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More Important Than Sleep

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:21:05 GMT

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Clip Source: imgs.xkcd.com

Pranksters Upset to See Their Hard Work Turned into a Penis

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:21:12 GMT

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Clip Source: lohud.com

The Nyack High School students who plotted the annual senior prank this week wound up getting pranked themselves.

Their initial plan was simple enough: Seniors would go into the high school late at night, remove nearly all the classroom desks and chairs, and line them up in the shape of a giant "2008" on the field behind the school.

But it seems another group came out to the field afterward and rearranged the desks in the shape of a penis, leaving the image that way for everyone to find yesterday morning.

"Personally, it was upsetting to see all our hard work turn into a huge penis," Cummings said, though she conceded she was proud her class was able to cause a little chaos for the day.

In a public letter, Principal Daniel Nicholson said he gave seniors permission to arrange the desks in the "2008" shape. Local police were clued in ahead of time.

$30,000 Card Table Hits the Market

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:20:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.engadget.com

Every so often, a completely unnecessary gizmo hits the scenes that hardly anyone will be able to afford, yet nearly everyone could imagine having as their own. Feast your eyes on one such device: the X10 Ten Player Automated Table from Play Hard Gaming. This masterpiece seats ten (presumably wealthy) players and features a central 27-inch LCD alongside ten 12.1-inch touch panels. The computerized dealer dishes out the cards, and individuals play along by simply tapping their dedicated touchscreen. Both Texas Hold'em and Blackjack are loaded on, and you'll even get free game upgrades for life when you commit to taking one home. Now, if only $29,950 were easier to come by.

Focus on the Family Wants Porn Out of Hotels

Fri, 16 May 2008 23:30:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Focus on your own damn family.

Clip Source: www.gazette.com

Focus on the Family and four other conservative Christian organizations are meeting today with Marriott International executives in Washington, D.C., to persuade them to remove in-room adult movies from their hotels.

"Pornography feeds prostitution and sexual abuse," Minnery said. "And it's especially dangerous in hotels because it can become addictive and create a sexualized climate that puts men, women and children at risk."

According to a survey by Citizens for Community Values, 75 percent of American hotel rooms and 90 percent of Marriott suites are wired with in-room adult movies.

"I think their campaign is a colossal intrusion on adults' free choice to view legal adult material," Cambria said. "It's the same as coming into your living room and turning off your channel. Hotels are the home away from home."

Tags: focus on the family, marriott, porn, adult movies

Is It Time To Invade Burma?

Sat, 10 May 2008 19:42:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.time.com

That's why it's time to consider a more serious option: invading Burma. Some observers, including former USAID director Andrew Natsios, have called on the US to unilaterally begin air drops to the Burmese people regardless of what the junta says. The Bush Administration has so far rejected the idea — "I can't imagine us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday — but it's not without precedent: as Natsios pointed out to the Wall Street Journal, the US has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid without the host government's consent in places like Bosnia and Sudan.

But the risks would be greater this time: the Burmese government's xenophobia and insecurity make them prone to view US troops — or worse, foreign relief workers — as hostile forces. (Remember Black Hawk Down?) Even if the U.S. and its allies made clear that their actions were strictly for humanitarian purposes, it's unlikely the junta would believe them.

94-Year-Old Tenant Kills Landlord

Sat, 03 May 2008 22:05:31 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

Frank Spillman, 94, complained for years about how his landlord was harassing him, neighbors say. With a few choice curse words, Spillman railed about how Kulbushan Gupta would demand that he clean the yard, rake the leaves and keep the Oakland property neat.

Spillman worried constantly that Gupta, 64, planned to evict him and even voiced suspicions that Gupta had poisoned his beloved chickens - the ones that gave him eggs - because the landlord was upset about their droppings.

The enmity between the two men erupted in violence shortly before 7:30 p.m. Thursday when Spillman, who has hearing problems, walks with a cane and kept a .22-caliber weapon with him for protection, shot and killed Gupta when the landlord visited his home in the Fruitvale district, police said.

Spillman went down the stairs after him, firing several more shots, police said. Gupta collapsed in an adjacent store parking lot and died three hours later

Shave Your Eyebows Or Don't Come To School

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:33:48 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

A Portland high school is raising eyebrows with its brow grooming policy: shave 'em or go home.

Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star Soulja Boy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol.

Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate.

Andy Gonzalez, a junior at Centennial with one vertical line shaved down his brow, was studying for a test when a security guard approached him and said, "If you're going to come to school like that, don't come at all.

Gonzalez, 17, says he isn't in a gang and shaved the lines to look cool and impress girls. But he says he'd be humiliated if he had to shave his brows off.

RIM developing "Apple Killer" touchscreen BlackBerry?

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:06:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.engadget.com

The times has a verbose 2,000 word piece about the high stakes world of high-end cellphone manufacturers (no way!), specifically centered around RIM's post-iPhone trials and tribulations. Besides a bit of vague lip service paid to the 9000 series, they're claiming that two 3rd party developers -- no sources cited -- leaked that RIM has a skunkworks product dubbed "AK" (which stands for "Apple Killer"), and that apparently it'll be touchscreen. And then comes the tub-thumping money shot from co-CEO Mike Lazaridis: "I couldn't type on [the iPhone] and I still can't type on it, and a lot of my friends can't type on it. It's hard to type on a piece of glass." Right, until you guys decide to do one of your own -- these executive types are so transparent they might as well just be up front.

Big Breasts Aquit Woman

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:12:02 GMT

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Clip Source: mdn.mainichi.jp

Actress Serena Kozakura's conviction for willful destruction of property has been overturned by the Tokyo High Court because her large breasts revealed flaws in the testimony against her.

Reconstruction during an appeal hearing of the 38-year-old actress's alleged crime of breaking down the door in a man's apartment showed her breasts prevented her from climbing through a door as the man testified she had done, casting doubt on his reliability.

What If...?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:41:43 GMT

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Clip Source: dilbertblog.typepad.com

If you took these three people and morphed them together, who would you get?

1. Frank Sinatra (from the skinny Rat Pack years)

2. Sammy Davis Junior

3. Bobby Kennedy

You might get someone who can sing like Bobby Kennedy, dance like Frank Sinatra, and has the political acumen of Sammy Davis Jr.

Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: RPK | February 08, 2008 at 10:53 AM

Man Sodomizes His Stepson to Avenge Rape of His Daughter

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:03:55 GMT

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Man sodomizes teen stepson to avenge rape of daughter

In the what-the-hell!? department.... A 32-year-old is accused of sodomizing his 18-year-old stepson to avenge the teenager's alleged rape of the man's 8-year-old daughter.

Man on Top of Train Catches on Fire

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:00:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.lohud.com

A man who caught on fire while riding atop a Metro-North Railroad train Friday night is still recovering at a hospital, officials said.

Ricardo Chavez, 36, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx after riding on a New Haven Line train from Grand Central Terminal headed to Stamford, Conn.

"He is in fair condition," hospital spokesman Mike Heller said yesterday. Heller could not give any additional information about the patient.

S. African Students Protest "Kissing Law"

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:45:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

The law to me is nothing. I don't think it's going to stop anyone," said Bianca Secchia, 14, who participated in the demonstration Saturday and shared another, less political smooch afterward with her boyfriend, Attie Nortje, 17, at the darkened Northgate Ice Arena.

Strictly speaking, the law criminalized for those under 16 a remarkably broad range of behavior, including mouth-to-mouth contact and any other form of touching that could cause sexual arousal.

Yet news of the law triggered a backlash among thousands of students armed with little more than computers, Facebook accounts and an acute sense of outrage at what they regarded as the clueless behavior of repressive adults. Many teens also posted pictures of themselves engaged in amorous, but largely PG-rated, exchanges.

Boy, 8, Sued By Man After Ski Collision

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:55:04 GMT

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Clip Source: vaildaily.com

Then 7, Scott was skiing slowly and in control when he tried to pass David J. Pfahler, said his father, Robb Swimm, who witnessed the crash.

Almost eight months later, the 8-year-old and his father were named as defendants in a lawsuit alleging that Scott collided with Pfahler at Arrowhead Mountain Jan. 12.

“It wasn’t a violent collision or anything, Scott just kind of tapped his ski boots,” said Robb Swimm, who has lived in the Vail Valley with his wife, Susan Swimm, for 17 years.

Pfahler, 60, of Allentown, Penn., tore a tendon in his shoulder in the collision and is suing for physical therapy expenses, vacation time and other expenses, according to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado.

Scott said he was sorry and started to ski away when Pfahler grabbed Scott’s legs, cursed at him and said he would sue him, Robb Swimm said.

Man Puts Santa on a Cross to Protest Comercialism

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:17:25 GMT

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Art Conrad got the idea a few years ago when he read a story about Japanese merchants mistakenly mixing up symbols in preparing for Christmas, putting Santa on the cross. Conrad photographed the crucified Santa and created his own Christmas cards, one with the message, "Santa died for your MasterCard.