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Goodbye Blue Mondays

...a website that allows users to find which guns were featured in certain movies, television series, video games, and anime, as well as contribute to the site in a wiki format.

Of course I’m a sucker for the Featured Quotes on the main page:

Staff Sergeant Matt Eversmann (Josh Hartnett): Conserve your ammo, only shoot at what you can hit.—Black Hawk Down

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Forever’s Not So Long from garrettmurray on Vimeo.

Here is a little short video called “Forever is not too long”.  It won some awards, it is liked by critics.  Blah blah blah.  Basically it is the story of the hipster apocalypse and it reminded me of some of you guys.  You know who you are!

You can use these for more than just drinking beer out of, which is nice.

Full instructions here.  Don’t cut yourself C’More!

A Way with Words is a lively hour-long public radio show about the English language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett take calls from listeners about linguistic disputes, grammatical pet peeves, the origins of words and phrases, and curious regional expressions. Martha and Grant also do battle with quiz guys from the National Puzzlers’ League.

What makes this show a bit magical is that each shows theme is made up as people call in describing different origins of words and phrases. Sometimes you didn’t know you’ve been curious about an expression until someone else mentions it.

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Check out the YouTube of its press release.

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The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and more than 800 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between members of the Uighur ethnic group and Han Chinese.

The casualty toll, if confirmed, would make this the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in many years.

The rioting broke out Sunday afternoon in a large market area of Urumqi, the capital of the vast, restive desert region of Xinjiang, and lasted for several hours before riot police officers and paramilitary or military troops locked down the Uighur quarter of the city, according to witnesses and photographs of the riot.

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Zombie Alert Raised 1 Level today.

Hide your kids!

Now with video. 

And this awesome article

Edit:  Now With YouTube link

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Tactical Corset from BarCampLA 2009 from sean percival on Vimeo.

I will still buy it anyway. 

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Link to read 1984 online for free

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre (referred to in China as the June 4 Incident, to avoid confusion with two other Tiananmen Square protests) were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) beginning on April 14. Led mainly by students and intellectuals, the protests occurred in a year that saw the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world.
The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market, pro-democracy and anti-corruption official, Hu Yaobang, whom protesters wanted to mourn. By the eve of Hu’s funeral, 1,000,000 people had gathered on the Tiananmen square. The protests lacked a unified cause or leadership; participants included disillusioned Communist Party members and Trotskyists as well as free market reformers, who were generally against the government’s authoritarianism and voiced calls for economic change [1][2] and democratic reform[2] within the structure of the government. The demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square, in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which remained peaceful throughout the protests.
The movement lasted seven weeks, from Hu’s death on April 15 until tanks cleared Tiananmen Square on June 4. In Beijing, the resulting military response to the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or severely injured. The number of deaths is not known and many different estimates exist.[3][4] There were early reports of Chinese Red Cross sources giving a figure of 2,600 deaths, but the Chinese Red Cross has denied ever doing so.[4] The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.[3]

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Really when you think about it, it is a win win situation.

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Eyreh be afass seder emmak

Even Hillary supporters know.

Looks like the F-35 has some cool tricks.

Painfully obvious? Yes. But Catherine Rampbell has a graph to back it up. It looks like there’s a pretty real correlation between the time people in various countries spend eating and the rate of obesity in that country. That is, the more time people spend eating, the lower the rate of obesity. There’s a slow food endorsement if I’ve ever seen one.

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