Tuesday, March 31, 2015
How to delete all your embarrassing tweets before you become famous
In case you are planning on becoming famous...
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Monday, March 30, 2015
GNC to Strengthen Supplement Quality Controls
This is a step forward - the next step needs to be mandatory effectiveness testing.
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Meerkat is dying - and it's taking U.S. tech journalism with it
A cautionary tale for anyone thinking of investing in a startup - especially one with "buzz" that has no profits!
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Lee Kuan Yew's Troubling Legacy for Americans
Will Democracy splutter and disappear again, as it did in Greece? The outlook is uncertain.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Restaurant shames lying Yelp reviewer by releasing security footage
Why we should read restaurant (and other) reviews with a cynical eye
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Friday, March 27, 2015
Russian Studies programs in the United States need a boost
I am not sure what the politics of this site is - but it may at least provide some insight into the actions of the other superpower.
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Valspar Color For The Colorblind
It is an ad - but it is new to me and looks important for all colorblind people.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
House Stuns Itself By Passing Bipartisan $214 Billion Medicare Package
This is probably good news - but I had to read it twice to make certain it did not come from The Onion.
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Why Are Americans So Freakishly Optimistic?
We are a nation of immigrants - some claim to be legal. Moving from wherever we came from requires extremely optimistic outlook.
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Insightful Interaction
Something here may make you angry no matter who you are.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Surprise! That Document Bush/Cheney Used to justify Iraq, It Doesn't
Bush has been smart enough to stop talking since he left office. Cheney keeps yakking. Does the liar want another VP nomination?
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Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925 essay. Piercingly true as this may be, we’ve known at least since Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave that “most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.” — This explains the comments war on the Internet.
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Holistically Tuned - The Brain Sees Words As Pictures, Not A Series Of Letters
I am surprised that this is considered news. I have always thought that this is how one reads.
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Supreme Court Justices Blast The Corrections System
"a federal review of U.S. solitary confinement policy also found that the United States holds more inmates in solitary confinement than any other developed nation. "
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Neolithic culture may have kept most men from mating | Ars Technica
Pure speculation: Could this be around the time speech evolved? The first speakers cooperated and avoided breeding with non-speakers?
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Monday, March 23, 2015
Snap Poll: Is the Iran Deal Good for Your Country’s National Security?
Snap Poll: Is the Iran Deal Good for Your Country’s National Security? | Foreign Policy What the specialists think.
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Ava Turns 2 - March 2015 - Clive Moss
Trying to link to the album - one day I will get it right!
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In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas
Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, wrote on Slate last month that although universities cosset students more than they used to, that’s what they have to do, because today’s undergraduates are more puerile than their predecessors. “Perhaps overprogrammed children engineered to the specifications of college admissions offices no longer experience the risks and challenges that breed maturity,” he wrote. But “if college students are children, then they should be protected like children.” What happens when they leave college and encounter reality?
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Rick Perry executed a father of three after a Texas prosecutor hid evidence proving him innocent
And this monster wants to be President?
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Friday, March 20, 2015
Baltimore Ravens Offensive Lineman John Urschel Publishes Paper In Math Journal
See - not all mathematicians are wimps (weakly interacting massive particles, aka dark matter)
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
28 Beautiful Words The English Language Should Steal
I have a bad case of tsundoku - both physical and digital.
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Here Are The Gimmicks That The Republicans Claim Don’t Exist In Their Budget
Voodoo economics from the party of voodoo
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Illinois' Kirk suggests Dems are defending slavery
Mark Kirk is my Senator - and an embarrassment. If today's Republican Party was the same as Lincoln's, I would support it.
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What You Should Know About Meerkat, The Hot New Video App
This could change the nature of news reporting. Every event could be broadcast in real time. Everyone can broadcast in real time!
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Last Days in Vietnam
Vietnam is still a Communist country and the end of the world is yet to come.
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
War with Iran is probably our best option
Despite my general rational and liberal bias, this is probably almost correct. However, a limited war is not rational alternative. There have been multiple limited wars since 1945. In no significant case has the US emerged a a victor. The thought that air strikes against known targets could succeed is just wishful thinking. Winning a war means the total subjugation of the enemy. In the case of a war with Iran it means more than destroying a few nuclear facilities, or just a few million boots on the ground. It most likely requires nuclear annihilation of large swaths of the Middle East that have any remnants of Shiite sympathy, followed by an overwhelming force of boots on the ground. The US would need to do what Nazi Germany did to Europe, or what Japan did in the East before WWII - and then hope that that a powerful force (like China or Russia) would not take the opportunity to retaliate against the US, both in the Middle East and on US soil. I do not believe that the US electorate has the stomach for that, despite the posturing of the right wing pols. So, it may be our best option - but it is not going to happen. We must take our second best option - keep negotiating.
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Bronx man confesses to laser pointer incident after cops arrest his housemate
If you think that futsing around with a laser pointer is fun, be prepared for several years in the penitentiary. DON'T DO IT!
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Review: 'The Passenger' by Lyric Opera
A review of the Chicago production: "At once a commemoration of Auschwitz and an allegory for postwar Germany's coming to terms with its past, "The Passenger" is unflinching in what it has to say but is never maudlin – it plays to our humanity rather than our tear ducts. The ending brings no easy answers, no sentimental reconciliation. We are not told how to feel about the characters or the ugly history that shadows their present. We are only asked never to forget." As a side note, the set designer (who died recently) was South African. I listened to some of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's other music on Spotify this morning. He has some very interesting stuff.
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The F-35 Is Still FUBAR | Mother Jones
This is the plane that the U.S. Has foisted on Israel!
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Photographers are sleep-walking into a ‘photographic Armageddon’
Print books, at least, everybody. Don't let your family memories fade.
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Watch: This Video Proves Americans Will Believe ANY Lie About Obama
We have the Congress that the people deserve.
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Ted Cruz Makes Impassioned Plea For Repeal Of Federal Legislation That Does Not Exist
I am beginning to suspect that the crew of clowns in contention for the Republican presidential nomination are actually backed by a Democratic underground movement.
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Sunday, March 15, 2015
Tom Cotton Seems Confused About The Basic Geography Of Iran
Gadzooks! They already control Tehran! Something must be done!
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
QUIZ: Are You Smart Enough To Work For NASA?
I should run the place, it told me. Just sayin.
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A Trip to Iran
"Many (every single one I met) young Iranians feel deeply embarrassed by their government, and the way the nation is perceived abroad. Zac Clayton, a British cyclist who will finish a round-the-world cycle on March 23 described Iran as having the kindest people of any country he cycled through. "I found most Iranians -- particularly the younger generation -- to be very aware of the world around them... with a burning desire for the freedoms they feel they are being denied by an out of touch, ultra-conservative religious elite.""
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Friday, March 13, 2015
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Another reason to spend money on experiences rather than things
So that's why we just spent five weeks in twelve hotels taking thirteen flights and destroying two pieces of luggage.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Monday, March 09, 2015
Senator Who Organized Letter To Iran 'Very Much' Wants To Sabotage Talks
These crazies want to kill a deal so that Iran will drop all negotiations and start building a bomb with no international supervision or leverage. Are they nuts?
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Sunday, March 08, 2015
Saturday, March 07, 2015
Friday, March 06, 2015
Thursday, March 05, 2015
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
A Message To Netanyahu From An American Liberal - mindy-fischer-writer
Bibi is a fear-monger whose alternative to negotiation seems to be - nothing. "After all, we still remember when you first warned us that it was inescapable that “Iran was 3-5 years from a nuclear bomb”….but we also remember that you said that in 1992. And not to pile on here, but another reason that you have a serious credibility issue is because we can’t forget that you are the same man who testified before Congress claiming with all certainty that Saddam Hussein definitely had weapons of mass destruction."
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engineerwithoutacause.com
Japanese Sidewalk Interfaces - design for the blind. Only in Japan! Japanese exceptionalism!
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Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Why Our Children Don't Think There Are Moral Facts
This is a problem. It explains the behavior of our new generation of politicians.
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