Star Wars Blooper Reel.
There is no sound on the first few clips, it’s normal.
Star Wars Blooper Reel.
There is no sound on the first few clips, it’s normal.
Drone strikes as told by those who live where they occur in a documentary called Wounds of Waziristan.
For journalist Madiha Tahir, the numbers are important, but they’re not the whole story. Her documentary “Wounds of Waziristan,” which premieres above, features interviews with the people who live in the southern part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, bordering Afghanistan, under the eyes of the drones, and in the wake of their destruction.
Vice has more.
Drone strikes as told by those who live where they occur in a documentary called Wounds of Waziristan.
For journalist Madiha Tahir, the numbers are important, but they’re not the whole story. Her documentary “Wounds of Waziristan,” which premieres above, features interviews with the people who live in the southern part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, bordering Afghanistan, under the eyes of the drones, and in the wake of their destruction.
Vice has more.
Gadget sickness
New York Magazine presents a list of ailments originating from our heavy use of gadgets. Some are true, some are slightly far-fetched.
Ex-racists explain their conversions
Ex-racists explain their conversions
I was sitting on the bus on my way home one day. I was listening to some good music in my headphones. It was a cloudless autumn day and everything was a healthy yellow and orange color and blue sky. At a stop a african man and a young boy, maybe 5-6 years, got on. The man was tall and had bad clothes, he looked like he did not have much. They sat in front of me. I immediately became annoyed and started to think about how I hated them, fucking immigrants coming to my country, he is poor and I pay taxes so he can get welfare. I thought about how his son is going to become a lousy shit and rape white women. I started to get mad and decided to beat him up, I was going to follow him when he got off the bus.
I saw him press the button and got ready at the next stop, and just before we stopped I was about to get up and the man turned to his son and said something in a heavy accent that I will never forget in my life.
“I love you my son, be good.”
He then gave him a big, hard hug and the boy got off the bus alone. He waved good bye and sat back down, with his hands on his face. I just stared out the window where his son had been standing. My world view came crashing. He was just a father who wanted his son to be good, he loved him just like my father loved me. For some reason this changed everything for me. I know this is a very small thing but I started to think about how he wanted a better life for his son.
He was a man that had changed everything for his family. I sat on that bus for hours, it kept going around. I thought about how wrong it was to do the things I had done. I left that city the next day and started over. I am much happier now. I dont feel the hate in my heart every day anymore.
There is this amazing thread on Reddit where ex-Nazis, skinheads and all changed their minds on racism. This is taken from Kottke’s blog but the link will return you to the Reddit thread.
Ex-racists explain their conversions
I was sitting on the bus on my way home one day. I was listening to some good music in my headphones. It was a cloudless autumn day and everything was a healthy yellow and orange color and blue sky. At a stop a african man and a young boy, maybe 5-6 years, got on. The man was tall and had bad clothes, he looked like he did not have much. They sat in front of me. I immediately became annoyed and started to think about how I hated them, fucking immigrants coming to my country, he is poor and I pay taxes so he can get welfare. I thought about how his son is going to become a lousy shit and rape white women. I started to get mad and decided to beat him up, I was going to follow him when he got off the bus.
I saw him press the button and got ready at the next stop, and just before we stopped I was about to get up and the man turned to his son and said something in a heavy accent that I will never forget in my life.
“I love you my son, be good.”
He then gave him a big, hard hug and the boy got off the bus alone. He waved good bye and sat back down, with his hands on his face. I just stared out the window where his son had been standing. My world view came crashing. He was just a father who wanted his son to be good, he loved him just like my father loved me. For some reason this changed everything for me. I know this is a very small thing but I started to think about how he wanted a better life for his son.
He was a man that had changed everything for his family. I sat on that bus for hours, it kept going around. I thought about how wrong it was to do the things I had done. I left that city the next day and started over. I am much happier now. I dont feel the hate in my heart every day anymore.
There is this amazing thread on Reddit where ex-Nazis, skinheads and all changed their minds on racism. This is taken from Kottke’s blog but the link will return you to the Reddit thread.
Count up all the instances where each of the starting Pokémon have the upper hand (or at least an advantage) against the 12 gym leaders, and you find that while Bulbasaur might do great at the beginning of the game, it also will have the hardest time of all the Pokémon finishing off the rest of the leaders. Squirtle, on the other hand, has simultaneously the most advantages and the least amount of disadvantages against the leaders. Squirtle and its evolutions come out on top.
You shall choose Squirtle. This thoroughly researched article on Scientific American explores which is the best Pokémon to start with. But they got something wrong: fire, Charmander, simply is cooler.
Count up all the instances where each of the starting Pokémon have the upper hand (or at least an advantage) against the 12 gym leaders, and you find that while Bulbasaur might do great at the beginning of the game, it also will have the hardest time of all the Pokémon finishing off the rest of the leaders. Squirtle, on the other hand, has simultaneously the most advantages and the least amount of disadvantages against the leaders. Squirtle and its evolutions come out on top.
Turn around, the monster’s behind you! is a supercut of movie scenes where heroes must really be watching behind them.
Turn around, the monster’s behind you! is a supercut of movie scenes where heroes must really be watching behind them.
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics, question mark?” Well, now I would say you can change the title to “The end of antibiotics, period.”
We’re here. We’re in the post-antibiotic era. There are patients for whom we have no therapy, and we are literally in a position of having a patient in a bed who has an infection, something that five years ago even we could have treated, but now we can’t.
A CDC official argues that we’ve reached the end of antibiotics.
So, should we run around and prepare for the worst by stocking food and buying shotguns or should we believe in the capacity for the human mind to get us out of this catastrophe?
For a long time, there have been newspaper stories and covers of magazines that talked about “The end of antibiotics, question mark?” Well, now I would say you can change the title to “The end of antibiotics, period.”
We’re here. We’re in the post-antibiotic era. There are patients for whom we have no therapy, and we are literally in a position of having a patient in a bed who has an infection, something that five years ago even we could have treated, but now we can’t.
A CDC official argues that we’ve reached the end of antibiotics.
So, should we run around and prepare for the worst by stocking food and buying shotguns or should we believe in the capacity for the human mind to get us out of this catastrophe?
OS X Mavericks: Tips, Tricks, and Details
OS X Mavericks: Tips, Tricks, and Details
A nicely curated list of tips, tricks and details from the one and only Federico Viticci over at Macstories.
OS X Mavericks: Tips, Tricks, and Details
A nicely curated list of tips, tricks and details from the one and only Federico Viticci over at Macstories.
Can Stress Actually Kill You?
Can Stress Actually Kill You?
Free yourself from recipes with cooking ratios
Free yourself from recipes with cooking ratios
For the amateur cook within you, don’t bother learning recipes, learn about ratios and everything will go much smoother.
Free yourself from recipes with cooking ratios
For the amateur cook within you, don’t bother learning recipes, learn about ratios and everything will go much smoother.
Beatles & Dylan songs in pictograms. How many can you guess?
