“We have information and reports on members of our community whom been arrested and waiting for execution for the crimes of homosexuality,”
—PageOneQ | Report: Gays sentenced to death in Iraq, executions to begin next week
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“CT results days are quite nerve-wracking. It’s a bit like exam results day, except that you can’t hide bad results from your parents as your cunning plan would unravel when you died in horrendous pain.”
—Cancerous Capers
“The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.”
—William McDonaugh
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BBC NEWS | Giant laser experiment powers up →
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“Now witness the power of this fully armed and operational battlestation!”
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“C’mon, a vampire in the school? Don’t you think that’s a little woo-hoo?” he said, pointing to his head.”
—Vampire rumors prompt Boston Latin alert - about bullying - The Boston Globe
Changing duties for national park officials mean some will carry guns →
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New duties include shooting things with handguns.
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“But the courts feel like you did, so you can be convicted for it. Its sad, and I think it speaks to the way that geek-minds work…we’re analytical.”
—Slashdot | The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook
“The Sunday Star-Times’ Being a Bloke survey last year found that 29% of the 5000 men surveyed felt they had been pressured into having sex or had had sex unwillingly.”
—No dating, thanks, just sex - national | Stuff.co.nz
“If you go after me
warn your police
that I’ll be unarmed
and that they can shoot.” —Swans Commentary: Le Déserteur (The Deserter), by Boris Vian & Harold Berg - xxx071
warn your police
that I’ll be unarmed
and that they can shoot.” —Swans Commentary: Le Déserteur (The Deserter), by Boris Vian & Harold Berg - xxx071
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On Owls
- A: tell me about owls
- B: one can buy them in the hardware store. they have nifty poo. if you ever come across one, i'd suggest picking it up and examining it
- A: what's special about their poo? I've dug through their vomit before
- B: that's just fucked up
- A: found most of the bones for a mouse
- B: that's why i would look in the poo; for the bones.
Green Porno | Snail →
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If I were a snail, I would have one big slimy foot. I would twist my body to fit inside my shell. My foot would end up at the bottom, allowing me to crawl, my anus would end up on top of my head.
“A vampire or a victim
It depends on who’s around.” —U2.com > Lyrics : Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
It depends on who’s around.” —U2.com > Lyrics : Stay (Faraway, So Close!)
“These are old stories and they are nonsense,” the spokesman, Wenqi Gao, said. “The Chinese government is opposed to and strictly forbids any cybercrime.”
—Vast Spy System Loots Computers in 103 Countries - NYTimes.com
U.N. body adopts resolution on religious defamation | International | Reuters →
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A United Nations forum on Thursday passed a resolution condemning “defamation of religion” as a human rights violation, despite wide concerns that it could be used to justify curbs on free speech in Muslim countries.
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BBC NEWS | Europe | Volunteers flock to space experiment →
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Three months? I would do this in a second.
“After rocks, the human race moved on to writing on animal skins and papyrus, which were faster at recording but didn’t last nearly as long. Paper and printing presses were even faster, but also deteriorated more quickly. Starting to see a pattern?”
—Slashdot | Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right
“Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.”
—Information Age Prayer : Home
“Why do we have to have ‘coterminous, stakeholder engagement’ when we could just ‘talk to people’ instead?”
—BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Councils get banned jargon list
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“Same recipe. Same pan. But in the ’60s and ’70s, it yielded 30 brownies,” she says. “In the 1997 edition, it yielded 15.”
—Recipes and Vegetables: Now and Then » Lone Gunman
LRB · classified →
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I’m enjoying the personal ads here way too much. God bless the London Review of Books…
“If you’re anything like me, you’ll be a marine biologist, 56, and enjoy secretly juggling crabs when no-one else is in the laboratory. Man, 56, seeks crab-juggling fish nerd.”
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“In our day we don’t have to visit a cinema to hallucinate life into images of immortal perfection; they flicker everywhere around us, emptied of the animal and plumped up instead with plastics. And so, the question is not so much about entering the ‘labyrinthine realm of undeath’ as whether anyone can ever really be said to leave it.”
—LRB · Jenny Turner: The Beautiful Undead
I Heart Guts! →
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Buy plush versions of human organs! Woo Hoo!
Except for the uterus - it was recalled for being a choking hazard!
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Kelowna woman gives birth on sidewalk →
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“I had another contraction and then her shoulders came out,” said Hawthorne. “Sean pulled my pants down and literally caught her on the sidewalk.”
Pub evacuated after Monty Python prop mistaken for grenade - Telegraph →
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Best headline this week!
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