The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Alaska Airlines: Note on wing ‘not the best approach’
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/travel/alaska-airlines-wing-damage-note/index.html?hpt=hp_bn10
Rather amusing to me…
The best response was in one of the comments:
…If they used some jargon, “Tech log deferral entered per Boeing CDL 4-56-78” this would never have
Amazon’s New Secret Weapon: Delivery Lockers
Online Retailer Expands Use of Cabinets for Package Deliveries
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html
I spoke about Amazon’s increasing influence earlier, here it is again. It seems I failed to blog (or at least am failing to …
Corporate Fraud Cases Often Spare Individuals
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/business/more-fraud-settlements-for-companies-but-rarely-individuals.html?_r=2&hp
CEOs have wwwaaaayyyyy too much power today. They control the board when it is supposed to be the other way around and in nearly a majority of cases the CEO doesn’t even own …
Microbial Life In An Undersea Volcano, New Limits Of Life Defined
http://planetsave.com/2012/08/07/microbial-life-in-an-undersea-volcano-new-limits-of-life-defined/
The range of environments that life occupies here on Earth makes it clear to me that life _must be_ ubiquitous in the universe. While everything on Earth has, …
Can weight training prevent diabetes?
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/08/07/can-weight-training-prevent-diabetes/u8dBg9XLWx85FUXpsru2nL/story.html
…That’s what Harvard School of Public Health researchers found when they followed more than 32,000 men for nearly two decades: Those who reported doing 30 minutes a day of resistance training at the beginning
Unrestrained savagery
In Yemen, Al Qaeda bombs a funeral of someone it killed days earlier. How can Terrorist monsters do this?
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/07/unrestrained_savagery/
Glenn is such a far out voice in the wilderness. Shouting in a vacuum all the time surely …
GOP insider: Religion destroyed my party
A veteran Republican says the religious right has taken over, and turned his party into anti-intellectual nuts
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/05/republicans_slouching_toward_theocracy/
Will the pendulum swing back? _Can_ the pendulum swing back?
The author makes some very plausible …
5 Ways You Don’t Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-you-dont-realize-movies-are-controlling-your-brain/
For those of you who refuse to follow the link…
…#5. No, You Can’t Separate Fact from Fiction
#4. Stories Were Invented to Control You
#3. The Writer of
How Bias Heats Up the Warming Debate
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444405804577558973445002552.html
Yes, it is the WSJ and yes it can be easily interpreted as ‘anti-global warming’, but I think the article has a great deal to offer. As I have lamented many times …
Breastfeeding Wars: Why Locking Up Baby Formula Is A Bad Idea
Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign against formula feeding in hospitals is profoundly out of touch with the realities of motherhood
http://ideas.time.com/2012/08/03/why-locking-up-formula-is-a-bad/?hpt=hp_c2
If this wasn’t on Time I would have thought it …