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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:02:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Horrible Warning Si</author>
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			<![CDATA[ One of my greatest aims is to make Whitechapel a nexus for Desirable Information. <br /><br />Memes, virals, that which makes you laugh, that which makes your bowels weep; anything found or scavenged online which has no informative value: that stuff will continue to go in “<strong >Around The Net.</strong>” I’ll be updating that once every four weeks too.<br /><br />This…? This is for everything else.<br /><br /><strong >News Stories. Mad Science. Horrific Nature. Metaphysical madness.</strong><br /><br />Here is where we gorge ourselves on the creamy clostrum of Information. Here is where we nuzzle at the red-raw teat of the Up-To-Date Dataweb. Bring me the light of your Weird Wisdom and your New News.<br /><br />(Anything of particular interest, go ahead and create new threads in this category to delve deeper.) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:12:58 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15596885" >Doctor trials laser treatment to change eye colour</a><br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/10/another-example-of-the-weirdness-of-quantum-mechanics.ars" >Researchers have suggested that it might be possible to make measurements that trick a photon into thinking it is, in fact, a crowd of photons. </a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:24:13 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A really useful web service and an app for a film buff - when's the best time during a movie to go pee and what happened in the film meanwhile :D<br /><br /><a href="http://runpee.com/" >http://runpee.com/</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:43:29 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Hmh, apparently <a href="http://pastebin.com/ZGf00sJS" >Anonymous is taking the Finnish right wing douchebags to the task</a>... Interesting to see if this will be just empty posturing. At least they hacked the site of one National Socialist group, revealing that at least two people from our populist xenophobia-party had sent member applications... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:33:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote > by causing very bad butthurts to You</blockquote><br /><br />Brilliant! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:54:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/jennifer-christine-harris-facebook-arson_n_1074177.html?ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News" >Woman is defriended on Facebook, sets house on fire</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:14:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15630892" >Prison conditions in Mexico seem pretty reasonable.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:12:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs.php" >The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:26:05 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The GVCS includes as one of the essential machines a milking machine.<br /><br />You know, a bucket is a lot cheaper.<br /><br />It also includes a bunch of agricultural machines that'd be essentially useless in the agricultural system most of the world's population actually depend on.<br /><br />"You keep trying to pull the rototiller out of the rice paddy. I'll see if the others have figured out how to put Cassava through a hay bailer,' ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:18:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vornaskotti<br /><br /><del >It looks like the Front National in France has been similarly dox'd:<br /><br /><a href="http://pastebin.com/kpGWv9qD" >http://pastebin.com/kpGWv9qD</a></del><br /><br />Scratch that, appears it was a hoax.. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:07:24 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15646536" >Berlusconi is actually leaving?</a><br /><br />Ah, there are caveats. Didn't think he'd go without some of those... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:52:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>TheEndsOfInvention</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo recently published this cover, saying the magazine was guest edited by Muhammad.<br /><br /><img src="http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CharlieHebdoMohammedCover.jpg" alt="" ><br /><br />"One hundred lashes if you don't die laughing!"<br /><br />Their offices got firebombed the same night. So the next issue, they published this cover.<br /><br /><img src="http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4eb8196f6bb3f7b56a000030-590-626/charlie-hebdo-cover.jpg" alt="" ><br /><br />""Because Love Is Stronger than Hate" ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:00:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Well, I would suspect they know what they're doing. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:40:15 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>StefanJ</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Berlusconi announces resignation; demands full legal immunity, harem of young women, and right to pass Ring of Power to his son. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:56:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Flabyo <blockquote >Prison conditions in Mexico seem pretty reasonable.</blockquote><br /><br />I think it should be made known, that those conditions are usually on the cartel side.  If you're hooked in with cartels, and they still want you to do the jail time (they still need to control the prisons) they'll supply you with alcohol, guns, bodyguards, drugs, prostitutes, good food, etc.<br /><br />If you're not with the cartels, you're sharing a small room with upwards of 10 people, one toilet, fighting for scraps, always under threats of violence from inmates and guards, insanely filthy conditions, no medical care, etc.<br /><br />So if you're going to prison in Mexico, make sure you're hooked up with the cartel! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:04:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>3millionyears</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @government spy<br /><br />Noted ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:21:29 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @govspy - what made me laugh the most was the prison authorities feigning surprise at this 'discovery'.<br /><br />"Oh yeah, we totally thought all the guys were like in their own cells under lockdown. Women? Nah, haven't seen no women round here for nigh on a decade..." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:52:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Philip</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX1znPfzhVI" > This guy passed away recently.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:07:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://robertreich.org/post/12517879252" >Corporate Pledge of Allegiance by Robert Reich</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:18:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Ha Ha! This world is fooked.There are some truely crazy bastards out there. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:37:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://boingboing.net/2011/11/08/what-happens-when-you-flush-a-toilet-in-the-worlds-tallest-building.html" >Dubai has troubles dealing with their shit</a>. Literally. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:24:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nfnbj9r1-2I" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:25:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Uhh... Doesn't sound too good. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't iodine-131 happen when something goes pear shaped in a power plant, not really in any other way? I'm relying on my memory here, so if I'm wrong, please do correct me.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/2011/prn201124.html" >Low Levels of Iodine Detected in Europe</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:21:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/Text-bullying-serious-issue-abc-1537271572.html;_ylt=AsGXbAwXC7SB6BHeWKBdjvLCWo9G;_ylu=X3oDMTE4c3V1a3Y5BHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5ZmlUb3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawN0ZXh0YnVsbHlpbmc-?x=0" >Cyber bullying is apparently a major problem in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory here in Australia.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:56:46 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Beamish</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=165997" >BLACK FUCKING SABBATH</a><br /><br />The band hopes to begin recording the CD in January for a fall 2012 release via Vertigo/Universal Republic in the U.S. and Vertigo in all other territories. A world tour will follow, including an appearance at the U.K.'s Download festival on June 10, 2012. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:51:48 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eve-ensler/over-it_b_1089013.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false" >Eve Ensler is "over" rape.</a><br /><br /><blockquote >I am over people not understanding that rape is not a joke and I am over being told I don't have a sense of humor, and women don't have a sense of humor, when most women I know (and I know a lot) are really fucking funny. We just don't think that uninvited penises up our anus, or our vagina is a laugh riot.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:35:15 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>icelandbob</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/13/smashing-pumpkins-to-wrestling" >From Smashing Pumpkins to wrestling: Not content with millions of record sales, Billy Corgan, the alt-rock group's frontman has launched a wrestling league</a><br /><br />This bit was the kicker!<br /><blockquote >Corgan loves the sport for its combination of incredible athleticism, unique personalities and social concern, with fight storylines touching on sex, religion, race, and everyday issues. "Oftentimes it's one of the first forms of entertainment to address uncomfortable things in the culture," he says. He intends to continue this tradition, promising female stars will be given a platform to show off their athletic prowess rather being used as eye-candy</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:47:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>city creed</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >“I'd love to slide a samurai sword up Prince William's arse to the hilt, then yank it towards me like a door that won't f@*king open.”</blockquote> --Scottish comedian and soon-to-be-inducted national treasure Brian "Limmy" Limond on the twitters.<br /><br /><blockquote >Tim Montgomerie, editor of the Conservative Christian Fellowship then waded into the debate, telling his followers to read Limmy’s tweets and asking them to “remember that your licence fee is funding his hate.”<br /><br />Limmy, clearly pleased to have caught the attention of Montgomerie responded: “F@*kin yes, that c@nt's got about 17,000 followers!” </blockquote><br /><a href="http://thedrum.co.uk/news/2011/11/09/calls-sack-bbc-scotland-comedian-limmy-over-twitter-message-about-prince-william-and" >link</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:55:47 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Wow... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:11:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>taphead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5859081/why-is-china-building-these-gigantic-structures-in-the-middle-of-the-desert" >China is building something in the desert</a>.<br /><br /><blockquote >They seem to be wide lines drawn with some white material. Or maybe the dust have been dug by machinery.<br /><br />It's located in Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Gansu, north of the Shule River, which crosses the Tibetan Plateau to the west into the Kumtag Desert. It covers an area approximately one mile long by more than 3,000 feet wide.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:03:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I have seen the future of warfare. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15721839" >And it is electronic.</a><br /><br />Not saying that this is state instigated, but there were definitely strong signs that Stuxnet was, and the way in which these attacks against Iran have exploited multiple security vulnerabilites that in some cases have actually been around undiscovered for years suggests its not the usual virus makers MO (generally they get a virus going as soon as any new exploit comes to light).<br /><br />This is going to be commonplace from now on. Forget bombing raids, just use social engineering to get something on the server that lets you fuck it up.<br /><br />It's likely been more common in the past than has been publicly let on. NASA recently admitted that hackers gained control of, but didn't fiddle with, several of their science satellites in orbit over the last few years. The computers on the ISS were hit with a virus in recent months (admittedly taken up on a laptop by a careless astronaut, but stilll). ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:48:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Soviet Rocket No. 9</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Just saw something about this on "60 minutes" last night.  Essentially since Congressmen (and women), cannot except certain things for their jobs, companies got smart and gave them something else.  <br /><br /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-insider-trading-revealed-on-60-minutes-2011-11" > Stocks.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:49:05 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ taphead<br /><br />Is it wrong that I'm hoping it'll turn out to be the Bhuddha's Spine reactor? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:40:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ At times it takes a lot to get to me but some of the stuff here really fills me with nausea.The urge to vomit.<br /><br />Good work.Keep it up.Spot on etc. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @taphead - some early <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/nov/15/mystery-unidentified-chinese-desert-patterns" >non-conspiracy analysis</a> from the Guardian.<br /><br />On of the as-yet unexplained "crazy paving" shapes: To the east of <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=de&ll=40.447764,93.744299&spn=0.005201,0.010107&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=6&z=17" >this one</a>, you can faintly see what look like similar shapes in the natural landscape. Might the white lines trace out some underlying feature, like drainage channels? <br /><br />Speculative as hell, but I'd be interested to see what a geologist thought of the images. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:32:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ In what I'm sure comes as a surprise to no one, <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/11/12/fords_theatre_flunks_oreillys_lincoln_book/singleton/" >Bill O'Reilley's new book is riddled with errors</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:34:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>TheEndsOfInvention</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A friend just sent me this documentary ,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q6m5NgrCJs&feature=share" >Nero's Guests</a>, about the plight of farmers, the 'Scheduled Class' and 'Other Backward Classes' in Indian society, the rising number of suicides, no attention from the media, no government support.<br /><br />Amazing <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R2E363L9LNBL8Y/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R2E363L9LNBL8Y" >review of the O'Reilly book on Amazon</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:20:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>cardo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-15742121" >Deed burd found in tesco salad</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:37:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/11/15/nypds_zuccotti_eviction_swift_shrew.php" >Transmetropolitan IRL on Wall St today</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:15:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>VertigoJones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @taphead, worryingly enough, the "target" made of broken up concentric circles suggests nuclear / Hi yield weapons tests. As for the one with the massive grid. it's peculiar that over uneven terrain, the grid is perfect, suggesting that it's not on the ground. Reminds me of "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker" >Russian Woodpecker</a>" which had all manner of crazy theories floating about toward the end of the 80's. (Not least because it's lowest frequency was not far off being low enough to interfere with human electrobiology.) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:47:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nigredo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15736807" >Diaspora co-founder dies, aged 22.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:36:31 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Between this, PETMAN and stuff like Siri and Kinect, domestic all-purpose humanoid robots are probably only 10-15 years away from widespread adoption.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gizmag.com/robothespian-humanoid-robot/20481/picture/147643/" >link</a><br /><blockquote ><br />Engineered Arts Ltd.'s Robothespian is probably one of the first professional robotic actors who made it into the real world (sorry, T-1000). Its elegant movements, extraordinary body language and emotion-conveying skills make it a great communicator. It may not be capable of helping the elderly, it's not nearly as agile and athletic as Boston Dynamics' PETMAN, and it's unlikely to be of any use during eye surgery. But that's OK. Robothespian is an artist. A robot burdened with the task of exploring the ephemeral territory of the arts and claiming it for his robotic brethren. And it seems it is extremely well equipped to get the job done. </blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:58:23 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7wC42HgLA4k" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:41:30 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ For all of you war history buff iPad hipsters:<br /><br /><em >Frozen Hell is the first enhanced book to describe the dramatic early battles of the Second World War between the Soviet Union and Finland in the winter of 1939-1940. This unique interactive book includes stunning photographs and film material that demonstrate how the small nation of Finland overcame an enemy many times bigger in unbearably cold conditions.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ve/app/frozen-hell/id470499261?mt=8" >http://itunes.apple.com/ve/app/frozen-hell/id470499261?mt=8</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:29:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...and this is why the old media is dying. In most of the bigger disasters and news even here in Finland, such as school shootings etc, the news and the probable identity of the people involved was known online hours before it was on any official news channels.<br /><br /><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/ap-staff-scolded-for-tweeting-about-ows-arrests.html" >Associated Press Staff Scolded for Tweeting Too Quickly About OWS Arrests</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:17:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/16/young-jobseekers-work-pay-unemployment?CMP=twt_gu" >Are you a young, job-seeking individual in the UK who has wondered exactly what it feels like to be an unpaid slave? Well, don't worry, soon you'll know.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:07:47 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vornaskotti - I do kinda see what they're getting at though. AP's entire method of making money is breaking the stories, so to have their own employees break a story themselves via twitter is kind of like me selling copies of the game I'm working on the day before it makes it to the shops. There's a line between 'get it out there quick' and 'make sure you've damn well verified it before you get it out as we'll be culpable if it's bullshit', and this is to stop their employees crossing it. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:53:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The music industry is actually succeeding pretty well in what they're trying!<br /><br /><a href="http://drownedinsound.com/news/4144038-over-200-labels-to-have-their-releases-pulled-from-spotify" >Over 200 labels to have their releases pulled from Spotify</a><br /><br />Oh, they're not trying to make themselves totally obsolete and reviled, and drive people to piracy? Okay but... what is this shit, then? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:08:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/first-transfusion-lab-grown-blood-success" >Artificial blood becoming a reality.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:17:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Brendan McGinley</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-10/biased-brains-help-humans-always-look-bright-side-life" >Optimism is a brain-defect, says glib headline</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:47:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <em >"Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa."</em><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/europa_20111116.html" >http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/europa_20111116.html</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:29:07 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/porn-star-sasha-grey-defends-her-reading-to-elementary-school-kids-on-the-view/" >Sasha Grey makes kids happy - by reading to them</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:49:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Thiiiiis might be bad :S<br /><br /><a href="https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/9023-Cracking-14-Character-Complex-Passwords-in-5-Seconds.html#.TsUm4OIxWgg.facebook" >Cracking 14 Character Complex Passwords in 5 Seconds</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:24:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Frozen Planet is a 7 episode wildlife documentary made as a partnership between in the BBC and the Discovery Channel.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061663/Frozen-Planet-Climate-change-episode-wont-shown-US.html" >Apart from in the US, where it's only 6 episodes cause the one on climate change isn't going to air...</a><br /><br />Ok, that's a Daily Mail link, for which I apologise as it may mean it's complete arse. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:30:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vornaskotti: Not <em >that</em> bad if you don't use Win XP though. And if you are, and someone's gone to the trouble of getting your password hashes, do you really care if it takes 5 seconds or a couple of hours to break? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:32:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/thousands-of-piranhas-infest-beach-bite-swimmers-20111117-1nk6v.html" >Despite the piranhas, the beach remains open because it is "an important draw for tourists"</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:39:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kay: That is the EXACT plot of Jaws. People learn nothing! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:14:23 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Shark water for all!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/shark-to-call-desalination-plant-home-20111117-1nl5a.html" >Shark to call desalination plant home</a><br /><br />For added lulz/creepiness it's a wobbegong shark - which looks <a href="http://underwater.com.au/image/id/6073-spotted-wobbegong/" >like this</a>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:34:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Two 1.9 million year old Australopithecus fossils from South Africa show signs of what may be mummified skin.<br /><br />If it is, it may be possible to recover DNA.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21179-skeleton-of-ancient-human-relative-may-yield-skin.html" >link  </a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:12:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/11/ibm-moving-to-liquids-to-cool-and-power.html" >IBM is looking to build a "pocket-sized" chip as powerful as the Watson supercomputer.</a><br /><br />A Canadium redox flow battery (which uses liquids as the electrodes) will serve as both powr source and as the coolant system, this is expecyed to radically reduce both the power and cooling requirements.<br /><br />The prototype is due by 2014. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:17:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/pizza-is-still-officially-a-vegetable.php" >Pizza is now one of your 5 a day!</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:27:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/video/2011/nov/16/99-v-1-occupy-data-animation?fb=native" >Awesome animation looking at the data behind the "99%"</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:09:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-contested-faster-than-light-yields-results.html" >The team who reported the faster-than-light neutrinoes say they've repeated the experiment and confirmed the result.</a><br /><br />After the first results were reported aroudn 15 of the 150 researchers involved were unwilling to put their names to a paper reporting the phenomenon. Now that's down to about 7 or 8 and the hold-outs have agreed that the other co-authors can go ahead without them.<br /><br />The researchers claim that they've reduced the margin of error in their calculation to 10 nanoseconds - if so, the reported 60 nanosecond discrepancy can't be due to random fluctuations. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:34:51 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/-TeUj1N1CRY/this-is-the-face-of-ender-wiggin" >I could get behind this casting for Ender Wiggin.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:58:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>roadscum</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Now there is no 'Mad Science' category, i suppose i should post this here, though it's more nostalgic than new and sad rather than strange; <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/18/woomera/" >The Register have been to Woomera</a> and took a few pictures while they were there (the best ones are on the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/18/woomera/page2.html" >second page</a>). Right, i'm off to reread Ministry of Space and have a little cry. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:53:26 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @roadscum - I've been to Woomera! Got some pics and video from Missile Park, not sure where though. It's a truly weird place, like a little piece of the 1950s marooned out on the high plain above the inland sea. It gets bloody windy there at night. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:49:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>roadscum</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kay Orchison: Find em, find em! There are people here who would be very keen to see those pictures, me for instance. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:45:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @roadscum - you might be in luck, it so happens that I'm going through my entire stock of negatives at the moment resleeving and categorising. I haven't spied them so far but I'll keep my eye out. The video might be harder, it's on a tape somewhere in the middle of 5 hours of footage from my 10,000 km road trip with the kids in 2008.<br /><br />I do keep promising my wife I'll edit it down, she still hasn't seen any of it... but me and what army... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:16:18 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>photomagex</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Here's a little offbeat project (somebody has a little too much time on their hands)<br /><br /><br />A student from Japan’s Tama Art University came with the idea for a leg hair font, after his teachers asked him and his colleagues to create new typefaces without the help of computers.<br />Creating original letters without the use of digital design seems almost impossible in this day and age, and 20-year-old Mayuko Kanazawa started scratching her head for ideas the minute she heard about the challenge. She remembered seeing all kinds of letters, words and designs shaved into people’s heads, so she knew she wanted to work with hair, but she came up with the ultimate crazy idea only after a friend complained about a pain in her leg. Somehow she found the inspiration she needed in her friend’s leg hair, and the rest is history…<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/311794_10150950142545389_831505388_21678023_1980311409_n.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:26:58 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ You wouldn't know it from the Register article but the Wommera Joint Project was just that -a joint Anglo-australian effort with Australia contributing to all aspects of the project.<br /><br />Also, space research at Woomera didn't stop when the British left. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:14:10 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/night-out-ends-in-woman-leaping-on-sleeping-housemates-and-stabbing-them-police-20111121-1nq8p.html" >Aussie psychopath stabs her roomies after they tell her to move out</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:48:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Fishelle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/abandoned-two-weeks-starving-dogs-eat-owner-152255231.html" >If you have pets, feed them. Or they might eat you.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:58:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Fishelle<br /><img src="http://www.myfacewhen.com/images/231.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:20:17 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A new phrase to add to your pool:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15817335" >SCADA Hacking.</a><br /><br />Reports of this sort of thing are definitely increasing, and it makes me wonder:<br /><br />Why would you even NEED to connect a system like that to the internet? Seriously... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:05:36 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://" >Woman Gets Cement Injections In Butt: Oneal Ron Morris Charged With Practicing Medicine Without License</a> <br /><br /><blockquote >A woman who wanted to work at a nightclub started searching for someone who could perform plastic surgery at a cheap price to give her a curvier body. Police say what she found was a woman posing as a doctor who filled her buttocks with cement, mineral oil and flat-tire sealant.<br />The suspect – who police say was born a man and identifies as a woman – apparently performed the surgery on herself</blockquote><br /><br /><img src="http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg341/scaled.php?server=341&filename=slide22149487953large.jpg&res=medium" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:05:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Bullshit bingo with "alternative medicine".<br /><br /><img src="http://sci-ence.org/comics/2011-03-04-redflags.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:01:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Cannabis Cup week begins...<br />priceless bong anyone?<br /><img src="http://www.roor-shop-amsterdam.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/RAYGUN.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:02:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I say priceless, well apparently 100,000 euros may change their mind! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:48:57 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/uond-wtd111811.php" >Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows</a><br /><br /><blockquote >We've all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.<br /><br />New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses. "Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an 'event boundary' in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away," Radvansky explains. </blockquote><br /><br />Well that's good to know, but it doesn't tell me why I went to the kitchen just now. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:55:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>taphead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ (I put this one on the Around the Net thread, but just realised it's just as fitting here, so DOUBLE POST ACTION it is.)<br /><br />This is the sexiest and most terrifying thing I've seen in a while.<br /><br /><a href="http://xkcd.com/980/huge/" >Let xkcd show you the money</a>. (That's the huge version.)<br /><br /><img src="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/money.png" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:03:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/homeless_halloween_firm_goes_under.php?ref=fpnewsfeed" >Foreclosure firm, made famous by pictures of their Halloween party from last year where they had some members dress up as homeless people while the rest of their staff mocked and ridiculed them, goes out of business, owner sends whaaaa-filled letter to reporter who first broke the Halloween party story.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:12:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>cardo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15824288" >Long-lasting all-weather night-vision material unveiled</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:43:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ As most people probably know at least in outline, there have been violent protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square since last Friday.<br /><br />35 people are dead as of the latest count and the heavy-handed tactics of the police have turned what started out as relatively small political demonstration, into something approaching a popular uprising with 50,000 people or more occupying Tahrir Square. <br /><br />It all started over attempts by the military to retain special powers even after Parliamentary elections and over the refusal by the military to set a date fro Presidential elections. <br /><br />The military is now back-pedaling furiously after their unelected cabinet of technocrats resigned en masse and they're talking about some sort of national unity government.<br /><br /><a href="https://news.google.com/news/story?gl=us&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Egypt&ncl=d2bDRjdCgPFvkxMtqdw7pEAiYDeyM&scoring=n" >link</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:47:51 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ No news is better than Fox News when it comes to getting timely and correct information. No, really.<br /><br /><a href="http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/21/fairleigh_dickinson_publicmind_poll_shows_fox_news_viewers_less_informed_on_major_news_stories.html" >Study Shows Fox News Viewers Less Informed on Major Stories</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:50:23 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...also, people want to stay stupid about important issues.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/11361/Ignorance-bliss-when-it-comes-challenging-social-issues" >Ignorance is bliss when it comes to challenging social issues</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:23:22 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/fox-news-on-uc-davis-pepper-spraying-its-a-food-product-essentially.php?ref=fpnewsfeed" >Fox News: Pepper spray comes from peppers right? So, basically, it's just food.</a><br /><br />FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:20:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The best opening pic to a news article in (my) recent memory:<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6825449/Taekwondo-monkeys-attack-trainer.html" >Taekwondo monkeys attack trainer</a><br /><img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01544/monkey_1544467c.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:13:11 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @lampcommander<br />Please someone tell me there is a youtube video. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:32:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Quick, someone photoshop taekwondo monkey kicking Lt. Pike in the nuts.<br /><br />The singularity has arrived. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:56:24 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-impending-revolution-low-power-quantum.html" >French researcher claims quantum computers will be common-place by 2017.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:38:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>StefanJ</author>
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			<![CDATA[ SF & Fantasy author Anne McCaffrey has passed away.<br /><br />I have to admit not having read anything by her in a couple of decades, but what I did read Back In The Day was enjoyable, and many people were introduced to SF&F through her books. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:22:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/augmented-reality-heading-to-contact-lenses-1042670" >Augmented reality heading to contact lenses</a><br /><br />I'm having the weirdest cyberpunk boner right now... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:55:27 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @vorna <br /><br />The chap behind those lenses was interviewed on BBC radio last night, and the interviewer couldn't understand why anyone would want to wear them...<br /><br />...Shouting at your radio is never a good look, never. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:04:43 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ sneak046:<br /><br />The digital divide - it be wiiiiide... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:18:30 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @sneak046 - would that be on Five Live Drive? The presenters on that are some of the most clueless people on the planet. Every single science story they do it's all 'oooh, this is a bit complicated for me, why would anyone be interested?' ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:21:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Flabyo - the one and same...grrrr ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:59:04 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ And here in Amsterdam, The Cannabis Cup Expo has just been raided by large numbers of Police.<br /> Frightening the bejaysus out of a mass of very stoned tourists, who have been removed from the venue while all the people working there have been kept locked inside pending... I'm not sure what.<br /> Slightly concerned as my girl is working there promoting the Roor glass entry. Hope to hear more soon.<br />A great example of how Dutch society is continuing to race away from its history of tolerance and back towards its even older, less pleasant histories. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Cat Vincent</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @nelzbub - What. the. Fuck??<br /><br />I have a good friend who works high up at at Sensi Seeds - I'll ask her if there's any deep background. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:13:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Attention:<a href="http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/octopus-launches-itself-land-and-walk-around.html" > land octopus</a><br /><br />That is all. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:43:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...<br /><br /><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/23/parents-sue-da-for-charging-their-6-year" >Parents Sue D.A. for Charging Their 6-Year-Old Son With a Felony After He Played Doctor With a 5-Year-Old Girl</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:13:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/cerabino-pennsylvania-private-prison-scheme-has-familiar-ring-1986582.html" >And people wonder why I'm against the privitization of prisons.</a><br />(Or, they think it's just because I'm afraid of losing my job to them)<br /><br /><blockquote >The real crime was, to justify filling the two new facilities, the judges had to lock up kids for petty misadventures, overriding the recommendations of child welfare workers. It eventually meant that Luzerne County, which had 3 percent of the state's population, was locking up 22 percent of the state's youthful offenders. <br /><br />The "kids-for-cash" scheme, as it became known, showed that the pressure to fill up these facilities led to some horrific abuses of power over children, most of whom were locked up without legal representation. <br /><br />A high school girl who mocked an assistant principal on a website was locked up for a month. A 12-year-old boy who took his mother's car was locked up for two years. A 13-year-old boy got 48 days for throwing food at his mother's boyfriend. <br /><br />Children as young as 10 years old were locked up. In the end, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania dismissed 4,000 juvenile cases affected by this scheme. </blockquote><br /><br />Great to see these judges who abused the system are now going behind the bars at actual state facilities now. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:19:10 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/man-charged-after-teen-hit-with-hedgehog/story-e6frfkp9-1111116011668" >Man charged after teen bashed with hedgehog</a><br /><blockquote >"The man was arrested shortly afterwards for assault with a weapon, namely the hedgehog."</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:52:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I'm in Communist Europe spoiling ur thxgivingz :(((<br /><br /><a href="http://www.madhibaan.org/in-depth/real-thanksgiving.htm" >http://www.madhibaan.org/in-depth/real-thanksgiving.htm<br /></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:41:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Stoto</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-robot-patrol-south-korean-prisons.html" >Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons</a><br /><br /><blockquote >Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said Thursday.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:43:10 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nigredo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15875522" >Efforts to create an army of cyborg insects are being pursued by a team of US-based engineers.<br /><br />The group is investigating ways to harvest energy from the creatures to power sensors and other equipment fastened to their bodies.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:24:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vorn: That's quite a different telling of the story, fo' sho'. Any idea if anyone else corroborates it? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:39:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Foamhead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/woman-gets-100-silicone-injections-to-have-the-world-s-biggest-lips.html" ><blockquote >Meet Kristina Rei, the woman who now has the world’s biggest lips. <br />She’s only 22 and has spent £4,000 on lip injections in the hopes of resembling her favourite film heroine, Jessica Rabbit.</blockquote><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/zpirqtdtjbEUyrbqATYUsg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYwMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/401/2011/11/24/kristenreilips_121624.jpg" alt="" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:48:01 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Ben:<br /><br />No. Because they're all <strong >dead</strong> *dun-dun-duuuu!*<br /><br />But seriously, I've now and then ran into these viewpoints and god knows there's a lot of whitewashing around many a national holiday and its origins. I linked this here just for a viewpoint, and maybe for some actual historians to poke at. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:29:03 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>cardo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Foamhead - Is that Pete Burns? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:49:16 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vorn: I've heard about it being a whitewashing of what's basically a victory celebration, but I just thought the bit about kicking heads up and down the street might have been going out on a limb. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:36:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ You know, when it comes to celebrating holidays that we all know are nothing even close to the rites or rituals which inspired them, all I can really say is I don't give a fuck.<br /><br />To me, if I actually bother to celebrate a holiday, I do my best to capture the feeling that me and mine wish to get out of it.<br /><br />When it came to Thanksgiving, my yearly toast was simply, "<em >To being with the family you choose to be with</em>," as most uf us chose not to be with our blood families, but a few did, and they should take that as an honor; I'm not being with you purely because of the randomness of us being related, I'm being with you because I actually <em >like </em>you.<br /><br />When it comes to Christmas, yes I buy presents, but I don't have a tree.  I plan on buying one eventually, because I actually like having a tree.  Even if it's just to give my cat another place to sleep on things I own.  Although, I buy gifts for people I care about year round.  Xmas is just an excuse for me to spend more on my friends.  I easily earn double, if not triple most of my friends, and I don't like being dickish about it.  I can't just pay for everything all the time without making folks feel bad, and Xmas is one of the times I can indulge without any reservations.  Especially for my kid.  I just spoil the shit out of her every chance I can get, but she knows it's out of love, not out of a holiday marketing campaign.<br /><br />Halloween I mostly just like to go to Austin with my girlfriend so we can watch pretty people in slutty costumes while seeing good live music.<br /><br />And I don't know what to do on St. Patty's now that we're sober.  I'll probably watch The Quiet Man, but I don't know if I can do Boondock Saints without whiskey.<br /><br />And as far as those holidays' origins having nothing to with how I'm celebrating them, well, why would I let that ruin my fun? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:40:37 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ government spy:<br /><br />Couldn't agree more with your approach. I celebrate Christmas because it's a great excuse to meet friends and family, to eat until you're silly and so forth and I got no issue with approaching holidays like that - or, if someone wants to place some religious meaning on them, feel free.<br /><br />I get a bit cranky only when someone starts going on about traditions spanning centuries and crap like that. Actually placing some historical meaning on certain holidays that just aren't there. There's a lot of xenophobic shit and clueless nationalism going on in Finland around now, and one of the thing they're bleating about is how the modern world destroys the centuries old traditional Finnish Christmas. I swear, even thinking about that argument made my blood pressure just jump 20 points... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:23:15 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>StefanJ</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Black Friday Follies, via the news I groggily watched this morning:<br /><br />San Leandro, CA: Folks leaving Wal-Mart with their purchases were accosted in the parking lot by three men demanding their stuff. The shoppers resisted; one of the robbers drew a gun and fired. The wounded man and a companion chased the robbers, catching one. The one would-be thief is in jail, the wounded shopper in the hospital. Meanwhile, shopping continues.<br /><br />Los Angeles (I think), CA: A woman used pepper spray on fellow shoppers in an attempt to slow down the competition for limited-stock sale products. Ten people were injured. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:32:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/drug-war-incentives-police-violent-crime_n_1105701.html?ncid=webmail3" >Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:02:19 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/inflatable-robots-the-cheap-lightweight-robot-alternative.html" >Inflatable robots</a> may sound liek a crap 70's band but they actually make a lot of sense.<br /><br />The "antroach" robot cam carry a 1,000 load and weighs onlu 70 pounds itself, making it luggable.<br /><br />It's also way less creepy than BigDog.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.gizmag.com/ant-roach-inflatable-robot/20619/" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:07:32 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-japan-collab-transmits-terahertz.html" >Researchers in Jpan build a cheap high-speed wireless receiver using Terahertz frequencies.</a><br /><br />This spectrum isn't useful out of doors because its absorbed by moisture in the atmosphere but for bluetooth style applications it could be great.<br /><br />The units cost just over US$1 to make and transmit at around 1 Gig per second. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 17:16:45 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/switchblade-uas-kamikaze-drone/20611/" >The latest American UAV drone: the Switchblade</a><br /><br /><img src="http://images.gizmag.com/gallery_lrg/aerovironment-switchblade-kamikaze-drone-3.jpg" alt="" ><br /><br />Compared to current drones like the Predator, the Switchblade is designed to be cheap and light enough to be carried by troops in the field.<br /><br />In addition to giving troops 24 hiur aerial recon capabilities, the Switchblade has a warhead and can be used as a mssile to attack "targets fo opportunity". ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:07:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-25/historical-drawings-come-home-to-sydney/3696244" >Original drawings documenting Australia's wildlife as first seen by explorers in the 1790s are on show at the State Library of NSW.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:29:44 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>icelandbob</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @stefanJ<br /><br />Here a video about the pepper spray incident!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DuF9XT0Yc4I" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:34:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit: I just want a handheld controller like he has, but with vidyagames, for on the train.<br />Alright, let's be honest, I want the remote-controlled assassin drone a little bit too. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 03:57:52 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So, President Saleh of Yemen seems finally to be giving up office and t<a href="http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/Yemen" >hings there seem slowly to be edging back towards normality.</a><br /><br />- The oppositon political parties have chosen a Prime minister to run the country until elections planned for 90 days from now.<br /><br />- Amongst his first actions Prime Minister Basindwa has set up a mediation process to try to overcome the divisons within the armed forces which were divided into pro- and anti-Saleh factions and on the verge of civil war. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:37:34 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I know I'm biased but I think this is hugely important;<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amanda-feilding/the-war-on-drugs-has-fail_b_1109464.html?ref=uk-politics" >The Beckley Foundation's Global Initiative for Drug Policy Reform</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:08:41 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>icelandbob</author>
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			<![CDATA[ It seems that we may have been just like the planet Solaris....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228404.300-life-began-with-a-planetary-megaorganism.html?full=true" >Did Life on Earth begin with a planetary mega-organism?<br /></a><blockquote >ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet's oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today.<br />This strange picture is emerging from efforts to pin down the last universal common ancestor - not the first life that emerged on Earth but the life form that gave rise to all others...</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:14:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/arts/music/fugazi-live-series-a-post-punk-bands-archive-of-shows.html?_r=2" >Fugazi to release recordings of 800 live shows spanning their career</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:32:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications: <a href="http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php" >Disaster and Emergency AlertMap</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:31:30 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So, does the "<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/danielle-crittenden/vodka-tampons_b_1105433.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008" >vodka in tampon</a>" trick work? Here's a brave journalist who actually tried it :S ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:41:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>thefoggylogs</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/11/the-burzynski-clinic-threatens-17-year-old-blogger.html" >The Burzynski Clinic threatens bloggers with legal action if they disagree with The Burzynski Clinic, including a 17 year old</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:00:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/11/_mahna_mahna_how_a_ditty_from_a_soft_core_italian_movie_became_the_muppets_catchiest_tune_.single.html" >The Muppets' Mahna Mahna was originally from an Italian softcore</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:15:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I've been thinking that something like this might be the solution to the Fermi paradox...<br /><br /><a href="http://rt.com/news/bird-flu-killer-strain-119/" >Man-made super-flu could kill half humanity</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:04:15 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/us/kansas-high-schooler-tweet/?hpt=hp_t3" >Kansas governor apologizes for 'overreaction' to teen's disparaging tweet</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:39:17 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>nigredo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/nov/28/ken-russell-cinema-dies?newsfeed=true" >R.I.P. Ken Russell</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:44:50 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vorna - there was talk recently that we might be within a year of a universal flu vaccine. Take these two together and you have a policy of (slow) global repurposing...<br /><br />*brrrrr* ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:02:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>cardo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThLSiykiHY" >Geriatric grudge match starts out as a bit of a laugh, and then...</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:09:09 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/?page=full" >Why Did Japan Surrender? Not Because of the Atomic Bomb</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:13:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Horrible Warning Si</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Announcing BERGCLOUD.<br /><br /><a href="http://bergcloud.com/" >Hello, little printer.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:36:18 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Speaking of printers...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/106945-tens-of-millions-of-hp-laserjet-printers-vulnerable-to-hacking" >Serious security vuln in HP printers that, theoretically, allows a hacker to set fire to your house...</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:25:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Espionage/Intelligence Pron - <a href="http://m.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html" >Story on Wired about the CIA getting several people out of Iran during the Hostage Crisis.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:38:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Also: I want a little printer. But I don't have a smartphone to operate it with :/ ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:38:02 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/29/siri_android_cluzee/" >Siri gets an open-source, free Android rival.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:07:06 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Blatant blogspam again - I've been an info-worker for a long time, and I'm so sick and fucking tired of E-MAIL it's not even fun anymore. So, I decided to share my hints and tips of how to make the e-mail deluge even a bit more manageable: <a href="http://blog.vornaskotti.com/2011/11/30/die-e-mail-die-or-getting-rid-of-e-mail-chaos/" >Die, E-mail, Die! – Or Getting Rid of E-Mail Chaos</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:33:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Foamhead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Really don't know why but this made me chuckle.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15943816" >Scientists question if wi-fi laptops can damage sperm</a><blockquote >Scientists are questioning if using wi-fi on a laptop to roam the internet could harm a man's fertility, after lab work suggested ejaculated sperm were significantly damaged after only four hours of exposure.<br />The benchside tests showed sperm were less able to swim and had changes in the genetic code that they carry.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:07:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ You know, I'm not interested in having any more kids, and I've been too cheap to get a vasectomy, so studies like this always get my interest.  <br /><br />Like, "Oh, I should be using the laptop more often!" ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:27:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @govspy: Remember to use the laptop actually on your lap while wearing Y-fronts for full effect. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:29:18 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>taphead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/30/iceland-recognises-palestinian-state" >Iceland recognises the Palestinian state</a>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:33:14 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Doc Ocassi</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Ben: is there any other way? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:51:39 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.gq.com/news-politics/politics/201111/gary-johnson-republican-candidate-debate-interview" >Gary Johnson, the Republican presidential candidate you never hear of--because he's sane</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:14:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/11/strippers_posing_as_paralegals.php" >Miami's Federal Detention Center overrun with strippers posing as paralegals</a><br /><br />I've always thought there was an inordinate number of hot lawyers/legal aides...<br /><br /><blockquote >Multiple attorneys interviewed by Riptide say the FDC visitor rooms have been taken over by South American pole dancers posing as paralegals for wealthy drug lords inside.<br /><br />"They take off their tops and let the guys touch them," veteran defense attorney Hugo Rodriguez says. "The majority of these young, very attractive women are noncitizens brought in exclusively for the purposes of visiting the FDC. Any lawyer can sign a form and designate a legal assistant. There is no way of verifying it. The process is being abused."</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:41:37 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067261/Blinded-bullfighter-vows-return-ring-public-appearance-horrific-goring.html" >Some people never learn: Blinded and battered bullfighter vows to return to ring in first public appearance since horrific goring</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:52:47 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Celan<br /><br />I have no sympathy for that guy if the bull gives him a sequel. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:45:35 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Stoto</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @celan <br /><br />*brainsplode*<br /><br />I'd like to punch that guy in the nuts. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:17:59 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Corey Waits</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national/gay-rights-activists-descend-on-parliament-house-in-brisbane/story-e6frfkvr-1226210728499" >Queensland, Australia gets same-sex civil unions</a>.<br /><br />In another news story I read it said that civil unions would be open to heterosexuals too. Obviously that makes sense, but I'd only ever been thinking about it in terms of gay rights. Seeing as I've said for a few years now that I would only get married when my gay friends could too, maybe I'll take it a step further (when the time is right) and go for a civil union. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:33:49 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>allana</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Stoto, really? I'd like to perform an entirely different set of behaviours involving that man's testicles. Am I the only one who finds it downright sexy when people actually do a dangerous thing for its own sake? I think the word I'm looking for is... oh yeah, <em >purpose</em>. Dude found what he wants to do with his life, and by jove is gonna keep doin' it 'til it fucking kills him. That's just about as enviable as you can get. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:04:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Stoto</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @allana <br /><br />I understand. Dean Potter is my personal hero.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOp0rPAju90" ></a><br /><br />If he were fighting willing humans or robots, or putting his life on the line without killing animals, I would think he was cool. But I find it tremendously hard to admire matadors. With a lot of animal rights matters I'm on the fence, but bullfighting really pisses me off. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:24:48 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>allana</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Hrm, I guess I can't argue; I just got a little weepy at those freed-from-a-testing-facility beagles on the other thread... I think, when it comes to bullfighting, I have that weird patronizing tolerance that comes from ethnocentrism. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:32:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>BrianMowrey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ bullfighting is very fair they always offer the bull a sword too, before it goes in the ring ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:14:28 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LoweringTheBar/~3/WVtGpQxVv-I/one-year-suspension-for-lawyer-who-sought-secretary-with-benefits.html" >Attorney suspended for one year after trying to hire "secretary with benefits.</a><br /><br />At some point, he thought this was a good idea.<br />This man passed *law* school. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:16:53 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <threadjackrant>About the bullfighting thing... yeah, let him go to the ring and let the bull finish the job.<br /><br />I eat meat, think hunting is a good thing ecologically and probably a fun hobby (was studying for my hunter's license when I was teen and going to get that some day) so I don't say this lightly: bullfighting is just torturing animals for someone's amusement and I fight it fucking disgusting. It's a nice thing that the bull wins now and then.<br /><br />If you want to do scary, dangerous and extreme stuff, go jump off airplanes or do some free climbing. I find that stuff downright sexy too. That's why me and the fiancé strap pressurized gas on our backs and crawl into shipwrecks, and have our holidays in radioactive cities.<br /><br />Relativism sucks and not every custom has to be accepted.<br /><br /></threadjackrant> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:13:40 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ?"Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorized distribution of his work on DVDs. To make matters even worse, a board member of a royalty collection agency offered to to help the composer to recoup the money, but only if he received 33% of the loot."<br /><br /><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-corruption-scandal-surrounds-anti-piracy-campaign-111201/" >Copyright Corruption Scandal Surrounds Anti-Piracy Campaign</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:33:23 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Bloke drives his Bugattu Veyron into a swamp on purpose as an insurance scam, gets filmed by car enthusiasts.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NJmB1F2mdE&feature=player_embedded" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:18:08 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/man-arrested-at-large-hadron-collider-claims-hes-from-the-future-49305387/" >Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future</a><br /><br /><blockquote >Mr Cole was seized by Swiss police after CERN security guards spotted him rooting around in bins. He explained that he was looking for fuel for his 'time machine power unit', a device that resembled a kitchen blender.<br /><br />Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. "Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening." <br /><br />Professor Brian Cox, a CERN physicist and full-time rock'n'roll TV scientist, was sympathetic to Mr Cole. "Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes."</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:31:54 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Wood: see the posting date? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:53:44 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Beamish</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13506" >SPACE DADDY WARREN</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:41:38 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-kaist-successful-green-technology.html" >Electric cars that charge from the road itself.</a><br /><br />Actually that story is about electric buses but the same technology is beign developed for cars. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:02:25 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @lampcommander woops ! I hadn't, but I should have, sorry. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:04:56 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/12/01/143006173/afghan-rape-victim-pardoned-after-agreeing-to-marry-her-attacker" >Afghan Rape Victim Pardoned After Agreeing To Marry Her Attacker</a><br /><br /><blockquote >An Afghan woman who was sentenced to prison after being raped by a relative — because in the eyes of authorities she had committed adultery — has been pardoned by President Hamid Karzai.<br /><br />But her freedom comes with a price, according to news reports: She must become the second wife of the man who attacked her. Karzai's office says the woman and her attacker both have agreed to the marriage.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:39:42 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Holy shit: '“Every time a new media technology has been made available, it has always been ‘abused’. This is the price we pay for progress. Winners will be those who are able to use the new technology to their advantages and losers those who missed this development and continue to follow old business models,” the report notes.'<br /><br /><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/" >Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:08:05 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ "What if I told you that preschoolers have been known to cast a rod into the water, in their birthday suits. That four-year-olds climb trees -- sometimes with eyes closed -- out of the sight of adults. That toddlers eat with knives and forks. Or that preschools are filled with art, and spaces, known as pillow rooms, to which little ones may retreat, alone, for some quiet time."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-ochshorn/fishing-naked-in-finland-_b_1119626.html" >Fishing Naked in Finland: What've PISA Scores Got to Do With It?</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:40:19 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Wood: the press reprots were incorrect. Gulhaz was freed withotu conditions.<br /><br />It was still a horrific ordeal though - she became pregnant as a result of the rape; spent a year in prison and gave birth to her daughter there. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:21:33 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit do you have a source with correct informations on that case ?<br /><br />On one of the news article I read, it said that she married her rapist because nobody else would want her now, since she was "dishonored", but that her rapist's sister was married to Gulhaz's brother as a sort of hostage, to make sure he wouldn't abuse her. What's the truth of that ? ]]>
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		<title>NEWSTRANGE - the Informus Thread (Nov 7th - Dec 4th)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:47:20 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Wood<br /><br /><blockquote >The 21-year-old-woman had initially agreed to the condition she marry her attacker, her cousin's husband, under an earlier release offer but Kimberly Motley, one of her lawyers, told Al Jazeera the release granted this week did not depend on her going through with the marriage.<br /><br />"Her release is not conditional," Motley said.<br /><br />Her attacker is serving a seven-year prison term for the crime.<br /><br />Motley said she hoped her client would be released shortly, and that there was a place for her in a women's shelter. </blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/12/201112292412790128.html" >source</a><br /><br />It sounds like the Afghani authorities backed down.<br /><br />The Telegraph is still running stories with headlines claiming she "faces marriage pressure"<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8930305/Afghanistan-rape-victim-pardoned-but-faces-marriage-pressure.html" >despite this claim not being supported in the accompanying article</a> but that's probably due to them being racist arseholes. ]]>
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		<title>NEWSTRANGE - the Informus Thread (Nov 7th - Dec 4th)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:18:12 -0800</pubDate>
		<author>Beamish</author>
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