“BP Oil Spill May Be Linked to Dolphin Deaths in Gulf”
—it’s a stumper alright
February 2011
“There’s a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash on the back of the XOOM. It shoots decent, cameraphone-ey quality photos (and 720p HD video), but I felt not unlike a fool every time I used it. I’m out there holding this lunchtray in front of me and I’m staring at this big plane of glass — mostly at my own reflection … honestly, I felt like this setup was ideal for taking photos of Civil War dead and nothing else.”
—too late.
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From the BBC - by John Cleese.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.”
The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from “Tiresome” to “A Bloody Nuisance.” The last time the British issued a “Bloody Nuisance” warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
” —whomever, this is so spot on.
“Shawna Forde’s beliefs were basically that Mexican immigrants are subhuman and deserve to be wiped out.”
—it’s also a bad world out there. no doubt.
“What’s become clear is that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an organization formed in 1912, more than a century after the first local chamber came into being, is anything but a benign umbrella for American small businesses. Quite the opposite: it’s a hard-edged ideological shop.”
—bill mckibben on tomdispatch
“No other small business category expects me to buy out of obligation instead of value except booksellers.”
—toddkeisling.com - when booksellers attack!
“While the cops made chalk marks on the floor of the pantry, the brave members of the National Rifle Association were already explaining that people commit crimes, guns don’t …”
—pete hamill, who was there, on rfk’s assassination, 1968
“Romney’s appearance … was entirely consistent with his public image as an otherworldly visitor from an Aqua Velva commercial circa 1985.”
—oh that frank rich
“What may at long last be dawning on some Republican grandees is that a provocateur who puts her political adversaries in the cross hairs and then instructs her acolytes to “RELOAD” frightens most voters.”
—i should hope so.
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Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.
That report is at odds with a recent report by the BP spill compensation czar that said nearly all will be well by 2012.
” —at odds with? really?
“Hold me closer, sweaty dancer”
—macalope headline re: guess who.
“In a 2001 study, two scholars in Canada asked 70 people to read “The Demon Lover,” a short story by Elizabeth Bowen. One group read it in a traditional linear-text format; they’d read a passage and click the word next to move ahead. A second group read a version in which they had to click on highlighted words in the text to move ahead. It took the hypertext readers longer to read the document, and they were seven times more likely to say they found it confusing.”
—hypertext! well that’s hardly fair!
“He was concerned that, in losing the “war and peace”, the Bible lost sheep, lost the newspapers and magazines, lost soul, while Tolstoy, man is lost is brain.”
—on nicholas carr’s “the shallows” - google translation from the chinese
“It appears that financial institutions earn money on transactions (say fees on your mother-in-law’s checking account) and lose everything taking risks they don’t understand. I want this to stop, and stop now— the current patching by the banking establishment worldwide is akin to using the same doctor to cure the patient when the doctor has a track record of systematically killing them”
—taleb, again
“… the banking system, betting against Black Swans, has lost over 1 Trillion dollars (so far), more than was ever made in the history of banking”.”
—nassim nicholas taleb
“for Mormons, sex is okay, but not pornography, unless it is devoid of sex, when it is renamed the Oxygen Network.”
—alex carnevale
“Did you know that Dennis Hopper once had seven women with the same last name convinced he was in love with them at the same time?”
—this recording
“… Brian Seitz took time out to respond to a comment … about why Windows Phone 7 resets its camera software to the default settings on launch: it’s a feature, not a bug! But don’t worry, Microsoft’s looking into it: “… feedback from folks like you has the team seriously looking at that option to see if there is a more optimal option.” I’m thinking maybe Seitz was hoping that reading that sentence would cause your head to explode, which I guess is one way to solve the problem.”
—remains of the day
