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May 2009
May 28, 2009
May 27, 2009
May 26, 2009
Suck It And See Its Magic!
Yes, I am immature. Heh heh.
From Lady, That's My Skull.
May 25, 2009
Surreal picnic
Honey, let's dress up Babe and take her to the park!
There's probably a reasonable explanation. Maybe they're at a concert for pigs, or something.
May 24, 2009
May 23, 2009
Weirdest Obama product EVER!
Available here for $35, via: Missouri Politics.
May 21, 2009
May 19, 2009
Geek alert: Google Street View Tricycles!
If you've ever gotten frustrated tooling around in Google Street View because you can't get to someplace that isn't a major street, then you're probably as much of a geek as I am. Google has just announced Google Street View Tricycles as a way to index some of those hard-to-reach places!
Via Justinsomnia
May 15, 2009
May 10, 2009
Happy Mother's Day!
Happy Mother's Day! You raised us right, too, though we're more normal than the folks in this picture. Right, Mother? Right? Hello?
Via PostSecret
May 06, 2009
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
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- 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
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- 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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