we know that
the fibre will be shot down, so much so that we are now building an
underground path [for it]."
Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:28:07 -0400
- https://i.imgur.com/T7k0u.jpg
Good advertising means knowing your target audience.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/jimi-heselden-segway-boss_n_739983.html
Wow. That's gonna impact sales.
- https://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/09/09/side-view-of-the-moon/
- https://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/orth90east400m
Side view of the moon.
- https://early-onset-of-night.tumblr.com/post/1206666159/say-hello-to-mechanically-separated-chicken-its
Hello!
- https://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/78081/sorkin-zuckerberg-the-social-network
Sorkin vs. Zuckerberg
- https://www.highestfive.com/relationships/6-online-dating-sites-that-will-shrivel-your-junk/
[Warning: Adult Content]
Undecided about using this site, I turned as I always do to The
Little Jerry episode of Seinfeld for the answers. George makes a
very strong case for what Kramer describes as Caged Heat:
JERRY: You asked her out?
GEORGE: Well
not out. Shes in prison.
JERRY: How could you ask her out?
GEORGE: Why not?
JERRY: I remember when you wouldnt date that girl who lived in
Queens because you didnt want to go over the bridge!
GEORGE: That was different!
JERRY: Ill say.
GEORGE: Jerry, I like being with her. Plus, I know where she is
all the time. I have relatively no competition. And you know how you
live in fear of the pop-in?
JERRY (shudders): The pop-in.
GEORGE: Yeah, no pop-in, no in the neighborhood, no I saw your
light was on. And the best part is, if things go really well
JERRY: Conjugal visit?
GEORGE (giddy): Dont jinx it!
- https://www.home-barista.com/espresso-machines/how-to-make-your-own-naked-portafilter-t1437.html
A naked portafilter.
- https://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
The evangelists of social media dont understand this distinction;
they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real
friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley
today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch
counter in Greensboro in 1960. Social networks are particularly
effective at increasing motivation, Aaker and Smith write. But thats
not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participationby
lessening the level of motivation that participation requires.
- https://dashes.com/anil/2010/09/when-the-revolution-comes-they-wont-recognize-it.html
The problem with Gladwell's premise, though, is that it's wildly
anachronistic to think that the only way to effect social change is to
assemble a sign-wielding mob to inhabit a public space.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QxfOYhpjro
Termites at 19,000 feet.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqbky6E7V9E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuliaQ3A7ac
Star Trek commercials.
Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:22:18 -0400Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:45:56 -0400
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c
In the Flintstones' first season on ABC, the original sponsor was
Winston Cigarettes.
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Americas-True-History-of-Religious-Tolerance.html
The idea that the United States has always been a bastion of
religious freedom is reassuringand utterly at odds with the
historical record
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk3ibIGKTYA
May I quickly join you in your vehicle, sir?
- https://thesnuggiesutra.com/
100 positions! More than 85 never seen online!
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k26nt3Y4cmg
Performance by the St. Luke's Bottle Band.
- https://alittlewild.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/drama/
Lets just say this: millipedes may be like goats, as I compared
them to above, but theyre like goats that have the ability to emit
hydrogen cyanide.
- https://io9.com/5664390/5-times-we-almost-nuked-ourselves-by-accident
Fermi 1 actually sits in between Detroit and Toledo, but I guess
"We Almost Lost Toledo" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
- https://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/imagespiracy.jpg
Imagine your car gets stolen, but it's still there in the morning.
- https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/gay-sex-vs-straight-sex
We wanted to provide some data-based context on sexuality so that
people might make better choices about what they say, think, and do.
- https://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/magazine/78208/gop-global-warming-denial-insanity
On what is quite possibly the single biggest issue the planet has
faced, American conservatism has reached a near-unanimous position,
and that position is: pay no attention to all those scientists.
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:20:33 -0400Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:45:03 -0500Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:19:19 -0400Sun, 7 Nov 2010 09:45:03 -0500Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:07:32 -0500Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:56:47 -0500Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:31:09 -0500
- https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,729207,00.html
German anarchists are sticklers for tradition.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhc1hWXH5IM
Mr. Neville Shunte -- railroad playwright.
- https://juliamobrien.net/index.php/blog/trying-to-understand-a-ripped-jesus.html
I'll be back.
- https://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/
I do not mean to be insensitive, but I can't tell you how many
times I've been paid to write about somebody helping a loved one
battle cancer.
- https://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_essays/the_high_is_always_the_pain_and_the_pain_is_always_the_high.php
Once, in Las Vegas, I lost $9,000 in one poker hand to a fantastic
stripper wearing the same heart-shaped sunglasses that Sue Lyon wore
in KubricksLolita. I won it all back in the 83 seconds it took for a
long shot named Randini to cross the finish line at Emerald Downs.
What other story could I possibly tell?
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIdI8khMkw
Quarterback sneak.
- https://www.laboiteverte.fr/lavant-et-lapres-de-peintures-connues-expliques/
Before, and after, those well-known works of art.
- https://solarion.soup.io/post/88771106/Image
Sensible interactive design.
- https://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101123/REVIEWS/101129987/1001
The Nutcracker in 3D is one of those rare holiday movies that
may send children screaming under their seats.
- https://damnyouautocorrect.com/
Damn you, auto-correct.
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:27:11 -0500
- https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/11/kuwait-ban-photography-porn-websites-privatization-phone-mail-services-censorship-control.html
... three ministries issued a joint ban on photography cameras
with large lenses in public places.
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/expats-recalled-as-north-korea-prepares-for-war-2145018.html
Staffing up for war.
- https://www.starkravingmadmommy.com/2010/10/aspergers-high-video-and-interview-with.html
Aspergers High
- https://theweek.com/article/index/209778/life-in-cannabis-county
Ukiah, I realized, was weirder than I thought.
- https://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/11/29/101129crbo_books_packer
Grant never intended to write his memoirs, but in 1884, swindled
by his financial partner, broke, and with a death sentence of throat
cancer hanging over him, he set out to earn enough money to provide
for his future widow. He completed the work a year later, just days
before his death, and Julia Dent Grant lived out her life in comfort.
- https://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6258069,00.html
Google egged on.
- https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105651-Copyright-Lawyers-Sue-Lawyer-Who-Helped-Copyright-Defendants
Syfert's package of forms, which includes a motion to quash,
motion to dismiss, an affidavit in support of the motions and a motion
for protective order, now sells for $19.95, which is still a great
deal. Believe me, you can't get most lawyers to pick up their phone
for twenty bucks.
- https://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/10/28/groton-football-team-told-cant-play-because-no-cheerleaders/
... we are very inclusive, says Adam Lawfer.
- https://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stay_at_home_dad/?v=sahd_holiday_nuts
Stay At Home Dad: Holiday Nuts
[Warning: Adult Content, Adult Language]
- https://i.imgur.com/yKgmo.jpg
Or the next one is free.
Sun, 5 Dec 2010 18:39:21 -0500Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:08:33 -0500
- https://www.sugarbushsquirrel.com/
Sugar Bush loves to dress up, and has over 3,000 outfits with
matching hats and accessories.
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-sorkin/sarah-palin-killing-animals_b_793600.html
I eat meat, there are leather chairs in my office, Sarah Palin is
deranged and The Learning Channel should be ashamed of itself.
[Warning: Adult Language]
- https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/class-and-the-culture-war/
The well-educated and less-educated converge -- but not on abortion.
- https://cgi.ebay.com/Carvel-ICE-CREAM-4-a-LIFETIME-BLACK-CARD_W0QQitemZ130461892284QQcategoryZ172009QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=179694712846#ht_557wt_1141
Fudgie the Whale cakes UNTIL YOU DIE!
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/in-latest-compromise-with_b_793232.html
"They want to see us working together to improve their lives, and
Allah willing, we will."
- https://www.ndtv.com/article/wikileaks%20revelations/editorial-written-by-julian-assange-in-i-the-australian-i-71185
Julian Assange on WikiLeaks
- https://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/12/wikileaks-and-the-long-haul/
Clay Shirky: "Like a lot of people, I am conflicted about Wikileaks."
- https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm
The irony... it burns.
- https://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/06-9
Given what we now know, that Clinton speech reads like a satirical
masterpiece.
- https://www.harpers.org/media/image/blogs/misc/wanted.jpg
Assange wanted poster.
- https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004EEOLIU
Start reading WikiLeaks documents expose US foreign policy
conspiracies... on your Kindle in under a minute.
- https://i.imgur.com/KiBdA.png
Oh, the weather outside is frightful...
- https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2010/0211/Marital-affairs-what-happens-after-spouses-cheat
"Every study I know shows 85 percent of people or more saying that
nonmonogamy is wrong in every instance," Ms. Schwartz says. "But
people also feel that you should eat three nutritious meals a day low
in sugar and high in calcium."
- https://www.survivinginfidelity.com/
All are welcome here, even the betraying partner, provided they
are remorseful and committed to healing.
Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:26:00 -0500Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:37:03 -0500Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:34:29 -0500Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:54:28 -0500
- https://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/25/cambridge-university-1.html
Cambridge is the University of Erasmus, of Newton, and of Darwin.
- https://www.economist.com/node/17722650?story_id=17722650
Medieval warfare was just as terrifying as you might imagine.
- https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/12/10/Tired-of-BBQ-chips-Here-comes-haggis/UPI-15441292009889/
Finally!!
- https://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-brief/52784-3d-porn-channel-launches-in-france
When it comes to regular 3D movies, filmmakers always toss in a
scene in which they poke something toward the screen to emphasize the
3D effect.
[Warning: Adult Content]
- https://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/the_airline_scr.html
Airline Screening Playset
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/26/AR2010122601836.html
"The point of gift giving is to allow someone else to go through
that action of buying something for us. "
- https://reason.com/archives/2010/12/24/penny-reign
... and if the cowardly morality of society will not allow us to
kill the elderly for efficiencys sake, we can at least take away
their coins.
- https://deadspin.com/5716038/the-greatest-letter-ever-printed-on-nfl-team-letterhead
The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead
- https://www.executiveroadwarrior.com/2010/12/dinner-for-one-review/
Every New Years Eve, most of Central Europe partakes in a
tradition that has achieved cult-like status, namely watching Dinner
for One, an 18-minute television program also know as Der 90.
Geburtstag (The 90th Birthday).
- https://reason.com/archives/2010/12/27/the-death-penalty-on-the-wane
Even the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog, which this year offers a
charm bracelet for $248,000, has nothing to compare. Maryland has
spent $186 million on capital cases over the past 30 yearswhich comes
to $37 million per execution.
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