http://boingboing.net/2015/01/28/the-surprising-history-of-hipp.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=diggtwitter
---Steve
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
CONTRARY BRIN
Keystone. That's it. The only positive-assertive thing. Keystone! Subsidize petro zillionaires to ship Canadian tar over the most vulnerable and precious agricultural aquifer in the world and stink our air, to they can ship it to China... and what's OUR cut? Zero.
---Steve
Monday, January 26, 2015
'American Sniper' Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize | Rolling Stone
Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/american-sniper-is-almost-too-dumb-to-criticize-20150121#ixzz3PwPURuz6
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---Steve
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015
Sunday, January 18, 2015
snopes.com: CFL Mercury Light Bulbs
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
If every American home replaced just one standard incandescent light bulb with a long-lasting CFL, the resultant energy savings would eliminate greenhouse gases equal to the emissions of 800,000 cars, according to the U.S. Energy Star program.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp#QGItlrDbqrY6ed5x.99
---Steve
If every American home replaced just one standard incandescent light bulb with a long-lasting CFL, the resultant energy savings would eliminate greenhouse gases equal to the emissions of 800,000 cars, according to the U.S. Energy Star program.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp#QGItlrDbqrY6ed5x.99
---Steve
Saturday, January 17, 2015
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Here’s Why Stealing Cars Went Out of Fashion - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/upshot/heres-why-stealing-cars-went-out-of-fashion.html?abt=0002&abg=0&_r=1
The most important factor is a technological advance: engine immobilizer systems, adopted by manufacturers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These make it essentially impossible to start a car without the ignition key, which contains a microchip uniquely programmed by the dealer to match the car.
---Steve
The most important factor is a technological advance: engine immobilizer systems, adopted by manufacturers in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These make it essentially impossible to start a car without the ignition key, which contains a microchip uniquely programmed by the dealer to match the car.
---Steve
Sunday, January 11, 2015
CONTRARY BRIN
Of course this metric does not stand alone. Every comparison of national health, from unemployment to small business startups to federal budget deficits, does better across the span of democratic administrations, vs republican ones. Only a quasi religion of the hypnotized would ignore the titanic disparity of actual outcomes. Ah, but such is the power of propaganda.
---Steve
Friday, January 09, 2015
Thursday, January 08, 2015
Wednesday, January 07, 2015
Tuesday, January 06, 2015
Monday, January 05, 2015
Sunday, January 04, 2015
Saturday, January 03, 2015
What the World Will Speak in 2115 - WSJ
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-world-will-speak-in-2115-1420234648
That's what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages "grow" in complexity the way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks in where people say I am going to buy it, because if you are going with the purpose of doing something, it follows that you will. Pretty soon that gels into a new way of putting a verb in the future tense with what a Martian would hear as a new "word," gonna.
---Steve
That's what indigenous languages tend to be like in one way or another. Languages "grow" in complexity the way that people pick up habits and cars pick up rust. One minute the way you mark a verb in the future tense is to use will: I will buy it. The next minute, an idiom kicks in where people say I am going to buy it, because if you are going with the purpose of doing something, it follows that you will. Pretty soon that gels into a new way of putting a verb in the future tense with what a Martian would hear as a new "word," gonna.
---Steve
Thursday, January 01, 2015
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