My penis would break off! (2)
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I’m sure it’s a feature. (1)
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Diebold, which at some point renamed themselves Premier Election Solutions, has admitted that voting machines used in 34 states contained a software bug that caused the machines to drop votes: The GEMS system is supposed to save information from one card at a time to be counted in order as the cards are read by a database that Riggall described as the “mother ship.” But a logic error in the program can cause incoming votes ...
A fundamental character. (3)
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Obama’s introduction of Biden: Joe Biden is what so many others pretend to be - a statesman with sound judgment who doesn’t have to hide behind bluster to keep America strong.
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vasta said:
I've been gunning for a Obama-Biden ticket ever since Edwards messed up large with the affair. Nice.
Oh, happy day. (2)
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Obama has picked Senator Joe Biden for Vice-President. If you’d like to know more about Biden, I’d recommend you read GQ’s profile of Biden from last year: “I believe the only really distinguishing feature I bring to this dance,” he says, “is my reputation for being stand-up, straight, say it what it is. The moment I divert from that, I’m done. I’m done. So I don’t think I can win by being more liberal. I’m ...
It was yellow, I swear. (9)
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Ridelust tears red light cameras apart: “The rigorous studies clearly show red-light cameras don’t work,” said lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at the USF College of Public Health. “Instead, they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections.” In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with ...
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vasta said:
I've been saying this for years. Red light cameras don't penalize light jumpers, but instead just pad the coffers of the city.
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James said:
This is why people become anarchists.
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Eugene said:
News flash: for many municipalities, traffic infractions provide a desperately-needed revenue stream.
Well, maybe I don’t. (2)
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I Want You to Want Me was an interactive visualization of online romance: (It) chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an ...
Gone Persian. (4)
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Marguerite Del Giudice went searching for the soul of Iran: “When I go abroad, people get surprised when they realize that 65 percent of the college students here are girls. Or when they see Iranian paintings and Iranian architecture, they are shocked. They are judging a civilization just by what they have heard in the last 30 years”. Iran has remained a weird obsession of mine for the last few years. I devoured the article, ...
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I've been trying to tell people about the wonders of Iran, including their extremely high instance of women in the workplace and in senior creative jobs, but you often have to see it for yourself to believe it.
Just use jQuery. (4)
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A slick tool from the MooTools team to compare the speed and accuracy of DOM selectors in the various JavaScript frameworks. Running the tests on my MacBook in Safari showed my beloved jQuery to be the fastest of the bunch, though not by much, with YUI being the slowest by far. Never been a fan of any framework other than jQuery. They all seemed to clunky, too focused on abstract design patterns, instead of the ...
Apparently, folks study us. (3)
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has spent half a life time studying the creative personality, attempting to understand what makes them so very special. Apparently, they’re pretty strange folks: Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at hand to reach their goals. If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it’s complexity. They show tendencies of thought and ...
I’m rich, bitch! (1)
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How the entitlement of the rich got to John H. Summers, a teacher at Harvard: (T)he students are the opposite of apathetic and indifferent. The new student rich have retained the radical energy of the 1960s, only to engage it in more lushly monetised competencies. The New Left occupied universities to protest against the bureaucratic hollowness of examination rituals and grading rationales. Now its children complete the attack on the authority of teachers, who are ...
I’m rich, bitch! (4)
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How the entitlement of the rich got to John H. Summers, a teacher at Harvard: (T)he students are the opposite of apathetic and indifferent. The new student rich have retained the radical energy of the 1960s, only to engage it in more lushly monetised competencies. The New Left occupied universities to protest against the bureaucratic hollowness of examination rituals and grading rationales. Now its children complete the attack on the authority of teachers, who are ...
Chicago represent. (5)
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Chicago Tribune’s profile of Adrian Holovaty, the Chicago-based developer behind the deeply-useful EveryBlock and the Python web-framework Django: “There’s the dot-com, Silicon Valley, blow-all-your-money-on-booze style,” says Holovaty, 27. “Then there’s the Chicago thing: Do something, do it well and be modest about it.” Chicago strong.
And thus I’m on the internet for free. (4)
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A handy, and quite extensive list of the default passwords for various popular routers. Just came in handy when my why-the-hell-can’t-I-do-this-with-my-iPhone 3G USB modem just crapped out on me.
But Frank Castle never votes. (2)
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Superman is not a republican, Mr. Serrano. Actually, I’ll let Jim Henley counter that stupidity, he does it so very well: The history of Superman’s politics is genuinely interesting. In Action Comics #1, his first appearance, he’s a dedicated isolationist. His enemies are a Senator and a lobbyist pushing a bill that will “embroil us with Europe.” He solves the problem by, well, kidnapping them, dumping them in the middle of a pointless war between ...
But Frank Castle never votes. (1)
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Superman is not a republican, Mr. Serrano. Actually, I’ll let Jim Henley counter that stupidity, he does it so very well: The history of Superman’s politics is genuinely interesting. In Action Comics #1, his first appearance, he’s a dedicated isolationist. His enemies are a Senator and a lobbyist pushing a bill that will “embroil us with Europe.” He solves the problem by, well, kidnapping them, dumping them in the middle of a pointless war between ...
Happy happy. (2)
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Joel Stein on the joy of $8 dollar gas: Cheap gas is unfair. Driving creates huge social costs in the form of traffic, health-damaging pollution and global warming that aren’t suffered solely by the person buying the gasoline. Governments usually set up idiotic systems to offset such social costs (emissions trading, ethanol subsidies, taco truck regulations) instead of forcing individuals to pay for their own mess by adding a tax to remedy the imbalance.
We’re zany to the max. (2)
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I might paint it pink. (4)
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