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2013-05-23 19:10:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Ben Franklin had that passionate curiosity," Isaacson said, "but he also had a sense of tolerance, which I think is the real lesson learned in childhood."
After running away from home as a young man, Franklin went to Philadelphia. While there, he created a club, the Leather Apron Club, for the shopkeepers and artisans, the middle class people whom he wanted to found a nation on, which listed the values that they ought to have; things like industry, honesty, and frugality.
"Being a geek, (Franklin) marks them on a chart and marks every week how well he does on each of those virtues until he could master them.
"Then he shows them around to the people in his club that he has mastered all 12 of those virtues. And one of the members says to him, 'Franklin, you've forgotten a virtue you might want to practice.' And Franklin says, 'What's that?'... more »

2013-05-23 14:06:55 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Gluten-free diet reduces adiposity, inflammation and insulin resistance associated with the induction of PPAR-alpha and PPAR-gamma expression

2013-05-22 17:47:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-16 05:28:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-15 16:38:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

All restaurants are Taco Bell.

2013-05-14 23:59:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Turns out Dan Brown did not write Flight of the Old Dog; one of the best B-52 novels in the last 30 years. That was Dale Brown. So yeah, likely nothing involving automated tail guns, J-57s or even a circuit breaker. sigh

2013-05-14 18:12:11 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-14 17:10:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Armor Lust!

2013-05-14 00:33:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The computers are faster, the house always wins.

2013-05-13 16:27:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

<http://www.businessinsider.com/the-plight-of-the-99-in-15-charts-2013-5?op=1>

2013-05-13 15:47:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Nice to see down-to-earth young celeb.

2013-05-10 20:41:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

“They’ll need a brash leader, a sexy female chemist, an eccentric mechanic, and a mysterious stowaway, but could they use an out-of-work insurance actuary?”

Marc Lin –
Unemployed

2013-05-09 11:42:36 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-08 19:34:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

A number of quotations in the OED derive from a book with the title Meanderings of Memory. However, we have been unable to trace this title in library catalogues or text databases. All these quotations have a date of 1852, and some cite the author as ‘Nightlark’.

Have you ever seen a copy of this book? Can you identify the ‘well-known connoisseur’ mentioned by the bookseller?

2013-05-08 19:26:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Great headline!

2013-05-08 19:24:15 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Google's graphic thingy is pretty slick today. Saul Bass ROCKS!

2013-05-08 05:24:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-08 00:31:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-07 14:20:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-05-06 23:57:43 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Is there some form of adult kindergarten where they teach people to keep their hands to themselves, "No!" means No!, and other important skills like play fair, clean up afterself, and don't be a dick?

2013-05-06 20:24:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

And no one noticed...

2013-05-06 16:17:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-06 15:59:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Seeing how this particular sausage got made is invaluable enough to merit the extra effort demanded. Much of the public regards the DSM as a body of proven medical knowledge, rather than, as Greenberg puts it, a collection of “useful constructs that capture the ways people suffer.” Those constructs, however provisional (and, among themselves, most psychiatrists acknowledge the DSM to be just that), can help a patient to a sense of certainty, provide a community of fellow sufferers (as was the case with the diagnosis of Aspberger’s syndrome, deleted from the DSM-5), inspire confidence in the therapist and — last but far from least — justify insurance coverage for any treatment. But the disorders that trip so authoritatively off of everyone’s tongues are not diseases in the same way that cancer or strep throat are, and until and unless we learn a whole lot more about the human brain and itsworkings, t... more »

2013-05-06 01:10:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Inspiration.

2013-05-04 16:51:05 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-05-04 16:50:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Happy May 4th!!!!

(via http://www.tiefighters.com/)

#starwars   #maythe4thbewithyou   #maythefourthbewithyou  

2013-04-18 20:26:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

For When It Needs To Get There Yesterday...
source: http://thecolinstein.tumblr.com/ .

2013-04-18 18:10:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-18 20:25:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

As Seen on BI:

trooble on Apr 16, 7:03 PM said:

People print paper money every time they make a contract with each other. They coordinate labor, exchange promises, and create wealth. And in the US, thanks to our unmatched rule of law, paper promises have generated ginormous hugongous wealth. You've all seen me list before the gigantic achievements of the US during the 19th and 20th century, and that marches on, owing to PAPER.

A few guys and some materials and some beer and permits in the right town,, and you can build a house that, in a few weeks, is worth more than POUNDS of gold. That magic happens every damn day in America. It happens elsewhere too, but mostly because the US, besides the rule of law, also kicks azz as the world's biggest ever policeman. The economic miracles of Marshall Plan Europe, and the Asian tigers, We made that possible. And technology and... more »

2013-04-17 21:24:13 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

GATTACA is getting closer.

2013-04-16 21:28:43 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-16 17:57:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"
Krugman is probably laughing his ass off right now. It turns out the main study austerians use to "debunk" him has undergrad-level errors in it.

2013-04-16 14:24:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Cool boat for sale.

2013-04-15 19:16:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

You stay classy Florida!

2013-04-15 15:52:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-15 14:34:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

ASo/.

by CAIMLAS (41445) on Monday April 15,@10:22AM 

You know, we used to call it simply, "engineering" - back before business school type managers stuck their dicks into the soup and soured the pot for everyone.

2013-04-12 22:43:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

2013-04-12 22:43:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

2013-04-12 21:27:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Penny: No, no, it’s probably just allergies.

Leonard: Do you want an allergy pill? ‘Cause I have ‘em all. Prescription, nonprescription, foreign, domestic, experimental.

Penny: Do any of them work?

Leonard: Not really, I’m just an enthusiast.

2013-04-12 15:17:01 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-11 18:02:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My Star Wars was just Star Wars; nothing else. Sanding in line, wrapped around Sunshine Mall Twin Theaters, waiting to get in to see it one more time before school started and it went away forever.

2013-04-11 17:43:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Top Republican Blasts Obama Budget As ‘Shocking Attack On Seniors’.

"Actually, of course, anyone who has been paying attention for the past four years knew this was coming."

<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/04/nrcc-chair-blasts-obama-budget-as-shocking-attack-on-seniors.php?ref=fpb>

2013-04-11 14:52:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Someone needs to put this on FB, for Bob to see. Balloon launched RC plane carried to edge of space.

2013-04-10 20:55:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Those darn Sith!

2013-04-10 19:33:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Much Ado About Nothing, written and directed by Joss Whedon? Will it be in the original Klingon?

2013-04-10 16:40:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-10 13:05:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-04-09 21:47:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-09 21:01:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-04-09 15:34:40 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)