July 2010
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Holy Shit Statistic of the Day
Via The Atlantic:
180,000,000 gallons: High government estimate of the amount of oil estimated to have escaped [into the Gulf of Mexico].
8 Hours: Amount of time it takes the U.S. to consume 180 million gallons of crude.
Both numbers here are just mind-boggling.
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GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE GOOD NEWS.
bombthemusicindustry:
Turns out that since the RIAA has been suing people (y’know, college students, grandmothers, etc.) exorbitant amounts of money for downloading music illegally, they have spent FAR more on lawyers fees than they have actually recovered! Check it out!
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Common Sense on a Roll: This Book is About the... →
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– From Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, which I started up last week. It’s a mindfuckingly good book.
After reading 1984, I definitely got the feeling that Orwell was on to something (being 16 and in high school didn’t help). Then, after reading Brave New World back in May, it…
Anthony’s post, in image form.
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There in the cocktail lounge, peering out through my leaks at a world of my own...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Fun Fact
Ghana is the only nation remaining in the World Cup whose official language is English.
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