Romney finally won something!
Alas, it was Politifact's "Lie of the Year" award. (Politifact is a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking project.) http://tinyurl.com/bwwgyyx Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Ilulissat Glacier Break-Up Caught On Tape In Largest Calving Event Ever...
According to The Guardian, the glacier's calving (estimated to be 4.5 cubic miles/19km3 in size) was captured by a team assembled by filmmaker James Balog near the Ilulissat glacier in Greenland. The...
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Exploring Boston; early Winter in the Fens
Brief story: http://fredlanga.blogspot.com/2012/12/exploring-boston-early-winter-fens-birds.html Permalink | Leave a comment »
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anyone know how to change this background?
It's the Android "card" space background (circles below); the one you get when you open Google with a swipe up from the bottom. None of the normal "change google search background" tricks work......
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Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers | TechCrunch
via techcrunch.com "...The average American reads only 17 books a year. (Others say it’s a mere 6.5, but let’s be optimistic.) Call it 1,200 books per lifetime. If every author on the planet fell down...
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Baltimore traffic cam issues speeding ticket to motionless car stopped at red...
An automatic speed camera citation was issued to a car owned by Daniel Doty for going 38 in a 25. But there was a problem, as his car was standing still....
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Hilarious: Videos Illustrate How Bad Online Shopping Experiences Would Look...
Google Analytics has produced a trio of hilarious videos to help web stores improve their customer service by illustrating what not to do. Moving the common mistakes and bad practices that online...
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View ArticleYou aren't supposed to know anything about Ron Cohen. But you should.
Excellent, righteously angry, profane article about how gun makers --- like Ron Cohen, the CEO of Sig Sauer, the company that produced one of the guns that was used in Friday's Sandy Hook Elementary...
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See that little blue dot?
See it, at the 10 o'clock position just outside the brightest inner ring? That's us. That's Earth, as seen from behind Saturn. The image was taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it passed through...
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Explore – The demographics of gun ownership.
Click through for detailed breakdowns by age, race, etc. (And yes, it's mostly an old, white, Red State thing.) via exp.lore.com Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Man Who Will Die In Great Eastern Seaboard Flood Of 2023 Preparing For Mayan...
[snip]Displaying more concern for the dire predictions of numerologists than the warnings of modern scientists regarding the changes in climate that will eventually lead to his unceremonious death,...
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This tool is reportedly capable of cracking BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt...
Russian firm ElcomSoft on Thursday announced the release of Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor (EFDD), a new forensic tool that can reportedly access information stored in disks and volumes encrypted...
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