February 2012
3 posts
Hungarian flag-carrier Malev ceased operating early on Friday after its planes...
– UPDATE 3-Rivals swoop in as Hungary’s Malev stops flying | Reuters
So what would our mornings look like if we re-engineered them in the interest of...
– Annie Murphy Paul: Your Morning Routine Is Making You Dull | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
January 2012
28 posts
On Thursday, new consumer-friendly federal Department of Transportation rules...
– Red Tape - New airline rules give meaning to price tags; other industries should follow
Saw these at the Sompet market this morning.
When the vendor realized I was about to take a picture she proudly propped up the sign and placed the two sample eggs in the foreground.
Wow.
I think I know what you’re thinking.
Did I try one?
Uh, no …
Not for me, thank you!
Thai police on Monday found 400 boxes of bomb-making materials urea and ammonium...
– Thai police find bomb-making materials near Bangkok after Israelis warned of possible attack - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
Stephen Colbert, host of the US satirical news show The Colbert Report, has...
– Stephen Colbert for President? TV host hints at entering Republican race | World news | guardian.co.uk
Just 20 years ago, astronomers had no direct evidence that planets orbited other...
– Milky Way Galaxy Shown to Be Teeming With Planets | Wired Science | Wired.com
I know some folks derive a kind of sick enjoyment from the quadrennial pageant...
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: Mitt Romney’s Haircut Will Not Be Denied.
The existential question that Anonymous still faces is this: Does it matter? And...
– 2011: The Year Anonymous Took On Cops, Dictators and Existential Dread | Threat Level | Wired.com
The 2008 presidential election was the most expensive on record, with...
– The 20 Biggest Donors of the 2012 Election (So Far) | Mother Jones
Nano-sized wires could lead to creation of quantum... →
Q: What do you think most about during the day?
A: “Women. They are a...
– Stephen Hawking at 70: Exclusive interview - opinion - 04 January 2012 - New Scientist
A 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in 2010 was mistakenly deported to...
– Missing Texas Teenager Was Accidentally Deported to Columbia - Yahoo! News
On the first day, God created the heavens and the earth. “Let there be light,”...
– Simon Rich: “Center of the Universe” : The New Yorker
Our modern high-tech markets, in which more money than ever before swirls around...
– World on the verge of a nervous breakdown - Globalization - Salon.com
December 2011
17 posts
Democracy here is dying not with a single giant blow but with many small cuts,...
– Foes of Hungary’s Government Fear ‘Demolition of Democracy’ - NYTimes.com
One of the smaller head-on car crashes in what could still turn out to be a...
– Hungary: playing chicken | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
The Big Lie made a surprise appearance Tuesday when New York Mayor Michael...
– What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral - The Washington Post
What?
– The Car of Tomorrow Recognizes Your Butt | Autopia | Wired.com
Party leaders struggled to account for the abrupt departure of the IMF-EU...
– Democracy in Hungary: Slip-sliding away | The Economist
Larger animals live longer; but they also metabolize slower, as manifested in...
– 10 Things You Don’t Know About Time
If Spain and Italy were to exit (the eurozone), there would be a collapse of...
– Jon Talton | Time to confront the repercussions of the European crisis | Seattle Times Newspaper
October 2011
5 posts
A well-established group of German hackers has accused the German government of...
– German government accused of spying on citizens with state-sponsored Trojan | ZDNet