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      CommentAuthorjohnjones
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    See, the least believable thing in that old story wasn't the throw puppy or the bulldozer. It was the fact that this off-his-meds, in-his-underwear dude managed to escape to his house through hitchhiking.
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    It's Germany where FKK is king. The only eyebrow he would have raised would be he was still wearing pants.
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      CommentAuthorcelan
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    • CommentAuthorRenThing
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    • CommentAuthorroadscum
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
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    @Cat Vincent: Ah...
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      CommentAuthorsneak046
    • CommentTimeJan 14th 2013
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    “Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be identified using linguistics, researchers say. The techniques compare user posts to track them across forums and could even unveil authors of thesis papers or blogs who had taken to underground networks.”

    Linguistics identifies anonymous users - Hackers - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence
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      CommentAuthorsneak046
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    @celan: Hey, I'm all for more waxing if that means crabs will go extinct.
    • CommentAuthor256
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    Four years after a SW:TOR forum mod declared that homosexuality did not exist in the Star Wars Universe, we've now progressed as far as... segregation: BioWare Announces Same-Sex Relationships Will Be In SW:TOR Expansion - But Limited To One Planet.

    Edit: Original dev blog post.
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    A Swedish woman stole a train, and it hit an Apartment Building.
    The kicker? Motive unknown but "We have only heard good things about her"
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      CommentAuthorallana
    • CommentTimeJan 15th 2013
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    Man, I cannot wait until low-income/low-skill workers start flipping out all the time, and exploiting all their casual access to huge machinery.

    That or she just tripped over and elbowed the "go real fast" switch.
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2013
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    'Plaza de Joe Strummer'
    Punk rocker Joe Strummer is to have a city square named after him in Spain following a Facebook campaign.
    More than 2,000 residents of Granada, where The Clash frontman became a frequent visitor, signed a petition calling for him to be honoured.
    City hall officials agreed to the proposals and a square in the area is to be renamed Plaza de Joe Strummer.
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      CommentAuthortaphead
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2013
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    A short film about the Salton Sea:

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      CommentAuthorcurb
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2013
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    This sort of makes me proud to be British, and also reminds me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ...

    A protester who tunnelled under a road building site was allowed out overnight by security staff, only to return underground the following morning.
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    Almost tempted to put this in the around the net thread, but it is a actual news story so here it is...
    Man dies, pooping between cars in NY subway

    Shitty way to die.
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      CommentAuthorVornaskotti
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2013 edited
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    As someone who rarely just shuts the fuck up, this is a pretty good article about this facet of Finnish culture. Also, someone said that translating "olla omissa oloissaan" to English is quite hard. And expression of being alone and with ones' thoughts, but in a positive and peaceful way.

    '“It is difficult to explain concepts such as 'positive' and 'active' silence to foreigners,” muses Michael Berry.'


    Finnish silence can be golden, says American expert
    • CommentAuthorWood
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2013
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    Westboro Baptist Is Officially Terrified Of Anonymous

    Westboro has never backed down from anything to our knowledge, but they recently pulled out of their planned picket of Reddit co-founder and Internet activist Aaron Swartz’s funeral. Why? Because Anonymous apparently threatened them, and after causing them all sorts of “financial difficulties,” WBC apparently listened.

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