February 2008
74 posts
Shell posts record profit - $3 million per minute →
From the new tumblr group: youletthishappen: “Big Oil will continue to give lip service to alternative energies and place pretty flowers on their adverts but they will never, ever make a serious move beyond oil. Shell just posted the largest profit ever in the UK to the tune of $27.6 billion for 2007.” - AmericaBlog
WatchThe Hawaii Chair, the easiest way to induce vertigo at work. from iminlikewithyou
January 2008
159 posts
did you just double dip that chip? →
I knew it! dihard: A Clemson University study sets out to prove Georgey right. On average, three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip.
Food Signatures →
A little new agey, but interesting post that links the shape of fruits and vegetables to the specific organ they benefit. “Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.”
You Let This Happen
If your following CultrVultr and enjoy reading the more political stuff I post, please consider checking out the new group tumblr You Let This Happen. I’ll be posting there with some other tumblrs. There will be some cross-posting, but i’ll try and have different commentary so it will be worth reading both tumblrs. If you want to become a contributor to You Let This Happen let me...
BBC NEWS | Aboriginal archive offers new DRM →
The Australian Aborigines want more DRM. I hope the RIAA doesn’t hear about this and decide to use it on us.
Watchvirtuoso musical glasses. Even more amazing is that the artists looks exactly how I would imagine a musical glass performer to appear. via a forwarded mass email, remember those? They’ll inspire nostalgia sometime next year.
We can all be Influentials
The article is long, but well worth the read. Now that everyone is essentially marketing their own personal brand through social networking sites I think these sorts of concepts will become increasingly important to the average person as they try to make and maintain friendships in the 21st century. More detail from the ‘wich…. lonelysandwich: “Influentials don’t govern...
CIA Largely in the Dark on Interrogation Tactics →
From the new group tumblr youletthishappen: U.S. interrogators haven’t even been able to learn the basics about many of those they hold or have held, to say nothing of whatever crucial information they possess. “How do you separate the sheep from the wool? There’s no fingerprints, no DNA,” said a former senior intelligence official who helped set up the CIA’s interrogation program, and who would...
WatchHow to make squirrel melts. Can somebody share this with Huckabee? I’m sure he would love the recipe. The onscreen comments are funny, but you can turn them off by clicking on the third button on the right. From livejamie
Bros before Hoes; Vote Barack Obama! — livejamie
“The ratio of gated communities to trailer parks in the US is 1:1”
– Page 16 of Future Files: A History of The Next 50 Years by Richard Watson. Via
79 percent
Americans who believe that a recession is likely within the next year, according to a LA Times/Bloomberg poll. Ninety-two percent of people earning more than $100,000 a year “feel safe” financially, “while more than half of those bringing in less than $40,000 a year describe their finances as ’shaky.’”
Why Hillary Clinton Should Withdraw From the Race... →
I’m glad somebody is documenting these points, Democrats will be reviewing this primary season for a long time. From livejamie
A List of Regional Pizza Styles →
I don’t touch anything other than real Chicago deep dish and New York pizza, but it interesting to see all the different variations. from azspot
Watch ADORABLE OVERLOAD - CollegeHumor video— jendunlap - rach
Exxon set to hit record profits. →
With a flailing U.S. economy and skyrocketing oil prices, Exxon Mobil is “within striking distance of setting an all-time profit record - again.” The company is expected to earn $39.2 billion for 2007, “which breaks down to the company earning about $75,000 a minute.”
“Bush says in the interview he’s confident bin Laden ultimately will be found.
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– via Think Progress
Kucinich just dropped out of the race. Not surprising, I just hope it means he will focus on FISA while there is still a chance.
Info visualizations of the social networks and... →
interesting
Bush’s budget cuts off funding for the troops. →
the White House “confirmed Wednesday that its new budget next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq, leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost questions soon after taking office in 2009″: The decision reverses the administration’s stance of just a year ago, when President Bush’s budget made a point of spelling out in advance what he thought the...
“Every dance move is the Robot if you can imagine an advanced enough robot.”
– Demetri Martin (via)
There is too much month left at the end of the money. — thomaz
Accuracy in Stereotypes
Army Recruiter: You're from California?
Andrew: Yup!
Army Recruiter: Oh. I heard you guys don't like the Army...and that you're a bunch of hippies who smoke a lot of pot.
Andrew: And that we all surf and love sushi?
Army Recruiter: Yeah.
Andrew: ...hmm, sounds pretty accurate to me.
from http: //livejamie.com
For all you tumblrs tired of Julia
I just realized I went to high school with her (other famous alums: Rumsfeld and Charlton Heston, I am in good company). She always looked familiar, but the name change threw me off. When I have a chance, I’ll try to find an old high school yearbook and see if I can find any incredibly embarrassing photos that could get her to stop poisoning the internets for half a minute. Then again, if...
How does the GDP of the US today compare with that... →
China and India combined to produce nearly half the world’s economic output in 1820 compared to just 1.8% for the U.S. Our remarkable growth since 1820 has benefited from democratic institutions, a belief in capitalism, private property rights, an entrepreneurial culture, abundant resources, openness to foreign investment, the best universities, immigration and relatively transparent...
SFbay Craigslist: Classical musicianists for... →
Does a musicianist play musicians? I thought that was the record label’s job.
“A passenger who went through an airport security checkpoint — before remembering...”
– I don’t know what’s more bizarre about this: that you can just forget that you’re carrying a loaded firearm in an airport, that the TSA missed it, or that they’re discouraging people from disclosing any weapons missed by security by charging them with crimes. Also, a fun stat: TSA finds two guns a...
Thinking out loud - Hillary Edition
I’m sure these thoughts have been more eloquently enumerated elsewhere, but the media’s portrayal of the recession is going to make or break Obama’s primary bid. The few weeks between now and Super Tuesday on Feb 5th are Obama’s last chance to make the gains needed to win the democratic nomination. During this same time period, the media will decide how they are going to...