Microsoft Cuts 1,400 Employees And Then Asks For Severance Package Refunds.

From NY TIMES
For decades, people in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, have lived with the possible health hazards from oil spills in their industrial waterfront.

I printed this out and pasted it to the bulletin board in the cafeteria at work.
They took it down within 24 hours… I posted it again… they took it down.
Let’s try to help this cat find its owner.

MYSTERY LINK!

If you’ve ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a time—meaning that you have to copy and paste each line individually—there’s a simple Firefox tweak that will solve this problem:
Type “about:config” in the location bar. In the “Filter” [...]

AWESOME GAME

Click for full size…

LOOK

REMOTE CONTROL SURFER FOR REALLY SMALL DAYS.
Man, me annd my brother used to dream about this as kids.
SEE THE VIDEO!

“Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded”
PLINK!

The main theme of all these hustles is something called a Propostion Bet. Basically, a proposition bet is a challenge which looks like it only has one outcome…and it does…it always favors the person placing the wager. That’s because you know something the other folks don’t. You know the ‘challenge’ is always going to go [...]

LINK“Scavengers have been taking ship’s cargo that washed ashore”

I know Parrot needs cable to keep checking if anything exploded today. That’s where this handy map comes in. All the latest morbid news and shocking possibilities from around the world.
I see that a bird tested positive for west nile just near us.
joy!
Link: RSOE HAVARIA Emergency and Disaster Information Service
BONUS: check out this [...]

Cool Flash animation walking through the enormity of 10 dimensions of space/time.
This is what String Theory is currently trying to flush out mathmatically. But this sort of lesson gives us a glimpse into the thinking, without all that troublesome math.
Worth watching and twisting your brain.
Link: Imagining the Tenth Dimension

Some crazy German LOVES to make bad drawings of his favorite child stars…LINK

Sacred Love Versus Profane LoveGiovanni Baglione
I bet the scientists had fun discovering this new aphrodisiac, code named PT-141, a spray that increases sexual desire.
but the real news flash: it works for women too!Now the ladies can be turned on like a light switch which just may bring world peace between the sexes!
In the wake [...]

Xenu, ruler of the “Galactic Confederacy”
Don’t forget to watch this episode of South Park(and tell all your friends) that Tom Cruise has had removed from American television. It’s still available on the internet:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SSj9gc36Bw8&search=scientology
Also: download it(or any other web video) by using this useful web page:http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php

Now unlike my last post, this Google Map implementation is actually useful to me. A google maps Wiki of dive spots and what you might see there.
If only i lived someplace warmer…
Parrot, you up for another Keys trip?
Link: ScubaMAP

This is cool stuff, not only for the retro 90’s pixel design, but for the geographical sense of space that is missing from Text Headlines.
This RSS news reader graphically show the locations of news items from around the world. Jumping around to display headlines as they appear. While this doesn’t win the cold-efficiency award [...]