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Slow mo dogs

Mar 3, 2010 12:09pm

This is an ad for Pedigree, a supermarket dog food brand, and it features a series of mesmerizing slow-motion images of dogs jumping, shaking, and catching treats. The director shot it using a Phantom camera at 1,000fps. Permalink | Leave a comment » ...

Military Wisdom

Mar 2, 2010 2:47pm

"If the enemy is in range, so are you." — Infantry Journal "It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed." — US Air Force Manual "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword, obviously never encountered automatic weapons." —...

Information Overload

Mar 2, 2010 6:34am

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Wait for it

Mar 1, 2010 1:11pm

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We got Two Feet of Snow

Feb 28, 2010 2:04pm

http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/two-feet-of-snow/http://www.worleygig.com/2010/02/new-york-city-gets-two-feet-of-snow/http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/26/two-feet-of-snow/ Permalink | Leave a comment » ...

30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money

Feb 27, 2010 6:11am

http://moneymumbojumbo.co.uk/fun-articles/30-bizarre-examples-of-defacing-money Take a look at 30 of the most awesome samples of defacing money below: 1. Tron Lincoln – AmericanSource 2. Boba Fett Dollar – AmericanSource 3. Sparta $ – AmericanSource 4. Iraq Dollar – AmericanSource 5. Tron – CanadianSource 6. Donnie Darko Rabbit...

The Elephant in the Room

Feb 26, 2010 1:23pm

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Decision to Stop Making Hummers Saddens Assholes

Feb 25, 2010 4:05pm

Douchebags Seek New Way to Compensate for Tiny Penises DETROIT (The Borowitz Report) – General Motors’ decision yesterday to stop manufacturing Hummers has struck at the heart of the group who loved the vehicles most: America’s assholes.Across the nation, leading assholes spoke of a sense of loss and sadness caused by...

WSJ: Must Read Wall Street Blogs

Feb 25, 2010 7:13am

nice comments from the WSJ today . . . Ten Wall Street Blogs You Need To Bookmark Now http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704240004575085901098514146.html Every addict has to have his or her fix, and for Wall Street junkies obsessed with bonuses, bailouts and beta,...

How genetics works

Feb 24, 2010 8:36pm

How genetics worksAs information visualizations go, you can't get much better than this. Permalink | Leave a comment » ...

HELLO OPERATOR

Feb 22, 2010 8:18am

Actual call center conversations! Customer: 'I've been calling 700-1000 for two days and can't get through; can you help?' Operator: 'Where did you get that number, sir?' Customer: 'It's on the door of the business.' Operator: 'Sir, those are the hours that...

HOOVER DAM BYPASS BRIDGE

Feb 19, 2010 3:39am

http://www.hooverdambypass.org/Latest photos of the arch in various stages of completion.Creeping closer inch by inch, 900 feet above the mighty Colorado River, the two sides of a $160 million bridge at the Hoover Dam slowly take shape.The bridge will carry a new section of US Route 93 past the bottleneck of...

Funny Signs

Feb 19, 2010 3:30am

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Clean can be funny

Feb 19, 2010 3:28am

One day, a man came home and was greeted by his wife dressed in a very Sexy nightie. 'Tie me up,' she purred, 'and you can do anything you want.' So he tied her up and went golfing.-------------------------------------------------- * A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the...

Forgotten photos

Feb 17, 2010 12:24pm

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Thaler, Mullainathan, Kahneman on Behavioral Economics

Feb 17, 2010 10:33am

...There's new technology emerging from behavioral economics and we are just starting to make use of that. I thought the input of psychology into economics was finished but clearly it's not! (Kahneman)Class 1 LIBERTARIAN PATERNALISM: WHY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO NUDGE (Thaler)Class 2 IMPROVING...