May 2013
4 posts
“I think some creative accounting is going on here.”
– Yahoo to acquire Tumblr in $1.1 billion cash deal
“„Kvaila būtų svilinant 30 laipsnių karščiui stovėti spūstyje paskui visą...”
– Yes, yra leidimas važiuoti tarp eilių…
Policininkų patarimas pradedantiems motociklininkams: nevažinėkite su džinsais ir lakuotais batais | gazas.lt
Deep Inside The Biggest Little Dildo Factory In... →
Would you rather work in gun factory or dildo factory?
The sex toy business has never been more profitable or female-driven, thanks in no small part to Fifty Shades of Grey. But while most of the industry’s manufacturing takes place in China, Doc Johnson is doing its patriotic duty, one giant rubber penis at a time.
April 2013
11 posts
Albert Einstein God Story Competent Professor...
A philosophy professor challenged his students with a form of the Euthyphro dilema: Did ‘God’ create everything that exists?” A student replied, “Yes, he did!” (The ‘bravely’ part is removed, seeing as civil disagreement is the very point of philosphy courses, no bravery is required for dissent. In fact, civil dissent is often rewarded in a philosophy...
TechShop: an industrial revolution for $125 a... →
So for $125 a month — or as I like to say ‘for the cost of a coffee addiction’ — you now have access to the tools of the industrial revolution.
“When terror hits the site of such faith in human fortitude, the impact is large....”
– Rafia Zakaria: The Tragedies of Other Places - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“Ceramic knives may present a security problem as ceramics are not seen by...”
– Ceramic knife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“А на Рублевке маленький человек плавает в большом бассейне и играет с большими...”
– Любовь к истории - Если Навального посадят в тюрьму, (via pukomuko)
“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the Crow,”
– Dead Man (1995) - Trivia - IMDb
March 2013
13 posts
Zopa UK Loans - Get a great rate loan from Zopa... →
Nebloga idėja… the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending service.
http://blog.newsblur.com/post/45632737156/three-mon... →
Kaip one-man-shopa hitino google readerio pabegeliai…. NewsBlur. Bandau šitą servisą.
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I have many pounds of garlic →
A huge problem though are garlic-vodka burps, which are deeply traumatizing.
February 2013
7 posts
“The energy released by a collision with an object the size of 1950 DA would...”
– (29075) 1950 DA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Kita būtina sąlyga yra tinkantis darbo pobūdis. Tai turi būti ganėtinai...”
– apie darbą namie | blogas domas
“We have always loved one another. We’re human. It’s something we’re good at. But...”
– Clay Shirky (via bijan)
Emotions are included →
New Republic has an interesting piece on how corporations enforce ‘emotional labour’ in their workforce – checking that they are being sufficiently passionate about their work and caring to their customers.
It focuses on the UK sandwich chain Pret who send a mystery shopper to each outlet weekly and “If the employee who rings up the sale is appropriately ebullient, then everyone in the shop...
“Sweden is hungry for trash and has turned to Norway for an offer it would find...”
– Sweden wants Norway’s trash (and lots of it)
January 2013
8 posts
“The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays...”
– Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone :)
BBC News - US employee ‘outsourced job to China’
“Hello, I’m Leos Carax, director of foreign-language films. I’ve been making...”
– Foreign-language film: Leos Carax explains it all - The Vote on Variety.com
“Holy Motors” director Leos Carax wasn’t able to accept his prize for best foreign-language film in person at the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.’s awards on Saturday night, but the French helmer sent the following speech,...
“Compressorhead is the worlds heaviest metal band.”
– Compressorhead
“TED should be renamed the Powerpoint Olympics.”
– Reddit (via pukomuko)
December 2012
10 posts
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies →
Hang it on the wall and learn. Free pdf available.
“Supjaustomi 5±1 vnt. obuolių. Jei turite labai daug laiko, bet visai neturite...”
– Obuolių pyragas su manų kruopomis
“Pasak V.Uspaskicho, ministrai turi turėti galių bent jau naujus projektus...”
– Verkti norisi. Tai dabar jei kažkuri apygarda balsavo už konservus, tai joje reikia nutraukti visus projektus?
Algirdas Butkevičius: koalicijai trūko bendravimo | 15min.lt
Demarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“The President of Thalassa had been in office for only two months and was still unreconciled to his misfortune. Certainly it was no use demanding a recount; the selection program, which involved the generation and interleaving of thousand-digit random numbers, was the nearest thing to pure chance that human ingenuity could devise. Yet he had to admit that, despite the personal inconvenience...
