April 9, 2012

The last story in this clip made me cry:

(even if you don't like GMA OR teevee just take in the stories)
http://tinyurl.com/73b6f6a

Wish more people were like Marcus.

April 9, 2012

200,000 Titanic-related records are published online (available free until 5/31/2012)

More than 200,000 records relating to the Titanic have been published online to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking on 15 April.

The documents provide information about survivors and the 1,500 people who died, including a number of wills and hundreds of coroner inquest files.

The collection has been gathered by the subscription-based family history website Ancestry.co.uk.
However, access to the Titanic records collection is free until 31 May 2012.

The Titanic, which was built in Belfast, sank in the Atlantic Ocean after hitting an iceberg during its maiden voyage to New York.

The records include the ship's official passenger list, which shows the names, ages and occupations of those on board the ill-fated liner.

It also details the nationalities, positions and addresses of the ship's crew which had more than 900 members.
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More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17650525

FYI

April 9, 2012

Blue Ball Machine - this should keep some occupied:

http://blueballmachineoriginal.ytmnd.com/

If you are stoned, you might look at this until the end of time.

April 9, 2012

Watch Bubba Watson leave The Masters neanderthal Billy Payne hanging:

LOL!
People are saying this was an accident. I'm not so sure. His wife payed BB at UGA and in the WNBA. Maybe she said a thing or two about their no-women policy.
Couldn't happen to a bigger asshole.

April 8, 2012

The Talk: What Parents Tell Their Children About John Derbyshire (great re-write)

One of the many national conversations that has followed the killing of Trayvon Martin focuses on "the talk" that many black parents give their sons. The New York Times summarized "the talk" as about "what it means to be a black teenager in a country with a history of regarding young black men as a threat" and "about standing up straight, dressing the part, keeping your hands in sight at all times and never, ever letting your anger get the best of you."

John Derbyshire, a long-time writer at National Review (which fired him over the piece, though he's been writing similar articles for at least 11 years) and other conservative publications, wants us to know that it's not just black Americans who should worry about their children's racial interactions in our white-majority society. "There is a talk that nonblack Americans have with their kids, too," he writes in a much-discussed piece in an online publication called Taki's Magazine.
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Maybe, then, it's time for a new version of "the talk," one that parents of any skin color can give their children that warns of the dangers of racism and, yes, of racists. I don't have any children on whom to develop such a "talk," so rather than take the pains to construct it from scratch, I've used Derbyshire's as the basis. Here is his actual 15-point talk, modified (and, let's be clear about this: satirized) as a new 15-pointer for parents who want to tell children about racism in America.

(1) Among your fellow citizens are an unknown number who believe that certain human races are inherently or superior than others. Most likely, these beliefs manifest in ideas that people of certain races are "just different," and that these differences just so happen to provide easy assumptions about the merit or quality of a person of one race or another.

(2) Americans are descended from people from every corner of the globe. The circumstances of their arrival vary widely, part of why their treatment and status once they arrived also varied.

(3) Your ancestry is cause for celebration no matter where your family's origins, but racists will take it to be a determinant of your personality, abilities, and worth as a human being.
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more: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/04/the-talk-what-parents-tell-their-children-about-john-derbyshire/255578/


Ha!
That nails it!

April 8, 2012

Tweet about Tim Tebow and his sermon today: HA!

Michelle Beadle (@MichelleDBeadle)
4/8/12 11:53 AM
Preach! RT @RoFloESPN
Tim Tebow speaking at church outside Austin where it's expected that he will complete 46.5% of the #Easter sermon

I barely missed spewing my kitteh when I read this.
(Tebow completed only 46.5% of his passes which is pitiful)

April 8, 2012

Dilbert explains sexuality in the 21st century:

Ha!

Will groups now be LGBTD?

April 8, 2012

Relating the Easter Story in the 21st century:

Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN)
4/8/12 10:02 AM
This church just ran an entire Twitter-themed Easter story video. Peter denies Christ by clicking unfollow. I'm not kidding

This is the church, but I didn't want to sign up.
http://tinyurl.com/cene3g8

Unfollow?

April 8, 2012

A Friendship Dating to 1976 Resonates in 2012- Mitt and Bibi

The two young men had woefully little in common: one was a wealthy Mormon from Michigan, the other a middle-class Jew from Israel.

But in 1976, the lives of Mitt Romney and Benjamin Netanyahu intersected, briefly but indelibly, in the 16th-floor offices of the Boston Consulting Group, where both had been recruited as corporate advisers. At the most formative time of their careers, they sized each other up during the firm's weekly brainstorming sessions, absorbing the same profoundly analytical view of the world.

That shared experience decades ago led to a warm friendship, little known to outsiders, that is now rich with political intrigue. Mr. Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is making the case for military action against Iran as Mr. Romney, the likely Republican presidential nominee, is attacking the Obama administration for not supporting Mr. Netanyahu more robustly.

The relationship between Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Romney -- nurtured over meals in Boston, New York and Jerusalem, strengthened by a network of mutual friends and heightened by their conservative ideologies -- has resulted in an unusually frank exchange of advice and insights on topics like politics, economics and the Middle East.
more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/a-friendship-dating-to-1976-resonates-in-2012-630396/

Who knew?

April 8, 2012

10 Crazy And Unusual Book Designs

A special edition edible cookbook from German design firm Korefe and Gerstenberg Publishing, the recipes are printed on fresh pasta pages that can be baked into a delicious lasagna.
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Even though these books were only distributed as a direct marketing idea to promote the movie The Jungle Book 2 in Spain, we think they’re pretty phenomenal. We wonder what’s inside.
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The Mechanical Word is a five volume series of mechanical books designed by Karen Bleitz with poetry by Richard Price. Readers turn the cranks to interact with the poems and “reveal the forces hidden within the constructs of communication.”
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This edition of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Imp of the Perverse,” designed by Helen Friel, must be destroyed to be properly read. Friel explains, “‘The Imp of the Perverse’ discusses the voice inside all of us that makes us to do things we know we shouldn’t do. Each page is perforated in a grid system with sections of the text missing. Readers must follow the simple instructions to tear and fold specific sections to reveal the missing text. Books are usually precious objects and the destruction is engineered to give the reader conflicting feelings, do they keep the book in it’s perfect untorn form? Or give into the imp and enjoy tearing it apart?”
More: http://flavorwire.com/277657/10-crazy-and-unusual-book-designs?all=1

Fascinating....