May 2010
398 posts
“How do they do it? Experts have offered a number of theories over the years....”
– Why Cats Purr: History and Meaning of Purring (via amandaw)
Mobile Phone in Microwave
Check out this video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5Zs0a0TOy4&feature=youtube_gdata
This video is heart-wrenching →
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Congressman Charlie Melancon from Louisiana is talking about the affects of the oil spill in Louisiana. He breaks down around the 2 minute mark. It’s because he knows his home, “everything [he] know[s] and love[s]” will never, EVER be the same. And there’s nothing he can do about it, and the people who can don’t seem to really be trying that hard.
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Robot Heart: Sex, Religion, and Politics: The same... →
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Health insurance reform turns every state into New York…and then some. It also mandates that insurance companies provide preventive services free of charge.
New York is one of only a handful of states with these laws. Therefore, after insurance reform goes into effect, all…
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(201): Our adventure is going to pick up his pipe and weed that he ditched when he got pulled over the other day.
(1-201): HOT DATE.
Google Releases Top 1,000 Sites →
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Google has released the 1,000 most-visited sites on the web (they went ahead and left themselves off the list as they’d easily be number one). Coming in at number one…that’s right, you guessed it: Facebook. Number two? Yahoo.
I’d recommend reading at least some of the list, there’s some pretty cool stuff on there and it’s interesting to see where your favorites fall.
Yahoo,...
Stay classy, Glenn beck.
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robot-heart-politics:
BECK: (imitating Malia) Daddy? Daddy? Daddy, did you plug the hole yet? Daddy? PAT GRAY (co-host): (imitating Obama) No I didn’t, honey. BECK: (imitating Malia) Daddy, I know you’re better than [unintelligible] GRAY: (imitating Obama) Mm-hmm, big country. BECK: (imitating Malia) And I was wondering if you’ve plugged that hole yet. ...
“A little-known, but enormously significant, demographic development has been...”
– “Arian Campo-Flores on why the “illegal immigration” issue might not be an issue for much longer” (via newsweek) I thought the issue w/ immigration were the collateral consequences of US law that criminalizes people, not fertility rates that could or could not determine how many people cross borders...
“It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via psychotherapy)
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“…I felt that scientists really represent humanity. Nothing to do with race,...”
– His Holiness the Dalai Lama (via mettalovingkindness:lifeintrees) (via constantflux) (via dougstumblr) (via abcsoupdot)
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Iran: Laughing banned at Shiraz University →
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kissdistinctlyamerican:
areza:
According to the disciplinary regulations at the University of Shiraz, laughing, talking and joking aloud on the university campus are prohibited.
It is the first time that such regulations have been put in place at university level in the country. This regulation entails seven chapters and 23 sections and has already been distributed...
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gives ME hope
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givesmehope:
I saw an old Catholic priest being helped up the church steps by a young man. At the top he turned to the young man and said “God bless you.” The young man smiled nervously and said “I’m Muslim.” The priest smiled back and said “Allah bless you then.” Their religious tolerance GMH.
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“The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude....”
– Nikola Tesla (via azspot)
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Before "Top-Kill," the Junk Shot! →
Also Friday, engineers in the Gulf tried the “junk shot” method in an attempt to stop the massive oil leak in the Gulf, Hayward said.
The procedure involved shooting debris such as shredded rubber tires, golf balls and similar objects into the blowout preventer in an attempt to clog it and stop the leak. The goal of the junk shot is to force-feed the preventer, the device that...
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Breathing Soil Bacteria Can Make You Smarter →
Spending time outdoors has always offered health benefits for the body and the mind: fresh air, clean water, awe-inspiring vistas, peaceful quietude. Now, it turns out, even the dirt is good for you.
Scientists at the Sage Colleges of Troy, N.Y., have discovered that exposure to certain kinds of soil bacteria can reduce anxiety and increase learning capabilities when ingested or inhaled, reports...
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Bottled water has high level of bacteria,... →
abcsoupdot:
From the Globe & Mail:
Canadian researchers from C-crest Laboratories Inc., a pharmaceutical product-testing lab in Montreal, tested nearly a dozen brands of bottled water and discovered that 70 per cent had high levels of heterotrophic bacteria. The findings were presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego.
“This amount of...
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20 killed in Pakistan mosque attack →
abcsoupdot:
From The Press Association:
At least 20 people have been killed in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore as gunmen armed with grenades attacked two mosques of a minority sect during prayers.
Some worshippers are believed to have been held hostage while gunmen battled with police after seizing control of one mosque, officials and witnesses said.
The attacks by suspected Islamist...
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Gary Coleman in critical condition, Utah hospital... →
Actor Gary Coleman is in critical condition in a Provo, Utah, hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said Thursday.
Janet Frank, the spokeswoman for Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, confirmed that Coleman, 42, was being treated there after being admitted on Wednesday.
Frank would not release any other information.
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The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People →
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
-Rollo May
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New Look!
Decided to change the theme/design of the page. That is all.
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How the CIA got the World to Buy American →
Unfortunately for the local Chilean economy, the United States didn’t reciprocate by taking Chile-produced goods—the authors find no effect on exports to the United States from Chile or other CIA-targeted economies. Nor is it the case that imports were growing simply because U.S.-style capitalism was good for economic development overall: CIA operations don’t affect total imports,...
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New oil flow estimate: Gulf nation's worst spill →
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notthatkindagay:
New oil flow estimates by scientists studying the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico would make leak the worst in the nation’s history, far bigger than 11 million gallons that spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster. U.S. Geological Survey Director Dr. Marcia McNutt says the results are preliminary, but two teams using different methods determined the well that exploded...
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Tea Party Throws its (Tin Foil) Hat Into the Ring →
technipol:
Bahahahaha!!
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$123 Million Art Heist Goes Down in Paris →
Last week’s $123 million heist of cubist and post-impressionist works at the Paris Museum of Modern Art continues a rash of painting pilferage in Europe over the past decade, with sensational headlines vaulting across the Atlantic. Van Goghs vanish in Amsterdam in 2002! “The Scream” swiped in Oslo in ‘04! Picassos purloined in Paris in ‘07 and ‘09!
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Sarah Palin's Found Poetry →
“Energy Destiny”
Great destiny, our destiny! To be reached by—responsibly! Developing our natural resources, this land, Blessed with clean air, water, wildlife, minerals, and: Oil and gas! It’s energy!
GOD GAVE US ENERGY!
—Resignation speech as governor of Alaska, July 3, 2009
All real quotes supplied by Palin herself, broken down into stanzas. Poetry is the only instance...
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3 Schizoid Jesuses, 1 Room - What Happens? →
In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for two years in Ypsilanti State Hospital to see if their beliefs would change. The early meetings were stormy. “You oughta worship me, I’ll tell you that!” one of the Christs yelled....
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