February 2011
Example #2,439,329 Of Why Watching Fox News Makes... →
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Credit: Brent Martin
No wonder Fox News viewers are the least well-informed consumers of news in the country. Fox News doesn’t even know where Egypt is on a map.
Seriously,…
January 2011
Michael Lewis: 'Liar's Poker was a comedy.... →
The crash happened because of a dramatic failure of free markets and capitalism in general. To top it all, the banks were saved by the taxpayer. In other words, banks benefit from socialism, while…
Brrrat! by Steve Aoki and Armand Van Helden... →
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Brrrat! by Steve Aoki and Armand Van Helden
Directed by Ace Norton
YouTube - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Down At The... →
List of colors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Shades of violet
Amethyst
Byzantium
Cerise
Eggplant
Fandango
Fuchsia
Han purple
Heliotrope
Indigo
Iris
Operating Heavy Machinery FAIL →
LoL by: Unknown
Nestrest →
You may consider your hammock a warm weather fortress of solitude, but is it your only option? We think not. Designed by Daniel Pouzet and Fred Frety with a hive/nest-like structure, the
Time: Anonymous Author of 'O' Is Mark Salter →
This month, DC bloggers have been obsessing over “O,” the anonymously-written novel about Obama’s 2012 campaign. Though it was poorly received by critics, the challenge of identifying the author…
Another GOP and embedded media lie: the government... →
LA Progressive - Nearly two years ago on CNN, former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said, “Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created jobs.” And then,…
what makes US rhetoric so different, so... →
Violent Media Rhetoric: Beyond Tucson
When some calls for violence are acceptable Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Jan 14 2011
The discussion of violent and paranoid rhetoric in the media is…
Paris Review – My Rayannes, Emma Straub →
My first high-school Rayanne, from whom I learned to inhale, wasn’t a virgin, and when she was drunk, her Southern accent got stronger. When she was bleaching my hair in her bathtub, we laughed so…
Jessabelle2o7: When I see a ruthless gang member... →
Jessabelle2o7: When I see a ruthless gang member confidently order obscure Indian cuisine, it makes me feel like everything’s going to be alright, ya know?
The IPv4 Depletion site » Report →
IANA pool depletion date:
2011-01-23
Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise →
EqualSlash writes “High-power laser pointers available for cheap are increasingly finding abuse as the ultimate long-distance weapons of pranksters and vandals. The Federal Aviation Administration…
Matt Taibbi: The Crying Shame of John Boehner |... →
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Boehner, in short, has for most of his career been a Bush Republican, i.e., a corporate schmoozer and a remorseless spender of taxpayer money for whom the notion of…
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Artist Damien Hirst offends bereaved parents by... →
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Damien Hirst’s baby’s skull studded with 8,000 diamonds.
Facebook hype will fade - CNN.com →
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[dontmiss]
This week’s news that Goldman Sachs has chosen to invest in Facebook while entreating others to do the same should inspire about as much confidence as their…
Feeding the Birds by Susan Rothbard →
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I wanted them to come. Wanted cardinals,
jays, a goldfinch— that yellow most of all.
I bought binoculars, Birds of New Jersey,
learned to recognize the…
Rainbow family member | Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
FREE OED. →
For a month, anyway. They’re having a free trial of OED Online through February 5; login with “trynewoed”/”trynewoed.” Hat tip to Ben Zimmer.
womenreading: fuckyeahchristinaricci: ... →
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womenreading:
fuckyeahchristinaricci:
suicideblonde:
Christina Ricci by Matt Jones
Reader Tip: Clean the Dishwasher with Kool-Aid →
Filed under: Kitchen & Bath, Small Projects, Essential Skills, Know-How
For the secret to sparkling dishes, look to your kids’ favorite drink mix. Kool-Aid miraculously banishes lime…
The Change of Hope →
As the country falls apart, millionaire President Obama goes golfing in Hawaii.
APOD: 2011 January 5 - Eclipsing the Sun →
Eclipsing the Sun Image Credit &
Copyright: Thierry Legault
Explanation: Skywatchers
throughout much of Europe, North Africa, and Central Asia,
were treated to the first…
Summary Box: Wheat surges on weather concerns:... →
Summary Box: Wheat surges on weather concerns: “Wheat prices surged as flooding in Australia and dry, cold weather in the U.S. and China caused concerns about the global supply. Wheat is coming…
research!rsc: The MOS 6502 and the Best Layout Guy... →
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Implausibly, the engineers detected no errors in [Bill] Mensch’s layout. “He built seven different chips without ever having an error,” says Peddle
with…
The future of Microsoft →
A lot of people seemed worried about Microsoft’s future, given less people are buying computers running the Windows OS and their Microsoft Office cash cow could be threatened by free alternatives…
Life isnt divided into genres:it’s a horrifying romantic tragicomical scifi cowboy detective novel w/a bit of porn if you’re lucky-AlanMoore
Fifty years ago, Caltech pulled off a prank for... →
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Hardy, after learning that the Washington band and cheerleaders were staying in dormitories at Long Beach State, showed up posing as a reporter for the Dorsey…
If you want people to read your web text, you shouldn’t surround it with distractions