February 2009
Octuplets mother 'had all 14 children through IVF' →
‘The Californian woman who last week gave birth to octuplets conceived all 14 of her children through IVF and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, according to her mother.
Angela Suleman told the Associated Press she did not support the decision of her daughter, Nadya Suleman, to have more embryos implanted last year.
“It can’t go on any...
January 2009
Government to nationalise failing private schools →
‘The government will nationalise recession-hit private schools by turning them into state-funded academies, ministers have confirmed.
Headteachers predict that some struggling fee-charging schools will seek to join the scheme to stave off closure, as more parents desert the private sector.
There are warnings, too, that thousands of pupils may seek places at already-stretched state schools...
people that sit and blast nickleback from their...
indieandyy:(apileupwho)
agreed
caring about people = new tumblr meme?
snuh:
molls:
let’s try this out.
Does anybody remember laughter?
been there, done that
(nice zeppelin reference, snuh)
“Millions of people are just like me…they’ve just lost their jobs”
– Rod Blagojevich (via think4yourself)
At this point watching him talk just makes me uncomfortable. Yet, I can’t look away.
(via apsies)
‘denial ain’t just a river in eqypt’
“Nihil affirmo, quaero omnia.”
– Cicero, saying “I assert nothing, I examine everything” and quoted by the ever-excellent Superfluidity. I think this ought to be one’s basic intellectual posture, and when one does assert something one should not be personally attached to it. We are not our ideas.
And furthermore, any act of...
“Years ago, reporters for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are reporting this week,...”
– Thom Hartmann (via azspot) (via clothedinsky)
snuh: The Clash: Somebody Got Murdered
i had the STRANGEST dream last night
not sure where i was. i think i was waiting outside somewhere. maybe someone was picking me up? suddenly, out of nowhere, Laura Bush showed up. we started chatting. she seemed kind of bummed out, like she could use a little cheering up.
told her that she looked great. we talked about her husband, GW. i said while he wasn’t so popular, he seemed like a decent guy in regular life (!). the...
superdoofus-stratodrive:
i also used to think that elevators were safe from falling due to secondary velocity-triggered braking systems.
then i worked on a couple of ‘em and realized that a few rubberbands or a bootlace is all it takes to compromise such mechanisms. hell, you can even render them inert with a few feet of scotch tape or a plastic bag from the corner store.
the main-stay cable...
“I find bugs in everything, especially TV shows. My wife LOVES it when I rewind a...”
– “What real life bad habits has programming given you?” (via nickdouglas)
