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1 – Battleship Island – Japan’s rotting metropolis | Viceland.com These days the only things that land on Hashima Island are the shits of passing seagulls. An hour or so’s sail from the port of Nagasaki, the abandoned island silently crumbles. A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most…

1 – Seven Reasons Why WordPress 2.8 Is Better Than Ever | Clint Maher Just when we got used to WordPress version 2.7.1, along comes the latest version in Beta. (tags: wordpress)

1 – Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read – life – 27 May 2009 – New Scientist Many ancient scripts have been deciphered (see "The great decipherments" and The ancient scripts), but some significant ones have yet to be cracked. These fall into three broad categories: a known script writing an unknown…

1 – You ask, they answer: Neals Yard Remedies | Environment | guardian.co.uk Bijzonder grappige commentaren. (tags: homeopathy humour science)

1 – Gamasutra – Features – From The Past To The Future: Tim Sweeney Talks Epic Games, founded by Tim Sweeney in 1991, has a much bigger gaming footprint than most people realize. When I hear "Epic," I think back to a time in the early 1990s when I was deeply involved in my local…

1 – Las Vegas Weekly : A man, a ball, a hoop, a bench (and an alleged thread)… TELLER! Teller is one of the greatest magicians living in the world today. Teller is a guy who is constantly thinking, constantly reevaluating what he is doing. He keeps working on his material with really no care…

1 – Banach–Tarski paradox – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into several non-overlapping pieces, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball.…

1 – Deny This, Last.fm We believe Last.fm and CBS violated their own privacy policy in the transmission of this data. We also believe CBS and Last.fm may have violated EU privacy laws, including the Data Protection Directive, and should be investigated by the appropriate authorities. (tags: lastfm riaa privacy radio internet music) 2 –…

1 – THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes YouTube (tags: mashup remix music youtube) 2 – 55+ Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers (tags: design resources generator webdesign) 3 – It’s time to play WHACK-A-KITTY! — Cute Overload Don’t even ask if kittens were harmed, People, I don’t want to hear it la la la la…

1 – Nationalistische Vormingscel Nationaal socialisme, euh nee, Sociaal nationalisme. Fijne kleurenkeuze, ook. (tags: idiots) 2 – jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks Most people getting started with JavaScript these days are faced with the challenging task of picking a library to use, or at least which one to learn first. If…

1 – Recipe for Fudgy Brownie Cookies at Life’s Ambrosia So I was craving chocolate the other day, well ok I am always craving chocolate, but I finally decided to do something about it yesterday. I am a sucker for brownies and cookies so I figured why not put them together? And how about I…

1 – Zombie in my Pocket | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Zombie in my Pocket is a print-and-play game solo game (see the files section below). The game is free, fits in your pocket, and the modular board combined with the development cards make it a different game every time. In Zombie in my Pocket,…

1 – How Neanderthals met a grisly fate: devoured by humans | Science | The Observer One of science's most puzzling mysteries – the disappearance of the Neanderthals – may have been solved. Modern humans ate them, says a leading fossil expert. The controversial suggestion follows publication of a study in the Journal of Anthropological…

1 – Must have and promising extensions for a coporate MediaWiki instance | ryandlane.com Running a corporate wiki is much different than running a public wiki. People inside a corporate environment expect certain things that (most) public wikis simply don’t have to worry about. These things include single sign on/integrated authentication, WYSIWYG editing, search that…

1 – Self-Amputation of the Nipples and Penis in a Nonpsychotic, Non-Gender-Dysphoric Man — Ping Tsao et al. 50 (2): 178 — Psychosomatics We report a case of breast/nipple and penis self-mutilation in a nonpsychotic, non-GID male with borderline personality disorder. (tags: weird) 2 – Talk:List of works by Thomas Eakins – Wikipedia, the free…