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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:07:49 GMT

Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indo...

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:24:06 GMT

Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.

Review: Alice In Wonderland 3D Doesn't Need the 3D - Alice In Wonderland - Gizmodo

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:19:22 GMT

I think I'll watch it in 2D

http://gizmodo.com/5486765/review-alice-in-wonderland-3d-doesnt-need-the-3d

kitten: The Text Adventure || kuro5hin.org

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:58:35 GMT

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/3/12/17124/7273

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Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:49:28 GMT

"It’s funny, yes, but it’s a fascinating glimpse at just how confused many peo..."

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:04:18 GMT

"It’s funny, yes, but it’s a fascinating glimpse at just how confused many people are about how web sites and browsers work. They don’t use bookmarks, they don’t type “facebook.com” in the location field. They just Google for whatever they’re looking for and assume the first result is correct."

–Daring Fireball Linked List: 'Facebook Login'

"Bad Science: Accidents of birth and incidence of trigger-happy puppies"

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:29:05 GMT

"Bad Science: Accidents of birth and incidence of trigger-happy puppies"

–Bad Science: Accidents of birth and incidence of trigger-happy puppies | Comment is free | The Guardian

How to get past a flat bed lorry blocking your escape route, while riding a h...

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:52:45 GMT

How to get past a flat bed lorry blocking your escape route, while riding a horse.

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:49:55 GMT

Die Antwoord - Zef Side

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:25:16 GMT

Die Antwoord - Zef Side

Answer to what?

"In a paper I’m presenting today at Financial Cryptography, Steven Murdoch and..."

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:00:53 GMT

"In a paper I’m presenting today at Financial Cryptography, Steven Murdoch and I analyse 3D Secure. From the engineering point of view, it does just about everything wrong, and it’s becoming a fat target for phishing. So why did it succeed in the marketplace?"

–Light Blue Touchpaper » Blog Archive » How online card security fails

"This sentence is a three-word refutation of the post linked in the previous s..."

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:56:12 GMT

"This sentence is a three-word refutation of the post linked in the previous sentence, the first of which three words is “Um.”"

–This is the title of a typical incendiary blog post - Coyote Crossing

How to clean the snow from your car.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:27:19 GMT

How to clean the snow from your car.

"Apple isn’t trying to replace Flash with its own proprietary thing. They’re r..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:43:50 GMT

"Apple isn’t trying to replace Flash with its own proprietary thing. They’re replacing it with H.264 and HTML5. This is good for everyone but Adobe."

–Daring Fireball: Apple, Adobe, and Flash

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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:29:21 GMT

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Vote on this so I can buy this shirt! via know your dinosaurs

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:50:56 GMT

Vote on this so I can buy this shirt! via know your dinosaurs

[Reposted from ashe via luca]

Tête de Moine

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:23:04 GMT

Tête de Moine

The cheese is eaten in an unusual way: it must be carefully scraped with a knife in order to develop its scented flavours.

"World poverty is falling. This column presents new estimates of the world’s i..."

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:42:19 GMT

"World poverty is falling. This column presents new estimates of the world’s income distribution and suggests that world poverty is disappearing faster than previously thought. From 1970 to 2006, poverty fell by 86% in South Asia, 73% in Latin America, 39% in the Middle East, and 20% in Africa. Barring a catastrophe, there will never be more than a billion people in poverty in the future history of the world."

–Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin, writing for vox

Four Lions trailer - new Chris Morris film

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:22:01 GMT

Four Lions trailer - new Chris Morris film

"Now if my understanding of bank card security is correct, then changing your ..."

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:05:23 GMT

"Now if my understanding of bank card security is correct, then changing your PIN will do absolutely nothing, and if your card has been skimmed, then you will want to speak to the bank."

–Friendly Robot Overlord: Is changing your PIN a good idea?

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:05:09 GMT

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:27:51 GMT

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Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:03:29 GMT

"Because of ego. Because saying is so much more important than hearing. Beca..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:21:59 GMT

"Because of ego. Because saying is so much more important than hearing. Because expressing is so much more important than understanding. Because 'I' am so much more important than 'you.'"

–Chiron: Active Listening

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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:15:44 GMT

"[...] they slowed down the ticking frequency of the atomic clocks before they..."

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:27:37 GMT

"[...] they slowed down the ticking frequency of the atomic clocks before they were launched so that once they were in their proper orbit stations their clocks would appear to tick at the correct rate as compared to the reference atomic clocks at the GPS ground stations."

–GPS and Relativity

"July 1993: London bookmakers' odds that the British monarchy will be abolishe..."

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:02:49 GMT

"July 1993: London bookmakers' odds that the British monarchy will be abolished by the year 2000: 1 to 5"

–Harper's Index

via Picasa Web Albums - rikkus - Embankment

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:31:53 GMT

via Picasa Web Albums - rikkus - Embankment

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on..."

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:28:42 GMT

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."

–Official Google Blog: A new approach to China

Japanese survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings dies, aged 93

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:55:57 GMT

Japanese survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings dies, aged 93

via www.27bslash6.com

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:15:28 GMT

via www.27bslash6.com

The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:22:24 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/magazine/ideas/2009/

Three weeks in the United States of America - David R Thorne

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:12:41 GMT

http://www.27bslash6.com/america.html

Soundgarden: The 12 Year Break is Over and School is Back in Session

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:21:52 GMT

http://www.soundgardenworld.com/

"Both sides to the debate — pro and anti-war protagonists alike — need to lowe..."

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:22:03 GMT

"Both sides to the debate — pro and anti-war protagonists alike — need to lower their claims by a good few notches."

– We are far too sentimental about ‘our boys’ | Matthew Parris - Times Online

MARIO KART (REMI GAILLARD)

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:54:06 GMT

MARIO KART (REMI GAILLARD)

"The grass in your rendering looks too clean cut and cared for. The maintenanc..."

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:41:47 GMT

"The grass in your rendering looks too clean cut and cared for. The maintenance crew doesn’t want to guarantee that it will be kept up that well. Can you make it more overgrown and brown with some dead patches in it?"

–Clients From Hell

"Can we change the black and white images on the website to color? I don’t wan..."

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:51:06 GMT

"Can we change the black and white images on the website to color? I don’t want visitors to the site to think we can’t afford color."

–Clients From Hell

Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:55:12 GMT

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html