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interesting. i felt proud of my city watching the video montage in the first half of the clip. i then felt nauseated listening to the...
adriane:
Now we are splitting healthy hairs. Words like this become obsolete as culture changes and seeds drift. Botanicaly, the ability to debate (what this...
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good call. While we’re at it, can we scrap the word “trapezoid” and replace it with “rectrangle?” For those...
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so really we should call doormen janitors & janitors hygienes.
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The effect is statistically significant but not super large, maybe not clinically significant. Here’s the numbers from the paper: “people...
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Hi Jesse! No, a blog is not a decent or reliable method of contacting someone. Especially if it’s the only method you’ve put out...
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Level 3: Remove yourself from the equation. Burn your car and zip past all that bullshit on a scooter.
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Dustin ~ Thanks again for the shout out and for getting in touch. As I mentioned in my note back to you over Facebook, running the ad was as...
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more specifically, I disagree with the idea that Rastafarians believe in Selassie because they are “hopelessly baked”. For instance,...
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U spread lies and rumor, and ur only motivation is to put down what ur not familiar with and don’t understand. Vanity and ego u worship, while...
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Selasi ran numerous torture centers for dealing with political dissidents. He was widely known for a wildly irrational temper and being...
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totally disagree with your views about Rastafarianism: it’s insulting, callous and shortsighted if you ask me…but who asked me anyways....
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ohh, most historians are up to far more than their ankles in bullshit.
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That is a helper elephant. On a trampoline.
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The student volunteers didn’t realize when the experiment started. They showed up at Yale University’s psychology building and met their contact near the elevators. She was holding some textbooks and a cup of coffee. The woman with the coffee was [part of the experiment]. She knew what she was supposed to do, but she didn’t know why. One by one, she took the students up to the fourth floor in an elevator. As they rode up, the woman asked students, “in a pretty innocuous way, if they wouldn’t mind holding her coffee cup while she wrote down some information,” Williams explained.
Half the students got to hold hot coffee; half got iced coffee. They held the cup for only a few seconds. But that short experience must have changed something in their brains. When they arrived at the fourth floor, they filled out questionnaires. They read a short description of a hypothetical person — Person A — and they had to evaluate this stranger’s personality.
Here’s where the coffee’s influence became apparent. “Participants who held the hot coffee cup rated this Person A as more generous, more social, happier, better natured” than participants who held the iced coffee cup, Williams said. Williams thinks it’s no coincidence that we use the same word — warmth — to describe both a physical and an emotional experience. Somewhere in the brain, those two sensations are linked, he says. And you can imagine why: Think of a baby held in its mother’s arms. The child is experiencing love, affection, comfort.
“But you also have, at the same time, an experience with a warm object, in that case a warm human being,” Williams said.
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Now get off the internet and go give someone a hug.
34. People driving on sidewalks and then honking at me when I get in their way, like I am the one in the wrong place. I am not sure what people want me to do in these situations. Am I supposed to go into the street? I generally just ignore them and stand in their way, because it’s a fucking sidewalk.
35. Inconsistent bureaucratic bullshit. My visa says it’s valid for one year, but also says that I can only stay for 30 days. My roommate and another American girl out here got the problem solved relatively quickly by getting a letter from the American Embassy and American Councils (respectively), going to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and resubmitting their passports. Figuring this was a good idea, I also obtained a letter from the American Embassy, the exact same letter my roommate got (with my name replacing her name), only to be DENIED a visa because I didn’t have the proper documents. WTF?!
Twitter is a baffle engine because 4000+ people want to hear this guy state very simply that he’s at a damn airport. No wry observation, no minimalist haiku, simply “at o’hare.” annnnnd Twitter is so popular that it crashes nearly every day. WTF-ists take pause, teh intarwebs are about providing platforms for people to do What They Want not about telling people what they have to do. Entrepreneurs and Technologists (including many of my colleagues) do not understand this.
Whole foods claims to sell local produce, and yet in some cases it doesn’t.
Snow’s Bend Farm, a family-owned commercial grower near the Black Warrior River, said in a suit last week Whole Foods’ advertisements list the grower as a fresh andauthentic local supplier. But the grocer has never bought a single item from Snow’s Bend, says the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Birmingham. Whole Foods had no comment on the matter Monday, saying only that it hopes for a peaceful resolution.
Additionally, I was just read part of an article titled “Taking Behaviorlism Seriously: Some Evidence of Market Manipulation “(Hanson and Kysar, 1999) from the Harvard Law Review that states this:
Because consumers display a “lack of knowledge about the meaning of vague environmental marketing claims such as ‘recyclable,’ ‘degradable,’ or ‘environmentally friendly,”‘210 manufacturers have ample opportunity to manipulate consumer perceptions of environmental risks. For instance, McDonald’s apparently printed on hash-brown containers the three-arrow symbol that generally denotes recycled paper, even though McDonald’s officials conceded that the containers were not made of recycled paper, were not being recycled, and probably could not be recycled due to a promotional label glued to each package. Likewise, the manufacturer of Mr. Coffee boasted that its coffee filters were produced through a “chlorine-free process;” in fact, the company had merely switched from a process using pure chlorine to one using a chlorine compound. In other instances, the misrepresentations are more brazen: the Orkin Exterminating Company claimed that its lawn care pesticides were “practically non-toxic,” and Safe Brands Corporation advertised its antifreeze as “essentially non-toxic” and “the ultimate in . . . environmental safety.” In both cases, the FTC found that the products actually created significant risks of harm to health and the environment.
The clear answer? Never buy anything and never eat anything.
New Friend Requests!!!
If the profile no longer exists why do I have to deny their friend request?!?!? Shouldn’t this just disappear? gah!
dear ruthie, I totally think you’re a real person and not a porn fakesters* created by a sophisticated bot. what? you have a cam?!? only 5.99 a minute? I would have never guessed.
*see attack of the smartasses a great article from sf weekly when friendster was considered an “uber-chic” dating site.
also, this is a amazing article on how the CIA used a fake sci fi movie to sneak hostages out of iran.
:: whoa via wired ::
April 19, 2007 — For the first time, investigators are saying the chemical that has sickened and killed pets in the United States may have been intentionally added to pet food ingredients by Chinese producers.
Food and Drug Administration investigators say the Chinese companies may have spiked products with the chemical melamine so that they would appear, in tests, to have more value as protein products.
Officials now suspect this possibility because a second ingredient from China, rice protein concentrate, has tested positive for melamine. So has corn gluten shipped to South Africa. That means there is a possibility for another round of recalls.
The FDA’s top veterinarian, Stephen Sundlof, says finding melamine in so many products “would certainly lend credibility to the theory that it was maybe intentional.”
Melamine, which is used to make plastics in the United States and as a fertilizer in Asia, contains nitrogen. Nitrogen can appear to boost the level of protein in products.
The revelations have led the FDA to expand the number of products it is testing as they enter the United States. So far, those inspections at the border have not turned up any melamine in wheat gluten. Tainted wheat gluten used by Menu Foods is suspected in sickening hundreds, if not thousands of pets.
Some of the tainted pet food has apparently made it into feed for hogs. Federal agencies are trying to determine if it was actually fed to animals and whether it may have reached the human food supply.
via ABC News
—Mr Gordon
So it turns out that the government has a “reasonably complete” database of all the prescription drugs people in the US have bought…
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