February 2011
20 posts
How did the U.S. get in bed with Mubarak? →
A historian explains how the U.S. became closely tied to the Mideast dictatorship
January 2011
40 posts
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Israel shocked by Obama's betrayal of Mubarak →
The gravy train had to come to end sometime.
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Pot Catapult Launches Drugs Over U.S. Border - Fox... →
The 3 yard tall mobile catapult was just 20 miles from the U.S. border. Smugglers would move it on a flatbed towed by a sport utility vehicle, according to a Mexican army officer with the 45th military zone in the border state of Sonora.
(via Instapaper)
Game Over →
Why game developers feel the need to prove that they hate you and want you to quit playing their game and just watch the cut scenes on You Tube.
Mystery Goo Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in... →
Last Tuesday something fell from the sky and turned icicles in this New York town green and yellow, and the sides of houses and sidewalks a deep brown color. The FAA insists its not the result of…
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Stop Leaving Vacation Time on the Table [Vacation] →
Around 65% of American employees failed to use up their vacation time in 2010 and many of them chose to do so out of a false sense that skipping vacation made them appear harder…
Mystery goo falls from sky over New York →
Authorities are investigating after strange greenish-yellow goo fell over houses last week. The peculiar substance fell on the rooftops and formed str…
Montrealers are feeding fish Prozac; Research... →
Around one in four Montrealers take some kind of anti-depressant, and according to new research, the drugs are passing into the waterways and affecting fish. The findings are internationally…
The Strange Happiness of the Emergency Medic →
In my first five minutes inside the truck, there were calls for a woman having a seizure in a grocery store, an eight-week-old boy choking, a homeless man found unconscious in an alley, an elderly…
About Ready to Hang It Up [New York, New York] →
Three years into World War II, people thought they’d seen it all, including neighbors with concentration camp tattoos. RICHARD JACKSON remembers the day when a Nazi flag flew in the Bronx.
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REBLOG IF YOU
halfcursive:
TUMBLE FROM NYC!
But I apply the handbrake lest I tumble into the cold-flowing viscousness of the East River.
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Steven Tyler Says 'American Idol' Will Not Stop... →
Then please god tell me what will!?!
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Arizonans Rally to Prevent Westboro Church... →
winstonwolfe:
Arizona residents are locking arms to stop the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the funerals for victims of Saturday’s shooting in Tucson, with bikers and others organizing a massive counter-protest and state lawmakers fast-tracking a bill to hamstring the group.
“It makes me sick to my stomach,” said Glen Littell, who’s bringing a pack of bikers from the Phoenix...
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Play Freeciv.net online now!
Play Civilization (or the open-source clone thereof) in your browser. My god…
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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior →
Can a regimen of no playdates, no TV, no computer games and hours of music practice create happy kids? And what happens when they fight back?
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Dalai Lama WikiLeak: Climate Change More Important... →
In a WikiLeaked document, conversations between the Dalai Lama and the U.S. Ambassador to India indicate that the environment is to take precedence over independence, signaling a massive policy…
Woman Forced To Converse Awkwardly With... →
The Man Who Spilled the Secrets →
How collaboration between WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange & news media became a clash of civilizations—& ambitions—as media struggled to corral a whistle-blowing stampede amid growing distrust & anger.
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Tiger Woods dropped from cover of his own game →
They should put all his ladies on the cover instead- it would sell like hotcakes! I’m telling you: hotcakes! (read: hoe cakes.)
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Robert De Niro to head jury at Cannes Film Fest →
Three words: Pesci Pesci Pesci.
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Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? →
The diamond invention—the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem—is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade.
The Lost Jokes and Story Arcs of "Sweet Seymour... →
Bill Oakley was a writer at The Simpsons from seasons 4-6 and an executive producer/showrunner with his writing partner Josh Weinstein from seasons 7-8. They wrote such episodes as “Who Shot Mr….
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Toshiba Officially Announces Glasses-free 3DTV →
Now we’re talking!
The Toshiba Integral Imaging technology applied to its glasses-free 3DTVs works with multiple view points that enable the human brain to see 3D images, while also allowing for a wide viewing angle. Toshiba said that its “view point overlay technology” will allow viewers to move their heads whilst watching 3D content without compromising the 3D effect.
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Gerry Rafferty Dead at 63 →
Singer-songwriter Gerry Rafferty, best known for such hits as “Stuck in the Middle with You” and “Baker Street,” has died after a long battle with an unspecified illness, according to The Associated Press. He was 63.
RIP. :(
Mimi Sheraton and Andre Soltner on what's changed... →
“I think the whole Brooklyn thing must be greatly exaggerated”
Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die | Magazine →
Looking back, we were American otakus, says comedian and author Patton Oswalt, who has a plan for reviving geek culture.
Oscar-nominated star Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64... →
AP - He could have stayed in teaching. That’s what his parents wanted: it was the safe, secure route for a young man with working-class roots and a face few would describe as handsome.
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Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom... →
The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.
Not in Pennsylvania, one of the states at the center of the gas rush.
There, the liquid that gushes from gas wells is only partially...
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First the death of thousands of birds, and now... →