Yeah, but the crimes that did happen were yuge. :eyebrow:

Buying Pot in DC
 

This NY Times article about a guy from New Jersey who is selling private jets from his store in London. Kind of long but I found it s fascinating look at dealing with the top 0.0001%.

Confraternity.

Hey, I learned a word.

Confraternity = a group of people who should be in prison. :haha:

UT, thought of you,

Social media is giving us trypophobia

A lot of people are predicting self driving trucks will put a million or more drivers out of work. But some others are saying no, it will make jobs for more drivers.

This is interesting, but time will tell.

Swearing/cursing in Quentin Tarantino movies

That seems like a lot of info on the bad words in his movies.

Are ambulances trucks?

I'd say technically yes, but practically no.

I understand they have special shocks for a smoother ride. Other than that, I would say trucks.

I often wonder why it takes a thirty thousand pound truck to carry three ppl, a resuscitator, an O2 tank, and some band-aids.

You don't have to be into basketball to appreciate Steve francis' story.

The Military Industrial Powerpoint Complex.

A wide variety of powerpoints none of which reveal secrets but are interesting nonetheless. Things like...

This is a very good article on driftwood and the relationship between forests, rivers and the ocean.

I just saw an episode of Blue Planet 2 (excellent) that said that scientists now think that baby sea turtles spend much of their time growing to adulthood on and around a piece of driftwood they find. Without something to rest on, and a source of algae (when they're tiny) or crustaceans/limpets/small fish as they get bigger, they won't live long enough to do open ocean hunting.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary added these words the year I was born. Being during the Big One, WW II, some are expected, but a lot of them like Autism and Garbanzo bean surprised me.

You can check on any year here.

1963

!

:lol:

1967:


aerobics, agroecology, air ball, andropause, anti-marijuana, anti-pot, antisocial personality disorder, Asian carp, assertiveness training, audiocassette, automatic teller machine, b-ball, Beeb, bias-belted tire, bikie, biotech, blue flu, boardsailing, B-school, cannabinoid, cannellini bean, cephalexin, Chicana, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chump change, circular file, cluster bomb, cochair, codec, command sergeant major, conceptual art, crackback, credentialism, cutoff man, DBCP, delocutive, dextromethorphan, dietary supplement, dirtbag, dirty laundry, disintermediation, doobie, dork, DOS, downhiller, echocardiogram, ego trip, eiswein, el cheapo, encounter group, endonucleolytic, estrogen replacement therapy, fanny pack, fantasyland, fast-pitch, fast-track, fido, firmware, first world, flokati rug, floor-through, flower child, flower people, flower power, franchisor, frostnip, fry-up, full-bore, gap junction, gastric bypass, gazar, geminal, gofer, G-protein, green paper, group home, hand-holding, haplotype, heliosphere, hip pointer, hissy fit, honeybell, house dust mite, humongous, ibuprofen, idiotype, informatics, interrobang, Inupiat, jihadist, jukeki, Korat, Krugerrand, labelmate, land yacht, likuta, locked-in, loogie, love-in, low-tech, lunar module, maxi, max out, megacity, melanize, merc, microquake, midi, mid-rise, midsize, minicomputer, minipark, MIRV, monohull, muffuletta, mycoplasma-like organism, networking, no-fault, nonoxynol-9, nonprint, nonprogrammer, nonstory, nurse practitioner, ocicat, omega-3, on-target, original equipment manufacturer, overstored, owie, panda car, paramedic, Peter Principle, platemaker, postcode, prepsychedelic, preregistration, primary care, proabortion, proteoglycan, psychedelia, radioallergosorbent, recreational drug, resid, rip off, RV, samizdat, scag, self-professed, self-similarity, sene, seniti, shabu-shabu, she-crab, shiatsu, Shoah, sickie, side-scan sonar, slimmer, slimnastics, slo-pitch, slow-pitch, slow-wave sleep, sound-and-light show, spaghetti western, speed freak, SQUID, staff sergeant major, STP, stun gun, subemployed, subemployment, sudser, supergraphics, supermodel, tachyon, tae kwon do, technetronic, technostructure, teenybop, tender offer, THC, thebe, trackball, trank, tree ear, trijet, turfski, unflashy, user fee, verapamil, vibe, videoconferencing, videoland, voc-ed, water pill, wet bar, whacked-out, wideout, word processing, yada yada, Yanomami, Z, zaire, zester, zonked-out



Z???

Hahahaha!

You can make your own at http://thousandsunder90.com/

1964 - dweeb

Calvin and Hobbes, and Bloom County, titans of newspaper comics pages, team up

Excellent short interview on shallow patriotism.

Laugh ya piece o' shit.

ETA: That wasn't directed at anyone in particular...just laugh, damn yer eyes.

https://www.ausabl.com/

Here is a Philly local climber clothing line. If you go deep enough into their pics you will see my kid climbing a rock face wearing their made in Philly gear.

Weirdest Soap Bars You Can Actually Buy

By the ppl @

Whiskey River Soap Company

9.95 for a fucking bar of soap, I don't give a flying fuck what it smells like.

Nobody would buy that shit.

I knew somebody who bought sperm on a rope soap for somebody. As a gag gift. Because get it? It's soap shaped like a sperm, and it's on a rope.

Movie T-shirts with slightly wrong catchphrases

"Live Long And Proper" actually still works pretty well.

Yes, I suspect very few novelty soaps are bought for the use of the purchaser.

Chinese employers monitor workers, so does every other company in the world, BUT...

link

Just finished Ready Player One and this would dovetail nicely with that.

I'm sure I have my 3.5" floppies with Doom on them around here somewhere.

Rats; they've got one of my favorite games from childhood (Willy the Worm 2), but it runs way too fast. But if you slow it down (CTRL-F11), then the audio (emulated pc speaker) and the death effect (screen flashes) plays way too slow. No nostalgia for me.

:sadface:

Excellent article on the diversity in the US. It focuses on the cities of Chicago, DC, and Houston, showing the changes and reasons for them.
But there is also a spot to type in any address and it will give you all the same information for that area. Very comprehensive.

Golf clap. As a service.

Click it.

And when ya get there...

Click that.

Left behind as in died, not forgot to check a closet. Besides, the painting sucks. :lol:

Well, they couldn't take it with them...
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Man, there ain't nuthin like hangin ya head out the window and feelin the wind blowin through ya teeth...

Where does a lot of today's pop music come from? Songwriting camps.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/the-s...t-crafted.html

What the earth looked like 20 million to 750 million years ago in 25 steps you can choose. Pretty cool.
http://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#450

Yup that was pretty neat. I like how the coasts were flooded. They will be again.

A Soft Murmur

Online sound generator, with various sounds. And a mixer. And a timer.

Mike Ginn is pretty funny:

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T--two more sides?!?!?!?!?:mg:

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What words first appeared in print in a particular year?


I suspect there are inaccuracies, or maybe they're marking particular meanings for particular words.

That's cool, HM, but when I get back to the WW II era it's a little overwhelming.
Partially because of all the new tech the war effort produced, and new politics.
Like 1944 listed 221 words/phrases. :facepalm:


Until Nov 16th, you can vote for the oddest book title of the year.

I remember hearing reports of some literary shindig or other where two of the more unusual book titles included 'Sidney the Bat is awarded the Order of Lenin' and 'Beat your relatives to a bloody pulp'.

I believe the latter was aimed at the Christmas market.

One of my favorite book titles:

"Pissing In The Snow, And Other Ozark Folktales" by Vance Randolph.

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In the past we've seen a bunch of cities put out fiberglass critters painted and sponsored by various business or civic groups. I was curious how this worked and in NYC where they did cows, artist Norm Magnusson tells how he got involved.

I didn't suspect the promoter got them decorated then looked for sponsors.
I don't know how many cows total but they choose 54 to auction off for charity (avg $18,000 each) and sell the rest on ebay.

Interesting read

Shit.

Ima paint me a cow.

How ya get 'em to hold still?

Painting cows has now replaced cow tipping?

That's it!!

I'll paint 'em while they're asleep!!!!

Ima be rich! Rich, I tell ya!:jig: