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victorian. slapping. http://nigoro.jp/game/rosecamellia/rosecamellia.php

(from dec 07, but new to me) Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even...

"Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality," Changizi said. http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/080602-foresee-future.html

It was over in an instant, but the man who stood before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989 has stamped his image on the global memory. http://news.sbs.com.au/worldnewsaustralia/the_man_who_defied_the_tank_548449 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man watch frontline online...

Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic, ever-changing geometries as scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory excitedly describe their discoveries. http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2007/mag_mov/1/#

yup. horror. frog. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13991?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=specrt14_head_Horror%20frog

yup. pictures. of. swiss. bunkers. http://www.polarinertia.com/july06/bunker01.htm

The White House declined comment. http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/idUSN28362930

Arresting John Bolton Posted May 27, 2008 The Charge Sheet On Wednesday 28th May 2008, I will attempt a citizen’s arrest of John Robert Bolton, former Under-Secretary of State, US State Department, for the crime of aggression, as established by customary international law and described by...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Saskatchewan (AP) - A French skydiver's hope to set a new free-fall record might have come to an end on Tuesday when his ride to the sky left without him. The helium balloon Michel Fournier, a former army paratrooper, was going to use to soar to the stratosphere detached from...

It's World Vegetarian Week and here's a few reasons to kick the meat habit. http://www.alternet.org/environment/85828/?page=entire

Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live. There has to be something wrong with this equation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

“I can’t believe how I simply asked some questions and the way you’re attacked….has our country really become that - that you’re not even allowed to publicly question the government,” added the former Governor, who labeled the response to his comments “eye opening”...

Such showdowns between lawmakers and oil titans have become a familiar routine on Capitol Hill. But with gas prices nearing $4 a gallon, and lawmakers headed home for a weeklong Memorial Day recess where they expect to get an earful from angry constituents, there is added urgency for Congress to...

Buried in a Department of Justice report released Tuesday are new allegations about a 2002 arrangement between the United States and China, which allowed Chinese intelligence to visit Guantanamo and interrogate Chinese Uighurs held there. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4894921&page=1

"That is offensive language, but I mean it with all of my heart. I would like you to know that I have spent five months working on this article. I am not blowing off steam or throwing a tantrum. I am of the opinion that both sides of the 9/11 debate are full of shit, and here is why:"...

looks like something out of a neal stephenson novel. http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all

dickcopter!

The luncheon was held in December 2006, a month after Rumsfeld resigned as defense secretary. The clips Gillis provides include one in which the media analysts suggest, with Rumsfeld's agreement, that Iraq needs an authoritarian dictator. In another, Rumsfeld suggests that the American public...

Sgt. Matthis Chiroux, a 24-year-old who spent nearly five years serving in the U.S. Army, publicly refused his orders to deploy to Iraq today. Chiroux made the statement in the rotunda of the Cannon Building of the House of Representatives, just minutes after 8 members of the Iraq Veterans...

Senate Moves Forward on Orwellian “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act” (vrahtpa?) By targeting the Internet, House and Senate thought police claim that "the Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown...

50 Million Minds Diverted, Distracted, Devoured The technology that was supposed to make young adults more astute, diversify their tastes, and improve their minds had the opposite effect. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/dumbestgeneration/

have you seen these shows?: Beverly Hills 90210 Family Ties Hawaii Five-0 Jericho The Love Boat MacGyver Melrose Place Perry Mason Star Trek: The Original Series The Twilight Zone Twin Peaks http://www.cbs.com/classics/

The average household throws food worth 420 pounds each year into the waste bin, rising to 610 pounds for those with children, said the study by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap). http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080508185621.fb31km8r&show_article=1 we haven't had a...

only for canada and the us. (sorry :shy: ) http://spaceweather.com/flybys/

As Fuel Prices Rise, Some Speedometer Needles Fall They've typically done six or seven miles above the speed limit during the annual migration, but with gasoline prices roaring toward $4 a gallon nationally, Joann suggested they ease off the pedal during the 1,500-mile drive this year...

warning: graphic http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/smalloy/atomic_tragedy/photos.html strikingly different from official u.s. photos of what was initially described as a 'military target'

May 6, 1937: a ball of fire und alles ist kaput The word airship elicits a fixed reaction in almost everyone who hears it: “what about the Hindenburg?”. It’s as if, every time someone proposed travelling on a cruise ship, you were to ask, “but what about the Titanic?”...

Officials from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, touted plans for a $22 billion development known as the Masdar Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, US, in on 5 May...

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is man evil or good?

“Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America,” Bob McEllrath, the union’s president, said in a statement. “We’re supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it’s time to end the war in Iraq.”...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann this platypus is table.

a failed hotel resort development in the sinai peninsula http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/hotels-in-afterlife.html

do you think you have a badass christopher walken impersonation? yes? then this is your chance to prove it. . . . . to yourself. post lines to read out loud, and read them. out loud. to yourself. here's an example. my uncle. . .'s crazy. you're not listening. he's this. . svengali . ...

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's discoveries of what may be two of the world's three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere's reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said...

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"get over it" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040290.shtml

i loved this comedy show. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_in_the_Hall here is a never-before-seen skit: (at least i've never seen it) http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/41f325e282 post your favorite skit here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMYIY808XbQ

you never know when this will help you solve the latest nefarious plan of the riddler.:batman: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/ raga man

cry havoc! "This agency brought forth the Saturn 5 rocket, surveillance satellites, the Internet, stealth technology, guided munitions, unmanned aerial vehicles, night vision and the body armor that's in use today," Cheney told 1,700 DARPA workers and friends who gathered at a Washington hotel...

former us president jimmy carter met with syrian and hamas officials, setting off a bit of a pundit storm. 15 april 18 april us news & world report op-ed 19 april xinua google news peacemaking elder statesman? terrorism-legitimizing traitor? do tell. . .

should the sovereign nations of canada, mexico, and the u.s.a. unify as one nation? please explain and discuss your viewpoint. i'll be over here. . . polishing my hat

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 300,000 U.S. troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, but about half receive no care, an independent study said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1728241320080417 2 of my...

sark There are two main reasons, or three really, for the Reform (Sark) Law 2008. Firstly, more than 30 years ago Sark signed up to the European convention on human rights. It seemed a good idea until islanders realised that feudalism did not sit well with human rights. . ...

Carbon dating of the trees carried out at a laboratory in Miami, Florida, showed the oldest of them first set root about 8,000 years ago, making it the world's oldest known living tree, Umea University Professor Leif Kullman said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24065386/

The Church will do everything possible in screening candidates for the priesthood, he said, "so that only really sound persons can be admitted." http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL1558195

"I'll tell you what they're all going to face — whichever one of them becomes president on Jan. 21 of 2009 — they will face a military force, a United States military force, that cannot sustain, continue to sustain, 140,000 people deployed in Iraq, and the 20 (to) 25,000 people we have deployed...

"It smelled good," Harris said. "They told me that's wrong." http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=89333

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