July 2010
1 post
Following the “flash crash” of U.S. equities on May 6, more than 70 percent of...
– ETFs Gone Wild - Bloomberg (via Instapaper)
June 2010
2 posts
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
5 posts
Why Atheists Are More Intelligent than the... →
(via bol)
March 2010
3 posts
Leave the light on →
bobulate:
Researchers have found that darkness encourages unethical behavior:
In the same way that young kids think they are invisible when they cover their eyes, [the researchers] think the effect they observed occurs as an automatic response to the cover of darkness, even when the lack of light makes no difference to anonymity.
In tests in both dimly lit and brightly lit rooms, people with...
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
18 posts
So I finally saw District 9
tamburina:
IT WAS SO GOOD. SO GOOD.
IMHO maybe the best movie of 2009
It was widely asserted in earlier times that earthquakes were caused by sodomy,...
– http://www.slate.com/id/2241877/
Like Richard Nixon, like Spiro Agnew, Fox News can never see itself as the...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/media/10ailes.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1263117770-ZJ/0nvgs9T2HvMpMlN3xag
Amid the utter hysteria, any sense that homosexuality has been in Africa from...
– http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n4/us-christian-right-attack-on-gays-in-africa.html
this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways.
– http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/opinion/01brooks.html?em
December 2009
30 posts
Jeff Bezos > Jesus →
But you are wired to find meaning in the world, a predisposition that leaves you...
– http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200802/magical-thinking
It’s your ability to see beyond such things, your willing blindness to even the...
– http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/rosin-prosperity-gospel
The Benefit Of The Doubt... [Atlantic] →
The Fed sprang into action when faced with the prospect of wrecked banks; it...
– http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/opinion/11krugman.html
Protip
yellowfeversf:
generic1:
spytap:
ctrl+ option + + 8 = inverted colors/night mode.
whoa.
holy mother of JESUS!!!
that’s AWESOME!!!
are there other tricks?!?!
IDIOTS. →
note to self: buy Kindle and start pirating Simon & Schuster and Hachette books.