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end times
Tonight Is the Nerd Reckoning
Run for your lives, Silicon Valley's terrifying nightlife is upon us! Any minute now, Twitter plans to start the party by assigning an extra-large numeric ID to a tweet, thus breaking various Twitter programs. Then Facebook makes its move. More » -
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The World According to Twitter
How distorted is Twitter's view of the world? That question is neatly answered by Topsy, a new search engine that's like Google, except sorted by the attention-deficit-disorder sufferers who live on Twitter. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by FaceMelter: I always wanted a search engine for spam. more » | Other threads
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science
Chimps Plotting Our Doom
Is it any wonder that fewer Americans declare themselves "religious" when the chimps are stockpiling weapons? More »
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By PareeneComment by Private Hangnail: Which is odd, as I've started flinging my own feces at the walls of the apartment. 14 Responses | Other threads
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wall street
Stocks Kick Off Mid-'90s Throwback Tour
Whenever you think it's about as bad as it can get, it gets worse. The Dow finished the trading day at 6,763, its lowest level since 1997. How low can it go? More »
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Comment by wasurhandle: They should do like in that old commercial where all the board members are monkeys and just turn the chart... 4 Responses | Other threads
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fameballs
Nouriel Roubini Partying With Intellectual Peers
Gloomy economic party-haver and enthusiastic Facebook user Nouriel Roubini is in Davos, working hard to bring our own fameball Photoshop works to life. [His panel was aptly named "What Went Wrong"] More »
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Comment by Nick Denton: To think that the international business and political elites once gathered at Davos to work out the year's plan for... 10 Responses | Other threads
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the end
America's Most Correct Internet Conspiracy Theorist Calls Next Market Crash
Wacky—and maybe financially beneficial—blast from the past: one anonymous nut on a Google Finance message board correctly predicted the day of the crash of 2008. Now that dude has another prediction, exclusively for you! More »
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Comment by Cheap Shot: Catholics don't even go to church, how could they rule anything??? And really, how much worse can the market get? 7 Responses | Other threads
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fashion
How To Remain A Vapid Shopaholic In Somber Times
Oh, heavens: Barack Obama's been elected, the economy imploded and suddenly it' s no longer chic to be a superficial consumerist idiot! But how to cope if that's all you've ever known?? We were going on three decades of nearly uninterrupted insane boomtime for the rich, after all, and change is difficult. Fake it hard, advises the kept lady's favorite well-connected fashiongay, Barney's creative director Simon Doonan, in this morning's Observer: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Private Hangnail: I'm just sending the illegal immigrants I employ to purchase my luxury goods. If they get the wrong things, I... 6 Responses | Other threads
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ron paul
Ron Paul Doesn't Look So "Crazy" Now, Does He, New Yorkers?
Look, it's Ron Paul! But what is he doing in New York, the fancy magazine for elites, alongside establishment finance types like a former Morgan Stanley economist and a famous investor? Isn't he sort of "kooky?" Everyone (who didn't live in a basement or wasn't a furry) laughed at Paul's quest for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, especially since Paul wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve and take America back to the gold standard, in which money is backed by something other than the worthless promises of filthy bankers and shiftless bureaucrats. But now it looks like the Fed's board of governors may be leading us into depression, and even that capitalist bible the Wall Street Journal ran an article this weekend speculating that the thinking behind the gold standard, if not the standard itself, "will have its day again." So Paul's stock is rising! Let's hear what terrible things he has to say about our future: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by schwerpunkt: Well, I do support many Paul ideas - even if I don't support Libertarians all the time. I do,... more » | Other threads
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apocalypse
"Everything seemingly is spinning out of control." [AP via Wonkette and everyone else]
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advertising
Brazilian Paper Hates Money, America
A Brazilian newspaper is running a series of ads with the slogan "Understand the real value of money." So what's the real value of a dollar? Apparently it's terrorism, pollution, the Challenger disaster, war, and tornadoes. Oh, and weed. They didn't forget the weed. I won't pretend to be able to identify the underlying philosophy here, but I will point out that even dumb people have figured out that using 9/11 in ads is a bad idea. The takeaway: Give all your dollars to me. Below, the full ad from the Brasilmofascist menace: More »
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Comment by TheRtHonPM: @Multiphasic: Not to dork up your pop culture reference, but Feynman famously spent a few years in Brazil. more » | Other threads
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patents
Now we can relax: IBM files patents to fight the apocalypse
Worried about the next "episode of profound chaos" headed our way? Don't be! Your friendly International Business Machines Corporation is on the job. In 2006, IBM filed a patent for "computer usable program code" designed to optimize skills and resources during "episodes of profound chaos during hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, solar flares, flooding, terrorism, war, and pandemics to name a few." As "human beings," IBM explains, we are "generally very ill prepared at a mental level for planning for and dealing with chaotic events." Which is true, but can we call it off if the program starts to get too good at chess?. -
hipsters
Look Homeward, Hipsters
We didn't have the heart to post this entire flyer, so if you must know further details, go here. The festivities are on Tuesday night, and the locale is — wait for it — Williamsburg. Expect Wiley to launch its new ... For Hipsters guidebook series in early 2007. More »
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By Chris MohneyComment by ellagood: are those supposed to be birds or flies flying over the shitheap that is williamsburg? more » | Other threads
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leigh lezark
We don't know what it means, but no good can come of this. [Image: Cobrasnake]
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gothamist
The End of the World Is Nigh, Says Gothamist
The kids at Gothamist provide some of the most comprehensive metro coverage of our fair city, and so it is not at all surprising that we learn from them — and only from them — that we are apparently headed for imminent annihilation. Seems some folks in London have deciphered the "true bible code" — mind you, "not the Da Vinci Code of Dan Brown," but the real bible code — and they have now put out a press release, which Gothamist got hold of, predicting with 98 percent certainty that "the UN Plaza in Midtown Manhattan will be hit by a terrorist nuclear bomb between Thursday evening June 29th and Tuesday evening July 4th, 2006." Which really sucks, because we just made drinks plans for the 5th. More » -
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The Apocalypse Is Coming! In Two and a Half Weeks!
Everyone is half-expecting Armageddon today, 06/06/06. But that's too easy. As the Copyranter points out, it's clearly coming on 06/23/06. More »
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