On Tech Billionaire Selflessly Launches Political Group To Help His Company
Bill Gates already has Malaria covered, and all of the good outer space stuff is being done by for-profits now, so what's left to fix, really? Not much, apart from the Newark public schools and an immigration policy that has yet to realize 'effective border security'.
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On Who Does The Best "Chelsea Hotel #2"?
I'm holding off voting until I hear the Adam Sandler version.
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On Darkness Over Germany Tortures The Teutonic Soul
I initially parsed the mouseover text as 'names of the two most popular strip clubs in Germany', for which I think the names would have been equally appropriate.
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On Luckily For Britons, The Hot New Food Trend Is Hay
100% horse is pretty amazing / has to be intentional, possibly a French prank on UK residents who are willing to by frozen French-made lasagne. Rather than a recall, they should consider following Cap'n Crunch's marketing example set with 'OOPS! All Berries' cereal, something like Zut! All Horse!
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On Fit Of Pique
Peek is terrible even when used correctly, with a possible exception made for games played with toddlers. And no one should be using apropos to mean anything.
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On Are You A Good Enough Person To Keep Your WiFi Open To Strangers?
With some of the slowest average 'high speed' internet in the world, the US might not be the best country to start this movement. One possibility, though, is to have two-tier access on all routers, a password-protected high speed connection, and an open trickle of bandwidth which would preclude streaming video but allow anon users to check and send email and texts.
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On "Winner Winner Chicken Dinner"
Other stories on Litvak point out that he profited off of a scam involving the Troubled Asset Relief Program; this involvement with a government program may have been the trigger for the prosecution - if he had stuck with private assets and funds, he might have been able to carry on with the business as usual described in the linked article. In any case, today's computerized trading is worlds more open than the pre-1990s markets where all trades went through brokers.
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On The Brad Pitt Bed: "Ziricote with farm raised stingray skins and nickel details"
@hman - burl, according to wikipedia, "is caused by an injury, virus or fungus" and as such is as close to spalted as you're going to get in a non-maple wood.
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On The New Satanism: Ke$ha's Amazing Occult Ritual Sex-Magick Video
Lykke Li's 'Get Some' video set a precedent for Occult Ritual Sex-Magick videos a few years ago, and she is consistently more musically interesting than KE$HA.
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On Brian Eno Is 65
Also, Windows 95 startup sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbjTapNImM