Tuesday November 24, 2009 at 13:57
“The press’s [sic] view on global warming rests on an appeal to authority: the consensus among scientists that it is real, dangerous and man-caused. But the authority of scientists rests on the integrity of the scientific process, and a “consensus” based on the suppression of alternative hypotheses is, quite simply, a fraudulent one.”
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James Taranto (via sds)
science would be perfect if it weren’t for the scientists.
This post was reblogged from heart in a cage.
Tuesday November 24, 2009 at 13:48
Tuesday November 24, 2009 at 13:28
Friday November 20, 2009 at 16:42
Americans will spend $450 billion this Christmas. It would only take $10 billion to give the world clean water
via hannahbanena
This post was reblogged from My sentiments exactly.
Friday November 20, 2009 at 16:20
“With that, I’ll stop. And, in the best traditional practice of central bankers, proceed to avoid answering any questions you might have.”
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Richard Fisher, Dallas Fed President, in Paradise Lost: Addressing ‘Too Big to Fail’ (With Reference to John Milton and Irving Kristol) (via crazynutjob)
two points for honesty…
This post was reblogged from Crazy Nut Job.
Friday November 20, 2009 at 11:09
Top Quotes from The Simpsons' Moe Szyslak
for tumblr’s very own Syzlak, who shares a disputable resemblance to the more famous Moe.
[via digg]
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 20:43
“Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.
Last week the House of Representatives voted on a 2,000 page bill to give the federal government the power to micromanage the health care of every single American. The bill will raise your taxes, steal your freedom, invade your privacy, and ration your health care. Even the Republicans have introduced their version of Obamacare Lite. It, too, if passed, will compel employers to provide coverage, bribe the states to change their court rules, and tell insurance companies whom to insure.
We do not have two political parties in this country, America. We have one party; called the Big Government Party. The Republican wing likes deficits, war, and assaults on civil liberties. The Democratic wing likes wealth transfer, taxes, and assaults on commercial liberties. Both parties like power; and neither is interested in your freedoms.
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— Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes - Reason Magazine (via bellatoris)
This post was reblogged from random ramblings.
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 10:47
“You cant ask a bird not to fly. You cant ask a fish not to swim. You cant axe a tiger not to turn back into a Chinese dude after midnight.”
— Tracy Jordan (via ericmortensen)
This post was reblogged from worship the glitch.
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 9:08
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”
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Frederick Douglass via i heart quotes
and that’s saying quite a bit.
Thursday November 19, 2009 at 8:56
Will Microsoft’s Pivot Reinvent How You Surf the Web? | Technomix | Fast Company
“Pivot combines the ideas behind web-browsing, web search, image organizing and text information into one big data soup that has some clever graphical tools to help you sift through it for the information you’re interested in finding. To extend that analogy further, Pivot’s real power is that it lets you see the whole data soup at once, stir it around to see new details within it, or zoom right in to see some of the individual ingredients. […]
As Microsoft notes on the Pivot Web site, the goal is to change how we interact with the Web—because the Web itself is growing at such a fast rate, adding data exponentially, and the current model of flipping through the information (kinda like dialing through pages on a rolodex) is already becoming a terrible way to do it.”
like the author of this article, i’m not super impressed, but there’s potential. things need to change. our habits need to change if we have an hope of accessing the information we seek.
i have a feeling that we’ve gotten used to a certain way of interacting with the internets, a way that is increasingly inadequate but also difficult to escape. as such, we grow accustomed to not finding exactly what we want and settling for good enough. [i would argue that a problem with humanity altogether, but that’s a different post.]
Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 20:18
Innovative Laser Crosswalk Concept
“Virtual Wall is an innovative device that makes it safer for pedestrians to cross the road by projecting laser images when the red traffic light is on.”
Wednesday November 18, 2009 at 12:01
This post was reblogged from Crazy Nut Job.
Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 16:40
There’s a difference between beating on earnings and beating on revenue. A company can get extra earnings from a given revenue stream by cutting costs (firing employees). That strategy makes sustained growth more difficult.
(via The Daily Reckoning : 5 Min. Forecast)
silver lining on this chart o’ doom: they can’t fire everybody!
This post was reblogged from Chart o' Doom.
Tuesday November 17, 2009 at 14:13
Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2009 AL Cy Young winner.
This post was reblogged from The Menstrom Cycle.
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