The right dictates MSNBC's programming decisions (1)
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Mickey Mouse Must Die! (2)
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"One of Satan’s soldiers." That’s what a Saudi muslim cleric called Mickey Mouse, saying that the cartoon character must die: Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is "one of Satan’s soldiers" and makes everything it touches impure. But he warned that depictions of the creature in cartoons such as Tom and Jerry, and Disney’s Mickey Mouse, had taught children that it was in fact loveable. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in ...
I’m John McCain and I Approved This Lie (1)
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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines (7)
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Robert Greenwald and Co. have collected some of the worst examples of John McCain’s deceptive campaign ads. Straight talk indeed. READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated Entries September 11, 2008 Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan September 11, 2008 Inside the Surge September 11, 2008 Petraeus Won’t Declare Victory in Iraq September 10, 2008 Two Bridges to Nowhere September 10, 2008 Sarah Zamboni Clears the Ice
Penis iceberg (25)
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Andy Rouse is a professional wildlife photographer. He recently snapped a photo of this, er, ice penis in the Bransfield Strait between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. (For full effect, rotate the photo 90 degrees counterclockwise.) Giant ice penis (Metro.co.uk)
Bottled NY Tap Water (4)
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Truth in Hydration is a bottled water companyTruth in Hydration is the blog of Tap’dNY, a bottled water company that sells … New York tap water in bottles! To market their product, the company’s "street team" went about Central Park refilling people’s empty bottled water with good ol’ fashioned NYC tap! Link - Thanks Jake Bronstein! Update 9/12/08: Sorry, my mistake. The company is Tap’dNY, Truth in Hydration is its blog - Thanks Jake!
Tree growing in a light bulb (2)
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The Landscape of Possible Intelligences (13)
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In A Taxonomy of Minds I explore the varieties of intelligence which a greater-than-human intelligence might take. We could meet greater-than-human intelligences in an alien ET, or we can make synthetic ones. The one foundational assumption behind our making new minds ourselves is that we assume our mind is intelligent enough to make a new and different mind. Just because we are conscious does not mean we have the smarts to make consciousness ourselves. Whether ...
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Jake said:
Emptiness in computers bothers me.
Ten things you don't know about the earth (24)
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A list of ten things that you didn't know about the earth. My favorite one, by far: But what if you did dig a hole through the Earth and jump in? What would happen?Well, you'd die (see below). But if you had some magic material coating the walls of your 13,000 km deep well, you'd have quite a trip. You'd accelerate all the way down to the center, taking about 20 minutes to get there. ...
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Cassie Wallender said:
This is just fun to think about.
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Ryan said:
answer to the question i got in my Cambridge interview.
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Yan said:
Extreme sports taken to a whole new level.
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munir said:
Haven't you always wondered about this?
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Jeff said:
Anybody have a really big excavator I can borrow?
New York Times on Salvia Divinorum (8)
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Salvia divinorum is a very potent psychoactive herb that has intense dissociative effects when smoked. According to researchers, it's likely the most potent natural hallucinogen gram for gram. Salvia divinorum is mostly legal in the United States, but maybe not for much longer. YouTube has thousands of videos of people tripping on it and lawmakers are now pointing to those clips as evidence that the herb should be criminalized. Meanwhile, it's also being studied by ...
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Nick said:
it's the war on pleasure, indeed. just because you're tripping, doesn't mean that it's bad for your body.
Monkey Wedding (3)
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It was a match made in Heaven. Well, no, actually it was a match made by zookeepers: 7-year-old Wukong wed 6-year-old Xiaoya during a special ceremony at a zoo in Wenling, Zhejiang province in China. It was all a publicity stunt, though the the flower bears didn’t seem to mind. Link
Building with vertical garden (12)
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Love this Brazilian building with plants (not ivy! not climbers!) covering its walls: The project in Harmonia Street is located in a neighborhood in the west side of São Paulo, where artistic life and creativity penetrates easily, where galleries and walls are mixed up, functioning as a stage for new expression forms. The alley in front of the building is an example – its graffiti present a concept of experimentation that flows out from the ...
Mahatma Gandhi’s 5 Teachings To Bring About World Peace (40)
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“If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought, acted and inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Editor’s note: This post was written by Shilpan Patel of the Success Soul blog. Have you ever dreamed about a joyful world with peace and prosperity for all Mankind – a world in which we respect and love each other despite the ...
The Well of Chand Baori: If M.C. Escher Was an Architect, This Would be His Building! (7)
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Photo: Doron [wikipedia] What if M.C. Escher designed a real life building? It’d probably be something like the Chand Baori stepwell near Jaipur, India. The amazing 13-stories well was built in the 9th century and has 3,500 narrow steps. Don’t fall - at 100 feet (~30 m) deep, it’s a long way down. Oddity Central has more: Link - via Scribal Terror
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Doug said:
This amazing architectural marvel was used as a set in the dreamy movie "The Fall" (If you haven't seen it you should.)
Forget ice, cool your drink with Nordic Rocks (1)
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Nordic Rock is mined from ancient Swedish pollution-free base rock. It is the purest way of cooling your drink - literally 'on the rocks'. Stone does not melt, which means no unclean water in your glass. They are also reusable making them very eco-friendly.To use, simply place the stone ice cubes in the freezer for approximately one hour before use. For a normal glass, two or three Nordic Rocks will be fine. They give off ...
Green Bears! (4)
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Thes bears aren’t early for St. Patrick’s Day - it got its fur stained by algae: Three normally white polar bears at Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens in central Japan changed their color in July after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. High temperatures in July and August and less-frequent water changes because of the zoo’s conservation efforts caused an algae growth in the bear pond and safety moat, Kurobe said. Algae ...
Bug Love: Fantastic Photos of Mating Insects (1)
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Photo: matteo86photonature [Flickr] Birds do it, bees do it, and the blue-tailed damselflies do it with the nimbleness of acrobats! Scienceray blog has an interesting gallery of mating insects: The incredibly elegant creature pictured above is the Ischnura elegans or the Blue-Tailed Damselfly and is found over much of the European continent. As its English name suggests, it has a large amount of blue coloring. Its eighth segment, however, is entirely blue and it is ...
Coming soon to Sears: US Army-branded clothing (1)
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Starting in October, Sears will sell the "All American Army Brand's First Infantry Division clothing collection." T-shirts, jeans, and outerwear for men, women, and boys. (Girls need not apply?) A bit more information here. Via.*Previously: Cute tank papercraft.*Buy Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines at Amazon.
NYT on "ambient awareness," ethereal intimacy, and internet ESP (35)
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I'm reading and re-reading a NYT Magazine piece that explores ambient telepresence, as made mundane by Twitter, Facebook, AIM, and the like. The writer, Clive Thompson, really nailed a number of things I've been struggling to put into words for years. It's a terrific read. This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over ...
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Nathan said:
ESP, uhuh, we're getting there...
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xree said:
"The age of ambient awareness." Exactly.
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Ephraim said:
I find this fascinating, as a geek studying Psychology. The insight one could potentially glean into the human mind from perusing vast quantities of feeds. Well, a certain type of tech-savvy population, but still one worth examining.
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Jason Matthews said:
this is why having a personal [and appropriately-pruned] twitterverse is essential to life in 2008. it's what twitter is for, but it's so hard to explain that you can't condense it down when some noob asks "what's the point of twitter?"
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Ben said:
This was never possible before? That's a load of hooey. I know tons of girls who, throughout college would call their mom/sister every night and tell them every facet of what happened that day. Also, does this lead to the PR-ification of life: if all we're talking about is what people twitter, when do we talk about the stuff that we wouldn't post to the internet in a million years? (and by "we" I mean people outside of 4chan)
Desktop Butt Station (16)
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Here’s the best desktop organizer I’ve seen in years: the Desktop Butt Station: It’s a desktop organizer that looks like a fellow sitting on the john. Besides the spaces to hold pens and Post-it Notes, the figure holds adhesive tape in his hands as if it were a roll of toilet paper. As a special touch, the toilet itself can hold paper clips. The colorful guy has a magnet in his butt so the paper ...
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The "liberal" cable outlet demotes and diminishes its most popular and valuable news personality after the White House, the McCain campaign and the right demand it does so.Shared by Bruno (0)Contribute comment
