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Jerry Paffendorf of Loveland Technologies THE MOTOR CITY MARK ZUCKERBERG Call it Cartography 2.0. http://www.details.com/culture-trends/critical-eye/201204/rust-belt-revival-detroit-michigan

The Rust Belt Revival: What's Happening in Detroit, Michigan: Critical Eye

http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/waiting-for-the-rapture/0 This is part of IEEE Spectrum's SPECIAL REPORT: THE SINGULARITY

Waiting for the Rapture

Hwabyeong or Hwabyung , literally "anger illness" or "fire illness”, is a Korean culture-bound somatization disorder , a mental illness . [ 1 ] Hwabyung is only loosely used as the name of the disease, as it is actually more of a name regarding the cause. The word hwabyung is not in Asian dictionaries but simply is composed of the rootwords hwa meaning fire, and byung meaning syndrome or illness. This syndrome is brought on by the suppression and build up of anger within the body.

Hwabyeong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwabyeong
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Funny, Old People Jokes, Sexy Jokes, Sexy Pics - 2 men at costco - Emails From Grandpa - fw: Fw: Fwd: Fwd: fw: LOL

I was in Costco, pushing my shopping cart around, when I collided with a young guy also pushing a cart.
http://www.bikechicago.com/chicago-attractions/chicago-bike-station McDonald's Cycle Center at Millennium Park is the nation’s largest bicycle commuting center with 300 secure bicycle parking spaces, showers, lockers, bicycle rentals and tours center and a bike repair shop. The Chicago Bike Station, known as the McDonald’s Cycle Center (formerly the Millennium Park Bike Station) is a 300-space, climate-controlled indoor bicycle parking facility provides lockers, showers, bike repair mechanic service, bike rental, bicycle tours, segway tours and other amenities designed to encourage biking to Millennium Park and other downtown locations.

Chicago Bike Station | bikechicago.com

Anonymous China: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/322867/20120402/anonymous-china-hundreds-government-websites-defaced.htm Anonymous China announced the attack on Friday morning, publishing on Pastebin a list of institutional websites that were about to be targeted (screengrab) The Anonymous hacking collective has landed in China, home of some of the most tightly controlled internet access in the world, and defaced hundreds of government websites in what appears to be a massive online operation against Beijing.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an experiment in crowd-sourced Web labor. It’s a marketplace to buy and sell simple, repetitive tasks that ought to be performed by a computer—if only artificial intelligence were smart enough. http://www.dailydot.com/news/mturk-reddit-upvotes-farshad-hemmati-scam/

Buying upvotes with cash on Reddit

Girl Scout cookie season is nearly over, so many of us are stocking up like squirrels for the long, cookie-less months ahead. Reader SarcasmSiempre discovered, however, that you can buy almost the same exact cookies all year round in your local grocery stores. http://lifehacker.com/5898791/get-your-girl-scout-cookie-fix-all-year-round-with-these-grocery-store-equivalents

Get Your Girl Scout Cookie Fix All Year Round with These Grocery Store Equivalents

Civil War Toll Up by 20 Percent in New Estimate

Library of Congress/Getty Images http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html?_r=3
February 2003 When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of about the same popularity.

Why Nerds are Unpopular

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Boomers' generation had everything it wanted – and it still does

Also read Dakshana Bascaramurty on why the Millennials' sense of entitlement is fair.
How the global addiction to computers is helping keep the world quiet and peaceful

#Revolutionwhatrevolution?

Bespin: Could Your Favorite HTML Editor Live in the Cloud?

The Cloud. We save our data to it, create documents in it, collaborate in it.

An HTML 5 Code Editor that Lives in the Cloud

Nearly everything can be stored and accessed in the cloud.

Furniture Design Adapts to Technology

Dressed in yellow pants and unlaced white sneakers, he stood in a smartly furnished room of an upscale town house in Manhattan, jubilantly addressing a small crowd.