Category: Headlines
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kateoplis: US soldiers killed: 4,481 Seriously wounded: 32,195 Psychological damage: 30% of US troops develop serious mental health problems within 3-4 months of returning home. Journalists killed: 229 Iraqi Police & soldiers killed: 10,125 Estimated Iraqi civilian deaths: Between 108,000 and 150,000 although there’s criticism that that only includes deaths reported by media agencies. Coalition deaths: 318 Private contractor…
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Norton: A note on the word “hipster” heyitsnorton: Hipster (modern) comes from hipster (fifties), coming from hip, coming from hep. Hep was first used in print in 1908, and meant somebody who was aware, or savvy. Nobody really knows where “hep” comes from. But there are lots of apocryphal stories that are fun! My favorite:…
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today: Slip up! Man orders size 14.5 slipper, gets size 1,450 instead When a Chinese manufacturer missed a decimal point in an online order, one customer wound up with a monster of a slipper. All I want for Christmas.
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jaredbkeller: My favorite Venn diagram ever. Second.
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Rafa Zubiria
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Carson Palmer is now a Raider. After holding out this season, the Cincinnati Bengals traded Palmer to the Raiders for a 2012 first-round pick and a conditional second-rounder in 2013. Palmer is expected to start this week for Oakland. Somewhere Al Davis is smiling.
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Looking for a fun way to protect that new iPhone 4S? Kellokult’s Mario Case is here for you. Also available in Luigi.
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Subway station decorated with pixelart inspired by 8-bit games
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Fire Kit, A Table Lamp That Looks Like a Mini Campfire
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langer: Because I know you needed it, internet, I made you this reaction gif of Tavis Smiley and Cornel West hearing the news from Bill O’Reilly that nobody on Wall St. committed any crimes.
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wreckandsalvage: oliphillips: DMC: DeLorean Electric for 2013 I will liquidate all assets for this. All assets.
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Vanity Fair: The Little-Known 17th-Century Origins of Occupy Wall Street vanityfair: Everyone knows that the Tea Party fancies itself an intellectual ancestor of the 1773 Boston Tea Party. But what many people do not realize is that America’s other prominent decentralized activist movement, Occupy Wall Street, also boasts historical cred—the revolutionary findings: Back in…
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