Creepy...

http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/lights-camera-barbie/

WikiLeaks? How about "#wookieleaks"

Twitter empire strikes back with 'WookieLeaks'

 

It hadn't hit Twitter's top 10 trend list at the time of this post, but it's only a matter of time before "#wookieleaks," the hashtag du jour, overtakes "Immigration Law," "Inception," and yes, even "StarCraft" as the topic all the cool kids are tweeting about.

 

 Just days after the close of Comic-Con, the annual ultimate geek fest in San Diego, nerdlingers are invading the microblogging service with a slight variation on the 91,000-odd secret U.S. military documents posted on WikiLeaks. 

 

While the government, military and news outlets attempt to assess the fallout from the formerly top secret documents, the tweeting public is turning its attention to a topic that —admit it — is never very far from any true American's heart or mind: "Star Wars."

 
 
Some of the more brilliant "#wookieleaks" posts include:
 
@ Geniusbastard: "The Death Star has a serious design flaw in one of its exhaust vents. #wookieleaks"
@Uranowski: "Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father #wookieleaks"
@ hagenr 'Those really were the droids you're looking for.'#wookieleaks
 
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38456932/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets

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BP digitally alters press photo, and so do others.

just in case you missed this:
 

 BP digitally alters press photo, confesses it's a fake

msnbc.com  

7/20/2010

A site called Americablog spotted a press photo of BP's Houston command center, ostensibly taken on July 16. The image had quite visibly been Photoshopped — badly — to include more on-screen camera action [in the command center].

 

BP 'fessed up. A spokesman admitted that the image was altered, said that a photographer had inserted shots where the TV screens were blank 

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38333456/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/?gt1=43001

 
 
 
... and a follow-up from Wired:

We asked you last week to help us show BP that when hiring unethical photographers (or photo editors) in the future, they should look for Photoshop proficiency on their resumes.
 
In response, you put the company's pathetic photo-doctoring of oil-cleanup press photos to shame. Your work was not only more skilled, it was far more imaginative.
 
As Kanye West would probably tell BP, "Ima let you finish your top kill, but … "

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/bp-reader-photoshop/

 

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Ping Pong Conference Table

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 When your CEO wants to bounce some ideas around...

http://www.crazydesks.com/2010/02/08/ping-pong-conference-table/

 
 

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Can't Concentrate ?

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  Can't Concentrate ?

  Take this quiz to find out if your symptoms could be adult ADHD
  http://health.msn.com/health-topics/adhd/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100259979&gt1=31001
 
  If you took this quiz and scored 11 points or more, you could have adult ADHD.
  

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  If you were too distracted to finish this quiz, you definitely have ADHD.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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News that makes you go, 'Duh."

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 Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal
 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/07/only-03-of-files-on-bit-torrent-confirmed-to-be-legal.ars
 
 

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WTF ?

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7904698/Beer-to-be-sold-in-dead-animals.html

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Oliver Stone, Hitler, and anti-Semitism

In an interview with the Sunday Times of London to promote his new documentary, South of the Border, that has sparked outrage across the Internet, Oliver Stone was seen as defending Adolf Hitler.
 
"Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein," Stone said. "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support. Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people."
 
Stone's comments—he also discussed "the Jewish domination of the media" and said Israel had "fucked up United States foreign policy for years" —were quickly condemned by the American Jewish Committee in a statement.
 
"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," David Harris, the committee's executive director, wrote. (Earlier this year, Stone told a group of television critics that "Hitler is an easy scapegoat," according to the New York Times.)
 
Stone, whose next film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, will be released in September, released an apologetic statement on Monday afternoon: "In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity -- and it was an atrocity."
 

Read original story in The New York Times | Tuesday, July 27, 2010

 

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Photoshop for Dummies

from the New York Post:
 
 
A career fraudster was sent to the slammer for nearly 24 years after giving a White Plains federal judge phony photos of himself doing charity work at hospitals and schools in a bumbling bid for leniency.
 
Daryl Simon's bald-faced move included sticking a picture of himself into a shot with a physical-therapy patient, then flipping the image and placing it next to a teen student.
 
"Evidence that his image was inserted and flipped can be seen by examining the single detail on his shirt above his fingers -- that detail appears on the left side of the shirt in the top photograph, and on the right side of the shirt in the bottom photograph," prosecutors wrote.
 

Another particularly heartless snapshot shows the 38-year-old scammer purportedly comforting a sickly patient struggling during a rehabilitation exercise.
 

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/good_scam_aritan_33Lve0jf6nuZYBYCuH4dPP

 

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Another Darth Vader in the news.

  I remembered a smiliar story about a Darth Wannabe, and dug through my archives. The best part about this story is the wit with which it is written.

 

 

Star Wars comes to Holyhead as Darth Vader strikes back in Jedi's back garden
By Tom Chivers
 
A Star Wars fan got closer to his idols than he would perhaps have liked when he was attacked in his garden by Darth Vader.
 
Jedi Master Jonba Hehol - known to family and friends as Barney Jones, 36, of Holyhead - was giving a TV interview in his back garden for a documentary when a man, dressed in a black bin-bag and wearing Darth Vader's trademark shiny black helmet, leapt over his garden fence.
 
Wielding a metal crutch - his lightsaber presumably being in for repairs - the Sith Lord proceeded to lay about his opponent, whose Jedi powers proved inadequate for the task of defending himself.
 
After besting Master Hehol in single combat, Vader, who The Sun reports was under the influence of alcohol, went on to assault the camera crew and a hairdresser.
 
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/28/nhelmet128.xml


 

 

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Darth Vader Robs Bank (Photos, Oh Yes, Photos)

from my friend Harry
 
 
It seems the Empire has fallen on hard times.  Presumably to get finishing funds for his latest Death Star, Darth Vader—or a man pretending to be Darth Vader?—was reduced to robbing a bank on Long Island this morning. Impotent Rebel Alliance security forces tell Newsday (paywall) that Vader marched into a Chase bank in Setauket around 11:30 a.m. today.
 
Brandishing a completely unnecessary handgun—as he had the power to choke the oxygen out every teller's throat—the fallen Jedi demanded cash.
 
It's unclear whether he also found their lack of faith disturbing, but one Rebel policeman says, "The teller complied with the robber's demands and gave him money from the drawer." Vader is described as 6 feet, 2 inches tall, also wearing camouflage pants, and was last seen boarding a starfighter headed in the direction of Long Island's sinister Sith stronghold, in Valley Stream. (Isn't this also where Improv Everywhere has their headquarters?)

 http://gothamist.com/2010/07/22/darth_vader_robs_bank_photos_oh_yes.php
 

 

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Supplementing the Herbal Supplements

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Notice anything unusual, i.e. effective, about those weight-loss and sex supplements?

By Tami Dennis, Los Angeles Times

July 22, 2010

 
 Here are two recalls that might not have consumers rushing to get their money back. One is for a weight-loss supplement, the other for a sex enhancer.

The Food and Drug Administration announced today that a lab analysis of Joyful Slim Herb Supplement was found to contain desmethyl sibutramine. Most people know sibutramine as Meridia, a prescription weight-loss drug.

This month, the agency similarly announced that some batches of Good Health's Vialipro had been found to contain sulfoaildenafil, a cousin of sildenafil. Most people know that drug as Viagra.

The ingredients weren't declared on the supplements' labels and can cause a variety of potential problems. Sibutramine can increase blood pressure and may raise stroke risk; sulfoaildenafil can interact with prescription drugs such as nitroglycerin.

Tinkering with the ingredient list might be one way to counter criticism that many supplements are ineffective. Nonetheless, the FDA is far from pleased.


http://www.latimes.com/news/health/boostershots/la-heb-fda-recalls-20100722,0,7892016.story
 
 

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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Lab Accidents

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LSD, gunpowder, Viagra, and the Incredible Hulk all have something in common.

http://discovermagazine.com/2006/nov/20-things-lab-accidents

 

 

 

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"Accidentally Like A Martyr" - Warren Zevon

Taliban Commander Accidentally Kills Himself

 
Irshad Khan, a Taliban commander suspected of organizing several attacks on Pakistani soldiers, accidentally killed himself and his assistant when a bomb the pair were attempting to assemble blew up, according to Pakistani officials.
 
 "Several of Khan's family were wounded when the device exploded at his home in the Bajaur tribal region of north-western Pakistan," the BBC reported
 
 

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East Goshen Township -- Town Tour & Village Walk -- 7/22/10

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Bring your Family and JOIN US

for the

EAST GOSHEN TOWN TOUR

 

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 2010

5:30 to 8:00 PM

 

(Continuous tours begin at the Blacksmith Shop on Rt. 352 & E. Boot Road and take about a half hour.  Last tour starts at 7:30.)

 

Hear the tales of Goshen during

the American Revolution

 

Listen to the stories of an almost-battle, a

Quaker's revenge on the British , the ghosts of

the Blacksmith Shop and more

 

 

TOWN TOURS & VILLAGE WALKS COMES TO EAST GOSHEN

 

What do Jane Ashbridge, John Hoopes, Amos Matlack, Lydia Davie, a PA Militiaman, a British Soldier, a tavern Serving Wench and others who lived in colonial times have in common?  They are all historical characters that will guide you through Historic Goshenville.   Costumed volunteers and guides using "first person interpretation" will tell their stories and give you a personal point of view of life in colonial times.

 

Bring your family for the Thursday July 22 and take advantage of a unique experience. 

 

More than 75 volunteers are involved in this great program.  This is the third time since 2004 that East Goshen Township has participated in the Town Tours program.  This is a wonderful event designed for all members of your family.  We hope you can come.

 Continuous walking tours will take place starting at 5:30 pm.  The last tour starts at 7:30. 

And best of all – IT'S FREE !

 

 

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Other Municipal Historical Commissions and local heritage organizations throughout the County also are offering evening walking tours this summer.  These tours are a great way to see and learn more about the rich history of Chester County.  All programs will take place Thursday evenings and are also FREE and open to the public.

Click here: Parks and Recreation: 2010 Town Tours

 

No reservations are needed for the Historic Goshenville tour.  To reserve your spot for any of the other tours, call 877-442-2476, listen to the selections and key in the corresponding number for that tour.  All tour numbers are also listed in the program brochure.   Light refreshments follow each walk.  Remember to wear comfortable shoes.

 

Remaining walks:

           

7/29      #108            Phoenixville's Historic Northside Churches

8/5        #109            Movie Making in Historic Yellow Springs

8/12      #110            Romansville Village

8/19      #111            The Mather Mansion & Grounds at Radley Run

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Star Wars Cereal Boxes

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Not really, but this is what they might look like.
 
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/19/star-wars-cereal-boxes/
 
 

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Drat !

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On my way to work I saw a small truck with the words "Suds and Cuts" written on the side.
 
 Wow! A lunch truck with beer and cold cuts!
 
Then I noticed the logo had a picture of puppies in a washtub.
 
 
 

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Scientists Create Formula for Perfect Handshake

 Despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly, regularly making a handshake faux pas such as having sweaty palms, squeezing too hard or holding on too long.  Over half of people (56 per cent) say they have been on the receiving end of an unpleasant handshake experience in the past month alone.
 
However, from today, help is literally at hand as scientists have created a mathematical formula for the perfect handshake taking into account the twelve primary measures needed to convey respect and trust to the recipient.
 
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    PH = √ (e² + ve²)(d²) + (cg + dr)² + π{(4<s>2)(4<p>2)}² + (vi + t + te)² + {(4<c>2 )(4<du>2)}²
 
 
(e) is eye contact (1=none; 5=direct) 5; (ve) is verbal greeting (1=totally inappropriate; 5=totally appropriate) 5; (d) is Duchenne smile - smiling in eyes and mouth, plus symmetry on both sides of face, and slower offset (1=totally non-Duchenne smile (false smile); 5=totally Duchenne) 5; (cg) completeness of grip (1=very incomplete; 5=full) 5; (dr) is dryness of hand (1=damp; 5=dry) 4; (s) is strength (1= weak; 5=strong) 3; (p) is position of hand (1=back towards own body; 5=other person's bodily zone) 3; (vi) is vigour (1=too low/too high; 5=mid) 3; (t) is temperature of hands (1=too cold/too hot; 5=mid) 3; (te) is texture of hands (5=mid; 1=too rough/too smooth) 3; (c) is control (1=low; 5=high) 3; (du) is duration (1= brief; 5=long) 3.
 

http://www.newspress.co.uk/public/ViewPressRelease.aspx?pr=23313
 
 
article also includes:
 
* TOP TEN HANDSHAKE TURN OFFS
* REGIONAL AND GENDER DIFFERENCES
* FIVE FAMOUS HANDSHAKES IN HISTORY
 

 

 

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What I did on my 4th of July vacation:

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Members of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment, gathered in front of the National Constitution Center on July 4th, 2010, listen to our Captain read aloud the Declaration of Independence.
 

 6th PA website
http://6pahome.com
 
 

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"Get your hands of her... you BITCH"

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U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center to Test Lockheed Martin's HULC Exoskeleton System

http://www.defence-update.net/wordpress/20100714_hulc_exoskeleton.html

 

 

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RE: TWEET - BY OYL MILLER

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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves thro

Hmmm, 140 characters just doesn't cut it, does it?
 

 
 

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from my friend Paul

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Maybe this is how we'll finally find that pesky 1:4:9 black monolith that should be laying around the earth somewhere.

 

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/lockheed-using-gravity-to-spot-subterranean-threats/

 

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Geek Groaner

 

 

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All Your Memes Are Belong To Here

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Now you can catch up on all the Internet Memes you missed since Al Gore invented the InterWebs.
 
http://www.dipity.com/tatercakes/Internet_Memes
 
It's a scrolling timeline of memes, starting from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book "The Selfish Gene" which coined the term.
 
 
Take a tour of meme history!
 

The Internet Coke Machine (1982)
First Post by Mark V. Shaney (to net.singles) (1984)
Godwin's Law (1990)
the JenniCAM (1996)
Bert is Evil (1998)
Bonsai Kitten (2000)
All Your Base Are Belong To Us (2001)
Tron Guy (2004)
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (2005)
Chuck Norris Facts (2005)
I Can Haz Cheezeburger? (2006)
FML (2008)
David After Dentist (2009)
The Trolololololololo Man (2010)

 
...and many many many more.
 
 
Click on any meme icon on the timeline and get a brief description of an idea that grabbed the attention of millions for 15 minutes.
 
 
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From wikipedia:
"The word "meme" is a neologism coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins occuring in 'The Selfish Gene' to describe how one might extend Darwinian principles to explain the spread of and cultural phenomena. He gave as examples melodies, catch-phrases, beliefs (notably religious belief, clothing/fashion, and the technology of building arches)." 
 

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childhood regret

 news item:

Naomi Campbell will appear at war crimes trial of Charles Taylor
CNN) -- British supermodel Naomi Campbell will appear before the war crimes tribunal of former Liberian President Charles Taylor

 

I'm so embarassed.  I used to wear his basketball shoes...

 

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The Beatles in the year 3000

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Consider the possibility that the ancient stories we "know" about the people of the past are just disparate fragments we have haphazardly glommed together to fit our own expectations.

My rabbi tells a story of his own encounter with this concept.  When he was in Israel studying Near East history, one of his instructors handed him a box filled with clay pot fragments and asked him to reassemble them.  He pieced together a reasonable clay vase, and asked if it was correct.

His instructor shrugged, said, "I don't know," and pointed to a large mound of pot fragments outside. "I just grabbed a handful of the stuff in that pile and put it in the box."
 
A clever illustration of this is the following video; "The Beatles in the year 3000."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

 
 

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a payment method for patients of Homeopathic medicine

 

Allow me to suggest a payment method for patients of Homeopathic medicine:
When you are billed for the homeopathic service (let's say the bill is $100), dilute that amount tenfold.
Repeat thrice.
Send the penny as payment, with an explanation that the penny still retains the buying power of the original $100.

 

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Ten technologies that should be extinct (but aren't)

 excerpt:
 

CDs and MP3s were supposed to kill the long-playing album for good. Instead, vinyl LPs have clung to life longer than Abe Vigoda — and along with them, the venerable turntable.
 
Sales of vinyl albums actually increased last year, from 1.9 million to 2.8 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan, though that's still just a drop in the bucket compared to CDs (374 million) and digital tracks (1.2 billion).
 
These days, you can get a digital turntable that plugs into your PC and converts groove-laden tunes into digital files for carrying on your iPod.
 
Either way, this is a good thing; life's just better when listened to at 33 and 1/3.

full @  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38141219/from/toolbar?Gt1=43001

 

 

 

 

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How to pour the perfect cup of coffee

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Years of research have resulted in the definitive way to pour the best second cup of coffee
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There is a best way – mathematically– to pour your second cup of coffee, says a study called Recursive Binary Sequences of Differences that will appeal to anyone who is truly pernickety about their beverages.
 
But no one realised it until the year 2001, when Robert M Richman published his simple recipe in the journal Complex Systems. During the subsequent passage of nine years and billions of cups of coffee, the secret has been available to all.
 
"The problem is that the coffee that initially comes through the filter is much stronger than that which comes out last, so the coffee at the bottom of the pot is stronger than that at the top," says Richman. "Swirling the pot does not homogenise the coffee, but using the proper pouring pattern does."
 
Here's all you have to do. Prepare coffee – two cups' worth – in a carafe. Now get two mugs, call them A and B. Then: "If one has the patience to make four pours of equal volume, the possible pouring sequences are AABB, ABBA, and ABAB."
 
Choose ABBA.
 
That's it. You now have two nearly-identical-tasting cups of coffee.
 
Richmond tells what to do if you're pernickety: "If one wishes to further reduce the difference and has more patience, one can make eight pours of equal volume, four in each cup. The number of possible sequences is now 35." The optimal sequence, he calculates, is ABBABAAB.
 
And if you are more finicky than that, Richmond neglects you not. "With even more patience, one may make 16 pours, eight into each cup. There are now 6,435 possible pouring sequences."
 
ABBABAABBAABABBA is the way to go.
 
This same blending problem crops up elsewhere in modern life: in distributing pigments evenly when mixing paint, and even in choosing sides for a basketball game. "Consider the fairest way for "captain A" and "captain B" to choose sides," Richman instructs. The traditional method – alternating the choices – leads to unequally strong teams. Instead, use the coffee recipe, which is "likely to result in the most equitable distribution of talent". Insist that captain A has the first, fourth, sixth, and seventh choices, while captain B has the second, third, fifth, and eighth choices."
 
The mathematics in this study looks at coffee production as a collection of "Walsh functions". These are trains of on/off pulses that add together in enlightening ways.
 
The monograph ends modestly, or perhaps realistically, with a wistful thought: "As is typically the case with fundamental contributions, scientifically significant applications of this work may not appear for some time."
 
Richman recently retired as a chemistry professor at Mount St Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He now has more time to devote to this mixing business, with pleasure.
 
"It took me over 10 years to develop the mathematics to solve this problem, which is well outside of my primary area of expertise. I'm trying to find a classical number theorist who is willing to collaborate on the sequel: I think I can definitively establish the best way to pour three cups of coffee".
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jul/13/perfect-coffee-improbable-research

• Marc Abrahams is editor of the bimonthly Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel prize

 

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Friends don't let friends drive dead

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PORTLAND, Ore. -- A car full of people dressed as zombies crashed on Interstate 84 near downtown Portland on Friday, causing initial confusion by people who witnessed the crash.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38178388/ns/local_news-portland_or?Gt1=43001
 
 
 

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today's xkcd

 

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Missing cat poster

This humorous email exchange will be of particular interest to anyone with a background in graphic design.

http://jezebel.com/5582562/clueless-secretary-makes-for-hilarious-office-email-thread
 
 
 

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Prince explains digital music

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[Prince] says, "The Internet's completely over. ... The Internet's like MTV. At one time, MTV was hip, and suddenly it became outdated.
 
Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers, and that can't be good for you.
 
 
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=509090

 

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Daddy, when I grow up, will I have a ginormous ego, too ?

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http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=508343&gt1=28102

 

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swords => plowshares => swords

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and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.  
<< Isaiah 2:4 >>

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 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, I am strong    
<< Joel 3:10>>


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Can't decide between a weapon and a plow ?

Hey Isaiah and Joel, you can have it BOTH ways.
  http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/06/0617plow-gun-mashup/
 

 

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FW: DO NOT REPLY IF YOU ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THESE EMAIL

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Dear Vitor Manuel Guimaraes Verissimo Serrao.

vit.ser@fl.ul.pt

 

I received your spam email requesting money to receive a FedEx package that is not mine.

fedexdeliveryserviceltd@discuz.org

 

 

No doubt you obtained my email address from a database compiled by 'bots that collect email addresses from websites.

 

I am posting your email addresses on my blog in the hope that a 'bot picks up your address and adds it to a spammer's database.

 

Here's hoping you get spammed repeatedly,

 

Me

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CNN News: 
 http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/08/connecticut.church.scam/index.html
 
 
Connecticut Priest Stole Church Money for Male Escorts
 
 As his congregants continued to tithe, the Rev. Kevin Gray of the Sacret Heart Church in Waterbury, Conn., pulled money from his church's coffers to pay for a secret double life. 
 

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I guess this is a case of... Robbing Paul to pay for Peter .

 
 
 

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Job Opening: Proofreader for Reuters News headlines

 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6622I420100703

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6th Pennsylvania Regiment in the news

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from NY Times;

 Ringo Starr, at Age 70.   The Beatles, Ageless.

By EDUARDO PORTER

 

Ringo Starr is turning 70 on Wednesday. It feels as though youth itself is now 70 years old.
 
I wasn't yet 6 when the Beatles played their last live performance atop the Apple Corps building on Savile Row in London, January 1969. They split four years before I got my first Beatles album. Still, I can keep track of my teenage years by Beatles songs I happened to be enthralled with at the time. Forty years after they broke up, my 6-year-old son is learning to play "Eleanor Rigby" on the piano.
 
Not only are the Beatles the best-selling act of all time, but everybody has done their songs, from Jimi Hendrix to David Bowie to Elton John. "Strawberry Fields Forever" has been covered by Aimee Mann and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs of Argentina. The Brazilian band Os Mutantes sneaked the guitar solo from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" into its hit "Ando Meio Desligado." Sesame Street's songbook includes "Hey Food," and "Letter B."
 
In 2001, the compilation album "1" was a top seller in the United States and Britain. "It's beyond an obsession. It's an ideal for living," Noel Gallagher of the 1990s British-pop band Oasis once said. "With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles."
 
It is somewhat odd that the musical tastes of today's youth are still linked closely to a band that released its last album when the parents of today's teenagers hadn't even met and music still came on vinyl. When Ringo was born, the median life expectancy in the United States was only 63. More than half the 20-somethings who paid $4.50 for a ticket to their last concert in Candlestick Park in 1966 are dead by now.
 
Maybe the famously self-centered boomer generation into which the Beatles poured their music never grew up. Like no generation before, boomers crafted identities out of tastes for music, dress and politics. As we moved into middle age, we brought along the Beatles and passed them on to our kids.
 
Wherever it comes from, there is some unique quality about what the Beatles had to offer. It's not as good as eternal youth, but it is a close second. To me, their music does not sound any older than when 64 was a much longer way off. Maybe this is what we mean by timelessness. It's turning 70 while remaining 24 at the same time.
 
 EDUARDO PORTER 

 

 

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RE: RE: Some headlines just write themselves...

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My friend Mitch sent me a headline he saw, as well as his comment on it.
 
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"google apps e-mail widget for igoogle"

   If you know what this means, you are definitely a geek 
 

 

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Hey, remember when Record Albums had Artistic covers ?

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You might enjoy this time sponge called a website --

 

Album Art

 http://www.albumartexchange.com/

 

 

 

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Some headlins just write themselves...

 News item from the Irish Central
 
 
Woman in sumo wrestler suit assaults ex-girlfriend who waved at man dressed as Snickers bar
 
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/news_from_ireland/Woman-in-sumo-wrestler-suit-assaults-ex-girlfriend-after-waving-at-man-dressed-as-Snickers-bar-97262439.html

 

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