The suitcase :unsure:
I recommend clicking on the link at the end which goes to the pdf journal translation.

Glatt, there is more evidence linking HFCS to obesity than grain. Not that grain is all that great.

Except for barley.

A niche blog called WTF Visualizations. They collect charts, graphs, and other visuals from articles, reports, print and digital. No explanation beyond the visual itself so a lot of them are real head scratchers. I found a lot of them amusing.

This one pisses me off. It means I'm doomed to never ending sales calls.
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The circle charts there...uh, I'm confused.

2% = about half the circle chart. ?

3% = 25% of the circle chart. ?

Lather, rinse, repeat.

?

And 10% and 80% look the same. Oh, and it doesn't say those contacts are with the same potential customer. There's a lot they don't say. :haha:

I think the blog is mocking these infographics.

Heh. I didn't even look at the graphic. Just the numbers.

All I can say is that, for me, a sale (medical equipment etc.) is made on either the first or second contact. I evaluate the product and decide. After that, contacts are utterly unwelcome.

Come to think of it, most approaches fit that paradigm.

Definitely. :yesnod:

The Measure of America 2013–2014
 

The Measure of America project by the Social Science Research Council, came up with some interesting conclusions about how the quality of life is affected by things going on around us.
YMMV because Asians living the longest with Latinos second, may or may not concern you.

Brit Speak
 

The actual people, and the actors who portrayed them, compared.

#s 1, 3, 9, 10, and 12. Especially 12. And, maybe, 21.

Why the post office pays private shippers $3200 a pallet to fly Coke/Pepsi to rural Alaska.

Mapping the Spread of the Military’s Surplus Gear

My county has received from Uncle Sam 43* assault rifles, 5 pcs of body armor, 2 pcs night vision equipment, and 2 shotguns.



* We don't even have 43 officers, city and county combined.

Interesting. I went to pull up my county, and it is not highlighted and has no data. If I'm reading this correctly, then that means is didn't get any equipment from the DOD.

But that doesn't mean they don't have any equipment. I've seen this guy in parades. It even showed up for an elementary school Halloween parade as an escort vehicle two years ago. How very appropriate to be used for a holiday when children dress up in costumes.
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Wow.
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That's a lot of night vision scopes. I guess so they can see all the zombies coming in from Detroit just to the south of them.

We only got two mine resistant vehicles.:(


McLennan County, Texas. Waco, 300,000 people, I-35... 7 Helicopters?

0 in my county. The hillbillys are still better armed than the police.

This is a little interesting.
DC got a bunch of planes, but doesn't have a runway within its borders.

It has some helipads, but no runway.
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Doesn't have a runway that the Pentagon will admit to, anyway...

24 Last Photos of People Who Couldn't Ever Be [Photographed] Again

Some Dwellars may find some of these photos to be, not in the best of taste, and/or a tad gruesome (no blood and guts, no dead bodies, I don't think).

Squeamier Dwellars, be warned.

Worth the click.

Lenin is a dead ringer for Manson.

Maybe this belongs in Current events, but here's a surprisingly good article in GQ about the North Pond Hermit, who was just released from jail.

A long read, which is rare these days.

Here he is at his capture.
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And here he is after spending months in jail and losing the will to eat much or keep himself groomed.
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"dilletante"

heh...

Yeah. Lol

AMAZON SHOPPERS! this is great!
 

Hmph my post has disappeared! probably will resurface after I repeat it........

If you just need to add a few pennies to make up the amount to get free shipping on Amazon, use this search. Not sure if there's a way to change countries, but I'm sure there must be similar links around.

Slick Fillers

where is this information from? And what is the definition of "contact"?

Let's imagine Comcast is your only Cable TV option. :rolleyes: they call/mail once a month to try and persuade you to upgrade your plan. (I'm bring generous here) you tell them to fuck off or recycle the mailing. then it's the Olympics and you decide you need a sports TV package. So you wait for them to call so you can get a better deal than you might if you went to them. That might make it look like they were successful after x number of contacts. no?

Damn. That was a good read. Shockingly, I saw a few (too many for comfort, actually) similarities between Mr. Knight and myself. I would love to get in this man's head and have a nice long look around. I like the guy.

Thanks for posting that, Glatt.

Thanks. I can also see some of myself in him. The funny thing is, as much as we like him, he would dislike us. We're bleeding our emotions all over him just by talking about him.

That's true.

Hey everybody, it was ice!

http://www.nature.com/news/wandering...lained-1.15773

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40 Of History’s Most Brilliant One-Liners

No guarantee of truthiness in those quotes.

I'm not picking on you digger when I say this, but I'm not sure about links like that. Not as a mod for the Cellar, but as a web surfer.

You click on the link, and there are the promised quotes. Actually, there is the first quote along with 9 advertisements, 2 links to share the thing on FB, and 8 more click bait stories at the bottom enticing you to get into another clicking and ad serving loop. And then a handful of FB comments written by strangers. To get to the next quote you have to click the "next" button. And you get the next quote, as promised. But this time there are 11 ads instead of 9, and one of them is an auto playing commercial.

I'm not going to keep clicking through to see the rest. If the rest are like the first two, at 40 pages, that would be over 400 ads, and 320 click bait stories.

The web used to be pretty cool, but more and more is being replaced by this crap. If a web page's goal was to share cool stuff for the good of mankind, they could easily fit all that stuff on one page, but their goal is advertising revenue.

:eek:

I thought they just liked me.

Ad block is your friend.

^ what he said!

What does that link look like with ad blocker?

It's still clickbait, but manageable. Firefox w/ Ghostry + Adblock Plus.

I just get sick of clicking 'next' all the damn time. On the principle of the matter, I resent it when reputable organizations (The Atlantic, here's looking at you) arbitrarily split articles into two pages just for the clicks.

Does anyone not use adblocker?

I don't. I don't go to enough sites with ads to make me bother with it.

I had it on my old PC but forgot to load it on this one when I got it.

I just looked at the photo w/the one liner, and the 'next' button.

'Problem' solved.

No ad block needed. It doesn't matter how many ads are swirling around the periphery, Stay focused and ignore them.
Other than having to click each quote the site runs very smoothly. A lot of that type site have a long delay after you click, which is exasperating and makes me bail.

I assumed that's the ads loading, but maybe they have some sort of countdown timer on the page that keeps it from loading a new one for a set period of time so you have more of a chance to read the ads.

Just don't.

The Secret Lives of America's migrant Farmers.

Here is something special, a virtual tour of the Smithsonian Museum room by room, watch it in full screen. It's great technology, 360 degree viewing by using your cursor. Follow the blue arrows on the floor to move into new rooms.

Shows inside and outside of the museum and there little cameras here and there which show detailed info on certain things. If you click on the floors (upper right corner) you get a floor plan of that floor and you can click on a blue circle and go directly to that room.

Use the roller on your mouse to move in and out, or the +/- on the screen. Look for the "arrows" on the floor and click on them, they take you to other places.

Fun for children of all ages. :D

Wow. It's so empty. I've gotten there when it opens, and it's still packed with people.

p'raps it was shot during some night at the museum.

That's pretty cool. I remember visiting the Smithsonian a few years back. It was a pretty enjoyable experience, though it was pretty packed.

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainmen...ve-it-up/?fbdd

That was completely awesome.

But, good God, can you imagine how much time that took to assemble?

:devil:

You would have to be half technician, half musician too.

Some free coupons over at wwpbelieve.org Won't print with crome, sorry

And a pro YouTube surfer.

Assuming you meant www.believe.org, does the site you were talking about look like this?

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I couldn't find anything about coupons there.

I went to www.believe.com, also, couldn't find any coupons there, either.


ETA: Nevermind. See next post.

OK, I get it, now. I'm a moron sometimes.

It's www.wwpbelieve.org. Just like he said.

Click "coupons", on the right.

Famous Movie Scenes Before and After Special Effects Were Added

Also:

Horrible Celebrity Fan Art - I almost posted some of these in 'Who Is This?'.<---What's the correct way to end that sentence? With a querstion mark, or a period?

You punctuated the sentence correctly.