April 2009
83 posts
“Like every bad thing, it is the fault of speculators, stock-jobbers, and other...”
– Wonkette
Obama just told everyone in America to wash their...
Presumptuous, or something?
"Conservatives were more likely to report that...
[Potentially declining into incoherence…?]
keyholez:
fiatluxemburg:
Jason Linkins at HuffPo quotes this study in an post titled “Colbert Study: Conservatives Don’t Know He’s Joking”. That’s not what the article says. It says that (some) conservatives don’t think he’s joking—that they think he is pretending to be joking.
Which is really a much more interesting and confusing thing. Why...
"Conservatives were more likely to report that...
This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology...
smarterplanet:
“Just in case you’re not getting enough up-to-the-minute news about swine flu, you can log in to Twitter to get updates from the government’s Centers for Disease Control. The CDC is using Twitter to spread the word on how not to spread or get swine flu. The CDC has several Twitter accounts including @CDCemergency, which is posting new recommendations, bulletins on confirmed cases,...
Natives is people too
In an April 21, 2008, New Yorker story, “Vengeance Is Ours,” Pulitzer Prize-winning geology scholar Jared Diamond describes blood feuds that rage for decades among tribes in the Highlands of New Guinea. Diamond tells the story using a central protagonist: Daniel Wemp, member of the Handa clan, a blood-thirsty warrior bent on avenging his uncle’s death. That quest, writes...
"Researchers at MIT reckon they have developed a... →
I’d like to hear one of these researchers explain this work in terms of he or she “reckons” about it.
I guess that makes it a better drink
Both Red Bull and Stoli have their own Russian MiG-17 fighterplanes.
It's ridiculous that Bjork and spaceships aren't...
Iceland’s economy has effectively collapsed. But one of the stronger online games is EVE Online, which is owned & run by an Icelandic company. EVE has a vibrant economy, and a functioning (if unofficial) exchange rate between the in-game currency and real-world currencies. EVE’s currency is a virtual version of the Icelandic Króna. Hence, “Iceland has collapsed so thoroughly...
EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED →
J. G. Ballard is Dead
:-(
“Homeland Security Dept. Seeking Computer Hackers To Help Secure Federal Systems”
– AP via HuffPo
I feel as if this was an idea for a movie that somehow got passed on to the wrong (or right?) people.
Texas Democrats ripped the governor for his secession talk, calling it “anti-American.”
Unfortunately for Perry’s detractors, the U.S. Department of State (until Friday morning) was with the governor on this one. On its website listing of 16 foreign countries visited by Secretary Hillary Clinton, State had Texas right there between Turkey and Switzerland.
State scrubbed the...
Newfound Lichen Species Named for Obama →
Latest Gmail Social Hack: Suggested Recipients
Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a new Gmail Labs feature called “Suggest more recipients.” […]
Gmail will suggest people you might want to include based on the groups of people...
1,500 farmers commit mass suicide in India (The... →
I don’t understand. Is this just ‘breaking’? Reliable sources confirm but there doesn’t seem to be coverage in a lot of outlets? Is it not true?
Over 1,500 farmers in an Indian state committed suicide after being driven to debt by crop failure, it was reported today.
The agricultural state of Chattisgarh was hit by falling water levels.
“The water level has...
I haven't really been able to follow, but I liked...
Everyone who reads books is already a socialist — just, you know, an ignorant, childish, ill-informed, unthoughtful socialist, whose ideas about every topic crystallized some time during the freshman year of high school but who likes nothing more than to have those ideas repeated back to him or her by someone stylish. (keyholez)
Proteus ingestible event markers (IEMs) are tiny, digestible sensors made from food ingredients, which are activated by stomach fluids after swallowing. Once activated, the IEM sends an ultra low-power, private, digital signal through the body to a microelectronic receiver that is either a small bandage style skin patch or a tiny device insert under the skin. The receiver date- and time-stamps,...
You are being lied to about pirates →
“The people our governments are labelling as “one of the great menaces of our times” have an extraordinary story to tell – and some justice on their side.”
Surgeons find fir tree 'growing inside patient's... →
(via msmandrake)
“I’m so relieved it’s not cancer.”
MLA Handbook: Print is No Longer the Default... →
mediology:
This seventh edition says “that the medium of publication should be included in each works cited entry” rather than assuming it’s print.
WatchI’d like to see this, I think.
Craven disgusting money-grubbery.
strub:
I made a highfalutin literature blog, since I read somewhere that if you have a blog on your resume, people give you like a million dollars, because blogs are the future, and God knows this piece of shit isn’t taking me anywhere.
That’s a tumblr. Ain’t no money on tumblrs.
WatchSchizophrenics aren’t fooled by illusions involving inverted faces. Article here.
It’s actually quite remarkable once you’ve seen the example in the video.
Also, I guess there’s a chance that this might really ruin someone’s day…