January 2012
Bill Would Ban Using Human Fetuses in Food, Just...
Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey is concerned about the possibility that some nefarious person or entity is using aborted human fetuses in food, and has introduced legislation to put a stop to this. Or, to keep it from starting, because he isn’t exactly sure that anybody’s really doing this, or how or where they’d be doing it if they were. Still, can’t be too...
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What Rick Santorum Doesn't Know About Sex | Sex at...
by Christopher Ryan
Rick Santorum doesn’t know what sex is for. In a recent appearance in New Hampshire, he summarized his thoughts on the subject, saying, “God made man and woman, and men and women come together to have a union to produce children, which keeps civilization going and provides the best environment for children to be raised.” While this may seem a common-sense...
Important New Emoticons | McSweeney's
by Mira Ptacin and Seth Fried
+: ) Ash Wednesday {: I Frida Kahlo : i Cold sore
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Taking down slumlords with social network analysis...
A group of buildings whose tenants continually complained about living conditions changed hands so frequently that city officials could do nothing about it….until a group representing the tenants used social network analysis to reveal the connections between all of the seemingly separate owners.
[Keep reading @ kottke.org]
“When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of...”
– Sergio Leone (via nevver)
December 2011
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“You spend billions of dollars on the airports and force the terrorists to spend...”
– Bruce Schneier, in Charles C. Mann’s “Smoke Screens” for Vanity Fair
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Guitarist Randy Bachman Demystifies the Opening...
by Mike Springer
You could call it the magical mystery chord. The opening clang of the Beatles’ 1964 hit, “A Hard Day’s Night,” is one of the most famous and distinctive sounds in rock and roll history, and yet for a long time no one could quite figure out what it was.
[Keep reading @ Open Culture]
“Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader who realized his family’s dream of...”
– CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER in The New York Times
Kim Jong-Un Privately Doubting He's Crazy Enough... →
31 Steps to a Financial Tuneup - Interactive... →
Exact nonsense | kottke.org
From Penn Jillette’s book, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales:
There is no god and that’s the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion died out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it...
Dear Congress, It's No Longer OK To Not Know How...
Posted by Joshua_Kopstein
I remember fondly the days when we were all tickled pink by our elected officials’ struggle to understand how the internet works. Whether it was George W. Bush referring to “the internets” or Senator Ted Stevens describing said internets as “a series of tubes,” we would sit back and chortle at our well-meaning but horribly uninformed...
You are now my Enemy | Letters of Note
From the pen of Benjamin Franklin comes a furious letter, written in 1775 to William Strahan — a British Member of Parliament who had, until that point, been a friend of thirty years — as the American Revolutionary War took hold. Franklin quickly had a change of mind after penning it, and it was never sent; however, word of its content later circulated and it soon become famous. If anything,...
Math Not Actually Hard, Girls Just Faking: Study |... →
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