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[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (25 May 2010)

Tue, 25 May 2010 13:02:36 GMT

http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerpig/4632400192/sizes/o/ These aren't the nuts you're looking for.

http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Around_the_World/2010-05-21/23597/Fall_turns_81-y-o_into_sex_addict "That woman preyed upon my father like he was a Christmas goose," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/7644181/Worlds-worst-tennis-player-loses-again.html Officially the worst.

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201005210021 Stand in the burning bush!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/23/israel-south-africa-nuclear-weapons "The South Africans didn't seem to care; they blacked out a few lines and handed it over to me. The ANC government is not so worried about protecting the dirty laundry of the apartheid regime's old allies."

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/the_nonexpert_ikea.php The IKEA dungeon walkthrough.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100523.gif There once was an ugly ducking...

http://www.babybacon.com/index.php/random-pictures/life-its-never-boring/ Life -- it's never boring!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/after-keeping-us-waiting-for-a-century-mark-twain-will-finally-reveal-all-1980695.html Scholars are divided as to why Twain wanted the first-hand account of his life kept under wraps for so long. Some believe it was because he wanted to talk freely about issues such as religion and politics. Others argue that the time lag prevented him from having to worry about offending friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ptYTGTNiyQ Everybody was Kung Fu fighting!

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[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (21 May 2010)

Fri, 21 May 2010 14:36:38 GMT

http://i.imgur.com/zJHU8.gif Don't bring a gun to a chair fight.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0207GREETINGS "We've been attacked," he says, "by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture."

http://www.smileonastick.com/ No one can accuse The Bauer Group of false advertising.

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/britain-bans-500-euro-notes-criminals-favorite-denomination/19475646 More uncomfortable methods of transit are also used: A grown man can easily swallow $190,000 worth of the high-value bills.

http://i.imgur.com/spuiE.jpg Watch me hating your hate.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1887 Professor Thorne realized time travel is possible in this universe.

http://www.youtube.com/user/gwz40#p/u/6/_8aH-M3PzM0 Vintage fire control computers: gears are usually used to transfer a value from one shaft to another.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126985072 The patient, who was too ill to be moved to the operating room much less another hospital, agreed to an abortion. But there was a complication: She was at a Catholic hospital.

http://www.msf-usa.org/motion.html More Intelligent Design.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/05/fmri-daubert/#ixzz0oFNje734 Brain-scanning for lie detection. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/ To maintain the rigor of the protocol (and perhaps because it was hilarious), the salmon, just like a human test subject, �was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing.�

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (16 May 2010)

Sun, 16 May 2010 13:35:27 GMT

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2010/05/09/remember-your-wedding-anniversary-with-the-remember-ring/ If only they could embed it under the skin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcE106AMOWA Two for two.

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/05/15/time-for-change-to-change/ Changing change.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/13/why-does-the-moon-look-so-huge-on-the-horizon/ The illusion works because our brains are a bit wonky.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Alabama_candidate_denounces_lie_that_he_believes_in_evolution.html Alabama: it just doesn't get any dumber.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/highschool/05/11/track.controversy/index.html "I feel bad for what happened, but I guarantee you she'll never wear jewelry during a track meet again."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/10/siphon_dictionary_error/ The next edition of the OED will be corrected.

http://www.gnr8.biz/product_info.php?products_id=599 Ambigram O' The Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwcap_-9tuA It's just a passing fad, this desire to procreate. [Warning: Adult Language, Sex]

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20100511&name=Bizarro Me, too.

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (09 May 2010)

Sun, 09 May 2010 15:27:27 GMT

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/27499971.html If you are not the Crackhead that took my sparkplugs, please disregard this posting. [Warning: Adult Language]

http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition "Every time I fire a linguist my system improves.�

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk9k_wbqQFw Chooch to Gooch: The Ten Steps of Disco Dancin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajbcJiYhFKY Video stroboscopy of vocal cords.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4581_Asclepius Just 6 hours from the end of the world.

http://imgur.com/guU7F STFU.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/09/uk-voting-system-could-se_n_569118.html Proportional representation vs. winner-take-all.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100505/REVIEWS/100509982/1001 The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine. [Warning: Adult Content, Graphic Violence]

http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_119_instructional-diagrams-people-who-suck-at-everyday-life/ Instructional Diagrams for People Who Suck at Everyday Life [Warning: Adult Language]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/tom_verducci/05/04/contact.pitches/index.html Pitching, in fact, has been one of the great growth industries in this recessionary economy.

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (03 May 2010)

Mon, 03 May 2010 17:24:23 GMT

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/apollo-13-fate/ And if you ever correct someone on the presence of that helping verb at a party, you join an elite club of pedants who love space and grammar too much. Contact us immediately with a YouTube video of the incident and we�ll send you a pin, because it�s our club.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0420101ferret1.html Turns out placing a live ferret in an Express Mail box, affixing $63.55 in postage, and mailing it to Puerto Rico is not actually legal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4hpbOD5sCo That one just never gets old.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8654337.stm "I certainly don't understand why cinnamon is permitted, but coriander is forbidden."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-measure-20100502,0,1279704.story http://blog.skytruth.org/ The Exxon Valdez is now a few days in the rear-view mirror. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02liability.html There's a possible liability limit of $75M. http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_told_to_stop_circulating_se.html That was fast.

http://buybettermarriageblanket.com/ You owe it to your marriage.

http://vator.tv/news/show/2010-04-28-bezos-dell-carey-want-health-insurance-dead Bezos, Dell, Carey want health insurance dead

http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2010/04/27/courtney_love_returns/index.html Courtney Love has the last laugh.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/alex-rodriguez-walks-on-m_n_549634.html Breaking the rules.

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial/index.html http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial_2/index.html http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/04/27/goldman_sachs_on_trial_3/index.html Susan Collins, the ranking Republican present on the committee, followed up with an even more direct question: "Do you have a responsibility to act in the best interest of your client?" Seems like a simple enough question, but Sparks could not answer it either, saying only, after much pressure: "I believe we have a duty to serve our clients."

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (22 Apr 2010)

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:13:52 GMT

http://www.project-reason.org/newsfeed/item/moral_confusion_in_the_name_of_science3/ Moral confusion in the name of �science�.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PG9h1CS1dfo/S8N0Q-pcLmI/AAAAAAAALyc/Wl9WufbH0hU/s400/imagesobjection_small.jpg I wish to register an objection.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ And the winner is... Brazil (because of Orkut).

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001676.html Adobe edges out Microsoft for the single most dangerous program you can run.

http://nmvsite.com/terrorism-thats-personal Terrorism that�s personal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hj5vOIrTEs Reservoir Turtles.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/ The company noted that it would not be enforcing the ownership rights.

http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml Actually, there have been many more arrests of Federal air marshals than that story reported, quite a few for felony offenses. In fact, more air marshals have been arrested than the number of people arrested by air marshals.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/the-ghost-of-bobby-lee/38813/ This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/04/yes-baseball-games-are-way-too-long/38934/ If pitchers are bad, though, batters are worse.

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (09 Apr 2010)

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:10:16 GMT

http://pbh3.tumblr.com/post/491440339/dog-fml FML.

http://www.wimp.com/urbantag/ Urban tag.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/dining/20tweez.html Every so often, a tool will leap across professional borders and become standard in restaurant kitchens. The blowtorch, we now know, caramelizes as well as it solders. Today, the woodworker�s Microplane rasp is far more likely to zest a lemon than shape a credenza.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-latest-threat-to-the-california-economy-legalizing-pot/19421390/ The prospect of legalization has some Humboldt County growers so worried that an estimated 100 industry insiders met with community leaders last week to discuss the possibility of a "post-pot" economy. "The legalization of marijuana will be the single most devastating event in the work force on the North Coast," organizer Anna Hamilton reportedly said at the meeting. She estimates that the price of outdoor marijuana could drop to as little as $500 a pound and result in the loss of 15,000 to 30,000 jobs.

http://www.shadyurl.com/ Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18745-japanese-gut-bacteria-gain-special-powers-from-sushi.html Can X-Men be far behind?

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/golden_glow/ But there's an effect of special relativity which was observed, if not understood, by the ancients: the yellow gleam of gold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFicqklGuB0 Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdnINaX9jM I suspect his next video will be of a surgical broom-stick extraction.

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/04/06/constance_mcmillen_fake_prom/index.html God knows it's no great stretch to give teens and adults credit for being ignorant douchebags, but seriously? http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XSAfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qacEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6862,5131613 It's been done before.

[/nev/dull] HTML O' The Day (01 Apr 2010)

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:59:08 GMT

http://www.mil-millington.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/mailing_listers/khr_MLM_51_h0di.htm They are all labelled 'control'. They are, my friends, control pants. Now, one thing alone is enough for me to know � to know instinctively, but absolutely � about control pants. It is this: if I gave Margret a pair of control pants as a present, she would lose control. I might as well sign my own death warrant as sign the cheque that bought Margret control pants. She'd think I was implying something, and, next thing I knew, I'd be hanging upside down in the freezer room of an abattoir with duct tape across my mouth watching her tug on the starter cord of a chainsaw.

http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/03/24/the_recycling_economy/index.html Leading economic indicator: Someone poached our cardboard recycling. Means rates are up, means China thinks we can buy more tschotckes.

http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Matt/Women-have-feminism,-but-what-do-men-have.-Republicans-HEYOOOO.png That's messed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH0aEp1oDOI Photo retouching moves forward a giant step.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=569163 Scientists have a term for the phenomenon of extra eggs in a nest: a "supernormal clutch." But in the case of the albatross, they never had a watertight explanation.

http://www.france24.com/en/20100331-saudi-behead-lebanese-convicted-witchcraft-lawyer Bewitched won't be showing on Saudi Nick-At-Night any time soon.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100325-presidio-texas-battery/ Eight-hour, four-megawatt UPS.

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/a-brief-yet-helpful-lesson-on-elementary-resource-locking-strategy/ She�d just acquired the lock, then left the resource unavailable while she responded to a completely unrelated event.

http://www.themoneytimes.com/featured/20100331/nibble-chocolate-healthy-heartstudy-id-10106072.html Sure beats diet and exercise.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/11/spiders-gallery/all/1 The Spider Awards: Wired.com�s Arachnid Hall of Fame