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You talk funny (2) share digg
by camcgee (3) on MetaFilter (1207) 3 weeks, 5 days ago permalink
Can you guess where my accent is from? A flash game from the Language Trainers' Group -- listen to lines of poetry recited by people from different countries and try to guess their origin.

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Feature: "Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition)" by Sarah Schmelling (7/30/08) (26) share digg
on McSweeney's (120) 1 month ago permalink

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- Audrey said: "The queen, the king, Laertes, and Hamlet are now zombies." Hehe.
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Self Education: Skip Business School and Get Your "Personal MBA" (81) share digg
by Gina Trapani (10041) on Lifehacker (36984) 1 month ago permalink
Self-educator Josh Kaufman says you can bypass business school and earn a "Personal MBA" by reading the best books in business—and he offers 77 of his picks. Kaufman writes: Top MBA programs don't have a monopoly on advanced business knowledge: you can teach yourself everything you need to know to succeed in life and at work. The Personal MBA Recommended Reading List features only the very best business books available, based on thousands of hours ...

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- Bosch said: un bel risparmio ...
- Jefferson Kim said: Sounds like a plan!
- Thiago Hickmann said: Óbvio, mas mesmo assim interessante.Vamos ver oq vale a pena por na lista de desejos pro próximo pedido na Amazon.
- Net said: MBA books
- CHC said: All the work without the paper! (but without the debt as well)
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Do you really know who people are? (1) share digg
by tellurian (4) on MetaFilter (1207) 1 month ago permalink
Criminal Searches - Making you feel safer or increasing your fear? No results for Theodore Kaczynski.

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It's time to play the music. (5) share digg
by EarBucket (0) on MetaFilter (1207) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink
The Muppets have their own YouTube channels! Enjoy a little classical music with Beaker or Gonzo, opera with the Swedish Chef, get patriotic with Sam the Eagle, or just leave commentary with Statler and Waldorf.

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An Engineer's Delight (2) share digg
by DU (2) on MetaFilter (1207) 1 month, 1 week ago permalink
Friday Flash Fun Some stuff I wish I'd known when I started: It seems like a sparse toy at first, compared to something like Incredible Machine. But it's more free-form and the sparseness is a good challenge. You can move the pink object around inside the blue box. The water rod hasn't been of any use to me so far. You can move the view around by using the Move tool.

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Idiots Fiddle While Rome Burns (19) share digg
by Barry Ritholtz (408) on The Big Picture (1666) 1 month, 2 weeks ago permalink
The collection of ne'er do wells, clueless dolts, political hacks, and oh, let's just be blunt and call them what they are -- total Idiots -- expands into an ever larger circle. While the Republic burns due to the unsavory combination of incompetence, ideological rigidity, and crony capitalism, the fools and assclowns seem ever more determined to avoid any personal responsibility for the damages they have wrought. Instead, they flail about blindly, blaming everything and ...

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- Jesse said: "That's not capitalism, its not socialism, its not regulation, and its sure as hell isn't what free markets are. Our language is insufficient to describe this hodge-podge system, other than to call it a random patchwork of quasi-capitalism, quadrennial-socialism, and politics as usual. Ideological idiocy is the only phrase I can muster that has any resonance with the daily insanity. "
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Fannie & Freddie Heading for "Conservatorship" (2) share digg
by Barry Ritholtz (408) on The Big Picture (1666) 1 month, 2 weeks ago permalink
This was originally posted Thursday evening 07-10-2008 at 10:33 PM, but since it obviously resonated with so many people, I am moving this to Friday morning. Some great comments, too. ~~~ Gee, that didn't take long:"Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship ...

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DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND. (1) share digg
by chrismear (2) on MetaFilter (1207) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink
DR. SBAITSO WAS MY ONLY FRIEND.

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Humans are consuming natural resources so quickly that we're running out (3) share digg
by jason@kottke.org (3725) on kottke.org (4125) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink
Humans are consuming natural resources so quickly that we're running out of elements. The element gallium is in very short supply and the world may well run out of it in just a few years. Indium is threatened too, says Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany's University of Augsburg. He estimates that our planet's stock of indium will last no more than another decade. All the hafnium will be gone by 2017 also, and ...

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How Was Work? (4) share digg
by Chris H (177) on WE THE ROBOTS (177) 1 month, 3 weeks ago permalink

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Sunny Day Sky, Fun Flash Game by Ferry Halim (1) share digg
by Alex (3068) on Neatorama (3713) 1 month, 4 weeks ago permalink
I’m a big fan of Ferry Halim’s flash games ever since Miss Cellania posted one a while ago, so I’m pleasantly surprised when this one got recommended to Neatorama. Sunny Day Sky is a fun (and easy) Flash game where you get to guide a cute little critter fly jump over cars using only an umbrella! (This being a Ferry Halim game, pleasant music is a given… ) Link - Thanks Nalden!

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chainsaw maid (1) share digg
by Armitage Shanks (18) on MetaFilter (1207) 1 month, 4 weeks ago permalink
Zombies vs Chainsaw Maid! (NSFW, surprisingly disgusting). More fun here. [via]

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Out of the Closet (1) share digg
by Salt Lake City Weekly (14) on Salt Blog: The Daily Feed From City Weekly (14) 2 months ago permalink
[Gay Rights] The Sutherland Institute, Utah's conservative think tank famously known for explaining to conservatives what a conservative actually is, has just posted on their website a fascinating document.The document is a compilation of correspondence between think tank captain Paul Mero and former legal director of the ACLU Stephen Clark, the discussions were during the summer of 2003, private correspondence, but the two have agreed now to publish them.The debate is actually very civil, intellectual, ...

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PlanningWiz Maps Your Floor Plan [Household] (2) share digg
by Jason Fitzpatrick (2187) on Lifehacker (36984) 2 months ago permalink
Plan out your next redecoration or plot the layout of your next furniture rearrangement with online room mapping tool PlanningWiz. You can either load pre-made plans and modify them to suit your space or create your own plan from scratch. There are templates for furniture covering everything from couches to tables to beds and cribs. Save the plans you create, share them via email, or print them out. You can even customize the background of ...

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I know, it should be 'Armin Tamzarian'. (1) share digg
by goodnewsfortheinsane (10) on MetaFilter (1207) 2 months ago permalink
Cute quiz: Name the Simpsons characters. Also: US states, countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, periodic table of elements. More.

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Congress set to vote on telecom spying immunity TOMORROW -- write to your rep NOW! (1) share digg
by Cory Doctorow (9713) on Boing Boing (18824) 2 months, 1 week ago permalink
Richard Esguerra from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, After weeks of empty rhetoric about coming to a "compromise" on new spying laws, the House of Representatives is set to vote on telecom immunity tomorrow. The bill is HR 6304 and contains the exact same blanket immunity provisions, only with a few cosmetic changes so that political spin doctors can claim that it actually provides meaningful court review. Whether or not Congress decides to offer immunity ...

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NYC in Black and White (mostly) (1) share digg
by cerebus19 (18) on MetaFilter (1207) 2 months, 1 week ago permalink
New York City in (mostly) black and white. A huge collection of photos starting in the 1880s—some beautiful, all fascinating. Previously.

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- Matt said: Great collection of photos!!
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How much more clear can this guy make it that he does NOT want to smell your finger? (1) share digg
by beaucoupkevin (8) on MetaFilter (1207) 2 months, 1 week ago permalink
Sorry I Missed Your Party. Pictures of other people's parties from Flickr, with commentary. (Some images NSFW.) (Via.)

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