December 2011
23 posts
Dec 31st
The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing... →
Dec 29th
“Every instinct in the American gut, every institution, every national symbol,...”
– American Class System - We Are Not All Created Equal, by Stephen Marche - Esquire
Dec 27th
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lowest note in the known universe is the rumbling... →
In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat. But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C. For comparison, a typical piano contains only about seven octaves. At a frequency over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest...
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“The delay of the new phones running on BlackBerry 10 software “could be the...”
– RIM’s outlook darkens with delay of new smartphone - The Globe and Mail
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Imagining a City Without Its Public Transportation →
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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“It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us....”
– Disgusting. This is a first hand account of an arrest of one of the writers of Family Guy, and a Unitarian Universalist. My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
Dec 10th
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No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org →
I used to hate having to explain copyright to young people from Asia on Wikipedia…
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
Microsoft Bows Out of the Clinical Market  →
remember, healthcare is about to explode, somehow…
Dec 9th
Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein Wakes Us... →
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
“This, I fear, is the appeal of Ender’s Game:  it models this scenario precisely...”
– complete destruction of the morality of Ender’s Game Creating the Innocent Killer
Dec 4th
Dec 4th
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Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of... →
Dec 3rd
The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes... →
Dec 3rd
Category:Individual chimpanzees - Wikipedia, the... →
merlin: Just for reference. It’s a bookmark I know I will be returning to.
Dec 3rd
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