September 2011
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“A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”
– Winston Churchill
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Did you know that the Japanese Shinkansen train... →
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connectedtravelling:
In 2004, due to typhoons, the Shinkansen total annual delays were 42 seconds. It was a disgrace to Japan. (source)
If a train were to be late for 5 minutes, everyone receives a free journey and an apology from the conductor. If a train is delayed 10 minutes, it would be in the newspaper.
So to say train delays are serious business would be an...
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GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients
cecilialiao:
These $300 GPS-equipped shoes are a great way to monitor the elders, and hopefully with time they get a little bit cheaper and, well, a little bit more stylish.
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“Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion”
– Muhammad Ali
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“Children should use one hand for education and the other for a gun to defend...”
– Islamista ‘moderado’ en Somalia
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Jim Reid (The Jesus and Mary Chain) tiene un tema...
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“To much of leftwing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who...”
– George Orwell
“Personally, I pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device...”
– Ben Lebovitz @ TechCrunch comments
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“It’s 9/11, baby. We have to have something to get spun up about”
– A “senior law enforcement official” expressing skepticism to the New York Times about the latest terror threat. (via officialssay)
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Así somos y así nos ven (los EE.UU.) →
The G-20 - with its unwieldy membership of irrelevant countries like Argentina and Italy - can barely tackle financial regulation, let alone climate change, failed states and nuclear proliferation.
Designing systems for transparency robustness →
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
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