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theclearlydope: WORTH SEEING: Insane Office is Insane.

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:07:26 -0400

theclearlydope:

WORTH SEEING: Insane Office is Insane.

kateoplis: Breathe me.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:16:06 -0500

kateoplis:

Breathe me.

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theclearlydope: Excuse me for a moment. ratsoff: It’s...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:12:25 -0500

theclearlydope:

Excuse me for a moment.
ratsoff:

It’s Caturday!

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laughingsquid: Star Wars Custom R2-D2 Engagement Ring &...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:11:34 -0500

laughingsquid:

Star Wars Custom R2-D2 Engagement Ring & Marriage Proposal

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Detroit Y.F. | NEW YORK, economist.com Metaphoropolis DETROIT’S...

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:09:11 -0400

Detroit
Y.F. | NEW YORK, economist.com

Metaphoropolis

DETROIT’S demise was bred by the very conditions that made it the world’s fastest growing city in 1930. When its car industry boomed, Detroit was the American dream at its best, presenting a chance for working men to make…

vicemag: IS CENTRAL ASIA ON THE VERGE OF A WATER WAR? By Ben...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:34:34 -0400

vicemag:

IS CENTRAL ASIA ON THE VERGE OF A WATER WAR?

By Ben Makuch

Whether it’s Israel maybe pre-emptively striking Iran, Afghanistan spiralling into sectarian violence, Libya becoming home base for Al-Qaeda, or Syria continuing to be the site of a government-led genocide, there’s no shortage of potential dirty wars and ominous harbingers in the Middle East and Central Asia. While everyone is focusing on the recent turmoil in Benghazi, a new kind of conflict is rising in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan that could eventually lead to the first water war of the 21st century.

It’s fair to say that when Louise Arbour, the hard-ass former UN prosecutor of war criminal Slobodan Milošević, lists her bets on future wars, the rest of us should take her seriously. In December 2011, writing for Foreign Policy, Arbour predicted Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, two obscure Central Asian countries to most westerners, as potential combatants in a war over quickly depleting water resources. Judging bycurrent tensions between the two, she might be right.

Basically the Tajiks, who are already plagued by an Islamic insurgency, plan to build the Rogun dam on the Vakhsh River. The river is a major tributary to the Amudarya—the main water vein for downstream Uzbekistan. While the hydroelectric power from the proposed dam would make the Tajiks rich, it’ll make the Uzbeks thirsty. This has been a problem for Uzbekistan since Stalin’s failed plan for the Transformation of Nature during the 1940s drained the Aral Sea (Uzbekistan’s main water reserve) to irrigate cotton fields.

Pissing off the Uzbeks, however, may not be what the Tajiks want to do. Besides being geopolitical wildcards, Uzbek President Islam Karimov is widely considered a tyrant, ruling over his country’s oil reserves and national wealth since a questionable 1991 election. He’s also a cheap imitation Saddam. And like any delusional dictator, he’s known for his outlandish behavior: like rewriting history books to make himself the spiritual descendant of the warlord Tamerlane, owning a soccer team in the national league (who are conveniently champions nearly every year), and allegedly ordering the assassination of a political dissident hiding in Sweden. Human Rights Watch even accused his regime of systematic torture, including boiling rebels alive.

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laughingsquid: Paintings of Star Wars Characters Holding...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:12:37 -0400

laughingsquid:

Paintings of Star Wars Characters Holding Bunnies & Lambs

laughingsquid: Rare Footage of Fire Devils in Australian...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:11:57 -0400

laughingsquid:

Rare Footage of Fire Devils in Australian Outback

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fuckjerry: Bill Murray & Hunter S. Thompson

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 03:56:07 -0400

fuckjerry:

Bill Murray & Hunter S. Thompson

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laboratoryequipment: Algorithm Tracks Epidemics, Crime Back to...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:02:00 -0400

laboratoryequipment:

Algorithm Tracks Epidemics, Crime Back to the Source

A team of EPFLscientists has developed an algorithm that can identify the source of an epidemic or information circulating within a network, a method that could also be used to help with criminal investigations.

Investigators are well aware of how difficult it is to trace an unlawful act to its source. The job was arguably easier with old, Mafia-style criminal organizations, as their hierarchical structures more or less resembled predictable family trees.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2012/08/algorithm-tracks-epidemics-crime-back-source

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