Brawl outside of 7-Eleven store turns ugly, results in injuries (2)
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Exposing poorly redacted PDFs (3)
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Filed under: news, security hacks Privacy watchdog group, National Legal and Policy Center has released a PDF detailing Google founder Larry Page's home (dowload PDF here). They used Google's Maps and Street View to assemble all of the information. Google is currently involved in a lawsuit resulting from a Street View vehicle traveling and documenting a private road. This PDF was released in response to Google stating that "complete privacy does not exist".For some reason ...
Tales of Woe, and Not Learning Lessons (1)
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Stephen (41)
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Kris had a problem with Xerox recently:Accountability – The Tale of the Xerox Free Color Printers Program | Fresh Focus…… Let me tell you a story about accountability, regarding the Xerox corporation. I am a member of the Xerox Free Color Printers program. This program provides a free printer to anyone, as long as you reach an agreed-upon monthly quota, report your usage every month, and buy all your supplies from them. I knew all ...
Tracking Down the "Embarrassing Memory" Noise (7)
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Compelled to Blurt… | Ask Metafilter Like a lot of people in this Ask Metafilter thread, I thought I was the only person in the universe who made an unconscious little noise when remembering something stupid I did or said. It’s not especially loud, in fact it’s often under my breath. The sound is usually just a quiet grunt, or a word/syllable or two. If I remember an embarrassing conversation, I tend to blurt out ...
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Diane said:
Wow - I'm not insane after all!
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Ryan said:
Thought I was the only one walking around talking to myself all day.
Can Drunk Driving Be Funny? (3)
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The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten wrote a very funny column a couple weeks ago, in which he gets schnockered in a driving simulator and documents the results. Recently, he discussed the process by which a column making light of drunk driving might get approved, and offered an interesting insight into the kinds of topics that are still a bridge too far, even in an age where presidential candidates admit to doing "a little blow." When ...
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Ricky said:
Someone should start offering this as a ride. This sounds hella fun.
Do You Remember the Good Old Days Before the Ghost Town? (2)
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It Came From Outer Space (1)
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July 19, Oxford, UK-Death by asteroids, comets and gamma ray bursts was on the agenda of the conference on Global Catastrophic Risks this morning. First up was NASA senior scientist David Morrison to talk about the Spaceguard Survey and the threat of a catastrophic asteroid strike. Morrison started out by noting that we had just past the centenary of the 5-15 megaton Tunguska airburst over Siberia. In 1998, Congress charged NASA with surveying the skies ...
Dr Horrible, Act III, the final curtain (1)
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The third (and final) act of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along blog is out and it was ... incredible. If you have not seen it, go watch the three acts now (they won't be available for free streaming tomorrow I think, you'd have to wait for the DVD). Seriously. The dialog is written brilliant, the songs are good with exceptionally good lyrics and the end ... I won't spoil anything here, but it was a Joss Whedon ...
TEOTWAWKI! (1)
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Oxford, England—People have long been fascinated by the end of the world. Some interpretations of Hindu scripture suggest that the world will end with the imminent conclusion of the current Kali Yuga cycle. Some New Agers believe that the world will undergo apocalyptic changes as the Maya Long Count calendar comes to an end on December 21, 2012. Some Christian End Timers believe that the period preceding the Day of Judgment described in the Book ...
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Diane said:
Here's a story that fits my mood today!
McCain Campaign Uses Online Spider To Ambush Obama (41)
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The politicos' mutual stalking has reached unprecedented new levels this year: At least one side has started to spider the other's campaign web site to track that campaign pages' precise word changes up to an hourly basis. John McCain's campaign published a side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's Iraq War policy web pages on Tuesday using a new automated online tracking service called Versionista. The service, which launched two months ago, allows users to track and ...
Economy Ends Tomorrow! Optimists, Californians Hardest Hit (2)
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The Drudge Report today is a festival of economic scare stories: DOLLAR DROPS TO RECORD LOW! LINES FOR CASH IN CALIFORNIA! Which bank next? Stocks stay south on fear! Inflation up at fastest pace in 27 years!Beyond telling us what we already knew − that Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart continue to pack more good headlines above the fold than any newspaper in America − what does this tell us? Perhaps that the surprising (to ...
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David Worrell said:
"But the Californian in me wonders if we are all (me included!) addicted to millenarial forebodings of impending collapse, all recent history to the contrary notwithstanding." - Matt Welch
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Diane said:
Love the title!
Should small businesses whine? (65)
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I bought some clothes from a merchant via Amazon. The company that I ordered from shipped the wrong item. I sent it back and was told it will take three or four weeks to process my return. A month! I wrote back, asking why it would take so long. The response, "Thank you for your inquiry. To answer your question we are NOT an big company like Amazon we are actually a small company, That ...
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_original said:
If your small company can't deliver a better experience (in areas people care about) than a big one, why on Earth should someone do business with you?
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Muthu Ramadoss said:
Small is a weapon, not an excuse. Well said, Seth.
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Jade said:
airports make me read more.... just devoured Seth's latest book "Meatball Sundae" - Get it, read it, live it!
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lishevita said:
I'd take this a step further and say, "Being from a small country is NOT an excuse" Hell, people, we're in Israel. We kick butt in so very many ways. I wish that we did customer service better and didn't act like every interaction with any business of government agency was happening in the shuk!
Would You Believe Five Underage Mothers? How About Two? (4)
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In a column about the child custody case involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), I noted:[Texas Child Protective Services] claimed 31 underage girls at the ranch were pregnant or mothers. It later conceded that at least 15 of them were in fact adults while a 14-year-old on the list was not pregnant and had no children. The Associated Press reported that "more mothers listed as underage are likely to be ...
Sherwood Forest (2)
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Robin Hood has already distributed all the riches seized. At first the poor were contented and screaming for joy from every corner of the forest. Shortly after, they realized that the great bandit of Sherwood knew only how to redistribute wealth, but not how to create it.
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Diane said:
"Robin Hood has already distributed all the riches seized. At first the poor were contented and screaming for joy from every corner of the forest. Shortly after, they realized that the great bandit of Sherwood knew only how to redistribute wealth, but not how to create it."
Nature is amazing: Gordian worms (37)
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Gordian worms live inside crickets. Once fully grown, they inject chemicals into the cricket’s brain, brainwashing it and forcing it to kill itself by jumping into water. Once in water, the worm wriggles out of the writhing body and swims off in search of a mate.
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Jeffrey said:
This makes me really unhappy
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Nirav said:
Zombie crickets!
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Diane said:
Sounds like a Stargate episode.
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Chris said:
Holy C&@! I'm not going to sleep well tonight
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Kevin Gilbert said:
Uh, wow.
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Justin Pocta said:
oh my gosh. oh.....my gosh. what the heck!
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Aaron H. said:
More weird bug like crap.
Note to Bush: don’t brag about U.S. pollution (2)
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I saw some headlines yesterday about Bush departing the G8 summit this week, with many news items noting, “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” I assumed it was some kind of sarcastic paraphrase, with international news outlets poking fun at the Bush administration. According to some accounts, it was actually a direct quote. George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in ...
Man: I didn't shoot Patches; the dog actually shot himself (1)
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Beloved dachshund chews off diabetic owner's big toe (1)
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Linda Floyd's 1-year-old dog, Roscoe, gnawed her right big toe completely off and part of the toe's knuckle, puncturing an artery while she was sleeping Monday afternoon. The woman is diabetic and has no feeling in her toes. (Alton Telegraph)
