Monday, June 8, 2009

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This map shows how the mean center of US population has shifted westward and southward continuously since the beginning. Strange Maps

Oil to ‘Spike’ Without New Investments, Shell Says. In May the number of drilling rigs operating worldwide fell for an eighth consecutive month. Bloomberg

UK Drivers Cutting Back On Petrol As Prices Hit £1 per Liter At The Pump Again. "The price of oil is artificially high as the speculators scurry from currencies into commodities in the hope of making profits." - AA spokesman. Sky News

The Watercooler - idiot comics

Chink Cult Takes Over America! The Landover Baptist Church Forums. Pastor Ezekiel: 'Now that the mary-worshippers are dwindling in number and dying out, it seems that satan is attempting to force a new cult down the throats of Americans. I am referring to the Fat Chink worshippers called "Boodists".' Reply from Dr. Ernest C. Ville, D.C.S.: 'I have found a (the?) method by which this CULT propogates: chink food. Places like "Lee's Kitchen" and "Top o' China" are drenching their fried-demon-poopies with the blood of innocent babies and then encouraging its users to use the "duck sauce" (aka SATAN'S SPLOOGE sauce). It sickens me.'

Sophie Marceau: garment malfunction.

17th century urine-filled 'witch bottle' found. 'An Old Bailey court record from 1682 documents that a husband, believing his wife to be afflicted by witchcraft, was advised by a Spitalfields apothecary to "take a quart of your Wive's urine, the paring of her Nails, some of her Hair, and such like, and boyl them well in a Pipkin." The excavated bottle appears to have been made according to those, or similar, instructions.' msnbc

A technology currently used to monitor epilepsy is being adapted into a neural interface for people who are paralyzed or have motor impairments from neurodegenerative disease. Neurolutions, a startup based in St. Louis, is developing a small, implanted device that translates signals recorded from the surface of the brain into computer commands. Technology Review

Knitted Lab Rat in an actual dissection tray - $95.00. Etsy

Obama Flunks History at Cairo U. Almost every advance he attributed to the Muslims was due to someone else. Pajamas Media

God Texts the 10 Commandments - McSweeney's Internet Tendency

Kentucky Pastor to Hold a 'Bring Your Handgun to Church' Service - Gawker

Mr. Clucky

McDonald's in Pakistan - Telegraph

Irrigation system can grow crops with salt water. The dRHS irrigation system consists of a network of sub-surface pipes made from a plastic that retains virtually all contaminants while letting clean water through to the plants' roots. Wired.co.uk

Performance Trend for Value Line's Timeliness Ranking - CXOAG Investing Notes. "any abnormal performance of the the Value Line Timeliness Ranking System may have disappeared." Back in the 70s and 80s all of us serious investors used to stand in line at the library every Saturday morning waiting for our crack at the new Value Line stock ranking sheets. But the internet seems to have put an end to the usefulness of of fundamentally-derived long-term investment information. Instead, everyone is watching intraday charts and hoping for a good move before lunch.

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