April 2010
13 posts
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint
Powerpoint makes my day to day job pretty miserable but to think that the U.S. military uses the same dumb slides and bullet points to make major decisions is unsettling.
I hope they don’t get all geeked up and use stupid custom animations.
“PowerPoint makes us stupid,” Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in...
Watch Sewers of Bogota | Bogota, Colombia’s most inhabited sewers.
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Try to complain about your cushy life after watching this video. Learn about Children and entire families living in the sewers of Columbia trying desperately to avoid death squads sent to kill them.
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made...”
– Hunter Stockton Thompson
How Did That False Amy Mickelson-Michael Jordan... →
The dregs of the internet tend to capitalize on trending topics by linking and re-linking to forum troll rumor mongering. It’s just the dark side of The Google.
Calvin and Hobbes On War
all-thats-interesting:
To young players, playing time is oxygen →
Coaches also make owners look stupid by benching the guys making the big bucks. And if there are any high draft picks around, it’s inevitable that the front office will want them to play, too.
…players drafted in the lottery earn more minutes than their production suggests they should. And this is not just true when they’re rookies, but for years after the draft.
Something...
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's... →
The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I’m here to stop it ever happening.”
Newark Battles Murder and Its Accomplice, Silence
Chilling NY Times story on the violence and apathy in Newark, NJ. Right across the Hudson…