links for 2010-02-27
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I'm just linking this because I loved the "Goodbye to doggie" speech that starts at 0:54.
links for 2010-02-25
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Comedian from wales complaining about his lost luggage on a Australian airport
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There was an interview with Spiner where he was asked if he ever felt typecast after Star Trek, the interviewer mentioned Leonard Nimoy's autobiography. Spiner said he didn't but jokingly suggested he might write a book "I am Not Spock Either"
links for 2010-02-24
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Money quote: Doreen, hearing about the prohibition on athletes or entertainers, types "boring African-Americans" into Google to find a subject.
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Nexted, when a chatroutlette user immediately hits Next after seeing what you look like.
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The post offers a few nitty-gritty details for manual-settings types, but he's right—the best photographs I've seen from parties, weddings, and news events come from shooters who simply stand steady, shoot what they can frame, and shoot a lot.
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Several pro-Ackbar websites have recently emerged — making the Admiral the heavy favorite. The University tells us the decision on the mascot is entirely in the hands of the student mascot committee. The University will hold a vote in the near future — we'll keep you updated.
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"One of the reasons this group looks so much better is they are using *much* better material than American fans tend to spring for. A lot of American hall costumers' outfits — even the really well-done ones — are ruined by cheap fabrics."
And now, the real reason: "French cosplayers seem to be more physically fit than American cosplayers."
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"You know, it bugs me that he got another round off," Benke said of the two shots that authorities say Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood fired.
links for 2010-02-23
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Wow, this guy really does want to be president.
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Natural resources!
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Never got bit by the anime bug personally, but a substantial portion of my friends list will have a fatal nerdgasm over this. Not counting the .01% who will sneer at the director who "obviously doesn't understand anime." Oh, and if there really are anime boobs in this, they went by too fast for me to notice.
links for 2010-02-22
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Damn this is funny. I wasn't expecting to like it but I couldn't stop laughing.
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QOTD skahammer: "I knew I should have taken that chance to go into economic doomsaying before it was cool."
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Gingrich: If President Obama and Congress are serious about reducing health care costs, then the more than $600 billion a year in unnecessary care should be at the top of the list. Congress must give states the incentive to reform their civil justice systems so that lawyers will think twice before suing doctors for frivolous cases. There is a place for health courts that address only medical malpractice cases, and a need for caps on damages for “pain and suffering” that have nothing to do with lost wages or actual damages. Doctors who incorporate best medical practices should be protected from lawsuits altogether.
These reforms would allow doctors to stop playing defense, and make it possible for patients and taxpayers to better afford health care.
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Bill Frist: Medicare and private insurance companies should reimburse providers not for each discrete service they provide but for managing a patient’s condition over an entire episode of care. In my own field, transplantation, for example, a payer should not separately reimburse 56 different nurses, doctors, pharmacies, imaging centers and hospitals. Instead, it should pay a heart transplant team a fixed sum (adjusted for risk) based on the diagnosis of “heart failure requiring transplantation.” The disbursement of that payment would then be made at the local level, where value can be most accurately determined, and waste most likely eliminated.
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The issue sold Monday morning is a 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1, widely considered the Holy Grail of comic books. It features Superman lifting a car on its cover and originally cost 10 cents.
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Money quote: "You don't have to be white to be white, you just have to be rich."
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"People are busy, and they get really mad at things, and they say, 'I'm going to go home and do something,'" Petersen says. "And then they figure out how long it's going to take to change the checking account and change all the [electronic] payments. And I can either spend an hour with my kids or an hour doing that, and I don't know about them, but when I do that trade-off, I'll just stay with the bank I have."
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"First I would request to close my accounts, to get their attention, and it did. I sat in a chair explained the situation to a young, professional banker, the reason for my unhappiness and pointed out the various qualities of my atom. He sympathized, and sincerely showed frustration over my account-closed situation, but could do nothing, except take it to a higher power, like a Cardinal of Disputes. I felt optimistic in the review of my case. I gave them til the following Monday to resolve the issue with my atoms’ credit card. I also gave the young banker another option, instead of closing my account, just cut the high credit limit they have given me back to my original credit amount, thus improving my utilization of balance verses available balance. Didn’t seem to take the Cardinal very long to decide…no. Back in the car and back to the Wells Fargo, I closed the accounts."
links for 2010-02-21
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Starts, I kid you not, with Eye of the Tiger! Not a drop of irony in that room. Irony wouldn't even make it past the metal detectors at CPAC. OMG.
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DORK TOWER, Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | Dork Tower
links for 2010-02-20
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"I guess former Governor Palin does not have a sense of humor." She added that in her family, "we think laughing is good," and that she was raised by her parents "to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life." Ms. Friedman continued, "My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes."
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A school official said it was a mistake not to make families aware of a feature allowing the school to monitor the computer hardware.
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U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, a stalwart foe of government spending, won a blowout victory Saturday in the annual Conservative Political Action Conference presidential straw poll.
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Before her arrest, Moore proclaimed her innocence during a tearful, impromptu news conference outside her home. She said she was planning to help Shakespeare write a book about the challenges of winning millions and that she was helping him manage the money.
links for 2010-02-19
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The Men Who Stare at Goats, they're real.
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"I'm the one that they forgot to call but I'm still singin'." I regret many things from the '80s, but I do not regret Huey Lewis. I want to see a comeback tour featuring him and Kenny Rogers.
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"SC2 is so similar to SC that the skill from the last game just transitions right over. Beware new players when you get in, most games (per my experience) end in 5-8 minutes from the rush strats seen in the original SC."
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One of my favorite photos, ever, and part of NASA's "Best Images Collection." A briefing is given by Major Rocco Petrone to President John F. Kennedy during a tour of Blockhouse 34 at the Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Nov. 11, 1962. With him are LBJ (Vice Pres.), Robert McNamara (Sec. of Defense) and, in the backg…round, one of the guys who was probably the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove.
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"But lately it feels like we're scaling new heights as bad examples. We create parenting blogs that transform our preschoolers into fetishized celebrities. We subscribe to magazines that suggest buying a 5-year-old a $400 Marc Jacobs cashmere hoodie. We think it's cute when our kids learn to text message (until we realize POS means "parent over shoulder") and quietly rejoice when they can tell which Ramone is Dee Dee and which one is Joey."
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Google released its Facebook-killer this week but started by repeating one of Facebook’s biggest mistakes — neglecting the privacy of its users.
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Obama, Batman, naked people, cartoon characters, dogs, cats, perverts and the mentally ill. What do they all have in common? They’re all waiting for you at www.chatroulette.com, this week’s NBT (Next Big Thing). Chatroulette combines the power of webcams, live chat, anonymity and randomness into one terrifying experience.
Roger Ebert, on Death
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled “Go Gently into That Good Night.” I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris. — Roger Ebert, from his Esquire Interview
links for 2010-02-18
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AUSTIN, Texas – A man upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into his small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building that houses federal tax employees, authorities said.
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