This is the ferocious ‘Ball Cutter’ fish which has killed two men by biting off their testicles. A British angler has told how he snared a predator known to feast on the testicles of men. Jeremy Wade, 53, spent weeks fishing in remote Papua New Guinea after locals told him how a mysterious beast was castrating young men in the area’s waters. He finally caught the perpetrator: the Pacu fish, known locally as The Ball Cutter. Jeremy wrestled the 40lb monster on the floor of his boat and opened its snapping jaws with his bare hands to discover a set of human-like teeth. The Ball Cutter boasts an impressive set of gnashers, which tear off the testicles of unwitting anglers and swimmers, leaving them to bleed to death. Jeremy, from Bath, Somerset, told how he reeled in The Ball Cutter as part of his new series of River Monsters, aired on ITV next week.
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Inaccurate: Tudor City is north/east of Murray Hill, not south of it. Also, WTF with NoHo, it’s not even really a thing.
Bobby Finger outlines his love/hate actually for Love Actually. I agree with nearly all of the “why I hate actually it” points and maybe only
onetwo of the “love actually” arguments:
- Laura Linney deserves so much happiness! Haven’t you seen You Can Count on Me?
- Again, nothing to hate here. How disappointing! (re: John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page))
See also: Love Actually in the Hunt for the Worst Movie of All Time [videogum]
This is, of course, the most popular Christmas movie in England.
Making bad bets on European sovereign debt — like making bad bets on United States mortgage-backed securities — isn’t a crime, but improperly transferring segregated customer assets is a potential criminal violation of the securities laws and a relatively straightforward one at that.
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| — | An excellent article highlighting the difference between stupidity and hubris and actual financial crime: An Unthinkable Risk at a Brokerage Firm. |
The Twitter service I signed up for is one where people tweet 140-character posts, you follow those people whose tweets you tend to enjoy, and that’s it.
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John Gruber dissects the new twitter app and what it all means. [Daring Fireball: The New Twitter (R.I.P. Tweetie)] (via sciencevsromance) Compared with the recent total ruining of Google Reader by Google so they can promote Google+ and foreign man creepery, this seems a bit nit-picky. |
What is not being discussed (much) is the US government policy decision to promote home ownership at all cost. Things got out of hand at the end but banks were penalized for being discriminatory if they didn’t make loans to low income people who may have been better off renting.
sciencevsromance replied to your quote: First: Demand a hearing where the bank executives…
I mean, maybe this is scandalous, but what about the argument that publicizing these loans would have caused the entire financial system to collapse? They did repay it after all. And is a…
NYT is all over the “arrange your books by color” trend.
I feel very strongly that this trend is mostly for people who do not actually read their books.
Everyone I know who does this does actually read their books. We also all have at least mild OCD and are the types that keep our houses neat at all times, organize our clothes by color, organize our spices alphabetically, organize organize organize, etc…
Oh, good, then you can explain to me the main thing that baffles me about this, which is: how do you find your books when you need them again? Organizing makes sense, because it makes things easier to find, but this is arranging. Say you have all of Kundera’s books, but all you want is to re-read a very comforting passage in one. Do you have to remember that it was an edition with a white spine? Or some of your reference books are green and some are blue, so…do you just stand there and stare at the spines until you find it? Or does your memory of your books rearrange itself so that you end up with all the colors memorized and you can find your poetry even though it’s all helter skelter mixed up with your nonfiction and your short essays?
It is surprising how easy it is to remember the color of your books - I think especially if you love them - and then you know exactly where to look for them. Confederacy of Dunces is green. Everything is Illuminated is black, while Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is red. Oscar Wao is yellow. I did have a momentary freak out earlier this week when I couldn’t find Kitchen - I was thinking the spine was yellow or maybe orange - I mean I knew N/P is black (at least, my hardcover jacket is) - and when I couldn’t find it I was freaking out that someone had borrowed it and not given it back, but then there it was in off-white.
I will admit that sometimes I get confused when a book has a different spine color from its front and back cover color, but I usually sort myself out pretty fast.
