July 2010
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Dark Secrets of Death in China's Mine Shafts →
givemesomethingtoread:
Illegal coal mines near Beijing used to provide the perfect cover for murder-extortion plots, before the truth came to light.
I still can’t believe people like this exist. I just can’t imagine murdering someone for money, who cares! IT’S JUST MONEY.
nvestigators then extended their probe to Chengde, the hometown of Huang, each of his...
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“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for...”
– Charles Bukowski (via pseudolibrarian)
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Your Entire Life Recorded – Lifelogging Goes... →
azspot:
Lifelogging – recording every single minute of your life – is quickly moving from science fiction fantasy to real life phenomenon. Of course to truly document every minute of your life today is still a daunting task. Although some people are already doing it, full lifelogging is time consuming, expensive, and limited in quality. But logging every single minute of your life is not the...
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“Paradoxically, the real test of fiscal leadership for Clinton and his successors...”
– Balancing Act: Not So Fast — Here Comes the Budget Crunch By PETER PASSELL, NYT, 1998
If you really want to feel lightheaded, read “journalism” from 1998. I came across this while investigating the failure of the ‘90’s economic boom to prompt fiscal discipline.
(via unsolicitedanalysis)
It only...
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Scenes from the Violent Twilight Oil →
givemesomethingtoread:
It succors and drowns human life. And for the last eight years, oil — and the people and places that make it — was my obsession.
So-called digital drugs – or "i-dosing" – combine... →
adailyriot:
thesmithian:
“iDosing”? huh? that isn’t just, music? not that i’m trying to be an enabler, but here’s an example. and another.
headphones, apparently, are a must.
MUST TRY.
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How Do You Buy Life Insurance for an Astronaut?... →
NASA came up with a pretty ingenious (but in no way guaranteed to work) plan to pay astronaut’s families in the event of their untimely death. The astronauts were too high-risk to join traditional pools, so they signed memoribilia.
But without a traditional life insurance policy, how could that be possible? The answer was provided by NASA in the form of ‘Insurance Covers’, as...
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National Security Inc. - Privatizing Safety →
givemesomethingtoread:
To ensure that the country’s most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation’s interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called “inherently government functions.” But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
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An open letter to all the stoopid people in the...
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
thoseareturkeys:
nailtipflips:
YOU. CANNOT. TURN. A. PDF. FILE. INTO. AN. EDITABLE. WORD. DOCUMENT. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
YES I AM FUCKING SURE. NO I WILL NOT TRY IT JUST TO BE SAFE.
You go from word/pp/excel TO pdf, not the other way around you fucking moron.
There’s a long pain-in-the-ass way to copy and paste the material into a word document…but I don’t...
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“Unfortunately, even Americans accept the concept of “the opposite sex,” which is...”
– Sexual Intelligence (via atrapforfools) (via ihatethismess) (via landlockedbloos) (via fight-war-not-wars) (via krona) (via adailyriot)
More than sex, it would improve communication, empathy and understanding among partners as well. Somewhat of an obvious observation, but important to realize...
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“There’s a simple and elegant test of whether there is skill in an activity: ask...”
– Michael Mauboussin (via azspot)
Official Google Blog: Ooh! Ahh! Google Images... →
Here’s what’s new in this refreshed design of Google Images: Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what you’re really looking for.
Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And we’ll show small,...
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I'm baaaaack.
A few days and 10 million middle-management buzzwords later, I have returned! Ready to synergize our backward outflow of critical information resources to expand and diversify our pool of available candidates. :vomit:
Although, I feel like after working here for almost 10 months I am beginning to drink the Kool-Aid via osmosis. I don’t want to, but it’s all around me…
Armour for Cats and Mice Created by Jeff de Boer →
BBC News - Rare mushroom blamed for mystery deaths... →
For 30 years, during the rainy season, scores of villagers in Yunnan province have died suddenly of cardiac arrest.
Following a five-year investigation, researchers from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Beijing say they have the culprit.
The mushroom, know as Little White, belongs to the Trogia genus and has three toxic amino acids, experts say.
Researchers found...
2010 Hottest Year On Record (So Far) |... →
Departing for a Short Period, Worry Not
Followers - I will be out of town for the next couple of days for a real-life job related trip (weeeeeeeee) so don’t think I’m dead, I’m not dead. I’m scrabbling by in a mortally wounded economy.
