Hilarious STAR WARS Parody Starring Ron Paul & Neocons

I realize that the portrayal of Bush & Co. will be unnerving for his dedicated followers, but quite frankly there's not enough time to convert them anyways.

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Federal Judge Ruling: George W. Bush is a Felon

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court in California has ruled that President George W. Bush is a felon. The ruling stems from the case of Al-Harmain Islamic Foundation Inc. v Bush, a case which will now be remembered as making it official that Bush's program of 'warrantless spying' is illegal.

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400 Year-Old Volume of Shakespeare Recovered From Thief

Police have recovered a 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and worth millions of dollars (pounds) after a man walked into a library in Washington, D.C. and asked to have it authenticated.

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New Andy Griffith Show Group: News from Mayberry

Andy, Opie and Aunt Bea welcome you to this new/rerun. This starts the officially unooficial group of people who appreciate great humor. Fans of the show and fans of great comedy are equally welcome.

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27 Mac OS X Tools For Blogging / Website Creation / Dev

The top free and paid OS X software for website creation, blogging apps, FTP, MySQL management, SSH, etc! Great list of some of the best apps for working on your website.

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Federal Judge Ruling: George W. Bush is a Felon

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court in California has ruled that President George W. Bush is a felon.

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The House of Bluetooth Wax Horrors

I have a friend (Charlie) that works in an electronics retail store in California. One of his latest observations at work left me somewhat... shall we say... disturbed.

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Dumb Move

Iran state media said nine missiles were tested in total, including a new Shahab-3, with a range of 2,000km (1,240 miles).

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Ronny Turiaf Agrees to Deal with Golden State Warriors

Sad day for Lakers fans that love Ronny Turiaf. It looks like the Lakers energy man Ronny Turiaf has received and accepted a rather generous offer from the Golden State Warriors. Reportedly the Warriors have offered Turiaf $17 million over four years.

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Minister Disguised as Bum is Shunned in Own Church

A minister posed as a tramp and gatecrashed his own service to teach churchgoers about "acceptance". The Reverend Derek Rigby donned a wig and some torn clothes and surrounded himself with lager cans and syringes in the church doorway on Sunday morning.Most of the congregation ignored him.

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Constitutional expert Turley on FISA bill: 'The fix is in'

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow expressed amazement at the sweeping victory that is being handed to President Bush on FISA. "I'm betting that his wildest dreams did not include the prospect that Congress -- a Democratic-led Congress -- would help him cover up his crimes," she stated. "That is exactly what the US Senate is poised to do."

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EcoURLs: Saving the Environment With Social News

Every story at EcoURLs is linked to other social news sites, so you can digg, reddit, stumble, and bookmark at delicious all from one place in a matter of seconds. Thus, if you like the content, you can help promote it at all of these places, and ensure that it gets the traffic it deserves.

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How the 7 Deadly Sins Could Lead the US into a Depression

There are some undeniable facts and historical trends that seriously indicate the economy is in much worse shape than most “experts” would have anyone believe. On top of that, throw in a dose of religious mythology and doom-saying, and we have the makings of how the seven deadly sins could lead the United States into a Depression, not Recession.

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Sorry FOX, we won't let you trash Michelle Obama!

FOX must stop injecting racism, prejudice, and fear into our political dialogue. We intend to hold FOX, its advertisers, and its personalities accountable for FOX's attempts to smear the Obamas.

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Digg Dies Today

the lack of transparency and tepid response to digg's algorithm problems has led to a full fledged REVOLT!!!

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User Charged With Felony For Using Fake Name On MySpace

Recently a user, Lori Drew, was charged with a felony for the heinous crime of pretending to be someone else on the Internet. Using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Lori was charged for signing up for MySpace using a fake name.

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WTF digg???

Proof that digg isn't as democratic as it claims to be.

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TechCrunch acknowledges that Digg is Broken

But tonight some Digg users noticed something a little strange. This story had 936 votes 16.5 hours after it was originally submitted. That’s way beyond what’s normal needed to get on the home page. The next most popular upcoming story in its category had just 178 votes.

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An Open Letter to Kevin Rose [Digg is Broken]

Nearly 1,200 Diggs in less than 24 hours without making the front page. Is Digg censoring stories based on content or is the algorithm broken. Angry Digg users demand answers.

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10+ great free Photoshop brush websites

The following is some great free photoshop brush websites, enjoy them and create your masterpiece. If you know more please don’t hesitate to let me know.

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Guerrilla Art Versus Guerrilla Advertising

Today, the urban environment includes not only separate instances of art and advertisements, but advertisements that look suspiciously like art. Guerrilla advertisements that use the familiar rough-edged look of graffiti - and others that use actual graffiti - are found now in cities around the world.

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Working hard when you're exhausted increases blood pressure

Researchers from the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) have released their findings in the July issue of the International Journal of Psychophysiology. Researchers found that working hard when exhausted increases blood pressure which increases the chance of a heart attack, stroke or kidney damage. American's hours worked now exceed Japan's.

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Ipod Vigilantes

What do Joe Horn, The Second Amendment and the Texas Castle Law all have in common? The answer is that they have all come together in a bizarre set of circumstances to give Mr Horn a pass for shooting two people in the back who he thought were burglarizing his neighbors home. Both would be burglars were killed.

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Online Movement to Punish Democrats Who Support Wiretap Bill

Online activists from the right and the left announced an unprecedented campaign Tuesday to hold democratic lawmakers accountable for caving to the Bush administration on domestic spying. A group of high-profile progressive bloggers and libertarian Republicans are rolling out a new political action committee called Accountability Now.

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Mccain complains about July 4 recess after missing 367 votes

McCain took Congress to task for taking a July 4 recess without completing action on a housing rescue plan, calling it "incredible that Congress should go on vacation while Americans are trying to stay in their homes."

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The Constitution Dies Tomorrow

Over 200 years ago, we enshrined the rule of law as the only monarch in America. Tomorrow, the Senate will likely vote to shred that precedent. Democrats, "compromising" with Republicans, will act together, in a bipartisan fashion, to destroy your right to be free from search without a warrant.

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Group seeks Bush sewage 'tribute'

Naming a sewage treatment after President Bush is a fitting tribute, it's job is to clean up a mess and that's what we will be doing once he is no longer in office.

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High-Resolution AT&T National 3G Coverage Map

High-Resolution AT&T National 3G Coverage Map

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3/4 of Americans Say We Are In a Recession

In a telephone poll of over 1,000 adult Americans, 75 percent said they believe the nation is now in a recession. That figure was 79 percent in April and 74 percent in March. The sampling error for each poll was plus or minus 3 percentage points, meaning the results are statistically unchanged.

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World's Best Street Food

Street cooks are magicians: With little more than a cart and a griddle, mortar, or deep-fryer, they conjure up not just a delicious snack or meal but the very essence of a place.

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How to Level the Playing-field With Digg

If you haven’t noticed already, Digg is the most deeply gamed social media service on the planet.

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Growing Crops on Mars: Can Science Solve Our Food Crisis?

Over and over in the past 100 years, science has pulled the world back from the brink of starvation. From traditional plant breeding, to genetic modification, to cloning, to projects to put crops on Mars, there is no shortage of scientific advances being made that will one day help boost food production and feed a growing world.

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California Water Contain High Levels of Carcinogenic Bromate

Two of the reservoirs supplying the city of Los Angeles with potable water were shut down when an independent laboratory test revealed them to be contaminated with high levels of the carcinogen bromate.

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Mexico plants 8 million trees in latest green project

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexicans went out and planted more than 8 million trees across the country on Saturday as part of a government push to shed its reputation for environmental mismanagement and rampant illegal logging. Packs of volunteers,...

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Why Force A Bury? (pic)

Why do people attempt to strong-arm others into burying another submit? If you do not like something, move on to another. If you question the accuracy, say something in the comments or mention to the publisher. Is there any reason for a person to shout to over 80 people telling them to bury? Shame on you, dude! (enlarge photo to see details)

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‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent

Half of the people who use BitTorrent do so to download TV-shows. Some episodes of popular shows such as ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’ get up to 10 million downloads. We had a chat with Jesse Alexander, the co-producer of both ‘Heroes’ and ‘Lost’, and asked him what his thoughts are on BitTorrent, piracy and the future of TV.

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642 helpful links for webdesigners

This should keep you busy for a little while.....

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Five Legendary Gems and Their Cursed Histories

From the moment the first gem crystal was discovered glinting in a riverbed, or a pearl was scooped out of an oyster intended for dinner, precious gems have been the object of man’s (and woman’s) desire and myth. The Romans thought diamonds repelled poison, while the medieval English thought them poisonous. Amethysts were believed to ward off ...

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Digg Source Code Leaked!

A recent error I received has leaked the Digg source code!

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15 amazing portfolios of Photoshop Gurus

Recently i became a member of Behance, and i really love it. Behance is the best website available for creative professionals, and no matter if you are a photoshop master or a visionary photographer, you’ll find wonderful new works everyday to inspire you or cool articles and interviews to read.

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Argentine Glacier Breaks in Winter for the First Time Ever

The Perito Moreno is one in a group of 48 glaciers located in the Andes, near the limits between Santa Cruz province and the Chilean frontier. Its break is a periodic event caused by the glacier's advance on the lake where it's located, and so far it had only happened during the summer, when the ice is weaker.

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Putin on the Ritz

See these two goofball politicians doing what they do best

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Bu$hCo. Big Oil ANWR Lies 70 Million of 90 NOT BEING TAPPED!

FTFA: "Of the 90 million offshore acres the industry has leases to, mostly in the Gulf of Mexico, it is estimated that upwards of 70 million are not producing oil, according to oil-industry sources."..."Lifting the ANWR bans would do little to ease the nation's energy crisis in part because it would take years to produce meaningful amounts of oil."

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President BUSH PARDON's HIMSELF against POTENTIAL WARCRIMES

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Hide your face without anyone noticing !

Learn how you can create a stealth way to hide your face from any camera !

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Breakthrough: Fake DNA Could Power Faster Computers

Chemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts. The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say.

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I Can Promise, This Will Never Get Done [Pic]

This image is photo-shopped but still pretty funny.

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8 Postmodern Appearances of the Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa has taken to the streets, appearing in urban graffiti murals around the world. Following are a few examples of Mona appearing in various works of graffiti artists.

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What Scientology Paid $8 Million To Hide

With an hour to spare, Hubbard’s minions settle a debt they vowed never to pay

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FCC Chair Martin Misleads Consumers About DTV Transition

Video providers should not be permitted to use the DTV transition to scare consumers into purchasing their services. By agreeing to appear in this PSA, Chairman Martin has encouraged this kind of opportunism. Even worse, he picked a single provider of video services to champion -- wholly inappropriate for a government agency.



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2008 Triggerstreet Short Film Festival Judges Announced

Jeff Goldblum, Roger Waters, Sam Mendes, Robin Williams, Dave Stewart, Rufus Wainwright all help to make up the panel of illustrious judges for the TriggerStreet.com online Film Festival

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The World's Poor Starve As Prices Soar

The World Bank has estimated that higher food and fuel prices are a daily struggle for more than 2 billion people and threaten to push some 100 million people into poverty.

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Uncovered story: John McCain's gambling addiction

Last week was a relatively slow news week, which makes it all the more puzzling that this bombshell of a story wasn't covered more by either the television pundits... Relevant because it should give Christian Fundies serious pause about John "McCraps" and revealing because it illustrates what sort of personal attributes John "McCraps" has.

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First Look: Digg’s Recommendation Engine

Digg’s long awaited recommendation engine is now live for some users, which luckily includes me. It’s time to take a look at what this new feature brings to the individual user as well as Digg community as a whole.

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Explore a Vast Scale Model of Ancient Rome

Large gallery of the key sights on Jacques Plassard's spectacular scratch-built model of Imperial Rome.

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Tired Of Traffic Jams? Get ready to abandon your car

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The Blind Officer Still Serving the U.S Special Forces [PICS

Capt. Ivan Castro, who lost his eyesight from a combat injury in Iraq, is the only blind officer in U.S. Special Forces. In September 2006, Castro came under mortar fire in Youssifiyah, Iraq,. Shrapnel ripped through his body, breaking his arm and shoulder and causing severe injury to the right side of his face. He now wears a prosthetic right eye.

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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views

President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote.

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CNN Poll: Founding Fathers Would Not Be Pleased

According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be disappointed by the way the nation has turned out overall.

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Rove Refuses To Testify On U.S. Attorney Scandal

Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee received a letter from Karl Rove's attorney Robert Luskin, stating that his client refuses to testify... the Subcommittee will convene as scheduled and expects Mr. Rove to appear, and that a refusal to appear in violation of the subpoena could subject Mr. Rove to contempt proceedings

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Greenest Island Runs Completely on Renewable Energy . . .

The Danish isle of Samsø, over the past 10 years, has gone from exclusively using fossil fuel energy sources, to living exclusively off renewable energy. Using a combination of onshore & offshore turbines, private mini-turbines, solar panels, straw-burning furnaces & biofuels, the 4,300-resident island has become a sort of a sandbox for green . . .

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The Gutting of the Fourth Amendment

Early next week the U.S. Senate will vote on an extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with a few small amendments intended to immunize telecommunications corporations that assisted our government in the warrantless and illegal wiretapping it has grown to love.

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Government and the Mentally ILL

If a nine and six year old can understand ways to help individuals, why is it so hard for the government to grasp it.

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Big brother is watching you and his name is AT&T

Sometimes he goes by the name of BellSouth and at other times he is known as AOL-Time-Warner. Big brother goes by a lot of names. He is listening to you while you talk and watching you while you type. Everything you say could be recorded so he can look at it somewhere down the line.

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The 10 Worst Prisons In The World

Certain prisons, both old and new, are notorious for violence and some easily out perform others in the horror stories stakes. The 10 worst prisons in the world are listed below. Read ‘em and weep!

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Gen. Wesley Clark is Right, Media (predictably) Misses Point

Clark is right. The media has, by its own admission, given McCain a pass on national security issues. As Clark and Obama consistently say (and I certainly agree), McCain's service is worthy of respect. But there is a difference between being respectful and being sycophantic. The media has chosen the latter route with McCain.

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Currency Intervention Won’t Halt the U.S. Dollar’s Nosedive

In fact, the United States holds just about 1% of the world’s $7.6 trillion of foreign currency reserves, and our total position amounts to just 2.5% of the total daily volume of foreign exchange trading. Here’s the bottom line: If the U.S. dollar is going to fall, the U.S. Treasury is completely powerless to do anything to stop it.

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Study: Americans Are the World's Top Drug Users

Americans are the world's top consumers of cannabis and cocaine despite punitive US drug laws, according to an international study published in the online scientific magazine PLoS Medicine. The study, released Monday, revealed that 16.2 percent of Americans had tried cocaine at least once, and 42.4 percent had used marijuana.

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The Deepest Diving Pool in the World [PICS and VIDEO]

Nemo 33, a recreational scuba diving center in Uccle, Belgium is home to the deepest diving pool in the world.

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Karl Rove gets simple facts wrong in his WSJ column

In his Wall Street Journal column today, former Bush political guru and current informal McCain adviser Karl Rove criticizes Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for using “his money advantage to launch the air war,” claiming that this “may not be as smart as it appears”

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American Airlines To Axe 7,000 More Jobs As Industry Reels

American Airlines expects to cut nearly 7,000 employees by the end of the year, or about 8 percent of its worldwide work force, as it reduces flights and grounds aircraft because of high fuel prices, the airline told employees Wednesday.

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Financial Crisis: Something Big is Going On

There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than the world has ever experienced. Instead of using globalism in a positive fashion, it’s been used to globalize all of the mistakes of the politicians, bureaucrats and central bankers.

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Civil liberties Groups Sue for info on Cell Phone lojacking

We expect our cell phones to do a lot these days: make calls, check e-mail, take photographs, play music, let the government track your every move. But civil liberties groups have a few questions about that last feature, and have filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Department of Justice to respond to a Freedom of Information Act Request.

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The Tiger Temple In Thailand

The tigers are tamed by being fed with cooked meat to avoid giving them a taste for blood. The staff keep the tigers under control and the abbot will intervene if the tiger gets agitated. They are treated as family members in the temple and visitors are asked to give a donation if they want to take photos with the tigers.

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Bruce Lee’s 6 Ways to Develop a Kick-Ass Attitude

Have you pondered lately about your own worth? Your own contentment for who you are?Have you felt that your life’s on a roller coaster with the booze of emotions? Have started some days on the mountains of ecstasy only to feel fallen down in the valley of self-pity? You are not alone.

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Contest it! Oceans, the Environment and You

Oceans cover about 71 percent of the Earth's surface, and contain some of the most extraordinary, complex ecosystems on the planet. But what is happening to our oceans, and what can we do to protect them? Take this quiz to find out.

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Patriotic Oil Guys [pic]

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Fix A Computer, Go To Jail

An obscure, ambiguous new Texas law is putting computer professionals at risk for fines or even jail time.

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BBC: Development Of The 'Tower 7' Conspiracy Theory

It wasn't only the Twin Towers that collapsed on September 11. A third World Trade Center tower that wasn't hit by the planes also fell. As a report into Tower 7 prepares to publish its findings, Mike Rudin considers how this conspiracy theory got to be so big. 9/11 is the conspiracy theory of the internet age.

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The World's Longevity Secrets

Certain cultures and enclaves of people tend to live longer than others. Follow their lead and you might, too

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HyperSpace Polytope Slicer

The applet provides a way of visualizing and manipulating the 6 regular convex polytopes and several non-regular convex polytopes that exist in 4-dimensional space. You can use it to create some strikingly beautiful continuously-morphing 3-dimensional kaleidoscopic effects.

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What do 10,000 fireworks look like from up close?

What would it be like to stand right next to a team of pyrotechnicians as they blow up a gigantic hoard of high explosives? See what it feels like to burn $400,000 in 45 minutes in this spectacular July 4th celebration, performed one day early by one of the most renowned fireworks display organizations in the country.

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Top 10 Disappearing Natural Wonders

From mountaintops to sea-floors, the world’s spectacular natural wonders are disappearing. Top threats include global climate change, deforestation, invasive species, and population growth. These following ten represent some of the most ecologically sensitive areas.

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World's First Air-Powered Car: Zero Emissions by Next Summer

India’s largest automaker is set to start producing the world’s first commercial air-powered vehicle. The Air Car, developed by ex-Formula One engineer Guy Nègre for Luxembourg-based MDI, uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine’s pistons. Some 6000 zero-emissions.

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The true colors of classical Greek antiquity

Colored statues? To us, classical antiquity means white marble. Not so to the Greeks, who thought of their gods in living color and portrayed them that way too. The temples that housed them were in color, also, like mighty stage sets. And for centuries people who should have known better pretended that color scarcely mattered.

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At $100 for Tank of Gas, Some Choke on ‘Fill It’

Owners of large vehicles have hit an uncomfortable price milestone and are cutting back on recreational driving.

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Bush Justice Department sued for partisan hiring

The inspector general at the Justice Department has charged that rank partisan criteria tainted the hiring process for the attorney general's honors program and its summer internship program.

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The White House Spin on Knowledge of Bush Donor's Oil Deal

Yesterday, the House Oversight Committee released documents revealing that the Bush administration knew in advance that a major Bush donor’s oil company, Hunt Oil, was trying to sign a contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to develop oil fields in the Kurdish region of Iraq in 2007. At the time, the State Department claimed it had..

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Australia’s First Carbon Neutral Solar Powered Resort

Hidden Valley Cabins is Australia’s first carbon neutral resort and tour company. This is Australia’s first stand-alone resort that operates solely on solar power, and saves 78 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year!

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Bush Lowers Expectations For His Final G-8 Summit

President Bush heads to Japan on Saturday for his final G-8 summit of world leaders as the global economy slumps, energy prices soar and food shortages loom in the developing world.

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The Revolution begins July 12th, Washinginton, BE THERE!!!

Freedom!

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Bill threatens to end funding for SETI@home

S. 2862 will cut funding for the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and result in the end of SETI. (Satellite from Goldeneye.)

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The GOP just can't give enough to Big Oil

With $4-a-gallon gas and the prospect of continuing price rises to $5 and above before the end of the summer, politicians are having a tougher job duping us into supporting more financial giveaways to the oil companies. Amazingly, though, Republicans still keep trying.

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Just What Does Patriotism Mean in America?

Americans often debate the idea of patriotism. Political scientist Neil Diamant at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania says this is because there is no clear agreement on what it means.

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Paul: I hear members saying "If only we could nuke Iran"

Congressman Ron Paul has warned millions of radio listeners that the US is heading into a deadly confrontation with Iran, revealing his disbelief at members of Congress who have openly voiced support for a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the country.

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