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The “Crossfire” erotic trilogy hits No. 1 on best-seller lists, with similar covers and themes as the E.L. James series.
via WSJ.com: Weekend Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324556304578119302541488538.html?mod=rss_Weekend_Journal
If I am to trust Dennis Wilen’s translation, these are inbound Hamas rockets intercepted outside of Beersheva by Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ rocket defense system. It also seems the video was taken from a wedding.
It is a sad but interesting technology. The YouTube comments claim 12 interceptions.
The FiveThirtyEight blogger tells THR he’s been approached by agents and producers, has already done work for a studio and isn’t sure he wants to write a book about the election: “I prefer to go broader.”
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via Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nate-silver-fivethirtyeight-blogger-election-390086
I was among the early, and from what I gather, rare female users of Viagra.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/15/booming/the-time-she-tried-viagra.html
In running circles, Paula Broadwell is under attack not just for having had an extramarital affair with former Central Intelligence Agency chief David Petraeus but also for allegedly overstating her running ability.
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It’s maybe Occupy’s most radical idea: buy up overdue debt on the secondary market and cancel it, leaving lucky people across the country debt free. It’s so crazy it just might work.
Before they became known for hurricane relief or even encampments in public parks, Occupy Wall Street was an intellectual leftist movement with connections to the anti-austerity protests in Greece and Spain. They’ll be returning to those roots this week with an imaginative new action campaign that will strike at the heart of what ails the economy, strike a blow against economic business as usual, and maybe even strike fear in the guts of the 1%, by buying up consumer debt and then forgiving it.
Total American consumer debt, from medical debt to student loans to credit cards, currently stands at a record $2.74 trillion. When payers fall behind on this debt it becomes delinquent, and banks often clear it off their books by selling it to third-party debt collectors for pennies on the dollar. These collectors then try to get you to make good on the full amount plus interest with often unfair or abusive results.
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The expected exhumation comes four months after a television investigation raised new suspicions that the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat had been poisoned.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/world/middleeast/palestinians-prepare-for-arafat-exhumation.html
The Luxury Of Protest’s graphic depictions of our society’s worst moments will make you stop and think about what it means to be human.
Peter Crnokrak began his career researching quantitative genetics, a field that’s all about math, statistics and massive datasets, and mining for the hidden patterns between them. This helps explain much about his work today. A decade ago, the Croatian-born Crnokrak left science to become, instead, a graphic artist. He tried for several years to stay away from technical work, from creating illustrations out of math and algorithms. But he eventually gave in to that subset of design–data visualization–that’s not so far removed from quantitative genetics. “As a designer,†he says, “I just kind of fell into that desire to want to get lost in visual detail.â€
His visualizations, created under the nom de data viz of The Luxury of Protest, are both visually stunning and scientifically precise. And, as with his previous genetics research (he was trying to tease out the difference between nature and nurture in our genes), Crnokrak the graphic artist wrestles with enormous, core questions about humanity and history.
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They discussed their dalliances using an email technique favored by Al Qaeda, according to a report.
via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83755.html