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Officer tries in vain to catch people fleeing from van
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 12, 2008
Watch this officer try to catch several men jumping out of a van. (viaArbroath)
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sorry, David B's "Epileptic" and "No Country For Old Men"! your narrative devices don't work on me! it's - it's too bad.
via Dinosaur Comics by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
about - archive - cast - comments - sexy exciting merchandise - messageboard - search - reader art - linksProject Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0May 8th, 2008:I really like A Softer World's GTA IV comic. Hover your mouse over the comic when you're done reading!Hey, who has new shirts? Katie! Matt! David! Katie in particular has somehow looked deep into my soul...
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All the water and air on earth gathered into spheres and compared to the Earth
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 11, 2008
Dan Phiffer found this image on a message board, and by his calculations, he says it's accurate.Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.Link(Via...
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One of the interesting findings of Elizabeth Spelke's Harvard baby...
via kottke.org by jason@kottke.org on May 07, 2008
One of the interesting findings of Elizabeth Spelke's Harvard baby brain research lab is that while babies prefer looking at pictures of people of their own race over other races, they are much more biased about language.'They like toys more that are associated with someone who has spoken their language. They prefer to eat foods offered to them by a native speaker compared to a speaker of...
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Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on April 27, 2008
... something we're just shaking off now:[S]he shook her head and said, "Where do people find the time?" That was her question. And I just kind of snapped. And I said, "No one who works in TV gets to ask that question. You know where the time comes from. It comes from the cognitive surplus you've been masking for 50 years."So how big is that surplus? So if you take Wikipedia as a kind o...
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Pig bladder powder regrows human finger
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 24, 2008
A man cut off his finger tip while working on a model plane. His brother, a medical research scientist, sent him a vial containing powdered pig bladder and told him to sprinkle on the severed finger tip. It grew back -- "flesh, blood, vessels and nail" -- in four weeks.That powder is a substance made from pig bladders called extracellular matrix. It is a mix of protein and connective tissue...
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Skeptic giggles on Indian national TV as mystic totally fails to curse him to death
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 25, 2008
Kim sez,Pandit Surinder Sharma, a famous Indian tantrick (magician) was on a televised panel discussion when he claimed he could kill any man with black magic in under three minutes. Fellow panelist, Sanal Edamaruku, the president of Rationalist International, challenged the tantrick to kill him right then and there. Hilarity ensued as Sharma chanted the death mantra, and, when that failed, waved...
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Fake Craigslist "everything must go" ad costs man pretty much everything
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on March 25, 2008
Charles sez, "This Oregon resident lost almost all of his possessions including his horse (which he got back) because someone posted a craigslist ad saying that he had to move suddenly and that everything at his house was up for grabs. When he returned home to confront the people looting his house, many of them refused to give the stuff back. They simply waved a print out of the craigslist ad in...
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Vatican comes up with a new list of Seven Sins
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on March 10, 2008
... embryos," said [Bishop Gianfranco] Girotti, who is responsible for the body that oversees confessions.The seven social sins are:1. "Bioethical" violations such as birth control2. "Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell research3. Drug abuse4. Polluting the environment5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor6. Excessive wealth7. Creating povertyThe original deadly si...
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