August 2011
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Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People &... →
Rukko baby, opsiuunru!
Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People &... →
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Irving Kahn, 105-Year-Old Investment Banker:... →
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Secularism and Its Discontents : The New Yorker →
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Can the Middle Class Be Saved? - Atlantic Mobile →
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“Denson has adorned his pump with SpongeBob SquarePants stickers — a seemingly...”
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Love the Argo in Hamilton game most of all, any game any game at all. This is the meaning of rivalry.
Here we go
It seems the trouble in England can be solved, by blocking some from social media.
see http://gigaom.com/2011/08/11/blaming-the-tools-britain-proposes-a-social-media-ban/ (thanks to www.daringfireball.net)
In further news, smoke signals are to be banned. The post is to be closed. Speaking is still allowed if a permit is acquired.
Needless to say nodding and winking will carry a jail term.
Lion and Security
Apple has the capcha of the hardware business.
Suppose I have connected a key logger to your computer. Maybe a physical one or maybe a software one but it is there and copying everything you type. Suppose that I could use the internet and, armed with all this info and a black heart, get into your computer remotely and do malice.
In previous iterations of OSX I would log on or have a screensaver...
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Rob Delaney: Bought some US stocks →
robdelaney:
I just bought some shares in an index fund that tracks the Wilshire 5000, which means I just bought shares in the 5000 largest American companies. I did this because I wished to take substantive action immediately upon learning of Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US credit. Standard & Poor’s, and to…
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HSR huh?
I know I know I know. I have been remiss.
Read this sentence below the next- and the underlying facts for it- and you will convince yourself, of this I am sure. On Human Transit (www.humantransit.org) Jarrett Walker says the following.
Speed and reliability are not about vehicle technology; they are about what can get in your way.
If you read nothing else. Understand nothing else. Learn...
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Tell us what you really think Brian →
In which Brian S. Hall calls out google for being a bunch of whiny pussies.
Rupert Murdoch’s Tabloid Culture : The New Yorker →
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“Thank god for rednecks!”
– Character played by Woody in zombieland.
Getting real for school. Used “Good Bye Mr. Chips” to get me up.
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Spelling counts, especially in ebonics.
Just re-read last posted article..
..the Mother Jones piece afore. My neologism of the day-Christo-fascism. This is the small god of this, this aptly named Cain is Louisiana.
How pathetic is it that this is an almost only in America phenomenon? We need history to equal it, from Rome to Berlin, from B.C. to WWII.
July 2011
9 posts
God's Own Warden | Mother Jones →
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