Poor Decisions - Marvel Comics edition

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Wow, how do ideas like this get out into the real world?  Is this the unfortunate result of groupthink and an unwillingness to challenge someone else's ideas in a meeting?

When I first heard about this project the grapevine, I thought it was an Onion story.  No one could seriously come up not only with an ungainly name but a one that invoked unfortunate sexual imagery.

Psst... Marvel? This Name is a Really Bad Idea | GeekDad | Wired.com

Tags: Funny

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Arsenal signs Bolivian Player

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Color me surprised.  Bolivian players in the EPL are few and far between afaik.  Was Jaime Moreno the last one to play in England?

Está establecido que Samuel Galindo tendrá un salario de aproximadamente 15 mil dólares en el Arsenal, club inglés que recientemente lo fichó tras la aprobación del entrenador francés Arsene Wenger.

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Tags: Bolivia, Soccer

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Open Source Lifestream projects using PHP

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Both of the lifestreaming projects discussed in this Ars article are both built using PHP frameworks, one Zend and the other is CodeIgniter.  I was pleasantly surprised, I expected them to be Python or Rails projects.

In days of yore, all a self-respecting Internet enthusiast needed to be at the forefront of Web hipness was a simple vanity page with pictures of their dog and maybe a few moderately coherent rants about technology or politics. In the modern world of Web 2.0, where our thoughts and activities are strewn across the global network of tubes, we need slightly more sophisticated solutions to capture and convey the ethos of our Internet identities.

Make your own lifestream with open source Storytlr

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