July 2010
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This extreme shape-shifting was possible because the bone tissue in the frill...
– Morph-osaurs: How shape-shifting dinosaurs deceived us - New Scientist - New Scientist (via Boing Boing)
June 2010
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The only way I can think of to get around this problem, to allow journalists to...
– Weigelgate: The Washington Post sets itself on fire | The Economist
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I agree that language should change over time, but using “addicting”...
– Drewmass on Grammar Girl : Addictive Versus Addicting
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It may help if you realize that a dollar isn’t just a dollar, and once you...
– jerf on Is the BP Gusher Unstoppable? at Hacker News.
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Friedman also recounted advice that his friend Willie Nelson gave him before his...
– 2010: “The Tea Party Folks are Like Barbara Jordan” | The Texas Tribune
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I understand that the Pentagon was telling the President “don’t you dare,” and...
– AMERICAblog Gay: My thoughts on the DADT compromise
May 2010
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French press coffee = more cholesterol = imminent death?!
– Ask MetaFilter
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Requiring successful enforcement of the current immigration laws before they can...
– To ‘Control the Border,’ First Reform Immigration Law | Cato @ Liberty
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Both the terms “warm-blooded” and “cold-blooded” have...
– Warm-blooded - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 2010
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The telephone was an aberration in human development. It was a 70 year or so...
– Rick Webb about this (via toldorknown) (via marco)
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In running to any base, while trying to avoid being tagged out, the runner runs...
– “When Runners Are Out” (NCAA rule 8-5-a)
MLB rule 7.08(a)(1) [pdf] doesn’t contain the “left or right” language.
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[N]o team is scheduled off days on any day of the week except Mondays and...
– Major League Baseball schedule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those...
– Edward Gibbon - The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Volume 1
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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Don't play The Tray →
Trying to “clean out” your tray is not a habit you want to get into. It’s pointless, and besides, you can never win - as soon as you run another app, in the tray it’ll go. It’s like the world’s worst game of Whac-A-Mole. Instead, learn to see the tray as a “recent apps” area. If you’re in the middle of one task - say, writing an email - and you need to switch to something for a second - say,...
March 2010
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… and then Sayid goes, “We call it… The Aristocrats!
– Some bold endings the producers of ABC’s Lost have been tossing around
February 2010
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Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
– A conversation I have every month or so
January 2010
4 posts
The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing.
– On the iPad
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama rescheduled his first “State of...
– Lost on ABC Comes to a Finale
First of all, find a monkey. Follow the monkey, and eat everything the monkey...
– I’m on a deserted island. How can I tell which plants are poisonous?
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Ban McGwire from baseball →
Apparently we’re not so much mad that McGwire used steroids for all those years—because anyone paying attention already knew that—we’re mad that he finally told the truth about it.
Mark McGwire deserves a ban from baseball more than any sympathy.
I tend to disagree, but an understandable opinion.
If McGwire’s admissions can serve any good now, it would be...
December 2009
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In the last decade, according to statistician Nate Silver, there has been...
– President Obama, It’s Time To Fire the TSA
THERE
IS
NO
PAGE
FOLD.
– Please Scroll
I’ve been and will continue to be candid in my opinion of my fellow MS1s, and at...
– Blakery » Four days left!
Now there was silence again. This time I was the one not talking. There was this...
– The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T
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Holiday Balloon at Discovery Green →
The age requirement in the small print kind of bummed us out, but we were excited for a few minutes. I guess there’s always the year after the year after next year.
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February 2008
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