Man, it's foggy out there.

[conuly]

I can hardly see across the street from my window!

NSA plans to expand collection of American phone metadata

http://rt.com/usa/nsa-wsj-expand-metadata-970/

The NSA has become too big and too powerful. What was supposed to be a single agency with a dual mission -- protecting the security of U.S. communications and eavesdropping on the communications of our enemies -- has become unbalanced in the post-Cold War, all-terrorism-all-the-time era.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/

The Ultra-Strong Robotic Muscles of the Future Could Be Made From Fishing Line

http://bit.ly/MgIdBo

More fliers, less tickets in NYC jaywalking fight

http://on.wsj.com/1gS3Gg2

From farmers to Trekkies, niche online dating sites narrow the search for romance

http://bit.ly/1jVbYXw

How an amateur sleuth and rock musician became a player in a Chillicothe, Mo., murder case

http://bit.ly/NiCYCj

Dogs' brain scans reveal vocal responses

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26276660

For Defying Village Rules in India, A Penalty of Rape

Practice Shows Limits of New Legislation Aimed at Protecting Women in Face of Deep Cultural Resistance

http://on.wsj.com/1mifQ3i

Scientists: Don’t make “extreme cold” centerpiece of global warming argument

http://wapo.st/1goeRuz

Basque Eta militants 'put some arms beyond use'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26286651

Kwame Seku claims he’s the former Winston Bright, a Verizon worker missing for 20 years. Wife Leslie Bright, who’s been getting widow benefits from Verizon — which Seku wants — says he just walked away: ‘He hasn’t come back to me as his wife or to have a relationship with his children … I will go at him for back child support, cat support, everything!’

http://nydn.us/1cygfvo

The Hubble Telescope's new set of Frontier Fields images includes a galaxy some 13-billion light-years away, which makes it a candidate for the most distant object ever seen.

http://bit.ly/1eZ3zdC

Rafting ants use babies as floating life-preservers during floods

http://lat.ms/1cygGpy

Graphic cow abuse video released as Idaho advances 'ag-gag' bill

http://lat.ms/1jUc5T4

Americans Are Taking on Debt at Scary High Rates

http://ti.me/1mtblXb

A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.

http://bit.ly/1feFdlY

Comments

[siderea]

That pursuing a bachelor’s degree might be something other than a deeply ascetic and generally miserable experience was once a preposterous idea. American colleges came into being with the express purpose of training young men for the ministry, a preparation that was marked by a chilly round of early risings, Greek and Latin recitations, religious study, and strict discipline meted out by a dour faculty—along with expectations of both temperance and chastity.

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Bachus numen faciens
hominem iocundum
reddit eum pariter
doctum et facundum.

[conuly]

Don't confuse the issue with facts, now.

[waterfall8484]

Fog is cool, it's like suddenly the world has shrunk into this tiny bubble around you.

Reading 1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 14, 15, and 16.

[conuly]

It is, it is! And it's weird. The foghorn is going every few seconds all day, but I don't even hear it until I look out the window and see the fog.

[waterfall8484]

Huh, that sounds slightly creepy.

There's an island outside the city where I live, and whenever there's fog driving over the bridge is the freakiest thing, it looks like the sea just drops over an edge or something after a while and disappears.

Seeing a tram materialise out of nowhere in heavy fog is also pretty eerie.