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How 22 Companies Screw Their Customers (In Just 6 Words)|Cracked.com

Another excellent photoplasty collection by Cracked readers. They’re all good but here are a few of my favorites.            By Bonsai Elephant Good marketing can make any shitty business look good. How do we know? Because … Continue reading

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Free Online Virtual Library from the Getty Museum

Getty Publications has launched two new online catalogues highlighting antiquities in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, providing free access to these works online and in a variety of downloadable formats. Getty President and CEO James Cuno announced these … Continue reading

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6 Horrifying Acts Of Desperation & Fear Caused By Spiders | Cracked.com

For the archnophiles among us, this behavior is beyond amusing and just bizarre. They eat fucking mosquitos! They’re our friends! Most people jump when a spider gets too close, but not everyone. Some go so far beyond the natural “shriek … Continue reading

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Did Scientists Stumble upon a Battery that Lasts Forever? 

Since most household electronics have life spans limited by factors besides battery life, a battery that lasts for a decade or two could easily outlive the device it powers. “If you could get 100,000 cycles out of a lithium ion … Continue reading

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Dead could be brought ‘back to life’ in groundbreaking project 

Clearly these folks have never read any of the novels or watched any of the myriad of science fiction movies that show how these things always end up going south. A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit … Continue reading

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Millions of email accounts compromised  in massive data breach that includes Google and Yahoo

CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS NOW! More than 270 million email accounts with major providers around the world have been compromised, a security expert has warned, with passwords being exchanged by criminals in Russia. Alex Holden, the expert, says most users of Mail.ru, Russia’s … Continue reading

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May the Fourth Be With You!

Here’s a collection of .gifs and images in honor of Star Wars Day. Starting with a bit of Daisy Ridley’s rather serious workout routine prior to filming: And here, my Jedlings, is a virtual sarlacc pit of related images:

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My Spring Guests Have Returned

These juncos (thanks Jeph!), certainly the same pair that nested in the same windowbox last year have returned and are hard at work feeding this year’s brood of four.

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At the SF Bernie delegate caucus

My fuck Trump hat is quite popular here.

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San Francisco condo boom turns into bust 

The long-term effects of this, especially vis-a-vis its impact on the rental market in San Francisco remains to be seen. Perhaps nothing is more indicative of a cooling market than increasing numbers of listings expiring and being withdrawn from the … Continue reading

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