February 2012
76 posts
How Waiters Read Your Table →
Cat-like reflexes
animalsbeingdicks:
There’s an old saying in Tennessee, I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…You can’t get fooled again.
“I’m 34, and I’m pretty self confident, and still, walking down the street in a...”
– Amanda Palmer (via silverchloride)
Feds Argue Using a Fake Name Can Deprive You of... →
Does using a fake name diminish your Fourth Amendment rights? http://t.co/JDMCVx4w
Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be 'For'... →
Online surveillance and logical fallacies - http://t.co/i5uZvYVs The comments are absolutely dead on.
75MB of DHS training materials on phone... →
Via FOIA: 75MB of zipped DHS training materials on seizure and surveillance of phones. http://t.co/tmocf3rB
Vic Toews wants to spy on underage children →
epic4chan:
Vic Toews has introduced oppressive Internet spying legislation in Canada under the usual bullshit lie about protecting children.
He has said that people which appose this spying are standing “with the child pornographers”, attempting to create a vicious false dichotomy in the hope of leaving no room for a balanced and logical approach.
Help protest this insanity with a Google...
What’s wrong with Capitalism? →
Nothing. It’s still the best way of running an economy. The trouble is, it’s not what we have […].
What we have is Executivism.
In Capitalism, the rewards of business flow to the providers of capital, the owners. In Executivism, this flow is intercepted by the executives that have been hired to run the businesses.
BINGO
Nevada police beat the hell out of man immobilized... →
Here’s footage of the police in Henderson, NV beating the crap out of Adam Greene, a man immobilized diabetic shock whom the police have mistaken for a drunk driver. The police point guns at him, pull him from the car, throw him to the ground, pile on him, and one officer, Sgt. Brett Seekatz begins to kick him over and over again, while someone screams “do not resist,...
Happy Valentine’s Day
animalsbeingdicks:
Taking a break from all the animal dickery. Look at these animals being precious.
Facebook privacy in employment and getting fired →
Court invokes notion of “contextual integrity” to evaluate social media user’s online behavior.
A woman’s body is a beautiful work of art... →
veganeurotica:
xporcelaindoll:
A woman’s body is a beautiful work of art, & it is her choice & her choice alone how much skin she wishes to show. Dehumanizing a woman & labeling her a “slut” or “whore” with no morals based on that choice is not a negative reflection on her, but on the bigot who is judging her.
Um wut? Here are three ways that...
GULLZILLA
animalsbeingdicks:
Always the consummate professional, News anchor Brock Samson never let on how truly terrified he was that his city was being devastated by a gigantic Seagull.
Peanuts
mrgan:
Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts. Ingredients: peanuts, sea salt, spices (contains celery), dried onion, dried garlic, paprika, natural flavor, sugar, gelatin, torula yeast, cornstarch, dried corn syrup, maltodextrin.
Planters Dry Roasted Lightly Salted Peanuts. Ingredients: peanuts, sea salt, maltodextrin, cornstarch, corn syrup solids.
Planters Cocktail Peanuts. Ingredients: peanuts,...
Honeywell Goes After Nest Learning Thermostat for... →
So depressing. It’d be one thing if Honeywell had an even vaguely Nest-like product to defend. But they don’t. And how did they get a patent for this:
U.S. Patent No. 7,634,504 - this patent was filed in 2006 (issued 2009) and covers displaying grammatically complete sentences while programming a thermostat.
Honeywell sues Nest for patent infringement –... →
Honeywell makes crappy, ugly thermostats. They’re the market leader, but they’ve been sitting on their asses, not doing much. So thermostat innovation and design has been pretty stagnant for years.
Nest’s is by far the most innovative thermostat we’ve seen for a long time, but it looks like they’re going to have a lot of problems with these Honeywell patents, which will probably impair...