RANDOM *intresting?* Article Thread

[BlackLabel]

Yes Folks, a new Random thinngy. We have Random videos, pics, ****that happens, everythingturndoutbetterthanexpectedday, threats but no "random intresting article" Thread.
So without further adoo, lets start !

[url]http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201205/doing-more-time-in-school-cruel-non-solution-our-educational-problems-0[/URL]

[url]http://www.gamingdaily.co.uk/2012/the-rise-of-the-hardcore/[/URL]

 

[fiftyone]

Good read on the second link BL.
Thanks.

 

[Shadrach]

Gotta love The Exile:

It’s Hip! It’s Cool! It’s Libertarianism!
http://exiledonline.com/its-hip-its-cool-its-libertarianism/

Libertarianism isn’t some cutting-edge political philosophy that somehow transcends the traditional “left to right” spectrum. It’s a radical, hard-right economic doctrine promoted by wealthy people who always end up backing Republican candidates, no matter how often they talk about civil liberties, ending the wars and legalizing pot. Funny how that works.

Paul Ryan’s Guru Ayn Rand Worshipped A Serial Killer Who Kidnapped and Dismembered Little Girls
http://exiledonline.com/paul-ryans-...r-who-kidnapped-and-dismembered-little-girls/

To celebrate today’s announcement that Ayn Rand fanboy Paul Ryan will in a few months’ time be a heartbeat from the presidency—and to honor this special moment, marking the final syphilitic pus-spasms of America’s decline and fall–we are reposting for your edification Mark Ames’ 2010 article about the man behind the Rand: Ayn Rand’s unrequited adoration of a notorious serial killer, William Edward Hickman. Yes, Vice President-to-be Paul Ryan owes his entire “moral” worldview to a lowly groupie of serial killers, a 1920′s prototype of today’s “Joker” wannabees. Yes folks, in a few months’ time Americans will finally be able to stand up and declare: “We are all serial-killer groupies now.”

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Gotta love The Exile:

It

 

[BlackLabel]

intresting links, thanks Shadrach

 

[Pagan]

[url]http://sometimes-interesting.com/[/URL]

 

[Shadrach]

This site is a treasure trove of good articles of science, history or just general interesting stuff:
http://www.damninteresting.com/

Seldom updated these days... Buy the book!

Also this - not an article but very much worth watching. And sadly relevant these days with the trial of Anders Breivik just over...

Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test - YouTube

 

[LightsabeR]

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...rams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram

 

[Harb]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00wq5md

Was going to listen to this until I read

and the spread of games to phones, tablets and PCs are creating millions of new users.

 

[tixhal]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/14/mountain-dews-dub-the-dew-online-poll-goes-horribly-wrong/

something similar happened to henkel's "pril" a while ago:

Spoiler!

at least they accepted their fate and actually sold the detergent with the contest-winning design, while the mtn dew contest got cancelled.
serves them right for letting the internet decide.

 

[The Masta]

Hitler did nothing wrong

/pol/ in full effect.

 

[tixhal]

'diabeetus' or 'fapple' would have been more viable options with a slight chance of actually being used

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

[URL="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/othernews_08-20.html"][URL]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/othernews_08-20.html[/URL]

Pretty interesting. We'll see if either one lives up to it. Hopefully not.[/URL]

 

[BlackLabel]

Ostmann, please stick to "readable stuff" not some random news video..thank you.

 

[NoxNoctum]

wrote long thing but then decided I don't want to have a political discussion

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

Ostmann, please stick to "readable stuff" not some random news video..thank you.

Scroll down to where it says "transcript."

 

[BlackLabel]

Scroll down to where it says "transcript."

thats nt even intresting its just "news"... but random i give you that lol ...

 

[Alexander Ostmann]

thats nt even intresting its just "news"... but random i give you that lol ...

I found the news story to be quite interesting myself, seeing as how the US kept stressing enough that we would not directly intervene, but to each his own I guess.

 

[Avtomat]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/othernews_08-20.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/othernews_08-20.html[url]http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec12/othernews_08-20.html[/URL]

Pretty interesting. We'll see if either one lives up to it. Hopefully not.

Operation Syrian Freedom coming?

 

[Shadrach]

Thought-provoking article on the psychology of checkpoints and how it affects the minds of the Israeli soldiers guarding them.

There is then no normative notion of disobedience at the checkpoint, no proper way for Palestinians to act. The only way for Palestinians to anticipate the soldier’s next order is to try, at every moment, to anticipate the soldier’s next thought. Is he irritated? Is he complaisant? Is he looking for action? Is he feeling lonely and hoping for a friendly conversation? Does he want to be amused? Is he in a hurry? Is he filled with grief and anger? The soldier’s mental state is the Palestinian’s most urgent concern: it is a matter of life and death.

[url]http://www.bostonreview.net/BR37.4/oded_naaman_israeli_defense_forces_palestinians_occupation.php[/URL]