January 2010
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umalik asked sisterpearl: I believe you converted...
sisterpearl:
Oooohhh, I could spend hours answering this question… there is so much that led me to Islam. The short answer is:
I was raised Catholic, and was very devout in my youth but also very inquisitive. I loved the Church, but soon found myself at odds with basic dogma, mainly, I did not believe that Jesus was God, and I had real issues with the hierarchy of Church power and the need for...
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Artist: SOUND HOLIC
Album: 東方的夢天幻奏典 (SOUND HOLIC...
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“For years we’ve all held to the belief that computing had to be made simpler for...”
– Fraser Speirs: Future Shock. Read it. It’s awesome. (via marco)
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alumina:
FFXIII’s battle theme. It’s so good, I...
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nostrich:
Ok, one more thing.
I’m amazed at how arrogant geeks are sometimes. Here’s what happened yesterday: Apple launched a device that is a first of its kind (don’t try and tell me it isn’t, it is), and the collective response was: doesn’t do anything I need, this thing is going to be a total failure. Ok, the collective response was a deluge of terrible jokes about tampons, but after that.
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Oops! Jessica Simpson Farts During Business... →
nostrich:
It’s official: we live in a world where a celebrity farting is news. Congratulations, world.
Congratulations indeed.
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MackeyCare Begins
dihard:
Remember MackeyCare, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s steps to improve healthcare, which he outlined in a WSJ op ed last summer? Well now it’s taking shape, as the company introduces a new approach to encourage its 51,000 employees to lead healthy lifestyles.
Whole Foods will offer up to a 10% discount (on top of the 20% discount employees are already given at the market) to employees who
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The horror!
syntheticpubes:
I guess my favorite part of this dictionary scare (some neurotic mother lobbied her child’s school to remove the MW from the library because it contained a definition for oral sex) is that these kids have internet access and mommy dearest just got up to speed on the dictionary.
The children have seen 2 Girls 1 Cup. Bukkake is an idle playground threat. They are apathetic unless...
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No, we can't
marco:
Thomas Friedman:
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was the amazing, young, Internet-enabled, grass-roots movement he mobilized to get elected. The most striking feature of Obama’s presidency a year later is how thoroughly that movement has disappeared.
In part, it disappeared because the Obama team let it disappear, as Obama moved to pass what was...
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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures →
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or: How to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Bathroom Mirror Self-Portrait
Unnngnggggnngg…it is impossible to overstate the awesomeness of OkCupid’s ongoing data mining operation, even though this cheat sheet will surely upset the natural balance.
This is really fascinating; a statistical analysis of online profile pictures and how it relates to attractiveness, effectively...
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“…I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot) (via marco)
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Artist: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Album: IRM
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“…any legislative moves with this Democratic party and this Republican party are...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot, dalasverdugo) (via marco)
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“Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need...”
– Frank Chimero (via marco)
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On Toonami
In October 2007, Robert Guzman (aka DJ Calus) started an project which involved remastering the old Toonami intros, cutscenes, and promo videos into an album that gave homage to the Toonami of old, as well as related albums such as “Black Hole Megamix” and “Deep Space Bass”, titled “Rare, Restored, and Recut”.
Robert Guzman:
For me this has been a real...
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Salt and science →
saltandfat:
cowsandmilk:
So, what do we see? Forty two years of studies involving hundreds of thousands of patients, all with long follow up times on intervention. And the longer the follow up time, the more pronounced the effect, indicating that continuing to eat more salt or eat less salt over longer periods of time had even more impact.
So, I don’t know where saltandfat gets their...