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drinking games
"...in the end, culture is a more powerful tool in dealing with drinking than medicine, economics, or the law."
blog  article  alcohol  anthropology  culture  psychology  social  education  interesting 
february 2012 by milkmiruku
Fuck
"While canoeing on the Rifle River in Michigan, Boomer fell overboard letting forth a fuck or two. As if his day wasn't bad enough, the nearby sheriff gave him a ticket ... for violating an 1897 statute forbidding cursing within earshot of women and children. Then he was convicted.

"Amazed that this could happen in the twenty-first century, my curiosity about the legal implications of fuck was rekindled. I decided to dedicate one of my research assistants to exploring the area."
fuck  legal  language  usa  law  history  culture  taboo  interesting  humour  jurisprudence  education 
november 2011 by milkmiruku
Early Celtic 'Stonehenge' discovered in Germany's Black Forest
"Whereas Stonehenge was orientated towards the sun, the more then 100 meter width burial mound of Magdalenenberg was focused towards the moon. ... This archaeo-astronomic research resulted in a date of Midsummer 618 BC, which makes it the earliest and most complete example of a Celtic calendar focused on the moon"
news  science  archaeology  history  celtic  time  calendar  lunar  germany  culture 
october 2011 by milkmiruku
Conceptualizing the built environment as a social-ecological system - Building Research & Information
"Formulating a unified theory of the built environment may require that the built environment be understood as a complex social-ecological system, where multiple-related metabolisms interact at different scales."
architecture  building  socialecology  society  culture  research  interesting 
december 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News | Meerkat groups have 'traditions'
"When you're out in the field," said Dr Thornton, "if you're studying certain groups, you always set your alarm a bit later because they're consistently lazy." The new study revealed that this laziness or liveliness has a "cultural basis".
bbc  news  animals  meerkats  zoology  culture  time  sleep  research  sociology  lazy  interesting 
july 2010 by milkmiruku
Your users are very stupid. (Maybe.)
"11:57 AM - The first comment to put it together: “This is what happens when people use Google to enter sites instead of typing it on their address bar… Damn you all Farmville users…” This is comment number 50

Ah. So it turns out that there was a (perhaps small) present minority who, rather than using the address bar, use Google to get around on the web. Since Google put this post near the top, at least a certain number of these people had no idea the site they just entered was not Facebook. The results are this mess."
blog  internet  usability  facebook  google  search  news  humour  interesting  meme  culture  ux  fail  web  comments 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan on Faith, Religion, Tolerance, Moderates, Bible, God, Islam, Atheism, Jesus, Christian Nation
"You have simply declared your faith to be immune to rational challenge. As you didn't come to believe in God by taking any state of the world into account, no possible state of the world could put His existence in doubt. This is the very soul of dogmatism."
atheism  religion  blog  article  culture  science  interesting 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
BBC News - Noisy children no longer verboten in Berlin
"In Berlin alone, hundreds of complaints are made each year about noise levels in kindergartens and children's playgrounds. Some day-care facilities have even been forced to close after local residents have gone to court in search of a quiet life. Now Berlin's local government, the senate, has passed a law giving children the right to be noisy, the first law of its kind in Germany."
news  germany  children  law  legal  culture  society  education  interesting  politics 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
China and Iran: two ways to do family planning.
"Many countries are debating whether they should have population policies. Here are two – very different – examples of nations that rapidly reduced their birth rates."
article  education  children  iran  china  culture  society  law  interesting  family 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Barbie Becomes a Computer Engineer | Geek Feminism Blog
"Consumers loudly campaigned for another Barbie® career. The winner of the popular vote is Computer Engineer. Computer Engineer Barbie®, debuting in Winter 2010, inspires a new generation of girls to explore this important high-tech industry, which continues to grow and need future female leaders."
blog  news  feminism  it  engineering  toys  children  interesting  culture  computing 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Inkling Magazine - Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
"Since September 27, 2007, I have been documenting the graffiti left in public study areas in the Joseph Regenstein Library ("the Reg"): the study nooks tucked into the stacks, the whiteboards in the all-night study space, and the study carrels in the reading rooms."
usa  culture  research  art  statistics  language  university  graffiti  humour 
february 2010 by milkmiruku
Beyond the fringe - schools clamp down on students' self expression | Education | The Guardian
"Uniform policy is increasingly taking an absurdly draconian shift in its approach to the decisions kids make about how they wear their hair, banning any style more interesting than that you would ordinarily find on an Abbey National correspondence clerk clad in a Next business suit. Uniform policies nowadays are uniformly filled with such pitifully and vehemently ignorant statements as "patterns cut into the hair are not acceptable". Not acceptable to whom? Or, "hair colour will be restricted to that found in normal hair". And normal means what, exactly?"
education  fashion  society  op-ed  aesthetics  culture  uk  authoritarianism  liberalism 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Open Letter From OK Go - OK Go
"We’ve been flooded with complaints recently because our YouTube videos can't be embedded on websites, and in certain countries can't be seen at all. And we want you to know: we hear you, and we’re sorry. We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago."
music  video  internet  web  content  copyright  marketing  advertising  youtube  business  riaa  audio  culture  art  technology  law  google  archive  embed  activism  interesting  emi 
january 2010 by milkmiruku
Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D
"I wasn't the least bit surprised to quickly discover a handful of Wave-based roleplaying games already in progress, and many more in various stages of planning. In the past few days, I've watched games from the sideline and talked to some Game Masters and gamers—there seems to be an emerging consensus that Google Wave has as much RPG potential as any platform since the venerable and proverbial tabletop."
news  article  rpg  gaming  internet  wave  software  games  google  culture  interesting  emerging 
november 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Apology for singing shop worker
"Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined for her singing by the Performing Right Society (PRS)."
bbc  news  uk  legal  music  copyright  wtf  scotland  culture 
october 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Brewery's Nanny State beer swipe
"A brewery has launched a low alcohol beer called Nanny State after being branded irresponsible for creating the UK's "strongest beer"."
bbc  news  beer  alcohol  drink  drugs  government  culture  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They did this with a software program that looked at the gender and sexuality of a person’s friends and, using statistical analysis, made a prediction."
news  sexuality  lgbt  statistics  privacy  culture  computing  facebook  identity  mit  social  usa  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - New Scientist
"Last year, sports psychologists at the University of Münster, Germany, showed video clips of bouts to 42 experienced referees. They then played the same clips again, digitally manipulated so that the clothing colours were swapped round. The result? In close matches, the scoring swapped round too, with red competitors awarded an average of 13 per cent more points than when they were dressed in blue (Psychological Science, vol 19, p 769). "If one competitor is strong and the other weak, it won't change the outcome of the fight," says Norbert Hagemann, who led the study. "But the closer the levels, the easier it is for the colour to tip the scale.""
news  research  science  psychology  culture  colour  red  blue  neuroscience  cognition  interesting  bias 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
China 'covers suicide bridge in butter'
Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cover a 1,000 ft long steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide. ... "Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers."
news  china  suicide  bridge  weird  humour  society  culture 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message « OkTrends
"We analyzed over 500,000 first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked at keywords and phrases, how they affected reply rates, and what trends were statistically significant. The result: a set of rules for what you should and shouldn’t say when introducing yourself online. This is the second post of our statistical investigation into the optimal online dating message; a note about how we protected user privacy is here."
blog  article  communication  statistics  social  relationships  language  linguistics  psychology  culture  dating  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Words for Webstock - Bruce Sterling
She poured a coffee, then touched the breakfast table. “Where are my shoes?” “Your sister borrowed them.” “Again? Where is Susan?” “She’s downtown now.” “Susan! Why did you swipe my favorite shoes again?” “Look at this dress.” “Oooh, that dress is darling.” “It would look even better on you.” “You’re right. Get it for me. You can’t have it.” “Trade you for these shoes.” “Let me check that with Henry. Yeah, okay.” Karen had another sip of fair-trade coffee. It tasted weird, but it was still hot.
blog  literature  writing  sci-fi  culture  technology  augmentedreality  prediction  humour 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
Poynter Online - Writing Tools (On Twitter)
"The moral is that the brevity of an e-mail message, a blog post, a text message, even a tweet, is no obstacle to powerful information, a persuasive argument, a literary moment, a zinger, a joke."
article  technology  culture  twitter  writing  grammar  newmedia  journalism  language  web  tools  interesting 
september 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Azerbaijanis in Eurovision probe
"People in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in May's Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the authorities. One man told the BBC he was accused of being unpatriotic and a potential security threat, after he sent a text backing Armenia's song, Jan Jan."
bbc  news  music  culture  authoritarianism  wtf  azerbaijan  armenia 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
The Web's Dirtiest Site (Douglas Rushkoff does 4chan)
But the whole episode reminded me that, in spite of the Web's seemingly secure and consumer-friendly facade, there is still some Wild West left out there. And 4Chan is the OK Corral. So like a middle-aged Australian businessman going on walkabout, I decided to spend a couple of weeks embedded in this famously depraved, raucously fertile community.
article  op-ed  culture  internet  web  society  4chan  censorship  hacking  interesting 
august 2009 by milkmiruku
One & Other
" met Antony at a talk where he effectively sold the idea of the plinth project to me. I dreamt that I would end up standing on the plinth on a Saturday night st 3am and it has come true, weird! I like the idea of a strange snap shot of Britain through all the random people that have been chosen by computer. At least it is a democratic shot in the dark. I currently plan to do a bit of drumming and to resurrect my red character from last Samhuinn."
video  uk  tv  london  culture  music  beltane  red  drumming 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Henry Rollins: Teeing Off: Ain't No Sell Out, We Have Arrived!
"I wonder if it ever occurred to these people that the reason the music of these interesting and alternative bands is being recruited is because their fans are now the ones calling the shots. In other words, we have arrived! Of course the ad is trying to sell you something and by using a band you like, attempting to gain your confidence by exploiting the band's integrity for a commercial end. So what? You're not a fuckin' moron are ya? You see through that, don't ya?"
blog  op-ed  music  advertising  marketing  culture  business  psychology  tv  media  interesting  hate 
july 2009 by milkmiruku
Alcohol kills over half of Russians in prime-study
"MOSCOW, June 26 (Reuters) - Cheap and illicit alcohol kills more than half Russian men and women in their most productive years and the government must act urgently to reverse the trend, a study to be published in The Lancet at the weekend said."
news  research  physiology  health  russia  culture  alcohol  interesting  death 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts
"'The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics. ...I cooperated politely and tried to explain to them the irony of the situation."
news  politics  usa  law  security  comics  terrorism  rights  art  culture  legal  authoritarianism  irony 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Iran Activists Get Assist from ‘Anonymous,’ Pirate Bay
"Anonymous Iran is a collaboration between The Pirate Bay — operators of the world’s largest torrent site, convicted in April of copyright infringement — and Anonymous, the prankster collective dedicated to exposing 'Scientology’s crimes.'"
news  iran  anonymous  anonymity  politics  internet  activism  protest  culture  media  censorship  interesting  tpb 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Kiss and Patel
"Arranged marriages are common among south Asian communities. But according to the Patels their marriages are more "introduced" than arranged. Hence the Wembley event. As the guests arrive they are handed lists relating first names (surnames are obviously a given at this do), ages, qualifications and occupations of their opposite numbers, together with the names of the villages their forefathers came from."
bbc  news  religion  culture  family  meme  india  interesting 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
U.S. teenagers big on hugging
"Touching and physical contact is very dangerous territory," said Noreen Hajinlian, principal of George G. White School, a junior high school in Hillsdale, N.J., which banned hugging. "It wasn't a greeting. It was happening all day."
news  usa  sociology  culture  relationships  interesting 
june 2009 by milkmiruku
Andrei Lankov | North Korea
"To all intents and purposes, North Korea is no longer a perfect Stalinist economy. It is more like a country in central Africa, but with a bad and cold climate. ... Sometimes it feels like you are back at the time when China was still ruled by the great Tang dynasty, or maybe by the Song dynasty, and you would not be surprised to see horsemen in the armour of the Genghis Khan era appearing from behind a hill. You don’t see any signs of modern technology, no phone masts, no pylons, no railways, no paved roads, nothing."
interview  politics  northkorea  authoritarianism  culture  propaganda  interesting  history 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
The gay teenage boy who was elected prom queen
"This is something that I just feel was meant for me. I mean: I am a queen. It suits my personality, too because deep down inside, I am of course very effeminate."
news  lgbt  usa  education  culture  interesting 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Shock jocks: Voice of unreason - Americas, World - The Independent
"Put bluntly, right-leaning talk's audience is dying off. A recent profile of Limbaugh by Vanity Fair claimed that the average age of his listeners is 67 and rising. Fox's average viewer is said to be in their seventh decade. In a changing world, against a President catapulted to power with a staggering majority of the youth, they may (in the long term) turn out to be onto a losing bet."
article  op-ed  usa  radio  politics  media  interesting  culture 
may 2009 by milkmiruku
Macroanonymous Is The New Microfamous - Fimoculous.com
"A month ago on the eve of ROFLcon, I interviewed the founder of 4chan for a magazine story that never ended up running. ... 4chan is actually one of the most robust, complex, annoying, disgusting, illuminating, perverse, fascinating online communities ever created. It is the direct or indirect source for many of the strangest internet memes: RickRolling, LOLcats, Sarah Palin's email hack, Anonymous, Chocolate Rain, and many other minor and major feats of esoterica (i.e., fucked up weird porn)."
internet  culture  interview  4chan  meme  humour  weird  anonymous  technology  society  interesting  anime 
february 2009 by milkmiruku
Slashdot | How do you get to work?
"Ten days into one particular trip, something suddenly occurred to me. ... I was living my entire day-to-day life completely contained in a giant stretched-out arcology."
slashdot  comments  japan  culture  architecture  underground  interesting 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
Journal of Religion and Society
"The approximately 800 million mostly middle class adults and children act as a massive epidemiological experiment that allows hypotheses that faith in a creator or disbelief in evolution improves or degrades societal conditions to be tested on an international scale. ... the data examined in this study demonstrates that only the more secular, pro-evolution democracies have, for the first time in history, come closest to achieving practical “cultures of life” that feature low rates of lethal crime, juvenile-adult mortality, sex related dysfunction, and even abortion. The least theistic secular developed democracies such as Japan, France, and Scandinavia have been most successful in these regards."
research  article  culture  science  religion  sociology  psychology  crime  statistics  health  evolution  atheism  interesting 
january 2009 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Europe | Festive goat up in flames again
"The 13m-high (43ft) animal in Gavle has been torched 23 times since it was first erected in 1966. It has also been hit by a car and had its legs cut off. ... just 10 of the goats, which are built in the town's central square, have survived beyond Christmas since 1966."
news  sweden  goat  humour  fire  prank  culture 
december 2008 by milkmiruku
About Goth [stereo] Types - All Types
Much better than my now not-on-the-web attempt!
culture  sociology  resource  humour  goth  fashion 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
EXPLICIT CONTENT ONLY
"This is the entire N.W.A. Straight Outta Compton album edited down into just the "explicit" content."
music  culture  hiphop  rap  humour  samples  censorship  audio  mp3 
november 2008 by milkmiruku
Caveman Sex: How Evolutionary Psych Pushes Sexist Stereotypes | Sex and Relationships | AlterNet
"The watered-down evolutionary psychology prevalent in pop culture enables some men to rationalize sexist double standards about relationships."
culture  sociology  psychology  science  philosophy  sex  gender  relationships  sexism 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
Reconstructing the structure of the world-wide music scene with last.fm
"Basically: this is a graph representation of the similarity relationships derived from the database of Last.fm. The circles (vertices) on the left hand side figure are bands, musicians, composers, whatever you will find in the Music section of the site. Lines (edges) connect similar artists."
music  mapping  visualization  genres  graph  last.fm  interesting  cool  culture 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
Fleshmap: Listen: Music
"What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story. The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click on a genre name to see a close-up that shows exactly what words were used."
visualization  music  culture  images  statistics  charts  design  cool  lyrics  reference  language 
october 2008 by milkmiruku
FreakAngels
"FREAKANGELS is a free, weekly, ongoing comic written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Paul Duffield. "
comics  webcomic  blog  london  steampunk  art  cool  culture  sci-fi 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
the google sari « Our Delhi Struggle
"Spotted this in a fancy mall in Gurgaon, India (the tech hub south of Delhi)"
blog  google  fashion  culture  design  india  humour  cool  clothing 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
Symposium: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre
Talks include; The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture (Neal Stephenson), The overlap between Science Fiction and other genres, Horror motifs, Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, Modern British Science Fiction
video  literature  books  sci-fi  interesting  culture 
september 2008 by milkmiruku
Slashdot | Amazonian Tribe Has No Word To Express Numbers
"We used to tease and say "1-2-many" is how baboons count. So, imagine my puzzlement when I saw that there are... well... humans living by a similar system! Here we are wielding the Power of the Universe (maths) as if it is nothing... and others are still
slashdot  comments  maths  culture  language  southamerica  tribe  interesting 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
Eskimo words for snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In reality, the number of words depends on the definitions of Eskimo and snow, and on the method of counting numbers of words in languages that have quite different grammatical structures from English."
language  wikipedia  culture  linguistics  wiki  interesting  hoax  canada  reference  eskimo  snow 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
FOX News Porn
"FOX NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Enjoy our FREE photo samples from FOX News below! We have over 10 years of the hottest babes on TV."
america  humour  tv  foxnews  satire  activism  media  news  nsfw  porn  sex  society  video  culture  parody 
july 2008 by milkmiruku
The World's Nine Largest Science Projects
"Your power consumption is seven times larger than ours (ignoring fuel consumption which is a major component). ... Do you ever wonder why the rest of the world wants [Americans] to hold back on the raping the planet?"
slashdot  comments  power  environment  efficient  electricity  interesting  culture 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
Wikipatterns - Wiki Patterns
"Looking to spur wiki adoption? Applying patterns that help coordinate people's efforts and guide the growth of content, and recognizing anti-patterns that might hinder growth - can give your wiki the greatest chance of success."
wiki  web  tips  reference  guide  management  psychology  sociology  community  theory  productivity  design  culture  collaboration  business  social  activism  usability  media  patterns 
june 2008 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | UK | New guide to 'irritating' England
the guide ... kindly describ[es Engllish] as "animal-loving, tea-drinking, charity donors" whose "warmth is in the humour". But ... "The English have become obedient consumers rather than active citizens, with brand loyalty the nearest thing to religious/
uk  england  news  bbc  travel  guide  culture  society  tea  sociology  interesting  humour 
may 2008 by milkmiruku
Booksthatmakeyoudumb
"Average SAT (with margin of error) for the 100 most popular books on facebook."
books  education  usa  facebook  culture  humour  graph  chart  visualization  statistics  mashup  literature  research 
january 2008 by milkmiruku
No Paris trip for Russia's kissing policemen | Russia | Guardian Unlimited
"Mr Sokolov described the photo as political provocation and said he was pulling it, together with 16 other works, from a show at Paris's Maison Rouge exhibition hall."
art  russia  censorship  culture  police  photography  graffiti  wtf  authoritarianism 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
Home Page - Television Tropes & Idioms
"This "Wiki" is a catalogue of the tricks of the trade for writing scripts. We dip into the cauldron of story and place it in front of you to read."
wiki  culture  fiction  tv  movies  games  comics  literature  media  humour  resource  list  interesting  language  meta 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Women condemn Turkey constitution
"A new constitution is being prepared to replace the current one, introduced after the military coup of 1980. The document describes women as a vulnerable group needing protection."
bbc  news  turkey  law  feminism  society  culture  islam 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
A Revolution is Just Below the Surface | venezuelanalysis.com
"When the Vietnam war was at the level of the Iraq war today there was almost no opposition. Public protest of the Iraq war is far beyond that of the Vietnam war at any comparable stage. People have just forgotten."
interview  politics  socialism  venezuela  america  war  media  policy  culture  society  interesting 
october 2007 by milkmiruku
If you think the nation decides, think again | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk
"it is a curiosity that, quite possibly, the more we listen to what some people say, the less we know about what - or even if - most people think."
op-ed  article  media  uk  bbc  democracy  culture  society  interactive  social 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Meh - the word that's sweeping the internet | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
"If you are an old-media kind of reader, "meh" won't mean a whole lot to you. The word has appeared in the national press three times in the past year. If you gain new vocabulary from conversation, it is probably unfamiliar."
news  article  internet  culture  meme  language  linguistics  interesting  history  english 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Judge blasts Kyle show as 'trash'
"It seems to me that the purpose of this show is to effect a morbid and depressing display of dysfunctional people whose lives are in turmoil." He added that it was "human bear-baiting which goes under the guise of entertainment".
bbc  news  tv  itv  crime  psychology  humour  culture  uk 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Virgin sued for using teen's photo - Technology - smh.com.au
"The picture of 16-year-old Chang flashing a peace sign was taken in April by Alison's youth counsellor, who posted it that day on his Flickr page, according to Alison's brother, Damon. In the ad, Virgin Mobile printed one of its campaign slogans, "Dump y
article  copyright  creativecommons  flickr  law  photography  culture  advertising  news 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | England | Tees | Man admits urinating on ill woman
"A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street. The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard."
bbc  news  society  uk  wtf  hate  culture  youtube  death 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Nova Scotia News: Central Kings students wear pink to send bullies a message
"Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt."
education  culture  clothing  pink  activism  children  usa  news  hate 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
DrugScope | Average UK national street drug prices
IMPORTANT NOTE: DrugScope emphasises that the survey represents only a snapshot view of the current UK drug trends and average UK drug prices.
news  drugs  business  culture  uk  interesting 
september 2007 by milkmiruku
Street Anatomy · Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery
"I personally don’t have any tattoos. I just haven’t found that one piece of art that I can live with for the rest of my life. I do appreciate them however. So I decided to look for people who were passionate enough about anatomy to actually have a pi
tattoos  anatomy  art  images  gallery  interesting  physiology  culture  cool 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
Gamasutra - The State Of Korea: PC Games
"The shop owner is a friend of mine, and he'll be the first to tell you that selling PC games in Korea is a dead end; he makes his money by selling console games, the kind that aren't copied so easily."
article  gaming  southkorea  interesting  culture  society  p2p  piracy 
august 2007 by milkmiruku
Video: 'Hacker Gangs'. Phil Shuman tracks down the 'hacker gangs' in this FOX 11 investigation.
"They are hackers on steroids"
news  video  internet  culture  meme  humour  wtf  hacking 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
Iain Banks - A few Notes on Marain
Marain's principle symbols are based around a three-by-three grid, which is itself a diagrammatic representation of a nine-digit binary number, or byte, it being intended from the start that the language could be rendered into binary code as informational
article  binary  language  culture  linguistics  literature  reference  sci-fi  interesting 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
ZeroPaid
A good site for p2p and file sharing news.
blog  news  p2p  bittorrent  internet  interesting  politics  culture 
july 2007 by milkmiruku
Purity Test
42.8% pure myself.
quiz  humour  internet  culture  geek  sex  fun 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
The New York Times > Magazine > Dr. Ecstasy
Article on Alexander Shulgin, druggie.
article  history  drugs  politics  culture  psychology  health  interesting 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
Technology Trends
Roland Piquepaille's blog on "How new technologies are modifying our way of life".
blog  news  technology  prediction  interesting  cool  computers  gadgets  nanotechnology  science  singularity  trends  ai  design  culture 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US town set to ban saggy trousers
"Town attorney Ted Ayo said the ordinance expands on the existing state indecent exposure law by adding underwear to the list of forbidden exposures."
bbc  news  usa  politics  law  wtf  clothing  culture 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Education | Wealth gap in learning by three
"By the age of three, children from disadvantaged homes are up to a year behind in their learning than those from more privileged backgrounds"
bbc  news  education  politics  society  culture  psychology  uk 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Is gingerism as bad as racism?
Well duh.
bbc  news  article  culture  hate  uk  society  interesting 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
instructables : How to perform your own Tongue Bifurcation : intro
"This is a tutorial on how to cut your tongue in half for a cool lizard effect."
tongue  bme  howto  images  interesting  weird  culture 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
Adbusters : The Magazine - #71 Beginnings of Sorrow / Generation F*cked: How Britain is Eating Its Young
"Chavs are the foot soldiers of corporate consumerism. They wear branded kit, congregate around halls of bland consumerism – shopping centers, cinemas, fast food outlets – and target anyone who stands out. ..."
news  culture  society  politics  uk  community  education  economics  article  blog  hate  sociology 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Pole wakes up from 19-year coma
"A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed ... 'What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Mr Grzebski. 'I'
bbc  news  poland  culture  politics  society  weird  health  interesting 
june 2007 by milkmiruku
BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Air hostesses told to shed weight
"An Indian court has ruled against a group of female flight attendants who were grounded from the national airline for being overweight. The court said that state-owned Indian Airlines had the right to take the step in the interest of flight safety and in
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june 2007 by milkmiruku
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED - Google Video
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ... is a 2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A [Irish] television crew ... happened to be recording a documentary about Chávez during
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may 2007 by milkmiruku
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