By Reuser | Published:
March 1, 2010
“All this means that in a very real sense, the industrial barons of EVE who made their fortunes mining virtual asteroids and moons are turning their virtual wealth into physical life-saving supplies in Haiti.
Truly, we live in strange times.”
via EVE ISK for Haiti..
Also posted in EVE, Gaming |
By Reuser | Published:
July 8, 2009
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn. It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!
Also posted in Biology, Design, Hurt, Math, Personal, Politics, Rant, Science, Stupid, Technology, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
March 17, 2009
The real scandal at AIG is the not the bonuses. It’s the payments to counterparties.
Also posted in Hurt, Judiciary |
By Reuser | Published:
March 9, 2009
Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]
Also posted in EVE, Gaming, Hurt, Politics, Rant |
By Reuser | Published:
December 19, 2008
Warning, this one is going to be large and varied, folks.
Fighting for the right to clone – It’s rough out there, in the science world. Hopefully America becomes much more science friendly, soon.
Do not fuck with Chinese shipping – Let this be a warning to you, pirates.
Worthwhile reading – On self defense ammo.
Fresh tomatoes and [...]
By Reuser | Published:
July 26, 2008
I hate to link to op-eds… I especially hate to do so with hyper opinionated rags. *cough NYT cough* But here it is. Accurate as hell, and documented. As Eron has said many times… McCain is a gray wearing a human suit. Think Edgar in MiB.
By Reuser | Published:
July 7, 2008
“Raising the Dead”
Now, with less spoilers. This is an amazing article, very well worth the read. Many people have some issues with the intro paragraph, so ignore that if you choose. Also, this dive is on youtube, but I won’t link directly, for reasons that should become self-evident.
Along the same vein, if [...]
By Reuser | Published:
July 7, 2008
Is W waging economic war on the Chinese with his wars in the Middle East? Much, much craftier than I would give him credit for.
Also posted in Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
May 18, 2008
From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves. Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]
By Reuser | Published:
May 18, 2008
High divorce rate, high birth rate, and lots of women working outside the home. Welcome to Iceland, the happiest country on Earth. Dual Iceland/New Zealand citizenship? Hmm.
Also posted in EVE, Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
March 17, 2008
Well, we’ll be changing to tasteslikeangry.com soon enough.
Really. A bit stronger of a brand…
Sweet Home Alabama – Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Choir. Soundtrack for tonight.
Worldwide Telescope – (Save As) Something so damn awesome, and they can’t deliver a better speech than this?
Work/Life Balance – An architect’s space.
Food Wars -Especially grim considering [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 9, 2007
The Fed’s chairman testifies before Congress. Falling dollar, trade deficit, mortgage crisis, oh my!
Also posted in Hurt, Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
November 9, 2007
Interesting reading, kids. Brazil may be catapulting ahead in world oil production soon.
Also posted in Politics |
By Reuser | Published:
August 29, 2007
Great article on American farm life via Reddit. More information on the author.
Related: Everywhere I turn, from all sides of the political spectrum, people are pissed off with their government – liberal and conservative alike. My wife and I differ. I think it’s going to take revolution to change things… She [...]
Also posted in Hurt, Politics, Rant |
By Reuser | Published:
August 26, 2007
Read up from CNN… Someone is taking big bets on a big market loss. Thoughts?
By Reuser | Published:
August 11, 2007
The Octapult – Fantastic kinetic sculpture made mostly of wood. 8 synchronized, 160 shot per minute catapults.
Perry Farrell’s bud turned slaver catcher? – Party skills? What? Depressing article.
Yes, Virginia, AT&T is the evil empire – AT&T Long Lines Building in NYC.
Early Start? – A drummer starts at two… Think of all [...]
By Reuser | Published:
June 25, 2007
No, actually, it isn’t. Twice as much per GDP. Huh.
Also posted in Math, Rant |
By Reuser | Published:
February 9, 2007
Credit cards, public key crypto, flexible screens, and lithum batteries meet. Fraud-proof, for a while?
Also posted in Technology |
By Reuser | Published:
February 7, 2007
Quiet, cause it’s not wasting energy making noise. Did we mention biodiesel?
By Reuser | Published:
January 11, 2007
For small, small streams. Check out the figures… What’s the rep of the Daily Mail again?
By Reuser | Published:
November 1, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel
Fuck YEAH!.. I would hire them! Look at that darned pedigree!
By Reuser | Published:
October 22, 2006
“Finally, in the past two years, euros have also become easier to carry, store, and hide than dollars. Generally, the largest denomination of U.S. currency readily available is the $100 bill. But in the past two years, the European Central Bank has started to print 200-euro and 500-euro bills. These larger bills thus allow for [...]
Also posted in Design, Math |