October, 2011

GoPro shows off its HD HERO2 camera and makes you feel lazy as shit at the same time.

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Thanks John. | Previously: Facebook

Doghouse Diaries

6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes – [Cracked]

Hundreds Die as Eastern Turkey Is Jolted by Quake – [NY Times]

At least 240 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured after a powerful earthquake shook eastern Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said on Monday.

In a televised statement, Mr. Atalay said that rescue workers continued to search for survivors and reach the dead in and around the city of Van, close to Turkey’s eastern border with Iran. News agencies reported that up 270 people had died.

More than 200 aftershocks shook the area throughout the night, the Turkish Seismic Institute said on Monday.

WikiLeaks’ Money Woes Brings End To Leak Of Secrets – [Telegraph]

The whistleblowing website set up by Julian Assange said that it is temporarily suspending publication of leaks to fight a “blockade” by credit card companies.

The refusal to accept donations has cost the website “tens of millions of dollars” in lost funding, the website said.

Mr Assange was due to make the announcement at a press conference in London at 1pm today , and appeal for donations to help flight the blockade.

In a statement, WikiLeaks said: “In order to ensure our future survival, WikiLeaks is now forced to temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise in order to fight back against this blockade and its proponents.”

Real-Life Inception: Army Looks to “Counteract Nightmares” With Digital Dreams – [Wired]

A soldier tries to sleep. But he is not safe in his dreams. Jolted awake by a nightmare, the combat veteran fumbles in the dark for his 3-D glasses. He puts them on. Around him are the faces of people whom he trusts. They fight the darkness with him. The soldier’s re-lived this scene in his head and the laboratory over and over again, until it has become reassuringly familiar. The soldier knows that his pixelated friends will take him away from these troubled dreams. When the scene is over, he takes off his goggles and looks around him. The soldier is home.

The U.S. Army wants this dream sequence to become reality. In an Army-backed experiment called “Power Dreaming,” Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington State will help traumatized troops battle their nightmares — with soothing, digitally-made dreams crafted in virtual worlds.

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A compilation of cats coughing up hairballs set to Deadmau5′s “Ghosts n Stuff” because the internet.

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New Jumpoff Joe.

@JoeBudden | Previously: Shady 2.0 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher

George Turnbull wants to be your next employee…ladies employers.

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Freddie Wong takes the Battlefield 3 visuals to their logical conclusion.

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Marquese “NONSTOP” Scott continues to openly mock your preconceived notions of how the human body is supposed to move.

WHZGUD2 | Previously: Pumped Up Kicks

NPR’s Planet Money got its hands on a government report entitled “Life After Debt“, which concluded the action would actually harm the global economy.

If the U.S. paid off its debt there would be no more U.S. Treasury bonds in the world. “It was a huge issue … for not just the U.S. economy, but the global economy,” says Diane Lim Rogers, an economist in the Clinton administration.

The U.S. borrows money by selling bonds. So the end of debt would mean the end of Treasury bonds.

But the U.S. has been issuing bonds for so long, and the bonds are seen as so safe, that much of the world has come to depend on them. The U.S. Treasury bond is a pillar of the global economy.

Banks buy hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth, because they’re a safe place to park money. Mortgage rates are tied to the interest rate on U.S. treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve — our central bank — buys and sells Treasury bonds all the time, in an effort to keep the economy on track.

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