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Month: October 2009

  • Posterous and Ping.fm: please use wisely – Internet Marketing Tips from Denise Wakeman

    Denise Wakeman has a word to the wise for those posting with Ping.fm. Posterous and Ping.fm: please use wisely – Internet Marketing Tips from Denise Wakeman A few days ago I had a conversation about what I was noticing on her Posterous updates: every post said Untitled in the post title. Not only that- all […]

  • Well, I'll Be a Disgraced Bank CEO (For $33 Million)

    Ken James – soon to be ex-CEO of Bank of America – will be just fine: That should give him about $3.5 million a year in pension payouts for the rest of his life — at a time when people who bought the stock when he took the reins in 2001 are underwater on their […]

  • UPS Next Day Air (14 Years Later)

    This week, Paul received a package back from UPS that had somehow never reached its destination. That’s not so unusual. What was unusual was how long it had wandered off for. He had mailed the next day air envelope at least fourteen years ago. Next Decade Air: Where Has This UPS Envelope Spent The Last […]

  • Sunflower Boy's Smile

    A last year’s annual Sunflower Fair in La Porte, Indiana, a family, appearing a little lost, walked up and down a crowded street …they carried a large sunflower with them. The family silently bearing the large sunflower had never been to the fair before. But this was important. Their flower was entered in the seed […]

  • Kitten in Piggy Costume – Cute Sexy Funny Awful

    That's not a pig! That's a kitten in a pig costume! http://www.cutesexyfunnyawful.com/2009/10/kitten-in-piggy-costume.html Kitten in Piggy Costume – Cute Sexy Funny Awful via imgur.com

  • Best Reaction to Olympics Announcement

    “Only Americans would think that Oprah trumps Pele.” via Commenter on MetaFilter

  • Egypt Killed All Pigs to Prevent H1N1, Then the Trash Piled Up

    Remember when the Egyptian government so sagely ordered the slaughter of all the nation’s pigs in a completely ignorant, Sarah Palin-grade effort to combat swine flu, even though swine flu isn’t really transmitted by pigs? There has been a rather adorable, unfortunate consequence. Turns out all those pigs used to eat much of the garbage […]

  • Ardipithecus: We Meet At Last

    At first, Ardipithecus ramidus was yet another scrappy pre-Lucy fossil. The first report offered details about part of a 4.4 million-year-old jaw bone–a remarkable jaw bone, but just a jaw bone nonetheless. … They picked away at the bits of rocks surrounding the fragile bits of fossils. They used a computer to manipulate CT-scans of […]

  • Torture Tells Us What We Want to Hear

    [T]he unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly PDF. In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated […]