December 2008
57 posts
Dec 31st
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 →
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Korean Christmas Rap →
Dec 28th
Tsar Bomba →
“The heat from the explosion could have caused third degree burns 100 km (62 miles) away from ground zero. The subsequent mushroom cloud was about 64 kilometres (40 mi) high (nearly seven times higher than Mount Everest) and 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide.”
Dec 28th
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“Ég óska eftir uppstoppuðu dýri. Ég rétt missti af greifingjanum um daginn. Ég er...”
– Óska eftir uppstoppuðu dýri! - Spjallsvæði Live2Cruize
Dec 25th
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“When, as part of his TV show Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the multi-millionaire...”
– Who spiked rated and hated in 2008
Dec 23rd
Dec 22nd
A new reason to hate U2 →
crumbler: They’re selling a ninety-six dollar version of their new album.
Dec 22nd
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“Then two things happened almost simultaneously, according to the flight-data...”
– The Crash of EgyptAir 990
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Ef ég sé með hattinn
Dec 16th
Brandari dagsins
“Viðskipti | mbl | 15.12 | 11:48 Verðbólgumarkmið mun nást 2010”
Dec 15th
Google cranks up the Consensus Engine  →
Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It’s a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.
Dec 15th
Estonia to vote by mobile phone in 2011 →
Dec 13th
Dec 13th
The Taser Myth: How Does a 'Non-Lethal Weapon'... →
Dec 13th
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“Bill seems to be going through his own unique midlife crisis. He’s not a...”
–  Is Bill Murray NYC’s New Party Boy?
Dec 12th
Dec 12th
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“I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had...”
– The End of Wall Street’s Boom - Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.
Dec 12th
WatchWatch
crumbler: Videogum’s (hopefully) annual round-up of the year’s best viral videos is a valuable time capsule of entertaining crap.
Dec 12th
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Tvífarar dagsins 2
Svafa Grönfeldt, rektor Hákon Rúnar Jónsson, uppvakningur
Dec 11th
Tvífarar dagsins
Páll Magnússon, frambjóðandi Bergsteinn Sigurðsson, blaðamaður
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
Pearl Jam Set To Reissue Ten  →
Billboard reports extensive details on the four different versions of an upcoming re-release for Pearl Jam’s Ten, including everything from a two-disc version of the record (in original and remastered form with previously unreleased album-era tracks), to a DVD with their classic Unplugged performance, to a vinyl version with slipcase cover and audio of EdVed’s audition tapes.
Dec 10th
Richey Edwards case closed: how 14 years of hope... →
14 ár!!! Foooooookkkkk!!!
Dec 10th
“a mental checklist for journalists to consider before publishing a possible...”
– Why not writing a story is innovation
Dec 10th
The Elephants of Bangkok →
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WatchWatch
Woody Allen - criminal
Dec 9th
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The Wire's Politics →
Dec 7th
“Lísa 6. desember, 2008 kl. 22.11 Það er einhver annar farinn að nota nafnið...”
– Kommentaklikkunin hjá Agli Helgasyni nær nýjum hæðum
Dec 6th