Proverbial

The greatest living american, according to Google. Guess they’re not that immune to bombing, after all.

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With growing concerns over the economical impact of corn-based biofuel, I would think this NEC corn-based plastic is not such a good idea.

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If I got this right, Tokyo’s election comission is asking Youtube to delete political advertising videos related to the local governor’s race. Their claim, it seems, is that one of the candidates’ video was too popular, receiving much more views than his competitors, which would go against the “fairness” demanded in the country’s legislation.
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SLOG reports on the Netherlands’ debate over whether or not something should be done against “age play” in Second Life. While they wonder about the legal implications of such actions, I can’t help but think that the whole reasoning behind the idea is ass-backwards.
For starters, the idea that “virtually having sex with children [that [...]

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Edible RFID. With the recent decision by a US court that covert GPS tracking is not illegal, I wonder how long it’ll be before policemen are putting RFID tags in suspects’ tea.

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A friend of mine who’s been living in Montreal for three years now says the first thing you notice when going out after a snowstorm is the silence. I’m guessing none of his neighbours have anything like this.

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Now they’ve agreed to blur and manipulate images in Google Earth of any buildings the Indian government deems strategic. If the piece is accurate, what really strikes me as troublesome is that they’ll “distort building plans by adding structures where none existed”, and that they’ll agree with whatever the government says needs to be “camouflaged”.
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It is kinda old news, but it still raises a point I haven’t seen anyone mention:
West Virginia, which has the worst childhood obesity problem in the United States, is stepping up plans to use Konami’s Dance Dance Revolution to battle the bulge in its schools.
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Preliminary results from a 24-week study of 50 overweight or obese [...]

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The late Paulo Francis (.br), one of the most intelligent and sarcastic conservative pundits in our country’s history, once said that “the left is incompatible with those who shower every day. The best anti-communist propaganda is to let communists talk”. He should know, since he had been a trotskist for a good part of his [...]

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Today’s “Human Nature” column on Slate brings attention to a piece on the New York Times about the effect of high definition video on the porn industry. What’s interesting, though, is that while he goes on to link to three past columns on similar topics, William Saletan seems oblivious to the fact that the same [...]

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