January 2010
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Somali Pirates Help Haiti →
kateoplis:
Spokesmen for the so-called “Somali pirates” have expressed willingness to transfer part of their loot captured from transnational boats to send to Haiti. The “pirates” typically redistribute a significant portion of their profits among relatives and the local population.
”The humanitarian aid to Haiti can not be controlled by the United States and European countries; they have no...
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Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over...
– Howard Zinn, “The Problem is Civil Disobedience” speech at Johns Hopkins University, November 1970
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Missing hiker's bones found in Peninsula hills →
Remember a when I thought I’d found a dead body last year? This area is right next to the area I hike through off trail. So close.
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heythisisit:
robotindisguise:
This video is titled, Hand Ninja
The write up: This girl does the entire Tae Kwon Do White Belt test plus a professional wrestling match…with her hand. (via break)
I’m ptretty sure that if you do Tae Kwon Do you probably aren’t a ninja since ninja’s practice Ninjitsu but this is pretty great regardless.
i love how she’s laughing the whole time
OMG Adrienne...
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List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia →
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Best Discovery of 2010?
My new Japanese neighbor has a list from his predecessor which details the best Japanese restaurants in the Bay Area from a Japanese person’s point of view. He and his wife and I will be spending the next several months going through the list! What is the Japanese word for ‘heaven’?
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Pliny Fisk III - Wikipedia →
Self-perception theory - Wikipedia →
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2. An Ending (Ascent), Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
osakasteve:
Maya Lin - Unchopping a Tree
Happy Birthday Wikipedia!
On this day in 2001, Wikipedia went online!
January 15
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In praise of the sci-fi corridor - Den of Geek →
Okay, so this is pretty much the greatest article on the internet ever, and I’ve not read a single word of it yet.
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