Man Refuses to Leave New Orleans Because "God Won't Let That Happen Again" (4)
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Roughly 2 million people evacuated from Louisiana alone due to Hurricane Gustav. This includes more than 95% of New Orleans residents. Some of those staying behind in New Orleans did not have the means to leave, but others defied the evacuation order and chose to stay for other reasons. One man, and something tells me he may not be alone, staying behind is convinced that he has nothing to worry about because he has faith ...
Schneier on Security: My LA Times Op Ed on Photo ID Checks at Airport (31)
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Opinion The TSA's useless photo ID rules No-fly lists and photo IDs are supposed to help protect the flying public from terrorists. Except that they don't work. By Bruce Schneier August 28, 2008 The TSA is tightening its photo ID rules at airport security. Previously, people with expired IDs or who claimed to have lost their IDs were subjected to secondary screening. Then the Transportation Security Administration realized that meant someone on the government's no-fly ...
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David Arcos said:
Artículo "for dummies" de por qué los controles aéreos son inútiles
Banking with Jesus is a bad idea (2)
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Integrity Bank in Georgia decided to build their business model on Christian principles. Integrity's employees regularly prayed before meetings or in branch lobbies with customers, while the bank gave 10 percent of its net income to charities."We felt if we prayed and obeyed God's word and did what He asked, that He would help us be successful," the bank's founder, Steve Skow, told the Journal-Constitution in 2005. Chalk this one up to another example of ...
Cliche busting: worth its weight in gold? (7)
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The monetary density of things...or what substances are worth their weight in gold, including $50 bills, LSD, and antimatter. People have been saying that the new industrial grade swimsuits like the LZR Racer are worth their weight in gold. As you can see, this is clearly inaccurate. But such a suit is worth its weight in marijuana or industrial diamonds. Using a FAQ at NASA, I calculated that a pound of aerogel is worth about ...
Guy Makes Full Size Driveable Landspeeder (11)
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Daniel Deutsch went and built himself a 1:1 scale replica of the Star Wars Landspeeder that looks so good, I swear it's been shopped. But allegedly I'm wrong, and the vehicle has "a custom aluminum chassis, fiberglass body, and an electric drive system that hits lightspeed at 25 mph." Freaking sweet! Now you know what they say, "The Vette gets 'em wet, but the Landspeeder, well, the Landspeeder dries 'em out while they make fun ...
Maurice Svay shared as favorite Instant Messaging Market Share by Country (15)
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Interesting data. AIM leads in the U.S., but not by much. MSN and Yahoo lead in most of the rest of the world. ★
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Bruce said:
In the UK: MSN = 60%, Yahoo = 20%, GTalk = 10%, AIM = 5%, ICQ and others = 5%
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Drew said:
I've never met anyone who uses MSN or Yahoo. Is this like the MySpace/Facebook socioeconomic gap?
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vanlandw said:
Not suprising one bit. I don't even have an MSN account anymore but in the UK that is what everybody uses. Nobody I know really uses MSN or yahoo mostly AIM and Google.
Antarctica’s Spellbinding Stripy Icebergs (10)
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flygirljc777 Antarctica is the coldest and most barren continent on the face of the Earth, with spine chilling temperatures as low as -130°F (-90°C) in the winter. There is next to no vegetation, no permanent population and not a hotel in sight yet people still flock to the area in their droves to get a glimpse of the abundant wildlife and marine life, and these floating beauties: icebergs. davewalsh Only about one-tenth of an iceberg ...
Watch politicians age (9)
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Video compilations of several months of photos of John McCain, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush. Completely mesmerizing, especially the Bush one. See also: Noah Kalina Everyday and Paris Hilton doesn't change facial expressions on YTMND. (link)
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs is dead! (5)
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Roger Ebert Gives Jay Mariotti A Strategically Placed Thumb On His Way Out (8)
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If there is any more question about Jay Mariotti's awfulness and how actively despised he is by most people at the Chicago Sun-Times, look no further than this internal letter being circulated around, oh, everywhere in Chicago's news rooms penned by Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert. The man sure knows how to unleash a withering screed. Titled : "An open letter to sports columnist Jay Mariotti, who resigned from the Sun-Times and lashed out during ...
North Korean anti-US posters (11)
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Love is a ballfield (7)
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A poem in which each instance of the word "love" is replaced by "Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame Catcher Carlton Fisk". "And know you not," says Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame Catcher Carlton Fisk, "who bore the blame?""My dear, then I will serve." (via hodgman) (link)
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neal said:
For all my Red Sox-lovin' friends.
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hober said:
Brilliant! I think the poem works just as well this way.
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John-Michael Oswalt said:
this is pretty outstanding. good choice of poem. I could do things like this all day
A quality headphone stand for cheap (10)
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Wiretap builds this solid headphone stand from Ikea parts.Parts list:Main stand portion: Bjarnum Shelf Bracket 11''Headphone holder post: Capita Leg 4''Wire wrapping posts: Attest KnobHe says, "Some shorter bolts are needed for mounting the leg and knobs to the Bjarnum Shelf Bracket. They can be found at your local hardware store. Take the Capita Leg and Attest Knob to the hardware store with you to find the appropriate thread pattern and size. (metric thread size) ...
How Big of a Deal Is Income Inequality? (15)
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Retired neurologist William Bernstein is probably known for his investment books The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing. His two latest books, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World and The Birth of Plenty, deal with the history of world trade and economic growth, subjects he has agreed to blog about [...]
Archives: Useful Homebrew Financial Calculators (2)
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If have to repeatedly have to make a calculation and I can’t find it elsewhere to my liking, I usually try and make my own calculator to save time in the future. Below are links to ones that I still use regularly, I wanted to point them out because they tend to get lost in my archives. Hopefully, they can be useful to you as well. Ultimate Interest Rate Chaser Calculator A “rate chaser” is ...
Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera (6)
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MojoKid writes with this excerpt from Hot Hardware (linking to a video demonstration): "Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. Also, the final result might not be all that accurate or realistic. A new technique developed by scientists at The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada, however, might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital ...
Pirelli To Release Chipped Cyber Tire (1)
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Pirelli plans to introduce two tires in 2010 with computer chips either glued to the inner liner (Cyber Lean) or embedded into the carcass (Cyber Tyre). The simpler Cyber Lean will gather data such as pressure, temperature and average load. Data can then be sent to the car’s on-board computer to inform the driver. The [...]
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The mishap naturally spooked investors and rejuvenated the discussion about Jobs' health. Fortunately for us (and Apple), the obituary has since been retracted.Read More...Contribute comment
