On the evening of August 4th 2009, some crazy, self-absorbed, adolescent-brained asshole (who happened to be 48 years old) walked into a fitness center in Pittsburgh, PA and started shooting randomly. All told, he killed at least three people beside himself. ...a moment of silence for those who were murdered... The ...
Wow, it took me forever to find this freaking phone number! I figure other people are probably looking for it too, so here you go: 1-866-2-GOOGLE is the phone number for Google's adwords support.
I was reading a finance blog today and came across this gem: Consider this fact, the first stimulus package has an interest rate of $100,000,000 per day The blog is run by Credit Bureau Experts, which is a company that does credit repair.
Yes, dear reader: you did read the headline correctly. The woman who was nearly vice president has quit her elected position without using the word "resigned" or even acknowledging that she is walking out on the people who elected her. In fact, the entire "letter" is couched in ...
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: "The next stop along the slippery slope." One of the first things to strike me when the United States began its terrorism craze was, "great - now that terrorism is double-super-illegal, we need to worry about what actions are defined as terrorism." ...
Okay - this is totally hilarious: politician makes dumb remark on twitter, entire country responds (also on twitter). My contribution: @petehoekstra I got a little sunburned today. Now I know what Chernobyl must have been like. I think the term for this is "LMAO-schadenfreude." RTFA: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/twitter... Earlier tod […]
Haha! Jim Henson apparently made proto-muppet commercials for a coffee company, and they are AMAZINGLY violent. A young kermit (Wilkins) keeps threatening or murdering Wontkins, all because Wontkins is unwilling to try this brand of coffee. Yes murder, including gangland-style execution by a disembodied hand, by cannon, ...
RTFA: http://www.monsieurcok.com/film_monsieurcok.html I am amazed by this film; it has it all. The technique is out of this world, the humor is extremely dark, and the story is great. If you know what's good for you, you'll watch it at the source. If you are too lazy for ...
This is a fun cat-and-mouse story about the evolution of the Conficker worm, and the people who are trying to understand it. The story ominously concludes that while Conficker hasn't done much that is publicly visible, there are possibly millions of zombie computers lying in wait. RTFA: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227121.500... If every Wind […]
Ah ... everyone loves a statistical map, and this collection takes the cake! A Kansas State University geography PhD student, Tom Vought, created density maps of the seven deadly sins across the US. The operationalizations of some of these constructs are unquestionably up for debate, but this is a totally ...