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Americans will spend $450 billion this Christmas. It would only take $10 billion to give the world clean water

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:15 -0600

Americans will spend $450 billion this Christmas. It would only take $10 billion to give the world clean water:

davereed:

water4christmas.com

via hannahbanena

Apple ad bombing Windows 7 on Google

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:28:14 -0600

Apple ad bombing Windows 7 on Google

"With that, I’ll stop. And, in the best traditional practice of central bankers, proceed to avoid..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:48 -0600

“With that, I’ll stop. And, in the best traditional practice of central bankers, proceed to avoid answering any questions you might have.”

- 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…

Top Quotes from The Simpsons' Moe Szyslak

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:09:42 -0600

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]

"Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:43:15 -0600

“

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.

”

- Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes - Reason Magazine (via bellatoris)

"You cant ask a bird not to fly. You cant ask a fish not to swim. You cant axe a tiger not to turn..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:47:34 -0600

“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)

"It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men"

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:08:09 -0600

“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men”

- Frederick Douglass via i heart quotes

and that’s saying quite a bit.

Will Microsoft’s Pivot Reinvent How You Surf the Web? |...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0600

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.]

Innovative Laser Crosswalk Concept “Virtual Wall is an...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:18:20 -0600

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.”

SEC Falls Short in Financial Audit

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:01:15 -0600

SEC Falls Short in Financial Audit:

crazynutjob:

That’s not an Onion headline.

Who watches the watchmen?

chart-o-doom: There’s a difference between beating on earnings...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:40:35 -0600

chart-o-doom:

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!

menstrom: Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2009 AL Cy Young winner.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:13:12 -0600

menstrom:

Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2009 AL Cy Young winner.

Detroit's Famous Pontiac Silverdome Sells For Just $583,000

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:45:36 -0600

Detroit's Famous Pontiac Silverdome Sells For Just $583,000:

Even though some homes in Detroit literally sell for $1, we’re still surprised to see how little an entire stadium fetches. In this case it’s the famous Pontiac Silverdome Detroit News:

Nearly 25 years after taxpayers spent $55.7 million building the Pontiac Silverdome and a year after a $20 million sale fell through, city officials have sold the arena once called the most desirable property in Oakland County.

This Microsoft store is trying too hard those poor employees!...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:47:14 -0600

This Microsoft store is trying too hard

those poor employees! and to make things worse, they’re doing the electric slide. to black eyed peas.

i can imagine being a customer there: “why are you dancing and not helping with this computer?”

oy.

this is what one calls a “neighborhood watch criminals...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:40:43 -0600

this is what one calls a “neighborhood watch criminals break in and take stuff”

davereed: Dilbert

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:29:46 -0600

davereed:

Dilbert

who says you can’t buy votes with other people’s...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:09:42 -0600

who says you can’t buy votes with other people’s money?

a friend sent this to me last night & i just had to post it. sometimes i’ll listen to shanin & parks on my way home & they play this clip when ever someone like this calls in. the way she says “obama money” cracks me up every time. and it almost saddens me that she has no idea where this money is coming from. [this could take us down an interesting rabbit hole: politicians & citizens using each other etc. we won’t go there.]

and i’m not saying republicans haven’t bought votes with tax cuts & whatnot, but as democrats are fond of saying, affected wealth is in the hands of very few people.

jhnbrssndn: The Helvetica Scenario From the pilot episode of...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:46:55 -0600

jhnbrssndn:

The Helvetica Scenario

From the pilot episode of Look Around You, a parody of educational films. The subject is Calcium. (via )

oh my. i could get used to this.

finally! it’s not much, but it’s something

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:28:54 -0600

finally! it’s not much, but it’s something

for the record, this is better than actual nickelback. [h\t...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:32:21 -0600

for the record, this is better than actual nickelback.

[h\t jeff]