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Vietnam destiny
Found this crazy story over at Monkeyfilter about a Vietnam vet who met up, through a series of highly impossible yet seemingly predetermined events, with the daughter of a man…
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PETARDED
PETA doesn’t like fishmongers tossing fish at the Pike Place Fish Market PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted a fly on live TV PETA needs to hurry up and merge with…
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DMFTW
The new Danger Mouse album is going to turn the record industry on its head – mark my words, this is the tipping point.
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Banning “Dzongkha” – Microsoft hates the Dalai Lama and Bhutan, but Loves Chinese Money!
Oh, Microsoft! In October 2005, an internal Microsoft proposal blocked the term “Dzongkha” from all company software and promotional material, substituting the term “Tibetan – Bhutan” instead. The International Campaign…
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Asymmetrical warfare
An interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell over at the New Yorker that sort of reads like an inspirational speech: How David Beats Goliath
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Jared Diamond sued by alleged pig thief
Natives Telling Stories I heard about this last week but I thought it was an anthropologist’s joke.
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Better Place
I’ve been through a lot of the archives, and Shai Agassi probably gave the single most important talk at TED this year:
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Successful Ambush
Turning Tables, U.S. Troops Ambush Taliban With Swift and Lethal Results “Sergeant Reese gave his rifle to another sniper to cover him while he tried to cut away a Taliban…
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Russian dogs ride the subway
They live in the suburbs and commute to the city to scam, eat, and live another day. The Japanese wish they’d thought of it first.
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good or bad?
Philippine fishermen net and eat rare megamouth shark My initial reaction when I read the headline was that of disgust, but I guess the main question is whether the animal…
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Forgetting babies in cars
Over at the Washington Post: Forgetting a child in the back seat of a hot, parked car is a horrifying, inexcusable mistake. But is it a crime? It’s kind of…
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3/13 link roundup
Monkey gets revenge on owner who forced him to climb trees for coconuts… The punchline is in the second half of the title, which is why I cut it off.…
