[Signal boosts are awesome. --L.]
- Fill Dresser Drawers from Front to Back Instead of Top to Bottom
- We've shared a lot of packing tips here at Lifehacker, but if you have just as much trouble keeping your clothes organized and wrinkle-free at home, weblog Apartment Therapy has a tip on how better to stuff your dresser.
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- This Tract provides a view of Census data on your block
- [FlowingData - Nathan Yau]
It's still using 2000 data but was built in anticipation of the 2010 release, which should come in a couple of months. So we'll probably see some improvements from now until then…
I particularly like the technology lovefest at the bottom of the page, full of open-source goodness:…
- What If They Had A Depression And Nobody Noticed? – NYTimes.com
- [Paul Krugman]
Wow. I thought Dean Baker must be exaggerating about this Washington Post report on Estonia’s entry into the eurozone.
But he wasn’t. Estonia is described as a “growing economy”, with no mention of the fact that it had a Depression-level slump, and has so far regained only a small fraction of the lost ground. Here’s the employment chart:…
["Recession" is the new "depression"? -L]
- The secret cave city under Nottingham
- [io9 - Esther Inglis-Arkell]
Laser scanning techniques reveal elaborate cave systems under the town of Nottingham. Some are mines, some are dungeons, and part of this closed-off one was once used as a stable.
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- ThinkProgress » GOP Rep. Mulvaney, Against Raising Debt Ceiling, Admits He Doesn’t ‘Know’ What Will Happen If It Isn’t Raised
- It is irresponsible for Mulvaney to commit to voting against raising the debt ceiling while admitting that he doesn’t even “know” what will happen if it isn’t raised. While Mulvaney claims the Congressional Research Service is “guessing” what a failure to raise the debt limit “means,” in fact, a 2008 report lays out exactly what some of the harmful repercussions would be…
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- Losing well can be a win
- [Hullabaloo - digby]
You can't win them all, but you can make damned sure that when you lose your principles are out front and everybody knows where you stand. That is very helpful down the road when you try to make a case for your policies. Trying to "make the best of it" or paper over the differences or (worst of all) adopting the other side's position as your own and saying the policy is actually a good one, will come back to bite you hard.
The Republicans are very good at this… They always, always lose in a way that sets them up for a win down the road. In this way they are much more sophisticated about politics than the Democrats are and it's one way their movement seems to be able to constantly evolve and even reinvent itself.
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- Remains of Nazi victims unearthed in Austria
- A construction project at a psychiatric hospital in Austria has unearthed the remains of Nazi-era graves…
- Four mosaics depicting ancient Athenian plays found in Antioch
- Four mosaics dating back to the 3rd century A.D. have been found in Antioch, Turkey. They depict scenes from plays written by Menander, the Athenian comic poet.
- Book Discovery :: Add-ons for Firefox
- Book Discovery recommends books based on web sites you've been browsing in the Internet. Once books are discovered, you will be able to view book details, such as bindings, versions, and promotions, through Amazon.com. This add-on consumes little resources of user computer, because most of the heavy-lifting algorithm is done on Google's cloud computing platform…
You are given full control on how discovered books are presented.
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- Blog – Russian Physicists Solve Radio Black-Out Problem for Re-Entering Spacecraft
- Using a plasma sheath as a giant radio receiver should solve the communication problems that bedevil hypersonic planes and re-entering spacecraft, say Russian scientists
- Libraries Provide Direct eBook Downloads on iPhone & Android
- [AndroidGuys - Paul Weston]
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- Josh Groban sings Kanye’s tweets
- [kottke.org]
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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