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Apple To Ditch Google Maps In iOS 6? : google. Hey, guys! : funny. Yx5lz.jpg (1024×723) The Tetris God. New in Fireworks CS6: CSS Properties and Sprites. Photo Album. WW2 airplane nose girly art [NSFW album - 47 photos] [x-post from /r/oldenporn] PonderAbout.com. Why did Greek and Egyptian beliefs (among others) became mithologies but Jewish and Catholic beliefs became religions? : explainlikeimfive. Oooppps.. 404 - страница молдавских веб гастарбайтеров. A Night at the Opera (1935) - Trivia. TIL after a producer kept them waiting outside his office for hours, the Marx Brothers put all the furniture in the waiting area against his door, trapping him inside : todayilearned. Does your dog bite? : funny. Does your dog bite? This website opened my eyes as to just how customizable android is O_O : Android. Most Viewed Screens. Chomsky: “Jobs aren’t coming back because American no longer makes anything...” : TrueReddit. Chomsky: “Jobs aren’t coming back” The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development.

Chomsky: “Jobs aren’t coming back”

Unprecedented, in fact. There’s never been anything like it that I can think of. If the bonds and associations it has established can be sustained through a long, dark period ahead — because victory won’t come quickly — it could prove a significant moment in American history. The fact that the Occupy movement is unprecedented is quite appropriate. After all, it’s an unprecedented era and has been so since the 1970s, which marked a major turning point in American history. I’m just old enough to remember the Great Depression. There was militant labor union organizing going on, especially from the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations). It’s quite different now. In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

The change took place in the 1970s. On Banks Before the 1970s, banks were banks. And it was egalitarian. On Politics and Money The parties dissolved in many ways. ELI5: What was Hitler's explanation for his black hair and average height when he claimed the perfect race was Aryan? : explainlikeimfive. THePETEBOX Future Loops beatbox Album Track 4 Loop Pedal - Panther Dance. Coolest thing i've seen today : videos. Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack. Beatles 3000. Ween - Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down) Celebrating 20 Years of Wolfenstein 3D - The Game That Started It All.

Mastering CSS Gradients in Less Than 1 Hour. Have you refrained from using CSS Gradients because either you didn’t understand them, or thought the browser support for them wasn’t good enough to consider using them in your projects?

Mastering CSS Gradients in Less Than 1 Hour

Well, it’s time to kill those 1px wide images, my friend. If you’re just curious about how to use CSS Gradients, this is the place for you. We’ll start with the basics of syntax to very advanced effects with lots of tips and examples. Remember, learning about CSS gradients is really important since browsers are getting better and better every day. Mobile browsers have good CSS3 support by default. So, let’s rock! Basic syntax The first thing you must be aware of is browser support.

ELI5: What will happen if America never pays off their massive debt? : explainlikeimfive. Spinners @ Constitution - Great Catch by Brent Anderson. For all those who have tried to leg out that bad frisbee throw. : videos. Imaginary DJ. Fo0505_nuclearweaponsw25001.gif (2500×2644) Pineal Gland Our Third Eye: The Biggest cover-up in human history. The pineal gland (also called the pineal body, epiphysis cerebri, epiphysis or the “third eye”) is a small endocrine gland in the vertebrate brain.

Pineal Gland Our Third Eye: The Biggest cover-up in human history

It produces the serotonin derivative melatonin, a hormone that affects the modulation of wake/sleep patterns and seasonal functions. Its shape resembles a tiny pine cone (hence its name), and it is located near the center of the brain, between the two hemispheres, tucked in a groove where the two rounded thalamic bodies join. The Secret : What they don’t want you to KNOW! Every human being’s Pineal Gland or The third eye can be activated to spiritual world frequencies and enables you to have the sense of all knowing, godlike euphoria and oneness all around you. A pineal gland once tuned into to proper frequencies with help of meditation, yoga or various esoteric, occult methods, enables a person to travel into other dimensions, popularly known as astral travel or astral projection or remote viewing. If This Video Makes You Uncomfortable, Then You Make Me Uncomfortable.

Michio Kaku: What Is Déjà Vu? Pupajim - I Am A Robot (Maffi / Jahtari 7") Parks and Recreation Season 2 Gag Reel. Parks and Recreation Season 2 Gag Reel is amazing (NSFW: language) : videos. I Am Flux Pavilion, Im lucky enough to write and play music for a living. AMA : IAmA. "America's Idiot Rich - Some unknown but alarming number of ultra-rich Americans are now basically totally delusional and completely divorced from reality." : TrueReddit. My Crime? Riding a bicycle on a public street. : bicycling. My Crime? Riding A Bicycle On A Public Street - DocAltMed. This is the law.

My Crime? Riding A Bicycle On A Public Street - DocAltMed

State police should know it. From the Courtroom: Oracle v. Google, Day 1 of Patent Phase ~pj - Updated 7Xs- Partial Verdict; Oracle Wins Nothing That Matters. Our reporter is in the courtroom today, you'll be happy to know.

From the Courtroom: Oracle v. Google, Day 1 of Patent Phase ~pj - Updated 7Xs- Partial Verdict; Oracle Wins Nothing That Matters

And we have his first report. So far, there has been oral argument on the pretrial motions. But keep on stopping by, as we'll be covering the whole day, including a partial or total verdict from the jury on phase one. Mark has all the motions they are arging about and all other weekend filings as PDFs here, so you can follow along. If you recall, the trial has been split up into three parts. DAE consider cars near them on long road trips as traveling companions, then feel sad when they or you leave the highway? : DoesAnybodyElse. I want to learn vertically : Psychonaut. A Sony Vaio Chromebook Is Getting Ready! Chromebook market is going to get better.

A Sony Vaio Chromebook Is Getting Ready!

I posted yesterday about a possible Chromebook, daisy with Exynos 5250 Processor. Now, Techcrunch has posted pictures of a Sony Vaio Chromebook making its trip to FCC for certification. This one seems to have a tegra 2 processor inside. Features and Specs Name of the device is listed as “ VCC111″ which Techcrunch guesses to be Vaio Chromebook Computer with 11.1 inch screen. HDMI port, Memory Card Slot, and two USB ports. Nektar - Remember The Future. Designed Decals for my Bike, what do you guys think? : FixedGearBicycle. What makes toast taste so much better than regular bread? : explainlikeimfive. Actual Play Time of Super Bowl XLIV - joshmadison.com. In mid-January, the Wall Street Journal analyzed the actual amount of play time of the average football game.

Actual Play Time of Super Bowl XLIV - joshmadison.com

They added up the amount of time the ball was actually alive and in play in four different games, and it averaged out to about 11 minutes. They concluded that the average game broadcast on TV shows 17 minutes of replays and 67 minutes of players standing around. With the biggest game of the year coming up, I decided to do my own analysis of the actual play time.

ModernDemagogue comments on This is an aisle in my local walmart.. Red solo cups, ping pongs balls, and condoms... #NobodyPayingAttention - April. I made a 40 second video on all the major advances made this month : Futurology. aAfXK.jpg (720×565) MCK02.jpg (500×500) 1332357098_changing_lanes_like_a_boss.gif (430×215) Men of Reddit: How much does "tight" really matter? (NSFW) : AskReddit. TIL that Lewis of Lewis and Clark committed suicide just 3 years after their famous expedition : todayilearned. Meriwether Lewis. Biography[edit] Lewis had no formal education until he was 13 years of age.

Meriwether Lewis

But during his time in Georgia, Lewis enhanced his skills as a hunter and outdoorsman. He would often venture out in the middle of the night in the dead of winter with only his dog to go hunting. Even at an early age, he was interested in natural history, which would develop into a lifelong passion. His mother taught him how to gather wild herbs for medicinal purposes.

When Jefferson began to plan for an expedition across the continent, he chose Lewis to lead the expedition. Route of the expedition. ELI5 The theory of multiple Universes : explainlikeimfive. Technology & Digital Marketing Group. Whats your "Fuck I'm not a kid anymore." moment? : AskReddit. TIL that there is a little girl named January Schofield, currently 10 years old, who was born schizophrenic (whereas usually it is onset in young adulthood). Her doctors believe she has been hallucinating her entire life. : todayilearned. Young schizophrenic at her mind's mercy. Using rems for size (CSS) : webdev. Font sizing with rem. Determining a unit of measurement to size our text can be a topic of heated debate, even in this day and age.

Font sizing with rem

Unfortunately, there are still various pros and cons that make the various techniques less desirable. How far back in history would I have to go before people couldn't understand the modern english I speak? : askscience. The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Middle English & Early Modern English. TIL A young genius teen killed himself after he meticulously weighed up the pros and cons of living, and decided it wasn't worth living. : todayilearned. Brilliant pupil's 'logical' suicide - News. Dario Iacoponi, 15, a pupil at the London Oratory in Fulham, west London, which is attended by Tony Blair's two sons, Euan, 14, and Nicky, 12, kept a diary of his philosophical thoughts on life in the two months leading up to his death.

Brilliant pupil's 'logical' suicide - News

The Oratory is one of the top Roman Catholic schools in the country. After weighing up the pros and cons, he decided to commit suicide and planned it meticulously. He taught himself to use his father's shotgun and worked out how to fire it with a wooden spoon. He then waited until neither of his parents was at home before carrying out the plan last month. Dr John Burton, the West London Coroner, said it was clearly a considered process and Dario "came down on the side of suicide". Why does Microsoft care if we use IE? : webdev. VdBxw.png (800×520) TIL Steve of Blues Clues interrupted his date with a Playboy model to crash a little kid's Blues Clues birthday party. : todayilearned. The Moth Presents Steve Burns: Fameishness. Sascha Braemer - Club Foot. PRODUCT TESTING: BOOBIES.

Google+ waited till objections get quiet and now is getting back to banning accounts : googleplus. GK5S2.jpg (500×667) My friend's and I spent the last two weeks making this DubStep dance video, tell us what you think! : dubstep. Richard Nixon on The Purpose of Life. ELI5: What does it mean when China keeps the yuan "artificially cheap"? Why would they do this, and how does it affect us? : explainlikeimfive. Oh well. : Futurology. AzEJ5.gif (1280×820) Chicago's influence on the area: "On the level of North America as a whole, what major city do you feel has the most cultural and economic influence on your area overall?" (x-post from mapporn) : chicago. IAmA Walmart truck driver and this is my quarterly fuel report... : IAmA. I am on a quest to bring bidets to America. why don't people use bidets in the US? : self. An803.png (465×354) The FBI is asking Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others to let it build in backdoors for government surveillance. : technology.

We are Nilay Patel and T.C. Sottek from The Verge, here to answer all of your questions about CISPA. AMA. : technology. This is my Feather, currently undergoing a few upgrades. : FixedGearBicycle. Alternate perceptions of time. An interesting tidbit from Science: Where Time Goes Up and DownDennis NormileIn Western cultures, the future lies ahead; the past is behind us. These notions are embedded in both gestures and spoken metaphors (looking forward to next year or back over the past year). A forward hand motion typically accompanies talk of the future; references to the past often bring a wave over the shoulder.It is hard for most Westerners to conceive of other ways of conceptualizing time. But in 2006, Rafael Núñez, a cognitive scientist at the University of California, San Diego, reported that for the Aymara, an ethnic group of about 2 million people living in the Andean highlands, in both spoken and gestural terms, the future is unseen and conceived as being behind the speaker; the past, since it has been witnessed, is in front.

They point behind themselves when discussing the future. I like the Aymara approach, with the future unseen behind the speaker. Capital Metro Bus Hit By A Nick. Capital Metro Bus Hit By A Nick : videos. Now,CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers : technology. A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi - Diego Basch's Blog. On March 20th, 2000 Inktomi had a market capitalization of 25 billion dollars. As a relatively early employee, I was a multimillionaire on paper. Life was good. In the next year and a half the stock went down by 99.9%. In the end, Inktomi was acquired by Yahoo for 250M. ELI5: Why having one world currency would be a bad thing : explainlikeimfive.

Spy Bar Home. View all upcoming events Stay up to date with what’s happening at Chicago’s Spybar, a “River North Party Paradise” said Rolling Stone Magazine as they named us a “Top 10 Dance Club” in the United States, by watching SpybarTV. How many are actually running without javascript? Vader Tots (the delicious Star Wars breakfast food!) - Geeky Comics. The Google Project.