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Sometimes, I think the [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/2010/01/would_you_like_ammonia-laced_p.php#more"]free market[/URL] is going to kill us all. Can you believe it - the lunch-ladies turned this crap away.

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Wow - [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5x2FQuQfTg"]slo-mo card tricks [/URL]that you will not believe set to music

I was looking at some odd design stuff and ran across [URL="http://www.christiaanpostma.nl/index.htm?clock.htm"]this clock[/URL] - he used 120 clock works to create this clock.

The bleach could not reach my brain through my eyes - I could not stop clicking. Please, I beg you do not [URL="http://www.peopleofwalmart.com"]click[/URL]! It has been 2 hours, my eyes are empty pools, yet I still click [B][I][U]next[/U][/I][/B]

I was looking at some of the 'choke points' for maritime traffic and noticed that I can see all the tankers lining up to and from the Suez Canal in the Mediterranean - can't see any traffic to or from the Red Sea. Heck - can't see anything til The …

I remember vaguely hearing about [URL="http://www.scientificblogging.com/administrator/earth_shattering_proof_of_continents_on_the_move"]this[/URL] when it happened but now that more data is in I am just amazed. I can't wait - I plan on watching this develop over the next few centuries. Here is a good image of where it is forming in the Rift Valley:

A 14 foot white shark was bitten nearly in half by a larger shark ([URL="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223001/Great-White-Shark-bitten-nearly-half-BIGGER-monster.html"]nudee-tails[/URL]).

This is what happens when hamthrax kills us all. Serious threat but still we need a sense of humor about it all. Good news - Blen Geck and his family will not submit to the communist plot to infect his family so they will not get a pigfluenza shot. Is …

Well, there is now more [URL="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Life/90261-Bookstores-fight-back-with-instant-paperbacks/"]help[/URL] for dead tree readers.

The world is a kluge so that we can get by - at first I thought this was a side-car kluge then I looked closer.

Shots fired on I5 Seattle (5-6 shots - probably more - definitely semi-auto.) AK47 - 2 suspects, one captured concussion grenades Motorists on freeway for about 2 hours seems like spotted on both sides of f-way ah - 2nd guy surrendered but does not have weapon No injuries reported (I …

G.R.I.M.J.A.C.K.: General Robotic Individual Manufactured for Justified Assassination and Ceaseless Killing [URL="http://cyborg.namedecoder.com/"]Found it here[/URL]

every once in a while FF will insert a local chrome address into my address field - this is the error: [QUOTE]Firefox can't find the file at [B]jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties[/B]us.ard.yahoo.com.[/QUOTE] I bolded the inserted text. Does anyone know why that happens? and how to stop it?

We (LE, Morgan, and I) are taking I90 East to WI - is there a website/blog/twitter that watches things like construction or natural disasters to warn about delays? We took Morgan on a short trip to a friends house to see how she handles trips - went okay. I have …

Since ~s.o.s~ put a well-deserved end to a 1400 post thread (put a stake right through its tiny little heart) - I thought I would see if any one was interested in keeping the topic open. If you do not think evolution is a valid theory, why. If you think …

As the subject line says, I am playing with old tech. I want to use my palm as an mp3 player and am looking for a program that works on it. So far the only one that works on it is Real Player but I refuse to allow that spyware …

I always thought that Climate Change Deniers were a little odd but look what the Coal Industry has come up with - cute, singing lumps of coal. [URL="http://www.americaspower.org/Carolers"]You can't make this stuff up.[/URL]

The largest known prime number ([tex]2^{43112609}-1[/tex]) is 20 mi, 2,569 ft, & 1-3/4 in (32.96 km) long when set in [URL="http://www.typography.com/ask/showBlog.php?blogID=183"]12pt Courier[/URL] [URL="http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/04/inevitable_mind.php"]Ants can do more advanced math than I[/URL]. <sarcasm>Great </sarcasm> Apropos of nearly nothing ([URL="http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/071"]except intelligent slime[/URL]), enlarge image for full effect.

[URL="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPage=1"]This is absolutely amazing[/URL] - this monument has been around for 30 years and i just heard about it. Someone, somewhere is: 1) playing an expensive practical joke 2) preparing for the possible collapse of civilization 3) instigating the collapse of civilization 4) what is your theory? It had to …

I don't know what to say but I laughed my *ss off - you gotta see [URL="http://cajunboyinthecity.blogspot.com/2009/03/yales-all-single-asians-is-so-wrong-but.html"]this[/URL]

Is this a new button? or am I just blind? These are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

New technology, new discoveries, even old tech/discoveries that we never heard of -- what have you found interesting? Let's (try to) keep tech toys to another thread. I was going to start with [B]cavitation[/B] (roughly the study of the behavior of voids or bubbles in liquids) using some factlets I …

Sometimes, sitting here in Seattle, I think that we live in a post-racial world. Then I see [URL="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/032609dnmetcopstop.3e9c080.html"]this[/URL] and think 'where is the humanity?'. I can't imagine what it is like to have to say 'yes sir', 'no sir', 'I hope you will be nice sir' while my m-i-l is …

This should be a [URL="http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/senate/41564507.html"]big winner[/URL] for E-bay - you gotta go to this game and get one (would you get one for me, too?). "Count von Count" - way to go Saints!!

I just watched TDS - Jon skewered everybody in DC WRT the AIG scandal but does anyone know how I can get that '[URL="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=220601"]angry mob[/URL]' graphic? It had me in tears.

I can't tell if anyone saw this - I can't believe this does not incite some comments! Did you all see it and say "[URL="http://tinyurl.com/b672g8"]bor-ing[/URL]"? If you knew Rod Spence, would you feel comfortable talking with him? If you and he were sexually compatible, er - would you? Would you …

What if the brain power of 2,000 users were harnessed to produce HAL? When shut down, is [URL="http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/info.html"]this[/URL] what it would sound like?

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[URL="http://www.abovethelaw.com/layoffs/"]Black Thursday[/URL] - go ahead, glance through the list of law firms and their lay-offs - when you get bored take this [URL="http://abovethelaw.com/2009/02/cravath_partner_hires_prostitutes.php"]jump[/URL] and, finally, watch [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZEUNan_LhQ"]this[/URL] - how much would you pay?

[URL="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/01/reassemblable_modular_robot.php"]So is this a fair beginning?[/URL]

I just ran across [URL="http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/21/code-for-walmart-growth-visualization-now-available/"]this [/URL] - not knowing who would be interested, I am linking here. Let me know if I picked the correct forum, thanks. It is open source and looks interesting.

[URL="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/28/dhs-chertoff-book-speeches/"]The Department of Homeland Security recently sent out an entire book honoring former Secretary Michael Chertoff’s “Select Speeches” from 2005-2008.[/URL]. Can anyone remember any thing from any of his speeches?

While looking for Cheech Wizard (see other thread), the vagaries of the internets lead me to this [URL="http://www.myspace.com/migumusic"]drummer Yuko Araki[/URL] now in the group mi-gu. Don't know why I am inflicting this on you but I kind of like "Lazy" and some of the stuff she does with other groups …

I just took this [URL="http://www.43things.com/book/#quiz"]test[/URL] and found out (this should surprise no one here): [COLOR="Red"]You are a Spiritual Extroverted Tree Hugger[/COLOR].

I fell in love with the drama of vacuum coffee brewers- the designs are a couple of hundred years old. Once you go for the glass brewer, then you gotta get the [URL="http://www.kleinbottle.com/drinking_mug_klein_bottle.htm"]Klein bottle/mug.[/URL]. Of course, a true [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8rifKlq5hc"]klein bottle [/URL] - as you can see, a klein bottle is …

[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA"]Too much time on my hands[/URL] [URL="http://guntotingliberal.com/"]Too many blogs to read[/URL] Sometimes, I wish I could go shopping but I am a guy w/o a job and the same pair of shoes for years. Obama updates his FaceBook Page: [COLOR="Green"]“brb inauguration lol”[/COLOR]

The title is a literary allusion (gawd, I love it when I get all literate and intellectual). I was perusing my list of blogs and found some interesting things but what really caught my eye was a link to the conservapedia.com. I had been there once a long time ago …

We have a new president; watching Bush's helicopter receded into the horizon and listening to BHO calmly work his way past CJ Robert's fumble of the oath of office then his acceptance speech; I held my breath as he kept getting out of the potus-mobile to walk through the crowd. …

I remember a while back there was some sort of difficulty where posters would get a message that said "This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between posts; please try again in 1 seconds" -- I got it again. Does not happen often - just sayin'....

Standards: No ad hominem attacks No insults An argument is, to quote the Monty Python sketch, "a connected series of statements to establish a definite proposition." Please try to avoid the major logical [URL="http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/"]fallacies[/URL]. [B]Definition - Theory[/B]: In science a theory is a testable model of the manner of interaction …

Someone just pointed me to this [URL="http://amog.com/tech/gaming/oldschool-videogames/"]sit[/URL]e for old 80s video games - I mean this is [B]Old School[/B] in all caps! They even offer DigDug - I sold a book I was reading just so I could get a couple more quarters to play (I never did get to …

I kept slipping past this site - finally [URL="http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/"]I looked[/URL] now I am stuck.

[B]Bad money drives out good[/B] With all the wealth flowing around the world, no one notices the skim - it is only in bad times that it is missed: [QUOTE]The economist J.K Gailbraith used the term "bezzle" to denote the amount of money siphoned (or "embezzled") from the system. In …

The [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs&eurl=http://www.drawger.com/zinasaunders/?cat_id=426&sort="]woman[/URL] of my dreams.

I just saw [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo"]this[/URL] and laughed my *ss off and had to share. Hundreds of people frozen everywhere in Grand Central Station. Never mind, they're moving.

What is the criteria for intelligence? What is sapience? Is Sapience different than sentience than intelligence? Is there a test?"

Black and red? Almost looked like a black widow spider dress??? Anyone?

Why did the Forum Highlights get moved so far down the page? It used to be right under 'Subscribe' (IIRC). For a while I could not find it, but this is just me.

There is an interesting development in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Mississippi, state Attorneys General are suing the Boards of Election to remove all voters from the rolls whose address does not match the address in the Department of Licensing db. In some of the larger cities, plans are in place to …