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Gaming at work.

Nuclear Energy Innovations

Due to recent events, we have been having lots of discussions about nuclear power plants recently. For some reason, we seem to like discussing energy sources or policy in general, so I thought people would be interested in a new design for nuclear reactors that has a lot of bold promises:

• It uses depleted uranium as fuel, which is a waste product of current reactors
• It uses cooling systems that don't require power to function

(link via Freakonomics blog)

The Internet is always one step ahead of us

From the Urban Dictionary:

The Call:
	When you know your gonna have randy crap. O sh!t, the trains gonna leave the station, this is the call, I better head to the john.

Happening at a McMenimins Bathroom near you….

(via Morglums)

Sobering article on the Events in North Africa

This is a fairly long, dry, article on the events in Tunisia and the continuing protests in other countries in North Africa and elsewhere:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22963

the upshot is, there is an enormous generation of young (under 30), fairly educated youth who have a bleak economic future, and are increasingly taking to the street...

-Morgan