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"This is a list of things you probably got sick of hearing about. Why? Because it wasn't that big of a deal! For example: tomatoes." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

wow. this is damn accurate, and i didn't even know it was a category.... - Ňicķ

Great list! - Anne Bouey

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will frame the war in Afghanistan as part of a wider pursuit for peace when he accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Thursday, a U.S. official said. Obama, who departed on Air Force One on a flight to Norway on Wednesday night, has the tricky task of reconciling the peace prize with being a wartime president who only last week ordered 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in a dramatic escalation of the U.S. war effort. This "interesting coincidence of history" is not lost on the president, said a senior administration official who gave Reuters a preview of what Obama will say when he becomes the fourth U.S. president to receive the award." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

If he goes up to the dias and says, "You know, I don't deserve this," and plunks it down, I'll be impressed. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from iPod

"The man often credited with successfully ending America's long struggle with inflation in the 1980s issued a stern warning to the world's bankers that they aren't doing enough -- or doing the right things -- to prevent further economic collapses. The warning from Paul Volcker, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, came as the US House of Representatives began a debate on a broad financial reform package that some critics say does not do enough even as Wall Street banks say it does too much. In two successive talks over the past two days, Volcker slammed Wall Street bankers over their "outlandish bonuses" and questioned whether all the de-regulation of the financial sector in recent decades actually increased financial innovation, as bankers claim when they oppose stricter regulation. “Has there been one financial leader to say this is really excessive?" Volcker said on the topic of pay bonuses, as quoted at the Times of London. "Wake up, gentlemen. Your response, I can only say, has been inadequate."" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

liked for the sweet picture. - Ňicķ

"This is a series of works created by Star Wars artist Matt Busch in which the original movie posters have been zombified. (via Geekologie)" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

sweet. - Ňicķ

short but cute - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

the expression alone! let alone everything else that's going on.... :) - edythe from Bookmarklet

:) - edythe

"The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy. The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed "to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces," the air force said in a brief statement." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

gnarls - Ňicķ

so retarded. and what the heck is a PRY-us? - Ňicķ

Again, which part is nonsense, Alex? - Bren, Not Grinchy from iPhone

"During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops. The methods of industrial agriculture are technoscientific, economic, and political." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

true. but then, what's left? - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We just have the little problem of producing hydrogen without using more energy in production than we get from it... - Rasmus Lauridsen

Disney cartoon I'd never heard of... - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"Tolkien did go on to analyse the character's role further: 'I might put it this way. The story is cast in terms of a good side, and a bad side, beauty against ruthless ugliness, tyranny against kingship, moderated freedom with consent against compulsion that has long lost any object save mere power, and so on; but both sides in some degree, conservative or destructive, want a measure of control. But if you have, as it were, taken 'a vow of poverty', renounced control, and take your delight in things for themselves without reference to yourself, watching, observing, and to some extent knowing, then the questions of the rights and wrongs of power and control might become utterly meaningless to you, and the means of power quite valueless...'" - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

Tom Bombadil certainly is one of the grooviest hippies. Right up there with Siddhartha and Yeshua. - Figbar

"Tiger took every bit of the money his image delivered. And with great rewards come great responsibility. That’s the deal. You can’t have one without the other. You can’t have your image beamed relentlessly into everyone’s living room and then expect people not to be intrigued with your life. You can’t release glowing pictures of your family and think the public isn’t going to seek information when it comes crumbling down. It’s fine that he’s not perfect. It’s just that he had IMG sell him as such." - Glen Mistletoe from Bookmarklet

I don't really read sports articles, but I'll pause and read Dan Wetzel now. - Micah Wittman

awesome! - Ňicķ

holy complication, wolverine! - Ňicķ

#9 or when it was black. So much more natural - Shevonne from Bookmarklet

#4 though #9 is pretty cool too. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

"Realpolitik (German: real “realistic”, “practical” or “actual”; and Politik “politics”) refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions. In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism. The term realpolitik is often used pejoratively to imply politics that are coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

:) - edythe

what does Thanksgiving in Santa Cruz look like? - edythe

surprisingly sunny - Ňicķ

"The Toba catastrophe theory holds that 70,000 to 75,000 years ago, a supervolcanic event at Lake Toba, on Sumatra (Indonesia), possibly the largest explosive volcanic eruption within the last twenty-five million years plunged the Earth, which was already in an ice-age, into an even colder spell. This resulted in the world's human population being reduced to 10,000 or even a mere 1,000 breeding pairs, creating a bottleneck in human evolution." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"Tannins are astringent, bitter plant polyphenols that either bind and precipitate or shrink proteins. The astringency from the tannins is what causes the dry and puckery feeling in the mouth following the consumption of unripened fruit or red wine. Likewise, the destruction or modification of tannins with time plays an important role in the ripening of fruit and the aging of wine." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"The term "noble savage" expresses the concept of the natural man, unencumbered by the decadence of civilization. Although the phrase noble savage first appeared in the seventeenth century in Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada (1672), it became identified with the idealized picture of "nature's gentleman", which was an aspect of eighteenth-century sentimentalism." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the buffalo, or American Bison, that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect ten Western U.S. states." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"Originally founded in 1905 by pioneering conservationists Theodore Roosevelt and William Hornaday, the American Bison Society helped save the bison from extinction. One hundred years later, in 2005, the American Bison Society was re-launched by the Wildlife Conservation Society to secure the ecological future of bison in North America." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

"Three Cups of Tea is a New York Times bestselling book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published by Penguin in 2006. The book describes Mortenson's transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan." - Ňicķ from Bookmarklet

... are freaky. - Ňicķ

"The Volkswagen Microbus is a classic - even to those of us born after its time. Arguably unlike the newly remade Beetle, this remake of a VW classic is remarkably true to the original on the outside - but on the inside it is a bio-diesel hybrid stuffed full of high tech gadgetry and eco-friendly innovations." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Bumping some old good posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

interesting... - Ňicķ

Thought provoking, thanks for the share. :) - mikepk

The smaller energies are like river currents, the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. - The Complex Days