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Squint and you can just make out… a couple of grasping hands?link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark
V for Vendetta will have Fox Newsites foaming at the mouth, their legacy as bitparts in a modern day Dr. Strangelove. And the challenge – that there is no such thing as a freedom fighter, on the same weekend that Gerry Adams dines at the White House. link » tags: [movies] posted via Wists: permamark
Did Digg get spammed to help ramp Sun's Stock?link » tags: [news] posted via Wists: permamark
Banks are plainly lying when they say that all you have to do is rip up the pre-authorized credit card offers they sent to you. The mail they send is one of the biggest sources of identity theft. This site allows you to directly opt out online.link » tags: [tips] posted via Wists: permamark
Creepy photos of a place in Bangladesh where they dismantle supertankers.link » tags: [photos] posted via Wists: permamark
supernova2 Explosions seem messy, the ultimate destroyers of order. What about the biggest explosions of all, the ones that are responsible for the creation of every single atom in our bodies? This picture shows what happens if you focus a laser with the same bursting energy as the entire continuous electricity supply of the USA on a pinhead sized representation of the elements within a star, in order to simulate a supernova. Amazingly, the model reveals fleeting, scale free structure reminiscent of a fractal.
They of the bushy eyebrows and general swarthy appearance. The usual answer when someone says you look like a famous rockstar is ‘I wish I had his/her money’. Somehow, Larry can’t say that. link » tags: [lookalikes] posted via Wists: permamark
The new version of Kinja is out and its much better, putting all the stats about blogs in one place and allowing recursive discovery of related blogs with continuous clicking. In fact the only thing I don’t like are what constituted the original Kinja – the digests. The new Kinja is useful as a reading list discovery tool. I’d like it to become the best of breed tool for creating and sharing reading lists, something that noen of the RSS search engines or aggregators have done properly. – The digest (or ‘personalized newspaper’) idea then follows that. Kinja, the weblog guide
In England, the more senior you are the less likely you are to ever get expicitly fired – you are leaving to spend more time with your family, taking early retirement, or chose to blow your own brains out with a revolver. Whatever arrangement results in the least fuss – because the English establishment abhores a fuss. Being handed a loaded gun to kill yourself with is more than courtesy. What the Brits really abhore, is comeback, damages – and ultimately, of course, money loss. Courtesy evolves within a culture because it is advantageous for both the donor and recipient and resignation or suicide imply that a decision was voluntary and so there is no comeback. In the US, where establishment and money are more closely linked, by virtue of being a newer country, things are more straightforward. If you don’t have money or you don’t have a track record…
The sandwich took 15 hours to eat – but was freakin awesome apparently.link » tags: [weird] posted via Wists: permamark