Category: Whatever
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Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program
Yes. Please militarize this program even more blatantly. Thank you Society of Control.
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Taste In Literature
Originally posted on The Dish: Bee Wilson considers the literary merits of the recipe: Recipes have a story arc. You need to get through the tricky early prepping stages via the complications of heat and measuring before you arrive at the point of happy closure where the dish goes in…
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Climate Change And Violence Linked, Breakthrough Study Finds
Shifts in climate change are strongly linked to human violence around the world, according to a comprehensive new study released Thursday by the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. The research, which was published in Science, examined 60 previous studies from all major regions of the globe. The results…
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▶ #TRUTHINJOURNALISM – YouTube
A different take on Venom: “I don’t subscribe to the school of thought that as a feature film producer I shouldn’t dabble in television, web content, or even comic books … that thinking perpetuates the consumerist mosh pit we are now desperately trying to dig ourselves out of. I have…
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“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.”
A wonderful graduation speech from George Saunders to the Syracuse University Class of 2013. Down through the ages, a traditional form has evolved for this type of speech, which is: Some old fart, his best years behind him, who, over the course of his life, has made a series of…
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Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
This isn’t a painting. It’s not from a movie. It’s not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light to loop and dance through the air. via Mysterious Dancing…
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Everything Looks Cool Photographed Under An Electron Microscope | DIYPhotography.net
The folks at FEI are making electron microscopes. If you thought that the D800 was pricy and/or bulky try a Scanning Electron Microscopes. Even a small one weighs over 850 kilos and has a p[referred door width on its installation requirements. But, the images they produce are amazing. Every sample,…
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The Book Industry’s Ironic Relationship With Barnes & Noble — New York Magazine
The industry that looked on Barnes & Noble as a virus now treats Amazon like a pandemic. Just last week, in advance of Obama’s visit to an Amazon warehouse, a letter from the ABA (now down to roughly 1,500 members) called Obama’s praise of the company “woefully misguided.” Publishers, meanwhile,…
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Purple potatoes pack serious antioxidants compared to their white-fleshed counterparts
You may or may not have noticed a new potato in town at your local grocer or more likely at your local health food store. It is native to South America and is called the purple potato, named for its deep purple skin as well as the purple flesh within…
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Rasputina – The New Zero feat. Karloff and Lugosi – YouTube
I did not put this video together. The quote below is from the person who went to the trouble. Love Rasputina, have ever since my good brother Eric F. gave me a copy of their album way back when. Pretty much the gothest thing I’ve done since high school. Clips…
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to contradict the ethical foundations of the practices it appropriates. From…
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Whatever You Do, You MUST Mask the Suffering of the White Poor
Poverty has become a suburban phenomenon. That should not be a great surprise if you have been paying attention over the last forty years. But there is the rub: most are not paying attention. Even as professionals become poorer and poorer, not knowing where to turn even when they have…
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Daodejing 9
#9.* Holding and filling it up, no comparison to stopping it in time; Honing and sharpening it cannot remain for a long time. Gold and jade fill the hall, Yet cannot be guarded. Wealthy and honored Yet arrogant, Brings disaster upon himself. Successfully accomplish then withdraw your body: [1] The Dào…
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Hunter Wild
Astride the Whisper of Chaos, a statement. Drawing upon a Platonic sense of the Erotic as a striving toward the Infinite, this series connects the development of the human form to a relentless desire to explore and traverse the unfolding Universe. Humanity rides on that first turbulent breath flowing out from…
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5 Insane Lost Verses That Change the Meaning of Famous Songs | Cracked.com
Another great list from our dear sisters and brothers at the Cracked.com Department for Telling Taxonomies and Queer Catalogs, wherein we learn that many famous songs have rather strange verses that have gone missing over time. Like the homosexual undertones of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” or like this one from…
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