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    Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST
    [the] “scaly-foot gastropod has its own tricks. To fight back, it long ago evolved a particularly cool defense structure: It takes the grains of iron sulfide floating in the water around it and incorporates it into the outer layer of its shell. ” I have to agree with the person who posted this: “Beyond awesome. This is Darwinian evolution mixed with, like, Burning Man.”
    Posted: 04 Feb 2010 08:04 AM PST
    “Last December, the government of North Korea unexpectedly revalued its internal currency, the North Korean won, at a rate of 100-to-1 and capped the amounts that residents could exchange old currency at 300,000 won (approx. $90 U.S. on the black market). This effectively wiped out many peoples’ savings and killed the nascent market economy that had begun to emerge after a series of economic reforms starting in July, 2002.” North Korea sucks. Big time.
    Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:57 AM PST
    Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:47 AM PST
    “While it can be argued that correlation does not imply causation, the trends revealed by these statistics, in relation to IQ, impoverishment, divorce, crime and political beliefs seem too consistent to refute.”

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    Link to Delicious/drikoWar and Peace

    Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:43 PM PST
    “War and Peace is a one-button 2-minute game that replicates the major game mechanisms found in Civilization. As in Civilization, you have to choose carefully which technologies you research, when to build up your cities and when to be more aggressive, depending on which kind of victory you’re shooting for (conquest, domination, or spaceship). You just do it with a single button.”
    Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST
    “For those of us who grew up as weird kids in the 1980s, the work of Berkeley Breathed was as important as those twin eternal pillars of weird-kid-dom: Monty Python and Mad magazine. In a word: seminal. In two words: fucking seminal.”
    Posted: 03 Feb 2010 12:22 PM PST
    “Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.”
    Posted: 03 Feb 2010 06:05 AM PST
    Great article on the OV-10 Bronco aircraft…
    Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:23 AM PST
    “avoid misspellings or a bad turn of phrase with After the Deadline’s excellent grammar and spellcheck Firefox extension.” Use F7…

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    Link to Delicious/drikoHowto: Use Google to find MP3s [Raptor Rapture]

    Posted: 31 Jan 2010 09:26 AM PST
    Not too effective, but could be useful as a bookmarklet…
    Posted: 31 Jan 2010 08:53 AM PST
    “The Jedi lose the Clone Wars, bigtime. They not only don’t defeat the robot army, they are all killed. By their OWN TROOPS. Consider that for a moment: this is a show for children about a war which will end with the good guys getting shot in the back by their own soldiers. The fact that a lot of the young fans might not know that doesn’t make it better; arguably, it makes it worse.”
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