Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Article: Bill Gates: Here’s My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
Bill Gates: Here's My Plan to Improve Our World — And How You Can Help
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/11/bill-gates-wired-essay/
These days I get to spend a lot of time trying to advance innovation that improves people's lives in the same way that fertilizer did. Let me reiterate this: A full 40 percent of Earth's population is alive today because, in 1909, a German chemist named Fritz Haber figured out how to make synthetic ammonia. Another example: Polio cases are down more than 99 percent in the past 25 years, not because the disease is going away on its own but because Albert Sabin and Jonas Salk invented polio vaccines and the world rolled out a massive effort to deliver them.
---SPSmith
Slate: Pain vs. Polls
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Monday, November 11, 2013
Article: Why Intel Is Right to Sell Its Brilliant Internet TV Service to Verizon
Why Intel Is Right to Sell Its Brilliant Internet TV Service to Verizon
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/11/intel-selling-internet-tv-service/
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Slate: Why the U.S. Should Take Notes From Britain's Health Care System
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/11/10/national_health_insurance_britain_s_system_is_great.html
---SPSmith
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Saturday, November 09, 2013
Friday, November 08, 2013
The Paintings of George W. Bush - Likes
One killer clown paints another...
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
APS -66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics - Event - Urinal Dynamics
In response to harsh and repeated criticisms from our mothers and
several failed relationships with women, we present the splash
dynamics of a simulated human male urine stream impacting rigid and
free surfaces. Our study aims to reduce undesired splashing that may
result from lavatory usage. Experiments are performed at a pressure
and flow rate that would be expected from healthy male
subjects.\footnote{Lapides, J., Fundamentals of Urology, W.B.
Saunders, Philadelphia, 1976.} For a rigid surface, the effects of
stream breakup and surface impact angle on lateral and vertical
droplet ejection distances are measured using high-speed photography
and image processing. For free surface impact, the effects of velocity
and fluid depth on droplet ejection distances are measured. Guided by
our results, techniques for splash reduction are proposed.
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
Monday, November 04, 2013
Friday, November 01, 2013
Article: Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots | Raw File | Wired.com
Meet the American Nomads of Walmart's Plentiful Parking Lots | Raw File | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/11/walmart-parking-lots/?viewall=true
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Article: Here are 12 sites where you can legally download free Kindle books
Here are 12 sites where you can legally download free Kindle books
http://ebookfriendly.com/download-free-kindle-books/
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Article: 9 best sites with free ebooks for Google Play
9 best sites with free ebooks for Google Play
http://ebookfriendly.com/sites-with-free-ebooks-for-google-play/
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---SPSmith
Slate: U.S. Budget Deficit Is Lowest in Five Years
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/30/_2013_budget_deficit_is_lowest_since_2008_treasury_dept_says.html
---SPSmith
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Article: The 10 Best Buys in 2014 Motorcycles
The 10 Best Buys in 2014 Motorcycles
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/motorcycles/news/the-10-best-buys-in-2014-motorcycles?%3Fsrc=rss
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Arcade Fire’s ‘Reflektor’: Still devoid of wit, subtlety and danger, now with bongos - The Washington Post
'via Blog this'
Article: Dell And HP Are In A Race To Hurt Intel
Dell And HP Are In A Race To Hurt Intel
http://www.businessinsider.com/dell-and-hp-are-in-a-race-to-kill-intel-2013-10
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71 | Music News | Rolling Stone
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lou-reed-velvet-underground-leader-and-rock-pioneer-dead-at-71-20131027#ixzz2ixTS2giL
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---SPSmith
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Monday, October 21, 2013
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Ten Good Reasons to Hate Oprah - Page 2 | Nerve.com
7) She treats celebrities as medical experts
Giving celebrities a platform to express their fringe medical ideas as fact is not only irresponsible, but dangerous. When Jenny McCarthy took to Oprah's stage to talk about her belief that a vaccine caused her son's autism, Oprah fueled a dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that had been building in the United States. And when Suzanne Somers raved about how a quite possibly dangerous hormone treatment helped her with menopause, millions of American women began inquiring about how they could receive the same treatment.
8) She endorsed The Secret and other pseudoscience
When Oprah became enamored with The Secret, so, of course, did everyone else. Its central idea — that you're solely responsible for your own happiness — aligns with Oprah's ethos, but it's a dressed-up version of blaming the victim. When you believe that the universe rewards positive thinking, you must also believe the converse — that the universe punishes those who have negative thoughts. Negative thinking isn't responsible for poverty, illness, abuse, or misfortune. Oprah didn't rise to fame by wanting it more than anyone else — she worked hard and had a lot of help. To insinuate that success is based on sending good thoughts into the universe is junk science and offensive to anyone who has suffered a tragedy.
---SPSmith
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
Tea party
wonder its principles are asinine and incorrect. Substantiating
proof:
We are taxed enough already: No, you are just too much of a deadbeat
to pay your share of the support structures of society:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/tax-reform/news/2011/06/10/9751/ten-charts-that-prove-the-united-states-is-a-low-tax-country/
So it is no surprise:
http://www.wweek.com/portland/mobile/articles/articleView/id:21408
Process servers can't find the Oregon Tea Party founder, who's more
than three years behind on mortgage payments.
---SPSmith
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The Dangers of Pseudoscience - NYTimes.com
The borderlines between genuine science and pseudoscience may be
fuzzy, but this should be even more of a call for careful
distinctions, based on systematic facts and sound reasoning. To try a
modicum of turtle blood here and a little aspirin there is not the
hallmark of wisdom and even-mindedness. It is a dangerous gateway to
superstition and irrationality.
---SPSmith
Monday, October 14, 2013
Slate: Google’s Big Break
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Article: HP no longer playing by Microsoft, Intel rules, exec says
HP no longer playing by Microsoft, Intel rules, exec says
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57606827-75/hp-no-longer-playing-by-microsoft-intel-rules-exec-says/?subj=news&tag=title
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Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Slate: The Trouble With Malcolm Gladwell
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Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite review (2013) | The Verge
Last year's $119 Kindle Paperwhite was the best ebook reader ever
made, the default choice, the one I recommend to everyone without a
second's thought — and 12 months later it still is. There isn't even
viable competition at this point.
---SPSmith
Monday, October 07, 2013
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Breaking Bad Quotes
| WALTER WHITE Absolutely not. I simply respect the chemistry. The chemistry must be respected. |
Thought you'd like this azcentral article
I thought you'd like this azcentral article. Check it out:
Pinal sheriff: Man kills mother, said God told him to
http://www.azcentral.com/community/pinal/articles/20131005arizona-mother-killed-stabbing-god-pinal-county-sheriff-brk.html
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---SPSmith
Friday, October 04, 2013
Tuesday, October 01, 2013
'Breaking Bad' Quotes: 20 Most Badass - Hollywood Reporter
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Sunday, September 29, 2013
Link from Twitter
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The whole thing felt kind of shady, morality wise,
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'Breaking Bad' Series Finale: 5 Most Shocking Quotes
1. "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really – I was alive." (Walt to Skyler)
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Review of Breaking Bad, "Blood Money" | TIME.com
* "Why do you think McCoy never likes to beam nowhere? Cause he's a doctor, bitch! Look it up, it's science!"
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/08/11/breaking-bad-watch-i-am-the-one-who-gets-knocked-out/#ixzz2gIy42JdF
---SPSmith
Friday, September 27, 2013
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Q&A – Danny Trejo (Tortuga)
Q: Tortuga says, "There are two kinds of men in this world, those who drink and those who pour." Which one are you?
---SPSmith
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Friday, September 20, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Slate: 9 Things Wrong with BuzzFeed’s Article about 9 Potential Mass Shootings that Were Stopped by Someone with a Personally Owned Firearm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/09/18/mass_shootings_concealed_carry_9_things_wrong_with_buzzfeed_s_article_about.html
---SPSmith
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Breaking Bad’s Los Pollos Hermanos Has a Yelp Page, And It’s Hilarious | TIME.com
"This must be a front for a meth lab because their wings are crazy addictive!"
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