March 2009
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Ingrid Newkirk's Unique Will →
This is a little extreme. (Via mikeysan.)
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The Perfect Crime →
Police are unable to charge twins with almost identical DNA; either of them could have committed the crime, and the police cannot assume both were present. (via kottke)
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Browser Ball →
A really cool browser experiment. (via manita via chrismessina)
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NZ Censor Threatens To Jail Parents Who Buy... →
New Zealand wants to pass a law that sends parents to jail for letting their children play games rated for an older audience:
Based on the law, parents prosecuted could face $10,000 fines or be put in jail for three months. Which do you think would do more harm to a child? Playing GTA or having their parent dragged through a show trial, for “shock value,” and dumped in jail for...
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Jesus Made Me Puke →
Inside look on what goes down during these mega-church retreats:
“I told my nephew to look around the house,” Fortenberry continued. “I said, ‘Do you have a copy of Harry Potter?’ And he said yes. And I said, ‘That’s your problem.’ So I told him to go get that copy of that book, tear it in half and throw it out the window. So he does it, and...
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Miracle Liquid →
The stuff is a simple mixture of table salt and tap water whose ions have been scrambled with an electric current. Researchers have dubbed it electrolyzed water — hardly as catchy as Mr. Clean. But at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica, some hotel workers are calling it el liquido milagroso — the miracle liquid.
I’m excited. If you know anything about me, you know I hate...