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December 2008
December 26, 2008
December 25, 2008
Happy Holidays
From tikiranch, a collector of fabulous vintage advertising images.
December 16, 2008
December 06, 2008
If I did Christmas cards...
From here via THE FILTER
December 05, 2008
December 04, 2008
Portland Plastic Pony Public Art
In some of the older commercial and residential parts of Portland, Oregon there are rings embedded into curbs from the time when people needed to tie up their horses. A local artist, Scott Wayne Indiana, started tying small plastic horses to the rings to remind people of the City's history (and for amusement, I presume). He was soon joined by others who formed the horse project.
December 01, 2008
Earn Money at Home Storing Nuclear Waste!
It's simple!
In two weeks you will personally sign for a specially-delivered package containing up to 100 lbs of vitrified radioactive waste materials.
It is recommended that you store this within a dry, airtight bunker with 6-foot concrete walls, located well above the water table in a location where it will not be disturbed by humans for 2 million years.
Then sit back and enjoy a check for $1,200 a month – forever!
If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- “It is wrong for Warren Buffett’s secretary to pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett"
- Occupy: The Original
- CEO pay increased 27 - 40% in 2010
- Pepper Spray Cop joins the parade
- Fox News: Pepper spray is "a food product."
- In Congress Assembled, UC Davis edition
- Perspective on police brutality
- If you're not doing anything bad you have no reason to fear...
- Percentage of Millionaires: Why is tax policy so hard to change?
- We Are The One Percent!
- Batman: "I am the 1%"
- “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance”
- James Madison spoke against concentrated wealth
- If this is class warfare, we're losing!
- Public perceptions of U.S. income inequality
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Favorite Comics
- Abstruse Goose
- ArgyleSweater
- Bizarro
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Crimes Against Hugh's Manatees
- Cyanide and Happiness
- Doonesbury
- F Minus
- Questionable Content
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- Savage Chickens - Cartoons on Sticky Notes by Doug Savage
- Slow Wave
- Small Peculiar
- This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Relentlessly Optimistic Links
- The thoughts of Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Should I be worried that the top Google result (update: in October of 1994) for Relentlessly Optimistic is to the former Iraqi Information Minister? That's somewhat offset by the fact that the #3 link is to Sponge Bob Square Pants. - The Meaning of Optimism
- StatCounter
- SiteMeter
- Learned Optimism
optimists and pessimists attribute the reasons for success and failure differently: it's personal for pessimists. - ITMFA
- Does pessimism soften the blow of bad news?
Science says yes, but that it isn't worth it. - Creative Commons
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