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You can hate her, you can be blasé to her music, but this woman has captured the pop culture zeitgeist so well, i daresay it is almost unprecedented since M.J.
Merry Christmas in advance from the little ones on the bookshelf. Taking a little break from tumbling tumblr meanwhile. See you on boxing day.
A group of amateur spies has used Google Earth to provide a rare glimpse inside North Korea, one of the world’s most secretive countries.
Over two years, US doctoral student Curtis Melvin and other volunteers pored over news reports, images, accounts, books and maps painstakingly identifying and locating thousands of buildings, monuments, missile-storage facilities, mass graves, secret labour camps, palaces, restaurants, tourist sites, main roads and even the entrance to the country’s subterranean nuclear test base.
The result, North Korea Uncovered, is one of the most detailed maps of North Korea available to the public today. The small file, which can be installed on top of Google Earth, has been downloaded more than 47,000 times since an updated version was released last month.
The palaces housing dictator Kim Jong Il and his inner circle, clearly shown on the maps, contain Olympic-size swimming pools with giant waterslides and golf courses.
Conversely, much of North Korea’s population is reliant on foreign food aid, ironic given the authoritarian regime is built around the ideology of self-reliance.
sickmainstreamdream: chichayd: ramirukun:somethingintellectual:
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.The more you know.FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. You have to take care of all of the cows. The government gives you as much milk as you need.
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and put them in a barn with everyone else’s cows. They are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them and sells you the milk.
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk.
CAMBODIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and shoots you.
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
PURE ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
LIBERTARIAN/ANARCHO-CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Nietzsche, age 17.
Put a face to the man behind the truth.
Today marks the 29th anniversary of John Lennon’s death. He would have been 69 today.
Best video of all time.
Screenshot from a checkout terminal at Target (Milford MA). They use game mechanics (scoring / personal leaderboad) to encourage faster checkout times:See the DNA-esque string in the middle?
G = green = fast
R = red = slow(er)
Here’s her last 10 check-outs - fast, except for a few random stragglers.. The big “G” is the prob the calculated average-time-per-checkout (last 10?) while total must be all 44 checkouts. I wonder what the 88% stands for…
Girl running the checkout scored a “G” on Chelsa - said the whole thing “makes work feel like a game” :)
