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The Onion Literally Unbelievable – People's reactions to The Onion articles 6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling Voters Look On In Horror As 3 New Republican Candidates Appear In Place Of Scott Walker Not from The Onion (but you'd think it is) PETA suit claims monkey holds copyright to famous selfie Water CCF = 100 cubic feet = 748.5 gallons Filling a 5200 gallon swimming pool at $0.005/gallon = $26 (only!) California drought throws cold water on swimming pools "The South Bay’s largest water provider, the San Jose Water Company, which serves most of San Jose and the neighboring Silicon Valley suburbs, has prohibited customers from filling new swimming pools as well as draining and refilling existing ones, with some exceptions. Violators face fines of up to $500 a day." "The city of San Jose has passed an additional ordinance limiting residents from topping off their pools with more than 1 foot of water." Beer S...

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Ingress (game) Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko Noam Chomsky undresses Sam Harris: Stop “pretending to have a rational discussion”

Serratia has dark history in region / Army test in 1950 may have changed microbial ecology Almanac Heirloom Pumpkin Almanac Golden Gate Gose Mount Umunhum  "is the fourth-highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California […] It is a well-known landmark in the Bay Area which can be recognized in Santa Clara Valley by the five-story concrete, radar tower building, known locally as "The Cube" or "The Box", that sits atop the summit. The tower construction began in 1960 and completed in 1962. It supported an 85.5-ton General Electric model AN/FPS-24 long range search radar antenna "sail" used to detect incoming hostile aircraft during the Cold War." Umunhum Conservancy  "is a non-profit corporation dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Mt. Umunhum and its historic Radar Tower." "Unless the Conservancy raises funds to save it, the Radar Tower will be demolished. The Mount Umunhum Summit project : "Midpen...

BLU Products "an American mobile phone manufacturer" "The company makes Android and Windows Phone phones" BLU Life One  $149 on Amazon

New logos Verizon Google Digital Living Network Alliance "was founded by a group of consumer electronics companies to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices." Tuna company, 2 managers charged in death of worker in oven 12-Year-Old Tito Traversa Dies in Climbing Fall The Quickdraws that Led to the Death of Tito Traversa Clerk in Kentucky Chooses Jail Over Deal on Same-Sex Marriage "If you give people the opportunity to choose which orders they follow, that’s what potentially causes problems." Ecce Homo "the original painting was of little artistic importance", "its fame derives from an attempt to restore the fresco by an untrained amateur in 2012" Compare / merge Beyond Compare Araxis Merge Privacy in Windows 10 In the Technical Preview "[When you] enter text, we may collect typed characters and use them for purposes such as improving autocom...

Only in Japan (I hope):  Japanese Game Show Hit in The Balls Good news from comments: "For the confused: these guys are all comedians; rather famous ones too in Japan I might add. This isn't a game show. Not really - more of a bit they do" Taiwanese singers Jay Chou (周杰倫 / 周杰伦 / Zhōu Jiélún) "is a Taiwanese musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor" Jiāng Huì (江蕙 / Jody Chiang)  "is a Taiwanese popular singer. […] She is often called the Queen of Taiwanese music. […] On January 2, 2015, Chiang announced that she will end her singing career in 2015 with 16 farewell concerts between July and September in Taiwan. The singer has released 60 albums and won eight Golden Melody Awards over her career." Formatting code according to a standard is of a particular importance in Go Superfund "a United States federal law designed to clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances"

Fanny In the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Fanny means pussy On splitting twins in schools "studies tend to show either no difference in the academic achievement of twins placed together versus apart or that academic achievement tends to be better when twins are placed together" ( source )