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  More on spiders - my most hated insect

  01.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Funny spider documentary from B’s dad.

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  Seattle fireworks ruined by windows

  01.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Computer Glitch Wreaks Seattle Fireworks (from /.): “the crew from Pyro Spectaculars realized that the computer file running the show was corrupted.” WTF? Who would have thought that something like this would happen to your fireworks.

• business, news, politics

  Shopdropping

  12.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the nyt: Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage

  Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.
  Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book [...]

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  Hot sauce as pain killer

  10.30.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  From Salon, just for my dad: Doctors Test Hot Sauce for Pain Relief (thanks B):

  Scientists are testing if the stuff that makes the sauces so savage can tame the pain of surgery.
  Doctors are dripping the chemical that gives chili peppers their fire directly into open wounds during knee replacement and a few other highly painful [...]

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  More from our series on aliens in america

  10.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The 6th Man on the Moon says - ‘We’ve had visitors’ (from digg).

  For those who might consider his statements farfetched, Mitchell, who has a doctorate in science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, noted that 30 years ago it was accepted that man was alone in the universe. Few people believe that now, he said.

  Why [...]

• news, politics

  Putin will run for parliament

  10.01.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  From the nyt: Putin Says He Will Run for Parliament:

  President Vladimir V. Putin announced today that he would be the leading candidate on the list of Russia’s dominant political party in parliamentary elections in December, and said he might become the country’s prime minister next year.
  …
  Mr. Putin’s statements strongly suggest what most analysts had already [...]

• business, news

  Women earning more than men

  09.24.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  From the nyt: Putting Money on the Table:

  For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities - New York, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis - are earning higher wages than men in the same age range, according to a recent analysis of 2005 census data by Andrew Beveridge, a [...]

• news

  9 year old boy steals car, engages in 90 mph car chase, and hijacks plane to Texas

  01.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A Runaway Situation in Seattle:

  He could be the most persistent, most creative and most publicized 9-year-old runaway in the history of the Pacific Northwest. As his mother says, he really hates it here.
  Semaj can drive a stolen car 90 mph while leading a police chase, as he demonstrated Sunday. The chase ended only after he [...]

• finance, news

  The financial troubles of a billionaire

  01.31.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  You gotta love the emails Larry Ellison’s (fifth richest person in the country) accountant sends him [from paul k]:

  At the bottom of a document that detailed Ellison’s 2000 debt load, Simon had scrawled a rough accounting of Ellison’s lavish spending, according to deposition testimony:

  Life Style — annual $20m
  Interest Accrual — annual $75m
  Villa [...]

• news

  “The year in ideas”

  12.12.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  The NYT has their Fifth Annual Year in Ideas up. Always interesting.

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