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China's Thought Police and the Olympic Games
When China won the Olympic games, one of the things it agreed to do was a bit unusual -- it promised not to censor media reporting on anything related to the games, and to allow uncensored Internet access within the Olympic village before and during the...

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The Encyclopedia Baracktannica
I'm having trouble getting this one working. If it doesn't show, just follow this link .

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Diebold Accidentally Leaks 2008 Election Results
The Onion has gone video. Very funny stuff. Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

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One of the best speeches I've ever heard
Amazing.

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Jack Nicholson's Hillary Ad
I got a kick out of this just as a movie fan.

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!
Strange fascination, fascinating me!

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Then and Now
Question: What does the very first issue of Consumer Reports, issued in 1936, have in common with the current issue, 71 years later? Answer: Both issues warned of the dangers of lead in paint. Kind of a sad statement about the irrelevence of consumer...

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Carlin says fire victims deserved it
Link includes video: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20153859,00.html "People are selfish," he said. "These people with the fires and the floods and everything, they overbuild and they put nature to the test, and they get what's...

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Cobert (ColBERT?) on Meet the Press
Hillarious. Part two may be found by clicking here .

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New York Times Ends Online Subscription Fee
Effective midnight last night, the TimesSelect subscription thing ended, opening up the archive and all the secured content. The reasons why were kinda interesting -- they were making $10 million/year (!), but apparently advertising has a brighter future...

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What do Chinese toy factory supervisors say to motivate their workers?
"GET THE LEAD OUT!!!!!"

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Gas Tax Hike? Think Again!
Makes sense, right? Bridges collapse, people die, surely we need to raise money to pay for this? Holy cow, we'd better raise taxes! Well sure enough, Democrats in congress are already calling for a 5-cent/gallon tax hike on gasoline. But wait. We...

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Remaining Vigilant to Scientific Truth
A DailyTech blog entry has been making the news & blogosphere rounds this week in which the author discusses a potential Y2K bug that has reportedly been found in NASA's data regarding global temperatures. The study is (or so it says here) the...

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Democrats finally pass a law! Er wait, it does WHAT?!
Gotta love the political irony in this, especially coming just days after the Pakistan statement from Barrage Obomba. Just two years ago Democrats were OUTRAGED about warrantless wiretapping of American civilians placing overseas telephone calls to suspect...

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Penn & Teller Build an Immigration Fence
Funny stuff. Penn & Teller had a small group of illegal immigrants build a fence to the same exact dimensions of the fence that's now being built along the border. When they were finished they challenged the immigrants to see if they could defeat...

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