November 2011
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October 2011
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Consumers Remain Numb Even As Economy Grows →
Consumer confidence is at its lowest level since the height of the
recession, even though several recent figures offer a modicum of hope.
The numerous hits to the economy have caused consumers to basically
shut down, one economist says.
It’s always darkest before the light. I have faith we’re bouncing back.
Google Offers expands: New cities, deal partners →
More daily deals from Google Offers are on the way. The company has
signed on 14 new deal partners and added four more cities.
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Is anyone still excited about Groupon’s IPO?
The Educational System In One Image. →
Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to...
From the article: The idea of an ISP handing over user data to governments without the aid of a search warrant has some troubling implications for privacy advocates and civil liberties proponents. In the WikiLeaks case, the line between advocates and participants in the transfer of data can sometimes be blurry. If in its ongoing investigation into WikiLeaks the U.S. Department of Justice is...
Truck driver finds a penny. →
September 2011
14 posts
http://i.imgur.com/zymdw.jpg →
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“If you’re thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell...”
– Biz Stone in Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone to Advise M.B.A. Students at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business - WSJ.com (via markmilian)
Why I Was Maced at the Wall Street Protests →
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know,...”
– Charles Caleb Colton, British cleric & writer
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“We have a lot of kids graduating college, can’t find jobs, that’s what happened...”
– Mike Bloomberg
Guidance councelors, my parents, my teachers, my...
wearethe99percent:
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Chewy Vuitton →
August 2011
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To everyone saying the broken-up Hatteras road... →
shortformblog:
Just because it’s insane doesn’t mean it’s ‘shopped. (h/t oldmanyellsatcloud)
July 2011
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June 2011
17 posts
Why you should always sleep with a Teddy bear →
“The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed...”
– David Simon (via theoriginaljoefisher)
Ned Hepburn: Are we forgetting →
nedhepburn:
that the whole Anthony Wiener thing — in the grand scheme of things — doesn’t mean anything? It’s all in the dick jokes. If his last name was Charleston we wouldn’t even still be talking about it.
Please. We had a Vice President shot someone in the face with a shotgun at point blank range and…
“Richard Nixon, if he were alive today, might take bittersweet satisfaction to...”
– Daniel Ellsburg, in an interview with CNN. (via spytap)
So a baby seal walks into a club
Conn. Senate votes for pot decriminalization bill →
Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, stressed that lawmakers were not legalizing marijuana.
“We are not enforcing the use of illegal drugs. We strongly disapprove of their use, but we’re trying to realign their punishment that is more appropriate,” he said, adding that the state should be focusing its scarce criminal justice resources on dangerous offenders.
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May 2011
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Supreme Court: Justices give police more leeway in... →
The Supreme Court gave police more leeway to break into homes or apartments in search of illegal drugs when they suspect the evidence otherwise might be destroyed.
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In her dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she feared the ruling gave police an easy way to ignore 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. She said the amendment’s “core...
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Butthole Surfers →
In 1986, they first met Lynch (a.k.a. Kathleen, a.k.a. Ta-Da the Shit Lady), who was then working at a strip club called Sex World in New York City. Though never an official member, she became the Surfers’ famous “naked dancer”, performing intermittently with them through 1989. One show in Washington, D.C. with GWAR saw Kathleen take the stage to dance in nothing but gold body...
Army Couple Deploys To Iraq, But Only One Returns →
“I am an Army widower. I don’t think there’s very many of us,” he says. “And when I receive a condolence letter from a high-ranking government official that says, ‘Mrs. Voelz, we’re sorry for the loss of your husband,’ it just makes it seem like nobody knows we exist.”
Heartbreaking.
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My company recently began leasing some space to a sister company. The sister company likes to bring in donuts on Wednesdays and is generous to share with us. Half of the office thinks this is the best thing ever. The other half think it’s the devil tempting them to stray from their diets. I haven’t yet figured out which half I am. I’m not on a diet to lose weight, but I know...
Men are bargain shopping and eating out less often →
Research from SymphonyIRI Group found that 44% of men are making efforts to save money, with 35% saying they shop at several stores to find the lowest prices and 54% saying they eat out less often. “Our research shatters the stereotype of clueless men wandering around a grocery store,” said an executive. “During the recent recession, men adopted money-saving strategies that...
50% of Americans Couldn't Come Up with $2,000 →
Researchers…asked survey participants whether they would be able to come up with $2,000 for an “unexpected expense in the next month.” 22.2 percent predicted they would be “probably unable” and 27.9 percent said they’d certainly be unable to foot the unplanned bill. The hypothetical cost “reflects the order of magnitude of the cost of an...