Archive for January, 2012:

Depressed Real Estate Market? Not in N. Dakota

The oil boom in western North Dakota has created thousands of new oil-related jobs in the state, and has also generated thousands of spillover jobs throughout the entire state.  North Dakota’s oil prosperity has kept the state’s jobless rate below 4% for the last 20 months, and below 1% in Williams County, at the epicenter [...]

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Analysts Debunk Rumor That iPhone 4S Is Influencing Competitor Launch Dates

Digitimes has reported that Samsung, HTC, LG and Nokia are launching new smartphones in Q2 2012 instead of Q1 in order to avoid direct competition from Apple’s iPhone 4S. Analysts, however, tell us that the product roadmaps of these companies aren’t being influenced by Apple’s runaway success. Go to Source

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Neil Young Trumpets High-Quality Digital Music, With Steve Jobs’ Blessing

Neil Young shared his thoughts on the state of digital music at the D: Dive Into Media conference on Tuesday, fiercely arguing his point: Quality needs to return to the music industry. Go to Source

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Occupiers Throw Condoms At Catholic School Girls

Group of Occupy Wall Street protesters interrupts a Right to Life rally held at the Rhode Island state capitol building DC Police Enforce Sleeping Ban for Occupy Protesters Occupy Protest Rekindles Debate About Flag-Burning Muslims, Atheists Pressure US Military to Remove Christian Speaker at West Point Go to Source

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Monster in the Classroom: Child-Sex Case Rocks LA

Horrific acts of abuse allegedly committed by 61-year-old teacher Mark Berndt against kids as young as 6 Court Papers Reportedly Say Former Syracuse Hoops Coach’s Wife Regularly Had Sex With Players Judge Won’t Lower Bond for Mom of Missing South Carolina Boy Go to Source

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Parting Shot

Verizon’s never-ending war with graffiti continues in the East Village and it appears they’ve enlisted city-paid powerwashers who ran out of that particular shade of brown. (Photo: E.V. Grieve) Go to Source

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David Shrigley’s Big Solo ‘Brain Activity’ at the Hayward Gallery

David Shrigley is a fucked up gentleman in the most wonderful way and frankly, I’m obsessed with him. He’s really an artist, but it all bleeds into genres of animation and books and his big upcoming solo show at the Hayward Gallery is better previewed by this trailer. There’s some choice sculptures below too, but [...]

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Oh Gosh, Nyan Cat.

Dear Nyan Cat, why were you created? I just listened to the entire song and it was so annoying! Please, if you make another song, don’t ever say “Nyan” again.  I meant what I wrote. I’m surprised I didn’t throw the computer at my wall! And does anyone know why Nyan Cat has the shape [...]

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Don’t Put A Cloudy Day Down

Here’s the thingie… Making your dreams real consists of mostly very plain moments on sometimes cloudy days… …making calls, getting enough sleep, returning emails. And when you find yourself living your dream life -> it’ll be on plain cloudy days too. No drum roll’s gonna happen. You just hafta do the to-do list till its [...]

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Office Work (Mind Numbing-ly Amusing)

It takes a special kind of person to work in an office.  (If you work in a fun one) It takes a special kind of humor, tolerance, and patience.  I’ve worked in a few offices over the past 7 years, not all of them were fun. The hospital wasn’t bad, the women I worked immediately [...]

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