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  1. The Earth, Destroyed by Asteroid (HD Video) (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  2. Leaning Tower of Padre Island, Texas (Real Estate Disaster)

    This should be the poster-child for what went wrong with housing in the last few years: $125M for a tower built on a beach undergoing erosion. After the building started leaning noticeable and settling unevenly, the…

    1 points 1
  3. The Failure of Micro-Credit (Irrational Exuberance in India) (aidwatchers.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Wikileaks is gossip for educated people (Assage a marketing genius?) (lewrockwell.com)
    1 points -1
  5. Have you abandoned your desktop computer?

    From Steve Jobs: "The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's…

    4 points 6
  6. How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com)
    4 points 0
  7. Submarine Data Cable Map: 2010 (telegeography.com)
    2 points 0
  8. Japan to US shipping: illegal over 16 ounces, per new TSA guidelines (post.japanpost.jp)
    10 points 2
  9. Do we need Wikileaks?

    This is not dissing the work Wikileaks is doing. But fundamentally, is there a need for it? Why wouldn't whistleblowers just publish the information themselves? An organization like Wikileaks (or FEE) could post advice…

    11 points 7
  10. Programmer Competency Matrix: Do you use it when hiring? (starling-software.com)
    156 points 112
  11. 7 ways the Mafia made the US a better place (huffingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  12. Engineering is not science (spectrum.ieee.org)
    3 points 1
  13. Memristor neuronal simulation (MoNETA) (spectrum.ieee.org)
    6 points 0
  14. HP-Oracle war: HP ditches Oracle CRM for Salesforce (theregister.co.uk)
    14 points 6
  15. Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized (schneier.com)
    152 points 41
  16. TSA workers are stressed out (today.msnbc.msn.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Multi-monitors and fullscreen Flash video

    Currently, Flash video cannot be used as a TV replacement. Thats because any loss of focus of the window will result in the video losing fullscreen. This is particularly annoying in a multi-monitor scenario, where you…

    2 points 2
  18. German 'Fleshmob' Protests Airport Scanners (wired.com)

    The next step is obviously to do away with clothes altogether once entering an airport...

    2 points 0
  19. Ronja, open-source freespace optic communication (ronja.twibright.com)

    Freespace optics has the potential of providing orders of magnitude improvements over microwave links. So far, Ronja offers a 10MB package that is extremely affordable to build: <$100. Commercial equivalents can go…

    1 points 0