Fist bumps are serious business
2008-07-27
Can the fist bump mix with business? – USATODAY.com
“A female employee considered it a male-dominating interaction, so … people were made aware that it might be inappropriate,” Moore says.
Black Metal – Behind the Music
2008-07-18
The Believer – A Blaze in the North American Sky
A common mistake made by the uninitiated listener is to conflate death metal and black metal. I’ve been at a few parties or dinners or whatever where someone has asked me to describe the difference between the two. To answer involves me trying to explain a blast beat, followed by vocal impressions of a death-metal vocalist (low, deep, guttural growling) vs. a black-metal vocalist (usually higher, wispy, wraithlike, and screeched).
First known d20
2008-06-13
(via Boing Boing)
Nigeria takes over Ebay and eats its brain
2008-05-09
It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay
This time I contacted the Live Chat system. I explained the whole drama, and was told to go on the website and contact eBay’s security team. I did so, […]
I received the following response:
?Dear eBay member,
If you need help resetting your eBay password, or you think your account ?has been used without your permission, please go to the “Securing Your ?Account and Reporting Account Theft” Help page. Follow the steps on this ?page to secure your account:
Epic waste
2008-04-29
A Crushing Issue: How to Destroy Brand-New Cars – WSJ.com
Mazda saw no easy way to guard against these outcomes. So it decided to destroy approximately $100 million worth of factory-new automobiles.
This after:
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
“Come on, Marty,” Habib says as they heft the litter back to the tug. “We’re gonna get you out of here. Just hang in a little longer.”
[…]
By the end of the second day of pumping, the Cougar Ace is upright. A few days later, the owners come aboard to reclaim the ship. What initially seemed like a lost cause is now floating freely. It did not sink. Ninety-nine percent of its cargo is intact. There was no environmental disaster.Soon, a payment of more than $10 million is wired to Titan’s account.
(via Reddit)
More fuel/food ridiculousness
2008-04-28
Energy Bill II could reap a bitter harvest
While making practically no dent in the energy shortage, both energy bills have gone a long way to deprive America’s huge agricultural exports of the tens of billions of revenues that farm goods provided the U.S. export sector.
[…]
Now we’re finding out that imports of oil converted from Canadian tar sands may be endangered. These account for 350,000 barrels of oil per day, scheduled to grow to 500,000 in the not too distant future. But according to the stricter greenhouse gas emissions embedded in December’s Energy Bill II, oil made from tar sands may not meet the required standards.
Meth country
2008-04-24
Sierra Magazine: Welcome to Meth Country
Law enforcement officers […] must wear hermetically sealed moon suits and self-contained breathing apparatuses for protection. Hazmat (hazardous-materials) teams then come in to clean up the mess. And it’s a big mess: For every pound of meth produced, between five and six pounds of highly toxic waste is generated.
[…]
“We had one mobile-home lab that had been operating for several years on private land within the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest,” he says. “We found some large ponderosa pines that were a hundred and fifty years old killed off by the fumes.”
Starbuck and Starbuck at Starbuck’s
2008-04-22
(via f13)
Dot on letter ‘i’ kills two in Turkey
2008-04-22
That day, the lack of a single dot over a letter—product of a faulty localization of the cellphone’s typing system—caused a chain of events that ended in a violent blood bath (Warning: offensive language ahead.)
