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• More Proof There Is No God: Archies Riverdale Run

  
  Topless Robot — Authority: 706
  I was going to make some hilarious comments about how this game --coming out for current consoles, mind you -- included such breathtaking gameplay as "sensible driving action!" but this video has fucking beaten me. It makes me sad and scared and ashamed, and I just want it to go away, but it wont and it just makes me ...
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• Help! Mom! These Pictures are Scaring Me!

  
  Athens & Jerusalem — Authority: 429
  I thought creepy partisan childrens books was a phenomenon of the left . I guess not . And for good measure, the art in Help! Mom! The Radicals are Ruining my Country! is extra-mega-super-creepy. Glenn Beck looks like a child molester . (Cant they even draw the stripes right on the American flag, by the way?) ...
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• Harlan Ellison Wants to Return to Star Trek

  
  Topless Robot — Authority: 706
  ​ Most nerds know the saga of Harlan Ellison and Star Trek , and how the prickly author began his long-standing hate of the sci-fi show. But in case you dont, heres it summed up neatly by Wikipedia : Ellison has been vocal for many years in his criticism of how Star Trek creator and producer Gene Roddenberry ...
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• Japanese Fluorescent Lamp Fighting: Insane Even Compared to Other Crazy Japanese Things [Bad Ideas]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 885
  OK, so maybe this ridiculous "sport" isnt a fair representation of Japan as a whole. But holy shit guys, what is the deal with this? Warning: bloody photos ahead. [ Oddity Central via Geekologie via Neatorama ]
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• Return to Land Ships--Really Big, Really Bad Ideas: the 1,500 Ton Truck

  
  Ptak Science Books — Authority: 423
  JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 856 Nothingquite gives me the rumbles as seeing pictures of GreatHeavy Land Things on the move.   The NASA launch crawler is one of the biggest,though it doesn’t come close to this impossible LandClad pictured in BrettHolman’s excellent AirMinded blog:   ...
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• Incompetent criminals tried to rip off Ricky Gervais

  
  Stargazing blog by Malene Arpe — Authority: 151
  From The Daily Mail : "Fraudsters transferred more than £200,000 from Ricky Gervaiss bank account in a scam to buy gold bullion, the comedian revealed today. But the thieves were caught when they used a fake passport - complete with a photo of Gervais playing David Brent that had been cut from an Office DVD - to ...
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• Bhopal Disaster, Corporate Responsibility and Peoples’ Rights

  
  Kafila — Authority: 420
  2 December 2009 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster. It was the night of 2nd December 1984 when over 35 tons of toxic gases leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, owned by the US based multinational Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)’s Indian affiliate Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL). In the next ...
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• Tilting at Wind Mills Aren’t We

  
  Kafila — Authority: 420
  The Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind Conference held recently, has raised Cain through one of the 25 resolutions that were passed at the conference. The kind of noise that has been generated by this resolution has virtually air-brushed the other resolution out of reckoning. Did the remaining 24 resolutions not deserve closer ...
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• Kid Rocks American Badass Beer!

  
  Seen Through a Glass — Authority: 516
  Hey, Kid Rocks beer not only has a name now -- American Badass Beer -- its even got a "website preloader" page . Wow! A preloader! (?) American Badass has been out since July . Its in Michigan, and will roll out nationally over the next 12 months. Has anyone seen it? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Look, ...
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• The Dog Ate My Global Warming Hoax

  
  A Rose by Any Other Name — Authority: 123
  There were the revelations that the global warming hoax has been a political power grab and not a pure scientific exercise , now we find out that the scientists were so cool they threw out their research. Climate change data dumped Tagged: Bad Ideas, Deception, fascism, politics
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• Roadtown, Linear Cities, and Living in a Line: Edgar Chambless and Michal Graves

  
  Ptak Science Books — Authority: 423
  JF Ptak Science Books LLC  Post 855  I wonder what our human world would be like if we had evolved living in horizontal linear cities?   The idea had never occurred to me before seeing the work of Edgar Chambless, whose Roadtown (the entire 172pp of the 1910 work located here ) projected the idea of ...
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• The Man in the Land Down Under (Part Two)

  
  Mason Says — Authority: 125
  Economics 101 taught me the relationship between supply and demand in the market place. Its rather simple; the theory makes dollars and sense. Watching said theory being put into practice from the floor of a department store, however, is priceless. Let me rewind the tape. A little over a month ago I dropped part one ...
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• Then keep talking.... (an open letter to Mr. Stephen King)

  
  Standing On The Shoulders Of Giant Midgets — Authority: 471
  Dear Mr. King, Word just came through on the RSS wires that youre thinking about writing a sequel to one of his best early works, The Shining . (The headline on the article--"Stephen King Writing The Shining Sequel"--is, youll see if you read the article, misleading.) Youre thinking about doing it, you have a ...
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• The Barmen Declaration Is Not Like The Manhattan Delcaration

  
  A Rose by Any Other Name — Authority: 123
  Theological Declaration of Barmen Written by Karl Barth and the confessing church in Nazi Germany in response to Hitler’s national church. I. An Appeal to the Evangelical Congregations and Christians in Germany 8.01 The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church met in Barmen, May 29-31, 1934. Here ...
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• Cautionary Tale From The Whispers

  
  Mason Says — Authority: 125
  (Micro-post) On Wednesday, I posted " Five Things About Metro-Savvy Men ". At some point in that post, I dropped a reference to the Whispers and their penchant for suit coats with too many buttons. For my readers not familiar with the Whispers, an R&B; group from the 80s, check the photo to the left. In fact, ...
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• The Reality Show Based Community

  
  Blue Crab Boulevard — Authority: 518
  One rather suspects that the Secret Service is collectively very, very upset at the moment. As they should be.A White House official, informed of Bravo’s statement, said that was not the case. “We’ve already confirmed that they weren’t invited,” he said.A publicist for the couple, Mahogany Jones, said they ...
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• I Guess we should be thankful

  
  Halolz — Authority: 432
  Gee, I’ve been glazed by Fox… how swell! Peppy, pass a dinner roll! Another holiday themed team-up by TCC and Badonk! Happy Thanksgiving!
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• Uh-Oh: Large Hadron Has Begun Colliding

  
  People Buzz — Authority: 158
  Thats right folks, even bread and trying to destroy itself from the future cant keep the Large Hadron Collider from colliding. The beast recently made its first low-power collision and, amazingly, youre still here to read this. And me to write it. So I guess we should both be thankful for that. Thanksgiving joke, ...
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• Purveyors of Different Gospels

  
  A Rose by Any Other Name — Authority: 123
  John MacArthur chimes in on why the Manhattan Declaration is an abrogation of Christian responsibility. I wholeheartedly agree. The Declaration therefore constitutes a formal avowal of brotherhood between Evangelical signatories and purveyors of different gospels. That is the stated intention of some of the key ...
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• The eternal victim

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 437
  Brad discussed it recently, but I think it bears repeating : If that three-part narrative has a unifying theme, the theme is that everything – and I mean everything – that has ever gone wrong for Sarah Palin was someone else’s fault. Sarah’s lackluster performance during her interview with Frank Murkowski ...
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