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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 00:48:02 -0700</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>Wed, 23 May 2012 01:21:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is experimenting with <a href="http://consumerist.com/2012/05/airports-installing-avatars-that-will-start-yakking-away-upon-being-approached.html" >"information avatars"</a>.<br /><br />This is cool and all, but did they really have to<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tI3YBf36twk#!" >sex it up?</a><br /><br />I mean, I almost feel bad for the woman who did the recording for that demo.<br /><br />...that <em >was</em> a recording, right? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 02:54:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Jesus that's creepy.<br /><br />Nice one America - you took a simple thing that we're already using to communicate without complicated language concerns and you made it dystopian. <br /><br />[At Luton airport, for anyone interested, these mime what you've got to do with your on-board toothpaste, etc.] ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:38:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Horrible Warning Si</author>
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			<![CDATA[ They have the same TerrorCutouts at Stansted. I felt for one moment like I was looking at a tear in the fabric of reality - some ghastly superimposition of one dimension over another - then the prattling bint switched off between loops and left only her host-substrate blackly standing.<br /><br />That was a tough flight, as I recall. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:43:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Yeah, because what <em >everyone</em> needs before their big transatlantic flight is a healthy spoonful of Uncanny Valley. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:13:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Foamhead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9IRC_b4g7Sg" >Skydive Without a Parachute from 2,400 Feet</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 12:17:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oldhat</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Not meaning to plug my own site, but thought you'd find an article on aging beer interesting/useful.<br /><br /><a href="http://thethirstywench.com/2012/05/22/lock-it-in-the-basement-aging-beers/" >Lock it in the Basement: Aging Beers</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:11:41 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ No doubt that stuntman's giant balls cushioned his fall. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 01:14:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The day's <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html" >APOD</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120524.html" >All the Water on Europa</a><br /><br /><img src="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1205/EuropasOcean_KPHand003crop.jpg" alt="" > ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 01:48:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So, yeah, keyboards and computer mice are going away.<br /><br />20 years from now they'll be in the same category as carbon paper and cutting your own pens from goose quils.<br /><br />Microsoft is pushing a technology called <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.gizmag.com/soundwave-gesture-recognition/22471/&sa=U&ei=EvW9T4X8PIPamAWPnYUg&ved=0CAYQFjAA&client=internal-uds-cse&usg=AFQjCNHG586zDAZf0Stxl6-zNk7J5v3gNw" >Soundwave </a>that's basicly a form of sonar: a computer's existing speakers and microphones are used to generate and pick up an infrasound signal and learns how your hand motions modify that sound.<br /><br />But they may have been beaten to market by Leap systems with their <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/leap-motion-gesture-control-sensor/22644/" >Leap Motion </a> USB doodad which is apparently already on the market for US$70. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 03:21:48 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/05/green-machine-electric-freight.html" >LA is going to test a system developed by Seimens where trucks are equipped with street-car-style pantechnicons which can automaticly connect to and disconnect from overhead power cables.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 07:51:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit <br /><br />I don't think Leap motion is yet in actual production; you can pre-order for when their doodad is released next year.<br /><br />I can see how it would get rid of mice but I'm not certain how it would handle keyboards. I know that Thinkgeek had a "laser" keyboard that projected the image of a standard keyboard on a flat surface and the gadget would read where your fingers typed but that still gives you the visual interface of what a keyboard looks like to provide reference for typing; not sure how Leap would do that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:16:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/print?id=7927946&type=story" >All the world is staged</a><br /><br />An in depth report on football results fixing involving Triads, corruption, fake National football teams and even match reports filed for Games which Never took Place:<br /><br /><blockquote >Largely unpoliced, the Singapore syndicate became increasingly brazen, never more so than in the staging of ghost matches like the suspected one between the U21 teams from Turkmenistan and Maldives. Since federations, and not FIFA, announce friendlies, bookies employ local "spotters" to troll for information about upcoming matches. These spotters are corrupted by the syndicate to con bookies into listing fabricated matches. The spotters then supply the bookies with in-game dispatches -- on matches that aren't actually happening.</blockquote> <br /><br />Reality <em >is</em> stranger than fiction some times.. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:59:29 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ "The estimated wealth of the entire world is about $60 trillion, meaning that the RIAA should have known how outlandish its claims were to begin with. Still, with statuatory fines still coming of about $150,000 per infraction, of which there were 11,000, LimeWire could still end up owing about $1 billion."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.avclub.com/articles/riaa-claims-limewire-owes-it-72-trillionthats-tril,75555/" >RIAA claims Limewire owes it $72 trillion—that's "trillion" with a "T</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:22:49 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Ren Thing: if the device can accurately map the position of your hands it should be ble to create a virtul keyboard on screen along with a virtual representation of your hands. <br /><br />Or just treat the screen as if it were a touchscreen and note the points where you touch it. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:58:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit - True, but if you have a keyboard on screen then that just seems like additional screen clutter to me. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:47:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Oddcult</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The laser keyboards were complete shit. I was the unlucky guy who has to do some marketing for them a few years back, knowing this. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:55:46 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Oddcult <br /><br />They always struck me as better in concept than in reality. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:14:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/05/have-your-say-it-finally-happenedthe-exorcist-is-being-remade.php" >They're redoing <i >The Exorcist</i>.</a><br /><br />I am not amused. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 23:01:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Okay, this is pretty awesome.<br /><br /><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-squatted-at-aol/" >Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL</a><br /><br /><blockquote >For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant's Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:17:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55595" >The Chronophage going to Scotland</a><br /><br />A video on this here<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCqGtvTA36k" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 01:35:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The more you know!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e6jxW07RdU" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:18:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Heh, it was a little too over the top to be true :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120524/16265119070/no-riaa-is-not-asking-72-trillion-limewire-bad-reporters-bad.shtml" >No, The RIAA Is Not Asking For $72 Trillion From Limewire (Bad Reporters, Bad)</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 10:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Peter Kelly</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The pope's butler has been detained! which begs the question, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18209956" >The pope has a butler?!</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 22:35:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Frowardd</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Only ONE butler? Also, really nice vid, Vorn :D ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 14:13:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/asexual-mao-sugiyama-cooks-serves-own-genitals_n_1543307.html?ref=mostpopular#s=more228605" >Japanese chef cooks own dick and balls, serves them to diners</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 15:31:19 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ Greasemonkey, I was disappointed by that article. It doesn't say anything about how he tasted. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 15:39:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >Japanese authorities ... deemed the banquet legal because there is no law against cannibalism in the country.</blockquote><br />Good to know... ]]>
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		<author>Oxbrow</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1837966/mustafas-space-drive-an-egyptian-students-quantum-physics-invention" >Nineteen-year-old Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology student Aisha Mustafa patents a Casimir Effect space drive</a>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 11:28:44 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2818832/naked-man-shot-killed-on-macarthur.html#storylink=cpy" >Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was ‘eating’ face off victim<br /></a><br /><br />In other words : the zombie apocalypse has begun ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 23:54:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18238326" >The cyber cold war continues...</a><br /><br />That's a pretty hefty bit of malware there. Not just after what's on the machine, it also records nearby conversations if there's a mic available, and goes hunting for nearby bluetooth devices to pok around in too.<br /><br />I've long been of the belief that this sort of thing has been going on for ages, so it's nice to see some evidence I guess... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 03:12:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I had a big rave in the New Better Future thread about how increasingly the future would be determined by the people of the developing world.<br /><br />So, less than a week after an Egyptian 19-year-old designs a (hypothetical) space drive, an Indian 16-year-old  (living in Germany) <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/13795100/teen-solves-newtons-330-year-old-riddle/" >solves a mathematical problem that's been around since Newton.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 03:29:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...and still comes SECOND in the competition! WTF did FIRST come up with?! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 04:14:44 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A way to save the Euro? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 07:04:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>roadscum</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Over the years, i've sat and watched the rise of the machines. From robots replacing welders to Photoshop scything through the ranks of graphic design, just progress, i mumbled to myself, like the weavers and the spinning jenny and all that. You can't stop it, you can't stand in its way, you just have to adapt.<br />Won't be much of a problem for me anyway, mobile phones and satellite trackers are a pain, they may have put paid to the three hour layby kips and sneaky popping down to Tescos for a spot of shopping, but they're always going to need drivers...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18248841" >Oh dear!</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 08:23:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Insurance companies must be scratching their collective heads over exactly how to assess (and set premiums for) the potential bugs or failures that algorithm controllled vehhicles will undoubtedly exhibit (anyone seen their roomba go a bit nuts for no reason occasionally?).<br /><br />. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 14:14:44 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>icelandbob</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.rt.com/news/dutch-parliament-rejects-acta-518/" >Dead on arrival? Dutch Parliament kills ACTA before EU vote</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>LoneFoxAndCub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgCdNtxZdJQ&feature=related" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:42:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ^^LSD? I doubt it. It's more likely to be PCP if drugs are the cause. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 15:49:49 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/29/4523810/spacex-signs-1st-customer-for.html" >SpaceX signs first commercial customer for Falcon Heavy launcher. </a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:00:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>LoneFoxAndCub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >LSD? I doubt it. It's more likely to be PCP if drugs are the cause.</blockquote><br /><br />Plus, y'know, being a total mental. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:02:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.ecouterre.com/grow-your-own-genetically-engineered-stingray-leather-sneakers/" >This is fucked in so many ways</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:11:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I'll give you 10:1 odds that the "bio-customization" is nothing to do with genetic engineering. It's most likely the same dyeing technology that's used on tropical fish to make their colors look brighter.<br /><br />Still fucked up though. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:17:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>dorkmuffin</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Bath salts. I've only seen one article (I've only seen two total) that mentioned bath salts. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:38:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-guy-was-tearing-him-to-pieces-with-his-mouth-mystery-why-nice-and-hardworking-man-was-chewing-another-mans-face-20120530-1zi0i.html" >This is interesting but doesn't get us any closer to WTF actually happened</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:40:29 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Are we dyeing fish with the bath salts or going batshit on them? I missed a step. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:46:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>dorkmuffin</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Oh clarity. Sorry. The zombie thing. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 16:47:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ We're going mad from eating fish dyed with bathsalts.<br /><br />Try to keep up. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 17:54:49 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>G. Foyle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Yeah, that's why I always snort my bathsalt-dyed tetras.  That it clears my sinuses too is just a happy side effect. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 19:26:10 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>dorkmuffin</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2012/05/29/153697428/doc-watson-folk-music-icon-dies-at-89" >Doc Watson, virtuoso guitarist, dies at 89.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-kaG1NuLZM" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 00:16:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Gotta love the Westminster parliamentary system...<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osID-_Zi-1I" >Leader of the Australian Opposition Goes for a Little Run...</a><br />(Apologies for the long lead in and political commentary - it's the only embeddable video of the incident I could find) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 02:58:11 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ It's worth noting that the original article linked to in this story states that the man is emotionally troubled and has a history of violence:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/29/man-hospitalized-after-throwing-own-intestines-at-police/" >Man hospitalized after throwing own intestines at police</a><br /><br /><blockquote >A New Jersey man who repeatedly stabbed himself and threw pieces of his flesh and intestines at law enforcement officials remains hospitalized in critical condition on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.<br /><br />Police on Sunday responded to call from someone saying 43-year-old Wayne Carter was threatening to hurt himself with a 12-inch knife.<br /><br />When police arrived at the residence, the man yelled at the officers and stabbed himself. As police entered, he threw pieces of his own body at them and threatened them with his knife.<br /><br />When pepper-spray had no effect on Carter, police retreated and called the SWAT team, who subdued him with beanbag projectiles.<br /><br />“The scene was a bloody mess,” a police official told Cliffview Pilot. “The SWAT team members had to be decontaminated due to the amount of blood.”<br /><br />Carter reportedly damaged a major stomach artery and had more than 50 stab wounds.<br /><br />Police are awaiting the results of a blood test to determine if Carter had ingested any psychoactive substances.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:15:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @WORSETHANDETROIT - <em >Police are awaiting the results of a blood test to determine if Carter had ingested any psychoactive substances</em><br /><br />I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I just can't help myself.<br /><br />Couldn't they just test the bits of intestine he threw at them?<br /><br />...Sorry. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 03:19:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>LoneFoxAndCub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Purple Wyrm Ha!<br /><br />With this and the Miami zombie story, it feels like Spurrier, Ennis & Lapham are writing the news. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 05:47:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_Xm0HNbvtgQ" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 11:11:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ If there's a follow-up story about that intestines guy trying to eat a nurse, we're fucked. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 11:16:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...so, on a less gory note, <a href="http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spectrum-crunch" >this</a> was news to me.<br /><br />Apparently the air is running out of space for the internet. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:15:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>G. Foyle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Alan Tyson-Can't they just build <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes" >more tubes</a>? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 21:24:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21860-violent-antiscience-anarchists-vow-to-strike-again.html" >Fuck these guys.</a><br /><br /><blockquote >It's like something out of Kafka. Anti-science anarchists in Italy appear to be ramping up their violent and frankly surreal campaign. Having claimed responsibility for shooting the boss of a nuclear engineering company in Genoa, the group has vowed to target Finmeccanica, the Italian aerospace and defence giant.<br /><br />In a diatribe sent on 11 May to Corriere della Sera newspaper on 11 May, the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front said it shot Roberto Adinolfi, head of Ansaldo Nucleare, in the leg four days earlier. "With this action of ours, we return to you a tiny part of the suffering that you, man of science, are pouring into this world," the statement said. It also pledged a "campaign of struggle against Finmeccanica, the murderous octopus". Ansaldo is one of Finmeccanica's many offshoots.<br /><br />The cell has previously targeted nanotechnology researchers, and in 2010 it tried to bomb an IBM lab in Zurich, Switzerland. The attempt resulted in three conspirators being caught and jailed.<br /><br />In April 2011 the anarchists sent a parcel bomb to Swissnuclear, a group in Olten, Switzerland, that lobbies on behalf of the nuclear industry. The bomb exploded, injuring two people.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 21:51:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32171926/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/investigators-stunned-child-dismemberment/#.T8b4HL-EbT8" >Woman eats three-week-old son's brain.</a> Yes. You read that right.<br /><br />EDIT: Zombie jokes aside, this is seriously disturbing. I think I need to, I dunno, eat some ice cream and huddle up in a corner for a bit.<br /><br />EDIT 2: Whoops, obviously need to check the date on news stories before I publish them. Carry on, folks. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:12:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://gawker.com/zombie-apocalypse/" >Yes, I know it's Gawker but here's a smattering of links of the coming zombocapylse.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:13:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Alan<br /><br />That story is from 2009. I think the reason it's circulating now is fairly obvious. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:13:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yk57jrZw4N0/gay-porn-actor-in-canada-wante.html" >Gay porn actor wanted in Canada for killing, dismembering, and mailing parts of his friend.</a><br /><br />...SI, DID YOU TELEPORT US TO THE CROSSED UNIVERSE? BECAUSE IF SO THAT WAS UNCOOL, MAN! TOTALLY UNCOOL! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 22:34:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ DERP. Thanks, DJ. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 01:32:11 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Neil Gaiman talking about copyright, piracy, piracy as a service problem and promotion.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qkyt1wXNlI" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 04:25:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/30/living/serpent-handling-pastor-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite/" >Serpent-handling pastor dies from rattlesnake bite</a><br /><br />I think this one qualifies for a Darwin Award. the only problem is...<br /><blockquote >The son of a serpent handler who had himself died in 1983 after being bitten, Wolford was trying to keep the practice alive,</blockquote><br />It doesn't prevent them from reproducing and producing an offspring apparently as stupid as they are. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 05:59:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @RenThing - You know, I think dorkmuffin was right, it's this mephedrone stuff. It's sending people batshit. I had to drop a guy from my band a couple of years ago, a really nice, gentle guy, because he'd gotten off his tits on what he thought was acid and become violent toward a woman who refused his advances. Neither of the girls in the band wanted to be around him after that, understandably, so I had to drop him. He's never done anything remotely like it in the 2 years since and remains both mortified and mystified by the night that left him covered in blood and howling like a dog in a nearby carpark. We're pretty sure it was this cathinone/mephedrone/bath salts stuff because there were rumours that it was around a lot at the time. He didn't actually reach the disembowelment/dismemberment/cannibalism stage but there was some broken bottle action on himself I believe. <br /><br />It's basically a cure... for not being a homicidal axe-wielding maniac. The potential market's enormous! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:02:05 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>sneak046</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >It's basically a cure... for not being a homicidal axe-wielding maniac. The potential market's enormous! </blockquote><br /><br />Quite possibly the single greatest possible use of that quote ever. Congratulations! :-) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 08:28:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Foamhead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <del >Just because I'm jealous of Kay for thinking of that first</del>  Just because it's such a great line...<br /><br />Skip to 1.55 if you so wish.<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ktMPT6oJPFg#!" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 10:01:04 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>andycon</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit<br /><br />I like how they are using science to stop science. Is it one of those 'justifiable evil' things or are they just so fucking stupid they don't realize how dumb their actions are ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 10:19:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Whoa, just read that post from @Alan Tyson about how we're running out of bandwidth in the air.  It's so bizarre. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:48:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ And as usual, network television execs are the worst. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 13:50:04 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ Derp ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 14:53:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thatsusiebright/posts/10150868114584353" >A Much-Needed Reality Check About the Luka Rocco Dismemberment-Murder-Kitten Case:</a><br /><br /><blockquote >1. Luka is neither a porn "star," NOR a porn actor, NOR a model. He has never made a film or a professional video in any capacity.<br /><br />He aspired these things, but he was never employed by, or worked with, any movie company-- his efforts in front of his own camera are the only evidence of his moving image in public.<br /><br />Luka paid pro photographers to take head shots; he published his own videos and stills on the his own web sites.<br /><br />The only videos anyone has seen of him (so far) are of sadistic animal and human murder, not "sex scenes" as one would describe a in an erotic movie.<br /><br />2. Luka was a prostitute, albeit an unsuccessful one. He was starving, literally.<br /><br />3. To call this man "gay," or "bi," suggests some kind of consummated adult sexual life with other people.<br /><br />But that doesn't seem to be the case. The rare "customers," and even rarer people he dated, report that Luka didn't have sex with them, and was seemingly paralyzed or too catatonic to do anything sexual in bed.<br /><br />To his short-lived friends, he reported traumatic incest with his mother, and mental illness. Everyone who met him casually noticed he was disturbed.<br /><br />He is alienated from his family and it seems that the one man who knew him slightly, he killed.<br /><br />I don't know any word for this except "extremely dangerous and damaged adult, history of severe childhood abuse."<br /><br />3. Investigators and magistrates are talking about inate evil, about a man lacking "a moral gene," and "serial killer DNA."<br /><br />But there is no proof, not remotely, of any of these things. There never has been. That's like saying the devil made him do it.<br /><br />4. There is no evidence Luka knew Karla Homolka, let alone dated her. The Montreal police have taken back that first reckless statement. His celebrity obsessions were entirely of his own imagination.<br /><br />Aside from the shock of this case, and the tragedy, I know that gay and bisexual people, and sex workers and erotic actors/models, EVERYWHERE, are cringing.<br /><br />So are mental health pros and seasoned reporters, the few that are left.<br /><br />We are all hoping that the sensation of these murders will not be exploited by political opportunists and the con-artists of the right. So far, not so good.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:18:08 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/30/nc-makes-sea-level-rise-illegal/" >North Carolina is deluded about the rising sea-level</a>, considers making it illegal to predict future sea-level with methods that "include scenarios of accelerated sea-level rise." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 15:49:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Celan<br /><br />Unfortunately, it's a fake.  There's <a href="http://www.countrycalifornia.com/local-man-arrested-for-jukebox-assault/" >several</a> <a href="http://www.countrycalifornia.com/the-christmas-shoes-sends-local-man-over-the-edge/" >other</a> <a href="http://www.countrycalifornia.com/local-man-reckons-he-knows-whats-wrong-with-country-these-days/" >articles</a>, all of which were "reported by “Trailer” Parkman of <a href="http://www.farcethemusic.com/" >Farce the Music</a>. Find more satirical articles in the <a href="http://www.countrycalifornia.com/category/humor/fake-news/" >Fake News</a> archive." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 23:22:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/the-napalm-girl-image-that-haunted-the-world-turns-40/story-e6frev00-1226379610701" >Napalm Girl photo is 40 years old today</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:12:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @johnjones<br />My bad. On the go today...no time to fact check. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:20:48 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/police-homeless-woman-snatches-baby-from-stroller-tries-to-eat-its-arm/" >More Crossed Zombieness</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:30:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/" >Back to the cyber cold war</a>, and it seems the US and Israeli governments really were behind Stuxnet.<br /><br />I find this stuff endlessly fascinating, but I get the feeling I'm probably the only one. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:55:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Thankyou, ladies and gentlemen, I'll be here till Thursday. Try the long pig. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:05:24 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ ...<br /><br />EDIT: As a valid point, a female friend pointed out that in Finland (girl) scouts wear knives. I think I still have my scout knife somewhere.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLBCbNIDbI" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:18:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ @Flabyo - not the only one. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:03:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ ignore ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:20:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Paul Sizer</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I hope someone accidently hits those two girls with an SUV in that parking lot just after that interview. Like maybe 5 or 6 times.<br /><br />Charges like that will for certain keep those two out of Yale, which is where I assume they were planning to go... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:27:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oscillateur</author>
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			<![CDATA[ This has to be a fake, right ?<br />I mean, nobody can be that dumb and still manage to walk and not piss themselves at the same time...<br /><br />Edit : actually, this is from a few years ago and one of them ended up doing some time in jail...<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sgM-od2GE" ></a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:54:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ This cathinone/mephedrone/bath salts stuff, it sounds bad. Thankfully, I was unaware of it and have never come across it. What gets me is how the news reports on these recent zombie-attacks, they always put emphasis on the assailants being homeless. Ok, a lot of homeless people suffer from mental illness and maybe the news folks have to state the facts, but would it have made any difference if they lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills? Probably, but still...<br /><br />For the record, I took a lot of LSD when I was younger with a lot of people, and have been both hungry and homeless. But I never resorted to cannibalism. Instead, I'd go to a soup-kitchen for a sandwich and a cuppa. Maybe I just haven't turned yet... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:19:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Flecky - I think in the Miami face-eating case, the victim was a homeless person who was attacked while he was asleep under an overpass.  The reason for stating that he was homeless, it seems to me, was to emphasize that the victim was just guy who was asleep under a bridge and attacked completely unprovoked, cos, you know, he was asleep and all. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:28:19 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Argos: Ah, got you. Thanks, matey. I'll never crash-out under a bridge again. NEVER! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:43:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ See "A guy tried to eat another guy's face" fills up maybe two column-centimetres.<br /><br />which leaves a whole lot of empty space on page one which is filled up with whatever semi-relevant filler the reporters can find. <br /><br />So if the victim is homeless they run with that, if he worked at Denny's they would have reported that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:21:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Makes sense, you gotta fill in the space somehow.  I think Flecky was more concerned that the reporters were making a big deal of the attacker being homeless, thereby making some stereotype that all homeless folks are super drugged up dangerous people and you must stay away from them if you have any sense of self-preservation.  But that wasn't the case here.<br /><br />Flecky, yes please, don't go getting your face gnawed off cos you fell asleep in the wrong face, we like you too much for that to happen. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>AtomicSloth</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/subhash-kateel/its-bigger-than-bath-salts_b_1562014.html" >It's Bigger Than "Bath Salts" and "Zombie Apocalypses"</a><br /><br /> The only thing I've read on the matter that isn't complete sensationalist media bullshit. i.e. any article about this case that has Zombie or Bath Salts (don't get me fucking started, they might as well say "He was probably on The Dope, all of <em >them</em> are) in the title. <br /> <br />Everyone stop saying Bath Salts right now. If the police actually suspect it was MPDV that caused this (pretty sure they don't, but somehow that it what is being reported), say MPDV. It's loosely connected to the Cathinone (methcathinone, mephedrone, methylone, butylone, 4-mmc, khat, etc) family which is about as dangerous and psychotic as any other euphoric stimulant (relatively, hardly at all). <br />And even though MPDV is a pretty crappy experience by everyone who has ever taken it and no one would ever choose to take it twice, (especially considering it is more expensive and less widely available than everything else you could buy that produces the desired effects without the feeling fucking terrible part), you would still struggle to find a single confirmed aggresive psychotic incident that is concretely linked to it. <br /><br />There is no zombie apocalypse, scary new drugs don't turn you into zombies, the truth is far more fucking depressing and uncomfortable to talk about. Poverty, racism, class warfare, scumbag politicians going against percieved wisdom in order to win votes, copy+paste journalism etc.<br /><br />Yeah OK I got started anyway /rant. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:36:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Khat really is a classic case of drug hysteria.<br /><br />Only instead of Mexicans and Blacks taking it and becoming simultaneously lazy and shiftless and mindlessly violent it's Moozlims. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:37:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ PCP is the most likely culprit if there were drugs involved. People have had similar psychotic episodes in the past, after smoking a laced joint. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:31:04 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Soviet Rocket No. 9</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Fuck! My home state is starting to look like it's in the middle of a Warren Ellis strip.  Between the money grabbin bitches, the George Zimmerman fiasco, and the Miami zombies, I might as well betray my beliefs and get a concealed weapons permit.<br /><br />Then again, the Sunshine state has never truly been known as the Sane state. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:57:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >Then again, the Sunshine state has never truly been known as the Sane state. </blockquote><br /><br />See, that's why I was so ready to love CSI:Miami.  I'd been reading Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard and Edna Buchanan for years before that.  I was looking forward to seeing how a bunch of CSIs would deal with rubber alligator choking victims, mermaid shows and people getting raped to death by dolphins.  But no, instead I get the Carusobot. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 19:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @johnjones: See, now I want to visit the universe next door where that show is real, and the "yeeeeaaaaahhh!!!" opening song is Sauce Boss' "Marquis de Swamp." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:18:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Holy shit - a company called Mars One says they'll land four people on Mars by 2023 - and won't bring them back. Instead they'll establish a permanent colony with four more people joining them every 2 years thereafter.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154336/New-Mars-One-mission-aims-establish-human-colony-Red-Planet-2023.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" >link</a><br /><br />Contrary to what some might think I'm not entirely happy about this: assuming they don't simply go bust, the most likely result of a half-assed underfunded rushed colonization attempt is four dead people and a permanently contaminated Martian biosphere that'll make it next to impossible to know if there was ever life there. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:45:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ WHERE DO I SIGN UP? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit: I heard about that last year from a woman who's kid has a burning desire to be an astronaut.<br /><br />THE FUTURE IS STILL POSSIBLE! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:40:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Klumaster</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit: Don't worry, chances are they'll die long before they get the chance to contaminate anything. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 06:47:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Isn't the success rate for unmmaned probes to Mars something like only 1in 3 even hits the planet at all? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:25:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I DON'T CARE. DYING ON MARS BEATS DYING ON EARTH ANY DAY. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:52:32 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >I DON'T CARE. DYING ON MARS BEATS DYING ON EARTH ANY DAY.</blockquote><br /><br />"I like this kids gumption, I say we send 'im."<br />"But sir, s/he has no knowledge of anything useful to the survival of the mission and -"<br />"I said...GUMPTION."<br /><br />[For the record, if I was Paul Stamets, I'd be on this thing quicker than you can say 'Google Mars.' He's the man who could terraform Mars. As it is, I have nothing to add other than manual labour and farmhand labour experience...and an MA in Modern & Contemporary Literature. If they need a labourer who can teach on the importance of poetry and they're willing to pay for my launch/flight/long-haul flight, SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.] ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:53:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Just send me up when they build the space jail. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:40:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ There should be a tax on press releases.<br /><br />@flabyo - there have been some pretty shocking cock-ups, but I don't know what the actual percentages are. Hang on while I run the numbers... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:16:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Right, this should be a complete list in roughly chronological order:<br />Mars 1960A (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br />Mars 1960B (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br />Mars 1962A (USSR) - failed before achieving Mars trajectory<br />Mars 1962B (USSR) - failed before achieving Mars trajectory<br />Mars 1 (USSR) - failed en route to Mars<br />Zond 1964A (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br />Zond 2 (USSR) - failed en route to Mars<br />M-69A (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br />M69B (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br />Cosmos 419 (USSR) - failed before reaching orbit<br /><strong >Mars 2 (USSR) - success <br />Mars 3 (USSR) - success<br />Mars 4 (USSR) - success<br />Mars 5 (USSR) - success<br />Mars 6 (USSR) - success</strong><br />Mars 7 (USSR) - failed on arrival at Mars (missed planet)<br />Mariner 3 (NASA) - failed before achieving Mars trajectory<br /><strong >Mariner 4 (NASA) - success<br />Mariner 6 (NASA) - success<br />Mariner 7 (NASA) - success</strong><br />Mariner 8 (NASA) - failed before reaching orbit<br /><strong >Mariner 9 (NASA) - success<br />Viking 1 (NASA) - success<br />Viking 2 (NASA) - success</strong><br />Fobos 1 (IKI) - failed en route to Mars<br />Fobos 2 (IKI) - failed on arrival at Mars<br /><strong >Mars Pathfinder / Sojourner (NASA) - success</strong><br />Mars Observer (NASA) - failed en route to Mars<br /><strong >Mars Global Surveyor (NASA) - success</strong><br />Mars 96 (RSF) - failed before reaching orbit<br />Mars Climate Orbiter (NASA) - failed on arrival at Mars (the infamous "metric-imperial" incident)<br />Mars Polar Lander (NASA) - failed on arrival at Mars (crashed)<br />Nozomi (JAXA) - failed to achieve (correct) Mars trajectory<br />Yinghuo-1/Fobos-Grunt - failed to achieve Mars trajectory<br /><strong >2001 Mars Odyssey (NASA) - success<br />Opportunity (NASA) - success<br />Spirit (NASA) - success<br />Mars Express (ESA) - success</strong><br />Beagle 2 (ESA) - failed on arrival at Mars (crashed)<br /><strong >Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA) - success</strong><br /><br />I make that to be 40 missions, of which 18 have been successful (45%). So better than 1/3, but not better than 50-50.  On the other hand, NASA have launched 18 missions and 13 have been successful, a handsome 72% success rate.<br /><br />[Note: there's sort of an issue whether you consider an orbiter/lander package to be 1 mission or 2, particularly in the case that one fails and the other doesn't. Open to corrections.] ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:57:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ And also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't having actual human bodies on-board who are able to pilot and perform maintenance increase the chances even further? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:45:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @DJ - It would, but it also carries with it all the risks and concerns of keeping the crew alive. I don't have access to the math, but I'd bet the complications would even out with the benefits.<br /><br />Which is not at all me saying that a crewed mission shouldn't be attempted. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:21:22 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @AtomicSloth<br /><br />As someone who has struggled with mental illness his whole life and who has probably buried more close friends than most people currently have, I will make mordant jokes about zombies and superdrugs in response to the episodic tidal waves of media reportage on these sorts of gruesome crimes. I do that. I'm going to keep doing it. I am more than aware of the social issues because I and many of my friends, living and dead, have faced them head-on in our daily lives and most of the time have fucking well lost. The options are laugh or fucking hang myself so I'll be laughing. Considering that doing so is pretty much the oeuvre of this forum's illustrious founder I figure it'll be OK. I assume that if my views are actually inappropriate I'll get cock-maggoted by the mods, and so be it.<br /><br />Regarding the "bath salts" thing - well, PCP is not available in Australia at all AFAIK and Meow or Bath Salts or whatever you call it is, and is pretty common. Whatever my friend took actually, drastically altered his personality until it wore off, and was given to him as being "LSD". Media beat-up in the Eugene-Poppo case or no, the incident that I described actually happened. I do not regard cathinone as remotely safe, and even if I am wrong in my guess as to what he was given, the facts remain that he took SOMETHING and that it had the effects that I have described; so there IS a drug other than PCP that is distributed as a recreational hallucinogen and that can make otherwise placid people become violent.<br /><br />If it ever becomes relevant, maybe I'll talk about the social justice work I've done at the various times when I've been well enough, and about some of the terrible things I've seen in the course of it. I will not be staying post-traumatic about it and hiding from the media to keep from being exposed to this sort of material but I cannot remain unaffected by it so I will make the jokes. I'm neither a delusional believer in the supernatural nor an overprivileged douche canoe who denies the increasing social inequality throughout the developed world and its attendant effects on the marginalised such as the mentally ill (me, for instance) and racial minorities (about half my friends).<br /><br />I'm sorry if this post comes over as more strident than entirely necessary, but there have been a couple of incidents in the last few days where non-mod folk have tried to impose their own rules on the modes of other peoples expression, and if it keeps up this place will lose its egalitarian appeal so I feel it is necessary to raise my objections. I have tried to do so firmly but reasonably. I hope it has worked out. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Tell me you don't want this as your epitaph:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/widow-gets-3-million-in-malpractice-settlement-after-husband-died-during-threesome/story-e6frf7lf-1226382973011" >Widow gets $3 million in malpractice settlement after husband died during threesome</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:07:56 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ We should know soon if Scott Walker has been defeated in the Wisconsin recall election.<br /><br />My guess is he will most likely lose. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:38:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Kosmopolit<br /><br />Nate Silver of the 538 blog has Walker <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/" >up by six points</a> going into tomorrow's election.  Also, honestly, I don't think the universe is just enough to let that happen right now.<br /><br />My best guess is I'll come home tomorrow, flip on the TV and find a bunch of FOX assholes all but masturbating over their glorious victory. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:00:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>AtomicSloth</author>
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			<![CDATA[ OK maybe I was a bit too angry in my post but the use of the term "Bath Salts" really pisses me off. <br />Bath Salts means nothing, it's what some vendors, 3 years ago, put on their packaging to get over certain laws on selling chemicals untested by the goverment. It's the same as Plant Feeders or Room Odourisers or Not For Human Consumption, it means nothing. Half the articles I looked at (i.e. the ones that even bothered to mention a chemical) put K2, Spice (Synthetic Cannabis) and MXE (has similar effects to Ketamine) along with the cathinones and MPDV under the term "Bath Salts." <br />Research chemicals would be a more useful, succinct way of saying: "Things you can buy, primarily online, that have been designed by chemists to circumnaviagte various drug laws and alters normal bodily function."<br />MPDV while chemically related to the cathinones, Mephedrone being the most popular/widely available is about as different from Mephedrone as acid is to ecstasy (there are some similarities but generally it's a whole different thing)<br /><br />I say the cathinones (and, as they gradually get banned around the world their replacements, 6-APB, 5-APB, 5-IT, MPA, 4-MEC, MDAI, AMT, Ethylphenidate etc that are all aiming for that sweet spot of euphoric, stimulation that's somewhere between cociane and MDMA while minimising the neurotoxicity, residual stimulation, hangover, and moreishness) are generally harmless in the way that any euphoric stimulant is harmless i.e. take too much, too often and it will ruin your life, and there's probably a very small ammount of the population who due to some condition or whatever will take it once and may have something akin to psychosis. <br />Mephedrone, butylone, methylone, do not make people violent. MPDV can, it's probable this is what your friend took.<br /><br />I remember when in the UK Benzylpiperazine, a perfectly safe Ecstasy harm-reduction alternative was made illegal, a few months later Mephedrone (which is more dangerous than BZP purely because of it's high re-dose factor) became widely available. The first death attributed to Mephedrone which started the "Meow Meow" media scare, turned out to be two guys taking METHADONE, the heroin replacement. All other deaths attributed to Mephedrone are similary dodgy, complicated or entirely fabricated, though you can get addicted to it, I'd rate it's addiction potential lower than most street drugs (mainly because it has no potential to be smoked or injected).<br /><br />So the cathinones got banned and now they're doing the whole chemical switch-up again in order to find something with the desired affects that you can buy pure without going to a drug dealer. Now the time between creating a chemical and getting it on the market (most of these are made in China and India solely for sale in western europe first and then the rest of the world) has been shortened and the risk of having something as toxic as MPDV released on the research chemical taking public is greatly increased. So you can see why I'm pissed off.<br /><br />A lot of vendors have now stopped selling products under the chemical name and now use Brands like B2 and Madcat, the contents of these change from batch to batch and can contain mixtures of drugs, like something trippy or euphoric with something stimmy to fake the effects of ecstasy, this can sometimes cause neural toxicitiy. <br /><br />This zombie guy may have been on MPDV, I can see someone who orreneously bought a bunch of MPDV and not being able to unload it on anyone who has ever googled a drug online before taking it, sold it as LSD or Crystal Meth or whatever to this guy. Even if he was on MPDV, that, and even to some extent the eating of some poor guys face off, isn't the real story, it's about how people in Florida are driven to violent insanity because of a lack of social care. <br /><br />Blanket use of the term Bath Salts is only going to lead to more draconian drug laws, more blind experimentation and more avoidable mental illness and death. <br /><br />Sorry, I tend to talk too much when it comes to this subject. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:49:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Latest polls have walker ahead 50:47 which is a statistical dead heat.<br /><br />Walker won in large part because of the low turn-out in the last election. This time around turn-out is reported to be pretty high.<br /><br />Silver normally knows his stuff though so I'm probably wrong. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:49:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kay: I'll try not to go into too much detail, but I've shared with you before about my ongoing battle with mental illness. And like you, I've buried so many close friends. Like Oz, PCP is not, to the best of my knowledge, freely available in the U.K. Meow, or whatever, is seemingly becoming more abundant. I've not tried it, and hopefully never will. A DJ mate of mine was given some a few months ago, and he ended-up in a terrible state; shaking in bed, drenched in sweat, having to be cared for by a girlfriend.<br /><br />Dexedrine (speed) has been pretty much arbitrarily prescribed to addicts on private prescriptions in London for decades, by doctors mostly only interested in making quick money. I used to be get them. I've seen people, who were relatively calm before, end up totally psychotic from using them. <br /><br />I've been in rooms with people from all walks of life (friends I can't mention), and after we'd all injected ketamine, our behavior could only be described as zombie-like; stumbling around, talking to ourselves, walking into walls etc. I too have to employ gallows-humor to deal with some of the shit I've seen and done.<br /><br />I'll end by saying, and I know a lot of folk won't agree or like it, but I've seen more long-term, serious mental-damage, done to people from Cannabis than Heroin. Especially all these new, genetically modified, strains of Skunk etc. Just ask the people in NA London.<br /><br />Anyway, these are just my experiences and opinions. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:38:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Fishelle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Flecky<br />That sentence near the end, the one about mental damage from Cannabis vs. Heroin, I find really interesting. I completely understand if you don't want to talk about it, but part of me wants to ask you to expound on that. I've heard so much about how weed is good for people's systems/the ground it grows on/everything else. The only times I've heard negative things really, it's been from programs in grade school telling us drugs are bad and telling what seemed like over the top sorts of stories about different drugs' effects on people. I'm interested in understanding what effect it honestly has on people. I haven't ever and don't plan on ever smoking cannabis, but so far the only arguments I've heard about the stuff with logic have been for it. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:54:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Cannabis in excessive quantities over an extended period (we're talking years) can lead to paranoia and even violent psychosis.<br /><br />However, the risks of such reactions are lower than for alcohol. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:11:28 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Dj and Alan - <br /><br />A human crew can perhaps deal with emergency situations and work novel solutions to problems, but the main difference between a manned Mars mission compared to the moon landings is time delay.<br /><br />Mars is, if I remember correctly, 7 light minutes away. So there won't be any real chance for mission control to jump in and help with any emergencies during the landing phase. 7 Minutes to be heard, 7 more to get a reply. The most extreme things that happened during Apollo were solved only with near realtime support from mission control. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:24:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Fishelle<br /><br />Two of my friends in high school smoked a lot of pot.<br /><br />The first smoked massive quantities of the stuff every weekend from about the age of 15 - he never had any problems and now, years later is a responsible home and business owner with a kid in primary school and several millions in assets. He still occasionally indulges.<br /><br />The second started smoking at about 17, and immediately turned into the cliched stoner - dull, confused, not interested in anything other than getting high. At the age of 19 he had a complete psychotic breakdown, almost drove his parents' car into the river (he stopped just short and then threw the keys in instead) and was picked up a day later by the cops wandering the streets in a dissociative state. He spent two months in the city's mental hospital, has been on various medications ever since and has never been able to get his life together (he'll do fine for a few months, then end up back at home living with his parents after it all falls apart). He oscillates between giving up pot because "it's bad for me", and taking it up again because "it's a harmless natural plant".<br /><br />So that - for what it's worth - is my experience with cannabis. It seems to me that it's harmless to some (probably most) people, but can completely fuck others over. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:59:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ #marsmissions<br /><br />To be honest, a manned Mars mission would be so radically different to any of the unmanned probes sent so far that comparisons to their failure rate aren't terribly useful. By my count, 9 of the 21 failed missions went wrong before reaching orbit - something that's very unusual for manned missions. A mMm might be better compared to the Apollo programme (failure rate 1/10 or 1/7) but on such a greater scale that, again, who knows. More probably, a mMm would have a different profile to anything attempted so far - possibly launched in stages, assembled in orbit, then boosted for Mars - which means a thousand new problems and solutions. <br /><br />I think it would be a bonus to have humans on board for some in-flight contingencies. On arrival and for landings might be particularly useful (more likely to wrangle computers than to take the stick and set 'er down). But it would be foolish (not to mention morally reprehensible) to send people on a mission that was <em >quite likely</em> to fail en route in a way that they would be helpless to fix. <br /><br />On the plus side, the current state of flight control is <strong >pretty goddamn amazing</strong>. Check out some of the stuff that Cassini has been directed to do - flying through the ice-plumes of Enceladus' cryovolcanos, for instance - with a one-way time delay of 1.5 <em >hours</em>. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:10:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Foamhead</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Yes, I know.  I'm too easily amused.<br /><blockquote ><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-18322606" >Residents of the Perthshire village of Dull are due to hear this week whether efforts to forge ties with the US town of Boring have been successful.</a></blockquote>Sorry. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:23:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The Mars One people plan a Mars orbiter (2016), followed by a lander (2018), followed by a robot misson to produce water, fuel etc on Mars (2020) followed by a human mission in 2022/2023.<br /><br />So, in theory, there will be three missions to Mars orbit and two to the surface befoe the attempted human landing.<br /><br />That's still an incredibly ambitious schedule. I'd have expected a Mars fly-by or a mission to one of the Martian moons before the  first landing.<br /><br />I would also have hoped for a pretty extensive survey looking for indigenous life before they went and dumped fout humans there. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:37:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Do we have any source on that Mars One thing that isn't the Daily Mail ? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 04:40:02 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=Mars+One&oq=Mars+One&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=news-cc.12...144261.146012.0.147952.8.3.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0." >Take your pick.</a><br /><br />They're all pretty obviously based on the same press release. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:15:22 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/r0QAB_CaoX8/catholic-cardinal-authorized.html" >Catholic Cardinal flails about the "immorality" of gay marriage after authorizing $20k bribes to get kiddie-raping priests out of the organization.</a><br /><br />Why anyone, even Catholics, continue to give the Catholic Church money is beyond me. ]]>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/court-rejects-appeal-overturn-prop-8-ruling-case-171244320.html" >9th Circuit denies en banc hearing request to pro-Prop 8 group, ruling on Prop 8 stands.</a><br /><br />Excellent news, now to see if they take it to the SCOTUS. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:34:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Cat Vincent</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.disam.upm.es/~jdcolorado/BAT/BaTboT.html" >Long Live The Goddam BaTboT</a>: Prototype biomimetic bat drone. Can't do sustained flight yet, but... <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY4f3XXNliM" >Video briefing.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:25:19 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&gl=au&tbm=nws&q=Ray+Bradbury&oq=Ray+Bradbury&aq=f&aqi=d2&aql=&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j43i400.172028.182205.0.193988.12.7.0.0.0.0.3009.7877.3-1j2j2j9-2.7.0...0.0.tUPpbYB9weI" >RIP Ray Bradbury.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:52:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://jimromenesko.com/2012/06/06/boss-fires-25-employees-after-praying-with-them-at-staff-meeting/" >CEO of Christian publishing company fires 25 employees over email complaining about outsourcing</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 07:53:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Slick</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fq32k/HARDtalk_Alan_Moore_Writer/" >Alan Moore interview on BBC News Hard Talk</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:55:58 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>flecky</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Fishelle: About cannabis, I guess what Purple Wyrm and kosmopolit said really sums-up what I would say. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:14:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Fishelle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Thanks, guys. It's nice to actually know what I'm talking about a little when conversations about legalization and stuff come up. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:19:47 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Israeli researchers have found a way to produce <a href="http://phys.org/news/2012-06-durable-plastic-metals.html" >polypropylene plastic that's as strong as steel -</a> and lighter, cheaper and requiring less energy to manufacture. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:25:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >"We have confirmed that Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision attack," Marc Stevens and B.M.M. de Weger wrote in an e-mail posted to a cryptography discussion group earlier this week. "The collision attack itself is very interesting from a scientific viewpoint, and there are already some practical implications."</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-crypto-breakthrough/" >Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 06:44:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Vornaskotti<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18365844" >The plot, thickens it does.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:50:28 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmo - FINALLY something we can call plasteel, like in all those 1980s sci-fi novels. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:09:54 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So basically, now they'll be able to make knives that pass any metal detector? Will they show on the pornoscanner or ist it going to be strip searches for everyone? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:28:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Ceramic knives don't trigger metal detectors.  I know someone who bought a ceramic dog tag at Defcon that has one edge sharpened like a blade, and you can't tell when you look at it because the rubber silencer covers up the edges.  Goes right past airport metal detectors. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:29:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Fishelle- I feel obliged to respond in some way to your queries regarding cannabis.<br /> I must be clear up front that I am a professional cannabis salesman in the Amsterdam coffeeshop industry and also I am having to restrain my natural urge to be an unbearable weed bore.<br /> So with that in mind I will say that on the scale of potential harm, cannabis rates relatively low in comparison to most other recreational drugs. That said, it is certainly possible for people to become psychologically addicted to the detriment of their regular lives.<br />As far as links with mental illness are concerned research is very unclear and often overblown by the conservative media. Some research has shown that some people with underlying, often undiagnosed, mental health issues, seem to choose to attempt to self medicate with cannabis often with disastrous results and leading to parents/media blaming the drug for the illness.<br /> Mental illness is sadly very common and cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug however there is no proven causation between these two facts.<br /> One last thing in regard to this idea of "GM super weed" and the evil new "SKUNK". For the most part this is nonsense peddled by scaremongers in the UK media. Skunk is one variety of thousands of marijuana strains and while it is true that cannabis tends to be stronger now than people were used to thirty years ago, this is the result of improved farming techniques and selective breeding rather than genetic modification. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:20:18 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Nelzbub, you're right.<br /><br />Marijuana ranks pretty low on the scale of poetential harm - below alcohol and tobacco and somwhere not very far above caffeine.<br /><br />But the pot-heads who insist that it can't ever under any circumstances lead to harm are just as wrong as the anti-drug warriors who claim a single puff on a joint will turn you into a psychotic. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:36:30 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ ^ agreed. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:39:04 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I've never smoked pot, but that was mostly because I was more afraid of the tobacco in the joints than of the Moroccan Hashish they sell around here. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:47:23 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I tried to give up caffeine once. Worst month of my life. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:38:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Nelzbub - <em >That said, it is certainly possible for people to become psychologically addicted to the detriment of their regular lives. As far as links with mental illness are concerned research is very unclear and often overblown by the conservative media. Some research has shown that some people with underlying, often undiagnosed, mental health issues, seem to choose to attempt to self medicate with cannabis often with disastrous results and leading to parents/media blaming the drug for the illness.</em><br /><br />Absolutely. Although I believe there has been some research suggesting that some individuals can have a genetic propensity to mental illness, and that intoxicants of any kind - consumed at foolishly high levels - can kick it into gear. This would fit with what happened to the friend I mentioned - although it is possible he was having metal health issues before he started smoking, and just kept it to himself. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:09:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A further point to consider about drugs and their health effects: in the latest New Scientist a researcher talks about how virtually all research into illegal drugs is prohibited. For example, we have virtually no idea of what areas of the brain cannabis actually affects because there's never been a functional MRI study done of people while they're using cannabis.<br /><br />He also points out, for example, that the moderate paranoia some people experience while using might give useful clues as to the underlying biology of some mental illnesses. <br /><br />We just don't know.<br /><br />Because drugs are Bad. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:50:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Fishelle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ This is really interesting to read about, and I truly appreciate the response to my curiosity. But It's probably best if we don't derail the thread any further. If someone wants to start a thread about drugs and the misconceptions surrounding them, that be cool, though. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:49:26 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Caffeine is actually pretty hardcore stuff, and no joking. Ironically although I know a great many pot users, I've never heard the gateway theory thing of them going for harder stuff because pot doesn't cut it for them anymore - but I have one story where someone went from coffee to popping caffeine pills to speed. There is also the case of a person managing to kill himself with a prolonged massive caffeine use, popping caffeine pills by the handful in his last months. And no, these are not urban legends but people with names. Then there's the whole thing of caffeine making anxiety disorders and in some cases depression worse, causing nasty stuff with heart arrythmias etc.<br /><br />Finnish people are pretty hardcore coffee junkies and I've gone through cold turkey caffeine withdrawals a few times, and jesus motherfuck it takes a weekend to get functional, easily. After a while I started synchronizing them with horrible hangovers - if I'm going to spend a day sweating, with a terrible migraine type headache and vomiting anyway, why not get some good out of it >.> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:42:07 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Ben Gwalchmai</author>
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			<![CDATA[ - Ha! So true. Once again Janos, you put it better than I could. <br />[Disclaimer: I'm currently drinking about 4/5 cups of coffee a day to get my novel finished by the time I'd like it finished and if I take a day where I drink even just 2 cups of tea instead, I go from getting an average of 2500 words done per day to 650. In short, coffee's a mean slave-master.] ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 04:12:11 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I've gone down to maybe one bottle of caffeinated soda a month. Getting out from under caffeine was harder than quitting drinking and smoking cigarettes combined, for me. <br /><br />Smoking, all it took was getting a really bad infection to decide to quit. Drinking, and technically, I didn't completely quit alcohol, but maybe I have a beer or two every other month or so since we don't keep it in the house anymore, wasn't too difficult to quit since I just had to have all the nags rice effects thrown in my face all at once in a pretty dramatic manner. <br /><br />But quitting Dr. Pepper? In Texas, where it's like The State Beverage? That shit is hard. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:12:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Alan Tyson</author>
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			<![CDATA[ At Fishelle's suggestions, I made <a href="http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10709&page=1#Item_1" >a thread</a> for talking about this sort of thing. I, for one, am fascinated as hell by it, mostly because my own experience with illicit substances consists of coffee, alcohol, a brief romance with cigarettes, and... three? maybe four times trying to smoke pot, to no effect. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:07:46 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18367892" >Sir Christopher Lee's second album "100% heavy metal".</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:49:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kay Orchison</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So, is <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/landmark-study-on-sexually-depraved-penguins-unearthed-20120610-203rd.html" >this</a> evidence of God's great plan? If so, what does it say about God? Discuss. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 02:52:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @argos Flint won't trigger detectors either, a plot device Neal Stephenson used in Snowcrash (And something I've thought about a lot as a prehistorian) You can produce flint weapons in moments, ending up a blade sharper than steel. Of course all the checks for weapons is bullshit as you can buy duty free in glass bottles after security (Which you can use to produce blades as it conchoidally fractures like flint. Though I'm guessing anyone likely to start a fight on a plane is more likely to just smash the bottle across someone's head.) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 03:47:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Cat Vincent</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Steve Toaste: To be picky, Snow Crash blade was industrial glass that had been knapped like flint. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:12:50 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Cat Yep you're right. Reminds me of an article I read about aborigines in Australia using ceramic telegraph insulators to knap spar-points, leading to glass bottles being left at the foot of the telegraph poles as an alternative to stop the telegraph lines goingf dead. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:59:11 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kradlum</author>
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			<![CDATA[ A friend of mine at Uni used to knap glass blades for surgeons ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 10:20:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I don't know if you guys enjoy reading prison news as much as I do but-<br /><br /><a href="http://houston.cbslocal.com/2012/06/10/texas-inmate-loses-civil-rights-vampire-suit/" >Texas Inmate Loses Civil Rights ‘Vampire’ Suit</a><blockquote >Texas prisoner who argued he was being barred from practicing religious beliefs related to vampires.<br />In the filing, Royal described himself as “Vampsh Black Sheep League of Doom Gardamun Family Circle Master Vampire High Priest.”</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:02:20 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Government Spy. I read that headline and was picturing a suit in black and red velvet. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:30:17 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Does the court have to motivate their rejection? If so, I'd really like to read their arguments. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:06:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Typically, there is a list of "<a href="http://static.nicic.gov/Library/017613.pdf" >government approved religions</a>" for inmates to have the option of observing.  If an inmate requests to add a religion to the list, there usually must be more than one member.  <br /><br />Several cases in the past have shown that inmates creating their own religions are often scams of some type of scam.  Another anecdotal reference, but we're told of instances where inmates claim their religion forces them to have weekly meals with steak, lobster and wine, and rituals involving sexual acts with women.<br /><br />Regardless of the veracity of these stories, the end result is the same: the inmate can beleive or "practice" any religion he can think of, but the government agency is not required to recognize it, pay for any of his religious diet, or provide him with any of his religious materials.  The government can choose to do that, for more widely recognized faiths, but can always declare that due to the unreasonable costs or safety issues, the requests can be denied.<br /><br />Another example, was the inmate that tried to make a local union for the inmate population.  From what I remember, the court case permitted the inmate to form a union, though its members were not allowed to have meetings, correspondence, dues, pamphlets, or strike.  (I think <a href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=433&invol=119" >this </a>is the case I'm remembering) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:56:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ "Governement approved religions" right. Just give me some time to let that idea sink in.<br /><br />As far as I'm concerned every religion is a scam one way or the other, so I don't see why only the most successful ones should be allowed... Anyway, I'm surprised the guy who invented the religion that required weekly steak meals and ritual sex with women had problems finding followers. It seems like the kind of religions that'd get successful very fast.<br /><br />Also, "native American" is a religion? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:03:28 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>government spy</author>
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			<![CDATA[ The vampire guy was the one with only one member of his religion.  Steak, lobster, wine & sex guy had lots of people that wanted to join.  Just the gov't told him, you can beleive in whatever you want; we just don't have to provide you with any of the things you want.<br /><br />It isn't so much that the government "approves" of the religion, I guess that's just bad wording.  It's that there's a policy created to provide services, staff or volunteers, and religious materials for those religions.  Generally, anything that will occupy the inmates' time, while not causing undue problems for the institution, is a good idea.  We want our inmates to be occupied, calm and that thinking that following a moral or behavioral code is a good thing. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:31:02 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Cat Vincent</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @govt spy & Wood:<br />Not surprised a very new religion (to be as charitable as possible to Vampire Dude) didn't get authorized.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCollum" > Patrick McCollum</a>'s been trying to get California to ease up on it's Big 5 Religion list for years, and it's not like there's any lack of pagans there to prove they exist... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:27:40 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Wood, besides a lot of different relgious beliefs assocaited ith different tribes, there's the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_Church" >Native American Church.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:59:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >I don't see why only the most successful ones should be allowed.</blockquote><br />Surely that is the very definition of success. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:48:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit : that was my point, it's not just one religion. Didn't know about that church, though.<br /><br />@256 : touché! ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:00:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://designtaxi.com/news/352732/From-A-Bottle-Of-Wine-Researchers-Grow-A-Dress/" >From A Bottle Of Wine, Researchers Grow A Dress</a><br /><blockquote >Researchers of the FNAS laboratories, University of Western Australia, have developed a way of making seamless clothing using wine, and its fermentation process.</blockquote> <br />I'm not sure I'm qualified to make a statement about fashion but that dress just looks like... well like it's been grown out of wine and bacteria, actually. Also :<br /><blockquote >At early stages of development, the material would smell like red wine and feel like sludge when wet, but fits on to bodies like a second skin.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:39:38 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/world/europe/uk-cameron-daughter-pub/index.html?hpt=hp_t2" >David Cameron goes in for a pint but leaves daughter behind.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:04:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://venezuela-europa.blogspot.fr/2012/04/hitler-in-venezuela.html" >This is a map of registered voters in Venezuela whose fist name is "Hitler"</a><br /><br /><img src="http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg267/scaled.php?server=267&filename=avenezuelahitler.jpg&res=landing" alt="" ><br /><br /><blockquote >There is a guy in Barinas whose full name is Hitler Maolenin Leañez Aponte. There are a couple of Venezuelans called Hitler Jesús.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:05:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>celan</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I'm sure you've all read about The Oatmeal's <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/bearlovegood" >BearLove Good. Cancer Bad.</a> indiegogo campaign in response to a <a href="http://theoatmeal.com.nyud.net/blog/funnyjunk_letter" >frivolous lawsuit</a> from FunnyJunk.<br />It raised over $70K in 7 hours. Awesome. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:14:18 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Thought about just posting this in the videogames thread, but it's an interesting enough peek into the utter madness of the industry I call home I thought I'd put it here.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-11-the-rise-and-collapse-of-yoshinori-ono" >The rise and collapse of Yoshinori Ono</a><br /><br />Sure, a fairly large part of that is that famously insane Japanese work ethic, but I hear similar stories from much lower profile people in the biz all the time. Hell, I ended up in hospital myself from the stress of overwork about 8 years ago now. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:33:28 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So apparently in Indiana <a href="http://govinthelab.com/indiana-first-state-to-allow-citizens-to-shoot-law-enforcement-officers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GovInTheLab+%28Government+in+The+Lab%29" >it is now legal to shoot police officers if they illegally enter your home</a>.<br /><blockquote >The first of its kind in the United States, the law was adopted after the state Supreme Court went too far in one of its rulings last year, according to supporters. The case in question involved a man who assaulted an officer during a domestic violence call. The court ruled that there was “no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”<br />The National Rifle Association lobbied for the new law, arguing that the court decision had legalized police to commit unjustified entries.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 05:37:59 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Wood<br /><br />I can sort of see the logic of the law.  Police officers should be no more legally immune to getting shot for illegally entering someone's home than anybody else.  That said, I figure the consequences of this law will be a few dead cops and more than a few dead homedwellers. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:38:30 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>oscillateur</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >Thought about just posting this in the videogames thread, but it's an interesting enough peek into the utter madness of the industry I call home I thought I'd put it here.<br />The rise and collapse of Yoshinori Ono<br />Sure, a fairly large part of that is that famously insane Japanese work ethic, but I hear similar stories from much lower profile people in the biz all the time. Hell, I ended up in hospital myself from the stress of overwork about 8 years ago now. </blockquote><br />Well, I work in the Japanese games industry and it is true that work practices here are different than in Europe or America. Many people stay late all the time, but not all of them overwork themselves though... Still, people with responsibilities can have a lot of pressure, I imagine even more in bigger companies like Capcom. So, yeah, sad but not surprising. I've heard people in Japan saying that one reason not to hire foreigners is that it's hard to ask them to do overtime like other employees... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:15:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @celan<br />The whole thing just seems like an opportunity for Oatmeal to drive a ton of traffic to his site, not that that's anything new. It's also worth noting that the charity campaign is in no way related to the issue and he's not actually obligated to donate more than $20k. He could pocket more than $100k right now and it's unlikely we'd ever know. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:14:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://Man writing book about kindness in America shot, wounded" >Man writing book about kindness in America shot, wounded</a><br /><blockquote >HELENA, Montana (Reuters) - A West Virginia man who was traveling across the United States gathering material for a book about kindness in America was shot and wounded while eating lunch in Montana, police said on Monday.<br /><br />Ray Doland, 32, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the arm following the incident near Glasgow, Montana on Saturday, Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier said.<br /><br />Doland was still in hospital on Monday but was expected to recover, Meier said.<br /><br />He said that Doland, who was hitchhiking across the country and writing a memoir about kindness in America, had been eating lunch at a spot of historical interest and was looking for a ride.<br /><br />When Doland approached a vehicle that pulled up near him the driver opened fire, hitting him in the arm, before speeding away, Meier said.<br /><br />A suspect, identified as 52-year-old Charles Lloyd Danielson III, was later taken into custody in Culbertson, Montana, Meier said.<br /><br />"Montana is certainly full of a bunch of nice people and wonderful people and it's a shame this kind of thing happens but it just happens," Meier said.</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:25:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @johnjones: based on my recollections of prior coverage of this case it says that if occupants <strong >believe </strong> police are on their premises illegally they have the right to open fire.<br /><br />So every tax resister-sovereign citizen nutcase has just been handed a shooting license. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:42:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <blockquote >Man writing book about kindness in America shot, wounded</blockquote><br /><br />There was a similar story a few years back , not sure if it was the same guy.<br /><br />He got as far as Mississippi before before being robbed at gun-point and thrown off a bridge into a river. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:58:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>magnusisasillyname</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Yeah, but, <blockquote >"Montana is certainly full of a bunch of nice people and wonderful people and it's a shame this kind of thing happens but it just happens," Meier said.</blockquote><br /><br />I'd say the right guy is writing that book. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:44:29 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ That's not the writer, that's the sheriff. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:51:23 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ I stand corrected. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2012 22:30:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Purple Wyrm</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/big-as-a-cattle-dog-when-giant-cats-attack/story-e6frg12c-1226394445620" >Magnetic Island Spooked by 'giant black cat' </a><br /><br /><em >Dramatic re-enactment of how ominous the cat might be, should it indeed be a panther, and should it be prowling from a tree branch.</em> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:05:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>DC</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sSjGltYouiE#!" >The future of webcomics?</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:17:09 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @celan, DJ - probably also worth bearing in mind that That Oatmeal Guy's first internet venture was a scam that used hidden links in those shitty online quizzes to manipulate Google's page rank of his dating website. <br /><br />Google eventually dropped the hammer on him for that, so he had to come up with a site with some sort of actual content; thus, The Oatmeal. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:20:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/14/world/meast/egypt-analysis/index.html" >So, the Egyptian military has effectively engineered a coup.</a><br /><br />The Supreme Court has ruled the laws under which the new Parliament was lected invalid and dissolved it. <br /><br />The military has effectively declared martial law with the military given authority to detain civilians.<br /><br />All this comes a couple of days before a Presidential election runoff between Ahmed Shafiq who was Prime minsiter under Mubarak and Mohammed Morsi. Morsi is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood but he was being backed by virtually all the pro-democracy groups and had agreed, for example, to appoint two leading secular politicians as his Vice-Presidents. <br /><br />Morsi is calling for the Presidential election to proceed and in a fair poll would probably win easily (He got roughly 25% of the vote in the first round, the other cadnidates who have endorsed him got roughly 40% between them.)<br /><br />But I seriously doubt this is going to be a fair poll. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:46:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Finagle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I'm calling a repeat of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Civil_War" >Algeria '92.</a>  There's no way this ends well. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 05:27:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ In a couple of days' time <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/greeks-return-to-ballot-box-as-crisis-approaches-decisive-moment.html" >we'll know whether or not Greece has decided to destroy the world economy.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:20:12 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Hah! <br /><br /><blockquote >The Ocean X Team dove down to the circle-shaped object in the Baltic Sea and met something they never experienced before. First they thought it was just stone or a rock cliff, but after further observations the object appeared more as a huge mushroom, rising 3-4 meters/10-13 feet from the seabed, with rounded sides and rugged edges. The object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, as an opening. On top of the object they also found strange stone circle formations, almost looking like small fireplaces. The stones were covered in something resembling soot.</blockquote><br /><br /><a href="http://www.oceanexplorer.se/" >THE TREASURE HUNTERS, OCEAN X TEAM, DISCOVERED SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN THEY DOVE DOWN TO THE MYSTERIOUS CIRCLE-SHAPED OBJECT IN THE BALTIC SEA</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:01:12 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[ I just heard over the radio that the 'kindness' book guy confessed to shooting himself. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:28:59 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>nelzbub</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @ Vorn-  what the fuck? For a second I thought it was some kind of viral movie trailer thing, but this is really occurring? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:18:21 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Finagle : Yup, <a href="http://news.findlaw.com/apnews/889b749a8f6d42359406f4ad3f46fc15" >here's a confirmation from Associated Press</a><br /><br /><blockquote >BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A West Virginia man who claimed to be a victim of a drive-by shooting along a rural Montana highway while working on a memoir called "Kindness in America" has confessed to shooting himself, authorities said Friday.<br /><br />Ray Dolin of Julian, W. Va., 39, made the acknowledgement Thursday night, said Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier.<br /><br />The case remains under investigation and charges are possible, though none have been filed.<br /><br />Dolin claimed he was hitchhiking along U.S. Highway 2 west of Glasgow on Saturday when the driver of a maroon pickup pulled over and shot him in the arm.<br /></blockquote><br />Note that his name changed from Ray Doland to Ray Dolin. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:36:31 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Vornaskotti</author>
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			<![CDATA[ nelzbub:<br /><br />Yeah, seems so - I dive in the Baltic quite a lot and that "millennium falcon" was reported last summer. If it's a movie viral, it's a pretty damn well done :) ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:03:06 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Anybody read Greek?<br /><br /><a href="http://ekloges.ypes.gr/v2012b/public/index.html#{%22cls%22:%22main%22,%22params%22:{}}" >Assuming I'm reading this right</a>, New Democracy is leading SYRTIZA with 30% to 26%. PASOK is in third place with 13%.<br /><br />Seats: ND 131 Syrtiza 69 PASOK 34<br /><br />New Democracy and PASOK should win 160+ seats for a relatively comfortable Parliamentary majority. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:07:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Finagle</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit - <br /><br />Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I just don't believe that Greece will crash the world economy.  I personally feel that the press and investment analysts together are whipping this up into the equivalent of an Avian flu story.  Greece is 1/2 of 1% or so of the world economy, and their creditors *could* write off that debt and never feel it.  <br /><br />What about the next couple of dominos to fall - Spain, Portugal, Italy?  None of them are in the same league as Greece.  Greece will get abandoned; Spain and Italy and any other more Western democracies will get bailed out by Germany, and that will be the end of it.  It will wind up being a nonstory, aside from a lot of German bitching.  It may lead to a 1% or so drag on the world economy, which will suck and lead to increased malaise, but it isn't going to suddenly crash the world economy. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:06:55 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/us/rodney-king-whose-beating-led-to-la-riots-dead-at-47.html" >Rodney King died</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:02:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Maybe he decided that we couldn't all just get along after all. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:21:34 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.gizmag.com/broad-sky-city-one/22983/" >Chinese  construction company Broad Group say they're going to build the world's tallest building.</a><br /><br />In 1/20th the time it took to build the previous titleholder and at half the cost, thanks to a radical pre-fab system.<br /><br />Sky city One is intended to be, in effect, an arcology, housing 100,000 people. The building is claimed to require only 1/5th the energy of a conventional building the same size due to radical levels of insulation incorporated into the structure. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:15:36 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Hmm. A huge, budget-priced Chinese building, constructed in a fraction of the normal time. Nope, I don't see any problems there. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:18:33 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ It's not the first building constructed using this technique.<br /><br />There's a 15 story hotel constructed using the same technique that's been open for a couple of years and they build a 30-story prototype which withstood a simulated 9.0 earthquake. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:33:15 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/boston-south/Man-charged-in-attack-using-sausage-links-wrench/-/9848842/15139222/-/taja10z/-/index.html?hpt=ju_bn4" >Have you ever been so mad you attacked someone with sausage links?</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:32:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I hope more than I probably should that he used them like nunchuks. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:19:30 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kradlum</author>
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			<![CDATA[ re: World's Tallest Building - " will [...] accommodate approximately 100,000 people, [...] provide them with retail and leisure facilities too. According to CNN the Sky City One will contain 1,000,000 sq m (10,800,000 sq ft) of usable floor space"<br /><br />So, not even allowing for retail and leisure facilities, lobbies, lifts and corridors, that's 10 sq m each. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:34:09 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @DJ Stawes<br /><br />Linguica, when you absolutely, positively, must lacerate everyone in the room with some sausage. Accept no substitutes. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:39:53 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Flabyo</author>
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			<![CDATA[ So, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18514726" >Julian Assange has holed up in the Ecuador Embassy in London claiming political asylum</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.ecuadorembassyuk.org.uk/announcements/statement-on-julian-assange" ><br />Ecuador quite rightly say they're obliged to consider all applications for asylum</a>, but expect this to kick off a political stink anyway.<br /><br />Just when I thought this whole story couldn't get any weirder... ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:35:35 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>D.J.</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/18/us/adidas-shackle-shoes/index.html?hpt=hp_c2" >Adidas cancels 'shackle shoes' after outcry.</a><br /><br />I can't believe there was anyone who thought that would be a good idea. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:39:48 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Argos</author>
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			<![CDATA[ doh ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:56:01 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>RenThing</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @DJ Stawes<br /><br />I can't imagine anyone thought they'd buy them. I mean, those, at least, are some hidesouly fucking <i >ugly</i> shoes. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:40:42 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>johnjones</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Granted that this is a couple years old, but apparently <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1326187/Las-Vegas-tunnel-people-How-1-000-people-live-shimmering-strip.html" >a thousand or so people</a> live in the flood tunnels underneath Las Vegas. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:47:52 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ British scientists appear to be trying to make <a href="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hulk-anymore-scientists-block-excess.html" >28 Days Later</a> a reality.<br /><br />Sure they say they want to cure people with extreme aggression problems but they always say things like that. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:50:39 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/45629/Egypt/Politics-/BREAKING-Mubarak-is-clinically-dead--state-agency.aspx" >Egyptian ex-dictator Hosni Mubarak clinically dead</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>256</author>
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			<![CDATA[ I wouldn't trust any story about that vampire-looking motherfucker being dead until some <em >occult precautions</em> have been taken. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:41:03 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Steve Toase</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18495102" >Turtle mating fossils found. If you're gonna die from poisonous volcanic gasses.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:21:57 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/father-excused-for-killing-childs-attacker-20120620-20ok5.html" >Father beats daughter's molester to death, escapes murder charge.</a> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:57:27 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ Greasemonkey, I have no problem with that result.<br /><br />However, I was amazed by the number of people on other sites saying that even investigating whether the father's story was true was inappropriate.  <br /><br />Seriously, the prosecutor was getting death threats for saying, in effect, "if the facts are as stated, then no offence was committed but a man died so we have to check out his killer's story." ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:58:25 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>lampcommander</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/20/why-a-texas-dad-who-killed-his-daughters-alleged-rapist-wont-face-charges/" >Here's</a> another article that contains a few more details of the case, but also contains lines like <br /><blockquote >One blow probably would have been sufficient to separate the alleged predator from the girl.</blockquote><br /><br />Are you fucking <em >kidding </em> me? ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:27:16 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Greasemonkey</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <em >Greasemonkey, I have no problem with that result.</em><br /><br />I'd have done the same thing under those circumstances, too. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:19:13 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Kosmopolit</author>
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			<![CDATA[ From what I've read, this isn't a vigilante justice "he had it coming" kind of case.<br /><br />The father apparently had no intention of killing the guy, he was just defending his daughter and was quite distraught that he accidentally killed the attacker while doing so.<br /><br />If he had used the "I just snapped" defense, it would probably have gone to trial with the jury returning a verdict of justifiable homicide or temporary insanity in a matter of minutes. ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:38:43 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Wood</author>
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			<![CDATA[ <a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/20/uganda-bans-organisations-promoting-homosexuality?cat=world&type=article" >Uganda bans 38 organisations accused of 'promoting homosexuality'</a><br /><br /><blockquote >Uganda has announced a ban on 38 non-governmental organisations it accuses of undermining the national culture by promoting homosexuality.<br />Simon Lokodo, the country's ethics and integrity minister, claimed the NGOs were receiving support from abroad for Uganda's homosexuals and "recruiting" young children into homosexuality</blockquote> ]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:22:51 -0700</pubDate>
		<author>Oddcult</author>
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			<![CDATA[ @Kosmopolit - He even called an ambulance for the guy. A full investigation is appropriate, definitely. But it seems that in this case he had plenty of reason to attack the guy, but no intent to kill him, so it's a pretty sound judgement call to not charge him. ]]>
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