WEB BOHEMIAN
(Monday, October 22, 2012)
(1)- VLAD BUYS RUSSIAN -- President Vladimir Putin will soon travel
around Moscow in a Russian-built limousine, a prototype of which has already
been completed, based on the famed ZIL model of Soviet days.
(2)- SPORK’S ODD HISTORY -- Table utensils are, above all, cultural
objects, carrying with them a view of what food is and how we should conduct
ourselves in relation to it. And then there are sporks.
(3)- AUTONOMOUS WAR CONSEQUENCES -- While there’s a tremendous amount of
money and thought going towards the construction of new drones, less attention
is paid to managing the consequences of autonomous warfare.
(4)- VIRTUAL THREATS TO REAL OIL -- One of the world's most vital industries
is virtually unguarded against digital attacks. Security protocols are under
attack.
(5)- UNDERTAXED AMERICA -- Compared with other developed countries,
the United States has very low taxes, little income redistribution, and an
extraordinarily complex tax code. If it wanted to, government could…
(6)- WEIRD NAMES -- you name it, Hong Kong probably has someone who goes by it.
The former British colony is obsessed with weird English names. Unusual
appellations have been found on people of all kinds.
(7)- FOSSIL FIND -- This 100-million-year old spider didn’t get to enjoy its
final meal. Trapped in a piece of amber, the juvenile spider appears to be on
the cusp of devouring a male wasp that was caught in its web.
(8)- THOSE HIGH-TECH PATENET WARS -- For the first time, the giants of the
tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than
they are on R&D.
(9)- EURO SEPARATISTS ARISE! -- The debt crisis is fueling the fortunes
of separatists in a handful of European Union countries. Affluent regions in
Spain, Britain, Belgium and Italy are no longer feeling a sense of solidarity
with poorer parts of their own countries.
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