Fuck its silent in here.......

[CT III]

Counter-infographic time. 



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

[Quality Start Machine]

"Mosy busiest airport hub"? Sounds like someone needs to get Tiger Mom on their ass.

[CT III]

"Mosy busiest airport hub"? Sounds like someone needs to get Tiger Mom on their ass.

I think that's "Hosts busiest airport hub".  Better move closer the to screen, gramps.

[CBStew]

Most average?  Does that mean that there is a "Least Average" and an "Average Average"?   

[thehawk]

I propose we change the Illinois state motto to "Meh..."

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029874-501465.html



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8288163/How-Egypt-shut-down-the-internet.html

The Egyptian government's action is unprecedented in the history of the internet. Countries such as China, Iran, Thailand and Tunisia have cut off access to news websites and social networking services during periods of unrest, as Egypt did when it cut off Facebook and Twitter earlier this week.

The ongoing attempt by the Egyptian government to shut down all online communication is, however, a new phenomenon. It not only prevents ordinary Egyptian internet users from accessing any websites, it cripples Tor, an anti-censorship tool that technical experts and activists were using to circumvent the Facebook and Twitter blocks.

The action puts Egypt, temporarily at least, in the company of North Korea, which has never allowed its citizens access to the internet.

http://gigaom.com/2011/01/28/how-egypt-switched-off-the-internet/

"It looks like they're taking action at two levels," Rik Ferguson of Trend Micro told me. "First at the DNS level, so any attempt to resolve any address in .eg will fail — but also, in case you're trying to get directly to an address, they are also using the Border Gateway Protocol, the system through which ISPs advertise their internet protocol addresses to the network. Many ISPs have basically stopped advertising any internet addresses at all."

Essentially we're talking about a system that no longer knows where anything is. Outsiders can't find Egyptian websites, and insiders can't find anything at all. It's as if the postal system suddenly erased every address inside America — and forgot that it was even called America in the first place.

A complete border shutdown might have been easier, but Egypt has made sure that there should be no downstream impact, no loss of traffic in countries further down the cables. That will ease the diplomatic and economic pressure from other nations, and make it harder for protesters inside the country to get information in and out.

Ferguson suggests that, if nothing else, the methods used by the Egyptian government proves how fragile digital communication really is.

"What struck me most is that we've been extolling the virtues of the internet for democracy and free speech, but an incident like this demonstrates how easy it is — particularly in a country where there's a high level of governmental control — to just switch this access off."

[Bort]

"Best damn tapper, most smartest."
"Most smartest?"
"Most smartest!"

[Quality Start Machine]

"Mosy busiest airport hub"? Sounds like someone needs to get Tiger Mom on their ass.

I think that's "Hosts busiest airport hub".  Better move closer the to screen, gramps.

I was trying to read through a noseprint.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28alexandria.html

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Demonstrators in Egypt have protested against rising prices and stagnant incomes, for greater freedom and against police brutality. But religion, so often a powerful mobilizing force here, has so far played little role.

That may be about to change.

With organizers calling for demonstrations after Friday prayer, the political movement will literally be taken to the doorsteps of the nation's mosques. And as the Egyptian government and security services brace for the expected wave of mass demonstrations, Islamic groups seem poised to emerge as wildcards in the growing political movement.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Counter-infographic time. 



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

We're the birthplace of the fuckin' Atomic Bomb and those assholes hang the damn Spaceport on us?  I'm sure Richard Branson is behind this somehow.

[Brownie]

Counter-infographic time. 



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

We're the birthplace of the fuckin' Atomic Bomb and those assholes hang the damn Spaceport on us?  I'm sure Richard Branson is behind this somehow.

Amos Alonzo Stagg and his stadium would like to have a word with you.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Counter-infographic time. 



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

We're the birthplace of the fuckin' Atomic Bomb and those assholes hang the damn Spaceport on us?  I'm sure Richard Branson is behind this somehow.

Amos Alonzo Stagg and his stadium would like to have a word with you.

Aw, a chain reaction.  That's cute. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2PWmGIoB8

[Bort]

Counter-infographic time. 



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

We're the birthplace of the fuckin' Atomic Bomb and those assholes hang the damn Spaceport on us?  I'm sure Richard Branson is behind this somehow.

Amos Alonzo Stagg and his stadium would like to have a word with you.

Aw, a chain reaction.  That's cute. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2PWmGIoB8

Pipe down, Tex-Mex.

[Brownie]

Counter-infographic time.  



Source : http://ilyagerner.tumblr.com/post/2941539079/my-contribution-to-winning-the-future

We're # 25!

I approve.

We're the birthplace of the fuckin' Atomic Bomb and those assholes hang the damn Spaceport on us?  I'm sure Richard Branson is behind this somehow.

Amos Alonzo Stagg and his stadium would like to have a word with you.

Aw, a chain reaction.  That's cute.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru2PWmGIoB8

Hey, it was a secret government attempt to vaporize the South Side. No University of Chicago, so goodbye Friedman, goodbye Obama. No more White Sox, no more Cardinals.[./url]

Unlike most reactors that have been built since, this first one had no radiation shielding and no cooling system of any kind. Fermi had convinced Arthur Compton that his calculations were reliable enough to rule out a runaway chain reaction or an explosion, but, as the official historians of the Atomic Energy Commission later noted, the "gamble" remained in conducting "a possibly catastrophic experiment in one of the most densely populated areas of the nation!"

[Quality Start Machine]

Hey, it was a secret government attempt to vaporize the South Side. No University of Chicago, so goodbye Friedman, goodbye Obama. No more White Sox, no more Cardinals.

Was there another reaction in Nairobi they glossed over?