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Eiger Sanction Ben Bowman: Wanna Beer? Jonathan Hemlock: You gonna call room service? Ben Bowman: We got beer. Jonathan Hemlock: If you hauled beer up this rock you're insane! Ben Bowman: I may be insane, but I'm not stupid. I didn't carry it, you did! It's in your pack. Jonathan Hemlock: Christ, I ought'a throw you off this pillar! Besides, it's warm. Ben Bowman: Oh I'm sorry, I thought you'd draw the line on haulin' ice. http://variety.com/2016/film/news/george-kennedy-dies-dead-airport-cool-hand-luke-1201718567/

Res Ipsa Loquitur http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/clarence-thomas-supreme-court/471582/

Bachelor's Day I blame the Irish. http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/leap-year-proposals-ladies-pop-the-question-1.2548353

"Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't After You." Joseph Heller http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/smoke.htm via Gaffer Venar  Originally shared by Ellim Sluouf #RightWingZioSCUM

Killer Power Worth breaking the No Show Tunes Rule for: "Her most famous song, however, was one that she composed herself. “Mississippi Goddam” was written in 1963, the same year as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” and provided a sharper expression of the mood among young civil rights activists. “This is a show tune, but the show hasn’t been written for it yet,” Simone coyly announces, before working herself into a furious assault on white counsels of patience..." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/03/10/fierce-courage-nina-simone/

The Proof Is In The Pudding Originally shared by **** He's right. https://youtu.be/YjrXpdEq4uw

Bless Their Hearts... http://margaretandhelen.com/2016/02/26/can-someone-please-tell-me-when-exactly-does-the-republican-party-have-to-finally-take-responsibility-for-unleashing-these-lunatics-on-the-american-people/

Jinkies! Be A Cub Reporter! http://www.wral.com/unc-releases-thousands-more-pages-of-wainstein-records/15431618/

The Original

Visionary You know you might have lived too long, when you see Freewheelin' Franklin quoted by futurists... via George Station  Originally shared by Teodora Petkova Stay focused I really liked this quote from Robert Scoble's newsletter today.

Audience Participation Originally shared by **** The silent dissent of Umberto Eco: http://bit.ly/1UnpGn9 http://bit.ly/1UnpGn9

Bonnie's Back "Even a cover like “Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes” — already beer-soaked under the musicianship of Los Lobos — becomes a full-on bar fight when kicked in the ass by Raitt and her band. The call-and-response vocals are huskier, the loud-soft dynamics are more pronounced, and, unlike the original which simply faded away at the end, the song intentionally falls apart with former Beach Boys drummer Ricky Fataar thudding away as guitarist George Marinelli spider-crawls over his frets. All the while, Raitt spars with him on her rawer bottleneck guitar." Her newest album, "Dig In Deep," releases today.  It's good. http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/album-review-bonnie-raitt-dig-in-deep/ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-bonnie-raitt-20160225-story.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/27/arts/music/bonnie-raitt-on-time-loss-and-renewal-on-dig-in-deep.html

"Beauty is as necessary as cornbread." Rosa Harmon Hicks

"Anarchy Might Reign" He argued it sets a "troubling precedent" that makes it appear government is making official endorsements of private companies' products. "If George Dickel and Jack Daniel's came to us to be the official state whiskey, or Goo Goo Clusters and MoonPies wanted to be the official state dessert, anarchy might reign," Yarbro said. "I love Goo Goo Clusters, I love Little Debbie cakes, and everything else — even Jack Daniel's whiskey — that have come from Tennessee," Ketron said. "However, none of them have saved lives like this rifle has on the battle lines." http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/politics/state/story/2016/feb/24/tennessee-names-barrett-50-cal-states-official-rifle/351788

All You Got To Do Is [ asterisk ] Don't neglect reading the comments on OP. Originally shared by Andreas Schou [AUTHOR] is [BASICALLY, ENTIRELY, PRECISELY] [WRONG / RIGHT]. To be fair, [CONCESSION]. But [UNCHARITABLE RETRACTION OF THAT CONCESSION]. In this case, [SPECIAL PLEADING]. Presuming [THING WHICH IT IS INSANE TO PRESUME], then [OVERSTATED CONCLUSION.] But if [INSANE MISSTATEMENT OF OPPOSING ARGUMENT], then [UNCONDITIONAL RETRACTION OF MY BASIC POINT]. When [THING WHICH WILL NEVER HAPPEN] happens, then I will be proven conclusively right. But until that time, no one can criticize me for having made unfalsifiable conclusions, because they were merely conditional at the time I made them. [SHORT STATEMENT WHICH IS LESS PITHY THAN I INTENDED]

Whiffleball This is what basing your policy on fear and obstructionism gets you...

Triumvirate Also, the Rule of Thirds, because Seconds Aren't Enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgH1rhLEQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzgH1rhLEQc

Restricted Diet Also of related interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/us/05bcjames.html http://www.prisonlawblog.com/blog/vegan-diet-impacts-recidivism http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/22/pamela-anderson-louisiana-prison-go-vegan

N.E.S.T.A Antibalas-Never Ever Submit To Authority: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9K_2T1XdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9K_2T1XdY

Winnsboro Blues Frederic Rzewski's Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDNy4YuCxdk Also, Frederic Rzewski's The People United Will Never Be Defeated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gm7RgdzeWM http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/when-wal-mart-leaves-small-towns-behind/

Balance Of Power Originally shared by Robert Rambusch NATO reporting name: "Fulcrum" Photo Credit: USAF/Staff Sgt Joshua Stang http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/truth-about-mig-29-180952403/?all&no-ist

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Three Words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjrvOSRYsE

Economics Of Fractional Availability I, for one, don't welcome our new Entrepreneurial Overlords. This post was not sponsored by Directly. http://gigaom.com/2016/02/23/the-game-changing-economics-of-fractional-availability/

Long Form "...in fact, I was just talking to my wife and I said I’d give anything to take a year off and go back to being a general assignment reporter." http://gothamist.com/2016/02/17/robert_caro_author_interview.php

Yellow Peril Originally shared by Steven Blatt http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/22/467113401/lo-mein-loophole-how-u-s-immigration-law-fueled-a-chinese-restaurant-boom

Original VW Parts Originally shared by Lorna Salgado Volkswagen made more sausages than automobiles last year Wolfsburg, Germany (dpa) - Volkswagen increased currywurst production last year, making significantly more portions of Germany's iconic fast-food snack than cars, as automobile sales fell amid an international emissions scandal. The main industrial site in Wolfsburg produced 7.2 million currywursts in 2015, up from 6.3 million in the previous year. http://www.dpa-international.com/news/top_stories/48346778

The Story Of Goodman Beaver Second cousin to Little Annie Fanny... "Goodman Meets S*perm*n", "Goodman Meets T*rz*n", "Goodman Goes Playboy" can be seen here: http://www.michaelspornanimation.com/splog/?p=2887 http://donosdump.com/Jozine/GoodmanBeaver.html

Rescue Me! Not this paperboy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z9Cg46Nktw Originally shared by Salisbury Post ~ Newspaper Eighty-five year old Ollie McKnight fell during the bitter cold days breaking her leg. Gwen Conner, Salisbury Post newspaper carrier (on the left, found her and called for help. Conner delivered McKnight's newspaper to her in the hospital. http://www.salisburypost.com/2016/02/21/she-is-my-angel/#sthash.n4hnxiIz.dpuf

Go Slow Will Shetterly: "Incremental change" is Xeno's Social Justice: you can never get there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQjGGJVSXc

Opus Harper Lee's correspondence with Berkeley Breathed: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/books/harper-lee-and-berkeley-breathed.html

She's Baaaack... http://sharonrandall.com/2016/02/my-first-column-of-2016-feb-2-2016/

Po-Ta-To Hot Potato. Teh Stupid. It Burns. http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-terrorists-appleid-passcode-changed-in-government-cust#.vf082lxVgn

Boat Of The Year Won the Winter Series, and overall for the year, in the oldest hull in the fleet. Ten years since we last took BOTY. Time for Boat Drinks!

The New Economy Originally shared by Ralf Haring "Miller’s mom, Jodie Arrowsmith, didn’t know she was on Tumblr for the first few years. “She actually didn’t tell any of her friends at school,” Arrowsmith said. “It was her own special thing. Her Tumblr was her little secret place where she could go and blog and say what she wanted.” But people started finding out. Arrowsmith is a realtor, and once, while showing a family a house, she mentioned her kids sat at home on the internet all day. The clients’ daughter was about 13, and said she had a Tumblr. “I told her my daughter was Pizza,” Arrowsmith said, “and the girl almost started crying.”" https://newrepublic.com/article/129002/secret-lives-tumblr-teens

Duh Feebs Masters of Special Oops... "The password for the San Bernardino shooter's iCloud account associated with his iPhone was reset hours after authorities took possession of the device. The Justice Department acknowledged in its court filing that the password of Syed Farook's iCloud account had been reset. The filing states, "the owner [San Bernardino County Department of Public Health], in an attempt to gain access to some information in the hours after the attack, was able to reset the password remotely, but that had the effect of eliminating the possibility of an auto-backup." The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said. Apple executives say the iPhone was in the possession of the government when iCloud password was r...

Reference Section Originally shared by **** ‘You Could Look It Up’: The world before and since Wikipedia: http://wapo.st/1OjT1aF http://wapo.st/1OjT1aF

Pump It Up "Something I can stand behind and agree with, just not afford." Originally shared by Eric Hansen This is the best BR article i've ever read. http://www.bikerumor.com/2016/02/18/road-to-nahbs-2016-josh-poertner-of-silca/

Lose To Win Cringely weighs in... http://www.cringely.com/2016/02/19/the-fbi-v-apple-isnt-at-all-the-way-you-think-it-is/

Snow Drifting Originally shared by Camp Lejeune Fast and Furious Tank Drifting —————————— Have you ever seen a tank drift? Our Norwegian Army friends showed us how to drive M1A1 Abrams and Amphibious Assault Vehicles on ice in Rena, Norway. Catch all the ‪#‎AlliedStrong‬ action, including Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force, at https://first2fightblog.wordpress.com/ (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Tatum Vayavananda/Released)

Armature Race "...if your taste - ironic or otherwise - leads you to want a statue in the classic bronze-giant-hailing-a-taxicab pose, then who you gonna call? Mansudae." http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35569277

Sin Is A Puppy That Follows You Home Originally shared by Caroline Dow Writing romance novels as an act of defiance. And I love Glenna Gordon's photography. http://www.wired.com/2016/02/glenna-gordon-diagram-heart/#slide-4

Warrant Proof From the comments: "Unlike files in a safe, the contents of an encrypted drive/phone are entirely visible, just not understandable. A seized hard drive or phone can have its contents examined right down the 1’s and 0’s of each bit, regardless of encryption. Giving the Feds the password does not hand them new information, like papers out of safe. Instead, it interprets the data they already have, but do not understand. An analogy would be a diary written in code. The government, which already has the diary, can see its contents clearly, but without the password to interpret the code, cannot understand it. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/02/18/crimes-iphones-and-encryption/no-smartphone-lies-beyond-the-reach-of-a-judicial-search-warrant

Termagant I always thought it was some kind of screechy, disreputable bird... http://www.bartleby.com/81/16352.html Also, funny how Billingsgate became associated with bad language, but Fulton never did.  Some missed alliterative potential, there... Originally shared by Tim O'Brien My vacation reading is several books concerning Paris during the French Revolution. The appellation of the term "fishwife" to describe any loud, filthy, uneducated, vulgar, bloodthirsty woman is omnipresent in works both fiction and non-fiction. Historians of quite recent vintage use the term to collectively describe the crowds at public executions. As a student (and former teacher) of History, I wish to apologize to fish mongeresses everywhere.

All Writs Act There are many parts to this, and none of them are as simple and clear as the government wants to make folks think. Invoking the All Writs Act is necessary because there is no clear law on this matter, which should be a warning sign in itself. There are also a number of technical issues involved, about which most folks are ignorant.  The general gist of it is that Apple can do what is wanted, but not simply, quickly, or without cost.  If it was simple, it would have been done already.  Even if Apple brings the magic, it will probably take awhile to brute force the password (days, weeks, months, years, depending).  And by cost, I mean, breaking a bunch of proprietary hardware and software stuff irremediably. There also hasn't been much said about the relative value of the information that could be retrieved, and that also should be a warning sign.  What could possibly be on that phone to justify all this? Nothing, and everything.  And if the government finds the level...

"When It's Too Tough For Everybody Else, It's Just Right For Me" Originally shared by **** Frank Scott's remembrance of his father, Wendell Scott, the first African American race car driver to compete and win at NASCAR's highest level. https://vimeo.com/155232099 https://vimeo.com/155232099

UFOTOG Doug Trumbull's plan to save the Movies. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/future-film-vfx-legend-douglas-729041

How They Did It More details from Trish Sie about OK Go's latest tour de force. http://jalopnik.com/the-director-of-that-amazing-zero-g-ok-go-video-tells-u-1759201981

The Sausage Factory Doug Trumbull talks in detail about how the special effects were created for 2001: A Space Odyssey, in the days before CGI. "Kubrick did not create the visual effects. He directed them," says Trumbull. "There was a certain level of inappropriateness to taking that Oscar. But the tragic aspect of it for me is it's the only Oscar Stanley Kubrick ever won. He was an incredibly gifted director and should have gotten something for directing and writing and what his real strength was — not special effects." http://cinetropolis.net/vintage-article-by-douglas-trumbull-on-creating-special-effects-for-2001-a-space-odyssey/

Visualize Failings, Not Defeat via Eric Hansen  Originally shared by Guy Kawasaki Astronaut Chris Hadfield Explains The Power of Negative Thinking http://bit.ly/1Kq9BL5

Question Authority "...science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect. Instead, “It’s about a methodology for investigation, which includes, at its core, a relentless drive towards questioning that which came before.” You can both “love science,” he concludes, “and question it.” via Meg L  http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/

It's Not Just A Job, It's An Adventure "...he unearths wonderful old stories, such as the odd tale of the Romanian author Mircea Eliade and the Indian author Maitreyi Devi, who each published a book, forty years apart, about an affair they had in Calcutta, in 1930, when Eliade was twenty-one and Devi was sixteen." Originally shared by The New Yorker A New York City lawyer has written thousands of book reviews, covering everything from Scandinavian crime thrillers to cutting-edge Chinese works.

Do The Hustle A Whole Life In 64 Squares... Originally shared by Jens Reuterberg If chess was played like this I would watch it more carefully. Maurice Ashley, chess champion takes on chesshustler in Washington Park  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5vnpOp0U_g

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(Not Your) Backdoor Man https://www.apple.com/customer-letter/

Ultra Pogs Guess this means we'll have to buy the Beatles' White Album again... http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page

Where There's Smoke... I'm still not convinced that boycotts are an effective tool for regime change... but someone in the UK government is obviously afeared. It also seems an unlikely coincidence that the most recent Israeli Prime Minister to have made significant progress/concessions in the Palestinian peace process was forced to resign, and is going to jail... http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/world/middleeast/ehud-olmert-israel-prison.html > Originally shared by Jasmine Wolfe (Basement Kitty) http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/anger-uk-moves-ban-israeli-settlement-boycott-160215164105804.html

Taking Stock of America The New Globalism... Originally shared by Rugger Ducky Not quite as bad a faux pas as Trump mistakenly using German soldiers from WWII instead of US troops, but entertainment none the less. http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2016/02/15/vancouver-skyline-featured-in-marco-rubios-morning-again-in-america-campaign-ad/

We Ain't Flying Originally shared by Caroline Dow That's one hell of an essay. http://lithub.com/what-bill-cosby-taught-me-about-sexual-violence-and-flying/

Tot Nachos

Magic Carpet Ride

Snow Day

At The Diner Somebody at church asked me if I had made special plans for Valentine's Day. I smiled widely as I confessed that I had made reservations at the Waffle House. She waited a polite moment to see if there was more forthcoming, and then burst out in smiles and laughter, and hoped we would have a nice time. We managed the trek out to the diner just as the snow began to fall. Everyone was friendly, and the diner was definitely decorated for the holiday. Service was a little off, but the staff might have been a little worried about the weather. Snow, in the South, is on a par with Nuclear Armageddon. We opted for the Manager's Special, because Free Pie. Food was good, and our fellow travelers seemed more convivial and jovial than usual. A few casual diners were more than a little surprised to be greeted at the door, and asked if they had a Reservation. You could see them looking around, making sure that, yes, they were at the Waffle House. It was fun watching the mylar he...

Mood Killer

Ghosts In The Making "The novel itself never saw publication while Fisher was alive. It was submitted, rejected and sat for decades in the files of her long-time agent while she went on to make a career as a non-fiction writer. It is rescued here, now, only because she is M.F.K. Fisher. Because who that knows her wouldn't want another M.F.K. Fisher book?" http://www.npr.org/2016/02/14/463862119/m-f-k-fisher-conjured-good-times-that-couldnt-last?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=books

Twu Wuv

Waffle House

Embrace The Crazy Long before Fred and I were married, Judy Merril once told me, “Everbody’s crazy in one way or another. We can’t see our own craziness, but we need to look closely at our love object. The most important thing to find out is, in what way is this person crazy? And then to decide whether or not we can, or want to, live with that craziness.” http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2016/02/valentine-advice-to-the-lovelorn/

Carry On https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/698639054003245056

Vinegar Valentines Originally shared by lynn paden interesting sample of a vinegar valentine .....  more examples here, in the article titled: "Happy Valentine's Day, I Hate You" http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/happy-valentines-day-i-hate-you/

Sont Les Mots Qui Vont Très Bien Ensemble http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/13/i-love-you-why-we-cant-stop-using-those-three-little-words

Get On The Quatrain! http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2941

/.adobedontdeletemybzvol http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/02/warning-bug-in-adobe-creative-cloud-deletes-mac-user-data-without-warning/#p3

The Power of the Browser No, not that kind... Also has some ramifications for libraries like NC State that have implemented central robotic book storage. I've also often thought it indicative and ironic that library search and cataloging tools are so often: awful, and not Open Source. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/12/lee-child-amazons-real-life-bookshops-why-we-should-be-worried

How They Did It "You and Trish are brother and sister too, how long have you collaborated creatively for?" Kulash : Pretty much since I was born. We developed these ridiculous routines for our morning carpool. Sie : Yes! The K.A.S. ... Kulash Alarm System. We meticulously worked out this insane Kraftwerk-esque, human-machine dance number on the stairway outside our house. We timed it perfectly so that we'd swing into action the moment we spotted Mrs. Ferguson's car coming up the hill to pick us up. And it would end with us presenting ourselves to the door of the car just as it pulled up to the curb. And weirdly, the carpool never said anything to us about it. We just climbed into the car and left for school when it was over." http://www.redbull.com/us/en/music/stories/1331776046202/ok-go-how-they-made-their-zero-gravity-video

Originally shared by Damn interesting Study: Unconscious sighing every 5 minutes or so is necessary for survival. http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-that-sighing-is-actually-a-life-saving-biological-function

OK GO Interactive Play along at home... iOS: http://itunes.apple.com/app/this-american-life-ok-go-handbells/id519604617?mt=8 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hypercompact.TALOKGo https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Yx_C94YSPUM

Launch OK GO Better than Free Bird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fyWs8KSdE via Andrea Monticue  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fyWs8KSdE

My Wife's Relations A Buster Keaton short where "people misunderstand each other perfectly." http://www.busterkeaton.com/Films/B13_My_Wifes_Relations.html Buster engages in a bit of time traveling legerdemain in order to get his fair share of dinner: https://youtu.be/5BDy82uiX2o?t=8m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BDy82uiX2o

Sweet and Hot Buster Keaton and Tom Wilson. The Inkspots-The Java Jive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP6IUqrFHjw

Acting Like Grownups Grumpy Grownups.  Whose hotel stays are subsidized by families... Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh You're either with us or against us. I'll leave you to decide who 'us' is...};-) "WHEN it comes to young children and travelling, people divide into two camps. You either have kids, in which case you bemoan every restriction placed upon them, or you don't, in which case you tut at every concession they enjoy. [...] Nowhere are the dividing lines deeper, it seems, than in Germany. It is a nation that treasures silence more than most; the place that invented earplugs and where even school playgrounds are subject to noise-pollution measures. It also has one of the lowest birth rates in the world (8.2 per 1,000 inhabitants). No surprise, then, that according to a recent piece in the Wall Street Journal, the country is in the midst of a craze for hotels that forbid children. [...] The Travel Without Children website, lists 30 such adult-only est...

Acid, Amnesty, and Abortion "McGovern was probably the most radical candidate to run for president on a major party ticket in the 20th Century. Among other items, he called for an immediate end to the war in Vietnam, a guaranteed annual income for all Americans, and reproductive choice for women. He won the series of primaries and was nominated as the Democratic candidate. Before he even gave his acceptance speech, the Democratic leadership was at work sabotaging his campaign. The rules committee played around with floor activities ensuring that his speech would be delivered at 2:00 in the morning. News organizations were provided with unfavorable information regarding his vice presidential nominee’s health. Party conservatives like Henry “Scoop” Jackson (the first neocon) mounted a campaign within the party and in the press designed to prevent McGovern from winning. After the landslide victory of Richard Nixon in November 1972, the party leadership began implementing rules...

Splinter Faction Originally shared by Tim O'Brien Liberated from a private share.

Of A Certain Age via Rugger Ducky  Originally shared by Cheryl Martin https://www.facebook.com/notes/shasta-willson/feminists-of-a-certain-age/10153906138332486

Fractious, Rank Originally shared by **** And Hell Toupée takes the lead again! I haven't seen this much excitement in a Triple Crown since it was the Double Crown!

Zombie Process Originally shared by Ralf Haring "57.10 Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization." https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/

RFP #NotTheOnion   Originally shared by Richard Bensam Un-useless hacks. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/inside-the-stupid-shit-no-one-needs-terrible-ideas-hackathon

All That, And A Bag Of Chips Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield Ok, The Moment You've Been Waiting For: The Fuller House Full Trailer - Behold, Be Amazed & Be Afraid  #FullerHouse  https://youtu.be/CXuGLswn2l0

Keepin' It Funky The Success And Tragedy Behind The Hot 8 Brass Band: http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/music/6675/hot-8-brass-band/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbUhllYVcpw

Dumber Than A... http://www.wral.com/police-victims-get-box-of-rocks-in-fayetteville-craigslist-scam/15343962/

Poll Tax And without a Grandmother clause, yet... The original Jim Crow disenfranchisers at least had that... Eejits, all. Originally shared by John Lusk Getting a voter ID in NC ain't so trivial, after all. https://www.facebook.com/amy.l.knisley/posts/10209048895008089?fref=nf

Basin Street Blues Jumbo and Mr. New Orleans, the Leader of the Half Fast Walking Club. "I worked with Jumbo for a good while before I went with Lawrence Welk. We had four guys in the band. Whoever got the job wore the bow tie and led the band." http://www.experienceneworleans.com/interview-with-pete-fountain.html Rumor has it that Pete led the assembled multitude from Commander's Palace this morning, as he has for the past fifty six odd years... http://www.nola.com/mardigras/index.ssf/2015/02/pete_fountain_to_once_again_le.html https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfHamzQ4yq4

Originally shared by Kat R K Roberts I so love Margaret and Helen. http://margaretandhelen.com/2016/02/08/there-is-a-reason-big-girls-dont-cry-we-havent-the-time/

Zulu http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry-image/louis-armstrong-as-king-of-zulu-on-mardi-gras-1949

Forex Originally shared by Ralf Haring "This has been the case in the US since the Civil War in the 19th Century and until recently really only affected the rich. Americans abroad are given a yearly allowance of $106,000 (£73,000) before double taxation kicks in. But Fatca expands the scope of what can be taxed, and places a burden on foreign banks to identify US citizens among their customers to US tax authorities. The penalty for failing to do so can be as high as 30% of all a bank's dealings with the USA." "As a result, ordinary Americans abroad are being denied access to basic banking facilities; banks would rather refuse US citizens' custom than run the risk of hefty penalties. "I went to one and as soon as I typed in I was born in the United States, there was a big set of red letters that said 'No to US persons'," says Jane. "I've got to pay my bills, I've got to buy food - I've got to have a bank."" "For pe...

Originally shared by Meg L How I love Letters of Note! http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/10/i-would-like-to-retain-fart-in-your.html?m=1

The Joys Of Self Publishing AKA Tribune News Service = Eejits. http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/cutillo-beloved-national-columnist-sharon-randall-trying-to-figure-out/article_75c5591c-b742-11e5-b390-838610f5af10.html

Dear Human You’ve got it all wrong. You didn’t come here to master unconditional love. That is where you came from and where you’ll return. You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love. Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up. Often. You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And then to rise again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story. Love, in truth, doesn’t need ANY other adjectives. It doesn’t require modifiers. It doesn’t require the condition of perfection. It only asks that you show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully. That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU. It’s enough. It’s Plenty. http://soul-lit.com/poems/v4/Walsh/index.html

Originally shared by David McKeever

Taking Turns Originally shared by Jens Reuterberg @sweden was the first shared national twitter account. It really is an awesome experiment and one where I honestly feel kinda proud about oddly.  Essentially, the state of Sweden grabbed "@sweden" and then simply handed it over to a random Swede to write as she and he prefers, swapping the person in control of the account every single week. The only criteria: must be able to speak English, must understand Twitter. We've had young and old, nice and douchy - all of them tweeting along. (hell we had an antisemite barbling bullshit for a week). Every week the account is handed over to another person entirely...

I Was So Much Older, Then... I'm younger than that, now... The Byrds-My Back Pages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FUGzwUTN80 Originally shared by G.K. Nelson No solutions here, only more questions. But pretty much sums up how I feel reading rock star obits. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/05/opinion/reading-rock-star-obituaries.html

Deal With It "So Easy the Infantry Can Do It!" "...filled with Tube Socks and Disappointment." Originally shared by Eric Hansen via kevin king​ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/disgruntleddecks/disgruntled-decks-the-original-card-game-for-veter

With Friends Like These Stereolab-Friends Like These: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYjNUPx5q_M Originally shared by Rugger Ducky I'm sure if he had deleted all those texts, she would have done this again to someone else. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/its-now-or-never-texts-reveal-teens-efforts-to-pressure-boyfriend-into-suicide

Winding Up The Week Originally shared by ****

Brain Bats of Venus Venusian Jungles! Football Helmets! Space Ships With Rudders! Bat Like Brain Things! http://pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com/2016/02/number-1850-classic-horror-brain-bats.html via Will Shetterly

Where The Rubber Meets The Road Jobst Brandt's name is invoked, amongst other authorities. Originally shared by Tom Bike One for the roadies: Do tire treads matter? h/t Neil Hodges  https://janheine.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/why-slick-tires-dont-stick-well

Blackstrap Molasses Now, with less sulphur, and more debbil woman! Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Surprise! Keywords: Unusually Principled Hit Men https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/05/wife-crashes-her-own-funeral-horrifying-her-husband-who-had-paid-have-her-killed/

Ride Right "The caucuses have become something they were never intended to be. It’s as if RAGBRAI tried to morph into the Tour de France. It wasn’t built for the speed or the significance." Maybe they, like the NSA, need a coloring book. http://ragbrai.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/RideRightBook2013.pdf Originally shared by Richard Bensam Both parties let things work this way because it suits the interests of the party leadership for the Iowa caucuses to have little or no effect on the outcome.  The people of Iowa might be feeling annoyed about that. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2016/02/03/editorial-something-smells-democratic-party/79777580

Go To Hades! Originally shared by Timothy Street One of the cosmic injustices on our solar system this century is the gross negligence and insult inflicted upon the planet Pluto.  The recent expedition of NASA's New Horizons probe demonstrated irrefutable evidence that Pluto is indeed the ninth planet - to the great consternation of embarrassed scientists that have now recently "claimed" to have configured another planet beyond Pluto.  Unsurprisingly, another miasmic gas giant.  I suppose they will propose "Trump" as the name of the newly discovered far out orbiter - or if the want to stay with the dog and Disney motif, use the synonymous, "Goofy". I acknowledge that Pluto is nearly unapproachable: diminutive, misshapen, circling the sun to the beat of a different drummer, its moons (note:plural) not all adhering to expected behavior; but why the "scientific" misunderstanding, intolerance, suspicion, and derisiveness?  We have metaphorically ...

Cone Spotting Originally shared by Richard Bensam "Drivers slow down when they see things like traffic cones in the way that they don't when they see a person." I get that drivers expect people will scurry out of the intersection when a car approaches in a way that inanimate objects cannot, and that this is a rational assumption because that's what usually happens.  It's not driver expectations that are the problem.  The point here is that by altering the physical shape of the road we can alter driver (and pedestrian and cyclist) behavior. http://gothamist.com/2016/01/21/dress_like_street_cone_4_safety.php

Just Say No http://www.slate.com/articles/life/food/2016/02/the_ultimate_trader_joe_s_shopping_hack_don_t_shop_at_trader_joe_s.html

V.I. XVII "Spenser never complained about pain, I reminded myself, nor Marlowe, let alone Kate Fansler. Suck it up, Warshawski, don’t let those WASPs show up the Pollacks." Nice outtake about her cousin, Boom-Boom: http://www.saraparetsky.com/2015/06/boom-boom-warshawskis-blackhawk-debut/ http://www.saraparetsky.com/books/novels/brush-back/

Originally shared by Will Shetterly https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/ta-nehisi-coates-case-for-reparations-bernie-sanders-racism/

Astute Originally shared by David Brin My midweek posting sheds light on at least a dozen implications of the Iowa caucuses that (I promise) you've seen mentioned nowhere else, on any medium. Like Ted Cruz's real plan, and what trick Donald Trump neglected, because of pride. Why did Paul Krugman tout "uplift"? And why "radical" solutions are never best implemented by Radicals. Why did the GOP lords appoint Nikki Haley to answer POTUS's SOTU speech? And I review an essay that unveils "8 reasons for Trumpism." Some of them clear and strong, but the writer misses several much bigger ones. Am I a credentialed pundit? Well, marginally. Do I offer different insights? As Sarah Palin would put it -- "You betcha." http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2016/02/iowa-inanity-sotu-and-political-games.html

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Color Correction Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "Vincent Van Gogh was obsessed with the pigments in his paints, and he knew as much or more about their composition and vulnerability as many of his contemporaries. So it is a tragic irony that many of the bright red and yellow pigments van Gogh used on his masterpieces are fading or changing color with time. [...] Yet the artwork of van Gogh has become a lens through which scientists study pigment degradation. He was a prolific painter—in the 10 years he was active as an artist, van Gogh produced nearly 1,000 paintings. He was also a prolific writer: In letters to family and friends, he discussed in detail the pigments he purchased and the colors of his newly painted canvases. These written records are a valuable starting point for scientific inquiry. As a result, van Gogh’s canvases have led to multiple discoveries about the breakdown of fragile—or what conservators call “fugitive”—pigments. What follows is a series of vignettes...