Archive for November, 2013
The Mercenary
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 29, 2013
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Roy Petersen pops the cap off a Leo, one of Thailand’s cheapest beers. It’s getting dark out, and the lizards are laughi…
There is a love story here….. ignore the title…..
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Requiem for a welterweight: Manny Pacquiao may be broke, but is he broken, too?
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 29, 2013
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Manny Pacquiao may be broke, but is he broken, too?
There is a word in the English vocabulary "contentment" It sure is starnge to most fellows.
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The Awá Indians of Amazonian Brazil: The Most Endangered Tribe on Earth
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 29, 2013
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Alex Shoumatoff hits the forest trails in Brazil’s eastern Amazon.
This is what the writer and or the Awá think about the missionaries — "the services its missionaries were providing had a hidden agenda, to get them to renounce their animism and their own big guy in the sky, Maira, and to come to the Lord and be saved from eternal hellfire.” SMH!
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CABINET // A Philosophy of Tickling
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 28, 2013
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Cabinet Magazine a quarterly of Art and Culture
The Romans took every bad thing from the Persians and perfected it into a bad thing.
The incident of a goat licking someone’s sole of the feet to death on application of salt was just gross!
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The Secrets of Bezos: How Amazon Became the Everything Store
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 28, 2013
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The surprising story of how Amazon.com became one of the most successful companies in the world
I honestly think this guy is a mad genious. Really!
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Lauren Collins: The Search for the Hottest Chili
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 21, 2013
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Like computers, superhot chilis are evolving at a rate that embarrasses the phenomena of just a few years ago.
Hot! I thought Tabasco was hot……. That was a funny idea.
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G4S: the inside story – FT.com
Posted by samdemic in Uncategorized on November 21, 2013
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On an overcast Friday evening on a rundown suburban street in Boston, Lincolnshire, a part-time plumber and a retired policeman are sitting in a large white van outside a cell-block, waiting to hear from the police.
You have no idea how much people are willing to pay for security…
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- NASA backs deep space habitat made with old ISS cargo module July 23, 2017NASA has given Lockheed Martin the go-ahead to build a full-scale prototype of the deep space habitat it proposed for the NextSTEP program. That means in around 18 months' time, it might start testing new space travel technologies for the agency. No,...Mariella Moon
- BMW denies conspiring with rivals on diesel emissions systems July 23, 2017VW isn't the only German automaker reeling from the effects of diesel emissions scandals. BMW is denying Der Spiegel allegations that it not only colluded with Daimler and the Volkswagen Auto Group (including Audi and Porsche) on the designs and pri...Jon Fingas
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- The best fan July 23, 2017By Tyler Wells Lynch and Séamus Bellamy This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best homewares. When readers choose to buy The Sweethome's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commis...The Sweethome
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- 'Pokémon Go Fest' issues refunds after tech problems ruin event July 23, 2017After an up and down first year of existence, the Pokémon Go Fest was supposed to be a triumphant event where players could work together in news ways and earn unique awards. The event unfortunately suffered as cell networks and the game's ser...Richard Lawler
- After Math: Do you see? July 23, 2017It was an illustrative week for machine vision. Sony's high-speed eyes allow robots to see at 1000 FPS, IBM trained a neural network to spot schizophrenia, and MIT's AI knows what's in your meal just by looking at it. Numbers, because how else do you...Andrew Tarantola
- Ben Heck's Super Glue Gun: Merging form and function July 23, 2017The team continues buckling down on its Super Glue Gun project. Felix brings together a custom-designed motor control circuit that will be used for extruding the glue. Meanwhile, Ben cuts up the perfboard to prototype the size of the printed circ...element14
- Nissan preps its semi-autonomous driving assist for the US July 23, 2017Nissan is one step closer to bringing its semi-autonomous ProPilot Assist feature to American roads. The automaker has shed more light on the US-optimized version of the assistant ahead of its launch in the new Leaf near the end of 2017. As Nissan st...Jon Fingas
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