December 2010
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checking influence →
Checking Influence is a new tool from the Sunlight Foundation that you can use to find out how companies you do business with every day are wielding political influence through lobbying and campaign contributions. Checking Influence helps you be an informed consumer and citizen.
November 2010
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It's Wikileaks gigantic diplomatic infodump day!...
iheartchaos:
About 45 minutes ago, despite being hammered with DDoS attacks, Wikileaks leaked its massive cache of international diplomatic documents to the world. But just in case, it had already given the files to a number of big newspapers around the world such as the New York Times and Der Spiegel.
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Large Hadron Collider proves the universe was once...
iheartchaos:
Of some of the cool things that scientists have discovered about the universe by smashing tiny bits and pieces of matter together in the Large Hadron Collider, this is probably the weirdest. By smashing nuclei together to achieve temperatures in excess of ten trillion degrees, physicists have discovered that the very early universe may have been a super hot liquid soup....
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Riot chicks fuck the cop's shit up in downtown...
iheartchaos:
So these girls rioted in the UK over their tuitions going up. 1500 cops are sent out and get their asses handed to them and then the girls steal all the cops shit. Love how the only girl the cops arrested was not white.
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I love you motherfucker!
I love you so intensely that sometimes it feels empty when I say I love you and I don’t insert a motherfucker at the end of that sentence. I’m sorry I have constant urges to bite you, punch you, kick you, slap you but you’re the cause of these emotions and therefore you will forever bear the brunt of your choice to be with me. I love you motherfucker!
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I love drag queens. They have the option of wearing flats for style but choose...
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Have we found faint evidence of a pre-Big Bang...
iheartchaos:
The current model of the birth of the universe is that it started somewhere around 13.7 billion years ago, starting from a seed of near infinite energy into a sea of absolute nothingness. While many scientists have expressed unease at the idea that all of matter and energy sprang into being from a single point supposedly spontaneously, it’s what we’ve got. There’s currently no...
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thedailywhat:
Protective Undergarments of the Day: Chastity Belt 2.0: Coloradan Jeff Buske invented a special set of underwear that protect your private parts from showing up on the TSA’s full-body scanners.
CBS4 has more.
[cbs4 / gawker.]
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which...
– Carl Sagan (via crookedindifference)
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An Ipswich man will face court over a charge of grievous bodily harm after he tattooed an obscene image onto another man’s back
Terrible. How could someone do this?
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I’ve been listening to this song nonstop for about two months.
thedailywhat:
Gorillaz Music Video of the Day: “Doncamatic (All Played Out)” [feat. Daley]
Which I guess is just called “Doncamatic” now? Anyway, a live-action Daley ends up on Plastic Beach. The single is out November 21.
[p4k.]
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What is "Strap On" spelled backwards?
somethingintellectual:
thundercougarfirebird:patrickstump
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