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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).

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The T-Shirt Of Terror - 236 - Video

August 25 at 1:31 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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A treasure trove of fashion. - Jim Norris

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Top 10 Idiocies of the General Election... so far (The BEAST: America's Best Fiend)

August 13 at 11:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"This is something to remember when you see unfair coverage of either candidate: The media bias isn’t usually left or right; the bias is toward profit. If a half-assed story is more appealing than a full examination, then half-assed it’ll be. If, one the other hand, a news source risks alienating its audience—by, say, questioning McCain’s POW narriative a la the Packers/Steelers gaffe, they’ll shy away." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

"Excessive intelligence is a liability in American political campaigns; there can be no doubt of that, and when people speak of Obama as “not one of us,” that is, at least in part, what they’re talking about. It’s anti-intellectualism that brought us eight years of Bush, as well as eight years of Reagan. Americans love a simple-talkin’ good ole boy, " - Steve Craft

and in a dumbed-down country the majority will always be wrong - gregory lent

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Ancient Olympics Mixed Naked Sports, Pagan Partying

August 24 at 9:58 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"We know how fundamental nudity was to Greek culture. It really appealed to the exhibitionism and the vanity of the Greeks. Only barbarians were afraid to show their bodies. The nude athletes would parade like peacocks up and down the stadium. Poets would write in a shaky hand these wonderful odes to the bodies of the young men, their skin the color of fired clay." - Jim Norris

nothing has changed except a bit of spandex... the partying is the same - gregory lent

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BBC NEWS | Africa | Mugabe to open Zimbabwe assembly

Tuesday at 1:21 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is due to open parliament in which his Zanu-PF party will be in the minority in the lower house for the first time. On Monday, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party saw its member, Lovemore Moyo, elected speaker." How could you not support a man named Lovemore? - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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A Collection of JVM Options

August 7 at 10:05 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Raymond, nadim, Denton Gentry, Jauder Ho and 17 other people liked this

I've never seen such a complete list! - Paul Buchheit

crazy. - Michael J Cohen

Excellent List! This is GOLD for application support teams! - Sherif Mansour

omfg! - Sanjeev Singh

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The Right's Five Most Hilariously Boneheaded Anti-Obama Smears | | AlterNet

August 23 at 8:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Kelly Norris, Alejandro S., Shannon Jiménez, Goldie and 2 other people liked this

unbelievable! - Sheila Taylor

my fav is SMEAR #5: OBAMA WANTS YOUR CHILD TO LEARN SPANISH! - Goldie

Oh god, not SPANISH! How can he possibly expect American children to be bilingual? Next he's going to saying they should attend university too!!! - Amy Tureen

I wish Obama would win, then we could all learn Spanish together.... - amelia arapoff

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Forget everything you think you know about oil

August 25 at 2:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"The myth of fossil fuels: Corsi and Smith argue that the deep abiotic theory of oil is a more reliable theory than the fossil fuel theory. It rejects the contention that oil was formed from the remains of plant and animal life that died millions of years ago. Instead, they believe in Thomas Gold's argument that oil is abiotic: "a primordial material that the earth forms and exudes on a continual basis" and is "pushed upward toward the earth's surface by the intense pressures of the earth's core and the influence of the centrifugal force that the earth exerted upon the specific gravity of oil as a fluid substance."" - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Jerome Corsi, of course, is the swift boat guy, and has a new book of lies about Obama. Why do you read this crap? - j1m

It's just such an unbelievable train wreck... - Jim Norris

"The global warming hoax and other environmental myths: Corsi and Smith present compelling evidence that "burning fossil fuels does not release into the air chlorofluorocarbons or halon compounds, the types of chemicals identified as the culprits causing holes in the ozone." Instead, "human beings breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide" while "plants absorb carbon dioxide and throw out oxygen."" - ⓞnor

Trainwrecks do have their charm... - j1m

The deep abiotic theory of oil reminds me of my cat's "deep microwave" theory of food. - Jim Norris

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“"Where is our phone?" "There's one that always rings in the back." "Maybe we put it in there to not annoy us while Ana was gone."”

Monday at 11:50 am - Link

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Outback mayor seeks "ugly duckling" women

August 25 at 2:17 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"I'm ugly and I vote!" - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Yeah, I'm not clear on the message that protest is sending. - ⓞnor

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Look! A Printer For Your Latte

August 22 at 10:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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from http://friendfeed.com/nectarin... - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Very cool! - Karen Padham Taylor

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soon we'll see "hand-made latte art" advertised. - Neha Narula

ok, this is just awesome! +1 - tagami

This is really cool... One thing though, the reason I gravitate towards coffee shops that have latte art is that there is a high correlation between latte-art and good coffee... Now with these machines, it might no longer be the case :( - Bindu Reddy

you know who has good latte art? cafe del dogge in palo alto. very creative stuff - Charles Hudson

@Jim Not as good as my Guinness shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day! - Anne Bouey

I love that one of their demo images is the Utah teapot. - seth

Cafe del Doge: Venice, Cairo, Tokyo, Palo Alto. - j1m

is that true j1m? That's awesome - Adam Kazwell

amazingly, yes: http://www.caffedeldoge.com/en... - j1m

Hmm, that's awesome. Excellent advertising opportunity - Sam Allan

It looks like it's depositing chocolate or cinnamon powder. Does anybody have more information about how it works? - Gabe Schaffer

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Out of Place

August 23 at 10:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Reconcilable Differences

August 20 at 11:05 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"In November, whether most voters pull the lever for John McCain or for Barack Obama, they’re likely to get a president who’s more competent than Bush. What’s less certain—but equally important—is whether they’ll get one who can be the uniter that Bush promised to be, rather than the divider he has been." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Dr. Doom - Profile - Nouriel Roubini - Predicting Crisis in the United States Economy - NYTimes.com

August 17 at 8:02 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"When Roubini returned to the I.M.F. last September, he delivered a second talk, predicting a growing crisis of solvency that would infect every sector of the financial system. This time, no one laughed. “He sounded like a madman in 2006,” recalls the I.M.F. economist Prakash Loungani, who invited Roubini on both occasions. “He was a prophet when he returned in 2007.”" - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Annals of polemicism - Megan McArdle

August 13 at 12:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Why aren't there hordes of economists studying meaningful alternatives to market capitalism? Because we've been experimenting with various other systems--both localism and extreme centralization--for over a century, and the experiment produces the same damn result every single time: human lives that are nasty, brutish, and short. And no matter what the professors who signed the Milton Friedman letter may believe, we haven't discovered any alternative to neoliberal policies, other than "be sitting on commodities during a boom", which is good luck, but not really good advice. The problem with neoliberal policies was not that they drove people into poverty, but that they weren't nearly as effective at driving people out again as we once hoped. Yet they are still more effective than anything else we've tried." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Nerds of Steel | The New York Observer

August 12 at 12:11 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"A nerd is so often self-loathing because he accepts the thinking/feeling rift, and he knows and cares that other people accept it, too." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Conan is a great poster-boy for this process. He is hilarious and constantly self-effacing. - Louis Gray

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Videos and Photos of Army Special Ops, Navy SEALs, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard in Action - Shock and Awe - Military.com

August 10 at 8:59 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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what? I hope there was more to that than what was shown in the video... - Raymond

I'm amazed at how much actual combat footage is available, along with lots of slideshows set to heavy metal music. - Jim Norris

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The non-bogus conservative argument against Obamanomics - The Curious Capitalist - Justin Fox - Economy - Markets - Business - TIME

August 9 at 12:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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The actual criticism he links to seems pretty weak. I think actual entrepreneurs are thinking more about their odds of success and the downside of failure than capital gains rates. A better case could be made that higher rates discourages investors, but that's not the argument he makes. (and I don't know if it's supported at all by history -- it would be interesting to compare capital gains rates with venture capital activity) - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the actual criticism either. - Jim Norris

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The New York Times > Business > Image > Populations Expanding Where It Is Most Difficult to Grow Food

August 9 at 7:58 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Was really interesting today to find a NY Times channel on YouTube. Had no idea it was there. - Charlie Anzman

indeed, http://www.youtube.com/profile... - j1m

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David Brooks: Lord of the Memes - International Herald Tribune

August 8 at 11:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Now the global thought-leader is defined less by what culture he enjoys than by the smartphone, social bookmarking site, social network and e-mail provider he uses to store and transmit it." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Overcoming Bias: Intrade's Conditional Prediction Markets

August 6 at 5:03 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Overcoming Bias: A Genius for Destruction

August 6 at 4:48 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"It takes more intelligence to debug code than to write it. Therefore, if you write the most difficult code you can create, you are not smart enough to debug it." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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FriendFeed crawls Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube so you don't have to. - By Paul Boutin - Slate Magazine

August 6 at 11:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"There's another huge unplanned market for FriendFeed: parents. Setting up a single page of all your kids' Internet accounts is a snap. Even if they haven't signed up at FriendFeed, you can do it for them. Click the button to create an "imaginary friend." Then, click on a service—say, Flickr—and type in your offspring's Flickr user name. FriendFeed goes to Flickr, gets their photo stream, and inserts the pics into your page. Whenever they add a new picture, it'll appear in front of you automatically." Who says that was unplanned? We have families too! - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

And we are mainstreamers masquerading as early adopters! - Anne Bouey

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Overcoming Bias: Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

August 4 at 2:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"My own theory of Internet moderation is that you have to be willing to exclude trolls and spam to get a conversation going. You must even be willing to exclude kindly but technically uninformed folks from technical mailing lists if you want to get any work done. A genuinely open conversation on the Internet degenerates fast. It's the articulate trolls that you should be wary of ejecting, on this theory - they serve the hidden function of legitimizing less extreme disagreements. But you should not have so many articulate trolls that they begin arguing with each other, or begin to dominate conversations. If you have one person around who is the famous Guy Who Disagrees With Everything, anyone with a more reasonable, more moderate disagreement won't look like the sole nail sticking out. This theory of Internet moderation may not have served me too well in practice, so take it with a grain of salt." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Overcoming Bias: Bias against some types of foreign wives

August 4 at 12:51 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Google, perhaps, could extend its search services to help men find international marriage mates." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

Or you could just start up a companion site to FriendFeed - MarriageFeed. - Steve Craft

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Crispy on the Outside » This Week in Bacon

August 3 at 10:12 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"This week’s feature is a bacon alarm clock, the cleverly named Wake n’ Bacon, that wakes you up with the smell of real cooked bacon, rather than the traditional, grating, cruel, terrible, gruesome alarm-clock sound." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

LOL, one would quickly come to hate bacon. :P - Tanath

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Yahoo! Message Boards - Presidential Election 2008 - Is Obama too skinny to be president?

August 1 at 2:26 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Does anyone out there think Barack Obama is too thin to be president? Anyone having a hard time relating to him and his "no excess body fat"? Please let me know. Thanks!" - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

http://online.wsj.com/article/... - Jim Norris

and it's all explained here: http://www.sadlyno.com/archive... - j1m

I've never heard of thinness as a liability. This is AMERICA ;) - Clare Dibble

"This topic has been deleted Continue browsing Message Boards" WTF? - Eugene

The cached copy is still there, tho. I love how the other commenters treat as if she's just another moron on a random messageboard, when in fact she's a wsj opinionator - j1m

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Frustration - xkcd

August 1 at 10:49 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Lora Lufark, Daniel Dulitz, Eric Berlin, Karen Padham Taylor and 26 other people liked this

So, FF should pull the TITLE attribute when sharing an image. - Tudor Bosman

Where can i buy one of these? - Erica Baker

Frustration is after u done with the cube, u find the buckle is actually in front side. - Baron Mok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Jason Brooks

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Ivy Leaguers' Big Edge: Starting Pay

August 1 at 10:48 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"At the bottom: Engineering-school grads, who earn the highest starting salaries, yet see their paychecks expand just 76% by their career midpoints to $103,842 from $59,058." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

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Summers Vindicated (again)

July 28 at 12:44 pm - Link

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I am really impressed by his concise and to-the-point summary of what most of the media reports have patently missed and/or glossed over. I would love to hear what Faust (Harvard's current president) thinks of these findings. - Ana

"We just simply don't know yet. The problem with Summers' claim wasn't that it is heresy to study these issues or consider the hypotheses. The problem is that the president of Harvard is in a position over the policy that could be implemented to remedy what might be a long-standing deep unfairness to women in these fields.… Where Summers was wrong was in seeming to indicate that he wouldn't pursue policies that would try to find a way to improve on past unfairness without weakening his university (the fundamental challenge of affirmative action). Scientists working in this area can and should be considering every possible hypothesis and the relevant data. Policy guys need to be more cautious where the science is uncertain and the policy decisions have significant impacts." - Jim Norris

It's still pretty disheartening to realize how shallow and inaccurate so many press reports are... apparently journalists are bad at math too. - Jim Norris

Maybe I'm just bad at math (or at least statistics), but I fail to see the point this post makes. We are unable to norm for differences in how boys and girls are raised, so I am skeptical of the idea that you can just point to math test scores as a way to determine (or even estimate) biologically differences in math ability. - C. Golis

From p.253 of this article addressing the issue of differences in achievement and that males show greater variance in standardized test scores (http://www.pitt.edu/~bertsch/w...). He makes the argument that this effect could be at least partly attributable to some mental traits lying on the X chromosome, and since males only have one copy of any X-linked gene, one might predict that they should exhibit greater variance in those traits they affect. Male variability would not be a product of what they have that females don't, but rather, what males lack (i.e., a genetic mechanism for buffering against variability). The whole article is actually worth reading because it focuses on how the concept of variance is generally underappreciated, often to ill effect. - Nathan Young