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10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed

Welcome to the 10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed website. This site was started by six friends who, sitting around the dinner table one Saturday night, came to the conclusion that civilization was doomed. We felt this way not because of the inevitable dimming of our sun, or an errant asteroid, but rather because of the idiocy of our times. Frankly, we are tired of the fake optimism, superficiality, non-talented celebrities, doped-up athletes, dishonest and illiterate politicians, corporate thieves, wife-beaters and evangelical terrorists rampant in the world today and we decided that one way of making ourselves feel better would be to list them for all the world to see and to add upon.

So far they only have 1107 but it’s a work in progress.

Pop-Up Pyramid

Cool paper pyramid idea. I’ll have to teach this one to the kids and give them exacto knives for Christmas… Um, on second thought.

dailywireless.org - Seattle Web2.0 Startups

Web 2.0 startups are not exclusive to Silicon Valley. Seattle has lots, says John Cook the Seattle P-I’s venture capital reporter, who made a list of 64 Web 2.0 startups. Greg Linden, of Findory.com, put them in order by Alexa ranking.

As Cook says in the PI:

The list below — inspired in part by national Web 2.0 lists — was compiled today as I was struggling to come up with a column.

Daily Wireless has an interesting list of Web 2.0 Startups in Seattle. I’ll have to admit I haven’t heard of 80% of them.

A New Way of Tracking Users’ Browsing Habits - techfoolery

Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you’ve visited recently. It goes like this: when a link has been visited, you can use the :visited pseudo-class to style it. Using Javascript, you can walk through all of the links on your page and grab their styles; comparing a link’s style to the style given to visited links in the CSS will tell you whether or not a site has been visited.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ferocious ants bite like a bullet

Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight, new high-speed digital images have shown.

Their jaws spring shut at more than 100 km/h (66mph)- the fastest recorded speed at which an animal can move its body parts.

I’m not so sure about their claim that this is the fastest speed that an animal can move a body part. I’m assuming they mean fastest accelerating body part since they talk of acceleration later in the article. Otherwise the hand of a baseball pitcher throwing a 100mph fastball is exceeding that. Like usual, the media has the science at least partially wrong.

Businesspundit: Please Stop With Your Chinese Math

After all, they only need a small percentage of the market. The name stems from the idea that there are a billion people in China, so if you sell a $1 widget to just 1% of them that is $10 million in revenue. The assumption that is incorrectly applied here is that 1% is easy to get because it is a small number.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: On the Implausibility of the Death Star’s Trash Compactor

I maintain that the trash compactor onboard the Death Star in “Star Wars” is implausible, unworkable, and moreover, inefficient.

Top 10 Cameras Used On Flickr

When you are shopping for a camera it is often hard to decide which one is the best. You may resort to asking your friends to find out their experiences or maybe you go online and read some reviews. Oh yeah, and I’m sure you have gone to online stores and sorted the list of cameras by the “most popular” which could easily be skewed from a sale that they recently had.

Hades Chocolate Truffle

Our Hades ganache is infused with fresh, dried & smoked peppers, creating complex layers of fiery flavor for the spicy food connoisseur.

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Is it me, or is Amazon dead?