Interesting…
Here’s a great way to make people interested in trying new services that aren’t yours…
Facebook Stops Users From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments
That is fricking awesome. Good on him for finally pointing that out to a point of ruling.
In other IP news:
Drew Curtis: How I Beat a Patent Troll
Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School (according to Forbes)
I haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but the first 5 minutes are great.
LOL, he’s finally lost his mind!
Is the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet making pilots sick?
Corrupt Kentucky sheriff brought down by reporters
Today’s Mises Daily by Doug French is simply superb. It’s concise, to the point, and says everything that needs to be said about the insanity of the Conventional Wisdom on investing and retirement in the modern world.
Clayton -
Found this gem on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/tb9wn/til_that_stalin_developed_one_of_the_best/
It’s nice to see the press at least kind of doing their job for once. And it’s kind of funny watching this guy dance.
Like I was saying here, Jake Tapper strikes me as a good one in a crowd of blowhards and panderers.
White House Press Blast Obama’s Gay Marrage Position: “Why Not Just Come Out & Say It”
Massachusetts bans bake sales in public schools
From the article:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR73mcZW7B4
What the hell is this? I don’t get it at all. How does it even help 10:10?
@Jargon: Saw that a long time back. it’s a wonderful illustration of the space-cadet mentality of many in the green movement. These are the descendants of the people who were devout spectators at every heretic-burning in town arranged by one of the Church’s inquisitions. They claimed that it was supposed to be satirical and funny in the vein of over-the-top Monty Python humor.
Consider the famous and hilarious “it’s only a flesh-wound” knight - it’s funny precisely because the knights have no real quarrel, because it pokes fun at the male tendency to minimize serious medical conditions, and so on - there are so many tropes there, it’s difficult to list them all. The spurting blood is hilarious because it’s so utterly pointless and un-connected with any real issue.
You have to be in a very strange place, mentally, to think it’s funny to depict your ideological opponents - actually, not even opponents, just people who aren’t very “into” your pet cause - being casually blown to bloody bits for failure to “do something” for your pet cause. I think they didn’t care and they just wanted attention at any price and they definitely achieved that goal. But the price they paid was clearly too high, assuming they actually believe in the AGW cause, because they gave out - on a silver platter - a mental health report of your typical AGW fanatic. Disturbing, indeed.
Clayton -
CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb
I think they meant to say “CIA derails plot with CIA underwear bomb”
Iraq: singular ambition
From the article:
Glad to see at least someone visits the supporting links I provide
Doesn’t matter to anyone else, but after nearly 4 years with Regal Cinemas (4 years end of June) I put in my two weeks and gave away the rest of my shifts for an exciting new job at PetSmart (my enthusiasm has lifted), but nonetheless a movie theater of our size (16 auditoriums) proved a nice way to view human action, and after some time I began to hate people. Now my new job currently rests on my drug test which I assume I shall pass since I have not smoked in months. If I fail, I’ll be really surprised, then I guess I’ll play guitar at the Ocean Front for money. Either way I’m going to go celebrate.