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Poor word choice on recruitment sign
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 14, 2008
Do any Boing Boing readers from Nashville know if this sign is real or a Photoshop job? (viaFor Your Entertainment)
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Barely Political messes with O'Reilly's big fat ugly empty head
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs by Steve on May 15, 2008
You have to see this video mashup that Barely Political did with the clip of Bill O'Reilly flipping out on the set of Inside Edition. It's friggin brilliant. Much love, Barely Political. Namaste. I honor the place where your sicko humor and Bill O'Reilly's lunacy become one.
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VA discouraged staff from diagnosing PTSD for ‘compensation seeking veterans.’
via Think Progress by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
... seeking veterans” and urges VA staff to rule out PTSD and “consider a diagnosis of ‘Adjustment Disorder’” instead:Last month, RAND released a study showing that nearly 20% of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan — nearly 300,000 in all — “report symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet only slightly more than half have sought treatment.”
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Girl Scout Sells Record-Breaking 17,323 Boxes of Cookies in One Season
via Serious Eats by Robyn Lee on May 15, 2008
15-year old Jennifer Sharpe sold 17,323 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in one season, more than any other Girl Scout has ever sold in the same time period. What's the secret? Manning her own temporary Girl Scout Cookies booth every day of the week probably had something to do with it—that's serious dedication.
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Top 10 Things You Forgot Your Mac Can Do [Lifehacker Top 10]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 14, 2008
Macs may be more expensive, and Mac users more elitist (ahem), but blind Apple loyalty aside, there are a number of neat features bundled into your Mac that make it super useful and fun. We've covered dozens of Mac tips over the years in these pages, but today we're highlighting 10 lesser-known Mac tricks that come baked into Leopard. From pure eye candy to outright productivity-boosters,...
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Now That It's Over
via Ill Doctrine by jsmooth@hiphopmusic.com (Jay Smooth) on May 14, 2008
On the end of this campaign, and the start of the real one. Not being sarcastic about Hillary btw, I really do like her and empathize.
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Beating Google ?
via Blog Maverick by Mark Cuban on May 14, 2008
Is there anything more fun than sitting around, growing your hair, drinking a Bud while listening to Jethro Tull and pondering how to change the balance of power in the search world and unseat Google ?Better search ? Too subjective. Better monetization ? After the fact. Better User Interface ? Will we know it when we see it ? A new and different search ? Semantic ? Human powered ? We won't...
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Quantum Cryptography Broken, and Fixed
via Slashdot by kdawson on May 13, 2008
schliz writes in with research out of Sweden in which researchers showed that, looking at a quantum cryptographic system as a whole, it was possible for an eavesdropper to extract some information about the QC key, thus reducing the security of the overall system. The team then proposed a cheap and simple fix for the problem. "The advanced technology was thought to be unbreakable due to laws of...
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Darth Vader, blues harmonicist
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 14, 2008
Darth Vader Feels Blue, a short video by youtuber Billyfaithfull, gets really funny (and funky!) around the 30 second mark. Who knew that Vader was such a master of the blues harp?Link(via Kottke)
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XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center [XBMC For Mac]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on May 12, 2008
You don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever. Dubbed the "throw out your Xbox" release, XBMC...
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