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Rand Paul On Fox: There’s A Day Of Reckoning Coming

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:47:29 +0000

Craigslist’s “adult services” section blocked after human trafficking/prostitution controversy

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:40:06 +0000

From today’s New York Times: Craigslist, the popular classifieds Web site, has blocked access to its “adult services” section and replaced the link with a black label with the word “censored.” Source

AMD switching to easy peel-off laptop stickers

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:07:58 +0000

Here’s the scenario many of you will have experienced when buying a new laptop. You research the machine, see loads of promotional videos and images, and finally decide on that sexy model from company X. It arrives in the post, you unwrap it and open the lid. Your smile disappears as the inner case is [...]

Cool zombie poster

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:42:21 +0000

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The Student Loan Scheme

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:24:42 +0000

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Mainstream press throws Wikileaks under a bus in journalist shield debate

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:54:00 +0000

A new proposed federal journalist shield law is under debate in the USA, which sounds like a great idea, except that the traditional press have agreed to amendments that would exempt Wikileaks from any protection for its confidential sources, on the grounds that Wikileaks isn’t journalism… ORLY? More generally, Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the [...]

Tombstone stuffed with marijuana

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:48:50 +0000

This tombstone was shipped from Jamaica to Cincinnati, where US Customs and Border Protection at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport discovered it was filled with 50 pounds of marijuana. Officers questioned last week why someone would ship a tombstone from Kingston, Jamaica, to London. An X-ray machine revealed packages of the drug in a [...]

Brian McCarty’s book of art toy photos

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:05:34 +0000

We’ve featured Brian McCarty’s terrific toy photography many times here. He’s a master at setting a perfect scene and using just the right perspective to trick me into thinking that the strange vinyl characters on my shelf come alive when I’m not looking. Brian’s photos are now collected in a wonderful hardcover book appropriately titled [...]

Gunman at Discovery Channel headquarters

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:50:58 +0000

A gunman has taken at least one hostage at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. There’s no official police statements about who the gunman is or what he wants, but there’s a list of demands circulating on Twitter… said to be the gunman’s manifesto. I’m not sure what the original source of this list [...]

How A Good Samaritan Was Arrested For Driving Drunks Home

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:43:17 +0000

Some guy’s friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks, so “business” booms. He adds another car to the service, and [...]