You are making this up
Tornadoes have touched down in New Zealand, and journalistic standards have vanished into thin air, not surprising with the current standard of NZ news output.
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Can I raise a practical question at this point? Are we gonna do “Stonehenge” tomorrow?
White Stripes play Toronto YMCA The duo of Meg and Jack White snuck in through the back entrance of an auditorium at a downtown YMCA in Toronto at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday for the latest in a cross-country barrage of small secret shows as part of their Canadian tour. During the short set, Jack pulled four of the children up to the makeshift stage to sing and show off the masks the campers had been creating before the arrival of the rock stars. In recent weeks the band has played on a bus in Winnipeg, at a bowling alley in Saskatoon and in a youth centre in Edmonton.
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Ten Evolutionarily Obvious Truths About Human Nature
Women won’t sleep with random attractive strangers? Damn.
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This American Life Parody
Kasper Hauser’s parody of this American Life :Episode 1 – Going Postal . Episode 2 – Phantom High School .
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“That is the most aquatic ice cream I’ve ever had in my life.”
Kevin Cooney visits Namjatown’s Ice Cream City, where he treats himself to such frozen delights as octopus, squid, shark fin ramen, curry and snake flavored ice cream.
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Watch Boeing launch the 787 live
Boeing launches its new plane, the 787, this weekend: 07/08/07. Check it out now or watch it live on Sunday.
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I was privy to something down and dirty.
Most people avoid outhouses, these people actively seek them out, and dig as far down into them as possible.
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Figurines of Fun
Barnaby Barford cuts up china figurines and rearranges them in amusing ways. Shary Boyle‘s art is similar, but darker.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
7/7/7 marks the 100th birthday of Grandmaster Robert Anson Heinlein, born July 7th 1907. Long live Lazarus Long!
While any attempt at a tribute would but naturally turn into a passionate link infested paean to this visionary genius, one of the Big 3, along with Asimov and Clarke, one must honour his contribution with a pointer to the Heinlein Concordance, a portal of his stories, characters, concepts and timelines.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert A. Heinlein 1907 – 1988
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Airbag to the nuts
In case you were wondering, it’s probably a bad idea to sit on an airbag and set it off.
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happy birthday to you happy birthday to…..the Russian Ak-47
Ahh that symbol of the Russian endurance and the instrument of forcing peace (or certain radical beliefs) on everyone� Yes it was 60 years ago that a Russian peasant would create a weapon that would be tough, easy to use and easy to make. If the weapon tickles your fancy, then you can buy it here for about $880�
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Cow shit kills farming family
From the Associated Press:
Exposure to methane gas led to the deaths of four family members and a farmhand, but whether they suffocated from the fumes or drowned in 18 inches of liquefied cow manure may never be known, authorities said.
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Geek Squad jerk caught swiping porn from customer’s computer
Found a hella funny article over at the Consumerist:
The Consumerist’s 3-month sting operation snared a Geek Squad technician stealing porn from our hard drive, and we’ve got the work-safe video and logfiles to prove it.
To investigate claims by current and former Geek Squad techies (see “The 10 Page Geek Squad Confession – “Stealing Customers’ Nudie Pics Was An Easter Egg Hunt“), we loaded a computer with porn and rigged it to make a video of itself. We captured every cursor movement, every program opened, every file accessed. Everything that the user saw and did, we recorded.
Link, includes video and logfiles, and see also Why We’re Not Telling Geek Squad CEO Which Agent Stole The Porn. The takeaway: this could happen with any tech support service, not just Geek Squad (though Consumerist alleges this is a systemic problem there — not just one rogue dude). If you’ve got stuff you don’t want strangers to see (or copy or steal), encryption is your friend. By the time your PC needs repair, it will be too late to lock down. Plan ahead, grasshopper!
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It was 50 years ago today… Sgt Pepper taught a band to play
Birth of the Beatles On July 6, 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing. John Lennon was impressed that Paul McCartney could tune a guitar and his knowledge of rock & roll lyrics.
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They’re gonna get in.
Defend your server from viruses with, for some reason, flamethrowers and machine guns. Happy Friday!
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The World Just Lost Another Hulkamaniac…
Hulk Rules! Hulk Hogan’s memorable 1995 album examined, with audio samples. Not to be missed: Hulkster in Heaven (YouTube), Hogan’s soulful tribute to a young fan who died of cancer ("I used to tear my shirt/ but now you’ve torn my heart/ I knew you were a Hulkamaniac/ right from the very start…") featuring the most ambitious gospel choir ever to back a professional wrestler. Further appreciation and lyrics. Musical talent must run in the family…
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Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow, from Style.org. Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
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Tim Hortons’ prices rise
From CBC News. Tim Hortons fans will be paying more for their daily double-doubles and doughnuts as of next Monday, when the company boosts its prices in Atlantic Canada, Ontario and Manitoba.
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Judge, Judy, and Executioner.
In this ten-minute segment, legal harridan Judge Judy Sheindlin tears an internet scammer a new one, questioning her ethics, morality, parenting skills, and intelligence.
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Bacon Dispenser
I’m glad somebody took the time to add words to these mystifying instructions.
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How to escape a fart
Leave it to the Japanese. A in depth video on how to evade a fart. The end is hilarious!
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