Saturday/Sunday, June 25-26, 2011

WEB BOHEMIAN Weekend Edition (Saturday/Sunday, June 25-26, 2011)
(1)- WHICH IS PREFERRED -- Ethical egoism is an ethical theory that individuals ought to maximize their own self-interest. This is generally contrasted with altruism, the view that people should take into account the interests of others.

(2)- TRIBAL REALISM – The immediate goal of tribal realism is to vet Western political speeches to delete all references to “the people” of Libya, or Iraq or Afghanistan; and then decompose this collective noun into its constituent parts.

(3)- IBM & ARCHITECHTURE -- Led by IBM President Thomas Watson Jr., Big Blue's building boom in the mid-20th Century cemented IBM's role as design patron and leader in establishing a corporate identity through architecture.

(4)- HERE’S WHY -- Going gray is caused by a massive build up of hydrogen peroxide due to wear and tear of our hair follicles. The peroxide winds up blocking the normal synthesis of melanin, our hair's natural pigment.

(5)- MAKE SURE SHE SLEEPS – When the fairer sex in a marriage doesn’t get her much needed beauty rest, it can lead to negative effects on marital bliss. According to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine.

(6)- GOLD IS LOOKING GOOD -- An exhaustive report by Standard Chartered predicts that gold will more than triple to $5,000 an ounce because of a lack of supply, not just because of a surge in demand that most investors claim.

(7)- COFFEE NAMING -- In 1971, an English teacher, a history teacher and writer started a coffee roasting business. Starbucks was nearly called Pequod, the name of the whaling ship in Moby Dick. But one of the partners rejected the name.

(8)- VAMPIRE STARS -- The stellar version of vampires—stars that drain life away from other stars—have been discovered for the first time in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. They are called blue stragglers.

(9)- QUESTION -- What if the crucial ideological and political battle is going on within WikiLeaks itself: between the radical act of publishing secret state documents and the way this act has been reinscribed into the hegemonic ideologico-political field by, among others, WikiLeaks itself?

POLITICAL CARTOON

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