August 2010
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YOU'VE GOT TO TELL 'EM! THE INTERNET IS PEOPLE!!
From underpaidgenius (with my emphasis and my links—mouseover for commentary):
“The internet is made of people. People matter. This includes you. Stop trying to sell everything about yourself to everyone. Don’t just hammer away and repeat and talk at people—talk TO people. It’s organic. Make stuff for the internet that matters to you, even if it seems stupid. Do it because it’s good and...
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The Onion Calls Out our Imaginary Economy (I...
Screengrab source.
I guess it’s fine that our economy is entirely a symbolic, mutually shared illusion, so long as we can laugh at it. ;P
…but seriously, I doubt we’ll see this Onion story reblogged and retweeted all over the tuberwebs.
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SEE THAT, Anti-Mosque-at-Ground-Zero Protesters?...
officialssay:
“By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor… It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.”
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Taliban operative Zabihullah, on how the mosque controversy is benefiting the Taliban.
If we respect people’s freedom (even their freedom to be insensitive to people’s feelings about 911) the terrorists DON’T...
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The Glasgow Effect: Warning! Topspot-Promotions... →
Warning to all bloggers… Today I received this email:
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This is a scam! Topspot-Promotions give no phone number and only a skeleton website. Do not fall for this scam… You will not be paid for any work you do. Worse, you risk having malware links on your blog/site.
Do not reply to mail…
A scam??? ON THE INTERNET??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Actually, this is good to know. ...
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Politics, Religion, Glenn Beck and the Art of Not...
So, I generally try to stay away from even mentioning Glenn “I’m a Loser Baby” Beck, but thanks to his exceptionally disrespectful event today, there really is no point in not helping him with free publicity. Along those lines, here’s a reblog from friendlyatheist:
Beck talks faith in rally coinciding with anniversary of King’s speech
In a speech Friday night,...
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If you're not an expert STFU. Apparently.
Got this from contrararian, who, normally, I agree with, but militant orthodoxy of any kind is dangerous, IMHO:
Would You Like Fries With That Theory? | The BioLogos Forum
“Anti-Darwinists love to ridicule the concept of “scientific orthodoxy,” suggesting that it represents the unsupported collective opinion of many scientists who are basically just “voting” on things. Going against it is...
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"Without scientific progress the national health...
Found this while looking for information (ANY INFORMATION) on Ponds and Fleischman*:
Without scientific progress the national health would deteriorate; without scientific progress we could not hope for improvement in our standard of living or for an increased number of jobs for our citizens; and without scientific progress we could not have maintained our liberties against tyranny.
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911 Conspiracy Theorists: Don't believe the hype...
underpaidgenius:
Truthers,” left-wing conspiracy theorists who believe (among other things) that 9/11 was an inside job, that no plane hit the Pentagon, that Ted Olson did not receive a call from his wife, Barbara, shortly before she perished in the crash of Flight 77, that the anthrax scare was also a government hoax (although the anthrax was real and deadly), and that hurricane Katrina was...
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HA! As if SCIENTISTS never made a mistake before!!
From sierrarein:
Phew! RT @AMNH: Neil deGrasse Tyson assures us there will be no apocalypse in 2012 http://nyti.ms/csWXqU @neiltyson
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Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history (and...
Does this freak anyone else out as much as it does me?
They see studying U.S. history as a powerful reconnection with their youth. Waiting for Beck’s “American Revival” show in Orlando, Florida, in March, 70-year-old fan Joseph Cerniglia told me he was way too busy for civics lessons when he was raising kids and working as a stockbroker and then cider-maker. “I have learned...
Learn about "factory farming" and how the huge egg... →
Democracy Now covers the egg recall and delves into the world of factory farming. Scary, scary stuff.
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WatchDaniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, speaks on why we don’t act against Global Warming
From fredericguarino:
Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology, speaks at Harvard Thinks Big 2010 on the psychological impulses that make it difficult for humans to confront the threat of global warming.
This is a great talk (I wish they didn’t cut off the very end!) and it’s something...
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NEW RSS FEED FOR The 666cast!! We're no longer...
Hey, just an FYI here for anyone who was subscribed to the 666cast’s twaud.io feed and not the official Feedburner feed. Some of you may have subscribed via website666’s twaud.io page (which will no longer feature new 666casts), but I was having trouble with their feed, so I switched to cinchcast.com. If you are subscribed to the Feedburner feed, you shouldn’t have to do a...
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Guy who pissed off the USG wanted for rape for all...
coalspeaker:
“WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “no longer wanted” and not a rape suspect, Swedish prosecutor says on website”
— Huh?? .. CNN headline .. Confusing day..
Confusing day? Confusing MORNING. That’s how fast this story broke and unbroke—for me, anyway.
I woke up to this story this morning and since I woke up early, I took a nap and when I woke up, the arrest warrant had...
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Computers can ID you and 30-50 other folks as you...
From “Who Will Watch The Watchers?” via underpaidgenius:
Who Will Watch The Watchers?
The city of Leon, Mexico, is installed real-time eye scanners that can identity 50 people per minute in motion, without any participation on their part. These can be set up in public places to identify anyone whose retinal prints are on file.
Jesus Diaz, The End of Privacy: Entire City to...
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Where were YOU on June 6, 2006? Worshipping Satan?
thereisnogod:
Sardonica Majora: Attention Shoppers…
Just because your total today is $6.66 does not, I repeat, does NOT mean that Satan is going to rip through the floor and drag you back down into Hell with him unless you give me an extra fucking cent to make it $6.67. One day last week, my first customer of the day came up with a $6.66 total….
This would have been great if...
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#WTFObama: #DontBelieveTheHype: US Mil...
US Withdraws Last Combat Brigade from Iraq, But 56,000 Troops Remain
The US has officially withdrawn its last designated combat brigade from Iraq, two weeks ahead of a deadline for the withdrawal of some 14,000 troops. In a surprise announcement, the Pentagon said the last combat brigade crossed over into Kuwait earlier today. Although the withdrawal has been hailed as a major milestone in the...
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Finally, someone else proposes that one size will...
How to Decarbonize the U.S. Power Grid
A new proposal by AMO, the thinktank arm of architect Rem Koolhaas’s firm OMA, has a plan to make the United States carbon-neutral by 2050. The plan calls for a shift to renewable energy that takes advantage of U.S. geographic diversity—solar for some areas, hydro for another—in other words, no one-size-fits-all solution. This proposal has been entered...
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Um, I think someone's a little fuzzy on the...
poptech:
“There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.”
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Orison Swett Marden
That’s...
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How Twitter does its part in the intricate process...
glasgow-effect:
“Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident…”
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People.com, 18 August 2010
Darwin was wrong: it’s survival of the least stupid.
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Must listen: George Steiner on the history of... →
Incredibly fascinating lecture from George Steiner about the comparatively tiny history of literacy. There’s a lot I agree with here but there’s a bit a difference I’d take. Definitely worth…
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GOP missing their own Absurd Disconnect: WTC =...
Well, I couldn’t let a day go by without pointing out at least one example of The Absurd Disconnect, could I?? ;P
“Isn’t It Ironic?” from underpaidgenius:
The GOP has no self-awareness, and neither do their constituents.
Carl Hulse, G.O.P. Sees Mosque Near Ground Zero as Campaign Issue - NYTimes.com
Democratic campaign officials accused Republicans of exploiting the...
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Scientists say 80% of the oil is still in the...
Another gem from Coalspeaker.com:
Ga. scientists: Gulf oil not gone, 80 pct remains
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Georgia scientists say their analysis shows that most of that BP oil the government said was gone from the Gulf of Mexico is still there.
The scientists say as much as 80 percent of the oil still lurks under the surface. The Georgia team said it is a misinterpretation of...
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Ever wonder what happened to the original Flipper?...
AMY GOODMAN: What happened to the dolphin that you named Cathy, that we knew as Flipper?
RIC O’BARRY: Cathy committed suicide a couple of days before Earth Day, which was April 22nd, 1970, the first Earth Day.
via democracynow.org
Hit up that DN link above to learn how Flipper committed suicide and also learn about a documentary exposing serious cruelty to dolphins in Japan (yes, I know,...
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Education--I bet you wish you had a better one,...
Education is a field hospital, where the little troops are patched up and turned round and sent back to fight in the great economic war that seems to be all that’s left of life.
via m.guardian.co.uk
The above comes from an interesting opinion piece in the Guardian about how a lack of language teaching makes us less interested in growing as people, as a people and as a culture. ...
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Gah! This OneHelloWorld post made me cry…...
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The Absurd Disconnect Continues: noticing greedy...
If you’re not familiar with what I call “the Absurd Disconnect,” in a nutshell, it’s when people look at the sky and tell you it’s green—or when someone tells you it’s safe to go swimming in a part of the ocean that just had millions of gallons of oil dumped in it—like that. There’s been a lot of this kind of thing going on lately and...
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Fat Man and Little Boy not "the Bombs" we think...
Two Fridays ago, I wrote about how and why the atom bombs dropped on Japan were not justified acts. The arguments I included in that post were moral ones. What follows are factual arguments against the conclusions that the bombs ended the war at all. Today I came across an article from the AP that reports on a new book detailing a tremendous Russian presence that seems to have had a far greater...
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#WTFObama: Does Obama (or any other politician)...
I’ve been wondering for years how Republicans can be the way they are so shamelessly. These so-called “Christians” who hate gays and think invading countries is a good thing, being so incredibly, amorally pro-business, and now going on about responsible spending after 8 years of two wars and an absurd expansion of government the likes of which we never saw during all of the...
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Suck on this, Solar Naysayers: Solar is now...
Solar is now cheaper than nukes:
Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Nuclear for the First Time by Cameron Scott, 07/29/10 filed under: Renewable Energy, Solar Power solar power, solar energy, solar technologies, nuclear power, nuclear energy, energy costs, duke university, renewable energy Here’s bright spot in the news of the day: energy from new solar installations has, for the first time, become...
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The Absurd Disconnect: Global Warming Edition
Back on August 2nd, I posted about how America imprisons 1% of it’s citizens while leaving another 10% of them unemployed and commented that the rhetoric promising to end this situation is just that, rhetoric—not actual promises to change things. This morning I came across “Why Even Bother With Science?” from underpaidgenius:
Tom Toles, Friday Rant — Heat Exhaustion...
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Even our cheese isn't safe from the absurdity of...
chelseawayward:
Rennet
is a natural complex of enzymes produced in any mammalian stomach to digest the mother’s milk, and is often used in the production of cheese.
Natural calf rennet is extracted from the inner mucosa of the fourth stomach chamber (the abomasum) of young, unweaned calves. These stomachs are a by-product of veal production. (source)
That’s right, some of the cheese we eat is...
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“The workplace is becoming more and more virtual, with meetings occurring across...”
– http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1416513 (via fredericguarino)
This sounds GREAT!
…waitasec…
“We are the Borg” much?
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WatchLest we forget, Ted Stevens was a dodgy man at best. Mind you, this is me doing my job as Devil’s Advocate.
Ted certainly didn’t deserve to die, but let’s try to remember why we knew who this guy was in the first place. He was one of the main guys behind the Bridge to Nowhere. He once said the Internet was a series of tubes. He would wear an Incredible Hulk necktie on days he...
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Hey, Robbie Gibbs--you say Obama isn't like Bush?...
officialssay:
“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested.”
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, responding to criticism of President Obama from disappointed liberals.
OH YEAH?? Well look at this:
(found here)
But seriously, he’s a black guy, cool. But Gitmo is still open, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are still going, and...
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Some females hit puberty as early as 7--is this a...
“You can blame chemicals or even obesity..” from coalspeaker:
But either ways girls are developing breasts by age 7 or 8 and going through puberty a lot earlier in life..
In the past, I’ve read about how the number of females born goes up during troubled times. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective as it only takes one male to impregnate many females. During...
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Someone gets how human rights and tolerance works....
“Frankly, I’m sad” from lafix:
I’m sad that in 2010 there are people who believe that discriminating against anyone is okay.
Discriminating against any faith is wrong. Discriminating against any person for their race or heritage is wrong. Discriminating against homosexuals is wrong. Discriminating against women is wrong. Discriminating against children is wrong. ...
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busybeeechelsea-deactivated2011 asked: So your URL, screen name, and blog name are kind of hardcore. Haha reluctant to reblog you!
Any good suggestions on bloggers on Tumblr worthy of following?
Any good suggestions on bloggers on Tumblr worthy of following?
