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Archive for September, 2008

Credit Card Companies Gagged Mythbusters Over RFID Vulnerabilities?

2nd September 2008

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I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

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My Campaign-Season Pledge

2nd September 2008

Arnold Kling understands the dialectic.

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Walking stick wielding passer by stops samurai sword attack

2nd September 2008

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Some times the old ways are best.

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Israeli and Palestinian ‘Romeo and Juliet’ fall out amid accusations of betrayal

2nd September 2008

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Saw that coming.

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World’s fastest train destroys archaeological site in Nanjing, China

2nd September 2008

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Yang Qinghua, the vice-director of the Cultural Heritage Bureau, asked for the route of the train to be changed. But the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway company, which is in charge of the project, refused, citing its “national importance”.

The city therefore instructed the company to pay five million yuan (£410,000) to excavate the site fully before beginning work.

“These precious cultural relics absolutely must be excavated before construction continues,” said Mr Yang. “The site contains eight levels of cultural relics dating back through Chinese history. You can’t just ignore them.”

However, the company never replied and simply proceeded with the construction, destroying around 20,000 sq ft of the site in the process.

Why, those greedy capitalist bastards…. Oh, wait….

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On-going human evolution for spoken language?

2nd September 2008

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Wouldn’t surprise me. There is increasingly strong evidence that human evolution has continued and may perhaps have even speeded up during historical time.

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Sound of sports car engine ‘arouses women’

2nd September 2008

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And you can believe as much or as little of that as you choose to.

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Tribal Fertility Totem Elicits Strong Emotions

2nd September 2008

Steve Sailer is always worth reading, although he sometimes picks a tangent that heads off into a higher-order dimension.

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Cheated girlfriends take YouTube revenge

1st September 2008

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Of course, that’s only effective if the boy in question worries about what’s on YouTube.

In which case, he’s a total loser and deserves a little humiliation — good practice for the rest of his life.

Personally, I think these girls ought to thank God that they’re rid of these losers.

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How to Jumpstart the Economy – Tax Free Small Businesses

1st September 2008

Mark Cuban has an idea. Thanks, Roy.

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The art of the (non-) apology

1st September 2008

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Tell me you haven’t been in this sort of situation.

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The idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth. An instructor at a “college of last resort” explains why.

1st September 2008

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Space-age Hitachi refrigerators spray your eats with antioxidants

1st September 2008

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There is something deeply disturbing about this….

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