Never mind why this joke exists. It just does. And I thought I’d share it:How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Continue reading Funny Feminist Stuff
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Yet another sign that the end of civilization is near
The Best Laid Plans…
The Best Laid Plans…A homeless man has found confidential blueprints for New York’s new Freedom Tower dumped in a city rubbish bin.Mike Fleming handed the documents – marked “Secure Document – Confidential” in to the New York Post newspaper.The Freedom Tower is being built at Ground Zero, to replace the World Trade Centre towers destroyed on 9/11.A spokeswoman apologised for the security breach and said that anyone found responsible would be liable for “serious disciplinary action”.’Game plan’Mr Fleming said he was concerned that the documents might fall into the wrong hands.”I was outraged, because this is priceless,” he told the New York Post.”This could have ended up on eBay or gotten to al-Qaeda.”[source]
Edward Lorenz, father of Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect, has died.
He was 90 and worked at MIT. From the MIT press release:
Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his home in Cambridge. He was 90.
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Enough with the evolution and politics
Let’s have some LOL cats…
see more crazy cat picsBut wait, there’s more… Continue reading Enough with the evolution and politics
Siegfried Woldhek: The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci?
Leonardo Da Vinci’s life and work is well known — but his own face is not. Illustrator and activist Siegfried Woldhek used some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo. Here, he walks viewers through exactly how he did it.
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Paul Koontz: Tourist snapshots from North Korea
While in Asia in 2007, TEDster Paul Koontz got the priceless chance to spend a few days in North Korea. He brought his two kids — and his camera, capturing both quotidian detail (like the military bearing of a lonely traffic warden) and the grand spectacle leading up to the Mass Games. It’s a rare perspective on a culture we know far too little about.
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It is said that these girls could serve life in prison
Because they are being charged with kidnapping.(The “are social networking sites evil” poll is here.)
Holy Crap, Kobe!
France Invents New Kind of Cheese: It’s People!!!!
Le Petit Singly, a French company, now produces cheese made from human breast milk. And it is not really new.Apparently they’ve been doing this for some time now.”Small Singly is the only cheese made from a woman’s breast milk, and has remained for a long time in the shadows of the more ordinary cheeses made of sheep, goat, or cow’s milk. … made with the expertise of master cheese maker Patrice Cosma … With a tint of hazel nut and a subtle caramelized colore, its softness and texture will undoubtedly allure you. This cheese was discovered in the 19th century, and follows grandmother’s traditional recipe. …” (very roughly translated)Order your cheese here.
Are You in a Book Club?
Our Overlord, Virginia Hughes, has just posted a new reader poll concerning book clubs.
More information on the book club concept here.
Google Earth and Your Privacy
One of my students mentioned the other day that she was mortified when she found her house in Northeast Minneapolis on Google Earth. Just for fun, she was flying around on Google Earth and decided to stop in and see her own crib. It turns out that the local photograph of her home on Google Earth had been taken in the latter, very messy, phase of a giant yard sale. So her house looks like total trash. “Who cares?” you might ask? Well, anyone who might like to put their home on the market, for instance.Well, it turns out that a Pittsburgh couple is suing Google for “mental suffering” and invasion of their privacy: Continue reading Google Earth and Your Privacy
Hedgehog as a weapon
Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy.”It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks,” said Senior Sgt Bruce Jenkins, in the North Island town of Whakatane.It was unclear whether the hedgehog was still alive when it was thrown, though it was dead when collected as evidence.
Charlton Heston Dead
Charlton Heston, Ben Hur, friend to future apes, Moses, English King, has died at the age of 84.In the words of Michael Levine, Heston’s agent:
“If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston’s face would be on it”
Here some footage of Heston getting stoned: Continue reading Charlton Heston Dead
Frank Gehry: From 1990, defending a vision for architecture
Speaking at TED in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his own Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. In this 50-minute slideshow (before TED’s 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings — context he felt was lost in the discussions of his then-controversial work. In this candid and funny talk, he exposes his own messy creative process (“I take pieces and bits, and look at it, and struggle with it, and cut it away…”) and the way he struggles with problems (“This model on the left is pretty awful. I was ready to commit suicide when this was built … If any of you have ideas on it, please contact me. I don’t know what to do”).
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