Paul ⁽³³⁸⁾

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJhYspu2vFA

They exist. Be scared. Be very scared.

I was looking for a flash-light application to put on my phone. This one got very good reviews. I did not install it. Why would a flash-light application that just manipulates the flash-LED or the screen want to read my phone status and require full network access?

'A Great Victory': Controversial Brazilian Dam Construction Halted Brazilian Federal court finds Belo Monte hydro-electric dam licenses invalid, indigenous peoples were not consulted A victory came to activists in Brazil on Tuesday when a federal judge halted construction on the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Amazon, saying that the indigenous peoples had not been consulted. The impacts of the dam, which would have been the third largest hydro-electric dam in the world, had long…

Is it real? Suddenly this thing pops up all over the internet. A crystal pyramid, that reportedly has appeared or been discovered on a deep sea investigation about 2000 metres under the surface of the ocean in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. The person who discovered it is named "oceanographer Dr. Verlag Meyer". I did a search online for this person, and found nothing, except the reference to this alleged crystal pyramid. Not very…

Level: expert.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother…

(This post originally appeared on Lipsweater and is reproduced with permission.) If you got a chance to read my last post, you’d realize I’m a bit of a tea geek. Part of being a tea geek is trying all the tea purveyors and experiences that you can find around town. An epic Seattle coffee geek post from Jonathon Colman inspired me to come up with my tea short list, so let’s get drinkin’! (Disclaimer: I’m more of an “eastern”…

How did the world turn into such a race track? And before you think I speak riddles: I mean motorways, freeways, Autobahn. Fill in the name depending on where you are. If you have a car, how fast do you drive? And why do you drive it at that speed? Do you stick to the speed limit because faster is an offence? Do you go over the speed limit because it is a thrill? Or…