Björn Jeffery

whatshouldwecallme:

I can’t stop laughing at these.

Cellphone producers worked with a Taiwan company that stands outside of Chinese governance, MediaTek, to quickly produce affordable and customizable cellphones that could flood markets within and outside of China. Essentially, cellphone producers dreamed of a way to operate outside of market regulations for cellphones and in the end shanzai phones now are estimated to makeup 20% of all cellphone sales within China.

Education has become a substitute for thinking about your future.

whatshouldwecallme:

A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence’s The Making of a Fly – a classic work in developmental biology that we – and most other Drosophila developmental biologists – consult regularly. The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 ( $3.99 shipping).

When she rounded for the third attempt, however, she radioed down to say she could hear her right engine begin to sputter. “She knew at that point she didn’t have enough fuel to miss and go around and try it again,” Mr. Kasbohm said.

Speaking in Harrisburg, Pa., Romney told an audience that Obama may have spent “too much time at Harvard,” according to NBC. Obama, who has a law degree from Harvard, spent three years there. Romney, who earned both a Harvard law degree and business degree, spent four years at the university and was by all accounts a motivated student who was happy with the institution during his time there.

“A hooded sweatshirt can make can make an innocent teen look like a criminal. Just like a suit and glasses can make Geraldo Rivera look like a journalist.”

(via The Word – Dressed to Kill – The Colbert Report – 2012-26-03 – Video Clip | Comedy Central)