Dave Duchene

"Sergeant Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:29:35 -0800

“Sergeant Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted from her car, yanked her pistol out and shot at Major Hasan. He turned on her and began to fire. She ran toward him, continuing to fire, and both she and Major Hasan went down with several bullet wounds, Mr. Medley said.”

- Highly Trained Sergeant Brought Down Gunman - NYTimes.com

"It should come as no surprise that those at the top of the food chain get preferential treatment on..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:09 -0800

“It should come as no surprise that those at the top of the food chain get preferential treatment on all levels. But this still stinks to high heaven. Employees of the Goldman, the Fed, Citigroup, and other banks are getting H1N1 vaccine allotments out of proportion to what can be justified from a public health standpoint. In particular, Goldman has gotten more than Lenox HIll hospital, which needs it not just for the sick but more important, for workers (not only does the public need to keep front-line health care workers in as good shape as possible, but if they get the infection, they become disease vectors fast, given the number of people they see).”

- Goldman, Fed, Citi Getting Preferential Allotments of H1N1 Vaccine « naked capitalism

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:55:00 -0800

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats: Shutterbug Friday #7:Dmitri Baltermants (Part One: The Big Red Army in Action!)

"Of course! This language of Lego isn’t just something our family has invented; every Lego-building..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:01 -0800

“Of course! This language of Lego isn’t just something our family has invented; every Lego-building family must have its own vocabulary. And the words they use (mostly invented by the children, not the adults) are likely to be different every time. But how different? And what sort of words? Hence, a survey. I asked fellow parents to donate their children for a few minutes, and name a selection of Lego pieces culled from the Lego parts store. Our small, international cast (half Brits, half Americans) is made up of four children. First, my seven-year-old son Barney, who surveyed the list as if it was another piece of homework. His friend, Jem, also seven, went through the list and then wanted to do it again. Five-and-a-half-year-old Max didn’t hesitate to name every piece. Six-year-old Raimi often builds spaceships, but has never referred to the pieces by name, until prompted by his father—at which point he revealed that he possessed names for all of them in his head.”

- A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News

"As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:54 -0800

““As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office,” Obama said of the author of Watchmen and From Hell, whom he reportedly chose over others on a short list of potential biographers that included Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Bob Woodward.”

- Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:33:15 -0800

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Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:23:03 -0800

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"Our regulators recognized the extreme risks of the sub-prime and non-traditional mortgage products..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:34 -0800

“Our regulators recognized the extreme risks of the sub-prime and non-traditional mortgage products and they failed to exercise their authority and curtail the banking industry’s careless lending practices. Instead, the Regulators chose to merely issue guidance letters to the banking institutions in 2005 and then again in 2006.”

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"By giving dogs language learning and other tests devised for infants and toddlers, Dr. Coren has..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:12:36 -0800

“By giving dogs language learning and other tests devised for infants and toddlers, Dr. Coren has come up with an intelligence ranking of 100 breeds, with border collies at No. 1. He says the most intelligent breeds (poodles, retrievers, Labradors and shepherds) can learn as many as 250 words, signs and signals, while the others can learn 165. The average dog is about as intellectually advanced as a 2- to 2-and-a-half-year-old child, he has concluded, with an ability to understand some abstract concepts. For example, the animal can get “the idea of being a dog” by differentiating photographs with dogs in them from photographs without dogs.”

- Good Dog, Smart Dog - NYTimes.com

"Her diaries from that time, while she worked as a receptionist and an extra, lay out the Nietzschean..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:13:22 -0800

“Her diaries from that time, while she worked as a receptionist and an extra, lay out the Nietzschean mentality that underpins all her later writings. The newspapers were filled for months with stories about serial killer called William Hickman, who kidnapped a 12-year-old girl called Marion Parker from her junior high school, raped her, and dismembered her body, which he sent mockingly to the police in pieces. Rand wrote great stretches of praise for him, saying he represented “the amazing picture of a man with no regard whatsoever for all that a society holds sacred, and with a consciousness all his own. A man who really stands alone, in action and in soul. … Other people do not exist for him, and he does not see why they should.” She called him “a brilliant, unusual, exceptional boy,” shimmering with “immense, explicit egotism.” Rand had only one regret: “A strong man can eventually trample society under its feet. That boy [Hickman] was not strong enough.””

- Two biographies of Ayn Rand. - By Johann Hari - Slate Magazine

"Other times, we ask people to pay attention to the wrong things. Though the efforts some..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:52:35 -0800

“Other times, we ask people to pay attention to the wrong things. Though the efforts some contrarians’ make to discredit local food verge on the absurd, the fact remains that food miles are not the most important measurement of food system sustainability. Perhaps more importantly, some observers’ suggest that local food often serves as a substitute for systemic engagement in movements to change agricultural systems at the largest levels, and I think there;s truth there. Certainly, many of us have a tendency to engage in iconic consumption, without really examining the entirety of our impact and whether our time and money might best be spent trying to effect change in some other way.”

- Worldchanging: Bright Green: The Revolution Will Not Be Hand-Made: A Quick Sunday-Morning Rant

"Less than free” may not stop with the mobile phone. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has been quite..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:47:57 -0800

““Less than free” may not stop with the mobile phone. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has been quite outspoken about his support for the Google Chrome OS. And there is no reason to believe that the “less than free” business model will not be used here as well. If Sony or HP or Dell builds a netbook based on Chrome OS, they will make money on every search each user initiates. Google, eager to protect its search share and market volume, will gladly pay the ad splits. Microsoft, who already was forced to lower Windows netbook pricing to fend off Linux, will be dancing with a business model inversion of epic proportion – from “you pay me” to “I pay you.” It’s really hard to build a compensation package for your sales team on those economics.”

- Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com

"To illustrate this point, he shared an anecdote. In the 1980s, when Copenhagen was experiencing a..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:34:08 -0800

“To illustrate this point, he shared an anecdote. In the 1980s, when Copenhagen was experiencing a boom in bicycling, city officials worried that too many people were riding on the busy main streets. “They thought, we’ve got to stop that, it’s not safe.” Their solution was to direct bike traffic to the backstreet by building high-quality cycle tracks through neighborhoods. The problem was that the neighborhood routes meant people had to ride 10-15 minutes out of their way to get from a to b. The result? No one used them. “It was a flop. So, the city shrugged and went, ‘fine, we’ll put them on the main streets’”. Mayor Adams and Colville-Andersen
took questions.
The lesson, says Colville-Andersen, is that planners should put bicycle infrastructure where people actually want to go, not where engineers think they should go.”

- BikePortland.org » Blog Archive » Want to be like Copenhagen? Think about vacuum cleaners and raging bulls

"Wagers rolled in. The bet turned into a contest: one soldier popped open a couple dozen Rip Its and..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:32:57 -0800

“Wagers rolled in. The bet turned into a contest: one soldier popped open a couple dozen Rip Its and lined them up on an MRAP’s rear ramp. The first drinker to reach six would be the winner. What would he win? Well, nothing, really. Winning wasn’t really the point. Three contestants took their marks. A medic hovered nearby. He advised frequent belching to relieve any gas build-up, but didn’t seem too concerned about the overdose of caffeine. Ready, set, go! Drink. Belch. Drink. Belch. It was a chorus of burps on an otherwise silent desert night. Empty cans flew in all directions. Spectators laughed and groaned. I recorded the “music” on my iPod. At the 2:38 mark, one soldier downed his sixth Rip It, to be declared the victor. Fifteen minutes later, he vomited explosively on the sand.”

- War Is Boring

"I guess that’s a very long winded answer but in the 60s would there have been such popularity for..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:35:26 -0700

“I guess that’s a very long winded answer but in the 60s would there have been such popularity for Martin Luther King if there hadn’t been other people further over like the Black Panthers and Malcolm X, who were defining the edge of the civil rights movement. So in order for white people to embrace Martin Luther King they needed some people further over who – other voices that enabled them to determine where they could find accessible middle ground.”

- The Yes Men Meet The Dead Living: My Interview With Mike Bonanno - Night of the Dead Living

"402. If you aren’t hungry enough to eat an apple, you aren’t hungry."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:04:27 -0700

“402. If you aren’t hungry enough to eat an apple, you aren’t hungry.”

- 1001 rules for my unborn son - 402. If you aren’t hungry enough to eat an apple, you aren’t hungry.

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:03:48 -0700

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"Meanwhile, the ant whose escape from the sugar bowl had been witnessed by Mary at the pre-wedding..."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:18:09 -0700

“Meanwhile, the ant whose escape from the sugar bowl had been witnessed by Mary at the pre-wedding dinner was struggling to return the sugar he had collected to his colony. Everywhere he turned, his path was blocked by puddles, the same puddles which had previously dampened the hem of Lisa’s wedding dress, although of course the ant didn’t know anything about that, being not only peripheral to proceedings and not an official guest at the function, but an ant.
Elsewhere, the builder who had been subcontracted to remodel the stables of the stately home in which Lisa’s wedding was taking place was preparing to tuck into a well-earned packed lunch. Being on the other side of the estate from the wedding party, he was unaware that the ham he had in his sandwiches was roughly the same colour as the centre of the chicken breasts currently being served to the wedding guests and would remain unaware of the events unfolding in the dining hall even as several aunts hurled and retched into the dahlias.”

- How To Write Badly Well

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:58:41 -0700

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"Koh: I’m too scared to find out. I’m probably going to get in big trouble if I open it..."

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:00:59 -0700

“

Koh: I’m too scared to find out. I’m probably going to get in big trouble if I open it after leaving her alone for several weeks. Maybe she’s dead now. That would be scary.

Yurie: Does that happen?

Koh: I don’t think so . But remember Tamagochi? They used to die if you didn’t feed them.

Yurie: Oh yeah. That would be kind of bittersweet.

”

- Advisor: My husband has a virtual girlfriend - Boing Boing

Dave Duchene

"Sergeant Munley — a woman with a fierce love of hunting, surfing and other outdoor sports — bolted..."

"It should come as no surprise that those at the top of the food chain get preferential treatment on..."

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There’d Be a Whole Lot...

"Of course! This language of Lego isn’t just something our family has invented; every Lego-building..."

"As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical..."

We Are Douchebags. (via slickgigolo1)

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"Our regulators recognized the extreme risks of the sub-prime and non-traditional mortgage products..."

"By giving dogs language learning and other tests devised for infants and toddlers, Dr. Coren has..."

"Her diaries from that time, while she worked as a receptionist and an extra, lay out the Nietzschean..."

"Other times, we ask people to pay attention to the wrong things. Though the efforts some..."

"Less than free” may not stop with the mobile phone. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has been quite..."

"To illustrate this point, he shared an anecdote. In the 1980s, when Copenhagen was experiencing a..."

"Wagers rolled in. The bet turned into a contest: one soldier popped open a couple dozen Rip Its and..."

"I guess that’s a very long winded answer but in the 60s would there have been such popularity for..."

"402. If you aren’t hungry enough to eat an apple, you aren’t hungry."

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"Meanwhile, the ant whose escape from the sugar bowl had been witnessed by Mary at the pre-wedding..."

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"Koh: I’m too scared to find out. I’m probably going to get in big trouble if I open it..."

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