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THE Lowly Peon
- keep forgetting I'm not actually Chinese. in Houston 2.5wks to renew my visa, and only realized three days before leaving I have...
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For those of you who laugh at me for carrying around my own chopsticks everywhere:
Begin with China's 1.3 billion people. In one year, they go through roughly 45 billion pairs of the throwaway utensils; that averages out to nearly 130 million pairs of chopsticks a day. (The export market accounts for 18 billion pairs annually.)
Greenp
Arcade Fire: The Wilderness Downtown
[THE Lowly Peon] [30 August 2010]
This is pretty awesome. An interactive music video written in html5 by the Arcade Fire. It takes you on a trip back home.
Requires Chrome or Safari (and doesn't seem to work on mobile safari).
[http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/#914+Elmwood+Ave,+Wilmette,
What has the world come to. [nsfw]
[THE Lowly Peon] [30 August 2010]
And I quote:
You want a new female dog* to sexual intercourse
Freedom to Travel
[THE Lowly Peon] [29 August 2010]
Residents of what countries have the most freedom to travel.
America's not too bad, though I wouldn't mind holding a UK passport. The odd thing is that, while HK isn't too high on the list, most of its residents also hold a UK passport, which puts them at the top.
I'm glad I'm not a Chinese resident. Barely better than being from North Korea.
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Words (Short Film)
[THE Lowly Peon] [14 August 2010]
Beautiful lilttle short. Reminds me of a more comfortable Baraka.
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Colorado College
[THE Lowly Peon] [12 August 2010]
So Forbes has CC ranked as the 51st best school in the country. This is far from what I had thought, but still places us above Berkeley and some other good ones.
Note also that it's the 105th most expensive, which I guess means we got a good deal?
Google directions as song lyrics
[THE Lowly Peon] [12 August 2010]
I particularly like how to get from west philidelphia to a town called bel air.
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Memos from Tiger Oil, Houston
[THE Lowly Peon] [10 August 2010]
Memos from the boss at Tiger Oil, in 1978. These are hilarious.
And I am so grateful that i don't work for this guy.
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Which Came First
[THE Lowly Peon] [15 July 2010]
So a chicken and an egg are laying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette and says "well i guess that solves that problem.
Seriously, though. Isn't half the point of this question that there is no answer?
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NY Times: Pollution in China? What Pollution?
[THE Lowly Peon] [13 July 2010]
One of the many ways China is so effective at blocking information.
Sixteen of the world’s 20 most polluted cities are in China, according to the World Health Organization, and pollution is a key reason thousands of wealthy Chinese emigrate to the West every year, despite the country’s ballooning riches. Expatriates can be
Hacking the Price is Right
[THE Lowly Peon] [13 July 2010]
Terry Kniess watched every episode for four months to find patterns in the products on The Price is Right. And he nailed the final prize, right on the nose.
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Collective Nouns Illustrated
[THE Lowly Peon] [25 June 2010]
A great collection of illustrations from various artists of collective nouns. Worth a look through.
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David Byrne: How Architecture Helped Music Evolve
[THE Lowly Peon] [17 June 2010]
David Byrne, of Talking Heads fame, gives a TED talk on how perhaps creativity is the reverse of most people's romantic view. Rather than the passion coming first and the form taking shape later, he suggests that much creativity has the form in mind, and the passion comes later.
Not only is David Byrne a genius musically, but he put together a pre
The Economics of the World Cup
[THE Lowly Peon] [17 June 2010]
Wow, that's a lot of money.
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On the Safety of Nuclear
[THE Lowly Peon] [17 June 2010]
Alex Tabarrok of [Marginal Revolution] () writes his response to Obama's address yesterday on the oil spill:
Most important, nowhere did the president mention two hard ideas that the public must accept if we are to move to a cleaner energy future: nuclear power and carbon taxes. Nuclear power is among the cleanest sources of energy, po