Reddit - The heart of the internet

r/funny

Google street view car + low bridge.........

google

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r/pics

If you just came here from Fox News, please read!!!

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r/pics

A Buddha the size of a skyscraper. Deep in the Chinese hinterland stands the world's tallest statue, so unknown in the West that Wikipedia doesn't even have a picture.

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r/worldnews

French president humiliated when French Parliment rejects his proposed law that would allow the recording and movie industry to cut off Internet for accused illegal downloaders

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r/politics

“When I am president we won’t work in secret to avoid honoring our laws and Constitution” - Obama, 2007

firedoglake

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r/atheism

Signed and ratified by the founding fathers in 1797, Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli clearly states that "The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."

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r/science

"If your heart isn't pounding now, it never will."

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r/entertainment

Kanye says 'South Park' put him in check : "I JUST WANT TO BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM."

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r/pics

A bull the size of a blood cell. Deep in a Japanese university stands the world's smallest statue, so unknown to non-scientists that Wikipedia doesn't even have a photo

wired

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r/politics

The prosperity of the ’50s came not from wealthy financiers making money out of nothing, but about a working class that could afford to spend disposable income. Today, CEOs cut wages and still expect, magically, that the people they are paying less will have money to buy their crap.

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r/entertainment

Billy Bob Thorton turns an ordinary radio chat into one of the most awkward and surreal interviews in history. (Q on CBC Radio)

youtube

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r/videos

Your business card is CRAP!

youtube

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r/science

Fascinating TED talk: Bonnie Bassler on discovering bacteria's amazing communication system

ted

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r/atheism

Christopher Hitchens Schools Hardball on US Histroy and on the US Not Being a Christian Nation

youtube

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r/pics

Step 1. Tie balloons to car

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r/pics

A page the size of a moderately long page. Deep in the Wikipedian hinterland sits a page of all the big fucking statues, so unknown in the [pics] that Reddit doesn't even have a link, till now.

wikipedia

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r/politics

By constantly claiming the country is now "less safe," Dick Cheney is laying the groundwork for a "See? I told you so" moment for when (not if) the country is attacked again. He flaunts his crimes and you do nothing, Mr. President, and this may well be your ruin.

irishtimes

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r/science

Jim Henson - did it again (well his studio did)

youtube

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r/offbeat

Woman attacked on subway platform as workers looked on

msn

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r/programming

Nokia's Qt Creator: nothing if not pretty

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r/worldnews

Anti-government protesters in Tibet sentenced to death

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r/pics

The DIGG vs. REDDIT war!

ncomment

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r/gaming

I've been watching Korean Starcraft matches on Youtube to kill time at work, and this video (with English commentary) is by far the most entertaining 1v1 I've seen yet (Savior vs TT).

youtube

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r/pics

watch yourself, buddy. you could be next. [PIC]

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r/atheism

62 foot tall Jesus? Have megachurches gotten too big? I have driven past this huge graven image/eyesore/example of gross profit & excess many times. It is out there just north of Cincinnati on I-75 northbound.

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r/business

Time Warner Cable does damage control through twitter after amidst backlash over their 40GB broadband cap plan.

pcmag

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r/bestof

Reddit Markdown Primer - repost as a reminder, and for new redditors (since many have been asking)

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r/programming

Tweeting Cat Door -- A twitter enabled cat flap

googlepages

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r/Economics

Iceland has collapsed so thoroughly that at this point, it's only economically viable export may very well be an internet spaceship game

livejournal

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r/geek

Browser installers: Why Firefox installer is to blame for 50K cancelled installations daily.

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r/comics

SMBC Presents The Bible

smbc-comics

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r/politics

Constitutional Law Professor: "There Is Not a Scintilla of Difference in the Legal Position of President Obama and the Position of President Bush in Trying to Quash Any Effort to Challenge Unlawful Surveillance by the Government."

jonathanturley

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r/AskReddit

How many of you make little sound effects for yourself when you do things?

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r/obama

Remember back after the election when we agreed obama.reddit should be used as a watchdog? Watchdogs, Keith Olbermann reports that Obama moves to legalize warrantless wiretapping. (video)

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r/funny

Kanye Responds to South Park

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r/pics

A cross the size of a skyscraper. Deep in the American hinterland stands the world's tallest cross, so unknown in the East that Wikipedia doesn't even have a picture.

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r/linux

Linux is "fastest growing platform"

arstechnica

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r/scifi

Dollhouse canceled. Final episode won't even get to air.

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r/science

How to heal an infection that defies antibiotics? Another infection. Doctors in Eastern Europe have used lab-grown viruses to safely cure millions of wounds

popsci

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r/sports

8th grade kid uses the rafters, a heating duct and suspension wires to make shot of the year. Too bad it didn't count.

youtube

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r/funny

What is going on in this garage?! [GMap]

google

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r/science

Ever wonder what the sky and days look like from other bodies in the solar system?

wikipedia

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r/politics

Remember the so-called $180K the liberal media said the RNC spent on clothes for Sarah Palin and her family? Turns out it was all BS. They only spent $173K. Don't you feel bad now for being suckered into the Democrat smear campaign? I mean, what can $173K buy these days?

politico

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r/programming

Why Unemployment Rates Are Meaningless for Programmers.

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r/programming

Anyone know what this is?

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r/programming

The best math tutorial I've read: Learn "Singular Value Decomposition" even if you've never seen a matrix before.

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r/environment

Young activist now gets felony charges for countering Bush admin's environmental assault: Faces up to 10 years in prison, fine of $750,000!

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r/offbeat

After decades of denying the existence of Area 51, five former insiders speak out

latimes

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r/politics

FoxNewsBoycott.com. 'Nuff said.

foxnewsboycott

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r/news

Politicians start war against Time Warner for internet usage caps

businessinsider

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r/comics

gimme all your

picturesforsadchildren

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r/politics

Testimony of 12-Year-Old with Two Moms Moves Some Vermont Legislators to Support Gay Marriage Bill | Amazingly articulate young girl sways legislators in Vermont. In her interview with Amy Goodman, she said she thought it was about time she stood up and said something.

democracynow

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r/programming

In The Game of Life, what is the minimum number of logic gates needed to implement a cell?

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r/worldnews

BREAKING!!: In total upset Kim 're-elected' as N Korea leader!!

aljazeera

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r/atheism

'In 3 weeks I will be put to my death'

torontosun

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r/gaming

Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D, has died

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r/business

Monster Cable Learns Nothing: Sues Monster Transmission

audioholics

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r/geek

My Stargate Wedding Cake [PICS]

gateworld

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r/Music

mashup » Rick Springfield vs. Smashing Pumpkins | Jessie's Girl vs. 1979

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r/AskReddit

Are "Guidos" real? Does anyone know any of these people? I just can't imagine a person like this in real life. (Example pic included.)

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r/environment

What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia

latimes

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r/photography

boston.com usual excellent picture series: The L'Aquila earthquake

boston

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r/funny

"You see this card? It's the most impressive business card I've ever seen. It's mine. It took me 25 years to design this."

youtube

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r/funny

Channel 10's hard-hitting I-Team Investigators met with all the respect that they deserve - a crazy women in a bunny suit mocking them.

youtube

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r/atheism

Why are so many african americans religious? Christianity was literally being taught to their slave ancestors at whipping point...

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r/zombies

Zombie alert! Patient Zero! Louisiana man attacked bitten by stranger who proceeded to swallow his flesh in front of him!

nola

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r/gaming

Team Fallout

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r/pics

For a pothead, Michael Phelps is kind of a dick.

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r/gadgets

Cardboard boxes turned into $5 solar ovens

cnn

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r/technology

Washington Post -"Anonymous online comments can be inaccurate, profane, racist—but they're indispensable"

washingtonpost

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r/politics

Young activist now gets felony charges for countering Bush admin's environmental assault: Faces up to 10 years in prison, fine of $750,000!

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r/humor

Actual exchanges between control tower and pilots-- old as hell, but still funny, especially for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

disaboom

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r/politics

She was "beaten with sticks, shot at, nearly raped and almost murdered" for advocating free elections in Nicaragua. Now, the U.S. is denying her asylum. She could be killed any day now.

wordpress

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r/politics

Rush proclaims: There are no homeless veterans

mediamatters

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r/gaming

The 50 Best Selling Console Games of this Decade (So Far)

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r/pics

Pfft, whatever, this giant statue has a sword

wikipedia

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r/environment

Texas Taliban Moves Intelligent Design to Texas Legislature and the Denying of Global Warming into Texas Textbooks

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r/science

The Secret To Chimp Strength - "humans may lack the strength of chimps because our nervous systems exert more control over our muscles. Our fine motor control prevents great feats of strength, but allows us to perform delicate and uniquely human tasks."

sciencedaily

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r/business

Wells Fargo shocks market with record profit

yahoo

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r/worldnews

I would admire the honesty of this officer in coming forward and admitting his involvement, if only he had done it before video footage was unearthed.

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r/space

The Milky Way Enigma -How Galactic Forces May Control Life on Earth

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r/politics

Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes

alternet

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r/web_design

I fired my first client today. Tell us about when you've fired a client!

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r/movies

Funny New Trailer for Mike Judge's 'Extract'

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r/AskReddit

What does your user name mean?

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r/pics

Don't worry darling... [pic]

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r/programming

Sorting in embedded systems

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r/wikipedia

Interactive maps coming to Wikipedia

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r/Music

Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983?

techdirt

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r/scifi

At 6:54 in this video X-Files (The TV Series) does a near perfect duplication of the events of 9/11 - 6 months before 9/11 actually happened.

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r/geek

Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson dead at 61

scifiwire

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r/ronpaul

Ron Paul's New Book 'End the Fed' Now Available for Pre Order.

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r/comics

Are you ready to receive the truth?

basicinstructions

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r/happy

Li'l Brudder the One-Legged Turtle gets a Ninja Suit

usatoday

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r/canada

The Supreme Court of Canada rules that police searching through your trash doesn’t violate a Constitutional right to privacy

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r/funny

How To Deal With Shitting Your Pants: A Powerpoint Presentation

holytaco

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r/pics

A bear riding a horse.

bestweekever

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r/linux

Sun Launches VirtualBox 2.2 Virtualization Software

eweek

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r/atheism

Gallup poll shows religion and intolerance go hand in hand

upi

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r/lgbt

National Organization For Marriage's Ad makes me feel ill

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r/sports

Starting pitcher Nick Adenhart of the Los Angeles Angels died in a car accident last night

tmz

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r/lolcats

i come thru wormhole

icanhascheezburger

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r/pics

Weird clock uses shadows to project the time.[PICS]

evilmadscientist

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r/funny

Keep Turning the Google Street View Camera, You Might Just Shit Bricks.

google

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r/programming

How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates

greenspun

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r/atheism

Atheism on the Rise Among Canadian Teens

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r/atheism

Religious groups should fund NHS chaplains, not the Hospitals or the public purse

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r/Economics

A National Student Loan Forgiveness Program | Colleges have become cash cows and vocational processing plants, rather than places to expand one’s mind and understanding of the world.

laprogressive

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r/news

Vandals cut four AT&T fiber-optic cables in San Jose, now thousands without service.

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r/lgbt

The real "traditional marriage": If your husband dies, you have to marry one of his brothers

wikipedia

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r/news

Serial killers working as truck drivers have murdered 500 women across US

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r/politics

Rachel Maddow: CIA Black Sites Exposed by Red Cross Report Never Meant for the Public

crooksandliars

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r/energy

Six-dollar solar cooker wins $75,000 climate prize

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r/politics

Justin Nickels , the 22-year-old grocery store cashier and college student who was just elected Mayor of Manitowoc, WI by a margin of 15 votes.

justinnickels

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r/pics

Where do Easter Eggs come from?

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r/AskReddit

I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling well rested. I can easily sleep 12 hours a day and still feel tired. Everyday I'm late to class because I cannot wake up. Does anyone have some advice/experience?

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r/science

"He wanted to refer to it as that 'goddamn particle' and his editor wouldn't let him," says Higgs.

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r/WebGames

Effing Hail: weather based destruction simulator

kongregate

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r/worldnews

CIA shuts down its secret prisons

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r/opensource

Ok, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to... Last time I'll play a DVD. [PIC]

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r/netsec

Researcher's death casts pall over major TCP fix: Jack Louis died before patches for the flaws he found could be released

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r/environment

US Secretary of the Interior: Wind could meet 100% of America's energy needs!

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r/politics

Daily Show on Military Budget "Cuts" - - - "On what planet is a four percent spending increase a huge cut?!?"

talkingpointsmemo

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r/lgbt

$1.5m anti-gay marriage campaign slammed as deceptive and full of "half-truths"

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r/environment

Southern Californians may have to lose lawns

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r/programming

Hinton's Neural Network Simulation (Generative)

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r/rpg

Death of Dave Arneson, co-inventor of Dungeons & Dragons

blogspot

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r/netsec

The Conficker worm is finally doing something--updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers

cnet

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r/philosophy

News of "the End of Philosophy" have been greatly exaggerated. P.Z. Myers exposes the fallacies.

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r/linux

What happens when "sudo rm -rf /" is executed? (do NOT do this, btw)

youtube

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r/pics

uh...YES.

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r/writing

A Day in the Life of Neil Gaiman’s Assistant

fabulouslorraine

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r/news

Mom wants to harvest dead son's sperm, find a surrogate and raise the child ... seriously? Is this legal?

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r/Python

Getting the current stack trace from a running python application.

stackoverflow

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r/programming

Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux platform

arstechnica

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r/apple

You May NOT Use iTunes To Design, Manufacture or Produce Nuclear, Chemical or Biological Weapons

gizmodo

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r/politics

French "HADOPI" (graduated response/"3 strikes") law rejected by the Assemblée Nationale (french lower house) 21 to 15

numerama

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r/environment

Most people do not know that the chimpanzee "grin" so often seen in movies and on TV is actually a grimace of fear or a carefully choreographed response to a command.

nomoremonkeybusiness

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r/politics

Obama's Wiretaps - All the Better to Hear You With

thisishistorictimes

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r/politics

Orange County Board of Supervisors Unanimously vote to Cut off funding to Planned Parenthood (for "moral" reasons)

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r/rpg

A touching tribute to D&D co-creator Dave Arneson from Order of the Stick

giantitp

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r/lists

Top 10 Ridiculously Common Science Myths

listverse

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r/movies

Mike Judge’s Extract Trailer Starring Jason Bateman and Ben Affleck

filmofilia

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r/atheism

'Storm' by Tim Minchin, with subtitles

youtube

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r/business

University of Kansas study shows that paying for lobbyists reaps benefits

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r/pics

The Strangest Map You'll See Today is Remarkably Proportionate

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r/AskReddit

AskReddit: Reddit what is your favorite online flash game

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r/cogsci

Project Implicit: Various tests to uncover bias (race, political, etc.). Given by Harvard University.

harvard

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r/programming

Stevey's Blog Rants: Have you ever legalized marijuana?

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r/entertainment

South Park Fishsticks episode with Kanye West

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r/Health

Merck made a hit list of doctors who had to be discredited because they criticised the anti-arthritis drug the pharmaceutical giant produced. And you trust this company with your vaccines?

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r/atheism

Mother Teresa: Not Quite The Shining Light I Was Told About As a Child [Youtube]

youtube

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r/haskell

First Haskell Flux 3D demo.

github

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r/wikipedia

He made his living selling New York's public landmarks to unwary tourists

wikipedia

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r/australia

How not to wait in line at your local Centrelink

twitpic

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r/Python

Short-Circuiting Python Module Lookup Gets 2066% Performance Improvement

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r/space

Will Jupiter's Europa Provide 1st Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?

dailygalaxy

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r/politics

Glenn Beck and The Consequences of Crazy Talk

huffingtonpost

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r/math

Factor 3011347479614249131 with a bicycle

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r/bicycling

How to Give Your Bike a Tuneup (In One Hour) - DIY Bicycle Tune Up

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r/worldnews

a quarter of oil-rich Saudi's population is below poverty line, all oil money goes to ruling princes

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r/religion

Obama is making history by becoming the first sitting U.S. president to host, or even attend, a Passover seder

theweek

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r/programming

Homoiconic: Explaining the Objection to Array#sum

github

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r/linux

Review: Deluge 1.1.6 - Powerful BitTorrent Client for GNOME

blogspot

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r/scifi

Stargate Universe: An Intro to the New Series

eatsleepgeek

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r/science

Calorie-Burning Fat? Studies Say You Have It (NYT)

nytimes

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r/Health

The insurance industry arguments against a public health insurance plan amount to complaining that a public health insurance option would do the job so much better than they currently do it and would be too popular.

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r/aww

It totally melt my heart..

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r/linux

Intel aims for 2-second boot time with Moblin Linux platform

arstechnica

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r/astro

Explore the wonders of ...WTF!?!

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r/business

Ford is not Obama Motors

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r/programming

Knuth, goto, Python, and OOP

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r/compsci

Chinese Whispers - an Efficient Graph Clustering Algorithm (+ Applications to NLP) [PDF]

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r/science

What Does This Generation Think it Means to be a Scientist?

scienceprogress

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r/news

Iraqi War Vets help stop KBR road contract in Texas

news8austin

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r/collapse

Billionaires out of my league, Permanent Travellers too paranoid about Big Brother, Survivalists too extreme about guns and religion, Primitivists too opposed to technology and modern culture, and Doomsdayers more interested in proving their predictions than do anything about them.

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r/business

While auto sales are in the toilet, bicycle shops are having a banner year.

infrastructurist

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r/photos

The Most Beautiful Waves...Ever

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r/politics

Karl Rove is basically publicly confessing, right?

washingtonmonthly

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r/environment

Number of the Day: 20% of Total World Electricity Production is used for...

treehugger

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r/environment

$6.60 Solar Cooker Wins $75,000 Climate Change Challenge

treehugger

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r/math

The Greatest Logic Puzzle Ever Written: The Broken Truth Machine by Raymond Smullyan

philipbrocoum

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r/comics

Glenn Beck tea bags against tyranny

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r/environment

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether to compel dry cleaners to phase out a cancer-causing chemical used in tens of thousands of operations nationwide

washingtonpost

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r/science

Simon Baron-Cohen: Media distortion damages both science and journalism. (Borat/Bruno's brother)

newscientist

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r/videos

Tracy Morgan appears on WGN in an, um, intereresting state

youtube

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r/unitedkingdom

Charlie Broookers Newswipe Episode 3 - News Anchors - Just cant help but love this series

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r/programming

"OO has contributed many big and important innovations to programming. Among these, the foremost is that you write functions after rather than before their argument."

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r/funny

ScreenShot Oops! (PIC)

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r/science

Stem Cell Therapy Makes Cloudy Corneas Clear

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r/aww

raccoon dogs.

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r/technology

Remember yesterday the RIAA was happy over Frances new AntiPiracy Law? Well the law didn't pass.

arstechnica

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r/todayilearned

Today I learned that the cousin of Borat holds a PhD in Psychology and is the Director of Autism Research at Cambridge University

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r/environment

Plastic Found in 1/3 of Leatherback Turtles, According to Study

treehugger

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r/cogsci

Understanding How The 'Second Brain' Works

scientificblogging

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r/AskReddit

Ask Reddit: If you were inside a perfect sphere, and the inside was a perfect mirror, completely surrounding you, what would you see?

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r/comics

Treasure Hunt

explosm

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r/politics

A National Student Loan Forgiveness Program | Colleges have become cash cows and vocational processing plants, rather than places to expand one’s mind and understanding of the world.

laprogressive

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r/programming

You can't make up for the absence of any actual vulnerability by piling on style points and cranking up the degree of difficulty.

msdn

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r/Freethought

If water has a memory...

blogspot

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r/gaming

Professional Go/Weiqi/Baduk match commentary video with English subs

youtube

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r/Economics

"It's time for a government bailout of journalism." ::facepalm::

latimes

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r/entertainment

Can you click your mouse as fast as an electric vibrator? (mostly SFW)

sextoys

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r/atheism

62 Foot Jesus? He's got the right idea.

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r/news

War hero helps nab suspects in dog killing (don't kill an ex-Navy Seals dog)

msn

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r/bestof

Sad story... but an interesting perspective on hit-and-run accidents

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r/videos

Richard Dawkins answers the question "What if you're wrong?" [video]

youtube

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r/howto

How to fold yourself a newspaper bin

arvindguptatoys

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r/scifi

10 Star Wars characters with more history than you'd think

denofgeek

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r/politics

Right-wing group tries to ‘connect the dots’ between ‘gay marriage and mass murders.’

thinkprogress

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r/economy

“We’ve seen money go out the back door of this government unlike any time in the history of our country,” Senator Byron Dorgan--enough to pay off 90% of American mortgages or send a $1,430 check to every man, woman and child alive in the world.

bloomberg

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r/lost

The footage of Oceanic Flight 815’s crash onto the Island compiled and re-edited in chronological order for the first time.

tumblr

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r/energy

States threatening to halt payments if U.S. cancels Yucca Mountain

nytimes

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r/pics

Stars Of The Wheat Fields [PICS] - Tractor Mishaps

callhart

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r/politics

Texas lawmaker: Asians should change their names to make them ‘easier for Americans to deal with.’

thinkprogress

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r/happy

Life unfolds in the present. But so often, we let the present slip away, allowing time to rush past unobserved and unseized, and squandering the precious seconds of our lives as we worry about the future and ruminate about what's past.

psychologytoday

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r/science

The Scariest Freakin' Death Cloud I've Ever Seen...

youtube

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r/worldnews

"fresh pictures suggested he had removed his shoulder number and covered his face with a balaclava before hitting Tomlinson"

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r/obama

Biden vs. Cheney: Who's the jerk? - Joan Walsh

salon

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r/lisp

Live Lisp coding as art.

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r/space

Only 2 Days Notice Before A Possible Asteroid Strike? Apparently That’s Par For The Course.

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r/math

The best math tutorial I've read: Learn "Singular Value Decomposition" even if you've never seen a matrix before.

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r/worldnews

The UK police officer who assaulted Ian Tomlinson has come forward, will be questioned by investigators today

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r/pics

Healthy Living [ pic ]

imgpot

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r/environment

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air: the Freakonomics of conservation, climate and energy - book review from Boing Boing

boingboing

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r/atheism

Focus on the Family Narrator Arrested on Sex Charges

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r/entertainment

13 Best 90s Horror Flicks

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Like, Exterminate!

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Coders and neuroscientists have teamed up to make a 20-terabyte map of every cell in the back of a rabbit's eye.

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Dave Thomas: Twitter Should Move Away from Ruby

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Sun Plunges Into The Quietest Solar Minimum In A Century

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Bendy laser beams fired through the air

nature

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r/lost

The link between the statue, the hieroglyphics, the smoke monster and pregnancy on the island.

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33-part illustrated guide to abandoned buildings, towns and cities of the world [pics/links]

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The Boston Globe will go out of business unless its unions accept 20 percent pay cut and an end to seniority rules and "lifetime job guarantees."

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r/haskell

GHC is getting a new build system: try it out

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Insane behind-the-back shoot-out goal from the ECHL's Nick Lindberg - _X_- WOW!

youtube

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r/ruby

My Objection to Array#Sum

github

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10 Tutorials for Great Typography

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r/Music

Billy Bob Thorton pulls passive-aggressive fit on CBC Radio show

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r/AskReddit

If all of your memories were to be erased, but you were allowed one to keep, which would it be?

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r/programming

Getting a 2066% Performance Improvement in Python startup times

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Two Weeks after Being Introduced, Timothy Geithner's Bank Rescue Plan Is Facing a New Round of Withering Criticism from Economists Who Say the Proposal Is Likely to Produce Major Losses for Taxpayers as Banks and Investors Game the System

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r/politics

Why does Rush Limbaugh hate veterans?

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Why are there no "fundamental" Buddhists or Taoists? Is there a correlation between this question and the fact that Buddhist and Taoist beliefs are outside the mainstream media?

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