November 2008
The Most Unethical Experiments →
Psychology is a relatively new science which gained popularity in the early 20th century with Wilhelm Wundt. In the zeal to learn about the human thought process and behavior, many early psychiatrists went too far with their experimentations, leading to stringent ethics codes and standards.
Stock Market
Once upon a time, in a place overrun with monkeys, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.
The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.
The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, they became harder to catch, so the villagers stopped their effort.
The man then...
World Clock →
A realtime demographic look at the world. For more information as to how these number are approximated mouse over the (?) on the website.
Iraq says 80 dollars a 'reasonable' price for oil →
“We have to make sure that produced oil is used for consumption and not for storing. Iraq would support a decision by OPEC to cut output either here or in Algeria,” the Iraqi minister added.
SUMO Paint →
Is Barack Obama Muslin? →
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uTorrent for Mac Officially Released →
Update: Upon further review, I gotta say at this time I still prefer Transmission. Here’s the three main reasons, It’s open source and it sports an auto-update “prevent bad peers” feature which (theoretically) helps to avoid jailtime. Finally, I did use both clients to download the same torrent simultaneously and Transmission (at this stage) was more adept at finding the...
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Twelve Comic Book TV Shows That Were Never Made →
Bruce Wayne (1999): Before developing Smallville, Tobbins/Robbins Productions started work on a series about Bruce Wayne’s pre-Batman years. It would start when the orphaned billionaire was 17, and follow his travels to China, Korea, and France to go from spoiled playboy to crime fighting machine. Other characters would include comedian Jack Napier, psychology professor Jonathan Crane, hospital...
“Lastly, somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn’t need to be bribed to do...”
– Thomas L. Friedman, 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner
WatchPeter and the Wolf is a composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936 after his return to the Soviet Union, visualized by Walt Disney.
(Parts 1 & 2)
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2008 Darwin Awards
The winners of the 2008 Darwin Awards, “Deaths That Lead to Improvement of the Gene Pool” are currently doing the rounds.
Ninth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
Eighth Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who totally zoned when he ran, accidentally...
Make No Mistake:
If you are a street-peeing Nazi, Jesus will straight up use your stream of pee like a step-ladder and backflip-kick you in your face, motherfucker.
