It felt like I’d experienced the full range the site had to offer: the shock porn, the dance parties, the weirdly aggressive homoerotic banter. I’d seen every dorm room in America, China, South Korea, and Brazil. I’d been called an old man more times than I could count. (My friend, who’s 37, was accused of being 90 years old, as well as a “kiddie diddler.”)

​The original Golden Age Green Lantern, Alan Scott, can't get wood (I had to do it). His ring's power comes from "green, growing things" or something like that, and so he can't use his powers against them.

Chiquita Banana Redesign

An Interview with the Designer, DJ Neff

Several parties in the Languedoc have been formally charged with selling millions of euros of fake Pinot Noir to Ernest & Julio Gallo for its Red Bicyclette brand.

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--> Following an investigation that lasted over a year, French public prosecutor Francis Battut arraigned the accused before a three-person tribunal in Carcassonne, recommending prison sentences and heavy fines.

The 13 defendants include executives from two wineries and five co-operatives, as well as negociant Ducasse and conglomerate Sieur d'Arques. Only the latter denied the charges.

'The executives from Sieur d'Arques maintain they were unaware the wine they were selling to their American client was not Pinot Noir, even though one of their own winemakers admitted it,' Battut told decanter.com.

'I think they were mocking the court.'

Between 2006 and 2008, Sieur d'Arques allegedly sold 135,000 hectolitres of vin de Pays d'Oc labelled Pinot Noir to E&J Gallo for €4m (£350m).

460 oil tankers worth of vino

I have a simple question for teachers and administrators.

Why is it that one can go through 12 years of schooling without taking a single class on what money is, how money is created, credit cards and other traps, interest rates, the role of the Fed, etc., when the one thing everyone absolutely needs to understand the moment they are tossed into the real world is money?

How is it that we have an education system that leaves students so ill prepared for the real world in regards to things they need to know about stocks, bonds, interest rates, credit cards, and the time value of money?

Yes, I know that administrators, not teachers set the curriculum. However, the end result is what matters: high school graduates are economically illiterate.

I am wondering: How many teachers would complain if we threw music, art, and Latin class out the window and required 4 years of economics instead?

How many parents and teachers would complain if we threw sports out the window?

Museum parking managers are especially frustrated by visitors who expect free parking or the easiest of directions to alternative parking. “It’s almost as if they just want to hand us their car keys,” remarked one Concourse representative. The concourse staff has tried to direct motorists to the nearby UCSF parking garage, but the few streets and turns involved seems to boggle the minds of out-of-town visitors. Museum and garage staffers have found it much easier to direct visitors to the free parking along the Great Highway and then use of the shuttle. “We tell them to turn and keep going until you get to the ocean,” one director explained.

this quote seems so odd to me on many many levels

This was new to me:

The practice of swearing an oath while touching one’s or someone else’s testicles was common in the ancient Near East (Abraham also orders a servant to do just that in Genesis 24:2). Its linguistic memory survives in our word “testify”—testis being the Latin both for “witness” and the male generative gland.

I will never be able to listen to George Clinton and Parliament's funkadelic classic, "I just want to testify, what your love has done for me," in the same way again.  The album title is interesting in this context also.   

Even as it leaned on the proprietary factory in its early years, the McDonald’s Russia operation, quick on its feet out of necessity to keep up with all the changes, has also been on the leading edge of other global business initiatives.

The worldwide pushback against coffee chains, for example, had an early test run here. McCafés opened here in 2003 and espresso-style drinks are available in many restaurants; the concept was introduced in America last year.

Clear Flash Cookies in Firefox

Luckily Firefox's great extension support makes it really simple to get rid of those awful Flash cookies with the previously mentioned Objection extension. You'll have to download the development release and use an about:config hack to make it compatible with the latest versions of Firefox, but once you've done that, installed the extension, and rebooted Firefox, you should be able to head into the settings to make short work of those Flash cookies.

The Settings tab gives you an option to automatically remove the Local Shared Objects on browser open or close, the File details tab will allow you to take a look through all of the local cookies already stored, and the Flash player settings tab gives you access to a bunch of options, including telling Flash to never store information.

I haven't tried this extension yet, but will soon...