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Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - CaffeinePowered - 01-11-2010

(01-11-2010, 03:49 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html

I found this article pretty compelling and honestly the comments were pretty good as well, for and against. In fact I'm kinda curious how Krugman got such a higher level of commenters on his article?

Good read


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Tricks - 01-11-2010

(01-11-2010, 03:49 PM)Surf314 link Wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html

I found this article pretty compelling and honestly the comments were pretty good as well, for and against. In fact I'm kinda curious how Krugman got such a higher level of commenters on his article?

A nobel prize can't hurt.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - KarthXLR - 01-11-2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Waits

I know how lazy it is to just post a wikipedia entry for someone, but the more I read about this guy the more interested I get. I also like his music, durp.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Coppanuva - 01-11-2010

The books that make you stupid list in the lulz topic reminded me of the music version the guy did.
http://musicthatmakesyoudumb.virgil.gr/ I want a movie version too.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 01-12-2010

[Image: hirise_avalanche_big.jpg]


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 01-12-2010

http://www.newsweek.com/id/229957?digg=1

The guy I met works with/for David Boies  :o


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Ungodly - 01-13-2010

Quote:These are sapeurs, acolytes of a 25-year-old movement called la SAPE—La Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (aka Kitendi, the religion of the cloth) — that revolves around the possession of the most expensive, most luxurious, most extravagant fashion in the world. Followers of SAPE wear $10,000 jackets and $500 shoes, but these mostly young Congolese men otherwise barely eke out a living in the rubble of Kinshasa and Brazzaville or the ghettos of Paris and Brussels, washing dishes or washing bodies, and sometimes selling their own.
Quote:They don't carry guns and rarely brawl, but occasionally they invade one another's turf, dressed to the nines, of course, in what they call a "Defi de Sape," or fashion challenge.

Think "West Side Story" meets "Zoolander." They flash labels, not knives.

"If we see them walking down our street, we run home, change into our best and come back out to prove that we're not nobodies," said Willy Biselele, 28, a leader of the 100 Years War.

The winner is the team with the most expensive or rarest collection. One recent standoff was televised by a local station.

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Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Sponson - 01-14-2010

(01-12-2010, 11:23 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [Image: hirise_avalanche_big.jpg]

What the fuck is that.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Spore - 01-14-2010

(01-14-2010, 10:09 AM)Sponson link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1507.msg131924#msg131924 date=1263313414]
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What the fuck is that.
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Frozen carbon dioxide on Mars taken with the HiRISE orbiter.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 01-14-2010

(01-14-2010, 10:17 AM)Spore link Wrote: [quote author=Sponson link=topic=1507.msg132250#msg132250 date=1263481755]
[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=1507.msg131924#msg131924 date=1263313414]
[Image: hirise_avalanche_big.jpg]

What the fuck is that.
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Frozen carbon dioxide on Mars taken with the HiRISE orbiter.
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I embedded the link to the explanation if you click it.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 01-14-2010

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/why-is-the-news-media-comfortable-with-lying-about-science.ars


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - chronomaster - 01-14-2010

Here's hoping for better laptops.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/01/shuttle-hints-at-build-your-own-laptop-with-spa-format-ready.ars


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - SAVAGE-0 - 01-15-2010

oh man... check out today's shirt.woot.com .... gotta love bttf


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - CaffeinePowered - 01-15-2010

For those of you that don't know anything about Hati


Second, longer and more detailed read


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Duck, Duck, Goose - 01-15-2010

http://www.firstpersontetris.com/

Ninja'd Funbucks. 8)


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Professor Funbucks - 01-15-2010

(01-15-2010, 04:07 PM)Nitrous Oxide link Wrote: http://www.firstpersontetris.com/

Ninja'd Funbucks. 8)
15620 Night Mode
MAN THE FF UP


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Surf314 - 01-18-2010

http://twistedsifter.com/2009/12/oshatz-wilkinson-tree-house/

Fuck yea tree house.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Ungodly - 01-19-2010

This comic is pretty awesome.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - at0m - 01-19-2010

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Anderson Cooper drags Haitian boy to safety mid-coverage

That dude is ripped. I can't think of another reporter who could pull off jeans and a tshirt on national television.


Re: Neat stuff (non-lulz but interesting things) - Luinbariel - 01-19-2010

(01-19-2010, 09:22 AM)at0m link Wrote: [Image: tumblr_kwh0lwp27B1qzvu2oo1_500.jpg]
Anderson Cooper drags Haitian boy to safety mid-coverage

That dude is ripped. I can't think of another reporter who could pull off jeans and a tshirt on national television.

Holy shit you aren't kidding.

At first I thought "Hey, that guy is about to steal that kid". I think I should go back to bed.