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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/20\/tshirt-f-u-washington\/","trash":"","name":"tshirt-f-u-washington","parent":"","title":"TShirt: F U Washington","date":"2011-08-20 12:34:54","filepath":"posts\/2000368_tshirt-f-u-washington.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fywashington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px;\" title=\"F U Washington\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fywashington.com\/img\/fuw.png\" alt=\"F U Washington\" width=\"221\" height=\"241\" \/><\/a>Looks like you can get a shirt that shows your dismay and anger over the behavior of our leaders in Washington D.C. for only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fywashington.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">$18<\/a>.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Jarvis<\/a> helped put people's fury into a hashtag on twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23FUCKYOUWASHINGTON\" target=\"_blank\">#FUCKYOUWASHINGTON<\/a>\n\nThis response from Americans is 100% absolutely warranted.\n\n<em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fywashington.com\" target=\"_blank\">FYWashington.com<\/a><\/em>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/?p=411","trash":"","name":"","parent":"","title":"Human cancer is possibly contagious","date":"2011-08-19 10:56:04","filepath":"posts\/2000411_.xml.json","type":"post","content":"\n\nhttp:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/08\/18\/tasmanian-devils-and-contagious-cancer.html\n\nlink this with the stem cell line we all use for research (from the woman that had cancer whose cancer cells were resilient to the stem cell survival rate).\n\nHuman cancer of today could be contagious....\n\nEver wonder why cancer rates have increased so much over the past 50 years, but the lifespan has not increased proportionally???"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/18\/yowayowa-camera-woman-natsumi\/","trash":"","name":"yowayowa-camera-woman-natsumi","parent":"","title":"Yowayowa camera woman = Natsumi","date":"2011-08-18 11:45:48","filepath":"posts\/2000337_yowayowa-camera-woman-natsumi.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px;\" title=\"natsumi\" src=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\/1img\/pineapple1_img\/img20090906223047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>Natsumi is a wonderful photographer from Japan. \u00a0She hit upon an action shot which she labels her \"daily\u00a0levitation\" and they are nothing short of spectacular.\n\nNot only are her photo's beautiful, but her choice of attire is\u00a0impeccable.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Levitation\" src=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\/1img\/banana_img\/img_253bda16424f42f737068fff3f4dce1183acbf03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<blockquote><strong>yowayowa camera woman = natsumi<\/strong>\n\n<strong><\/strong>Lives in Tokyo with two cats.\nPhotographs mainly levitating self-portraits (and cats not levitating).\nyowayowa is a Japanese term meaning \"weak\" or \"feeble.\"\n<em>Since I'm yowayowa, it's really heavy to carry SLR cameras around.<\/em><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\"><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Train\" src=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\/1img\/banana_img\/img_1afa55eb269cecde70a269c43f0c166674096a84.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/yowayowacamera.com<\/a>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/18\/what-i-will-teach-my-children\/","trash":"","name":"what-i-will-teach-my-children","parent":"","title":"What I will teach my children","date":"2011-08-18 08:58:10","filepath":"posts\/2000406_what-i-will-teach-my-children.xml.json","type":"post","content":"This is my response to a relative after receiving one of those \"This is a Christian Nation\" bulk emails.\n<blockquote>I'm not going to convince you of anything. You're going to hold to whatever beliefs you want. You're unshakable; solid, like a stone.\n\nI'm just going to teach my children the following:\n\nThe country, when founded, was primarily Christian. The founding fathers that drafted and wrote the foundation of our country were philosophers and deists (popular back then). They understood that to have a free country there will be no establishment of religion by the government. Sure; you can say that it is because the people that came to the continent 100 years before to escape religious prosecution (by the government and majority of people). This is probably the best argument for a separation of church and state. Just because the people back in the day were mostly Christian, it doesn't mean the government was.\n\nI will also provide my kids with this quote from Jefferson from the Treaty of Tripoli (Muslim nation):\n\"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.\" (<a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/bar1796t.asp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/bar1796t.asp<\/a>)\n\nI will also teach my kids how to get along in a society of intolerance and how to deal with situations where money and the pledge of allegiance have references to religion. They won't think it's fair, but I'll explain that with prosperity and education the nation will eventually remove these old and unnecessary references to mythology.\n\nI'll also explain how other nations are mostly non-religious and are very prosperous. Japan is something like 12% religous and Europe is also very secular. Religion is not needed in government. It is quite the contrary. Religion in government is actually bad for nations. I'll explain how fundamentalist countries never prosper and are never successful.\n\nI'm not sure where I'll explain this to my children. I may be in a different country. I'm getting tired of people shitting on my country and throwing slop in the law books just to get a bonus point with some bullshit god. This country is getting stupid very quickly and it's not because of communism.<\/blockquote>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/16\/spotlight-foster-the-people-helena-beat\/","trash":"","name":"spotlight-foster-the-people-helena-beat","parent":"","title":"Spotlight: Foster The People - Helena Beat","date":"2011-08-16 12:30:32","filepath":"posts\/2000365_spotlight-foster-the-people-helena-beat.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Imagine MGMT creating a MaxMax redux...\n\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ABzh6hTYpb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/14\/twitter-utility-for-making-long-tweets-140chars\/","trash":"","name":"twitter-utility-for-making-long-tweets-140chars","parent":"","title":"Twitter utility for making long tweets (+140chars)","date":"2011-08-14 11:44:21","filepath":"posts\/2000343_twitter-utility-for-making-long-tweets-140chars.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/tweet.8bitrobot.com\"><img class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #666;\" title=\"Longtweet\" src=\"http:\/\/tweet.8bitrobot.com\/img\/logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"97\" height=\"20\" \/><\/a>Those\u00a0loquacious few who use Twitter must have run\u00a0across\u00a0the\u00a0predicament\u00a0of hitting the tweet max character limit and still have more to write. \u00a0For them, there's a little utility called Longtweet.\n\nIt allows you to write as much as you wish and post a shortened message with a link to the full text on Twitter. \u00a0Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talltweets.com\">Tall Tweets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitlonger.com\">TwitLonger<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richtweets.com\" target=\"_blank\">RichTweets<\/a>, there is no need to give <a href=\"http:\/\/tweet.8bitrobot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Longtweet<\/a> access to your twitter account. \u00a0It's safe!"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/08\/12\/339\/","trash":"","name":"339","parent":"","title":"Facebook commits data theft","date":"2011-08-12 09:47:57","filepath":"posts\/2000339_339.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-340\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"burglar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2011\/08\/burglar.jpg\" alt=\"burglar\" width=\"81\" height=\"128\" \/>Recently there has been an uproar over Facebook's recent behavior of stealing contact phone numbers from people's smart phones. \u00a0Most articles try to downplay the ramifications and call the news \"a rumor\" or \"a recent meme.\"\n\nThis would be fine if Facebook posted a dialog notifying the user what they are doing and forcing the user to accept before using the Facebook application. \u00a0This is the case on the iPhone, so Facebook hasn't broken any laws there.\n\nHowever, the situation on\u00a0<strong>Android <\/strong>is different and Facebook clearly acted <strong>illegally<\/strong>. \u00a0Facebook took the contact numbers <strong>without <\/strong>notifying the phone user. \u00a0The user doesn't even need to run the Facebook application for Facebook to take your information. \u00a0This is exactly what spyware does.\n\nSpyware and many\u00a0Trojans\u00a0want to collect contact information like email addresses to they can sell the information to spam houses with flood mailboxes with messages about Viagra or Nigerian scams. \u00a0Facebook is just the same.\n\nFacebook needs to grow its user base. \u00a0So, it felt it was okay to <strong>steal <\/strong>people's contacts. \u00a0They want to get the information of your friends not yet on Facebook so they can try to bring them into the fold.\n\nThis is clearly <strong>data theft<\/strong>!\n\nHere is a letter I sent to Sprint since they are also on the hook for this. \u00a0I suggest you do the same:\n<blockquote>Facebook stole my contact phone numbers off my HTC Evo phone (and my wife's phone) with out notifying us. \u00a0This is\u00a0data theft and is illegal.\n\nNot only that, I cannot remove the Facebook application from my phone due to Sprint's restrictions and HTC Sense. \u00a0I would have to root my phone and void my warranty to do so.\n\nSince Sprint put Facebook on my phone and I am unable to remove the application from my phone, Sprint is partly to\u00a0blame for the data theft.\n\nWhat are you, Sprint, going to do about this? \u00a0This is a very serious issue.\n\nReference: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/237940\/facebooks_phonebook_fiasco.html\">http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/237940\/facebooks_phonebook_fiasco.html<\/a><\/blockquote>\nIf you haven't noticed, this behavior is grounds for a lawsuit. \u00a0Both Sprint and Facebook should be sweating over this."}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/07\/31\/hipsters-are-roaming-the-campus\/","trash":"","name":"hipsters-are-roaming-the-campus","parent":"","title":"Hipsters are roaming the campus","date":"2011-07-31 12:36:31","filepath":"posts\/2000331_hipsters-are-roaming-the-campus.xml.json","type":"post","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kLp4kGE3CmA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\"Wolf sweater! Wolf-swea-ter! Dostoevsky! Dos-to-evsky!\""}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/07\/30\/the-state-of-education\/","trash":"","name":"the-state-of-education","parent":"","title":"The State of Education","date":"2011-07-30 10:04:21","filepath":"posts\/2000325_the-state-of-education.xml.json","type":"post","content":"Education is the most important investment for improving poverty, violence, and the economy. This graphic illustrates how bad the situation is for the United States (and it's getting worse).\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2011\/07\/useducation.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-326\" title=\"US Education woes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.8bitrobot.com\/media\/uploads\/2011\/07\/useducation-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"US Education woes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<em>Click the above image to view the whole thing.<\/em>\n\nSome data points:\n<ul>\n\t<li>Less than 30% of US students are proficient in math and reading.<\/li>\n\t<li>Singapore, Korea, and Finland hire 100% of their teachers from the <strong>top <\/strong>1\/3 of university students.<\/li>\n\t<li>The US hires almost 50% of teachers from the <strong>bottom <\/strong>1\/3 of university students.<\/li>\n\t<li>In 1970, starting lawyers were only paid $2,000 more than a starting teacher. \u00a0In 2011, starting lawyers get paid $115,000 more than a starting teacher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>"}}
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{"item":{"status":"visible","url":"\/2011\/07\/29\/shufflin-shoppin\/","trash":"","name":"shufflin-shoppin","parent":"","title":"Shufflin Shoppin","date":"2011-07-29 10:03:51","filepath":"posts\/2000314_shufflin-shoppin.xml.json","type":"post","content":"On a trip to Singapore I saw a group of kids shuffling in Raffles Place one evening. At first they looked like they were goofing off after drinking since one of them got sick while dancing. It was odd to see 9 people doing the step while wearing headphones. It was a real surreal experience.\n\nThen, I saw this video and got a real kick out of it. The guy is jaming as hard as he can, while shopping for groceries. He's doing the same dance those kids were doing.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BGo6iTebNRU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\nYet, it wasn't until after seeing this next video (LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem feat), it all clicked into place. Shufflin is simply the new dance trend and one that is really really fun.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KQ6zr6kCPj8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\nAlso, if anyone knows the source of the top view, leave a comment."}}
