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10 International Women’s Day Posters | Listicles From the...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:05:38 -0600

10 International Women’s Day Posters | Listicles

From the article:

“The holiday grew out of what used to be a Soviet block [sic] celebration known as International Working Women’s Day, and is now celebrated in most of the civilized world. Barbarian countries that have yet to recognize the day include the United States of America, the United Kingdon, France, Germany and Canada.”

Fear & Loathing On Sesame Street

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:21 -0600

pbh3:

We can’t stop here… this is Cookie Monster country!

Did someone think this wasn’t the reason? pbh3: Super...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:05:34 -0600

Did someone think this wasn’t the reason?

pbh3:

Super Mario finally explained.

"The new antinucleus, discovered at RHIC’s STAR detector, is a negatively charged state of antimatter..."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:03:42 -0600

“The new antinucleus, discovered at RHIC’s STAR detector, is a negatively charged state of antimatter containing an antiproton, an antineutron, and an anti-Lambda particle. It is also the first antinucleus containing an anti-strange quark.”

- From two-trillion-degree heat, researchers create new matter — and new questions

You don’t often get to say “anti-strange quark.”

me: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2010/03/oscarballot2010.html

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:01:12 -0600

me: http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2010/03/oscarballot2010.html
Jeff: !!
me: I know!!!!!
Jeff: hahahahahaha Lucida Console
me: I voted for Comic Sans
Jeff: I voted for Papyrus. Both need to die.
me: you would rather the world continue to be subjected to Comic Sans over Papyrus? I DON'T KNOW YOU ANYMORE.
Jeff: hahaha. I figured enough people would vote for Comic Sans, so I might as well toss one to another eyesore just to get the dig in.

Save the earth…kill the kids? PassiveAggressiveNotes.com A...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:13:25 -0600

Save the earth…kill the kids? PassiveAggressiveNotes.com

A nasty, unwarranted flame note from someone who’s gotten themselves a wee bit too bent out of shape about that whole environmental thing.

Bet it’s a defensive Hummer or Excursion owner.

Universal Health Care: How Stupid Have They Figured Out We Are?...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:12:39 -0600

Universal Health Care: How Stupid Have They Figured Out We Are? | The Politics of Debt

Posting this after speaking with not one but 2 people who ended up on my phone just needing to talk to someone to figure out how to get non-insurance medical care today. I had answers, sure, I know the system here in Austin, but they were depressing.

Every time someone talks about how awesome this state is for not having income tax or how few days the legislature meets … yeah, sweet, in a short-sighted way. But I remember instead how low we rank for healthcare and education.

In return for not paying taxes, the people of this state will inevitably pay for these things in avoidable illnesses and accidents, deaths from untreated chronic disease, and the ignorance of our children. I guess it depends on what cost you prefer.

It’s not the government’s job to do everything, but surely it’s one appropriate forum in which we can gather together and take care of each other in some really crucial ways.

Or maybe we are each an island.

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:52:37 -0600

“Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.”

- Harry S Truman, Lecture at Columbia University 4-28-59

The State of Texas: Third-World Justice

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:41:46 -0600

The State of Texas: Third-World Justice:

Yeowch. This is just depressing.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo) Um. Damn.

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:57:26 -0600

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - RGM version (via OkGo)

Um. Damn.

Bluebonnet Cam - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:18:32 -0600

Bluebonnet Cam - Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center:

Geeking out on upcoming wildflowers here. It’s the one thing that sort of reconciles me to the end of winter and the upcoming Death Valley-esque summer.

An hourly pictorial update on bluebonnets growing at the Wildflower Center.

Phil Howard - Organic Industry - more charts on page On one...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:07:57 -0600

Phil Howard - Organic Industry - more charts on page

On one hand, the consolidation of so many independent brands is depressing. Does no one stay independent?

On the other hand, this graph and the others on this page explain the increasing availability and variety of organic food I see in stores.

via Reddit Nearly choked, I did. Also - since we’re in...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:19:41 -0600

via Reddit

Nearly choked, I did.

Also - since we’re in Reddit land:

A helium atom walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We dont serve noble gasses here.” The helium atom does not react.

Who do you trust? Survey results

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:15:50 -0600

Who do you trust? Survey results:

The results are interesting enough …

But the interactive infographics are AMAZING.

How Millennial Are You?

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:10:52 -0600

How Millennial Are You?:

This, and the accompanying survey results on Millennials compared to other generations is quite interesting.

I came in, as one might expect from my age, right in between Gen X and Millennial in my choices.

I now feel somewhat predictable and slightly old as well.

"A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal documents on the..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:43:52 -0600

“A Texas Tribune review of nine years’ worth of e-mails and internal documents on the Department of State Health Services’ newborn blood screening program reveals the transfer of hundreds of infant blood spots to an Armed Forces lab to build a national and, someday, international mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) registry. The records, released after the state agreed in December to destroy more than 5 million infant blood spots, also show an effort to limit the public’s knowledge of aspects of the newborn blood program, and to manage the debate around it.”

- DNA Deception | The Texas Tribune

So you’re telling me they turned over blood, without permission from parents, to the military, for unspecified, potentially unlimited, and multiple agency or private future testing and comparison?

Great.

Arabian desert. As I told you before, desert is beautiful. via...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:47:27 -0600

Arabian desert. As I told you before, desert is beautiful.

via Astro_Soichi, whose recent frequent photos from space are worth a look.

Journalists keep blathering on about this Gaga woman, and I keep...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:13:02 -0600

Journalists keep blathering on about this Gaga woman, and I keep thinking, “Dude, I saw this movie YEARS ago.”

The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:52:40 -0600

The Microsoft-Yahoo Deal:

I don’t care what you say, I don’t think this is a good idea. I’m always amazed antitrust professionals agree to let Microsoft do anything.

They promise to protect user privacy, but my expectations in regard to Microsoft’s ability to implement ethical limitations are quite low.

Glad they’re leaving Flickr alone for the time being.

Journalistic license?

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:42:00 -0600

“the first major company to drop Woods’ endorsement contract in the wake of the scandal that linked the golfer romantically to more than a dozen women.” (via ABC)

I’m not certain it was exactly romantic linking there. I could be wrong.

This journalist is already talking about therapy and infidelity, why wimp out on that terminology? See Carlin, “You can’t be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it’s an unpleasant truth …”