June 2010
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25-Year-Old Spends $4000 and 1 Month Building... →
Anthony Le, 25, has been a fan of Iron Man since he was a kid, but when he heard that the comic-book superhero was hitting the big screen in 2008, he was inspired to build his own Iron Man suit. That version was more of a costume, but his new one, finished just in time for the movie’s sequel, edges much closer to the real thing. With its dent-proof exterior, motorized faceplate and spinning...
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Profiles of "Open Carry" Gun Law Advocates. →
Jerry Jeung A number of advocates of the law have taken to meeting and organizing themselves, to let other gun owners know of their rights. “We want to normalize carrying of guns,” says Jeung, seen above with his son Jarrett. “like carrying a cell phone or a pager.”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2000412_2158677,00.html#ixzz0sLu9JZzp
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Unsolicited Analysis: RE: Political Argument Bingo... →
I’m reminded most of those 40’s-era propaganda posters when I see them.
The concept is that you’re playing a game against people that don’t share your viewpoint with others that do. Rather than engaging an argument on the card, you pre-suppose it’s debunked and simply deposit a chit on the…
Agreed - the same dogmatism that people decry within the ranks of the “Tea Party”...
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White Liberal Bingo →
unsolicitedanalysis:
xjustsmokemycigaretteandhush:
(via ihatethismess)
You forgot the bingo square for white people who cast lazy aspersions on other white people to confer artificial superiority to themselves.
Right on UA.
I understand what the person who made the board was trying to do, I just don’t think I give a fuck about calling out white people who are trying not to be...
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Crimes of Passion.
Sometimes love makes us do the most awful of things. A woman walks into her home and is genuinely surprised to find her husband having sex with another woman. Without thinking, only able to see red, she reaches into the nightstand and withdraws her husband’s revolver. She shoots and kills them both. The entire incident is over within a minute.
A Crime of Passion is essentially a plea of...
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Big Oil. Big Banks. Big Phone. Big Cable. Same... →
ryking:
(Link opens PDF)
This is the beginning of a full-page add created by media watchdog “Free Press” that ran in the Washington Post recently. The ad shreds the FCC.
If I was Bill-Gates-Rich I’d run one of these everyday and buy commercial spots as well. Not with the intention of affecting change, but just to annoy people with how rich and awesome I am.
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starsandboulevards asked: I think that minimum wage resume is a really good idea--I'll have to try that soon. Thanks for the advice, Jake. I really appreciate it.
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“As the process of globalization draws us ever closer in networks of...”
– What Derrida Really Meant (via azspot)
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“With Mr. Byrd’s death, Senator Daniel Inouye, Democrat of Hawaii, was sworn in...”
– NYT
Hawaii is so hot right now.
(via southpol)
Inouye is literally the hardest motherfucker alive. Here is why he earned a Medal of Honor for service in World War II:
On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near Terenzo called Colle...
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STARS & BOULEVARDS: faykejayke replied to your... →
faykejayke replied to your post: Jobs
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My problem so far seems to be that even the low-paying jobs aren’t calling me back. The receptionist positions seem uninterested so far, so, I’m really at a loss. Now, I’ve only given the state agencies a week, and they may not be able…
Have you created a “minimum wage” resume? This sounds weird, but leaving off your degree will...
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Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure →
givemesomethingtoread:
Brin, of course, is no ordinary 36-year-old. As half of the duo that founded Google, he’s worth about $15 billion. That bounty provides additional leverage: Since learning that he carries a LRRK2 mutation, Brin has contributed some $50 million to Parkinson’s research, enough, he figures, to “really move the needle.”
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“What banks and governments have been doing for the past eighteen months is a...”
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot) (via unsolicitedanalysis)
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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Skinny and Healthy Are Not Synonymous - Some... →
waifsworld:
#5.Being Fat Might Help You Live Longer
When we say that some fat can help you live longer, we’re not talking about being obese here. Obesity is still worse for your health than trying to ride a bear that is riding shark. But…
In a rather morbid study, Canadian researchers observed…
There’s lots and lots of research supporting this notion. For instance, heavy women are much...
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Skinny and Healthy Are Not Synonymous - Some... →
waifsworld:
#5.Being Fat Might Help You Live Longer
When we say that some fat can help you live longer, we’re not talking about being obese here. Obesity is still worse for your health than trying to ride a bear that is riding shark. But…
In a rather morbid study, Canadian researchers observed…
There’s lots and lots of research supporting this notion. For instance, heavy women are much...
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The sting of poverty →
azspot:
But, according to Karelis, that argument is exactly backward. Reducing the number of economic hardships that the poor have to deal with actually make them more, not less, likely to work, just as repairing most of the dents on a car makes the owner more likely to fix the last couple on his own. Simply giving the poor money with no strings attached, rather than using it, as federal and...
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“Let us sin then, and sin to infinity.”
– Michel Foucault (via zenlikeme) (via thesociologist)
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Google Chrome Moves Into Third, Past Safarie →
technipol:
Ever since the release of Google’s Chrome browser on 2nd September 2008 in beta form, the Internet has watched as its popularity has grown and grown.
This weeks statistics from web analytics company StatCounter now indicate that Chrome has taken third place from Safari in the US browser league. Obtaining a 8.97% share of the US browser market.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still...
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The Right-Wing Activist SCOTUS Strikes Again
ryking:
No surprise here:
The Supreme Court struck down Chicago’s ban on hand guns Thursday and extended the reach of the 2nd Amendment as a nationwide protection against laws that infringe the “right to keep and bear arms.”
The 5-4 decision voids the 1982 ordinance, one of the nation’s strictest, which barred city residents from having handguns for their own use, even at home.
The ruling...
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Doctors call for NHS Ban on Homeopathic Medicine →
Hundreds of delegates to the British Medical Association’s conference are expected to support seven motions all opposed to the use of public money to pay for remedies which they claim are, at best, scientifically unproven and, at worst, ineffective.
Critics of the 200-year-old practice also want junior doctors to be exempt from working at homoeopathic hospitals because it goes against the...
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Myths from the Right about the Disaster in the... →
azspot:
The idea that environmental regulations forced the industry into deepwater, as proclaimed by Sarah Palin and echoed by pundits, is a whopper. The offshore industry set its sights on drilling in one thousand feet of water before significant federal environmental laws and regulations existed (many of these were implemented by that radical leftist, Richard Nixon). The closure of the...
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“The upside of self-publishing is that you can write whatever you wish, utter...”
– Garrison Keillor (via azspot)
Disagree with the sentiment and sentimentality expressed by Keillor here. I get it, but I think it’s simply a case of romanticizing the past, something we’re all guilty of. Keillor just takes a different tack in expressing the age-old “kids these days...
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Even CLEAR Water Proven to be Tainted with Oil -... →
What you can’t see in the water may be more dangerous than what you can see, he said.
“That’s why we thought we had to start looking for dissolved oil,” he said.
It can’t been seen and it poses health risks. So far it’s not been found in the surf zone on the beach. But water samples taken Thursday in the surf zone, where most people swim, at Casino...
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Just. Fucking. Wonderful.
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
My iPad won’t charge, plugged into a computer OR the wall outlet.
Bahaha! I’m sorry, but this counts as one of those moments of schadenfreude in which I feel unjustly vindicated for not being an early adopter.
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Coolest Nature Photography Picture Ever →
Awesome photo which I can’t blog as a photo from my iPod, so here’s a link to it instead.
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Man Has Heart-Attack After Receiving Prank Receipt... →
AN elderly Indian man was so shocked to receive a bogus receipt for his own cremation service that he suffered a heart attack and died, The Times of India reported overnight.
Frail Than Singh, 70, was left aghast after reading that he had supposedly been cremated the week before.
But before the anxious dairy farmer could get to the bottom of what had happened he started complaining of chest...
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Remember that Guy Who Tried to Sell His Baby... →
Well, he got his ass beat in prison. I guess it’s not just pedophilia that prison culture hates, but any crime against children really.
JAIL officials say a father accused of trying to sell his baby for $US25 ($29) outside a Walmart is recovering after other jail inmates beat him.
Thirty-eight-year-old Patrick Fousek and 20-year-old Samantha Tomasini pleaded not guilty to child...
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A Guide to the Internet, From 2025 →
It’s Easier Than It Seems
With so much information that seems to be necessary to take your first online steps, we don’t want you to be frightened to enter the internet. The web is a relaxing, streamlined and harmonious experience. Decades ago, when the web was invented, it was a place of free roaming chaos. Differing viewpoints, an abundance of copyright infringements, non-localized content,...
Obama, Latinos, and the politics of the Arizona... →
etherbeast:
“Remember that in 2008, Obama won precisely the same share of the white vote that Sen. John Kerry won in 2004. There was a shift among whites, as the Obama won more young whites and lost more older ones, but the white vote ratios as a whole remained constant. His entire margin of victory was based on two factors:
a) The African-American vote rose from 11 percent of the total in...
