Archive for September, 2009:

Markets in Everything: Deeply-Discounted Surgery for Cash, Payable in Advance

The Surgery Center of Oklahoma offers deeply-discounted surgery, payable in advance in cash or cashier’s check, see a sample of prices above (click to enlarge). From the FAQ section:To keep our prices as low as possible, cashier’s checks or cash are the methods preferred. Credit cards and personal checks cannot be accepted. Human resource departments [...]

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$300 DIY Street-View Camera (Car Not Included)

Using eight cheap webcams, a GPS receiver and open-source software, Roy D. Ragsdale built a rig that can do what Google’s Street-View cars do: take images of the world around it and stitch them together into panoramas. The difference? This version can be carried on your head and cost just $300 to make. Go to [...]

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Empire State Goes Red for Communist China, Sparking Protest

Many are seeing red over the decision to turn New York City’s highest beacon –and one of America’s symbols for free enterprise — into a shining monument honoring communist China’s revolution Wednesday night. Go to Source

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Hamas Leader: Palestinian Prisoner Release Being Negotiated

Mahmoud Zahar, the senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said Wednesday that the release of a tape showing that Gilad Shalit was alive was the first stage of a broader deal now being negotiated with Israel on the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Go to Source

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Artist Gores Bernie Madoff With A Bull

In a not so subtle critique of white collar criminality, Chinese artist Chen Wenling constructed a sculpture of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff being violently gored by a gas-powered bull, his animal fetish. “What You See Might Not Be Real,” is on display through October 11th in Wenling’s solo show “Emergency Escape” at Beijing’s Joy Art [...]

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Charting the Future of Public Transportation

This chart detailing the future of public transportation is not as Jetsons as I hoped, but the backpack helicopter is still pretty bad ass. |PSFK| Go to Source

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OMGBLOG

Brendan says (19:53): You should blog. F½~Era @ NITH says (19:54): I was thinking that too. I just didn’t have anything interesting to blog about. Brendan says (19:54): Me ;D You could be like HE WAS LIKE “OMGBLOG” AND I WAS LIKE *ERECT* Brendan says (19:54): Then post it. F½~Era @ NITH says (19:54): Go [...]

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i just gotta say

this whole layoff thing? we are saving one helluva lotta money on gas! booyah! Go to Source

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Humor (Sort of): “Spare the Rod”

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No Free Rides On A Guilt Trip

“No more penance No old books No more preachers Dirty crooks” Kittens when I was a wee lad of 10 years old my dear old pop told me get my ass outside one day because we were going to climb a tree. We had hundreds to choose from in our back yard as I spent [...]

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