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neat! - Ňicķ

I heard that a sequel is already in the works to this documentary. Called Reclaiming the Blade: Call to Arms. They will delve more heavily into the fight clubs and the people involved in that sub-culture - Bluesun 2600

"For health care workers in psychiatric hospitals, it is no secret: one of the major issues confronting psychiatric facilities seeking to institute blanket no-smoking policies concerns chronic inpatients with schizophrenia. Patients with schizophrenia are almost always heavy cigarette smokers, given a choice. As Edward Lyon wrote in an analysis of studies and surveys performed throughout the 1990s: “Many patients in psychiatric hospitals would smoke two, three, or even four packs of cigarettes a day if an unlimited supply of cigarettes were available.”" - ~C4Chaos via Bookmarklet

So why not just give them nicotine in another form? - Alex Scoble

because it also seems to lower the effect of some of their medication.... - Ňicķ

"More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday." - Ňicķ

"A plan to restore salmon runs on California's Sacramento River also could help revive killer whale populations 700 miles to the north in Puget Sound , as federal scientists struggle to protect endangered species in a complex ecosystem that stretches along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

"More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

holy crap, that's my home town! - Ňicķ

awesome - Alfredo

Damn, that guy knows his arse from his angular momentum. - Slippy 2.0

(streamed online) - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

:) - edythe

"Marsh Fork Elementary—and the rest of Appalachia—are still being threatened by mountaintop-removal coal mining. Can new legislation finally stop this devastating practice? I’m haunted by this photo. It’s of a school—Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, West Virginia—precariously set about 400 feet downhill from a massive 2.8-billion-gallon pool of toxic coal sludge. The image, annotated and uploaded by the advocacy group Appalachian Voices, has been boiling my blood since I first saw it a couple years back. About 200 students spend their schooldays there. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. Massey Energy’s slurry pond is held in place in the hollow above the school by a leaky dam. These dams don’t have the best track record. One Massey dam failed in 2000, dumping 300 million gallons of sludge into streams in Martin County, Kentucky. More harrowing was the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster, where a dam gave way and, according to the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, “in a matter of... more... - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

so fucked up.... - Ňicķ

"The Southern Ocean has lost its appetite for carbon dioxide, and now it appears that the ozone hole could be to blame." - Ňicķ

"Canadian scientists are breeding a special type of cow designed to burp less, a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Cows are responsible for nearly three-quarters of total methane emissions, according to Environment Canada. Most of the gas comes from bovine burps, which are 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas. Stephen Moore, a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, is examining the genes responsible for methane produced from a cow's four stomachs in order to breed more efficient, environmentally friendly cows. The professor of agricultural, food and nutritional science completed primary tests using traditional techniques to breed efficient animals that produce 25 percent less methane than less efficient animals. But more work needs to be done before the long-term impact is known. Moore's study was published earlier this year in the Journal of Animal Science." - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet

Great, more biological manipulation, less global warming. Hmm, let me see... - jcunwired

or there's this: http://ff.im/4fQu1 - Ňicķ

some martin and lewis slapstick... - Ňicķ

It was released in 1955. The best Martin and Lewis film IMHO. - Ken Morley

huh. not sure how i feel about that. dramatic pop song turned into an angsty pop song. interesting. - Ňicķ

Never noticed. :) - Steven Perez

so retarded... - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

interesting look for a disney film. could be a good route to go - Cee Bee

It's not just a Disney film, it's a Mizayki who did Spirited Away, etc. - Derrick

yeah, Disney just distributes it in the US.... Have you seen Princess Mononoke or My Neighbor Totoro? same director (who is a total genius)... - Ňicķ

let's keep making war glamorous! - Ňicķ

Larry David and Woody Allen... I never realized they're basically like brothers.... - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

i wanted to read this until this except: “At this stage in your life, just short of adolescence,” the ever-present voice tells him, “the Polish army of your emotional self has fallen to the Nazi war machine of your intellect,” and then “your life is so blue it looks like a James Cameron movie”.... um, so this is what goes for writing these days? - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

Protomartyr is a term for the first Christian martyr in a country. - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

"The Eastman Kodak Co. announced Monday it's retiring its most senior film because of declining customer demand in an increasingly digital age." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

boy it's dark in Antarctica these days... - Ňicķ

Agreed Nick! I'm glad to not be there now! Dark and full of hostile weather!! Huddle up penguins! - Rachel Lea Fox

The darkness in some parts is not like midnight dark. is more like dawn. - Mahmood Padura

all three kinds of hobbits... hehehe - Ňicķ

I'm, of course, very proud of this video, as Hodgman is bringing to the masses a specific usage of the word "nerdcore" that I coined 2 months ago: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom... - Mark Trapp

god dammit this was hilarious! i was loling like crazy. i'm such a nerd(core). - Ňicķ

"Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives." - Ken Morley via Bookmarklet

fascinating - Ňicķ

"A mineral is a naturally occurring solid formed through geological processes that has a characteristic chemical composition, a highly ordered atomic structure, and specific physical properties. A rock, by comparison, is an aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids, and need not have a specific chemical composition." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

"A concretion is a volume of sedimentary rock in which a mineral cement fills the porosity" - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

"Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy cows' contribution to global warming....So far, it hasn't cost them any more for their custom-made grain, which the cows only get in the winter. Now they're out grazing on grass in the pasture, getting as many Omega 3s. And the farm's vet bills have gone down." - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet

cool. - Ňicķ

"Transhumanism is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities. The movement regards aspects of the human condition, such as disability, suffering, disease, aging, and involuntary death as unnecessary and undesirable. Transhumanists look to biotechnologies and other emerging technologies for these purposes. Dangers, as well as benefits, are also of concern to the transhumanist movement.[1]" - Bill Romanos via Bookmarklet

i'm down with people wanting this. but not for me i think.... - Ňicķ

This is Sparky's situation. - Derrick

why does everyone seem like an idiot in street interviews? - Ňicķ

Everyone is an idiot. - Zach Landes

in one field or another everyone is probably an expert as well... - Ňicķ

"Sailboat types may be distinguished by: hull configuration (monohull, catamaran, trimaran), keel type (full, fin, wing, centerboard etc.), purpose (sport, racing, cruising), number and configuration of masts sail plan (square and/or fore and aft rigged sails). - Ňicķ via Bookmarklet