the Daily Whale - archive 2010

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In this year, Europe suddenly noticed that not all the parts were screwed on tight, so they started looking for a bigger hammer. Wonder how that will work out?



January February March
1 perfectionism arguing zombie apocalypse
2 the right thing economic shock simplicity 1
3 indoctrinated political attention simplicity 2
4 be miserable democracy no mistake quiz
5 miscommunicate stolen data worth understanding
6 Slovakian security beat into shape pin the blame
7 reasonable Internet silliness alarm small children
8 blare power disorganization wing it
9 Ady Gil major hazard sandwiches
10 winging climate change get it right machine
11 caring breaks the world 2GHz into the sunset
12 climate bribery warming snow everything you believe
13 not a toy show no weakness AI spam
14 home entertainment imperfections leadership development
15 Google China James Polk Daylight Saving Time
16 Google China 2 figure stuff out Daylight Saving Time 2
17 overreaching conservation not using enough
18 spear-phishing X is better quiz diplomacy
19 politics and economics good news fluff quiz
20 growing up one climber falls city
21 last rites to first wrongs logic as statistics tangible
22 truth and consequences success Eyjafjallajokull
23 opposable quiz when Cupertino smites speculator
24 initiative seen farther leverage core competencies
25 computational linguistics prototype reform
26 do nothing technocratic elite polarization
27 censorship technocratic elite 2 2400 page law
28 kinds of trouble one good reason moral principles
29 the worm turned specialization
30 Lumpers and Splitters charity
31 globalization eat dirt
April May June
1 school bullying exercise and exorcise talk about talk
2 iron integrity cradle to grave opportunity quiz
3 intercept healthiest wealthiest couch potato
4 without a reason under a cloud Peak Poverty
5 iRock simplest solution fanatical
6 two sides third party eschatology
7 shale gas lazy thinking great discovery
8 full responsibility market glitches overlook
9 money gravity human error string theory
10 severability clause oil spill faith and truth
11 to deice what you don't do SHOULD-SPAM
12 deicide the same person twisted pairs
13 all your secrets daily reincarnation hopeless
14 crazy originality highly optimized
15 bubble wrap reinvent it Do Not Open quiz
16 excuse quiz self-plagiarism absolute truth
17 unrealistic deadline gusher boilerplate
18 magnet morality organization quiz Tower of Babel
19 good is bad 1 oil and water operating system
20 good is bad 2 one kilometer eighty licenses
21 good is bad 3 moral dilemma intransigence
22 hopeless the very stupid empowered class
23 missing clue under duress birth waiver
24 no more pressure Dear Dear Leader North Korea soccer quiz
25 Finlandization slow and steady pardon our dust
26 SNSD severe penalties analogical reasoning
27 no imagination earphonic charitable
28 Boobquake vegetable poisoning biggest problem quiz
29 scope creep quiz short leash knotwork
30 marketing aliens campaign promise the more you know
31 biology of power
July August September
1 no surprises Japanese komikku turning black
2 take responsibility technological progress reorganized
3 proverbs privacy official discrimination
4 incompetent spies history cost of knowing
5 the real plot code name expertise is dead
6 Job One Lady Gaga future is longer
7 exit pupil consciousness propaganda economy
8 prescriptivism Sarah Palin expectorations
9 defying gravity rough draft standardization
10 cleverness traffic engineering plastic clock
11 consolation quiz paternity suit large organization
12 context complicated beliefs most powerful force
13 planning ahead mistaken assumption generalization
14 sunset final thought quiz organizational memory
15 the cloud lesson lumping making stuff up
16 last life nothing to talk about the real work
17 philosophy nuanced without the wing
18 sound theories P=NP flailing around
19 homeopathy defining Hawthorne Effect
20 Beepie the Clown dictionaries Christine O'Donnell
21 concrete suggestion impeccable secondhand smoke
22 smallest evil popularity deficit the breakdown
23 the obvious too complex munition quiz
24 sitting down classifying odors good old days
25 rigorous proof implicit deconceptualization
26 ballistic missile quiz grand unification persistence
27 Wikileaks vegetarians seem simple
28 transparency reunification tax no overreaching
29 transparency defined work wiretap the net
30 Wikileaks ecosystem pricing power under the bridge
31 imagination winnow the wheat
October November December
1 too many crooks features or bugs climate summits
2 human error safe & effective hype
3 China conspiracy truth and goodness owe the bank
4 liquidity crisis weakest think talk is cheap
5 structural unemployment act strong nervousness
6 laboratory tests in history terms of service
7 in a pincushion don't be evil demagogic transition
8 getting up medicine lie detector
9 currency war globalization automation
10 the night goes on highly optimized everybody knows
11 Yasir Afifi antibacterial world IPv4 scalper
12 Check Your Car Day unhappenable Eponymous Bosh
13 root out terrorism memory leak quiz secrecy cap-and-trade
14 sarcastic universe battleground of memes trial 4
15 set out to set out populism advertisement 3
16 intuition temptation superconductor election 2
17 never having to say crowdsourcing the boss Wikileaks 1
18 mortgage virtualization Wikileaks mental health
19 for supremacy cloud computing above the law
20 crowdsourcing continuation of snacking groupthink
21 use that knowledge backup data military preparedness
22 brute coercion surplus misunderstand unpredictable
23 in the margin anomaloscope massively parallel
24 animal spirits counter-battery fire Stability and Growth Pact
25 limited rationality 1 North Korea game correct worldviews
26 limited rationality 2 strategic patience Hungary
27 limited rationality 3 equitable split primordial confusion
28 before you land foresight disease eradication
29 MAC rocket science out to get me
30 glue part and whole prisoner
31 creativity remember the past

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