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English language Mexican newspaper
Tag: links
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-9-2009
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social network for movie snobs. looks interesting.
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selected links. pretty well selected at that.
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longish piece on Iceland’s big fat bank collapse
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The usual talk radio victims show up for a tea party protest. "Some wore buttons. One man brought a bloody effigy head of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and waved it from the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts in a chant of "Repeal, recall, revolt.""
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Quick Footnotes (generally working notes not interesting enough to make it to my next book) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
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"My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves & the quality of their knowledge too seriously & those who don’t have the courage to sometimes say: I don’t know…." The author of The Black Swan.
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Wash your hands with hands.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-7-2009
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Mr. Toast and company as the Watchmen
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A zine by, for, and about sardines.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-6-2009
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Yeah, a gallery of birds who are stealing ice cream.
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Yeah, it’s a whole blog about canned sardines. No, I don’t know either.
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how to disinfect water for drinking
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scanned in sandwiches. mmm.
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finding click track/automated drumming by variation analysis
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tool/toy to make web pages more readable in some ways.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-5-2009
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crazy old ads
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-4-2009
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The HyShot Flight Program is an experiment designed to develop a correlation between pressure measurements made of supersonic combustion in The University of Queensland’s T4 shock tunnel, and that which is observed in flight.
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A scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet) is a variation of a ramjet distinguished by supersonic combustion.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-3-2009
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sweet panorama shot
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People expected the warbles of a teen opera singer but instead got The Fall’s Mark E. Smith, world champion drunk pissed-off post-punk mumblecore king.
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Good summary of the Stanford Investments fraud and regulatory failures.
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The most ambitious project is the "immobilization device" built by Peak Beam Systems for the U.S. Army. Fitted to a small unmanned helicopter, "the Xenon based searchlight [can] be pulsed with a unique modulation (strobe) effect that results in immobilization to those within the beam," according to a contract announcement.
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According to Rueters [sic], the rapper said that he has joined the group because he was "doing what’s right and representing what’s right," adding that as a "leader of the hip-hop community" he would share what he learned with other artists.
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great photos of antarctic stuff.
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Raniere historically has the dubious distinction of being featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2003 as the "world’s strangest executive coach"
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Among about 160 files that Johnson claims contained sensitive data (.pdf) were two spreadsheets containing information on 20,000 patients, which identified four patients being treated for HIV-AIDS, 326 patients being treated for cancer, 201 being treated for mental illnesses and thousands afflicted with various other diseases.
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Unexpectedly great interview with Margot Kidder. She knows everybody and did everything and is smart as hell.
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building mozilla code
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-2-2009
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bombombombomwooooo.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-1-2009
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"I must say that by now there is much more snow on the Mountains of Moustache and that the Hair Republic has been invaded by the Federation of the Face." A map made from someone’s face.
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Ya Wanna Hang with Us? Don’t Cuss!
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The exhibition, "Edward Hopper & Company," which opens on Thursday and runs through May 2, groups seven paintings and three sketches by Hopper with dozens of images by eight photographers
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Comic book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file.
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Yet even the most tolerant journalist would be hard-pressed to deny that Bourriaud is the type of French intellectual who makes the English wish the Channel was a thousand miles wide.
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Campaigners in Mauritania accuse the new military regime of turning a blind eye to a cult of obesity among young girls being groomed for suitors
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bad architecture.
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end of an era. this was a great pleasure of mine. glad he ended with such a fine song.
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"The fastest spores travelled more than 1 million times their own body length in one second" says Money. "A 1.8-metre human travelling at 1 million times his or her body length in one second would be travelling at a velocity of 1.8 million meters per second, which is more than 5000 times the speed of sound."
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Onward, Christian soldiers! As Rev. James Dobson steps down as the once-influential crank chairman of the conservative Focus on the Family, he is being replaced by Ret. Airforce Lt. Gen. Patrick P. Caruana, a recently retired Vice President for Northrop Grumman Space Technology wh’s a real life Dr Strangelove.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-28-2009
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What we discovered is that Santelli’s "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign
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Area rich nerds make a whole curriculum about stuff they think is cool. Actual world ignored. Prizes for everyone, and special hats!
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Our daddy always told us that bees were God’s way of showing us he hated witches. We think it’s high time someone investigated the bee-dieoff/witch connection!