August 2011
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WatchJeb Corliss - human flying - documentary.
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Let the Vetting Begin: Rick Perry under the... →
The Texas governor was back in Iowa over the weekend and it was apparent the vetting was well underway. The Des Moines Register’s Jennifer Jacobs reported that Perry “dodged questions from two farmers at an Iowa Corn Growers Association meeting,” who were hoping to pin the governor down on ethanol policy. Not satisfied that Perry would do enough to protect his livelihood, one corn and soybean...
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at...”
– STEVE JOBS, in the Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993.
(via)
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DC Earthquake Felt In NYC
Reporting 5.8
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WatchKevin Mitnick on the Colbert Report (8.18.11).
Once the world’s most wanted hacker, Kevin Mitnick talks about his start as a phone prankster and his years as a government fugitive.
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Perry Calls Global Warming Unproven... →
abcnewsradio:
“I do believe that the issue of global warming has been politicized. I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their — to their projects,” said Perry. “And I think we’re seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man made global warming...
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Demographic of One: Twitter Rant - Tumblred →
Completely agree with @andrlik:
Love the key point in this piece: “Considering hustling and business stuff vulgar is just another way of saying people who want to transcend their station are vulgar.”
mollycrabapple:
At the start of my career, I was often accused of spending more time promoting myself than I did focusing on my art.
While it might have been 50/50, or 60/40, or 40/60, this was...
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Warren Buffett: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich →
OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are...
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Countdown to 9/11: Ten Years Ago Today (August 11,... →
abcnewsradio:
31 Days Before 9/11
August 11, 2001
“Bootylicious” by Destiny’s Child is the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100.
American Pie II is the top movie in box office receipts.
The major stories of the summer involve shark attacks and a missing intern in Washington, D.C., named Chandra Levy.
President Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, where five days earlier he had been...
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Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Created Antarctic... →
abcnewsradio:
(WASHINGTON) — The massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan in March was a disaster of global proportions, but now there’s a new demonstration of just how global it was.
Three scientists examined satellite images from Antarctica, 8,000 miles south of the epicenter, and found that 18 hours after the quake, the resulting tsunami was enough to break giant chunks...
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Books Without Borders →
A bookseller recounts “My Life at the World’s Dumbest Bookstore Chain” - discovered by @Andrlik. In my youth I worked as a bookseller - at a large chain, then an indie. This story, told from the perspective of a former employee, tells the sad tale of one chain’s demise.
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It’s embarrassing now, but on the day that I was hired to work at...
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Online Commenting: The Age of Rage →
The psychologists call it “deindividuation”. It’s what happens when social norms are withdrawn because identities are concealed. The classic deindividuation experiment concerned American children at Halloween. Trick-or-treaters were invited to take sweets left in the hall of a house on a table on which there was also a sum of money. When children arrived singly, and not wearing masks, only 8% of...
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Marvel to Unveil Half-African American,... →
abcnewsradio:
(LOS ANGELES) — Marvel’s new Spider-Man will have a new look.
The comic book will unveil its superhero’s makeover when Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Fallout Issue 4 is released Wednesday. Peter Parker, who was killed off in June’sUltimate Spider-Man Issue 160, will be replaced with a half-African American, half-Hispanic teenager named Miles Morales. Although Morales will appear in...
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Getting Bin Laden: What happened that night in... →
From The New Yorker
by Nicholas Schmidle
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Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden. Inside the aircraft were twenty-three Navy SEALs from Team Six, which is officially known as the Naval Special...