Google singles out Darfur for special attention. There are a lot of other crises in the world. By singling out this one, Google is both contributing to helping solve it, and also throwing many other situations into the shadows. As I said before, “I am an individual with a foreign policy.” The new game of [...]
Read more →Weird conservation of energy effect where a stream of shampoo jumps back up into the air if it is being poured from a height on to a hard surface.
Read more →Bizarrely enough, we can see polarization without any instruments. How weird is that? Anybody tried this?
Read more →Japanese fisherman, a year younger than me negotiates the hardest obstacle course that the Japanese TV minds could create.
Read more →Macavity the cat rides the busses. Super cute story. Gets on at one stop, gets off at another. Cats figuring out busses has implications. Future species neutral transportation infrastructure designers, please take note.
Read more →Demented. Reads very much like an advert for Shabu – 95% pure Chinese crystal meth. Much as I like honest reporting from the front line of the war on drugs (“can’t we declare a truce? how’s about armistice for at least the dope smokers?”) to have some integrity, this story really needed to follow these [...]
Read more →Off-grid.net likes hexayuts. A lot. hexayurt@gmail.com is my address, and I’m hoping this will show up in the trackbacks over there because I tried to post a comment but couldn’t. Welcome, readers! http://appropedia.org/Hexayurt_Project is the main site.
Read more →It turns out that companies only enjoy the advantages of low-cost labor at best for a three- or four-year window. Consider that the cost of living in every city in the United States (outside of New York City) is now lower than in the former Communist capitals of Prague, Budapest, or Warsaw. Second, statistics on [...]
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