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Teenage Boys And Smutty Mags? You Don’t Say!
via Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes by admin on May 18, 2008
... Old Woman: “It was this one! See right here! Where any child could see!”Manager: “Ma’am, this magazine is not pornography. Granted, the women are scantily clad in a few pictures but they aren’t naked and there is no age restriction on its sale.”Angry Old Woman: “I know pornography when I see it, and this is very offensive. How could you sell it to young children?”Manager: ...
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Greg Laden's Blog : Joshua Klein: The amazing intelligence of crows
via scienceblogs.com by (author unknown) on May 18, 2008
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he's come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal (repost)...
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Blue Whale Excavation [Greg Laden's Blog]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Greg Laden none@example.com on May 17, 2008
How big is a blue whale? A blue whale is so big that a person can swim through it's largest blood vessels. A blue whale is so big that there are cars smaller than its heart. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth, now or ever, as far as we know. Its tongue is as large as the largest land animal on the present day earth (elephant). Oh, and it can go faster than most ships. A blue...
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The California gay-marriage decision: Why? [Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Kevin Beck none@example.com on May 17, 2008
I'm not asking why a judge in the most populous state in the U.S. ruled that a 2000 law rendering same-sex marriages illegal is unconstitutional did what he did. What I'm wondering, seriously, is why people get so pissed off when things like this happen.I'm going to follow a schematic process of reasoning here. I'm sure to leave things out of the chain, so please jump into the...
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Too close to home [Pharyngula]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by PZ Myers none@example.com on May 18, 2008
I'm grading genetics exams today. I hope the English department doesn't inherit too many cadavers.Read the comments on this post...
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Conservatives: What you really really want is to make the gay people get married. Now. [Greg Laden's Blog]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Greg Laden none@example.com on May 18, 2008
A guest editorial post on gay marriage by Jimmy James Bettencourt. Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres are to be married in California. This will ensure the protection of their children and their creditors.I do not understand why gay marriage is not a conservative issue. Gay people have been getting away with all kinds of shit for too long and it is time to stop. Straight people are getting...
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The Big Company Doesn't Always Win
via Techdirt by Michael Masnick on May 18, 2008
In our debates over the patent system, one message is repeated over and over again by those defending the patent system: that it's needed to prevent big companies from coming in and stomping out smaller companies. Unfortunately, the evidence just doesn't support this. Yes, it does happen sometimes, but there are so many examples of smaller companies outrunning bigger companies that the...
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Those who use the Neville Chamberlain gambit don't even know what Neville Chamberlain actually did [Respectful Insolence]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Orac none@example.com on May 15, 2008
This is too hilarious for words. It's priceless.It's Chris Matthews applying a little history smackdown--I mean lesson--to an ignorant right wing talk radio host named Kevin James, who was overjoyed at President Bush's use of the Neville Chamberlain gambit the other day and wanted to take the opportunity to throw the same gambit around too about the Democrats in general and Barack...
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Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world [Greg Laden's Blog]
via ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed by Greg Laden none@example.com on May 15, 2008
Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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Tech: Twitter Me This
via 6-4-2 — an Angels|Dodgers double play blog by Rob on May 19, 2008
Lore Sjöberg, formerly of the sadly defunct Brunching Shuttlecocks, has something useful to say about the chronically useless Twitter:
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