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No, Mister Bond, I expect you to die! But, first, let me show you around …
Actually, these places, with minimal filing of serial numbers, would make fabulous novel settings. #ddtb
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6 Abandoned Places That Will Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs
It's no secret: We love abandoned places. But while some are terrifying, and some are simply sad, others are just begging to have a laser mounted on top of them.
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No particularly profound meaning to this, but I think it's fun. #ddtb
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The case of the missing "998"
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Mind-Melter of the Day
It turns out that if you…
jtotheizzoe:
Mind-Melter of the Day
It turns out that if you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order.
Except for 998.
(via Futility Closet)
Very cool. #ddtb
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☼ Сapricious Circles
♫ Stern – Saint-Saens – Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
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You have to weed out the mediocre, too.Nobody's genius enough to be brilliant all the time. It's critical to also be able to identify which of your brilliant creations are actually … not-so-brilliant. And giving yourself room to think, a break, a chance to step away from the problem seems to be a good tactic in doing so. #ddtb
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I've always been fascinated by the failures of genius. Consider Bob Dylan. How did the same songwriter who produced Blood on the Tracks and …
#ddtb
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… so that they can afford more astonishingly overpriced sex toys.
No, really. I mean, you can only buy so many yachts and corporate jets, right?
(Um … Not Safe for Work.) #ddtb
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14 'Luxury' Sex Toys for the Extremely Rich and Creepy
Some rich people apparently can't stand the thought that they pleasure themselves like ordinary people. So they apparently do it the creepiest, most hilarious way possible.
It's not because Spock is wrong, but because he's so irritating. Because he doesn't do These Things. (Actually, sometimes, he does, which goes to show that maybe he's not quite as logical as he thinks he is, neener-neener!)
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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- My “Note in Reader” bookmarklet no longer works. The social: Three-Star Dave
- Post Your Google Plus Updates to Your WordPress Blog | Evolutionary Designs – Whoa. This actually does a goodly chunk of what I’m looking for on the back end — a WordPress plugin pulling (public) Plus posts out and posting them your blog … with the comments (how does it stay caught up?). Still limited to just Public posts, and I’m not sure I want to generate that many articles on my blog (or maybe I do, or just need to be more selective, or something), but it’s still good to know something like this is out there.
- Autostraddle — Super T&A: What’s Wrong With Starfire, DC Comics’s Controversial Superheroine – Nothing much new here, though it contains basically all the controversial Starfire bits (which basically means all the Starfire bits) from the first ish of RHatO.
- Nashville Reporter Tapes His Own Arrest, Records Apparent Police Misconduct As Peaceful Protesters Detained – Sounds a bit more than “apparent” to me.
- Cops Apparently Telling Drunken Street People: ‘Take It To Zuccotti’ – Stay classy, NYPD.
- Spooky nebula – Ooooh.
- How tea party could drive GOP to disaster – CNN.com – I worry more about how they could (and are) driving the US to disaster.
- Google Reader Social Retrospective – A nice summary of the (social) history of Reader — which, apparently, is still slated to be lobotomized.
- Energy from hot rocks abounds – There are plenty of places in the world that make use of a lot of geothermal energy. The US is, unfortunately, not. Not sure why, unless it’s just that it’s not profitable enough for some.
- How A Sheriff Uses His 10,000 Facebook Fans To Solve Crimes – “Social media is a force multiplier”
- Super-Committee Democrats still giving away the store – “But offering to give away the store is still a boneheaded strategy. It moves the terms of debate from ‘what caused the deficit’ to ‘what are we going to cut to pay for it’.”
- strip for October / 31 / 2011 – Heh.
- Time lapse: Crater Lake – We visited there on several vacations. It’s really amazing. Gotta go back some time …
- Don’t Mess With A Cat – Well, that looks like nicely self-correcting behavior.
- Oh, THERE you are, Perry! | Dork Tower – Heh.
- DORK TOWER, Monday, October 31, 2011 | Dork Tower – Happy 15th Anniversary, John Kovalic!
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Perry’s Cornerstone Speech Highlights – YouTube – Not one of Perry’s finer moments — though he himself sure seems to be having a remarkably wonderful time.
- Forecasters: Denver has two shots at more snow this week – The Denver Post
- Bennett, Robertson Don’t Like Women in Power – Crikey.
- Apple slide to unlock
- Last Two Winters’ Warm Extremes More Severe Than Their Cold Snaps, Study Finds
- BBC News – Russian clocks stay on summertime – The Russians have the right idea.
- Romney: U.S. ‘Should Not Play The Role Of Leader’ In Mid-East Peace, ‘Follow’ Israel Instead | ThinkProgress – Yeah, that’s terribly helpful, Mitt.
- Herman Cain Says Planned Parenthood Wants To ‘Kill Black Babies’ – Herman, it was cynical crazy talk when you first said it, and it remains crazy talk now.
- Rick Perry Defends Skipping Debates: We Have Great Debater In White House, Not Working Out Too Well – Yes, of course, Rick, we understand. And I’ll bet you didn’t want those grapes, either, because they’re probably sour …
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Garrett Guillotte – Probably my biggest fear with moving from Reader to Plus is… – Yes. This. “It’s great if I’m plugged in constantly. It’s a nightmare if I do not check it every day, because the always-moving nature of the Stream means I’m always going to miss something important.” And “Google Reader is/was the best asynchronous social network ever made. It’s the closest thing to a party that 25 people, all on totally different schedules, can swing.” Because, yes, I am not going to be on Plus every hour, every day. And while on Reader I can skim and catch up in huge swathes, that is not possible in Plus.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is Highest-Grossing Actor of All Time – The Hollywood Reporter – Something I’m sure his agent will mention, often, in upcoming negotiations.
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Liberty Counsel Launches the Ninth Annual “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign” – Could you at least wait until December, guys? Or even November?
- The tea party vs. OccuMob – Pat Boone: “I not only attended and spoke at several tea-party events, my neighbor Josephine Resigno and I created and hosted two Beverly Hills tea parties, right in front of the big tourist attraction Beverly Hills sign on Santa Monica Boulevard. At each one, we attracted over 500 of our neighbors, had speeches from rabbis, ministers, celebrities, elected officials and just plain citizens, including Cuban and Iranian immigrants. We sought and obtained police and city permits, rented porta-potties and umbrellas and a good sound system.” Well, good heavens, Pat, clearly you and your Tea Party types are far more patriotic and concerned with the health of the nation than those “rebellious, raucous, often profane and filthy, at times illegal, angry and purposeless mob scenes.” I mean, they couldn’t even be bothered to rent porta-potties! Damned, dirty hippies!
- 10 reasons Christians should reject Romney – Wow. I’ve never felt so pro-Romney in my entire life. If only I had any level of confidence he’d be this far the Left in the White House, I might actually be tempted to vote for him.
- Dear Religious Right, Nothing To Fear Over Halloween – The need of some Christianists to zealously either denounce Halloween as Satanic, or else claim it is purely and completely a Christian holiday, both amuses and disturbs. It’s a division of the world into Us vs Them that seems completely at odds with what Jesus taught.
- Fischer: Jesus Would Oppose And “Take A Whip” To Occupy Wall Street – Bryan Fischer is a dolt. Jesus hardly condemned taxes (indeed, when his enemies tried to trap him into a question about taxation, he replied to “render unto Caesar …”, rather than calling it a case of theft and covetousness. I certainly cannot say that Jesus would join the #OWS movement, but if he were in lower Manhattan, I sincerely doubt they would be the first folks in the vicinity he would “take a whip” to.
- Time for performance reviews to go social [infographic] – Holy Kaw! – A rather timely infographic, as I’m in the middle of performance reviews …
- Reagan–Our Pro-Apartheid President : Lawyers, Guns & Money
- Paul Ryan Gets an English Lesson – I am so waiting for this guy’s 15 minutes of political fame to expire.
- How Useful is the Concept of Sexual Orientation? – While plumbing is an important part of sexual attraction, it’s certainly not the only part. Beyond that, there’s a difference between sexual attraction (she’s hawt!) and relationship attraction (I’d like to go out with her and maybe more!). There may (and is) overlap, but SEX is not the only thing in the world (however cool it is).
- SOPA in depth: the worst-ever copyright proposal in US legislative history? – This really is insanely bad, akin to someone being able to walk up to your house, claim it’s yours, and get the sheriff to evict you without any sort of court proceeding or opportunity for you to provide your title to counter the claim.
- In-N-Out Burger will come to Denver…for a price – Denver Restaurants and Dining – Cafe Society – I like In-N-Out … but not THAT much.
- #OWS, Class Warfare and a History Lesson on the Bonus Army of the 1930’s – The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or, to paraphrase another cliche, those who forget the history of protest are doomed to see it repeated.
- When Worlds Collide – I wish they’d do more of these sorts of things on coffee cups. They last longer, and I have more cool t-shirts than I know what to do with (but can’t bear to be parted from any of them).
- Frozen Promises; Or, Life is NOT a Journey – There’s a reason why society doesn’t let people sign legal contracts until they are 18. Convincing your daughter to sign a “purity contract” at 9, or 11, or 13, is setting up everyone for heartache and broken promises. I have my own ideas about how I’d like to see my own daughter’s life and relationships and sexual experiences go in the coming decade — but I wouldn’t dream of trying to sign her into a guild contract over them. I’d rather simply try to stay in relationship with her, make my own feelings known (and hear hers), and help her along the way.
- Two-thirds of nation’s millionaires want their taxes raised – I’ll betcha the Koch Bros. weren’t on the “Yea” side of that poll, which tells you all you need to know about the last question here.
- Review: Happiest Haunts Guided Tour At Disneyland – Do you Dare? | The Disney Blog – Oooh. I’d definitely do this.
- HOWTO defend yourself against tear-gas – Boing Boing – Good to know.
- For Young Women, A Horrifying Consequence Of Mubarak’s Overthrow | The New Republic – Stupid, stupid human creatures.
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Catwoman by Tony Matta – See? You can have a sexy Catwoman without having a skanky Catwoman (and skanky Batman).
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Romney Flips To Denial: ‘We Don’t Know What’s Causing Climate Change’ | ThinkProgress – Romney is such a hack it isn’t even funny. He’s flopping around wildly, hoping to appeal to one audience after the next, and, as a result, blows his credibility even further. Cain and Perry have been just as bad.
- Happy 125th birthday, Statue of Liberty! – Huzzah!
- Why I Love and How I Use Google Reader – Yes. This. Are you listening, Google? (I note that there’s been dead silence from Google this week since the Reader/Plus announcements last week.)
- Google+ adds powerful photo editing suite, free – I don’t plan on making Google+ (or, at this point, Picasa) my photo repository of choice (that’s Flickr), but for spot posting of pictures for G+, this seems like a nice added value.
- GOP now claiming that “they” are the ones defending the social safety net – To paraphrase the military quip from Vietnam, “We had to destroy the safety net in order to save it …”
- Texas Concealed Handgun Class Not Available To “Socialist Liberal[s] And Non-Christian Arabs” – What an ass-hat.
- How Occupy has shifted the national debate – Boing Boing – I think this is a very healthy sign … if it lasts.
- Why I’m not more active in the atheist community. « Stupid Evil Bastard – Being a leader in any sort of group or community is damned hard work, and the payoff can be difficult to see in the face of the problems and conflicts it engenders. I deeply respect Les’ self-evaluation of what he’s will to put into such things (and what he’s not), and am more than happy to simply ramble along in our intermittent podcasts.
- Timeline: Cain’s Offers His Fifth Position On Abortion, Now Allows Exceptions For Rape Or Incest | ThinkProgress – Obviously he’s given it a lot of thought.
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- It’s a Bad Time to Be a Clear Channel DJ – Utterly no surprise here. Clear Channel has already homogenized radio music across the nation, so the idea of local / regional DJs is merely an additional cost item that they’ll be more than happy to be quit of.
- Florida corporate giveaways has not produced promised jobs – Yeah, there’s stunning news. Now, to be fair, the state couldn’t hire someone for $10K … but it does cause one to wonder how else that $1.7bn could have been spent to generate jobs.
- Missed Opportunity: Democrats’ New Faith Outreach Director Opposes Marriage Equality | Believe Out Loud
- Shari’ah ≠ Islamic Law: Misunderstanding the Role of Islam in Libya | Religion Dispatches – While I’m much happier with an explicitly secular state, appealing to the local religious tradition can mean a variety of things, from a theocracy to a one-true-faith tyranny of the majority, to something much more tolerant. Libya discussing the role of Sharia in its democracy isn’t necessarily any more (or less) alarming than folks in the US talking about the role of the Christianity in our democracy.
- 14 Punctuation Marks That You Never Knew Existed – I knew most of these …
- Disney Lobbies to Prevent Las Vegas Style Gambling in Florida, Why Are People Shocked? | The Disney Blog – Not at all surprising. It’s competition, and relatively easy to deploy competition at that.
- As Oil Companies Announce $24B in Profits, Rep. Stearns Says, “When Somebody Is Successful Then You Give Them Subsidies” – Dolt.
- Republican Strategist: Science Should Be Put to a Popularity Vote – (Rolls eyes.)
- Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support – The main issue here seems to be that Android phone makers try to distinguish themselves by adding on an additional layer of user interface cruft (e.g., HTC’s “Sense”) that makes it more difficult (even were they willing) to upgrade to newer OS versions. I’ve never felt particularly constrained to date on my phone — but the HTC Incredible is doing pretty well on this table here. Something to consider next time around, though.
- NOAA Bombshell: Human-Caused Climate Change Already a Major Factor in More Frequent Mediterranean Droughts – I’m sure that, in quick and inspiring response, the House GOP will vote to slash funding for NOAA.
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- HP decides to keep PC division after all – Nice way to destroy brand equity and customer relationships, HP.
- Random Answers – Well, that’s easy, it … uh … wait …
- REPORT: House GOP’s ‘Job Creating’ Spending Cuts Destroyed 370,000 Jobs | ThinkProgress – The GOP doesn’t mind because cutting government employment is, apparently, a positive thing. “Did you ever kill any jobs?” “Yes, but zey vere all BAD.”
- Is It Old? Lets you know if that link you found is old news – The Red Ferret Journal – Okay, that’s an amusing idea.
- Joe. My. God.: Abortion Laws Of The World
- Guns To Be Permitted In Wisconsin Capitol, But Not Signs – Law Blog – WSJ – From the quotations, the GOP lawmakers are more scared of unruly signs than concealed weapons. Yeesh.
- The TSA Blog: Inappropriate Note Author Identified and Removed From Screening – Okay, polite applause to the TSA for (a) taking this action, and (b) balancing very HR-appropriate privacy concerns with the public’s interest in this case. Because not only do we want to be sure that this creep is permanently off the line (and, preferably, out of the TSA), but it will send a very useful message to the other folks who rummage through our luggage.
- Frontier Airlines owner considers sale of jets, landing slots – The Denver Post – Hmmm. That’s not good.
- Record Year For Abortion Restrictions | The Onion – This would be hilarious, of course, were it not so Onionesquely close to the truth.
- Report: South Dakota Removes Hundreds Of Native American Children From Their Homes, Collects Millions In Federal Funds – Disgusting.
- After Two Anti-Gay Groups Oppose Lesbian Judge, Senate GOP Suddenly Decides To Oppose Her – It’s all about appeasing the fringe.
- Shell’s Sketchy Arctic Spill Plan – If I came up with a Disaster Recovery plan that shoddy, I would probably get fired. But, then, Shell is far less interested in actual disaster planning (which would cost a lot of money and time) than in checking off the appropriate box on its application to the government. And, after all, what’s the worse that could happen? ExxonMobil and BP are still in business …
- Just Three Corporate Front Groups Spent 13 Times As Much As The Entire Labor Movement To Buy Judicial Elections: Ian Millhiser
- How David Barton Is Secretly Shaping Curricula Across The Nation – “Soros-type people get paid to find my name every time it pops up and they will start blogging about how stupid I am, how I don’t know anything, how I make up my history. And so if you Google me, you’re going to find a lot of negative stuff about me.” I’m proud to say some of that stuff is here (though, sadly, I don’t get paid for it). Dolt.
- You can now access thousands of scientific articles (written by some of history’s greatest minds) for free [This Is Awesome] – This is why we have the Internet. Fantastic.
- Soda use linked to teen violence [Sociology] – Um … or maybe teens that are prone to “violence” (handwaving definition) are more likely to drink sugary, caffeinated sodas.
- Denver schools panel will weigh moving fall start date past dog days of August – The Denver Post – Ironically, some late-starting California public schools are moving the other direction.
- First Look: Will Sasso, Sean Hayes & Chris Diamantopoulos in ‘The Three Stooges’ – I have to say, after multiple decades past when The Three Stooges were “forbidden fruit” on TV when I was a kid, I am well and truly over them. This movie doesn’t at all change that.
- Robert Reich: Obama should call for return of Glass-Steagall – What? You think we really need a barrier between banks that accept deposits from families, and banks that bundle up crappy derivatives and sell them in an ever-swelling bubble? I mean what could possibly go wrong?
- Weird Things My Family Says – Family insider speech is often amusing. (“Hungry?” “Whizins!”)
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Angry Birds: Not as Fun in Real Life
- All the Doctors in Whoville…
- Architizer Blog » Steve Jobs Grew Up in a Modernist Home – I’ve always thought Eichler homes were very cool to see, but perhaps not very practical — especially lacking any ceiling insulation (or window/wall insulation), and having relatively flat roofs that don’t deal with excess rain (let alone snow) very well. But they’re cool to look at.
- Orange County city council unanimous: Occupy tents are a form of speech – Well, that’s unexpected in the OC … unless they’re considering the matter as true conservatives, respecting the right to speech and assembly (whether you agree with the speakers/assemblers or not).
- Herman Cain’s Staff Told “Do Not Speak To Him Unless You Are Spoken To” – An example of why business folk don’t always make good politicians or political leaders. While a business exec can possibly get away without letting the hoi polloi chat with him, a politician (esp. the President) cannot.
- Already? First Image of the Motorola Droid 4 Leaks – Linked to only to note I just realized I’m only 7 months away from my 2 year “refresh” on my existing phone. Time flies, indeed.
- ABC News Still Fumbling Fisker Automotive Story – Dolts.
- ACT! Demands Donations To Fight Imaginary Sharia Invasion – Because Jesus was all about giving money to the … folks worried about Samaritan law invading the Holy City of Jerusalem, or something. Right? I mean, there’s something about Samaritans there in the Bible, from what I recall, that must be it.
- Would You Use Dollar Coins if It Saved the Government $5.6 Billion? [Government] – “why do Americans dislike the dollar coin?” Because it’s different. Because they use bills and there’s no immediate benefit to using them. Indeed, there might even be a small inconvenience. Plus, given the spin given to the half-hearted efforts in the US to date, it smacks vaguely of THE GUBBIMENT IS TAKING AWAY MY RIGHT TO DOLLAR BILLS or something. So the answer is to simply stop making dollar bills. Period. Then the coins will, over time, perforce be used. Problem solved.
- Those poor persecuted Christians – Again and again, we see the issue of folks who consider their practices and opinions to be the “norm,” and so don’t see why anyone else of a different opinion or belief should be offended — indeed, who see maintenance of their particular norm as being a matter of “freedom”. It’s not so much malice (in most cases) as unaware ignorance and confusion.
- We Are All Strapping Young Bucks Buying T-Bones Now – Ryan is worried about our social safety net becoming “a hammock that ends up lulling people into lives of dependency and complacency which drains them of their incentive and the will to make the most of their lives”? Obviously he hasn’t tried to make a budget while living on existing levels of social security, or food stamps, or other such stopgaps.
- Fox News Grasps at Next Straw to Attack #OWS… ACORN! – “Grasping at Acorns” … I love it.
- SOPA: US House of Reps copyright bill proposes national censorship, attacks on hosting services, Twitter, YouTube – Leaving aside the whole “Twitter is threatened” stuff, this is just stupid-bad policy. Even if the IP issues are as dire as described, it’s really a case of the (very well-monied) tail wagging the dog to impose this sort of process.
- Mississippi’s shame – In the words of LBJ (a man who knew a lot about lawmaking, good and bad): “You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.” Anyone who thinks this bill will not be used by someone, somewhere in Mississippi to do all the things that the official supporters say it would never, ever be used for … well, I have a nice bridge in a swamp to sell you.
- Now, the American Cancer Society is Just Lying… – ACS is seriously shooting themselves in the foot here. Even if one takes them at their word (which is a bit of a stretch), they’re letting their internal rules drive them into damaging their public image.
- Brad Bird Talks ‘Incredibles 2;’ Willing to Make a Sequel, But Only With the Right Story – Good answer (on both counts).
- Rick Perry May Bow Out Of Future Debates – To be fair, the GOP has been putting on a bucket-load of debate this campaign season (and thus continuing to provide coverage to marginal candidates who have little hope of getting out of their polling doldrums). I’m not surprised Perry (et al.) are getting a bit tired of it.
