Friday, February 8, 2013

maptest

Pounds of chemicals released by facility

Less than 500

500 - 2,000

2,000 - 15,000

More than 15,000

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

French

French irked by EU use of English (via AFP)

The Brussels-based French-language press corps reacted with fury Wednesday to the release in English of the EU's annual report cards on the bloc's 27 economies. In an angry open e-mail to the European Commission, the correspondent for the daily Liberation newspaper Jean Quatremer said -- in French: "…

Monday, June 7, 2010

You know you're in trouble when The Onion sounds credible.

Clipped from: www.theonion.com by clp.ly
 
According to sources, the sheer quantity of bullshit pouring out of Hayward is unprecedented, and it has thoroughly drenched the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with no end in sight.

Though no one knows exactly how much of the dangerous bullshit is currently gushing from BP headquarters, estimates put the number at somewhere between 25,000 and 70,000 words a day.
 

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

This is a BFD - Google Abandons Windows

New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system.
Clipped from: techcrunch.com by clp.ly

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Using Bacon to Cut Steel

Clipped from: www.popsci.com by clp.ly
Is there nothing pork can't do?

SATC2 Sounds Like a Terrible Movie

Clipped from: www.thestranger.com by clp.ly
 
From the Lindy West's review in the Stranger:

We've been thinking it for two long years. All of us. Gnawing our cheeks at night, clutching at sweaty sheets, our faces hollow and gray, our once-bright eyes dimmed by the pain of too many questions. Sometimes we cry out, en masse, to a faceless god and a cold, indifferent universe that holds its secrets close. What... rasps the death rattle of our collective sanity. What is the lubrication level of Samantha Jones's 52-year-old vagina? Has the change of life dulled its sparkle? Do its aged and withered depths finally chafe from the endless pounding, pounding, pounding—cruel phallic penance demanded by the emotionally barren sexual compulsive from which it hangs? If I do not receive an update on the deep, gray caverns of Jones, I shall surely die!
 Read the review- it's better than the movie.

"Everything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You in a Google Search"

 
New Rule: Before running for office, politicians must be informed of their rights: that "Everything you say can and will be used against you in a Google search." Now, of course, we all embellish our resumes a little. In college, I described my job of pot dealer as "regional sales associate for a large multi-national firm." But we just had the fifth anniversary of YouTube and the twelfth of Google, and between them, they're killing off a great institution: lying. You just can't lie anymore -- facts are too easy to check, everything is on video, and your wife put a GPS in your glove compartment. Our privacy is gone, our Internet conversations are forever. I even have reason to believe I'm being recorded right now...