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Jul 04 2008 ∞
“ BTW “failwhale” is now officially a verb. As in “George Bush failwhaled the economy.” 
Chris Messina
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Jul 03 2008 ∞
“ All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.
Kim Stanley Robinson (Sixty Days and Counting)
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Widget Watch: Get Organized for free

These guys really have UI design nailed. “Organized” looks really nice.
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“ You know how Bruce Schneier uses the term Security Theatre to describe measures designed to make us feel safer but not actually safer? I am going to start using the term Process Theatre. I trust you can grasp the meaning immediately.
Process Theatre (via assaf)
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Jul 02 2008 ∞

At the time of this writing, Wikipedia has a wonderful article titled 'List of problems solved by Macgyver'.

xkcd.com: Macgyver Gets Lazy

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“ Just walked past my old apartment. Saw the new me - what a dick.
Jonathan Coulton
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Jun 30 2008 ∞
“ Both Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheet are huge bodies of ice and snow, which are sitting on land,” said Rajendra Pachauri, chief of the IPCC, the United Nations’ scientific advisory group. “If, through a process of melting, they collapse and are submerged in the sea, then we really are talking about sea-level rises of several meters.

Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

Highly, highly, highly disturbing. Apparently the sea level could/would/will rise by 6-7 meters.

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Jun 29 2008 ∞
“ Asexual reproduction. […] It’s just like masturbating, except that when you get done there is somebody else in the room.
Jerry Holkins in “Penny Arcade: The Case of the Mummy’s Gold”
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“ Not too long i heard someone say: “With the power of the PS3 and the 360 we can do amazing new stuff like destructible environments” Didn’t Super Mario bros have destructible environments?
Eskil Steenberg
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