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Got my Dollar Shave Club Razors... My review... : Frugal. WHOLE WHEAT BREAD 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW. The Rust Belt Revival: What's Happening in Detroit, Michigan: Critical Eye. Jerry Paffendorf of Loveland Technologies THE MOTOR CITY MARK ZUCKERBERG Call it Cartography 2.0.

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

With his company Loveland Technologies, the artist, futurist, and start-up vet Jerry Paffendorf is building interactive online maps (WhyDontWeOwnThis.com) and apps (SiteControl.us) that inform users about who owns properties throughout Detroit. Making this information transparent, Paffendorf reasons, will spur the sale and repair of properties—a vital service in a city where more than a third of all residential parcels are vacant. It all began three years ago when Paffendorf, 30, bought a vacant lot in east Detroit for $500, divided it into 10,000 individual square-inch plots, and auctioned them off to approximately 600 "inchvestors.

" The buyers then formed an online community called Loveland, which served as a kind of think tank for land-use issues and policy. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Depression.wmv. Fisk Industries - On Thursday. Waiting for the Rapture. This is part of IEEE Spectrum's SPECIAL REPORT: THE SINGULARITY Illustration: Bryan Christie Design Across cultures, classes, and aeons, people have yearned to transcend death.

Waiting for the Rapture

Bear that history in mind as you consider the creed of the singularitarians. Many of them fervently believe that in the next several decades we’ll have computers into which you’ll be able to upload your consciousness—the mysterious thing that makes you you. Then, with your consciousness able to go from mechanical body to mechanical body, or virtual paradise to virtual paradise, you’ll never need to face death, illness, bad food, or poor cellphone reception. Waiting for the Rapture [r/singularitarianism] : Futurology. Hwabyeong. Hwabyeong or Hwabyung is a Korean[1] somatization disorder, a mental illness which arises when people are unable to confront their anger as a result of unfair conditions.[2] Hwabyung is loosely used as the name of the disease, as it is actually more of a name regarding the cause.

Hwabyeong

Hwabyung is known as a culture-bound syndrome.[3] The word hwabyung is composed of "hwa" meaning "fire", and "byung" meaning "syndrome" or "illness". [4] In South Korea, it is also called ulhwabyeong (鬱火病), "depression anger illness". In a survey, 4.1% of the general population in a rural area in Korea were reported as having hwabyung.[3] Another survey shows that about 35% of Korean employees begin to suffer from this disease at some point.[5] Hwabyeong : wikipedia. Max Cooper - Micron - Official Video By Dmitry Zakharov. Use ice cream cones instead of paper liners for cupcakes : LifeProTips. Default Index Page. 15 Year Old Kuha'o Blind Piano Prodigy Plays Freestylers - Cracks. 15 year old plays dubstep song on the piano after only hearing it once. Oh, and he's blind! : videos.

The Future of Space Exploration [2000x1200] : Futurology. ThePhysicistcoukTrueCostsBehindNASA2011_4dbf682cb102b.jpg (2000×1200) Funny, Old People Jokes, Sexy Jokes, Sexy Pics - 2 men at costco - Emails From Grandpa - fw: Fw: Fwd: Fwd: fw: LOL. My money disappears in small, but steady increments. : Frugal. What was the biggest lie of your generation? : AskReddit. 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.

Chicago Bike Station

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. Located at Randolph Street and Columbus Drive, the Bike Station also accommodates runners and in-line skaters. The Chicago Bike Station is available to both members and people wishing to purchase a day pass. Services offered at the Chicago Bike Station: Secure Bicycle Parking The Cycle Center offers 300 secure indoor bicycle parking spaces as well as 100 outdoor bike parking spaces.

Bill Nye: The City of the Future. Bill Nye's on your side. : bicycling. Caffeinated Toothpaste - 02/04/2012. Anonymous: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced : worldnews. Anonymous China: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced. 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.

Anonymous China: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced

I'm a mute girl who for the first time moaned during sex. Let me tell you about it. : sex. A step-by-step method for learning languages to fluency : Foodforthought. Buying upvotes with cash on Reddit. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an experiment in crowd-sourced Web labor.

Buying upvotes with cash on Reddit

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. The marketplace’s slogan is “Artificial Artificial Intelligence.” Get Your Girl Scout Cookie Fix All Year Round with These Grocery Store Equivalents. Ex-homeless explains why living is worth it : bestof. Civil War Toll Up by 20 Percent in New Estimate. Is it actually possible for an individual suffering from (paranoid) schizophrenia (a la Fight Club, A Beautiful Mind) to create and interact with a walking, talking, hallucination? Or just bad Hollywood? : askscience. What actually is snot (nose mucus)? : explainlikeimfive.

When Mike Tyson Saw Robin Givens With Brad Pitt. Why I don't post things on mobile Google+ : googleplus. Why Nerds are Unpopular. February 2003.

Why Nerds are Unpopular

Why Nerds are Unpopular - by an INTP investor - also check out his other essays : INTP. Boomers' generation had everything it wanted – and it still does. Also read Dakshana Bascaramurty on why the Millennials' sense of entitlement is fair.

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

Join Margaret Wente and Dakshana Bascaramurty at 1 p.m. ET Monday to discuss the Boomers’ retirement and the Millennial generation’s future. Boomers' generation had everything it wanted – and it still does : TrueReddit. #Revolutionwhatrevolution? How the global addiction to computers is helping keep the world quiet and peaceful When I recently discovered Twitter, I went from contemptuous to addicted in about three days.

#Revolutionwhatrevolution?

Aptana. ACE - Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor. Bespin: Could Your Favorite HTML Editor Live in the Cloud? The Cloud.

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

We save our data to it, create documents in it, collaborate in it. But coding in the cloud? Introducing Bespin. Cloud9 IDE – Your code anywhere, anytime. An HTML 5 Code Editor that Lives in the Cloud. Nearly everything can be stored and accessed in the cloud. But until now, an HTML coding editor has not been on that list. In an effort to increase the use of open web technology, Mozilla Labs, innovators of a variety of web technologies, has released an open web HTML editor framework.

With a nerdy name straight from Star Wars, Bespin hopes to be a quick, collaborative, easy-to-use web based editing option for developers. The prototype released aims to allow for increased productivity and collaboration in a lightweight, fast, open source web-based framework for code editing. Although, not a suitable alternative to code/visual based desktop applications like Adobe Dreamweaver, Bespin offers a flexible framework for developers looking for a different experience with coding.

Bespin HTML Editor Interface Bespin Proposed Features and Plans Built around Mozilla Labs own experiences and input from hundreds of developers, Bespin boasts a unique set of features and future plans. Russian Kids Are Fucking Insane. 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.

“What’s the future of design?” He asked rhetorically. “There is no future. When the product becomes bionic, in the end there is no product.” The digital age, Mr. Schrute - theres womens studies but no mens studies false mens. CSS Tools: Reset CSS. The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. The general reasoning behind this was discussed in a May 2007 post, if you're interested. Reset styles quite often appear in CSS frameworks, and the original "meyerweb reset" found its way into Blueprint, among others. Tools. A collection of tools, plugins, and other hacks that I've put together. In most cases, these are solutions to problems I faced, or else enhancements I wanted but couldn't find elsewhere.

So I was looking in the mirror when I noticed... : pics. What happened to the massive asteroid that caused the mass extinction that ended the Cretaceous period? : askscience. Interview with Tomas Sedlacek: 'Greed is the Beginning of Everything' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. In his bestseller "Economics of Good and Evil," first published in the Czech Republic in 2009, 35-year-old academic and political advisor Tomáš Sedláček defied the boundaries and stereotypes of his profession by exposing the roots of the economy in the cultural history of mankind.

From 2001 to 2003, Sedláček was an economic advisor to then Czech President Vaclav Havel, who valued his "new view on the problems of the contemporary world, one unburdened by four decades of the totalitarian Communist regime. " Until 2006, Sedláček advised the Czech finance minister in a dispute over the consolidation of the budget, as well as the reform of the country's tax, pension and healthcare systems. Cesaria Evora - Angola ( Carl Craig Mix ) What is the most offensive thing a customer has ever said to you? : AskReddit. EFDEMIN - There Will Be Singing (Official HD) Efdemin - Acid Bells [Martyn Bittersweet Remix] (Métisse2.5) Why Lipstick Lesbians Have To Keep Coming Out Of The Closet. Every Single Michael Bay Explosion. How the global addiction to computers is helping keep the world quiet and peaceful : TrueReddit. Kill to be killed in 18th century Denmark. Article created on Saturday, March 31, 2012 Science Nordic content is targeted toward the global research community: researchers, students, the business sector, innovation clusters, international institutions and media – along with anybody else with an interest in science.

The range of topics encompasses all science based topics and includes history, archaeology and heritage. Kill to be Killed in 18th Century Denmark - Suicide murder was a widespread phenomenon. Instead of taking their own life, suicide candidates would kill a child or some other random person, in the hope that they would receive a death penalty, an often over. Dimensionality of functions. Tom & Toonami on Adult Swim for April Fools : self. Pinkie's Vette. Mc chris - Discord (My Little Brony) MC CHRIS- "Discord" w/ lyrics MLP:FiM. Toonami April's Fools (2012) Welcome to YouTube! The location filter shows you popular videos from the selected country or region on lists like Most Viewed and in search results.To change your location filter, please use the links in the footer at the bottom of the page.

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Mind-boggling XKCD April Fools comic : comics. 5Kpp0.jpg (540×3881) The World According To Kurzweil : Futurology. Evgeny Kissin plays Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op. 23 No. 2. Recycling galaxies caught in the act. Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár. Venetian Snares - Hajnal. List of compositions by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Works by musical form[edit] Chronological[edit] References[edit] Sergei Rachmaninoff. Sergei Rachmaninoff. Integral type. Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? "If chronic Facebook or Twitter posting is not an exercise in neurosis, then nothing is." : cogsci. Least I Could Do: the Comic » by Ryan Sohmer and Lar deSouza. Www.mcchris.com/mp3/secretsong5.mp3. Where Have All the Neurotics Gone? Hiroshima, U.S.A. Hiroshima, U.S.A. - In 1950, a popular magazine depicted what an atomic bomb would do to New York City—in gruesome detail. (With Illustrations)

When Astronomers Add Up All the Gas & Dust In Galaxies Like the Milky Way, They Stumble On A Puzzle: There Is Not Nearly Enough Matter For Stars To Be Born At the Rates Observed. Part of the Solution Might Be Recycling of Matter On Gigantic Scales : space. A Harmonica In Carnegie Hall. Guys waits his whole life to show his harmonica skills in Carnegie Hall. Just watch. : videos. How do girls develop "girl hand writing" and boys develop "boy hand writing"? : askscience. Joakim Noah TV Bomb Dance : chicago. Wind Map. Wind map of the USA - Javascript, HTML Canvas. : javascript. Debunking the student loans crisis - Mar. 30. State cutbacks to higher education are forcing some people to take out more student loans.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Total student loan debt has topped $1 trillion ... but there's no need to panic. Most borrowers have a reasonable amount of debt, and the total balance is not likely to cause major damage to the economy like the mortgage crisis did, experts say. CNN: "There is no student loan 'crisis'" : lostgeneration. My friend's son died and the pic he carries of him is wearing out. Can anyone restore it? : pics.

I Raff I Ruse. 5 Counter-Intuitive Productivity Tips. Since I decided to become an expert on productivity and time management and started studying these topics, I’ve run into many examples of counter-intuitive advice that actually works. I find it fascinating that whenever you want to really understand something – anything – you will discover that the real truth behind it is usually counter-intuitive. 5 Counter-Intuitive Productivity Tips : Entrepreneur.