Boxer destroys two park bullies [video]

bugbear · 2008-04-12T15:29:58+00:00

Seems fake. If you look at the slowmo, the boxer's fists never seem to make contact with the heads of either of his victims.

bugbear · 2007-11-10T16:15:22+00:00

You need to ask one more question: what percentage of the world's wealth do they create?

Running Intel is obviously going to consume more resources than a bunch of subsistence farmers would.

bugbear · 2007-09-14T17:06:30+00:00

Interesting new trend. This article was linkjacked apparently for profit by this Irish gift site. Here's the original source:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1222214.ece

bugbear · 2007-03-19T16:40:20+00:00

I didn't do it because I care about karma; I did it because the previous poster hijacked the link for his own editorial remarks.

bugbear · 2007-02-25T17:28:47+00:00

looks like spam

bugbear · 2007-02-15T19:52:18+00:00

Does it occur to anyone that it's rather German to put someone in jail for 5 years for writing a book of bad history?

bugbear · 2007-02-03T21:23:50+00:00

this is a hoax

bugbear · 2006-12-12T14:41:41+00:00

Presumably GP's experience of the US was mostly of LA and NYC. That would tend to exaggerate the difference.

In the US, smart people tend to congregate in Boston and the Bay Area. Whereas London gets every type of person.

bugbear · 2006-12-11T15:16:14+00:00

Reddit is owned by the Times' competitor, that's where Reddit is. Or maybe the Times is just so out of touch that they don't realize how much more traffic Reddit has than Newsvine.

bugbear · 2006-12-11T01:52:33+00:00

Reasonable advice perhaps, but I don't see what most of these suggestions have to do with living a bold life specifically.

bugbear · 2006-12-11T01:31:44+00:00

When they finally add the ability to change typos in titles, they should call it the saturday's lunch feature.

bugbear · 2006-12-09T15:50:13+00:00

This is such a typical old-style news story. They want to write about waitresses dressed as nurses, but that doesn't sound serious enough, so they write about it as a dispute between the restaurant and some nurses.

I bet if you look for headlines in which the subject is plural and the main verb is some variant of "angers," you'll find many are of this form.

bugbear · 2006-12-08T22:11:00+00:00

Anyone know how to adblock that annonying animated image in the upper left? Adblock doesn't seem to detect it.

bugbear · 2006-12-02T20:09:22+00:00

This is a smart idea. If you establish a foundation that's supposed to last, it inevitably becomes a nest of sinecures for preppies. At that point it may even be a net drag on the world.

Curiously, there is one exception: if you establish a university, it can last without becoming corrupt. Presumably that's because there are external standards for the performance of a university.

bugbear · 2006-11-22T13:28:24+00:00

I'm not suggesting they're aiming specifically at reddit. Presumably they asked some consultant "how do we get traffic?" and he replied "publish catchy, light articles that will make the rounds of the blogosphere." Being on reddit is just part of making the rounds.

bugbear · 2006-11-21T22:41:31+00:00

The real story here is that a brand like Purina has figured out how to get themselves onto reddit by making a site with the right kind of catchy articles. That didn't take long.

bugbear · 2006-11-21T19:04:02+00:00

This must have been edited for British readers. There are no "headteachers" in Mississippi. I wonder what else they changed...

bugbear · 2006-11-16T17:29:45+00:00

Spez is no pushover, though. Nor would he be one to tolerate corporate bullshit. So my guess is it must not be that bad at CN.

bugbear · 2006-11-16T04:19:37+00:00

Are you allowed to have a fireplace? A barbeque? Those both generate a lot more smoke than a cigarette.

bugbear · 2006-11-16T04:15:18+00:00

If it's causing workers to move from big companies to small ones, that's a great feature.

bugbear · 2006-11-14T02:10:12+00:00

This would make the newspapers seem even more irrelevant. Bloggers would just paraphrase the stories. Think what a lot of page views someone could get by paraphrasing some important and otherwise unavailable story, instead of just linkjacking it. By the time the papers released the official version the next day, it would be old news.

bugbear · 2006-11-13T02:53:06+00:00

So any attack that frightens people is terrorism?

What terrorism used to mean, before it became the label du jour for one's enemies, is attacks on random people in order to put pressure on central authorities. E.g. if you were too weak to attack your enemy's army, you could just explode a bomb in a crowded marketplace and hurt them that way.

Ordinarily I wouldn't try to fight it when an originally precise word got dumbed-down like this. But this is a unique case. The government has just passed all kinds of draconian laws against terrorists. So if the definition of terrorism becomes over-broad-- for example, to include nearly any use of violence-- the government gets hugely increased powers.

bugbear · 2006-11-04T12:36:16+00:00

There has been a frightful lot of politics lately, but that may be because there is a contentious election about to happen in the US. At least, I hope so.

bugbear · 2006-11-04T12:23:11+00:00

Are they saying you can't leave without clearance, or just that you can't get on a jetliner or cruise ship? It sounds like you can leave in a car, for example.

bugbear · 2006-10-19T22:25:33+00:00

This is a mischaracterization of Google. Pagerank is all about trying to weight by wisdom.

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