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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is an awesome video made by a professor at Bucknell University that uses Disney clips to explain copyright law (demonstrating fair use in the process!). Very funny, too.
Everyone knows heat cannot melt steel! When will the government wake up about events like 4/29 and 9/11?! And just take a look at this further evidence: WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!! http://429truth.org/
A Florida deputy is patrolling an area around a hospital when he spots a woman doing 65 in a 35. He pulls her over, but finds her behavior suspicious and doubts her story. While he's writing the ticket she suddenly speeds away. He chases her down...
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