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24 June 09 - 13:595 Progressive Bright Spots in a Bleak Economic Landscape



5 Progressive Bright Spots in a Bleak Economic Landscape

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22 June 09 - 09:14Bandai Water Bottle Toys Offer All the Cuteness of a Waterborne Parasite, None of the Diarrhea



Japanese water monster

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17 June 09 - 05:40Slide Show: Jellyfish Jamboree--Are They Set to Seize the Seas?: Scientific American Slideshows



Wowza

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15 June 09 - 07:43The American Empire Is Bankrupt



The American Empire Is Bankrupt. Spooky.

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14 June 09 - 10:45Silver Bullet Obsession

I continue to be amazed, after all these years, that so many people can be obsessed with the idea that there are Silver Bullets for every problem. The steadfast refusal to accept the the cold fact that the world, technology, people, businesses, and systems of all kinds are complex and messy, and in many cases getting more so just boggles the mind. I'm not sure how so many can be so deluded about a fact that is perhaps completely obvious to anyone whose lived on this planet for more than a decade, yet they are.

Silver bullets are far and few between. For just about anything people would like to see them for, if they existed, people would very likely be using them already. The fact that so many of the same problems remain difficult, often intractable, year after year speaks volumes. Many would do well to drop their obsession with Silver Bullets, accept the complexity, and deal with it on those terms. Remaining deluded while on a fruitless search for these leads only to extreme frustration in others who know better.

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12 June 09 - 00:1730 Colorful Shots Of High Speed Bullet Photography



30 Colorful Shots Of High Speed Bullet Photography

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11 June 09 - 09:36Shepard Smith Calls Out "More and More Frightening Emails"



Fox News talking sense. Things have gotten so bad that they're afraid of their own nutty viewers. Wow.

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08 June 09 - 19:43Vendor Client Video



Vendor Client Video: accurate.

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07 June 09 - 21:05Drinkun fowntan



Gulp

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05 June 09 - 19:42xkcd - Purity



Heh

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03 June 09 - 23:48Shockwave Teaser



Taser Shockwave "teaser". Wow. It's like a car commercial.

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