January 2009
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The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - 08 (Antichrist...
He's Mr. Heat Piven
anthonyking:
REUTERS: Actor Jeremy Piven has abruptly left the hit Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow,” blaming a high mercury count, Daily Variety reported in its Thursday edition. DAVID MAMET: I talked to Jeremy on the phone… my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer.
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Alarm Clock: Official Mensa Alarm Clock Reminds... →
When the alarm sounds, you will need to memorize and repeat a random sequence of colored lights on one of three difficulty levels. If you get the sequence wrong, or you are too slow, the alarm gets progressively louder until you get it right.
Blindspots: Movie Reviews for the Visually Impared →
101 Dalmations
From the visually impaired point of view: If you are a dog lover and smile every time you hear the sound of barking dogs, then this movie may bring you some pleasure. Otherwise, this is a good one to pass on. The movie started out weakly, with quick flashes, lots of music and very little dialogue. Then it got increasingly worse, with continual adventure scenes with music, lots of...
This Wikipedia page is so interesting that I feel... →
In August 1990 an unemployed French nuclear physicist named André Gardes attempted a singlehanded invasion of Sark, armed with a semi-automatic weapon. The night Gardes arrived he put up signs declaring his intention to take over the island the following day at noon. He was arrested while sitting on a bench, changing the gun’s magazine and waiting for noon to arrive, by the island’s...
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Madoff before
His rise on Wall Street was built on his belief in a visionary notion that seemed bizarre to many at the time: That stocks could be traded by people who never saw each other but were connected only by electronics.
In the mid-1970s, he had spent over $250,000 to upgrade the computer equipment at the Cincinnati Stock Exchange, where he began offering to buy and sell stocks that were listed on the...
Icelandic News In English
feastingonroadkill:
Read it here. Because your town could be like this in 6 months time…
“The government had a meeting at the house of the Parliament in the so-called government room this morning but Geir says that it is not because of the protesters that have been very active lately. But it is comfortable and fortunate to be in the Parliament when the parliament meeting shall start at ten...
Felt after →
“As Deep Throat, Felt helped establish the principle that our highest government officials are subject to the Constitution and the laws of the land,” the prosecutor, John W. Nields, wrote in The Washington Post in 2005. “Yet when it came to the Weather Underground bag jobs, he seems not to have been aware that this same principle applied to him.”
“It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.”
– Eliot Spitzer, when asked by FT’s John Gapper how he was enjoying his new career as a Slate columnist. (via thedailywhat)
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Making Obamas Feel At Home in DC →
”First and foremost: replace those ‘Taxation Without Representation’ plates on the limo. Clinton used them, but W. had them removed instantly.” via
What You Might Not Know About Fake Christmas Trees
* Who decided to make a fake Christmas tree?
Actually fake trees were invented by a company who made toilet bowl brushes, the Addis Brush Company. Regardless of how far the technology has come, it’s still interesting to know the first fake Christmas trees were really just big green toilet bowl brushes.
via: The National Christmas Tree Association
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The redesigned Washington Metropolitan Area... →
View a day in the life of a Metrorail train operator!
Slate In Brief →
dailymeh:
95 percent less verbiage. Whoever is doing this: good idea.
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Defense Secretary Gates' two brilliant ideas for... →
slateinbrief:
1. Make fewer useless weapons. 2. Make more useful weapons.
The storyline for the sequel to Forrest Gump
Gump and Co.
As in the first book, Gump stumbles through important US events in the 1980s and early 1990s. He plays football for the New Orleans Saints, sells encyclopedias door-to-door, works on a pig farm, and helps develop the infamous New Coke. He accidentally crashes the Exxon Valdez, helps destroy the Berlin Wall, and fights in Operation Desert Storm. He meets many celebrities, including...
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Johnson urged Humphrey in 1968 to consider picking... →
Zoetrope →
Zoetrope can be used to browse back through a Web page’s history. The video demonstrates a few advanced techniques for looking at historic data and shows how to compare several Web pages over time.
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Recession busters!
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