Links posted in October 2009
October 29, 2009
Home Depot Employee Fired Over God Button "I've worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God," Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. "I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country." [more inside]
October 26, 2009
Hotel Owner Orders Hispanic Workers To Anglicize Names [more inside]
October 25, 2009
October 23, 2009
It's MOLE DAY!
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Oct. 23, 1959, the great Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born
[more inside]
You might call it Flash (in the pan) Friday
October 22, 2009
Rapatronic Photographs Developed by Dr. Harold Edgerton in the 1940s, the Rapatronic photographic technique allowed very early times in a nuclear explosion's fireball growth to be recorded on film. The exposures were often as short as 10 nanoseconds, and each Rapatronic camera would take exactly one photograph. [more inside]
SHOUTING IS FUN! OMG HAI YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS AGAIN! NO WAI BET YOU CAN'T GUESS NUH-UH! [more inside]
keep yourself awake all night
do NOT enter any of the following words:
paris hilton
zombie
ok...really anything....
October 20, 2009
Feeding Rabbits by Moonlight A Tuesday productivity aid. [more inside]
20 Incredible Primate Expressions. [Via]
London Meetup Again! Hurrah! [more inside]
Endangered languages that link to other worldviews to be preserved , as is especially worthy for Native American languages on the brink. I've linked to one of these native speaker/thinkers before, because from Moonhawk's perspective, so much remains to be learned, appreciated and preserved.
October 19, 2009
Napkin Dispute Leads To Spiced Attack [more inside]
October 18, 2009
Nanowrimo season
is here again. You know the deal: a fifty thousand word novel written entirely during the month of November. We have some Mofite participation already.
Winning's not really important (no prizes), quality's not really important (luckily): it just provides the chance and the motivation to get a lot of words down.
Anyone else want to give it a go?
October 17, 2009
We should all move to Costa Rica. Besides all the shiny, happy people, they've also got a low cost of living, affordable health care (and excellent health care that's rated as better than the U.S.), no Army, and more... [more inside]
October 16, 2009
Curious George:
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Hommy, pleg, Dan, gomi, Karen, Cubby, Tommy, Darlene, Sharon, Bobby, Doreen, Lonnie, Annette...
We like you!!
Kudos to the Monkeys that regularly post!
How many Monkeys out there are still reading?
Can we get a roll call?
Interracial couple denied marriage license in La. [more inside]
October 15, 2009
Scientists Scan the Brains of Mice Playing Quake.
Voice synthesis using a piano; created by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger. via
October 13, 2009
Icycle
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That is all.
October 11, 2009
10 things you don't know about Hubble.
Alvin... the true story you kids can ignore this...and get off my lawn!
October 09, 2009
How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect. [Via]
October 07, 2009
Galactic Centre in 10E9 pixelly goodness.
October 05, 2009
Shagged by a parrot SFW, mild bestiality - a slow Monday doesn't get any better than this.
A brewery in a Muslim country.
October 04, 2009
The biggest
hoard of Anglo Saxon gold ever found has been located by a metal detectorist. Other links.
And in other news, a mini Stonehenge has also been found, a find described as important.
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October 03, 2009
A brief view of Anne Frank on film.
October 01, 2009
Running dog proxies launch attack!
Information Warfare Monitor reports People's Republic of China 60th Anniversary Celebration besmirched by new zero-date malware embedded pdf documents sent to journalists by running dog hackers, thinly veiled by proxys located on school computers in Taiwan (sic) R.O.C.
That is all.
