April 2008
32 posts
Listening to "Third" →
Portishead - Machine Gun Video (YouTube disabled... →
Tonight I rock as if it were 1998.
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Entertainment Ephemera, Part I
GTA IV and Portishead’s new album drop on the same day. I’m not sure about everyone else, but it is a good day for me.
“Persuade by Reason, Motivate by Tapping into Values…Understanding how to...”
– Richard B. Wirthlin, Chairman & CEO, The Wirthlin Group
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Portishead - Machine Gun - Audio link.
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Consolation and the Order of the World - Franz... →
There is a certain hubris
Iced tea on a hot day is a miracle of capitalism.
Campaign Ads in Democratic Primary - Portfolio.com →
With a head start in fundraising and organization, Barack Obama outspent Hillary Clinton throughout the Pennsylvania primary battle. And yet, in the final week, strategic use of advertising allowed…
He's Back - WSJ.com - Bill Clinton Seizes a Bigger... →
Bill Clinton, who called himself the “comeback kid” during his first presidential run, is pulling out all the stops for Hillary Clinton’s comeback. His relentless approach to battling Barack Obama —…
Video from the Rutterschmidt and Golay Trial in... →
These women were just convicted of killing transients for financial gain. They are in their seventies.
The video is entertaining in that mordant way all crimes are when viewed on blogs.
Giant Stars →
Flash animation that compares Earth and our closest star, the Sun to some of the largest stars in the known universe.
Xbox unit announces third straight quarterly... →
The company posted a divisional profit of $89 million for the three month period ending in March, citing brisk sales of Xbox 360, Halo 3, Xbox Live service fees, and 360 accessories. Last year, the…
DNA and the origins of species
For two-thirds of its history, Homo sapiens lived exclusively in Africa. Only now are the details of that period becoming clear…
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA is a remarkable thing. Itself the remnant of a strange evolutionary event (the merger of an ancient bacterium with the cell ancestral to all plant and animal life), it also carries the imprint of more recent evolution. In many species, humans...
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John Mayer - Kid A (cover)
I’ve been on...
Plan to revitalize Mexico's oil industry faces... →
Heated debate among Mexico’s lawmakers about whether to open the door to foreign oil companies has stalled legislation aimed at reviving the flagging fortunes of state-run Petroleos de Mexico, the…
Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study... →
The report notes that a separate study by researchers at Stanford University estimated that the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the…
Annals of Anthropology: Vengeance Is Ours:... →
What can tribal societies tell us about our need to get even? Jared Diamond says a whole lot…
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Apes & Androids - Golden Prize
The rant at...
Judas And The Rat: Carville And Richardson... →
Judas And The Rat on Larry King, via Wonkette.com
Annals Of Cartography: Hillary's Magical Maps! →
John Williams - The Meeting with Mao
John...
Clinton wins in Pennsylvania - Decision '08-... →
Meanwhile, Obamaâs chief strategist, David Axelrod, said his candidate was moving on to Indiana and would focus more of his attention on the general election
DNS services are enabled and the ‘a record’ has been set.
“If things do not go as they should we must help fortune by efforts of our own.”
– Julius Caesar 48 BC
Does 'Dunbar Number' apply to Facebook? | News |... →
Does not apply.
On the Internet, It’s All About ‘My’ - New York... →
OTX C.E.O. Shelley Zalis on “My” market strategy.
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The Dodos - Park Song
This is a good track to...
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