Tumblr (3.0; @spinnerin)http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/<a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/11/23/a-status-update-from-1940/">A status update from 1940</a>: <p><a href="http://brynnevans.com">Brynn</a> and I went poking around Alemeda this weekend and stumbled into <a href="http://paulinesantiques.com">Pauline’s Antiques</a>, the kind of place where you can find thick-walled whiskey glasses that were once sipped from by people…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/256848488http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/256848488Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:57:12 -0500<a href="http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/783-this-cruel-farce-has-to-stop.html">This Cruel Farce Has To Stop!</a>: <table><tbody> <tr><td valign="top"> <span>Written by James Randi </span> </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"> Monday, 23 November 2009 20:42 </td></tr> <tr><td valign="top"> <p><strong>Update!</strong></p> <p style="padding-left:30px"><strong>For those who may need further evidence for my contention, the proof can be found at <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ye9d9lp"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ye9d9lp">http://tinyurl.com/ye9d9lp</a></a> —…</strong></p> </td></tr> </tbody></table>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/256231539http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/256231539Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:44:01 -0500<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_he_me/eu_belgium_coma_recovery">Man says through aide leaving coma like rebirth - Yahoo! News</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Audrey <br/> Sharing for Lucas. Includes more details about the typing technique, which is highly suspect. See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication</a></a> </blockquote> With a caretaker holding…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255907884http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255907884Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:14:22 -0500<a href="http://mapscripting.com/add-visualizations-to-your-google-maps-with-cartographer">Add Visualizations to Your Google Maps With Cartographer</a>: <p>Using standard markers gets pretty quickly crowded if you have many points. And it’s not always the best way to describe data. <a href="http://cartographer.visualmotive.com/">Cartographer</a> is a new library that helps you add better content to…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255839675http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255839675Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:52:58 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/factoryjoe/~3/O6MkUN_cPTw/">A status update from 1940</a>: <p><a href="http://brynnevans.com">Brynn</a> and I went poking around Alemeda this weekend and stumbled into <a href="http://paulinesantiques.com">Pauline’s Antiques</a>, the kind of place where you can find thick-walled whiskey glasses that were once sipped from by people…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255839685http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255839685Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:52:58 -0500<a href="http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=a56f5d05a2b8f66ebbd3d38ac05a0d05">Observatory: By Happy Accident, Chemists Produce a New Blue</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Audrey <br/> Chemists at Oregon State, no less.</blockquote> Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.<br style="clear:both"/><br style="clear:both"/><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a56f5d05a2b8f66ebbd3d38ac05a0d05&p=1"><img alt="" style="border:0pt none" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a56f5d05a2b8f66ebbd3d38ac05a0d05&p=1" border="0"/></a> <img alt="" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2219" border="0" height="0" width="0"/></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255010062http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/255010062Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:43:01 -0500<a href="http://www.iheartswitch.com/blog/rihanna-shows-her-laser-shoulder-pads-2009-amas">Rihanna Shows off her Laser Shoulder Pads at the 2009 AMA's</a>: <p><img src="http://www.iheartswitch.com/sites/default/files/images/nov23_rihannaama09st.img_assist_custom-455x358.jpg" alt="" title="" width="455" height="358"/></p> <p>What goes with an outfit made out of white leather straps? Laser shooting shoulder pads, of course! </p> <p>If you missed Rihanna’s performance of “Wait Your Turn” at the 2009 AMA’s you can see…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254903704http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254903704Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:15:51 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/hHR1TYBFzTY/science-jokes-to-bri.html">Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning</a>: <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e7DkeQ0roAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p>Fair warning: These jokes are total groaners. Like science-based vaudeville. Frankly, that’s what makes them so awesome. I’ve only had this video since Saturday, and my husband is already…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254903712http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254903712Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:15:51 -0500<a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/23/science-jokes-to-bri.html">Science Jokes to Brighten Your Monday Morning</a>: <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e7DkeQ0roAM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><p>Fair warning: These jokes are total groaners. Like science-based vaudeville. Frankly, that’s what makes them so awesome. I’ve only had this video since Saturday, and my husband is already…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254812961http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254812961Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:52:04 -0500<a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news/new_noveller_allows_people_to_post?utm_source=onion_rss_daily">New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day | The Onion - America's Finest News Source</a>: <p>SAN FRANCISCO—I love it, said Sheena Wulf, a Novellist fromKansas City, MO. If I’m ever sitting in a coffee shop and my sense of alienation and utter detachment from contemporary life provides me…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254639777http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254639777Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:38 -0500<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OurPdxNetwork/~3/cfIRp_f8QPg/">OurPDX shared links for November 23rd: The WMTM Roundup</a>: <img style="float:left;margin-right:10px;border:none" src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/408b32d0900853851167089d730f1881?rating=X&default=http://use.perl.org/images/pix.gif" alt="No Gravatar" width="40" height="40/"/><p>Here, a round-up of the posts generated thus far from the firestorm that was the We Make the Media conference on Saturday. </p> <ul> <h2>First, The Preview</h2> <li> <a href="http://journopdx.com/2009/11/19/3-questions-with-we-make-the-medias-founder/">3 Questions with We Make The Media’s…</a> </li> </ul>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254639770http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/254639770Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:37 -0500<a href="http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=288a47d55167589fd84ba752d80ad0ee">Who Knew I Was Not the Father?</a>: <p>DNA testing has led more men to discover that their children are not biologically theirs. Families are upended, and so is the law.<br style="clear:both"/><br style="clear:both"/><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=288a47d55167589fd84ba752d80ad0ee&p=1"><img alt="" style="border:0" border="0" src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=288a47d55167589fd84ba752d80ad0ee&p=1"/></a> <img alt="" height="0" width="0" border="0" src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2222"/></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288558http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288558Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:26 -0500<a href="http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20091116/decay-f.shtml">Strange Horizons Fiction: A Brief Investigation of the Process of Decay, by Genevieve Valentine</a>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288543http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288543Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:25 -0500<a href="http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2009/11/ive-finallly-worked-out-what-i-was-trying-to-say-at-playful.html">I've finallly worked out what I was trying to say at playful</a>: <p><div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/russelldavies/4116323591/" title="what I should have said at playful by russelldavies, on Flickr"><img alt="what I should have said at playful" height="375" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4116323591_09cf5bf40a.jpg" width="500"/></a></div></p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288539http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288539Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:25 -0500<a href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=228">Hark, a Vagrant: hipsters one</a>: <p><img src="http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/hipsters1sm.png" title="hipsters one" border="0"/><br/></p> <center> <a border="0" style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=227"><img src="http://www.harkavagrant.com/buttonprevious.png" border="0"/></a> <a href="http://www.rsspect.com/index.php?id=8"><img src="http://www.harkavagrant.com/buttonrandom.png" border="0"/></a> <a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=228"><img src="http://www.harkavagrant.com/buttonnext.png" border="0"/></a> </center>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288549http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288549Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:25 -0500<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8369674.stm">BBC News - 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Audrey <br/> Urban legends are not a how-to guide.</blockquote> Police in Peru arrest members of a gang accused of killing dozens of people to sell their fat for use in cosmetics.</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288525http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288525Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:24 -0500<a href="http://twitter.com/andyserling/statuses/5864036739">andyserling (Andy Serling):#aqueduct I do think Calagator is very dangerous at a decent price in the 5th. Dry track on the dropdown and a subpar field. (18:1)</a>: <p><blockquote>Shared by Audrey <br/> Even the spambots love Calagator!</blockquote> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23aqueduct">#aqueduct</a> I do think <b>Calagator</b> is very dangerous at a decent price in the 5th. Dry track on the dropdown and a subpar field.</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288530http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288530Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:24 -0500<a href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/stabbing_people.html">Stabbing People with Stuff You Can Get Through Airport Security</a>: <p>“<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17325460?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=257">Use of a pig model to demonstrate vulnerability of major neck vessels to inflicted trauma from common household items</a>,” from the <i>American Journal of Forensic Medical Pathology</i>.</p> <blockquote> <b>Abstract</b>….</blockquote>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288537http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288537Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:24 -0500<a href="http://iglhrc.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/transgender-day-of-remembrance/">Transgender Day of Remembrance « International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission</a>: <p>November 20th, 2009 marks the 10th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. On this day we remember those who have been killed by hatred and prejudice against transgender people and raise public…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288515http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288515Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:23 -0500<a href="http://io9.com/5408996/intel-is-developing-brain-implants-so-you-can-channel-surf-with-your-mind">Intel Is Developing Brain Implants So You Can Channel Surf With Your Mind [Futurism]</a>: <p><img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/io9/2009/11/brainz.gif" width="340"/> Chipmaker Intel is throwing a ton of cash into developing brain implants to help people send text messages with their minds. They are also predicting these implants will be the main way you turn…</p>http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288518http://spinnerin.tumblr.com/post/251288518Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:23 -0500