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Following the March 11, 2011 earthquake in Japan, this terrified giant panda grabs the leg of a policeman.
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Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.
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Microsoft Kinect Blowing Away Competition So Far →
Here’s two things that Microsoft’s promotional department would like you to know about its motion-sensing Kinect controller. 1) It’s sold 10 million devices in just over four months, an average of 133,333 units per day. 2) It just officially made the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest selling electronics device, beating out Apple’s iPhone and iPad.
Read on at The Atlantic Wire.
Whaaaaaaa?
As a full-fledged video game nerd, this is actually a little sad for me. As videogames become more and more mainstream, they become less … mine, I guess. They used to be like puzzles only I can solve.
For example, I’m not a good dancer. That’s why, in high school, instead of going to dances, I stayed home and played Halo. But starting around my senior year, Dance Dance Revolution became very popular. I was not good at Dance Dance Revolution.
Today, all video games are becoming like Dance Dance Revolution. I don’t want to play them, though. This confuses people. I want to play Fallout: New Vegas, not virtual tennis. If I wanted to play tennis, I would play tennis. Otherwise, I want to play video games.
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Powerpoint is the devil
If you’ve never read this 2001 New Yorker story on Powerpoint, you really should. This is the lede:
Before there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights. A woman we can call Sarah Wyndham, a defense-industry consultant living in Alexandria, Virginia, recently began to feel that her two daughters weren’t listening when she asked them to clean their bedrooms and do their chores. So, one morning, she sat down at her computer, opened Microsoft’s PowerPoint program, and typed:FAMILY MATTERS
An approach for positive change to the Wyndham family teamOn a new page, she wrote:
·Lack of organization leads to confusion and frustration among all family members.
·Disorganization is detrimental to grades and to your social life.
·Disorganization leads to inefficiencies that impact the entire family.Instead of pleading for domestic harmony, Sarah Wyndham was pitching for it. Soon she had eighteen pages of large type, supplemented by a color photograph of a generic happy family riding bicycles, and, on the final page, a drawing of a key—the key to success. The briefing was given only once, last fall. The experience was so upsetting to her children that the threat of a second showing was enough to make one of the Wyndham girls burst into tears.
One thing I like about journalism is that, by and large, journalists are not Powerpoint people. Our writing skills are good enough that we don’t need bullet points to explain our thoughts and plans to one another. Unless a politician or advocacy group busts one out, we live Powerpoint-free lives.
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Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., is clearly the bookworm. Here’s his collection of books on climate science.
How long do you think his staff spent balancing those books? CATASTROPHE would result if they fell over.
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Statistical outcomes of cases on the first ten seasons of Law & Order.
Can we get a comparison to real life outcomes?
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Lab Flashback: In 1995 Arthur Sulzberger wasn’t a fan of reporters wasting time on email http://nie.mn/f6ORG9
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Shower-curtain effect →
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. (via casanovaandtheradio)
I find it very disturbing people haven’t solved this yet.
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“When you see a bunch of guys in red, what do you know?” Kharoba asked.
“They are Bloods,” responded the audience, many of whom deal with gangs regularly.
“When you have a Muslim that wears a headband, regardless of color or insignia, basically what that is telling you is ‘I am willing to be a martyr.’” There were other signs, too. “From the perspective of operational security, there are two things I am always looking out for: a shaved body and moving lips,” he explained. “Some of the Pakistani hijackers shaved their whole bodies in a ritual of cleanliness. If their lips are moving, these guys are praying. As they are walking through an airport, every second they’re going to be praying.”
America today is too politically correct to acknowledge the reality of Islamic fanaticism, Kharoba said. “Would Islam be tolerated if everyone knew its true message?” he asked the class. “From a Muslim perspective, do you want non-Muslims to know the truth about Islam?”
“No!” came the audience reply.
“So what do Muslims do?” Kharoba demanded.
“Lie!”
Kharoba strode forward to the front of the room, his voice slower now, more measured. “Islam is a highly violent radical religion that mandates that all of the earth must be Muslim.”
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