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Racist Obama Buttons Sold at Texas Republican Convention
via Digg by (author unknown) on June 17, 2008
A booth at this weekend’s Texas Republican convention sold buttons asking, “If Obama Is President…Will We Still Call It The White House? The company that makes the buttons boasts providing “Patriotic and Republican Products.”
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Mobile phones expose human habits
via BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition by (author unknown) on June 03, 2008
More than 100,000 mobile phone users are tracked in an attempt to build a picture of human behaviours.
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High Gas Prices: The Environment’s Best Friend
via Freakonomics by Freakonomics on June 03, 2008
Are you driving less than you used to?As Dubner blogged last week, Americans logged 11 billion fewer miles on the road in March of this year than they did in March 2007. That contributed to a cut of 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emitted by the U.S. in the first quarter of 2008. [...]
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How Much Would You Pay for a $50 Target Gift Card?
via Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt on June 02, 2008
If your eBay user name is lpinok, then the answer is $55.71.This seems to defy all logic. The item description is: "Just a $50 gift card to Target … ." Why would anyone pay more than face value?(Hat tip: David Hansen)
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Packers Running Back Puts Burglar On IR [Home Alone]
via Deadspin by Rick Chandler on June 03, 2008
Confronted with a gang of burglars in his home, Green Bay Packers' running back Noah Herron did the obvious thing: He unscrewed a bedpost and knocked one of the them the hell out, and chased the others off the premises. That's exactly what I would have done, if you substitute "unscrewed a bedpost" with "shrieked like a lady" and "chasing the others off the premises" with "leaping pantless...
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Once Jesus Got Famous He Changed, Man
via Digg by (author unknown) on June 01, 2008
You wouldn't think a guy with the last name "of Nazareth" would be so quick to forget where he came from.
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With underinflated tires eating up gas, where is the Tweel?
via Digg by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Some 3.56 million gallons of gas are wasted each day because of incorrectly-inflated tires according to the U.S. Department of Energy or $14.2 million in gas a day at $4/gal. In 2004, Michelin shocked the world with a revolutionary airless tire technology that could change transportation as we know it, the Tweel. Four years later, where's Tweel?
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VIKINGS TRADE JAMES TO ‘SKINS
via ProFootballTalk.com » Rumor Mill by Mike Florio on May 26, 2008
As it turns out, the Minnesota Vikings didn’t cut defensive end Erasmus James after all.Instead, the reported move was rescinded by the Vikings on Tuesday, and James has been traded to the Washington Redskins for a conditional seventh-round draft pick.“We really liked Erasmus coming out of college,” executive V.P. of football operations Vinny Cerrato said. [...]
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Flood Threatens China Earthquake Survivors - Voice of America
via Google News by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
Flood Threatens China Earthquake SurvivorsVoice of America - 12 hours agoHe says he knows people in China are busy these days with earthquake relief operations. But he says that for Chinese leader Hu Jintao to invite him to China at a time like this shows what he called the "extraordinary importance" both sides put in ...
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BEN BUTTON TRAILER TURNS YOU RETARDED
via filmdrunk by (author unknown) on May 25, 2008
Shared by Ben Forget the headline and watch the trailer at the bottom.JoBlo just posted the trailer for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt (watch it after the jump). It's based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man born old who gets younger as he ages. The curious thing about the trailer is that even though Fincher has directed some really...
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