March 2009
19 posts
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David Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
Mar 29th
Impresoras a-hoy!
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Identify+the+document+you+want+to+print+by+using+either+option+shown+below,+then+select+the+Apply+button%22&num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=fEa&filter=0 Unsecured printers. Wonder how long it’ll be for this to become a relic.
Mar 29th
The most powerful elite will meet in Athens
The Bilderberg club is famous for gathering the most powerful people in the world at least once per year.  There, they can talk behind closed doors. This year, the club will organize its meeting in Athens between 14th and 16th of May, says Elefterios Tipos newspaper. In the list of invited guests are the Queen of Netherlands Beatrix, the Spanish Queen Sophia, and diplomats from the rank of the US...
Mar 28th
Aboot Canada
[25Mar09 19:10:35][michael.] Oh look another person not from canada… hahaha [25Mar09 19:10:35][Yukon 867] well , later , goin to get baked , then going to the store for smokes [25Mar09 19:10:47][mario0318] yea im looking for faggot Shayne [25Mar09 19:10:57][Yukon 867] faggot shanye ? [25Mar09 19:10:58][Yukon 867] lol [25Mar09 19:11:03][michael.] lmao...
Mar 25th
Japan Confirms First Double A-Bomb Survivor
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was already recognised as having survived the Nagasaki bombing, on August 9, 1945. And now he has been confirmed as a surivor of the attack on Hiroshima three days earlier. The “hibakusha”, or radiation survivor, was three kilometres from ground zero in Hiroshima on a business trip when the bomb hit. He was seriously burnt on the left-side of his upper body and...
Mar 25th
Dissecting yet another scam
Quote of the Day: “Big Government isn’t the savior. It’s the devil, wearing a chicken suit.” — Jim Babka (Source: Positive Liberty blog, March 21, 2009) Subject: Dissecting yet another scam President Obama unveiled the latest government plan for buying up “toxic” assets on Monday, and the stock market soared by nearly 500 points. It’s not hard to see why....
Mar 25th
Can we use the 80-20 rule
Quote of the Day: “The legal tender quality is only valuable for the purposes of dishonesty.” — Justice Salmon Chase Chief Justice, formerly Secretary of Treasury in President Lincoln’s administration Source: in dissent of Knox vs. Lee (The Legal Tender Cases, 1871) Subject: Can we please make use of the 80-20 rule? Yesterday I criticized the misdirected public rage about the...
Mar 24th
Everyone is wrong about the AIG bonuses
Quote of the Day: “There are a thousand striking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” — Henry David Thoreau Subject: Everyone is wrong about the AIG bonuses Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut inserted language into the scam-stimulus bill permitting the AIG bonuses that everyone is now bloviating about. He did so at the request of the...
Mar 23rd
DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4218218.html This was the only comment that struck me reading this article. 26. RE: DARPA’s Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic While in Vietnam my buddy lost his left arm without much stub left to put a prosthetic on so I have trying to build him an arm that is attached to a chair so he can fish with me. Is there anything...
Mar 23rd
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Mar 23rd
Major Decline Found In Some Bird Groups
By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 20, 2009; Page A02 Several major bird populations have plummeted over the past four decades across the United States as development transformed the nation’s landscape, according to a comprehensive survey released yesterday by the Interior Department and outside experts, but conservation efforts have staved off potential...
Mar 23rd
Researchers find ways to sniff keystrokes from...
IDG News Service That PC keyboard you’re using may be giving away your passwords. Researchers say they’ve discovered new ways to read what you’re typing by aiming special wireless or laser equipment at the keyboard or by simply plugging into a nearby electrical socket. Two separate research teams, from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and security consultancy Inverse...
Mar 21st
The Maggots in Your Mushrooms
The Georgia peanut company at the center of one of our nation’s worst food-contamination scares has officially reached a revolting new low: a recent inspection by the Food and Drug Administration discovered that the salmonella-tainted plant was also home to mold and roaches. You may be grossed out, but insects and mold in our food are not new. The F.D.A. actually condones a certain percentage of...
Mar 14th
Mar 9th
ListenLewis Black / Headlines Are Punchlines
Mar 7th
"Who Watches The Watchmen? Fucking Lobotomy...
Gonzo: Don’t fucking see the Watchmen mario0318: hmm Gonzo: Yeah just don;t Gonzo: It isn’t even that it strays from the comic, which it doesn’t do much of, actually Gonzo: It’s that it’s a shitty movie Gonzo: And should be forgotten Gonzo: I actually feel worse after seeing it mario0318: lol mario0318: damn mario0318: what was so abd about it Gonzo: I mean, yeah, the...
Mar 6th
Do you smell a rat?
Quote of the Day: “One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation” — Thomas Bracket Reed Subject: Smelling a rat We’ve argued that the stimulus bill was a money-wasting scam. But even the Title 15 provision designed to prevent waste turns out to be … another scam. This provision creates two new...
Mar 4th
Florida woman calls 911 3 times over McNuggets
FORT PIERCE, Fla. – Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald’s employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets. According to a police report, 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa L. Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece last week but was later informed the restaurant had run out. She says employees refused to give her a...
Mar 3rd
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“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how.’”
Mar 1st