What Makes Us Happy? Harvard researchers followed 268 men for 72 years to find the answers. (via Metafilter)
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From preschool to college, someone always seems to fall at graduation. Here are 15 of them caught on video, so you can watch and learn. Or laugh.
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The World According to Monsanto. A documentary on the chemical company and their global domination of agribusiness.
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Failure can be traumatic, but it can also be an opportunity for learning, growth, and wisdom. If it doesn’t kill you, it just might make you stronger.
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10 Things We Hate About ISPs and Cable and Phone Companies. You are not alone, but you still have no power.
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The Ninja Seaweed. I had no idea a plant could do that!
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Hilariouslee misspelled signs. Some make me wonder if they’re intentional, because they are certainly memorable.
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thats not a ninja seaweed. its not a plant.its an animal.
posted by d on 5-13-2009 at 10:06 am
Do you know what kind of animal it is? I’d love to look it up for my files.
posted by Miss Cellania on 5-13-2009 at 10:13 am
I like the 10 things we hate about ISPs story. I was going to comment on it, but don’t have the time here at work to register at the PC World site. My addition is a complaint about the automated menu for our local cable company. Instead of playing cheesy Musak while I wait on hold for hours for someone to notice me, they only play ads for themselves. I find that so much more irritating. It makes me want to switch…but of course we’re in one of those monopoly towns.
I also read your cable horror story…and I have to say that I just plain can’t understand why cable companies can’t just hire enough technicians to handle their installation schedule and to be able to cater to customers’ schedules. I know that a lot of companies contract this work out, and that causes a lot of the scheduling problems, but it seems like it would be more efficient and cheaper in the end for the cable companies to just hire their own guys, train them properly, and care an eensy little bit about their customer service!
posted by Fruppi on 5-13-2009 at 1:22 pm
That was a REALLY interesting article about failure. It’s crazy to think that mom just may have been right all of those years about getting back on that horse.
As for the Sea Ninja, I’m thinking it’s a sea cucumber, an animal with a plant-like appearance.
posted by Josh on 5-13-2009 at 3:58 pm
The “ninja seaweed” could be a polychaete worm, but my money is on it being some sort of cnidarian. They’re related to jellyfish and some coral, and they use that lacy plume to filter plankton and other tiny food critters out of the water. The limbs are full of water for structure, and when threatened, the little bugger just lets it all out…like untying a balloon.
posted by Colby on 5-14-2009 at 1:30 pm
The link for Failure seems to goto a password protected page.
and ironically, my captcha is their hotheads. not they’re hotheads.. but I guess they could Own some hotheads.
posted by Ack on 5-15-2009 at 2:32 pm
I am really the only one who’s going to comment on Monsanto? Anybody who reads this and found the World as Told By Monsanto informitive and horrifying should check out Agenda 21, or Bill Gates’s speech at TED…the talk about unsustainability and depopulation…
posted by jOE on 8-7-2010 at 2:57 pm