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July 27, 2013
Needy And You Know It
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Some people are so needy--they are almost like children in adult's clothing, while others are so distant they may as well be living ...
July 26, 2013
Sears Couldn't Sell An Appliance Let Alone A Rolex
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So I was amazed at the depths to which Sears will go to try to save their horrible brand. The Wall Street Journal (21 July 2013) descr...
July 25, 2013
Less With Less
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This was a funny picture of a "Complaint Jar". "All complaints must be written on $1.00 bills or larger. Thank you."...
July 24, 2013
Hyperloop Takes Us Supersonic
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Elon Musk in a genius -- from SpaceX to Tesla to Paypal -- he has us inventing like almost no one else can. Now his concept of the Hyper...
July 22, 2013
Workers Getting Choked
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Took this picture today of a worker protest outside of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in Washington, D.C. It's a big blow ...
Do NOT Wash Hands
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This was a funny picture that my wife took at the Department of Commerce cafeteria. It's a drinking fountain and says: "Please...
Live A Good Life, Choose Right
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Whether you're Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or any other religion, I think this is a great music video on living an introspective life, c...
July 21, 2013
Like Buying A Nuke On The Black Market
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Buying a serious computer vulnerability is now like acquiring a nuke on the black market. Nations and terrorists will pay to find the...
July 20, 2013
Uh-Oh Trouble
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So I'm "middle age"...and all of a sudden the last few months I am having trouble reading. I haven't worn glasses for ...
July 19, 2013
Metro Melody
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Just another talented day in the Washington, D.C. Metro. These guys are good! Enjoy--and hope everyone has a nice weekend. Andy (S...
With Surgical Precision
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This is awesome--the iKnife ("Intelligent" knife) for cutting away cancer, can also detect the cancerous cells. I had previous...
July 18, 2013
What A Good Answer Costs You
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This was a funny sign that I came across with a colleague of mine. It's a price list for answers. An answer (presumably incorrect...
July 15, 2013
Those Are Some Prosthetics
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Wow, prosthetics have come a long way--these are tough! This video from Biodapt shows their high-performance Moto Knee being used in a v...
July 14, 2013
Many For The Price Of One
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We were at the movie theater over the weekend and something funny happened when we went up to the counter to get our tickets. I ask my w...
July 13, 2013
News You Can't Count On
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This is one of those unbelievable stories that you have to pinch yourself to see if you are dreaming or is it real. An intern over at th...
Head Spinning From All The Spin
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The Nazi Minister of Propaganda, the evil Joseph Goebbels said, "He who controls the message, controls the masses." All dictat...
July 12, 2013
Living Longer, But With Worse Quality Of Life
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Watching my parents age over the years has been hard--and very painful. They are good people--they've worked hard all their lives...
July 10, 2013
Emergency Alert Or R U Kidding?
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BBC News Technology (9 July 2013) reports on how the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) was hacked. The EAS is a program of the Fed...
July 8, 2013
Rape Crisis Nation
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I've been wanting to capture this in a photo for some time. I took this picture from a moving Metro train and one with incredibly d...
July 7, 2013
Got References?
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If you've ever done any hiring, you'll know that the reference checking can be the wildest part of the process. Some people hav...
Death Biking
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This was unbelievable--as I am climbing this very rocky hiking trail, out pops a bicyclist zooming down over the rocks. I have seen peo...
July 6, 2013
Teamwork or Telework?
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Clive Thompson makes an interesting point in Wired (15 May 2013) on productivity versus creativity. He says that people seem more cre...
July 5, 2013
Have You Been Voluntold?
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Voluntold, it's a funny word. A combination of volunteer and told, to do something. I couldn't believe that this word is act...
July 4, 2013
The Five Phases Of Medicine
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In many respects, medicine has come a really long way, and yet in other ways it seems like it still has so far to go. For e...
Even The Buses Celebrate
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A great Independence Day it is. Even the buses celebrate with the flag proudly mounted and displayed. What does Independence Day me...
July 3, 2013
Magic Computer Displays
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This is some awesome technology from Tactus Technology . It is called a dynamic tactile touchscreen . Here's how it works: When ...
Google Hypocrisy?
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Google, which touts itself as the one that "organize[s] the world's information and make[s] it universally accessible and usable,...
July 2, 2013
Dirty Little People
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Popular Science had some scary germy statistics about how few people wash their hands well when coming out of the bathroom. Take a gues...
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