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I HATE YOUR SUV, originally uploaded by conradh.

Seen outside Hi-Time Wine today in Costa Mesa.

• ANR | Radium Face Cream, 1918
  Let's all smear ourselves with deadly radioactive isotopes.
  (tags: history via:splodinvark death doom cosmetics radiation radium)
   
• Headset Hotties
  Thanks for stopping by. This site examines the cross-cultural trend of headset-wearing customer support representatives on corporate websites! While supplies last, we aim to provide 1 per workday for your entertainment and analysis.
  (tags: via:deusx sex advertising ha photography design)
   
• The Daily Swarm - UPDATE: The Cramps' Lux Interior R.I.P....official statement released...
  goodbye, Human fly
  (tags: music death thecramps)
   
• Artists, Bands and Musicians on Twitter - Google Docs
  (tags: via:whatevernevermind music twitter)

• CodeBits - Tested Complex Code!: CodeBit; Using Hashes in Bash Scripts
  
  
  
  (tags: programming shell bash satanism scripting hashes)
  
  

• ROIR
  The legendary cassette-only punk reggae and noise label from the 1980s reborn. They sell their mp3 stuff on emusic, also. Lots of live stuff unavailable elsewhere.
  (tags: music punk mp3 1980s 80s reggae cassette label)
   
• Sprite Zero Bomb on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  Blew up in my hand, just as I was about to open it. Two of my fingers went numb. The force blew the opening tab off. Probably lucky I wasn't cut.
  (tags: ow beverages explosives bomb sprite)
   
• Building a startup you love (is hard)
  (tags: business dotcom toread startup)
   
• Official Google Blog: This site may harm your computer" on every search result?!?!
  Unfortunately (and here' the human error), the URL of "/" was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and "/" expands to all URLs.
  (tags: failure ha security google search malware)
   

• Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
  university quality video lectures on many subjects. yay.
  (tags: video education learning lectures)
   
• Addictive Mac and Cheese - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
  As the name suggests, this is not a humble, modest, sit-by-the-sidelines macaroni and cheese.
  (tags: food recipes cheese macandcheese)
   
• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Locust swarms "high" on serotonin
  Locusts apparently make their own Ecstasy for their raves.
  (tags: news science biology animals psychology insects nature psychiatry serotonin locusts)
   
• Orwell: Politics and the English Language
  Read this at least quarterly to remind yourself of what you're exposed to every day.
  (tags: politics culture writing orwell language english)
   
• Defender Cats - a set on Flickr
  CATS WITH LASER BEAMS COMING OUT OF THEIR EYES
  (tags: photos flickr animals cats photoshop lasers)
   
• Judgment Day for Cardinal Mahony? | williamlobdell.com
  It took way, way too long, but the U.S. attorney has finally launched a grand jury investigation into the actions of Cardinal Roger M. Mahony when dealing with rapist priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
  (tags: failure villainy religion crime losangeles catholicism mahoney lobdell)
   
• Fannie Mae Logic Bomb Would Have Caused Weeklong Shutdown | Threat Level from Wired.com
  Evil leftover cronjob might have made the financial crash way more fun
  (tags: failure commerce finance security hacking mortgage logicbomb fnma)
   
• Honeybees See the Difference Between Numbers: Literally | 80beats | Discover Magazine
  Honeybees have the ability to distinguish and remember visual quantities up to four, according to a new study
  (tags: science biology via:thepouncer nature bees)
   
• CIA Station Chief's Computer Searched Following Rape Allegations | Threat Level from Wired.com
  According to court records, the search also turned up "apple martini mix, multiple data storage devices, including multiple computer hard drives, memory cards, Valium and Xanax and a handbook on the investigation of sexual assaults."
  (tags: sex failure yeesh crime usa gaaaah cia applemartinis)

• Super Mario Land: the drunken edition - Offworld
  Drunk guy playing Mario, or faked? Either way it's great
  (tags: video ha alcohol videogames)
   
• Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository
  Al Jazeera has a creative commons licensed repository of media from Gaza
  (tags: video news war archives creativecommons aljazeera)
   
• Buy ShamWows! Now!
  Turns out the Shamwow guy is an anti-Scientology warrior.
  (tags: religion advertising scientology shamwow)
   
• Dead athletes' brains show damage from concussions - CNN.com
  What my NFB practitioner was saying all along: long-term sequelae of "minor" head injuries are scary.
  (tags: neurology neurofeedback headinjury neuroscience medicine injury)
   
• Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel on Software
  They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.
  (tags: failure software programming softwareengineering management development)
   
• Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury - washingtonpost.com
  The manufacturing process can put mercury in the stuff. Yummy.
  (tags: hfcs via:deusx food poison commerce failure mercury cripes)
   
• Everything You Need to Get Started With CodeIgniter - NETTUTS
  (tags: php codeigniter mvc)
   
• Pinakothek
  (tags: art blog culture literature lucsante)
   
• Camel introduces "Crush" to flavor up cigarette industry - Swagwell [beta]
  Camel Crush is a unique tobacco technology, allowing adult tobacco consumers to smoke a non-menthol product and at any point, squeeze the filter to change the taste experience to menthol.
  (tags: commerce yeesh marketing tobacco)
   
• YouTube - ford gt gtr2
  tom's ford gt car for gtr2
  (tags: friends cars 3d gtr modeling)
   
• N.I.M. Front Door, NIM International Political Lobby, National Independents Movement
  They most emphatically don't want to kill the President, are seriously not racists, are sad that Jews were mistreated without the knowledge of most Germans, and really do accept nonwhites in their organization, as long as they're not felons.
  (tags: failure usa politics obama race psychoceramics nazis fascism webdesign kooks)

• Map of the Market at SmartMoney.com
  
  
  
  (tags: commerce finance visualization markets)
  
  
• Donkeylicious: Nigerian Weregoats And Malaysian Weretigers
  
  
  men who accidently get caught in tiger traps are often regarded with great suspicion, because of concern that they may be weretigers.
  
  
  (tags: religion culture law magic)
  
  
• Language Log » Rational use of Russian bowels
  
  
  Interestingly, the "bowels" document is still on line at the web site of the European Commission.
  
  
  (tags: failure language translation bowels russian)
  
  
• BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom
  
  
  US researchers deployed a laboratory version of a male sea lamprey pheromone to trick ovulating females into swimming upstream into traps.
  
  
  (tags: sex news science environment fish lampreys)
  
  
• Comedy Chart
  
  
  Flowchart of standup comedy, accurate.
  
  
  (tags: visualization ha entertainment cliches comedy flowchart tropes)
  
  
• Pacific NW | The Game | Seattle Times Newspaper
  
  
  Rich nerds play an extreme puzzle game. Extremeness results in real world hell. Someone should have read Fowles' The Magus first.
  
  
  (tags: failure risks law nerds game larp affluenza)