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"I remember hearing (reading?) that one of the reasons the US went to war in Vietnam was because of a serious addiction to Asian women acquired during the war with Japan.
That's slightly inaccurate... it was because J. Edgar Hoover had become..." [
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2 days ago
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"I came across this 1906 book on Google Books a while back: The Newspaper Worker: Designed for All who Write, But Especially Addressed To The Reporter Who May Have Only A Vague Notion Of The Aims, Scope And Requirements Of His Profession by James..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by limeonaire, Deathalicious
7 days ago
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"I think he took way too long to get to the "no" and the reasoning behind it. I don't think it's necessarily true, as Snyder says, that "a gentle answer turns away wrath"; people can get quite angry and frustrated in the face of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by blucevalo
8 days ago
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"Hah. They think their prayers did that?
Little do they realize that the shift was due to my sacrifice of a fatted calf on the altar of Octaneus, the Roman god of gas prices...." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by Deathalicious, Pope Guilty, PROD_TPSL, grapefruitmoon, crystal.castles, The Card Cheat, Monochrome, dellsolace, jal0021, jtron, Mayor Curley, nooneyouknow
8 days ago
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"It depends on how you define "superpower."
"Superpower" is a designation that was developed and used relative to the late nineteenth — early 20th century concept of "the Great Powers" of the world. The USSR is one of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by BrotherCaine, marble
8 days ago
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"If yes, then it's clear what my next career move must be.
Small Town U.S.A., here I come.
I'm imagining your adventures related in a movie that's a cross between Ace of Cakes and The Music Man. "...it was such a dreary, depressed town......" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Quidam
8 days ago
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"That makes so much sense. Whenever I've seen something like that in a store, I've always thought "that looks cool but I would only ever use it once or twice."
I wonder what the Dewey Decimal number of a squirrel-shaped cake pan is...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by matimer
8 days ago
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"The equestrian events are - I think - the only ones in which men and women compete against each other.
Yes - but it seems as though it's only a matter of convention that this is the case. I didn't mean that a non-gendered category already exists,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dejah420, peacheater
8 days ago
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"I think the issue is, and perhaps what fff was trying to get at, that whether it's right or wrong and whether it's discriminatory or oppressive or not, people who do not regard "man" and "transman" as meaning the same thing, nor..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by codswallop
10 days ago
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"This is a tangential answer, but I like to do easy meals this way:Make a huge pot of rice each week and keep the uneaten portion in the fridge.Buy a whole bunch of the ready-to-eat Indian meals (which I use as a side dish) that you can get at any..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by buddha9090
10 days ago
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"Great post Miko.
I think that it's important to remember amongst the talk about "digital democracy" et cetera that the presence of comment forums on any corporate web site has a great deal more to do with the faddishness of Web 2.0..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
11 days ago
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"From some Googling on whether autism-spectrum disorders tend to be progressive, i.e. do they worsen over time:
In contrast to the picture in schizophrenia, the loss of contact in Asperger children was not progressive, but was present from the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
12 days ago
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"More contradiction -
he's rarely capable of feeling sorry for someone else unless he is connected to them in some way - he doesn't believe in empathy;
when something's serious, he really feels for that friend (or me) and is 100% there for..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Nattie
12 days ago
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"If humans would just stop communicating with one another we could get rid of so many problems." [
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12 days ago
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"An extremely successful salesman I worked with once, who was flamboyantly and proudly lower class in his real personality and mannerisms, worked out a good method for relating to the frequently upper-class decision-makers he encountered on the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ladysin
13 days ago
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"Dress up your article by mentioning some authoritative cartoons: here's Strong Bad on IT and Business Trips." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bicyclefish
Last month
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"Whether it´s legal to drive an inflatable car on the road will depend on local ordinances, which dealers or individual buyers will be responsible for knowing. But, as XP Vehicles estimates a $200 billion market for alternative energy vehicles,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by sicem07
2 months ago
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"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by meijusa, Slarty Bartfast
2 months ago
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"All my experience with self-supporting artisans is peripheral but I had a brainstormy idea:
I bought a coffee-table book a while back on turning bowls and it demonstrated two techniques for decorating them: woodburning and inlaying a design with..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by tessalations999
2 months ago
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Healthy chips and dip?
favorited 27 times, recently by maudlin, lioness, andraste, the luke parker fiasco, ifjuly, LobsterMitten, lucyleaf, rio, googlebombed, ethel, platinum, pointystick, 2oh1, pickingoutathermos, zengargoyle, hought20, ignignokt, Twicketface, nzero, streetdreams, melissa, kittyb, JanetLand, kirkaracha, heatherann, thejanna, Jaltcoh
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've got sympathy for the plight of the homeless and I think more should be done about it - I think we ought to at least guarantee a livin'-at-the-YMCA bed-and-a-shower level of existence and more.
But it seems unlikely to me that this situation..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by dantsea
4 months ago
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"Thank you for asking the questions which lead me to question myself and my place in the world, I didn't have the vocabulary to describe my personality until I discovered "Chaotic/Good".
That's what the American political scene needs,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by wires, twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
4 months ago
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"FFF I hear what you're saying but I personally have to regard the anti-hillbilly kind of bigotry as more insidious in some ways for the exact opposite reason - it accepts that it's okay to be bigoted by unblinkingly construing that the object of..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by languagehat, Snyder
4 months ago
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"Pastabagel mentions Celestica, Stellarium is another great open source one which is more focused on planetarium-type display. (And is evidently actually built in to one commercial line of planetarium projectors?) Those crazy French and their..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by flibbertigibbet
4 months ago
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"The thing is that for what many web applications need to do to be extremely useful the "Web 2.0" look just isn't necessary. For those who want it Flash and Silverlight are there and have been there (and Java applets and ActiveX controls..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by missmagenta
4 months ago
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"I never smoked until relatively late in life - almost thirty - and it's not even once a month for me, it's that every year or two I go through a phase where I smoke once or a few times a week for a while, usually after a passing visit to a good..." [
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4 months ago
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"Reflecting on the various insightful things that have been said here, I will render an opinion that might be worth conveying to your gf's mother:
I think the strongest recurrent literary theme in science fiction is the epic, which it frequently..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jamjam
5 months ago
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"Just think of all the hilarious slapstick movies with animal leads we'll be able to make once we can more successfully communicate with animals. I want to see Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, and Mr. Speed Bump the prarie dog fighting crime together...." [
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5 months ago
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"Being a non-cat-owner but proficient cat torturer, I have found that it's actually the mist as much as the water which inflicts the greatest “shock and awe”. I have employed both strategically placed fans around a room with a standard water pistol -..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mto
5 months ago
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"Something like this happened on a flight I was on - not so much the near-crash but the almost landing and taking off again - and a little kid who was looking out the window said in all seriousness, “Must've been the wrong airport...." [
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5 months ago
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"That's not necessarily true. Comic book superheroines have to have breast implants made of depleted uranium instead of silicon. This greatly increases their average body mass and requires them to wear stainless steel girdles...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by twins named Lugubrious and Salubrious
5 months ago
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"The ferret and the cat is good... the ferret's like, “Ha HA! I will stand UNDER you! Ha HA! I will stand ON TOP of you!”" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dhartung, ignignokt
5 months ago
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Quantum Mechanics: Myths and Facts
favorited 11 times, recently by Mik3, andywolf, Cassilda, prefect, kandinski, lonemantis, khaibit, Henry C. Mabuse, DevilsAdvocate, jeffburdges, sjjh
5 months ago
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"Good point sswiller. I should have hunted down something more basic-level about QM, that would've made for a better overall post.
But here's a consolation prize: the Scientific American article Misconceptions About the Big Bang...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, sswiller
5 months ago
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"I wouldn't be the best at telling you which cert to go for but here's one bit of advice I'd offer as someone on the developer side: leaf through a PC Connection type IT equipment catalog and just make sure you can identify what each software and..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by TheDukeofLancaster, oblio_one
5 months ago
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"Also, here's ComputerWorld's The 8 Hottest Skills for '08, 8 Ways to Boost Your Career, and 12 IT skills that employers can't say no to. (Not all entry-level.)..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jmd82
5 months ago
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"The orthodox name for this would be the dereference operator or indirection operator.
But Mysterious Arrow is cool too. That sounds like the name of a superhero.
Calling it the namespace separator would be incorrect. Object and variable..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by drezdn
5 months ago
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"Hopefully people won't be completely stupid this time around, right?
Yes, hopefully the Democrats and the rest of the political establishment will stand up and do what is right, rather than trying to blame everything on Nader. It seems unlikely..." [
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favorited 37 times, recently by 235w103, fishfucker, Pyry, wabashbdw, whir, tehloki, ryanrs, tarantula, Benjy, Dillonlikescookies, Jimbob, perilous, BrotherCaine, nightchrome, crossoverman, supercrayon, hattifattener, dosterm, streetdreams, the_bone, jtron, thewalrusispaul, peppito, cazoo, zippy, champthom, ursus_comiter, LeeJay, fullerine, hal9k, anansi, confusionball, librarina, pyramid termite, Snyder, RedEmma, mediareport
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Do you guys who are blaming Nader for everything the Bush administration did realize that you're basically asserting that there should never be a third party candidate in the race? Because of course either of the major parties will always be able..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by gsb, Arch_Stanton, bokane, Snyder
5 months ago
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"I think that the thing Nader is doing, besides bringing up issues, is prominently and clearly establishing a record that the two major parties are able to exclude third parties from the presidential race in fully legal, marginally legal, and illegal..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Arch_Stanton, nasreddin, peppito
5 months ago
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"There's also James Burke's Connections serieses and The Day The Universe Changed and accompanying books." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iceman7
5 months ago
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"Oldie but goodie, I always loved Carl Sagan's Cosmos, both the book and series, though the science is certainly dated now.
And if you're up for the outré this is the subject of Koyannisqatsi. But that's a two-hour movie with no dialogue. It's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by iceman7
5 months ago
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"Only because elephants can't jump.
I thought it was just that white elephants can't jump." [
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5 months ago
