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A User's Guide to Time Travel →

walpaper: By Michio Kaku of Wired “…Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. Physicists schooled in Newton’s laws believed that time moved along a straight, steady course, like a speeding arrow. Then came Einstein in the early 1900s. His equations showed that time is more like a river…” Thanks, Rob

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“Sometimes at night. When I hear the wind. I wish I was crazy again.”

– Johnny Cash (via bellavita)

Apr 30th

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1976: The swine flu scare →

Today’s New Yorker article on the subject got me searching around the web and I just came across this: 1976: Fear of a great plague By PAUL MICKLE / The Trentonian On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike. Within 24 hours, 19-year-old...

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Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search... →

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Geocities To Shut Down, Millions of Geeky '90s... →

continuants: alwaysregal:leeshiebean:philosoraptor: Geocities gave me the idea for a web site where anyone could quickly and easily sign up and create a free email account, you know, like HoTMaiL. Only this was long before that service came into existence. The “web expert” at Montgomery County’s Library Connection (free web access place) told me it that this would be impossible...

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Apr 23rd

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“Talkers are no good doers.”

– William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 via QOTD

Apr 23rd

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Hannity Offers To Be Waterboarded For Charity (By... →

rillawafers: Oh please god let this happen. I think he should call it “waterboarding for fun and profit. That guy never does anything for free.

Apr 23rd

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Are you on likaholix yet? Join already! →

Apr 23rd

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Watch

nicklog: Shai Agassi on A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars Incredible vision here.

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Apr 22nd

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Watch

Starting at 8:30AM (eastern), I’m going to take I took a short walk. This should not excite you or anything, but you can watch if you like. That is all.

Apr 22nd

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