January 2010
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Jan 31st
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“Those hands look like lesbian hands.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
Jan 31st
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“Within 6 hours deserts receive more energy from the sun than humankind consumes...”
– Dr. Gerhard Knies @ DESERTEC
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Jan 29th
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– The Innocents Abroad - Mark Twain
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Jan 26th
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Royalty Free Vector Graphics | VectorStock™ →
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Jan 26th
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“Smiley-face posturing aside, users should never forget that Facebook remains, at...”
– “Facebook’s New ‘Privacy’ Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot”
Jan 25th
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
Jan 23rd
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“For most Americans, 2009 brought the greatest pressure on individual and...”
– Karin von Abrams
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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100 Best (Free) Science Documentaries Online |... →
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Jan 14th
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“So, what this means is that there are 10,510 people in the UK that satisfy these...”
– Why I don’t have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK Peter Backus
Jan 14th
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the copyright bubble
I’ve posted most of this before on slashdot; This is just a cleanup of previous posts — it has details of why the ACTA is secret. by girlintraining A Private War I used to read stuff like this and get upset. But then I realized that my entire generation knows it’s baloney. They can’t explain it intellectually. They have no real understanding of the subtleties of the...
Jan 11th
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ESSAY -- Pornography Drives Technology: Why Not to... →
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Jan 11th
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“Considering the many productive uses of petroleum, burning it for fuel is like...”
– Big Oil Executive
Jan 9th
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“This order [i.e. capitalism] is now bound to the technical and economic...”
– Max Weber, 1905
Jan 9th
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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations,...”
– Richard Feynman
Jan 9th
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“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Jan 9th
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“We have only two modes — complacency and panic.”
– James R. Schlesinger, the first energy secretary, in 1977, on the country’s approach to energy
Jan 9th
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