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Corgoloin tourism and travel guide
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Visit Corgoloin: highlights and tourist information
Corgoloin is situated in the Cote d'Or (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 28 km from Dijon, the department capital. (General information: Corgoloin is 274 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Beaune at 9 km and Chateauneuf-en-Auxois at 25 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Corgoloin, France: places to visit and attractions
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend when sightseeing close to Corgoloin. Note that all distances shown are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater.
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More information about Corgoloin & region
Markets in and near Corgoloin
Local markets
- Nuits-Saint-Georges: market Friday (6km)
- Beaune: market Wednesday & Saturday (8km)
- Bligny-sur-Ouche: market Wednesday (18km)
- Verdun-sur-le-Doubs: market Thursday (23km)
- Chagny: market Thursday & Sunday (23km)
- Chenove: market Wednesday & Sunday (24km)
- Longvic: market Sunday (25km)
- Dijon: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday & Friday (28km)
- Epinac: market Wednesday & Sunday (32km)
- Chalon-sur-Saone: market Wednesday & Thursday & Sunday & Friday (33km)
Tourist attractions to visit near Corgoloin, France
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Corgoloin and wondering what to do next!
Most beautiful villages in France (see also beautiful French villages) Chateauneuf-en-Auxois (25km)
Churches or other religious monuments Hospices de Beaune (Beaune) (9km)
Remarkable gardens Abbaye de la Bussière (21km); Parc et jardin du château de Barbirey sur Ouche (22km); Parc et jardins du château de Sully (34km); Château d'Arcelot (39km); Jardin à la Faulx (44km); Jardin du château du Talmay (50km)
Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns) Dijon (28km); Chalon-sur-Saone (33km); Dole (44km)
Sites of natural beauty Cirque du Bout du Monde (23km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Beaune (8km); Quetigny (29km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Corgoloin
from Dijon (prefecture): 28 km
from Paris: 274 km
from Calais: 484 km
from Nice: 419 km
from Bordeaux: 492 km
from Strasbourg: 269 km
Getting here
Corgoloin is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk, a drive of about 6 hours, or fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car. For driving distances to Corgoloin from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Corgoloin): Agencourt, Aloxe-Corton, Arcenant, Chaux, Comblanchien, Echevronne, Fussey, Ladoix-Serrigny, Magny-les-Villers, Marey-les-Fussey, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Premeaux-Prissey, Quincey and Villers-la-Faye.
This page in French: Visitez Corgoloin


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A Chinese man who tried to fly a hot-air balloon hundreds of kilometres to islands disputed between Beijing and Tokyo was rescued by Japan's coastguard after ditching in the sea, an official said Thursday.
The 35-year-old took off from China's Fujian province on Wednesday morning in an attempt to land on one of the Tokyo-controlled islands, the Japan Coast Guard official said.
It was an ambitious goal -- hot-air balloons travel largely at the mercy of the wind, and the islands are tiny specks in the East China Sea 359 kilometres (223 miles) away from the take-off point.
They are hotly disputed between Beijing, which regards them as its territory and calls them Diaoyu, and Tokyo, which calls them Senkaku. Tensions have at times reached feverish heights.
In the event the pilot sent a request for help several hours into his flight and ditched in the sea, with a Japanese rescue helicopter picking him up 22 kilometres south of his goal, the official said.
The man, who was unhurt, was handed over to a Chinese patrol ship outside Japanese territorial waters, he added.
Photos distributed by the Japan Coast Guard showed a striped, multicoloured balloon drifting half-deflated in the steely blue waters.
Reports identified the man as Xu Shuaijun, a balloonist who in 2012 became the first man to pilot a hot air balloon over northeast China's Bohai Bay.
On his verified account on Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter, Xu posted a short message declaring that he had been returned safely to the city of Fuqing in Fujian province.
"I have returned safely," Xu wrote. "Thanks everyone for your concern."
His supporters wrote back with words of support, with many declaring him a "hero" who had done well even if he had fallen short of his target.
"So awesome!" one user wrote. "What innovative thinking and action!"
"It's enough that you came back safely," wrote another. "Brother Xu, your countrymen are proud of your pioneering act!"
Xu did not post any further details on his voyage and did not immediately respond to a request by AFP for comment.
But in two September microblog postings, he excitedly made note of his plans.
In one he shared a photo of a red Chinese flag with islands in the background. "I got some expert advice today, and am now full of meteorological knowledge! I'm flying to the Diaoyu Islands! Be Chinese with attitude."
In another, he posted what appeared to be a map of his planned route, with a bright yellow line drawn between the Fujianese coast and the islands. He declared the mission "the most difficult in the history of hot air balloon flight".
Some attempts by activists from both sides to land on the islands have been blocked, but in 2012 about a dozen members of a right-wing Japanese group swam ashore from a 20-boat flotilla. Earlier, 14 pro-China activists sailed to the islands from Hong Kong on a similar trip.
Regional tensions rose in late November when China abruptly declared a new Air Defence Identification Zone over the East China Sea, including the disputed islands.
Chinese state-owned ships and aircraft have approached them dozens of times to assert Beijing's territorial claims, especially since Japan nationalised some of them in September 2012.
Tensions between the two countries rose further last week after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni war shrine.
The shrine honours several high-level officials executed for war crimes after World War II, and serves as a reminder of Japan's 20th century aggression against China and other Asian nations.


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What if there were a stock exchange for tennis players? The start of the 2009 season would have produced wild gyrations, week-to-week uncertainty and only a few standouts amid the sliding prospects a lot like the real financial markets, in fact.
With the first quarter in the books, here's a look at how the players rate going into the clay season.
Rafael Nadal: BUY
Forget the Big Four; there's only one giant in men's tennis at the moment.
Nadal has managed to exceed the high expectations surrounding him this season, winning his first hard-court major at the Australian Open and following up with a title at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. It's the strongest start he's ever had, with his favorite part of the year still ahead.
There's only one nagging question: With all the energy he's expended, does he now have enough left to complete his usual sweep of the clay circuit?
On the one hand: yes, he really is that good. On the other, the 22-year-old Spaniard has also set up an unrealistic schedule for himself, committing to events at Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Rome, Madrid and, of course, the French Open. That's a grueling eight-week stretch with only two weeks of rest built in, so the likelihood of the odd loss or pullout is perhaps greater than in the past.
Overall, though, there's no one capable of regularly outperforming him on the dirt. His biggest challenge will be the bar he has set for himself in the past few years. Nadal actually feels his past successes have taken pressure off him by providing a hedge against any future letdowns.
It's a wise attitude, and should serve him well when he sets out to try to win a record five straight French Opens. That would surely establish him alongside, or above, Bjorn Borg as the greatest clay-court player in history, and send his stock soaring.
Roger Federer: SELL
It was the racket smash heard around the world, the perfect punctuation to Federer's current struggles. But by sending his frame hurtling to the ground against Novak Djokovic in the Sony Ericsson Open semifinals last week, at least Federer showed that he, too, knows something is wrong.
Having been the tour's best blue-chip performer and a model citizen over the past five years, Federer has arguably earned the right to have a lapse or even throw a racket without having to face an international inquisition.
More dangerous indicators are the nature of his losses -- he has dropped the deciding set against his three biggest rivals in the three biggest tournaments so far this year -- and his refusal to acknowledge that a pattern is now developing.
Both indicate that the current problem is mental. On the court, Federer's game has broken down at critical times in ways that suggest a little hesitation or self-doubt as he tries to grab control of a point, causing him to be a fraction late. Off the court, he appears to be taking each loss extremely hard, and the cumulative emotional toll might make it harder to bounce back.
Falling from such dizzy heights can be disorienting. Maybe it's time for the words of a fellow racket-smasher, Goran Ivanisevic: "Sometimes when you are winning too much, you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose."
Federer will get through this learning process at some point, but things could get worse before they get better.
Novak Djokovic: HOLD
Only his run to the Miami final last week keeps Djokovic out of the SELL column. Victory over a depleted field in Dubai doesn't offset the quarterfinal defeats to Andy Roddick at the Australian Open and Indian Wells, and even Djokovic's performances last week were mixed. He tottered badly toward the end of his match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and failed to show up in the first set against Federer. And despite a late charge in the second set, he was thoroughly dominated by Andy Murray in the final.
His repeated problems in the heat this year are a definite concern, but if it's a simply a temperature issue and his fitness isn't at fault, the European spring weather might not bother him too much.
There'll be a lot happening around Djokovic during the next few weeks: First, Murray is looking almost certain to snatch away the Serb's No. 3 spot before the French Open. Then there are also the preparations for Djokovic's family-owned tournament in Belgrade, around which there has already been a bit of conflict.
That adds even more weight to his already-sagging shoulders, but if things go well there, it might help him going forward.
Andy Murray: BUY
His 26-2 win-loss record is the best on tour this year, and the only thing to find fault with is the timing of one of those losses. A combination of illness and Fernando Verdasco sent Murray out of the Australian Open in the fourth round. Other than that, he's been close to perfect: titles in Doha, Rotterdam and Miami, with only a pullout at Dubai and a loss to Nadal in the Indian Wells final in between.
In theory, Murray's game is well-suited to dirt, but his belief is lacking. He says his goal for the clay season is simply to "try and reach the quarterfinals of one of the big tournaments."
But despite the modest words, he's aware of the opportunity this part of the year provides. Djokovic will have to outperform Murray by over 2,000 ranking points if he wants to prevent the Scot from reaching No. 3 (which would be the highest-ever ranking held by a British player). And Murray is looking even farther ahead in his calculations. "If you got rid of the clay-court season's points, I think I would be very close to Roger, and not too far behind Rafa," he mused after winning in Miami over the weekend.
Two-time French Open finalist Alex Corretja will also be returning to the Murray team for the clay swing. There's every chance Murray could make a good run in the next few weeks and keep closing the gap with Federer and Nadal.
He has started the year solidly, and a clutch three-set win in Miami against his idol Nadal has the potential to be a career-changer. He also did well to challenge Murray in their semifinal meeting the day after his marathon with Nadal, but the erratic performance was a sign that he's not yet as consistent as he needs to be to reach the top of the game.
He's now ranked a career-high No. 5, and though he's a long way behind No. 4, it's an impressive achievement for a 20-year-old. Del Potro insists hard courts are his favorite surface, but he won back-to-back clay events after Wimbledon last year and has few problems on the surface.
Last year, he was stalled by injury during this period of the season. This year looks much more promising.
Andy Roddick: HOLD
He has come up short against Federer and Nadal, but Roddick has otherwise had a solid first quarter, going 26-5 to start the year. That's the good news.
The bad news is that those numbers probably won't be moving in a positive direction for most of the second quarter.
With his wedding around the corner, it doesn't look like Roddick is putting much focus on the clay season this year. Still, anything he does on the dirt is gravy, and his stock should rise again when the grass rolls around.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga: HOLD
Tsonga made a good if not great start to the year in winning in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Marseille, France, and producing a respectable quarterfinal result at the Australian Open. But he was extremely disappointed by France's first-round loss to the Czech Republic in Davis Cup and seems to still be searching for a little inspiration.
Injuries are always a threat and his game is not best suited to clay, which makes it hard to predict great things for the next few weeks. But if the charismatic Frenchman arrives at the French Open fully fit, the home crowd could inspire him to make a run.
Fernando Verdasco: HOLD
Injuries have held Verdasco back after his excellent run at the Australian Open, but the Spaniard should still be able to maintain his elevated form for the next few months. Hard courts have historically been better for him than clay, but it'll be interesting to see how he does at his hometown event in Madrid, where he'll be feted like a hero.
James Blake: SELL
It's been a disappointing first quarter for the 29-year-old American, with only one win over a top-30 player. Blake admits it's getting harder to recover physically from matches, and he hasn't won two in a row since early February. He did reach a quarterfinal in Rome last year, but his current inconsistency makes it hard to see a repeat of that. Even when the tour returns to grass and hard courts, it'll be a big challenge for him to get back into the top 10.
Sam Querrey: HOLD
Like Blake, Querrey produced an unexpected quarterfinal result on clay last year, reaching the final eight in Monte Carlo. Unlike Blake, however, Querrey is still on the upswing and even prefers clay to grass.
The odds are against making another shock quarterfinal, but the 21-year-old has really solidified his game over the past year and still has some upside.
Kamakshi Tandon is a freelance tennis writer for ESPN.com.


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Tuesday December 30, 2008 rally in downtown Youngstown, OH.
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Why don't you Americans with Palestinian heritage take your peaceful demonstration(s) to Hamas headquarters and encourage THEM to stop the violence. This tug of war of hate has existed since whenever...so when will it register that this is old and enough is enough? Personally I'm tired of the behavior. It's interesting how the two parties coexist in America, and I'm sure it's the case over there. However, until the natives stand up to Hamas, Israel will have no choice but to continue to be the enforcer.
Enforcing what exactly? Is that what they call organizations that kill 100x the amount of their own dead to "enforce"...what...fear? Why do you THINK so many Palestinians are enraged?


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Simple Definition of payroll
: a list of the people who work for a company and the amount of money that the company has agreed to pay them
: the total amount of money that a company pays to all of its employees
Examples of payroll in a sentence
They cut him from their payroll.
He's the manager of a baseball team with a $50 million payroll.
Businesses are keeping their payrolls low by embracing new technologies.
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We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
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Thursday, November 26. 2015
Have A Happy Thanksgiving. I Guess. Whatever
Reposted, but still terrible
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Monday, November 23. 2015
Feel the Balm of the Oil of Palm
Well, another Monday has rolled around. Time to leave the old rack and earn the spondulac. Exit your cribs to get the dibs. Act the noble savage to get the happy cabbage. Brave the debris to get the dough-re-mi. Feel the balm of the oil of palm. I hope by close of business that you pile the oof up to the roof.
Alarming News: Just a bunch of links to writing done elsewhere
Well, you see what I mean. I can assure you that the percentage of live blogs to festering pixel corpses doesn't improve as you continue down the blogroll. I guess it's true what Sir Walter Scott said about blogging:
I'm not picking on Ace, of course. He doesn't have time to read his blog. If he's like most bloggers, he leaves his blogroll as it was eight years ago, as a kind of shrine to his friends, many of whom are his commenters, I'm sure.
Obama is barely smart enough to order the most expensive thing on the menu at a Sizzler, and the press corps thinks he's a polymath.
Bosch's Giant Robot Can Punch Weeds to Death
If this works better than the current eco-friendly method, which is having illegal aliens crapping on the weeds, then Chipotle and I are all for it.
How to Baffle Web Trackers by Obfuscating Your Movements Online
Living in a cave is the alternative, huh? You could, you know, shut the goddamned thing off.
Top 10 Ways Wood Pellets Beat Firewood
I say the old ways are the best ways, so I'm going to stick with burning peat in a brazier in the middle of my great hall, thanks.
Nutrition is personal. Identical foods produce "healthy" and "unhealthy" responses in different individuals.
In order to test my personal reaction to ingesting a cookie, a banana, and seven scotch and sodas, you're going to have to give me a banana and a cookie.
The strange case of 77 blue-collar Chinese migrants that Kenya is calling "cyber-hackers"
Help, I'm a Chinese businessman being held in a Kenyan jail, and I'll transfer one million dollars to your account if you'll just pay my bail. Please enter your bank account information...
Independent Music Is Big. Really, Really Big.
After reading the article, I realize I have no idea how anything works anymore, but neither does anyone else, so I don't feel bad.
Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal abroad?
Why has Italian cinema lost its appeal? Sophia Loren's bustline finally dipped below the horizon. It's really that simple. And stop calling her abroad.
What I've learned from sitting next to a pro salesman
The author talks in wonderment when the salesman asks about the health of a customer's family members before trying to sell them things. The concept of using good manners, or any manners at all, doesn't even register as "a thing" with the author. Honestly, iPhones have utterly destroyed an entire generation of human beings.
Coming soon: chicken meat without slaughter
I've raised chickens. Chicken breast grown in a petri dish will be 10 percent smarter than any chicken I've ever met.
OK, everybody, time to get after that spondulac!
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Sunday, November 22. 2015
Well, it's Sunday. That means Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes in the morning, and Sunday-go-to-hell clothes in the afternoon. You know, for puttering around the house.
Vatican to try five, including reporters, over leaks scandal
Let's borderline blaspheme and ask, WWJAD? (What would Joan of Arc do?) I'm no expert, and think it presumptuous to speak for her, but I have an inkling whatever she'd do, she'd do it to Frankie, not the reporters, and it would leave a mark.
New Orleans Medical Student Shot While Trying to Stop Attack on Woman
Speaking of Orleans, WWJAD? It's not for me to say, but I imagine she would kneel down and tenderly kiss that brave man on his furrowed brow, nurse his wounds, and then go off to see if it was possible to fit the second man into a tuna can.
Exclusive: In Paris attack, nurse discovers the man he tried to save was bomber
WWJAD? I am a sinner, not a saint, so don't trust me, but I figure she would commend that nurse for showing simple Christian charity to all. Then if the bomber recovered from his wounds, she'd give him a 12" haircut.
More than 1,000 attend funeral for veteran with no family
WWJAD? This one is easier. She would weep, as did I.
Amish man runs marathon in traditional slacks and suspenders
WWJAD? She'd run next to him, clanking all the way. Then they'd stop five yards shy of the finish line and pray for the other runners to catch up.
Green campaigner readies to swim the Pacific
WWJAD? Mention she needed fewer people to save France.
Sword-wielding psycho freaks out at Apple Store
WWJAD? Trick question. She's not an Apple person. That was William Tell. Joan wore armor, so I imagine she was more of a Chrome user.
Treasure trove: Farmer discovers 4,000 Roman coins in Swiss orchard
WWJAD? She'd probably remind you to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. Then she'd point out that Caesar has been dead for two thousand years, and split the dough with you.
Well, I hope you all have a nice Sunday, and if you think it might be fun or enlightening, you can wonder WWJAD about everything in your life today. I know for a dead cert she wouldn't take the points and bet on the Cleveland Rams. Obvious Saints fan.
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Saturday, November 21. 2015
Don't Be a Slacker!
It's common for humans to personalize things that don't have anything to do with us in particular. For instance, many people looked at today's news and espied a massacre at the Radisson Hotel in Mali. It was perpetrated by Al Qaeda, or Alcoa, or Al Kaline, or Boko Loko, or Procul Harem, or whatever those pesky Mohammedans are printing on their bowling shirts these days. Some observers immediately wondered what it meant to them.
Be honest. It's possible your first reaction to seeing the mayhem in Mali was, "I've been in worse Radissons than that! That one in Naperville didn't even have USA Todays in the lobby, and I couldn't tell the difference between the continental breakfast and the wet nap." That's hardly commendable, but it's understandable. It's no less sensible than rending your garments over it before changing the channel to The True Game of Downton Boardwalk Thrones. Bad things happen all day, every day. You're not the king of the world, as far as I know.
Tragedy is when I stub my toe; comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. It's not as heartless as it sounds. Our reactions to the things we encounter in the news must be tempered by proportionality. We are all charged to look after our selves, our family, our friends, our community, our country, and then mankind -- in that order. Making gigantic, pointless, histrionic demonstrations of how much you care about people so far away they might as well be an abstraction isn't of any use to anyone. I've also noticed that people that make a big deal out of loving humanity in general usually leave a 5 percent tip after a four-hour meal, then go home and beat their wives. Or start the Soviet Union. Talk is cheap.
The level of moral preening abroad in the land grows daily. College students are demanding that Woodrow Wilson get airbrushed out of their textbooks to signal they're ready for three minutes hate. That way they can accuse anyone who stops after two minutes of being a kulak reactionary Goldstein fan.
It puts me in mind of King Charles II. After he was restored to the British throne, he dug up the corpse of Oliver Cromwell, the man who had beheaded his father, and had Cromwell's festering corpse drawn, hung, and beheaded. His father must have looked down from heaven, or more likely up from the other place, and thought to himself, "That's swell and all, but it would have been handier nine years ago."
On to the news:
Pope Francis calls Christmas a 'charade' as the 'world continues to wage war'
Christ, bring back the Borgias. What an invertebrate sits on that chair now.
Baltic Dry Index Falls Below 500 for First Time Ever
I wouldn't worry too much about that. The Baltic is no big deal. Put all your hotels on Mediterranean.
By ignoring everything but precious metals, Spain ended up with runaway inflation. Digging metal out of the ground to increase the money supply is no different than printing greenbacks.
In America's Little Syria, a divide on accepting refugees
Unlike all the little SJW twerps going to Ivy League, I have known lots of real, live Syrians. They're Christian. They came here years ago to get away from the murderous psychos you're inviting over now. But keep on caring deeply about Syrians to earn a sanctimony merit badge on your diploma, kids.
Scientist claims to have detected a parallel universe
I used to live in a parallel universe where scientists could produce results twice in a row before they'd claim they'd outdone Newton.
Why young American women are joining ISIS
I'm often surprised by what surprises people. Chicks dug Rudolph Valentino, too -- until he opened his mouth.
LivingSocial Offers a Cautionary Tale to Today's Unicorns
The iPhone economy is 99 percent Ponzi. A half dozen companies make money, everybody else borrows over and over again to cover their losses. LivingSocial lost $1.4 billion in 4 years. They simply convinced investors that the electronic equivalent of a flyer that falls out of the newspaper was General Motors.
The Man Who Went From Harvard to Goldman to Colombian Jail
It's like the sun rising in the east, isn't it? If a Clinton offers to go halfsies on a gold mine, they'll get the gold, you'll get the shaft.
In a remote corner of Romania, neighbours kill each other over tiny strips of land.
Would you like to find out more? Vote Sanders!
Man called Phuc Dat Bich posts passport to Facebook after being repeatedly banned from site
My aunt, Carlotta Tendant, feels your pain, dude.
Maggie's Farm readers are our friends. We care about our friends. Stay out of the Radisson!
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Friday, November 20. 2015
I'm supposed to read the papers and paste some of the more interesting items on this page for you to peruse. We're all supposed to have a few laughs, go tsk, tsk, or on the odd occasion, applaud what we see. Today I was brought up short, as they say. Like a baby midget in the circus. I'm still capable of being shocked, I guess. The papers are full of man's inhumanity to man these last few days, but nothing about a terrorist attack surprises me anymore. Doesn't even move the meter, I'm ashamed to say.
The Newspaper neglected to mention that the "fugitive Santeria priest" suspected of murder had raped a child. All the news that fits, I guess, and the fact that the rape victim was a child can't compete with everything else the headline has going on.
I can't say I blame the news organization. They have a lot of ground to cover. I didn't even bother listing all the plain old murders I found on that page. There was a kind of monotony to them. The KTLA news page even tried to get me to pay attention to a car wreck. That doesn't even register as bad news to me anymore after reading the rest of the happenings from one little corner of our world.
Well, don't worry, you can count on me to keep bringing you the news, but as soon as I'm done, I'm shaving my head, putting on flowing robes, and fashioning a placard that reads REPENT, THE WORLD WILL END TOMORROW. You'll find me out on the sidewalk, waving at passing cars, and apologizing to everyone for not making the sign 50 years ago when it would have been timely.
A Florida State University researcher has discovered an artificial material that mimics photosynthesis and potentially creates a sustainable energy source.
I see. He's terrified of producing a beneficial trace gas, or any "waste." He will, however, propose the mining of lots of manganese, a material that causes permanent neurological disorders, tremors, facial muscle spasms, difficulty walking, acute bronchitis, aggressiveness, and hallucinations. But he'll make enough juice to charge his phone, so it's all good.
UnitedHealth may exit Obamacare individual exchanges
I don't have any questions about the viability of Obamacare, and never did, but thanks for playing.
Cab medallion owners sue NYC, blame Uber for ruining business
Here's an errand for you, kind reader. Apply for a permit to do anything in New York City. Then tell the person behind the counter you don't need to fill out any forms, or pay any fees, because you wrote 200 lines of javascript, frosted it with a little html, and pasted it into your phone. I promise I'll drag the river to find you.
Students want Woodrow Wilson's name removed from Princeton
Let's make a deal, college kids. I'll help you jackhammer his name off the building if you'll help me erase his signature from the Revenue Act of 1913.
Help! My short position got crushed, and now I owe E-Trade $106,445.56
I have no sympathy -- none -- for a college graduate that can't pluralize "buddy."
Doctors want ban on prescription drug, device advertisements
I have only one observation. If a man and a woman are in separate bathtubs, no amount of medication will initiate sexual activity between them. That's a cast iron fact.
Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian: it's the healthiest diet you've never heard of
Sounds great. I'm all for a return to mid-Victorian Napier-style foreign policy, too: "Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you."
Why the VW #DieselGate Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg, Part 2
I have another theory. The emissions rules to limit CO2 are stupid and unattainable, and Volkswagen workers had to choose between fibbing and mass ritual suicide in the parking lot.
Half of New Yorkers Say They Are Barely or Not Getting By, Poll Shows
Half say they are barely getting by, and the other half didn't hear the question because their head is in the oven.
My Home-Built TTL Computer Processor (CPU)
That is a nifty piece of work. After the zombie apocalypse, he'll be an emperor-god because he'll be the only man on Earth able to program an LED register to show the vague outlines of a naked woman.
Well, that should tide you over until tomorrow. Remember, Maggies Farm loves you and wants you to be happy, so if by some twist of fate you accidentally enter the broadcast area for KTLA, roll up the windows, lock the doors, and keep driving.
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Thursday, November 19. 2015
Bring Back Alec Leamas
We used to be rather better at this cloak and dagger stuff.
Perhaps it was because we were all sure we were on the same team back in the day. Kennedy was a bit of a dolt compared to Eisenhower, but he wasn't any kind of friend to the commies. The Bay of Pigs was about as dumb an attempt at exercising American power as you could come up with, but he didn't mess it up on purpose because he was secretly hoping the other side would win. I'm not sure you can count on that brand of My mother, drunk or sober patriotism anymore.
Not too many years earlier, Eisenhower was able to go on national television and admit he was the one that sent Francis Gary Powers to spy on the Soviet Union from the edge of space. He knew that everyone on the other side of the aisle wouldn't impeach him over it. It was, after all, in the United States' best interest. Well, if it worked it was.
While terrorists are raging all over the landscape, our intelligence experts are busy in nondescript buildings in Virginia rifling through Tea Party tax returns. Anyone that understands opportunity cost knows that when some tasks get done to the last jot and tittle, others get the back burner. The Rumford Meteor japed that the massacre in Paris had an effect: France Finally Uses the List of Terrorists They've Been Keeping at the Bottom of a Locked Filing Cabinet Stuck in a Disused Lavatory With a Sign on the Door Saying Beware of the Leopard
If that's funny, it's because it's true. France had a list of 168 locations they had identified as possible terrorist hideouts. They used the list to conduct raids the day after the bloodbath. What exactly was a more important use of their time the day before the massacre? Putting someone in the clink for working 36 hours a week?
Even the entertainment about dealing with an implacable enemy used to be better. I'm sick of rogue CIA agents. I long for the good old days of CIA agents who were rogues. Not the same thing, is it?
On to today's news:
Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
C'mon, admit it. Public School is obsolete. It serves only as an academy for depravity at this point.
Police Civil Asset Forfeitures Exceed All Burglaries in 2014
Yeah, and the burglars are 100 percent less likely to shoot your dog.
Is Sex Once A Week Enough For A Happy Relationship?
Once a week? Maybe. I'll reserve judgment until they clarify whether that means at least two people are in the room.
Addyi, Libido-Boosting Pill For The Ladies, Not A Big Hit
You're not allowed to drink alcohol when taking this drug. No one's getting any action under those circumstances.
A Missed Business Opportunity: Senior Centers That Are Actually Fun
You mean Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun aren't nursing homes?
Writers in the Storm: How weather went from symbol to science and back again.
There's always plenty of weather in bodice rippers. Otherwise Fabio's pectorals wouldn't glisten with sweat as his hands slowly made their way up inside her chemise, the faint aroma of the sodden garden surrounding them like the perfume of Aphrodite, and all that sh*t.
Philly cop arrested for attacking Dunkin Donuts employee, bystander
In his defense, he did say, "No sprinkles."
The First Taco Bell Will Be Saved from Demolition!
I'm fairly certain the first and only taco I ate at Taco Bell hasn't moved an inch since I swallowed it.
Man jailed over music piracy website
No one should ever go to jail for copyright infringement, which is a civil violation, or should be. Same goes for tax evasion. If you can't collect the money upfront, willingly, you're not entitled to it. Jailing people for owing money is medieval.
The Double Life of John le Carré
"The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" with Richard Burton and Claire Bloom is the best spy movie ever made. Discuss.
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Wednesday, November 18. 2015
I Drink Brake Fluid. But I Can Stop any Time I Want To
Look, I know you mean well, and some of you look quite fetching in a lab coat, horn rims, and high heels, but I am not interested in your "studies." You do not seem to have studied anything but grievances in school, yet you publish studies by the ream as soon as you escape. I do not care a fig if you think my cell phone is giving cancer to my autism. I am not all that interested in your theories about the correlation of causation with the cessation of sensation in my foot as I drop off to sleep at night.
I sleep when I'm tired and I eat when I'm hungry and I drink when I'm thirsty and I read when I'm curious and I wonder what you're on about. If you've got evidence, trot it out, but I warn you I'm going to want to inspect your test tubes before I throw away my office chair and sit on a beach ball.
Now, on to today's studies:
Drink To Your Health: Study Links Daily Coffee Habit To Longevity
This article is only sorta-correct. It's true you'll live longer if you don't get in my way when I'm trying to get coffee.
The twisted tale of the man who stole Albert Einstein's brain
This is the equivalent of breaking into a bank to steal the deposit slips. Ted Williams frozen head is never going to bat .400, either.
What would the life of an average American look like without access to the most basic necessity?
Another paid advertisement masquerading as a news article, but I'll play along: America doesn't have "access" to water. We have a population of capable humans who consider an inexpensive supply of potable water for its citizens to be an important, if trivial, undertaking, and then makes it happen. Well, except California.
Smart Cup Pryme Launches To Track Your Hydration, But It Doesn't Always Work
Yet another fake ad, but I'll play along. This woman believes she needs a handheld supercomputer wirelessly attached to an electronic cup in order to get herself a drink of water. She's the target audience for the last fake article, I imagine.
How Early Exit Disease Stunts The Growth Of Midwest Startup Communities
The article says startup owners are cashing out before they've sufficiently bilked investors out of enough money to fund still more startups. Welcome to the fabulous new iAmway economy!
The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain
The United States has always been an endlessly interesting place, and continues to be so.
Bicycles lighting the night in Venice Beach (video feature)
The United States has always been an endlessly interesting place, and continues to be so.
Bobby Jindal Quits Republican Presidential Race
If a couple more Republican candidates quit, they're not going to be able to field a baseball team.
Spectator attacks linesman with his penis at football match in Spain
I've noticed that gruntled people never attack anyone with their penis.
DNA Reveals Mysterious Human Cousin With Huge Teeth
I know they're scientists, but I doubt I'm related to Julia Roberts.
Well, there you go. If I were you, I'd blow off work, get hopped up on pots of coffee, build a house out of corn shucks, and then ride a bicycle covered with LEDs in circles around it. If you don't, the terrorists have won.
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Tuesday, November 17. 2015
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing. It Won't Change a Flat Tire, However
Since the entire world has quickly settled on singing a dreary, infantile ditty written by a wife-beater that extols the state religion of Nazi Germany and the USSR as a response to an existential threat, I guess it's time to move on to new topics. Speaking of existential, didn't those Frenchmen invent existentialism? No, I think that was Kierkegaarde. Maybe it was Nietzsche. Whatever. It was one of those grouchy fellows. I was doodling in my copybook and trying to get a peek down a girl's blouse that day in school, and must have missed it. At any rate, Europe is just a bunch of zebras at the watering hole watching a lion eat their little sister while mumbling, "Wasn't me, don't care." Who am I to bother about it? Let's read the papers:
Why France will do nothing about the Paris Massacre: Spengler
Like Obama, Hollande looks at terror attacks through the lens of self-interest. If it affects their personal reputation, they get peevish and start talking like a fop's idea of Audie Murphy. Otherwise, they really don't give a sh*t.
Anonymous Declares Cyber War on ISIS. Why It Matters
I'm sure a multinational terrorist organization is shaking in their sandals over the prospect of a deluge of fake one-star reviews on Yelp.
In my experience, machine snow is half-frozen filthy retaining pond water sprayed all over you if you deign to ski on a weekday.
The problem isn't that life is unfair — it's that you don't know the rules
Silly me. I thought holding up an inexpertly lettered sign with a preachy message and a hashtag was the pinnacle of human achievement.
'Sexy bombshell' at center of new Vatican corruption scandal
Bombshell? You guys don't get out much. She reminds me of homely girls who go to Star Wars conventions.
After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
Ever hear of the Fourth Amendment? Cute little thing. It was popular around here 200 years ago. It almost seems like you have a problem using probable cause to determine who to surveil because then you'd have to admit who is probably gonna cause a problem.
Man sentenced 40 years after knocking out sister's two front teeth in row over John Lennon Christmas record
Judge: I need to know which one of them liked that dreadful song in order to rule against him or her.
Weapons stolen from an Army base in Massachusetts during a break-in just 24 hours after the Paris terrorist attacks
Round up the Friends of Eddie Coyle
Why Do We Still Not Know Whats Inside the Pyramids?
Don't worry. ISIS will crack those open like a pinata after their next Mahdi connects the Sudan to Vienna.
Amazingly Vivid Dino Illustrations Reveal a Brutal Prehistoric World
"Brutal" prehistoric world? Compared to what? My housecat will kill anything it can catch, and tortures it first, too. Your goldfish would eat you if it could fit you in its mouth.
Be careful out there in the brutal posthistoric world today.
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Monday, November 16. 2015
Can't Trust That Day
Well, it's Monday. Your favorite team lost, so the water cooler is looking less like an oasis and more like an enemy gun emplacement. Hey, Bob, did you see Peyton Roethlesberger throw a pick six and a tantrum on fourth down with the game on the line? You know, the one that caused my team to win, and your favorite team and their benighted fans to be consigned to ignominy and defeat? What did you think about that Bob? Did you enjoy it as much as I did? Whaddya say about that, Bob?
Me, I don't mind Mondays so much. I don't root for Jameis Manziel or Cam Bradford or Russell Brees, so it's of little consequence if the Green Bay Pacers fall to the Dallas Drovers. The first day of the work week holds no terrors for me. I kind of like it there. No one makes me rake leaves at the office. I don't have to change every battery in every smoke alarm in the building at 4 AM because I can't figure out which one is beeping. It would be silly to be required to paint the outside of a skyscraper, wouldn't it? I don't even know where to look for the gutters on a 50-story building, never mind clean them out. No, the office is just fine. Besides, the Internet connection is better, and I get to read the Maggie's Farm morning links while pretending to be working, instead of pretending to be asleep on the couch when my wife gets home with groceries.
Jury convicts brothers in H-1B fraud case, jail possible
Silly me. From what I've observed, I would have assumed that a "fraudulent H-1B case" would involve NOT bringing illegal aliens into the country to work like coolies.
I Used to Spend $1,000 a Week on Pot Because I Thought Smoking Made My Music Better. I Was Wrong
Um, it's really only necessary for your audience to be stoned, not you. Sober or not, your records sound like Sesame Street on Seconal, dude.
Increased intelligence is a myth (so far)
I have always found that the only way I could measurably increase other people's intelligence is by drinking heavily. The girls get better looking, too.
Lured In by Two Manhattan Psychics, to the Tune of $718,000
Well, those psychics certainly measurably increased that guy's intelligence. While $718k isn't exactly cheap, it still cost less than a Head Start class.
Turkey blocks access to Reddit under controversial censorship law
I've blocked Reddit from my computer under an uncontroversial lack of interest in the opinions of neckbeards law.
'Made in France' release postponed following attacks in Paris
The Paris gig has been cancelled. I wouldn't worry about it, though; it's not a big Cinema Verite town.
There's a Downton Abbey Thief on the Loose in America
Occam's Razor: he needs coasters and finally ran out of AOL discs.
What Is A Digital-To-Analog Converter, And Do You Need One?
First sentence begins with "And." Second sentence begins with "But." The author then uses parentheses to enclose a dependent clause instead of commas. The rest is all stupid, useless Schiit. So the answer to the second question is 01101110 01101111! Whoops, forgot to convert it to analog. NO!
Adblock won't ever stop things like that Popular Science "article" about a particular brand of audio converter. Me, I just want a parentheses blocker.
Microsoft opens Sydney store, its first flagship outside North America
I wonder. Is it no longer possible for a tech company to survive in the market without pretending the entire business is a Gymboree?
That should be enough information to tide you over until lunch. If you fib and say you have a doctor's appointment right after, you might make it until 3:30 before you're required to do any actual work. Make sure to leave early, too. As they say on the Department of Public Works crew, "No sense killing the job."
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Sunday, November 15. 2015
Look Out, Here Comes the Master Race
Hello everyone. I trust you're all done sleeping one off.
Whoops, I meant to say, I trust you're all back from Sunday service now. If you're like me, there's nothing like a hot cup of joe and the Sunday paper spread out in front of you after church. Of course a printed newspaper was last spotted in my home back when Reagan was abroad in the land, and when the Pope wasn't pro-choice, so I have to make do with a passel of pixels spread out in front of me. On the plus side, the poorly cropped pictures are more plentiful, and some of the articles actually start talking to you, which give the voices in my head a day off. On to the news!
Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
Or, you know, you could shut the stupid thing off, and make your kids shut it off. You know, like an adult.
How to Make a Star Wars TIE Fighter Using Starbucks Cups
Alternate title: How to Make an Infantile Adult Using Only Pop Culture and a Candy Store Masquerading as a Coffee Shop.
The bizarre scheme to transform a remote island into the new Dubai
I think France has also been toying with the idea of hosting some "visiting Arab businessmen." I wonder how that's going?
Justice officials fear nation's biggest wiretap operation may not be legal
I have a dictionary. I fear that "Fear" is the wrong word in that headline. DILLIGAF might approximate their mood. however.
How Paris ISIS Terrorists May Have Used PlayStation 4 To Discuss And Plan Attacks
"The hunt for those responsible." That's a good one. I imagine common-sense Playstation control will fix everything. With an outright ban on assault Playstations, of course.
The Savings App Designed by a Behavioral Economist
Or, you know, you could shut the stupid thing off, and make your kids shut it off. You know, like an adult.
Why human-in-the-loop computing is the future of machine learning
I know! We could install a steering wheel in self-driving cars! That would let the passenger drive the car using their judgment! Of course, first they'd have to shut their stupid iPhone off, and make their kids shut theirs off. You know, like an adult.
Six Strange Things That Have Been Happening in Financial Markets
Let's see: Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama. I only count five.
Why Free Can Be a Problem on the Internet
Or, you know, you could shut the stupid thing off, and make your kids shut it off. You know, like an adult.
In Scandinavia, "patient hotels" provide an alternative to hospitals
Wow. Those benevolent and intelligent Scandinavians have discovered that neurotic hypochondriacal lonely people prefer a four-star hotel over staying at home and reading Web MD -- if someone else pays for it. There's also a helpful picuture of of a member of this super-race of humans bicycling on two underinflated tires while texting.
Well, that's all the news that fits. Into my schedule, I mean. I think I'm going to, I don't know, shut this stupid thing off now. You, know, like an adult.
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Saturday, November 14. 2015
Saturday Night's Alright
I don't get in nearly as many scrapes on Saturday Night as I once did. I'm always the toughest guy at the Olive Garden at 4:10, so no one dares front me over the newly rationed bread sticks, and I'm usually home in bed before the real heavy stuff comes down past 5:00.
The world is entering a third stage of a rolling debt crisis, this time centred on emerging markets
Housing debt? Ten years roll by and somehow everything is still George Bush's fault.
Stop-and-Seize Turns Police Into Self-Funding Gangs
I have solved this problem with insolvency.
Vincent Asaro, Accused in Lufthansa Heist, Is Found Not Guilty
People are stunned that jurors don't want a purported mafia member angry at them. That is stunning.
Paris attacks: Bataclan and other assaults leave many dead
Hmm. It would appear they don't - want - to live like a refugee. Don't want to live like a ref-huge-gee.
Apple is Shutting Down Beats Music, Just Like Most Companies it Buys
William Howard Taft wouldn't leave a scrap of flesh on Tim Cook's bones.
Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s Then Totally Blew It
Oh look. The same people who said Microsoft was an evil monopoly because they made an operating system and a web browser are mocking them for not taking over the whole Internet.
MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
Somehow I don't think Mizzou students would have come up with this.
Can the vocabulary of deceit reveal fraudulent studies?
I just look for the word "consensus." Saves time.
Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC
I only watch football on TV so I imagine the continuous stream of high-pitched swearing will interfere with this scheme.
Have a lovely Saturday!
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Friday, November 13. 2015
Greetings From the Microbial Community
Well, if you manage to crawl to the finish line at 5 PM today, you've made it through another week. Look on the bright side. Unless you're melanin-challenged and work at a college, you'll still have a job on Monday, and you have two whole days to show your liver who's boss. On to today's links!
Did You Just Get a $500 Freelance Assignment? The City Might Bill You $30,000
Just drive an Uber cab. Your magic iPhone transubstantiates all regulations into ponies and cupcakes.
60-Year-Old French Apartments Look Like a Utopian Dream
My Utopian dream is living in France after all these buildings are demolished.
The Making of the Most Expensive Mansion in History
The author of this article sure doesn't know much history. Try putting in an offer on the Biltmore Estate. You'll have to buy 1/6th of the Pisgah National Forest to go along with it. It used to be the back yard.
Sweden Reintroduces Border Controls
At this point, wouldn't Swedish border controls only keep Muslims in?
Udacity Raises $105 Million Series D, Bringing Valuation To $1 Billion
I guess homeschooling is only bad when conservatives do it.
The Latest Evidence That Helmet Laws Don't Help Bike Safety
Humans take chances. Increase their feeling of security, and they'll take bigger chances.
7 Long-Term Productivity Habits Of The Most Successful People
The most successful people don't spend all day reading lists on the Internet.
Van Gogh's Turbulent Mind Captured Turbulence
Hey, NPR: His brain didn't work. His eyes were fine.
The New Yorker Editor Who Became a Comic Book Hero
So, my collection of Classics Illustrated never happened, right Francoise?
How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution
Florence, Italy, gave us the Renaissance. I'm pretty sure you can buy manganese mined by hand in Burkina Faso, which is pretty swell, too.
Everybody have a great day, and make sure to buy a drink for your whole microbial community tonight after work. It's the friendly thing to do.
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Thursday, November 12. 2015
Is This Wembley? No, It's Thursday. So Am I. Let's Have a Drink
I was wondering. Does anybody know how to write jokes any longer? Or more to the point, write humorously? If they're extant, I haven't noticed it. It takes a light touch to write humor, and few seem interested in giving it a try. The best writers would only salt in jokes as foils to a larger humorous situation. Wodehouse had Bertie Wooster, who was impersonating Gussie Fink-Nottle, trying to tell an inappropriate joke at dinner, which is being hosted by a gaggle of grim old sisters, some of whom are hard of hearing.
- There are these three deaf chaps on a train and it stops at Wembley.
In the book this is adapted from, the text is funny because it is a comic situation described in an amusing way. The joke is an excuse to be humorous. It's supposed to be a bad joke, but it really isn't. Twain used the same sort of approach to tell good jokes, but by prefacing them by saying, "This is a bad joke," he had an easier time weaving a humorous narrative around them. The woefully misnamed "situation comedies" have become the modern version of this form of light comedy, but they are usually just a series of blunt jokes barely strung together. Not the same thing.
At any rate, is this Wembley? Time for the links, all supplied with PG Wodehouse quotes to suit:
"...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking."
Alibaba's Singles' Day sales surge 60 percent to $14.3 billion
"You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underwear. One or the other. Not both."
The Amazing Rube Slowberg Machine
"In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness."
The Case for Buying a Home You Can't Afford
"Beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy mornings."
Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
"I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well."
Rare early photographs of Peking
"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."
Why I Chose The Gun And Then Silicon Valley
"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."
Facebook director sells nearly half his stake
"As a rule, from what I've observed, the American captain of industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a captain of industry again."
"It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required."
Have a lovely practice Friday.
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Wednesday, November 11. 2015
The Hawaiian Hand of Glory
Well, Bird Dog has gone off for a few days to make sure his mountain redoubt/bolthole is still stocked with beans and ammo. That means you're stuck with me, Roger, the King of Sicily.
Sexual Selection Makes Female Songbirds Drab
Ancillary Copyright 2.0: The European Commission is preparing a frontal attack on the hyperlink
Oh dear. Bloggers would have to produce their own text and stop linking to newspapers they purport to hate.
After 'robust' discussion, fast food giant McDonald's is not pursuing a REIT
There's a term for borrowing money to pay existing investors instead of trying to turn a profit.
Mummified Hand from Yorkshire May Be Last Hand of Glory Still in Existence
The Bladen Journal reports that a mummified hand found in Castleton, North Yorkshire, England is the only known 'Hand of Glory', a grotesque artifact meant to aid thieves in their work during the night, still in existence. This mummified hand supposedly has the power to "entrance humans" according to the Express. Hands of Glory were also a favorite tool for thieves and creative storytellers for over 200 years.I hereby propose we call Obama's autopen the Hawaiian Hand of Glory.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Helmut Schmidt dies at 96; W. German chancellor fought domestic terror
Better than what they have now. Neither could carry Adenauer's jockstrap, however.
Life in a Studio Apartment with my Wife and Two Sons
Six of us lived in a 960 square foot ranch, and were about average. Why do Millennials demand a trophy for everything? Move.
I'll bet both investors are divorce lawyers
The future of sustainable agriculture is all about smart technology and scaling up
I see the generation that thinks they invented small apartments thinks they invented agriculture the week before.
Well, everybody sally forth and make sure you make enough money today to buy sustainably grown tomatoes before the farm goes out of business and you're forced to buy the pinkish baseballs they always had at the A&P.
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Saturday, August 23. 2014
A Monkey's Diversion
A monkey's diversion. Hmm. You know, Darwin didn't have a clue compared to Gregor Mendel, but we are just monkeys when examined dispassionately. I've never heard the Internet described properly until just now, in my head. I asked Google what the Internet was, which I was afraid to do at first. If you ask the Internet what the Internet is, that's like dividing by zero. I could have broken the darn thing, and then everyone would be angry at me. So I asked with some trepidation, but nothing much happened, good or bad, just like when you search for anything else. It told me this:
No, that's way too many words. I hereby declare: The Internet is A Monkey's Diversion. Someone go update the Wikipedia page, will you? Now on to some desultory links, with crabby commentary. A Monkey's Diversion!
Be flexible. Line up work in advance. Get banking set up. Don't plan to work 40 hrs/wk. Travel light (28L backpack). Go.
Regulation has plunged us back to the hunter-gatherer stage, this time for pixels. If this behavior bothers you, don't fret. Everyone young that tries to copy this method will never procreate.
There is nothing serious that cannot be made trivial, and nothing trivial that cannot be made serious.
It all began, as these things so often do, with a drink. One drink, which led to another, then more besides. Each one, generously given by a genial customer. Each one eagerly slurped by the monkey chained to the bar
That reminds me. I can't wait until Saint Patrick's Day!
A recent report from Reuters has also suggested Apple is in talks with multiple health providers at Mount Sinai, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Allscripts, with the company pushing HealthKit and its Health app as an all-in-one patient data resource for medical professionals.
The biggest heist ever committed in America was bribing politicians to make Apple the defacto computer used in public schools. They were useless for any sort of productive work, which made them wildly popular with academics. Apple smells sweet, sweet Obamacare money now.
Knowledge Vault is a type of "knowledge base" – a system that stores information so that machines as well as people can read it. Where a database deals with numbers, a knowledge base deals with facts. When you type "Where was Madonna born" into Google, for example, the place given is pulled from Google's existing knowledge base.This existing base, called Knowledge Graph, relies on crowdsourcing to expand its information. But the firm noticed that growth was stalling; humans could only take it so far.
Asking the Internet for facts is like telling a bicyclist to go get moon rocks. Facts aren't located on the Internet, dudes. But you knew that. They're looking for their brand of facts.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go through training as an ISIS terrorist? Or better yet, where you would go to find such advanced training? All you have to do to find the answer to these questions is turn to the nearest ISIS media twitter account and click on that bright blue Justpaste.it link. Let's take a look at the photos posted in July showing one of the Islamic State's training camps in Ninewa Province and see what we can learn.
Please note the trivial amount of effort it takes to find where these nests of vipers are located. But we're married to proportional response now, I guess, if that. Please also notice the comment section that immediately devolves into: But Christians teach Creationism in Texas Public Schools!
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Friday, August 22. 2014
The Archbishop's Gonna Sanctify Me
Life has become a complicated muddle, hasn't it? There are many big decisions. Should you become a newsreader because you have a lisp? Should you become an athlete because you're missing limbs? Should you join the military because you're a pacifist?
College calls. It needs deconstructivists like you. The NBA needs midgets, and the NFL needs gay men. International politics needs a low handicap, and international banking needs wizened ovaries, bad. There's a place for everybody, and you just have to follow the signs and portents to figure out where you fit in.
The only really big question is if you should have any hair below your eyebrows. The rest is easy.
Attention bosses: Set up a strong hierarchy and your workers will function better.
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Thursday, August 21. 2014
And Then You Go And Spoil It All By Saying Something Stupid Like...
I only read the "newspapers" when I cover for Bird Dog. Do you people really read that stuff, and act on what you've read as if it's informative?
Oops, did I just call our readers "you people"? Jeez, I'm sorry. I meant to say, Do us people really read this stuff...
No, that won't do. Does we people really reads that stuff...
I can't remember all that subjunctive gobbletygook from my McGuffey's Reader, so let's just agree that the newspapers all suck and move on. On to the news -- or whatever it is:
There's a lot of words until you get to that paragraph right there, the only one worth mentioning: It really doesn't matter what crazy people believe. They're crazy.
A Norwegian extrovert looks at your shoes when he's talking instead of his own.
Wow, Nancy Sinatra sure was a sh*tty singer.
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Wednesday, August 20. 2014
Wednesday Morning At Five O'Clock As The Day Begins
Running kind of late this morning. I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood. Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!
On to the links:
40 maps that explain the Roman Empire
This is where Janet Yellen's funny money ends up, one way or the other: Dissipated when there's nothing productive for it to do.
Have a nice Wednesday.
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Tuesday, August 19. 2014
Something, Calls To Me. It's The Morning Links
I've decided not to riot today. I'm fairly certain I'm not going to loot anything. I don't feel like overcoming, or singing about overcoming. I'm overcome with not overcoming, actually. I believe I can resist the urge to lock arms for days at a time. I do not wish to be quoted in the press. You can quote me on that. On to the news.
In the Image of God: John Comenius and the First Children's Picture Book
Baseball Bat With an Axe Handle Brings More Power, Fewer Injuries
There is a story about the great Catalan surrealist painter Salvador Dali. It is said that in the last years of his life, when he was already famous, he signed checks knowing that they would not be submitted to the bank for payment. Rather, after partying with his friends and consuming the most expensive items the restaurants had to offer, he would ask for the bill, pull out one of his checks, write the amount, and sign it. Before handing over the check, he quickly turned it around, made a drawing on the back and autographed it. Dali knew the owner of the restaurant would not cash the check but keep it,put it in a frame, and display it in the most prominent place in the restaurant: "An original Dali."
My new hero.
History may be evolving away from the Westphalian State, with its unitary national culture, flags and traditions and moving towards affinity groups whose allegiance is primarily to themselves; which only form temporary alliances based on expedience in competition with other affinity groups.
I know a couple of daycare centers like that.
It's hip, it's entertaining—but where are the families?What is a city for? Ever since cities first emerged thousands of years ago, they have been places where families could congregate and flourish.
A city is a place where everyone is lonely together.
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Monday, August 18. 2014
Monday Morning Linkage
Well, happy Monday to you. That's Bird Dog at the beach. He's older than that now, and the trucks are rustier. He left me in charge, and I ran out of his bourbon yesterday, and he won't be back for a week. He asked me to look after his Australian Goldfish, too, and that's not going so well, either. I assume they're Australian, because they're floating upside down right now, and they're so somnolent, I think they think it's nighttime. Ah, well, here's the links:
In Silicon Valley, Mergers Must Meet the Toothbrush Test
When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company, its chief executive, Larry Page, asks whether the acquisition passes the toothbrush test: Is it something you will use once or twice a day, and does it make your life better?
Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money
Feds: Red light camera firm paid for Chicago official's car, condo
Starbucks to Revise Policies to End Irregular Schedules for Its 130,000 Baristas
15 Signs You're an Entrepreneur
SF cabdrivers vote to unionize as industry continues to take beating from ride services
Also from San Fran: Soccer program gives homeless chance to succeed
How To Make An Animated GIF From A YouTube Video
I Quit Liking Things On Facebook for Two Weeks. Here's How It Changed My View of Humanity.
Well, why not go out there and change your view of humanity today. Drive to a Starbucks in a unionized cab, and try not to run over the homeless people playing soccer in the parking lot. But whatever you do, don't like anyone on Facebook.
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Sunday, August 17. 2014
Well, I Woke Up Sunday Morning With No Way To Hold My Head That Didn't Hurt
Well, Bird Dog must be halfway to Canobie Lake Park by now, wearing black socks and flip-flops and an "I'm With Stupid" T Shirt his wife gave him for Christmas back in Reagan's first term. It's faded a bit with washing, and the arrow on the belly under the text that used to point to his companion has been worn away entirely by the rusty chrome arm of the mower every Saturday, so it's kind of a Zen thing now. Have fun, Bird Dog.
George Orwell reviews Mein Kampf!
Known in its heyday as the capital of coal, Yubari has lost 90% of its population in 50 years.
The Happiest Regions In America
Frustrated Mom Creates 'Ignore No More' App To Get Teen Kids To Return Calls
A Google employee forgot to remove Post-it notes and it's fueling a lawsuit
Competitor dies in the middle of a match during Chess Olympiad in Norway and another is found dead in hotel room
They've awarded this year's Fields Medals.
The Street's Secret Code What asphalt tags say about the city
Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down.
$1,000 a month for tiny room, bedbugs, seedy surroundings in the Mission
Have a great Sunday. After the aspirin, I mean.
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Saturday, August 16. 2014
It's Hard On A Fellah, When He Don't Know His Way Around
Well, Bird Dog has abandoned the farm for, er, greener pastures, and left me in charge again. You reap what you sow, big feller. I'm going to link to sites without tone. I'm going to link to sites without sand. I'm going to link to sites without panache. I'm going to link to sites without cachet. I'm going to link to sites without je ne sais quoi. I'm going to link to sites that don't know which fork to use. I'm going link to sites about sausages. You heard me: sausage links!
Still the greatest website on these here Interwebs: Zombo.com
It's the Swiss Army Knife of nothing.
Gerard at American Digest tells stories from time to time.
Let he who has never ended up in a sketchy motel room with a donkey cast the first stone.
Where I Should Live, According To Math
I live under one of this guy's dots, but my realtor assured me there would be no math.
Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Debt Collection
Nice little credit rating you got there. Shame if something was to happen to it.
Firing of Los Alamos Political Scientist Spurs Criticism
Don't say that he's hypocritical. Say rather that he's apolitical."Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down; that's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Robust manufacturing output buoys U.S. economic outlook
Buoys? Don't they put those over hidden obstructions and traps for bottomfeeders?
An Amateur Linguist Loses Control of the Language He Invented
Oh, that's a shame. If he loses his amateur status, he can't play Scrabble in the Olympics
How Boston Police Used Facial Recognition Technology to Spy on Thousands of Music Festival Attendees
Calm down, civil liberties traditionalists. Policemen have been looking at your face as you walk by since Robert Peel invented them. Besides, if you fill out a 1040 form, you have no rights. The rest is conversation.
Sounds like blogging.
Basic Income Is Practical Today, Necessary Soon
Writing everyone a check for $12,000 is cheaper than all federal and state poverty programs combined. But then who would write $12,000 checks to re-election campaigns for politicians? Won't someone think of the poor politicians?
Spengler: The Middle East is in the Middle of a Thirty Years War
I've never seen Spengler be wrong about anything. And he's right in advance, the only kind of right that matters.
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Sunday, May 11. 2014
Yer Mother!
It's Sunday. Have a pleasant Sunday. But remember, Sunday is Monday's mother. She seems nice, but she's just as likely to smack you with a hairbrush as not. Happens almost every week.
On to the links:
Who remembers Maynard G. Krebs? Gerard at American Digest does.
Everyone winces when work, marriage or police are mentioned now.
It's now 69 years since the Nazi regime collapsed. Let's recall the blood lust of unfettered capitalism & the courage of those who fought it.
A schoolteacher wrote that, and put it on the Interwebs where anyone could see it.
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall" may be an appealing slogan, but probably only if you have never actually been in the neighborhood when the heavens did fall. --Derbyshire at Taki Mag, on Gerry Adams
Never fight ugly people—they have nothing to lose
The Fed is busy printing money and pegging the money market rate at zero because there's allegedly not enough inflation.
There are some fairly bright people abroad in the land that don't understand that if the velocity of money is zero, as far as inflation is concerned it doesn't exist.
I'm a Grammy Nominated Artist. Want to See My Royalty Statements?
He thinks if 14,000 people listen to his song on Interweb radio, he deserves more than $4.20. I heard the song. He's overpaid.
Republican Primary Voters Seem Determined to Nominate Candidates Who can Win
The horror. If they're not careful, they'll have to govern.
Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that
I think Brazil should sue Amazon and say they used the name Amazon first. Or maybe a really tall woman should.
Heavy Snow to Whiten, Bury Colorado on Mother's Day
**Insert Globalistical Warmening joke here**
Router company that threatened a reviewer loses Amazon selling license
Yelling at your customers is fun. For a while.
A new plastic that "heals itself" has been designed, meaning your cracked phone screen or broken tennis racquet could mend its own wounds.
Plastic tennis racquet? Young man, tennis is played with a wood racquet, in long pants, on grass.
And now for something completely different:
Happy Mother's Day!
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Saturday, May 10. 2014
I'm Going To Name My Next Speedboat 'Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society'
Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society takes off New York book club inspired by 'good books and sunny days and enjoying both as nearly in the altogether as the law allows
Check out their blog. As with all such schemes, the only people who want to show themselves naked are the only people you don't want to see naked. And the books suck.
A man who found more than $100,000 in cash in a Channel Nine toilet was this week granted the majority of the money by the Melbourne magistrates court.
A Channel Nine toilet? Boy, cable TV shows have really reached a new low.
How Bad Is the Job Market for the College Class of 2014? at Slate
It would be unchristian of me to point out who the little darlings voted for twice, wouldn't it? Pardon me while I go find a pagan to laugh at them and tell them to stop sh*tting where they eat.
Erm, I don't want to rain on your parade, but that's only earthshaking news to people who Occupy public parks.
Pope urges 'legitimate redistribution' of wealth
Just leave the Vatican's front door unlocked for one night, Frank, and you'll get your devout wish.
Bill Gates say the percentage of people in extreme poverty has dropped by 1/2 since 1990, and wonders, Where do the remaining poor live?
At my house, Bill. Duh.
Beverly Hills tells Brunei to get out of town, sell stake in famous hotel
There's more than a hint of Two Minutes Hate when the media mob gets interested in any particular thing. The object of their vitriol is chosen at random, by persons who stand to lose nothing, at the expense of the usual innocent people. And by the way, when I have sketchy outlays from strip joints and casinos I need to put on my expense report, I prefer listing them under "Entertainment", not "My sick mother in Vietnam." It's good accounting practice.
Master Currency Counterfeiter Prints Millions, Says 'Screw You' to US
Interestingly, this story is not about Janet Yellen.
Obama, at Wal-Mart, touts efficiency
Remember our rule from yesterday: Obama, at Walmart, touts efficiency with a straight face.
U.S. Experts Arrive in Nigeria to Join in Hunt for Schoolgirls
There are US experts in hunting for schoolgirls? Nice to see former President Clinton has found work
Happy Saturday!
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Friday, May 9. 2014
It's Friday I'm In Love
I'm in love every day, generally when I shave. But you? You? You look mahvelous, dahling. Keep it up.
On to some links!
I was into Bach before it was cool.
Don't hire for brains or personality alone in early-stage startups. Hire for resilience.
Hey, code monkey entrepreneurs: Any bricklayer could have told you that.
What Happens When a Neurosurgeon Removes Your Hippocampus
PHYSICIAN, n. One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
Brazilian Kids Learn English by Video Chatting With Lonely Elderly Americans
Almost enough to convince you the world isn't entirely malignant. Then you notice 39 people downvoted it on YouTube, and you realize your mistake.
US accuses Israel of 'alarming, even terrifying' levels of spying.
I hereby declare that all headlines about our current administration will have "with a straight face" added to the end of them.
A revelation from a member of the Apple generation while being flummoxed at Lowe's: It's just wood.
I think I've heard this line of reasoning before. My toddlers experienced it the first time they went boom boom by themselves.
American Digest, ahem, explores the significance of pictures of Marilyn Monroe Pumping Iron
She was and is the female standard of beauty this end of the Universe. If you need me, I'll be in my bunk.
Sage advice from The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys: Remember Kids, It's Only Illegal If You Get Caught
I see a flaw in their cunning plan: They got caught. And yet another web monkey that doesn't know what "begging the question" means.
Jadeveon Clowney drafted by Texans with number one overall pick
Scrabble players hardest hit.
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The Ruination pt 10The Duke of Cambris knights smashed into the Cipriyan knights from the side, dismounting almost half of those who still rode. Caught completely by surprise, they died like flies. The Duke was nearly unhorsed, a burly Cambriyan knight striking him across the back with a broken lance. He only stayed in the saddle by throwing his arms around his horses neck. Cipriyan knights rode to his aid, on foot and on horse.The Ruination pt 10 by Magocracy
The Ruination pt 9Slaughter. Five thousand knights at full tilt crashed into the front ranks of the mercenary formation and beyond, as unstoppable as the wind. Lances pierced through the men in the first rank, often passing through and impaling men in the second. Hooves like dinner plates lashed out and caved in skulls, snapped arms like twigs, the horses themselves trained in the art of war. Swords, axes and morning-stars clove through skulls and brains as heads flew. Thus began the melee, men on horse slashing at men on foot, lances shattered underfoot or swung broken as clubs, a cacophony of screams and battle-cries and screeching horses. The Duke was surrounded by his best men, but he was in the thick of the fight, eagerly searching for either the bearded captain or the hairless pate of his archenemy. His sword was already slick with blood as he slashed down at the panicked mercenaries.The Ruination pt 9 by Magocracy
The Ruination pt 8Xavier Tallhand and a dozen knights rode out to face the mercenaries alone, all of them holding their helms in their hands, lances left behind. They stopped short of the Poltavans, and the Duke could see Xaviers mouth moving. Captain Bolo bulled his way to the front of the square, sword resting across his broad shoulders. With a smile, Xavier Tallhand reached into his helmet and withdrew a drawstring bag which he held high for all to see. He upended it, and gold coins poured out onto the ground. The Duke gasped as the dozen knights beside him each held out a similar bag, drawn from their helmets. Cheering, Captain Bolos mercenaries abandoned him for the enemy.The Ruination pt 8 by Magocracy
The Ruination pt 7The battle began with the sounding of a trumpet from the roof of a nearby chapel. Both armies moved slowly, still sizing each other up. Skirmishers moved into the field to loft bolts at one another with little effect. Neither side moved for an hour, content to watch each other warily. The Duke of Cipri sat upon his horse, feeling the sweat dripping under his plate armor. He was sure that more men would die from heatstroke that day then from the enemy, until a certain banner caught his eye from across the field. He called for a spyglass, a newfangled invention in those days, and peered through the brass tube at the worrisome pennant.The Ruination pt 7 by Magocracy
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Sir Wale Folarin tweeted out this collabo with Mac Miller. Who thinks Mac will sign with Rick Ross's MMG?
LISTEN: Mac Miller – "So What" (feat. Wale; prod. Don Cannon)
Mac Miller – "So What" (feat. Wale; prod. Don Cannon)
I like mac miller a lot
his flow is real nice.. ive only been dissapointed by rick ross recently so i hope him signing with mgm doesnt change hsi style.. keep floatin is my tune
not a fan of mac miller, i just dont get him. I used to be a fan of wale, but hes just been making all the wrong moves as of lately. its dissapointing to see someone with so much talent, go the cliche way through this rap thing
I agree with Parisiano, I've been diggin Mac Miller I just hope Rick Ross' influence doesn't change what he does and I hope that Wale goes back to how he used to be, dude is changing for the worse although he does aiight on this track.
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High Blood Pressure Linked to Dementia
Posted on Jan 25, 2010
Before we scare you, keep in mind that if everyone in America who experienced high blood pressure—that's about a third of us—got dementia, you would know about it. However, new research suggests that the relationship between hypertension and dementia is more pronounced and alarming than doctors previously understood and the National Institutes of Health is looking into so-called white matter damage in the brain.
Scientists already knew that high blood pressure impaired the ability of brain cells to communicate, but new data shows that people may suffer from multiple forms of dementia simultaneously. The good news is that high blood pressure can be easier to control than other contributing causes of dementia. It should also be noted that we're talking about research, here, and not every study agrees. The NIH is planning some major research of its own into the subject. —PZS
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I would trust nothing out of Johns Hopkins: http://adventuresincardiology.com/


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