January 2011
122 posts
Toilet paper orientation - Wikipedia article of... →
This page is disproportionately epic in length. Epic like the Iliad. If it was in the Encyclopeadia Brittanica, it’d deserve it’s own volume.
128 cited sources. That’s… just… haha, oh wow.
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URL Shortening →
URL Shorteners are useful. Cool story.
Anyway, here’s two “shorteners” that don’t shorten - they just obfusicate.
http://hugeurl.com/
http://www.shadyurl.com/
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Divided by Infinity by Robert Charles Wilson →
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WatchRoad Runner - Coyote Falls 2010
New Looney Tunes cartoons? CHILDHOOD WIN!
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Hipster (un)Hottest 100
#hottest100
I’d like to propose a game for anyone who voted in the Triple J Hottest 100. Keep track of where all of the songs you voted for came, then add up their positions. Any songs not in the top 100 score 100 points.
Since hipsters hate liking popular songs, the closer you get to 1000, the higher your hipster cred.
Of course, real hipsters ironically voted for all of the popular...
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IfItWereMyHome: Comparing Australia to The United... →
IfItWereMyHome.com is your gateway to understanding life outside your home. Use our country comparison tool to compare living conditions in your own country to those of another. Start by selecting a region to compare on the map to the right, and begin your exploration.
If The United States were your home instead of Australia you would…
have a 63.16% greater chance of being unemployed
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Beatboxing using Google Translate →
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Aesop's Fables, by Aesop; The Man, the Boy, and... →
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How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash... →
Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia article of the... →
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.
W.B. Yeats put it concisely thus: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
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WatchThe Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland
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SimplyNoise - Free White Noise Generator on the... →
Use it to drown out background noise instead of using music, which can be distracting itself.
I’m going to try this at work (there have been kids running around the office, and some people talk really loudly).
Just from a short listen, the brown noise is actually quite soothing - sounds like the ocean or a strong wind blowing through trees.
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How to Survive a 35,000-Foot Fall - Plane Crash... →
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Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia article of the... →
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.
W.B. Yeats put it concisely thus: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”
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WatchThe Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland
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SimplyNoise - Free White Noise Generator on the... →
Use it to drown out background noise instead of using music, which can be distracting itself.
I’m going to try this at work (there have been kids running around the office, and some people talk really loudly).
Just from a short listen, the brown noise is actually quite soothing - sounds like the ocean or a strong wind blowing through trees.
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Easy Solutions #1 →
So, you’re in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway. What you will need: 1 x knife, 1 x ring, access to a sunbed, the ability to grow a beard.
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Easy Solutions #1 →
So, you’re in love with one of your friends, but she has a boyfriend and probably wouldn’t have sex with you anyway. What you will need: 1 x knife, 1 x ring, access to a sunbed, the ability to grow a beard.
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