marrog plays guitar hero. Kitten seeks attention

Takes about 30 seconds for the kitten to appear.  But it's well worth it...

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-29-2009

• Scientists create walking slime
  Doooooome!
  (tags: chemistry science technology TheFuture)
• moot wins, Time Inc. loses
  How 4chan stuffed the ballot box and broke recaptcha...
  (tags: hacking security internet time 4chan funny)
• Anything less than perfect is failure
  Why then do we constantly heap the condemnation of "failure" on any relationship that ends prior to the death of either party or dissolves before the couple get married?
  (tags: relationships)
• Genes have key role in autism
  Scientists study 10,000 people and find that one gene variant is present in 65% of them.
  (tags: genetics autism brains)
• Time and Space Tradoffs in Version Control Storage
  Fascinating if you're interested in the best way to store lots of different versions of the same file.
  (tags: technology versioncontrol storage)
• Brain trauma causes nationality switch
  In 2004 a Bristol woman woke up speaking French and thinking she was living in Paris. She was subsequently diagnosed with Susac's syndrome. But as she explained to the Daily Mail last year, "It might sound funny to others, but suddenly thinking you are French is terrifying."
  (tags: brains)
• Abstinence education actually a smokescreen for encouraging rape
  (tags: rape education abstinence)

The truth hurts

You'll never guess what's outsourced to Pakistan...

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from ms_tek I think.

State of the world

In this fifty year period, a massive depression, coupled with the collapse of a key resource, undermines traditional economic models. Even as the global economy recovers, a global war erupts, a horrifying accident triggered by political systems overwhelmed by increasingly rapid communications, a tragedy multiplied by the almost casual use of chemical weapons. The end of this war coincides with the emergence of a pandemic the likes of which the world has never seen, killing millions upon millions -- and, combined with the war, almost eliminating an entire generation in some parts of the globe.

After the pandemic ebbs, a brief, heady economic boom leads many to believe the worst has ended. Unfortunately, what follows is a global depression even more massive than the previous one, causing hyperinflation in some of the most advanced nations, and leading directly to the seizure of power by totalitarian, genocidal regimes.

 

What follows is perhaps predictable: an even greater world-wide war, nearly wiping out a major culture and culminating in a shocking nuclear attack.

 

At this point, you’ve probably already realized that this scenario covers the end of the nineteenth century through the end of World War II.

From.

You can blame skington for this...

(Tainted Love - Weimar Style)