August 2011
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“There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far,...”
– Carl Sagan (via ageofreason)
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Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry aren't just... →
spytap:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;”
“Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ—to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness…But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice … It is dominion we...
WatchFrom Business Insider — Yesterday Dylan Ratigan went on an epic anti-Wall Street, anti-money printing, anti-Congress rant that we hear blew up on his Facebook page like never before. (he gets going at around 4:20)
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Apple to Reduce Fifth Avenue Cube from 90 to 15... →
There’s no hard business reason to replace the Cube. It wasn’t falling down, tourists weren’t looking at it dismissively, and it won’t lead to an immediate increase in profits. Apple is replacing it for no reason other than that they found they could push the boundaries of glass and have chosen to manifest that innovation. That’s what we love, and soon—date TBD—that’s what Cube-goers will get to...
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“We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests of the super rich are...”
– Bill Maher (via zeitgeistmovement)
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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The...”
– Steve Jobs (via azspot)
One Thing Well: Disable Local Time Machine Backups →
onethingwell:
If you’ve installed Lion on a laptop, you might’ve noticed great swathes of disk space disappearing for no apparent reason.
The culprit? Time Machine, which now stores backups locally if it runs when your external drive isn’t plugged in.
A great feature if you’ve got oodles of drive space to…
“It’s criminal that so little is asked of people who are getting so much. I don’t...”
– Matt Damon (via lonelywerewolfgirl)
"Anyone who claims we don’t have class warfare in...
thepoliticalpartygirl:
- Meg, of Cognitive Dissonance
Evan's Blog. Meh.: whiporwill: A reminder on why... →
whiporwill:
A reminder on why we’re even in this mess tonight: it’s self-inflicted. Entirely. It’s entirely political, entirely partisan, entirely hard-right ideological, and it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with the “debt ceiling,” or even the deficit, except as proxy for the one and…
