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The Humble Origin Bundle8 triumphant games. Pay what you want and get the terrifying sci-fi horror third person shooter Dead Space 3; the original bone-chilling horror shooter Dead Space; the intense action-packed supersoldier shooter Crysis 2 Maximum ( Read more... )

Why I would rather work for the yakuza than National Geographic Television. Of all the people in the world to piss off, these guys wouldn't be top of my list.

Check this out: 2011 Beale Street Music Festival lineup. A three day pass is $69 plus Ticketbastard fees; I'm pretty sure around here the Flaming Lips alone would cost more than that.

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Universal Health Care
Because one day, seriously, it is actually going to be lupus

Shirt on sale through the end of the week, found via mrph.

This court smackdown of Completely Batshit Crazy birther Orly Taitz is absolutely hysterical.

Sample:
Her argument that she should have been given more time to respond before the Court issued its ruling, when she had requested the expedited consideration, is so shockingly devoid of reality that it is difficult to know how to respond.

I feel somewhat relieved to know, based on comments, that I was not the only person in tears at the end of yuki_onna's post: Two Kinds of Love

Preliminary Analysis of Voting Figures in Iran's 2009 Presidential Election (Chatham House PDF file, via fivethirtyeight.com)

Executive Summary
Working from the province by province breakdowns of the 2009 and 2005 results, released by the Iranian Ministry of Interior, and from the 2006 census as published by the official Statistical Centre of Iran ( Read more... )

From the blog:

Bookslut needs to restock some columnists: if you're interested in covering cookbooks, poetry, science fiction, or comic books (or have another idea you're interested in) please e-mail Caroline with a letter of interest and writing samples.

A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of programming languages

1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.

1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.

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Gilt Groupe is having a one-day sale on some Smashbox items, averaging more than half off list. It's an invite-only website, so you can use this link if you want to check it out. (Full disclosure: it's my referral link, and I get a kickback if you sign up and eventually buy something.) I keep checking it out for the shoes and accessories, ( Read more... )