solaravada:

thebalanceplain:

mhking:

arinlome:

spacecataz:

kidskiddingkittens:

grapesnbananas:

ok. what the hell is this thing? if i ever saw this. id move. id leave the current state i was livining in. id peace out of whatever country i was in. i mean. that thing…its huge…there is no flip flop or fly swatter killing that…you need a gun. or a rifle…something serious. poison darts. dagers…god damn it a whole army. this is serious people…we need to be prepared.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

SHIT.

nightmaresnightmaresnightmaresnightmaresnightmaresnightmares

HOLYFUCKINGSHITWHATTHEFUCKISTHATTHING

KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT! KILL IT!

 this shit looks like it’ll crawl into ur ear and eat your brains

WTF!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

slantback:

This image arose out of a frustration with the reporting of billion dollar amounts in the media. That is, they’re reported as self-evident facts, when, in fact, they’re mind-boggling and near incomprehensible without context. But they can start to be understood visually and relatively, IMHO. (via What’s a Billion, Here and There? | Design & Innovation | Fast Company)

Neglected Keystrokes

lilyisa:

sunnysideupeggs:

gridlockcaravans:

(via sabino)

‘Techno Mike’ Hopes To End Frustrations Of NYC Driving By Having Drivers Use Phones To Find Spaces, Feed Meters. Text Messages Would Be Sent When Spaces Are Vacated.

lyarv:

Blue screen at work (2007-2008)

I had to stop taking photos because after October 2008 every blue screen followed by auto restart. So there is not enough time to take a picture. Sometimes it’s even worth - no blue screen at all, just quick restart, especially when rendering is about to finish :)

lyarv:

juliasegal:

Classic: The Beatles lips

mudwerks:

PacifiCare’s Denials 40%, Cigna’s 33% in First Half of 2009

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ — More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient’s physician, are rejected by California’s largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation’s biggest state, according to data released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

CNA/NNOC researchers analyzed data reported by the insurers to the California Department of Managed Care. From 2002 through June 30, 2009, the six largest insurers operating in California rejected 31.2 million claims for care - 21 percent of all claims…

[sometimes it helps to look at actual data on these issues…rather than just shouting because some TV guy said it’s socialism…]

fuckyeahgeorgeharrison:

This blows my mind.

John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project (JLAIP™) is recreating the personality of the late Beatle, John Lennon, by programming an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine with Lennon’s own words and thoughts.

shaneblog:

September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock’s UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some some gray cable. In doing so, they created the first node of what we now call (long dramatic pause)… the Internet.

mudwerks:

Geek Review: Freedom Mobile Slim Keypad | BB Geeks

The Freedom Mobile Slim Keypad is an external, bluetooth (SPP/HID) keypad that is compatible with almost all PDA’s on the market, many smartphones, PocketPCs, laptops and even your PS3!

Measuring in at 4 x 2.25 x 3/8 inches, the Slim Keypad is just that, slim and ultra portable. This unit is only slightly bigger than a credit card and will slip effortlessly into your pocket or handbag. The total weight for the Slim Keypad is 3.2 oz (46 Grams) so it will not be a burden you will notice at all.

The Freedom Slim Keypad has a few handy features built into it. It is made up of 54 keys, fully alpha numeric and metallic faced. There is a blue back light with an option to turn on and off for optimal viewing. There is a replaceable mini usb connection that allows for recharging of the unit when it loses its juice and an auto reconnect function that repairs your connection to a paired device if broken.

[just what I need…]

lyarv:

mudwerks:

It has been a question that has long perplexed people: why are some individuals seemingly immune to mosquito bites, while others suffer endless attacks?

Scientists at Rothamsted Research in the U.K. have made progress in identifying which of the approximately 300-400 chemical odors produced by the human body attracts or repels insects (insects have very keen sense of smell they use to guide them to their prey).

Using two groups of test subjects, one ‘attractive’ to mosquitoes and one ‘unattractive, the scientists were able to isolate and  identify 7-8 distinct chemical odors which repelled mosquitoes.  Some of these odors were thought to be related to stress.

Dr. Logan and his team have found only a small number of body chemicals—seven or eight—that were present in significantly different quantities between those people who were attractive to mosquitoes and those who weren’t. They then put their findings to the test. For this they used a so-called Y-tube olfactometer that allows mosquitoes to make a choice and fly toward or away from an individual’s hand. After applying the chemicals thought to be repellant on the hands of individuals known to be attractive, Dr. Logan found that the bugs either flew in the opposite direction or weren’t motivated by the person’s smell to fly at all.

The group’s latest paper, published in March in the Journal of Medical Entomology, identified two compounds with “significant repellency.” One of the compounds, 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one, is a skin-derived compound that has the odor of toned-down nail-polish remover, according to George Preti, an organic chemist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who is involved in a separate line of research into insect-biting behavior. The other, identified in the paper as geranylacetone, has a pleasant odor, though there is some question about whether the chemical is formed by the human biochemical process or is picked up in the environment, Dr. Preti says.

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