"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." - Louis D. Brandeis

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50 Best Websites 2008 - TIME - When I saw "1 of 51" and that I had to click 50 times, I closed the tab. "Print [version] didn't help"

Tourist Remover - "Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements."

My Little Stormtrooper on Flickr - "My Little Pony, mixed media"

LollypopBlowjobs.com - See real teens sucking! - ".... a totally new and original concept in teen suckoff films! most of our girls would never let themselves be filmed giving a blowjob!"
They appear to have lollypops filled with white cream

This is why you're fat. - "where dreams become heart attacks"

Temasek Justifies New Chief - "“He is a descendant of the family behind the Goodyear blimp, and so is used to inflating assets and spewing hot air – essential skills for running Temasek.” “Secondly,” he continued, “Mr. Goodyear used to run the world’s largest mining company. So he’s an expert at going down a deep, dark hole and trying to dig up anything of value. Which describes Temasek’s financial situation perfectly at the moment.”"

singapore craigslist > men seeking women - looking for female personal secretary - "our company plan to start a service apt company
we require a female personal secretary to our DIRECTOR...
REPLY WITH CONTACT NUMBER AND PHOTO AND UR EXPECTED SALARY"
Actually I can't tell if they want a whore or a secretary. Probably both

Hug me. I'm a banker. - "My boss and I are going to pretend to have a bonus discussion this week, during which neither of us will be able to keep a straight face. We'll probably erupt into laughter a few minutes in, after which he'll duly hand me a bag of toxic assets and send me on my way.
I need a hug. (Alternately, if you're squeamish about physical contact with a stranger, you could just send me pictures of your breasts. Either way.)"

The Russian president, the guinea pigs and the school girl - "She innocently asked for another guinea pig to keep her own pet company. But it seems that the Presidential Directorate decided that Mr Medvedev had better things to do than worry about pets. Apparently, within hours, government officials arrived at Nastya's village school in Kalitvensky, southern Russia, to tell her off... Nastya's parents bravely decided to email the President again to complain about the treatment of her daughter. This time, they received a different response. Soon afterwards, some more government officials arrived, along with an apology and two new guinea pigs. Local youth committee chairman Sergei Chyuev said: "This shows a complete failure by the authorities to understand real people and their problems.""

The Domino's branch where you can't get a pepperoni pizza - because they only do halal - "If you can't do without ham on your Hawaiian and bacon on your barbecue, prepare to be cheesed off. A big-name pizza store has stopped selling pork products after going 100 per cent halal. The Domino's outlet is replacing ham and bacon with products such as halal spicy beef sausage, halal roast and tandoori chicken and halal pepperoni... Mr Yates, 29, a hospital worker from nearby Moseley, said: 'It's a disgrace, I can appreciate them having it as an option but to have it completely halal is just not on. 'I'm all for racial and religious tolerance but if anything this is intolerant to my beliefs and discriminatory against me. 'I had to travel two miles out of my way to their next nearest branch - I was appalled.'"
GAH

speech accent archive: about - "Everyone who speaks a language, speaks it with an accent. A particular accent essentially reflects a person's linguistic background. When people listen to someone speak with a different accent from their own, they notice the difference, and they may even make certain biased social judgments about the speaker. The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English all read the same English paragraph and are carefully recorded"

Peace in the pipeline - "Researchers at Oregon State University compiled a dataset of every reported interaction (conflictive or co-operative) between two or more nations that was driven by water in the last half-century. They found that the rate of co-operation overwhelms the incidence of acute conflict. In the last 50 years, only 37 disputes involved violence, and 30 of those occurred between Israel and one of its neighbours. Outside the Middle East, researchers found only five violent events, while 157 treaties were negotiated and signed. The total number of water-related events between nations also favours co-operation: the 1,228 co-operative events dwarf the 507 conflict-related events, despite the often fiery rhetoric of politicians, which is in reality aimed more often at their own constituencies than at the enemy."

Oddly Shaped Vegetables Allowed in Europe - "Many of us are learning that the gnarled carrots and funny-looking tomatoes found in farmers' markets actually taste better than the apples that are perfectly formed but tasteless. The European Commission, the parliament of Europe and arbitor of all standards, has now recognised that throwing away imperfectly shaped food is wasteful and is part of the global food crisis... banana: according to the Commission “the thickness of a transverse section of the fruit between the lateral faces and the middle, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis . . . must be at a minimum of 27mm”."

The Next Level | Boys With Birkins - "Perhaps you haven't really noticed yet, but fashion-forward men, like my new trinity of adoration — Bryan Boy, Yu Masui and Jean-Paul Paula — have been feminizing their ensembles and pushing past females in the next-level department. And I, for one, am rapt... "Clothes are getting more and more borderless, like the new YSL unisex collection. Women's wear always takes ideas from men's wear, so why can't men's get influence from women's? Anyway, the biggest reason is men's wear is more boring than women's wear!!""
Is it a coincidence two of them are Asian?

Long URL Please | Lengthening short urls so that you don't have to - "Short URLs say little about where they link to. Reduce uncertainty with our plugin, API or bookmarklet"

Apple Patch Day: Gaping Mac OS X, Safari holes - "It's Apple's turn on the Patch Day treadmill and, for Mac OS X users, it's quite ugly. As I write, Apple has released four different bulletins to cover 48 documented vulnerabilities in the Mac OS X ecosystem, a solitary code execution flaw affecting Safari for Windows and four different security problems in Java for Mac OS X. Security Update 2009-001 is quite a whopper, providing patches for holes in a wide range of components, including several open-source implementations like ClamAV and fetchmail."
Be safe. Switch to Mac