Friday, August 17, 2012

FIPID - 8/19/12

Fun Interesting Pertinent Information Dissemination

Top Picks
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Samsung: Whether or not we ripped off Apple’s tech, Apple stole it to begin with

Checker Shadow Illusion

47 Mind-Blowing Psychological Facts You Should Know About Yourself

Philosophy Experiments

Anybody see a problem here?

Here Comes the Sun
Astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan had wanted the song to be included on the Voyager Golden Record, copies of which were attached to both spacecraft of the Voyager program to provide any entity that recovered them a representative sample of human civilization. Although The Beatles favoured the idea, EMI refused to release the rights and when the probes were launched in 1977 the song was not included.

Mark Twain quote

Yoga for dogs or maybe, stupid for dogs


Politics and Business
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Federal worker, caught campaigning for Obama illegally, is suspended
(From personal experience, I can tell you that the government sends out e-mails to employees every election telling people what is appropriate in the workplace with regards to political activities.)

Rage Against the Machine guitarist rages against fan Rep. Ryan
"Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades," band guitarist Tom Morello wrote in an op-ed for Rolling Stone.

Romney Flip-flop Collection
These are small clips taken out of context but it is still Mitt Romeny.  Are they too out of context?  Did he change his mind or did he flip-flop?  Does he use absolutes which make him look like a liar if he changes his mind? 

STUDY: COMPANIES PAID MORE TO CEOS THAN IN US TAX

Your Election is being Bought by 47 Billionaires

US Public Interest Research Group (Government watchdog)

Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on It
"He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government... Yet this year, as in each of the past three years, Mr. Gulbranson, 57, is counting on a payment of several thousand dollars from the federal government, a subsidy for working families called the earned-income tax credit. He has signed up his three school-age children to eat free breakfast and lunch at federal expense. And Medicare paid for his mother, 88, to have hip surgery twice."

Comedian Matt Fisher Claims Sister’s Progressive Insurance Paid for Her Killer’s Lawyers

Why Have So Many Cities and Towns Given Away So Much Money to Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's?
"An exhaustive investigation conducted by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity found that the two competing firms together have received or are promised more than $2.2 billion from American taxpayers over the past 15 years."

Is a $5,000 salary too much for Medicaid?

Romney surrogate to CNN host: ‘Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead’
“I’m telling you what Factcheck.com tells you, I’m telling you what the CBO tells you, I’m telling you what CNN’s independent analysis says,” the CNN host explained.
“Put an Obama bumper sticker on your forehead when you do this!” the frustrated surrogate shot back.

"You know, let me tell you something. There is independent analysis that details what this is about. ... And name calling to me and somehow acting as if by you repeating a number of $716 billion, that you can make that stick with that figure as being 'stolen' from Medicare, that's not true. You can't just repeat it and make it true, sir."

Reagan's director of OMB - Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan
"Mr. Ryan’s sonorous campaign rhetoric about shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job creators” (read: the top 2 percent) will do nothing to reverse the nation’s economic decline and arrest its fiscal collapse."

"We Haven't Run The Numbers": The Startling Paul Ryan Admission Getting Little Attention

A Kalashnikov Factory in Russia Survives on Sales to U.S. Gun Owners - NYTimes.com

Isn't It High Time We Legalize Marijuana?
"American governments at all levels have been fighting the war on drugs for over four decades now, and it’s overwhelmingly clear that it’s time to cut our losses, admit that the whole thing was a mistake, and work toward restoring the lives that have been destroyed by the drug war."  

Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing (video)



Science and Technology
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CERN physicists create record-breaking subatomic soup

Fusion reactors by 2040

Tooth Decay Prevention
"A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 1,677 children compared a standard fluoride toothpaste with a similar toothpaste that also contained 10% xylitol. 8 Over the 3-year study period, children given the xylitol-enriched toothpaste developed significantly fewer cavities than those in the fluoride-only group. Studies in adults and children have shown similar results for xylitol gum and candy."

The Invisible Bicycle Helmet (video)

...an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.

Triclosan, A Chemical Used in Antibacterial Soaps, is Found to Impair Muscle Function

7 Absolutely Insane Animal Defense Mechanisms

Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation Awards Grant To CU-Boulder To Build Waterless, Solar-Powered Toilet (PHOTOS and Video)

Florida's Biggest Python So Far Measured 17 Feet, 7 Inches; Had 87 Eggs


Fun, Interesting and Offbeat
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Pocket urinals hit the streets of Cologne

300-pound Texas 12-year-old ruled too big to play Pee Wee football

Food
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Jalapeno Popper Grilled Cheese

2-Minute Chocolate Chip Cookie For One


Videos
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How Bad Do You Want It

GHOST TITS (feat. Olivia Munn)   (Parody movie preview.  This will scare many men.)

Bodyguard and Dancing Cheerleader

Riding on top of a climbing wall

Don't make a Dutchman mad by messing up his Facebook profile. He will take revenge. (profanity)


Pics
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What a coincidence! In an airport in Montana. The Dude.

Obama buying a big beer and beer for the next ten people in line  (Exchanging beer for votes?)

A falcon brought lunch to the office

Iconic Sculptures made from phone books, maps…

Cool caterpillar

All Olympic logos! (1896-2016)

Trampoline by the pool

Chia Keyboard
"This is the keyboard of my co-worker. A little bit disgusting, the admins refuse to use this keyboard. He is on vacation for 4 weeks. Something had to be done."

Snake Cake

Gaza Kindergarten Graduation

Seventy Years of Batman Evolution

Ms. Olympia: 1980 vs 2011

Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland

It was this big!

How would you like to have this for a softball field?

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