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85% of Americans are going to heaven.
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Lazy Sunday. Apparently SNL occasionally can be funny still. Points for giving shoutouts to magnolia bakery and MeFi's favorite recent web toy google maps
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Fuck Christmas. Via del.icio.us.
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Asimo gets an upgrade. His new abilities include running at 6 mph, operating a cart, serving tea, walking hand in hand, walking with a tray, facial recognition, and the ability to defenestrate you without moral responsibilities.

Videos of the Asimo in action.
comment posted at 10:24 AM on Dec-14-05

The narwhal, often termed "The Unicorn of the Sea," has a really odd tusk. It's long, spiraled, and there's only one of 'em per animal. Its purpose has been disputed for ages, but at long last, it seems that the answer has been found. And it's pretty damn cool.
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Bush and Blair slated by Pinter George W Bush and Tony Blair must be held to account for feeding the public "a vast tapestry of lies" about the Iraq war, writer Harold Pinter said. [Postroad: but then, what do artists know about politics?]
comment posted at 10:46 AM on Dec-7-05

#1 Grabowski! Mike Ditka. Rapping. Yeah.
comment posted at 9:54 AM on Dec-7-05

Tryptophan-5ht's kickass artwork. _{[via projects. NSFW: some artistic nudity]}
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Photos of the outcome of a motorcycle merging with a car @ 155 miles per hour.
comment posted at 10:59 AM on Dec-6-05

Don't mess with Kansas. Professor at the University of Kansas decides to offer this course, is beaten by unknown assailants, withdraws the course. Add "no sense of humor" to what's the matter with Kansas? [more inside]
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What is a "fair wage" for contractors working in Iraq? Halliburton subsidiary KBR pays subcontracted employees far more than they could earn at home, in exchange for living far from friends and family in a dangerous work environment. KBR insists their contractors adhere to all local labor laws in the country where they operate. But when that country doesn't yet have an effective or legitimate government of its own, and the workers are brought from a country with a 68% poverty rate, is that enough?
comment posted at 9:36 AM on Dec-2-05

Remember that Shining trailer from a few weeks back? Now they've done it with Big. (embedded WMV)
comment posted at 5:24 AM on Dec-2-05

Katie Holmes is quitting acting – to be a full-time housewife to Tom Cruise.
comment posted at 9:07 AM on Nov-15-05

family at war an excellent documentary of a family who lost their son in iraq - particularly moving is the soldiers determined, soft-spoken mother who is examining the reasons for her loss.
comment posted at 11:06 AM on Nov-14-05

The World's Most Underrated Inventions A curious list of the world's most underrated inventions. Including: the chariot; concrete; horse collar; longbow; eyeglasses; rotary printing press; barbed wire; carborundum; and bakelite.
comment posted at 11:09 AM on Nov-14-05

"We do not torture" (Bush, Nov. 7)
In an important clarification of President George W. Bush's earlier statement, a top White House official refused to unequivocally rule out the use of torture... (Hadley, Nov. 13) -- The fate of a House provision to ban the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody is in doubt, strongly opposed by the Administration. And don't call it torture: the preferred talking point wording is now enhanced interrogation techniques.
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The appeal of Calvin and Hobbes (click "launch" to open the feature)
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Cindy Sheehan for President Or Senate. The anti-war left seeks a challenger for Hillary Clinton
comment posted at 11:02 AM on Nov-1-05

2005 World Beard and Moustache Championships.
comment posted at 10:05 AM on Nov-1-05

Death in Sakkara: An Egyptian Adventure (flash).
An Indiana Jones style web-based game from the BBC's Ancient History department.

Egypt, 1929. Journalist Charles Fox plunges into a darkly sinister world of intrigue, murder and mysticism in the hunt for a missing archaeologist.

Oh yes, it's really hard.
via Wonderland
comment posted at 7:48 AM on Oct-28-05

Babycal Throw A simple and enormously addicting game. Consider yourself warned.
comment posted at 10:53 AM on Oct-26-05

Set the Arcs in Motion [Flash game]
comment posted at 12:03 PM on Oct-25-05

Find the Brownie No, not Where's Waldo amidst disaster, but that could be fun too. [via]
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Surely there will be comments on Tom Delay's indictment and (temporary) stepping-aside, but whatever happened to his almost-predecessor, Bob Livingston? For those who don't remember, Livingston was the speaker-elect who never was, after Larry Flynt got to him. Well, Bob's on his feet running the ninth largest lobbying firm in DC. And guess what, he's connected to the Delay scandal in his own special way. Maybe there's a bright future ahead for The Hammer?
comment posted at 11:17 AM on Sep-28-05

Selected images from Saturday's anti-war rally in San Francisco. More from Zombietime. Warning: contains snarky captions.
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