Archive for September, 2009

YouTube – Cat Shower 2 (Woody Style, very funny and cute) 猫ウッディーのシャワー2

YouTube – Cat Shower 2 (Woody Style, very funny and cute) 猫ウッディーのシャワー2.

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Kurt Vonnegut explains drama | Derek Sivers

I was at a Kurt Vonnegut talk in New York a few years ago. Talking about writing, life, and everything.
He explained why people have such a need for drama in their life.
He said, “People have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. [...]

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Wichita Witch Hunt – Forbes.com

No good deed goes unpunished when a private citizen is up against the federal drug warriors–those members of the Department of Justice who have been seeking, with increasing success in recent decades, to effectively control the practice of pain relief medicine. But a current drama being played out in federal court in Kansas portends an [...]

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Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death? – TIME

A recent explosion of khat cultivation has drawn water levels down to the point where they are no longer being replenished. The option of pumping desalinated water over long pipelines from coastal plants is too expensive for such a poor country. Yemen is in real danger of becoming the world’s first country to run out [...]

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Urinal protocol vulnerability « xkcd

 
 

 
 

 
Urinal protocol vulnerability « xkcd
Something women never have to worry about.

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The Bible's bad bits: silent women, mass murder and a weary concubine -Times Online

Biblical verses apparently endorsing sexism, genocide and the slaughter of sorceresses have been identified by readers of a Christian website as the least endearing parts of the holy book.
The online survey by shipoffools.com, a humorous online magazine, lists the ten verses people would rather had been left out of the Bible, in an attempt to [...]

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