October 2011
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Official Statement from Oakland PD regarding...
Q. Did the Police deploy rubber bullets, flash-bag grenades?
A. No, the loud noises that were heard originated from M-80 explosives thrown at Police by protesters. In addition, Police fired approximately four bean bag rounds at protesters to stop them from throwing dangerous objects at the officers.
Q. Did the Police use tear gas?
A. Yes, the Police used a limited amount of tear gas for a...
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Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks in silicon circuitry that our...
– Biological computers come closer to reality (via goodship11)
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The solution to all of your problems →
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Occupy Wall Street Demographics
In terms of demographic characteristics of the sample, we found that,
64.2% of respondents were younger than 34 years of age.
While the sample is relatively young, one in three respondents is older than 35 and one in five respondents is 45 and older.
7.9% of respondents have a high school degree or less.
92.1% of the sample has some college, a college degree, or a graduate degree.
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Nabokov Reads Nabokov
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A collection of readings by Nabokov, .mp3 format, 126 MB.
After gushing about Nabokov a few posts back, particularly about his short stories ‘Signs and Symbols’ and ‘The Vane Sisters’, I realized that I had a nice little stash of his works read aloud, either by him or others.
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The physical state of our bodies can either serve or subvert the quest to create...
– Jonathan Fields
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Gerhard Richter Painting
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...
– Henry Miller
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Cops and Robbers
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Singapore has been reclaiming land from the sea since the mid-1960s, expanding...
– Pruned
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the internet in-crowd →
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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.
As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must...
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