June 2008
47 posts
Worst Dow Jones Junes Since Depression →
I’m indebted to Bloomberg for first pointing this out, but if the current month ended today we’d be down 9.4% and have locked in the worst June since the Great Depression. Check the following…
War Crimes →
Q: What do the following Army service decorations have in common?
Army Distinguished Service Medal
Legion of Merit with three oak leaf clusters
Army Staff Identification Badge
Meritorious…
Priceless: executive input at its best: An epic... →
Mind Control Made Easy →
From forgetomori:
Carey Burtt’s superb “Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader” (2000). It may be fun, but this is no comedy, it’s more like a documentary. Cults thrive on…
Social Science Lesson: What Americans believe →
Today’s news delivers a great lesson for anyone who doubts that Americans are very, very religious. Here’s how religious Americans are: Only 73 percent of the athiests don’t believe in god.
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New Study: Bad guys really do get the most girls →
“During torrent icelandNovember last year, Torrent.is received a preliminary...”
– Iceland’s Largest BitTorrent Tracker Faces Permanent Shutdown | TorrentFreak
The AP-Blogger Imbroglio Jumps The Pond →
The controversy over the Associated Press trying to create its own rules about bloggers quoting from its headlines and articles, above what the law already provides, is now a news story in…
Random thoughts about the Kindle →
Might be of interest to investors, readers, writers, designers, marketers, etc. Or not… Two months ago, I got a Kindle. It’s a fascinating device, unlike almost any other launched by a…
Bounty offered to anyone who can prove homeopathy... →
Science author Simon Singh and a professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter named Edzard Ernst have put up a £10,000 bounty to anyone who can show that homeopathic remedies work…
[Screens Around Town] Login screens at Apple,... →
Apple MobileMe’s login screen is more than just an empty box. The depth charge approach gives you a peek at what’s behind the login and makes you want to “unwrap” it and get inside….
Print Your Guinness World Record Certificate for... →
Firefox fans, you just helped Mozilla set a unique Guinness World Record for the “Most downloaded software in 24 hours.”
Though the official body of Guinness World Records is yet to…
Cook like an engineer →
This chart on Cooking for Engineers totally startled me, but once I got over my need for everything to be in lists and paragraphs, it made perfect sense. With some substitutions, I made a…
Associated Press expects you to pay to license... →
In the name of “defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt” the Associated Press is now selling “quotation licenses” that allow…
BBC Builds a News Aggregator To Show Related Web... →
Media websites like The Washington Post, TIME, Wall Street Journal, etc. use Sphere to show related links next to their news stories. BBC went one step further and built their own news…
Teach the Controversy tees illustrate other... →
Wear Science’s line of “Teach the Controversy” tees invite Creationists to consider other “scientific controversies” that might be taught in school. Link (Thanks, Gus!)
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music... →
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The History Of Regexps - Part 1 →
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Wine glasses based on the seven deadly sins →
Hamilton Design’s “Seven Deadly Sins” wine-glasses come in seven shapes, one for each sin. No idea what they cost, but you could sure have a fun themed dinner party with ‘em. Shown here: Gluttony…
The Hub Of Our Life →
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Adventures in the Shanghai Composite →
The overnight 7.0% tumble (!) in the Shanghai Composite brings the losses since January in that formerly soaring index to 43.5%. Staggering stuff.
Kucinich begins impeachment process for GW Bush →
Dennis Kucinich has introduced articles of impeachment for George W Bush to Congress:
Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday…
“Spurred partly by the soaring cost of taking the car on that weekend road trip,...”
– Beating $4 Gas with a $1 Bus - TIME
US reportedly pulls out of UN Human Rights Council →
The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US has pulled out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, “an international body within the United Nations System. Its stated purpose is to…
Interesting video about ads in Times Square →
John Woods visits Times Square and explores the advertising there. The One Times Square building is empty. Why? Because the owner can afford it by selling ad space alone. It costs…
Londoners lukewarm on free £5 notes →
A price comparison website, www.moneysupermarket.com ran a experiment on the streets of London and Manchester:
[Representatives] wandered the streets this morning wearing sandwich boards…
Using Harvard’s Endowment to Help the Poor →
A group of Harvard alumni thinks their alma mater should use more of its $35 billion endowment to help the poor, rather than buying fancy new buildings and equipment.
“There are large amounts…
Disney World in 3D in Google Earth →
Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has news that Disney World of Orlando, Florida, is now available in 3D in Google Earth. To view this, enter disney world in the Google Earth search box –…
Fake bus stops to prevent Alzheimer's patients... →
Why brain surgeons are hesitant to hold their... →
Simply Explained - Part 18: Convention Over... →
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Video camera in gum package form factor →
This $128 video camera is the size of a pack of gum. I imagine you could fit it in an empty gum pack and cut a little hole in the wrapper. • Features: Built-in Memory Mini Gum Camera…
Quote du Jour: Best Time for Shipping Since the... →
The shipping industry may be slowing a little, but it’s still been boom times for five years now in that business. Ships are making a $100,000 a day in profits, and oil rigs are being leased out for…
“As a result, Taleb is now the hottest thinker in the world. He has a $4m advance...”
– The Times on Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The MacBook Air: Thin Enough To Slice A Cake →
Rahul Sood, the CTO of HP’s gaming systems division (formerly VoodooPC), has found a new use for the MacBook Air: slicing cake.
Handed a MacBook Air as a “present” at his birthday, he wasn’t…
