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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

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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

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Videographer had bottoms up view of nuclear blast, lives to tell tale
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/07/27/how-does-it-feel-to-stand-under-nuclear-bomb/

Granted it was ‘only’ 2 kiloton (or 2,000 tons which is 4,000,000 lbs, according to my math), but 10,000 feet is less than two miles away. Of …

4 Reasons Hollywood Sucks (And It’s All Our Fault)
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-reasons-hollywood-sucks-and-its-all-our-fault/

There are some great writers at Cracked, the above got me into fits of laughter I had to painfully suppress because I am at work. The whole article is amusing, …

Ain’t that the truth!

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The aging brain: Why getting older just might be awesome
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/19/health/enayati-aging-brain-innovation/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12

Though my previous post indicated that my brain was atrophying, I in general I feel that getting older gets you smarter (unless, of course, you are a moron). Though …

Are politicians too rich to understand us?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/12/opinion/stanley-money-in-politics/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

I think the answer to this is an unequivocal ‘yes’. Having been homeless and destitute, I have an acute understanding of the lowest rungs of the earnings ladder (though I did have …

How extremism is normalized
The Obama administration has converted once unthinkable government claims into permanent political fixtures
http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/how_extremism_is_normalized/

More bla bla bla police state bla bla bla, but it is important to try to get the word out. Since my …

Is Cheating a Rational Choice?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-anderson-phd/cheating_b_1528890.html

There is quite a bit of absolutism in the article that I object to. I don’t think that _all_ and _everyone_ and other such absolute terms are very good science. Human nature is so …

Are the police tracking your calls?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/opinion/crump-cellphone-privacy/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7

I would be shocked to find out if any of my reader(s) are shocked by reading this, but felt it had a place here none-the-less. In the ‘good old days’ the police had …