By Joe Pugliese (via WIRED)

By Joe Pugliese (via WIRED)

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

HAROLD PINTER in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2005) (via cryptogon)

LOLWOZ (via thedailywhat)

LOLWOZ (via thedailywhat)

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Tumblr was kind enough to let me know that danieldl.info just turned 3! In that time it has welcomed 460,322 unique visitors requesting 802,445 pageviews :)

TI-84 statistics functions (nCr, binomcdf, binompdf, factorials) implemented in PHP

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function nCr($n, $k) {
  //Valid for 0 <= k <= n
  return factorial($n)/(factorial($k)*factorial($n - $k));
}
function factorial($n) {
  $f = 1;
  for($i = 1; $i <= $n; $i++) {
    $f = $f*$i;
  }
  return $f;
}
function binompdf($n, $p, $k) {
  return nCr($n, $k)*pow($p, $k)*pow(1-$p, $n-$k);
}
function binomcdf($n, $p, $k) {
  $b = 0;
  for($i = 0; $i <= $k; $i++) {
    $b = $b+binompdf($n, $p, $i);
  }
  return $b;
}
?>

100 years ago, this man&#8217;s obesity was a circus act. (via Modeled Behavior)

100 years ago, this man’s obesity was a circus act. (via Modeled Behavior)

  • Joey: Well, remember when they got in that big fight and broke up, and we were all stuck in here with no food or anything? Well, when Ross said, "Rachel," at the wedding, I figured it was gonna happen again, so I hid this in here.
  • Monica: Oh, candy bars, crossword puzzles...
  • Phoebe: Oo, Madlibs! Mine!
  • Chandler: Condoms?
  • Joey: You don't know how long we're gonna be in here! We may have to repopulate the Earth.
  • Chandler: And condoms are the way to do that?

“ What I learned is that burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work. ”

Keith Yost in The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell (The Tech)