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The Nike Zoom Kobe V USC Team PE. Yes, please.

"The full ramifications of the crunch haven’t hit us yet. Remember those two geezers recently who drove a car up a frozen canal? They were doing 30mph to 40mph and anyone on the towpath could see how it was going to end — they went into the ice — but they were just going faster and faster, and loving it. That’s how the bankers were."

Billy Bragg, describing the financial situation in the UK, where the 84% taxpayer-owned Royal Bank of Scotland recently announced plans to hand out £1.5 billion in bonuses. Bragg, who latest song is titled ‘Last Flight to Abu Dhabi,’ led a campaign this week to try limit bonuses for RBS employees.

Heinz gets clever with their new ketchup packet design.

This is just a friendly reminder: no matter how bad things may look, there’s always hope. Brought to you by young George Clooney and what I can only hope is some sort of wig or dead animal.

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Working steampunk firearms

"Now, even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies. Though religion may be that which determines the goal, it has, nevertheless, learned from science, in the broadest sense, what means will contribute to the attainment of the goals it has set up. But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Albert Einstein

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