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r/worldnews

Attention Twittering Redditors! Help the Iranian bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we are all 'Iranians' it's much harder to find them.

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r/gaming

Who else is more likely to buy a game that advertises with gameplay, rather than cinematics?

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r/science

I am all in favor of homeopathic awareness week. We should use it to make the public aware of the fact that homeopathy is rubbish.

theness

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r/pics

The Mouse That Roared

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r/programming

Opera Unite

opera

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r/politics

How strange is it that many neocons feigning concern for the Iranian protesters advocated dropping bombs on them a few months ago?

salon

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r/worldnews

Ya’ll wanna see feminism? Patriotism? There you go. [Iranian Woman]

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r/pics

Looks like your tomatoes are coming in alreadWHUHHHHGHHHHHH

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r/comics

I feel safe with skeleton harvester.

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r/worldnews

North Korean heir tries to assassinate his elder brother

chosun

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r/funny

Gymnast Shawn Johnson Put To Sleep After Breaking Leg (video)

theonion

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r/technology

How do 'anti-stab' knives work?

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r/atheism

Intelligent Design Zoo [ pic ]

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r/politics

Gee, why is "energytomorrow.org" so pessimistic about geothermal and solar? Oh, that's right, it's because they're just a front for the American Petroleum Institute (API)

energytomorrow

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r/gaming

This is what a Half-Life movie should look like

babel-research

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r/offbeat

Mayor tickets cars ($25) that are parked in their own driveway, because the driveway is made out of gravel! Residents claim this ticket-writing move is an attempt to fill the budget deficit.

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r/bestof

CD Wonders Why Nobody Wants To Buy It Anymore - An Anthropomorphic Sketch by CaspianX2

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r/atheism

Jewish couple sue neighbours for 'imprisoning' them with automatic hallway light

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r/comics

It should be illegal to be a jerk.

viruscomix

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r/AskReddit

Redditor, if you lost your freedom to use the internet, would you riot like it was June 15th in Iran?

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r/entertainment

Mrs. Doubtfire [recut]

youtube

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r/programming

Amazon releases Kindle source code

amazon

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r/Economics

Japan panics about the rise of "grass-eating boys"—young men who shun sex, don't spend money, and like taking walks. - By Alexandra Harney - Slate Magazine

slate

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r/business

Do you have any sales experience?

dilbert

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r/atheism

In my state (Louisiana), they've just proposed a change to the Constitution allowing people to ignore laws by claiming it is against their religion.

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r/politics

DRUGS WON THE WAR!: This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

nytimes

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r/geek

Who said cables couldn't be beautiful?

ironicsans

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r/gadgets

I hope someday I'm important enough and/or rich enough to hire these guys.

hiddenpassageway

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r/Music

Katy Perry trying to use intellectual property laws to destroy a woman's livelihood

mtv

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r/WebGames

Upgrade Complete

armorgames

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r/programming

Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented

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r/politics

John Ensign voted to impeach President Clinton in 1998 over his affair with Monica Lewinsky - and now he's admitting to an affair, too. Another Great Gingrich GOPper

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r/humor

Report: 90% of waking hours spent staring at glowing rectangle

theonion

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r/Economics

Did the Japanese Try to Dump $135 BILLION in US Bonds on the Black Market?

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r/programming

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?

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r/videos

Iranian Student Protester Shot and Killed in Isfahan

youtube

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r/Music

Ever wonder where that "Chinese" riff comes from? You know, "da-na-na-na NA na NUH nuh NAA" like at the beginning of "Turning Japanese"? This guy has thoroughly investigated the matter.

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r/politics

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House : A watchdog group says it will file suit Tuesday, accusing Obama of "following the same anti-transparency policy as the Bush administration."

msn

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r/politics

The Melbourne Herald-Sun is running a poll in Gay Marriage in Australia, one of our local Christian groups is mobilising its members to vote "no"... Reddit, don't let them win.... (resubmitted from lgbt)

com

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r/wikipedia

Han Shot First

wikipedia

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r/atheism

A crusading Catholic priest destroyed the entire written Mayan language and history

blogspot

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r/programming

The Case for D

ddj

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r/funny

YouTube - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Craigslist

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r/environment

A Near-Extinct Blue Butterfly Flourishes Again, Thanks to a Red Ant

discovermagazine

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r/worldnews

Masked "police" brutality in Iran (as captured on video) reaches new heights. :( :(

youtube

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r/business

Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them.

sivers

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r/AskReddit

Is there a name for that effect where when you stare at a word, and it looks misspelled the longer you do?

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r/politics

Palin supporters pressure Hilton to pull web advertising, and ask for Letterman to be fired over joke. In the meantime, Rush, Beck, Hannity, et al spew BS constantly with no pressure on their advertisers.

tvguide

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r/linux

A one-man project to clone Starcraft for Linux [video & project page]

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r/videos

The mystical art of worm-grunting

youtube

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r/gaming

Anybody else sick of racist gamers?

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r/science

Actor Dustin Hoffman lobbies for more reality in science-fiction movies - AWESOME!

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r/scifi

Never throw shit at an armed man. And other Niven's laws.

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r/politics

Reddit, remember the Autistic 5-year-old whose teacher led students in "voting him out" of class? There's more to the story-- apparently the School Board didn't even notify his mother of the hearing to reinstate the teacher and give her tenure back, but notified 13 pro-reinstatement witnesses.

disaboom

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r/funny

There is a troll on your bus

dontevenreply

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r/politics

Washington Post Covers Fact that Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Made Up False Stories To Torturers to Get Them To Stop

washingtonpost

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r/geek

Choose your own adventure version Dinosaur Comics with shifting panels. Epic

qwantz

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r/videos

Weird Al's new song - Craigslist [vid]

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r/news

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House

msn

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r/obama

Hey, GOP. You Know Why Government-Run Health Care Sounds Pretty Good? Because You Aren't In Charge of the Government Anymore.

swamppolitics

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r/Economics

Paul Krugman's advice to the Fed in 2002: "To fight this recession the Fed needs more than a snapback; it needs soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. And to do that...Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble."

nytimes

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r/programming

ants: locks vs stm

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r/Python

Least squares fit of a surface to a 3D cloud of points in Python (with ridiculous application)

pingswept

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r/happy

In homage to the country that gave him asylum, immigrant restaurant owner feeds the unemployed

pennlive

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r/news

Iran 'to hold election recount'

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r/Health

Zicam to be pulled from shelves for destroying users' sense of smell

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r/pics

Irani girl being arrested for wearing red clothes.

flickr

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r/scifi

What a TRUE warp speed capable starship might look like (sorry, Star Trek!)

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r/tf2

A metal version of the TF2 theme? That's going to be terrible right? Right? Wrong.

youtube

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r/programming

Firefox could be used as a server for a while...

mozilla

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r/entertainment

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Sensitivity Training

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r/programming

EFF's Patent Busting Project Wins Another Victory for Developers and Innovators - This time thanks to the open source open development process.

eff

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r/pics

World War I was kinda creepy [Pic]

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r/politics

Obama sides with Bush transparency policy again and blocks access to White House visitor list

msn

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r/funny

"Entourage" Parody sums up every season of the show in just over two minutes and it seems to be suggesting something about every storyline its ever had

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r/atheism

When This Grammy-Winning, Platinum-Selling Band Discovered The Venue For Their Sold Out Performance Was Owned By The Church Of Scientology, The Lead Singer "spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience"

wikipedia

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r/politics

WTF: Republican Rep. Mark Kirk calls for federal legislation to sentence certain first-time marijuana offenders to up to 25 years in prison!

alternet

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r/Art

Stop-Motion video - Using Post Its as pixels. Watch it.... TWICE

youtube

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r/aww

A dog howls/sings to a crying human baby to soothe him. This is cute.

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r/gaming

How many redditors played Total Annihilation? It is still my favorite RTS of all time.

wikipedia

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r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Better be after 8:00pm

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r/lgbt

The Melbourne Herald-Sun is running a poll in Gay Marriage in Australia, one of our local Christian groups is mobilising its members to vote "no"... Reddit, don't let them win....

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r/movies

Dear Mythbusters: This year's summer movie season has given you something to try that will result in your best episode ever. Make it happen.

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r/business

GM says reaches deal to sell Saab to Koenigsegg

reuters

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r/pics

It seems somebody hired a geek for the swedish state railway site

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r/canada

I'm sick of our cellphone/internet providers would redditCanada like to do something about it.

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r/lgbt

New York Times Scolds Obama for Reneging on Gay Rights

nytimes

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r/todayilearned

Today i learnt that barber's poles originated with the practice of blood-letting.

wikipedia

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r/entertainment

5 films where the edited for TV version went wrong

denofgeek

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r/netsec

SHA-1 cryptanalysis just got much better: "we should expect to see an actual SHA-1 collision within the year"

schneier

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r/aww

Cat in a Suitcase

youtube

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r/technology

Move over, silicon—it may be time to give the Valley a new name. -- New Exotic Material Could Revolutionize Electronics

sciencedaily

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r/ronpaul

31,478 Scientists Sign Statement On Global Warming Petition by Dr. Ron Paul

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r/environment

Exxon told to pay interest on Alaska spill award

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r/politics

Following his fact-finding trip to Gaza, former President Jimmy Carter reports his reaction: "My primary feeling today is one of grief and despair and an element of anger"...Palestinians have been treated "like animals"

aljazeera

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r/politics

25 Years in Prison for Pot? Drug Warrior Congressman's Idea Is Way Obsolete--Rep. Mark Kirk thinks that the magic number of 15% THC concentration in marijuana should lead to a 25-year prison penalty.

alternet

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r/science

Dear Aliens, ...

wikipedia

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r/IAmA

I am not a doctor but I like to give iffy medical advice. What's your ailment?

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r/canada

Bell Canada kills video store, creating new round of DRM victims

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r/pics

Sad fucker

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r/gaming

Leaked Starcraft 2 Battle Report

youtube

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r/atheism

Religious Right Pushes Creationism Into Ohio School

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r/pics

Stormtroopers' Picnic [PIC]

bighugelabs

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r/funny

Long legs don't get you far when your brain is small [pic]

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r/WeAreTheMusicMakers

The best free guitar lessons on the interwebs (in my opinion)

justinguitar

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r/comics

Time Travel for the average man

picturesforsadchildren

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r/atheism

Tired Christian Claim #3: The evidence for the existence of Jesus is overwhelming

thegoodatheist

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r/programming

This wiki is dedicated to the wonderful book "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". It contains solutions to exercises along with related discussions, useful links, etc.

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r/politics

In arguing in federal court in favor of the godawful Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration's lawyers might have seriously infuriated some of the gays and lesbians who've been solidly in their base. Fury is the appropriate response.

cbsnews

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r/AskReddit

I just started wearing socks & sandals. What the hell is going on?

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r/science

Happy Homeopathic Awareness Week - Not only does Zicam not work for colds, it can make you PERMANENTLY lose your sense of smell!

cnn

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r/science

Most impressive anomoly in the history of NASA [Video]

youtube

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r/business

DVD market in freefall, despite arrival of Blu-ray

siliconrepublic

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r/AskReddit

AskReddit: What acts of "common courtesy" do you disagree with?

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r/funny

You need to go south. Other dude, "I don't care my horse is awesome. " "but you still need to go south you idiot!"

wordpress

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r/politics

Bill Maher: If you taser old women for swearing... you are a pussy!!

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r/Design

Artists Give Google the Finger

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r/comics

Misunderstanding Comics

livejournal

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r/math

One Minute Challenge: Put Fractions in Ascending Order

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r/technology

China caves into pressure over filtering software: no longer required

com

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r/math

Torrents of my Language of Mathematics videos for Series I and Series II: Approximately 7 hours of math lessons in 58 videos. Please share and seed.

chycho

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r/worldnews

Somali navy chief: World's worst job? "He has neither boats nor equipment and admits he has not been to sea for 23 years."

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r/Ubuntu

10 Things to do After Installing Ubuntu Linux

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r/business

Zicam to be pulled from shelves for destroying users' sense of smell. Stock down >60% : Health

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r/Cooking

A really quick way to peel an egg. Ingenious!

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r/politics

"Sarah Palin is going to drop the first puck at the Philadelphia Flyers hockey game. Then Palin will spend the rest of the game trying to keep the hockey players out of her daughter's penalty box."

washingtonpost

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r/tf2

ATTN Pyros: Compression blast puts out flaming teammates

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r/atheism

Crazed Christian Tells Her 4 Year Old Daughter That She's Pure Evil and Worthy Only of Hell

youtube

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r/AskReddit

Are there any scholars interested in moderating / starting up a Scholar subreddit with peer reviewed articles?

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r/lgbt

Bride ban: Gay bar says 'I don't' to bachelorettes

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r/worldnews

UK Police blogger 'to be identified' after Judge declares blogging to be a " public rather than a private activity"

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r/funny

You Brits know how to name your places.

wikipedia

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r/bestof

Why the Babylonians were good at algebra but not geometry and vice versa for the Greeks

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r/technology

German-led consortium about to invest €400 billion in Solar Energy (Desertec)

spiegel

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r/economy

Federal Reserve to gain more power

washingtontimes

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r/atheism

Christian hilarity: "I'm 100% sure and convinced I'm right, can you say the same about your views? I doubt it."

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r/unitedkingdom

An open letter to Nick Griffin, Chairman of the BNP from The Royal British Legion

org

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r/programming

How to Crash Erlang

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r/canada

Are our MPs as bad as Britain's? They seem to be rather secretive...

montrealgazette

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r/politics

Another failure of social conservatism. Republican Senator John Ensign admits affair with a married woman.

washingtonpost

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r/Economics

Web Poker Bust - Federal government seizes millions from bank accounts used to process online poker transactions.

lasvegassun

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r/worldnews

Former US President Jimmy Carter has said he had to "hold back tears" while viewing destruction on a visit to Gaza.

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r/starcraft

Leaked Starcraft 2 Battle Report ;-)

youtube

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r/scifi

Five Reasons Tolkien Rocks

omnivoracious

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r/linux

KDE Linux Netbook Desktop

itrunsonlinux

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r/collapse

Dmitry Orlov: Definancialisation, Deglobalisation, Relocalisation

blogspot

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r/pics

Best, geekiest license plate ever. (explanation in comments)

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r/space

Giant eruption reveals 'dead' star

esa

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r/Python

samurai-x 0.2 - is a window manager written in pure python using ctypes, xcb and cairo.

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r/Cooking

Chinese Chef Makes Noodles by Hand [impressive video]

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r/atheism

The Jerusalem Post mocks 87-year-old stroke victim for never having been circumcised: "How does a God-fearing Jew come to terms with the realization that throughout his entire life he remained uncircumcised, like some primitive pagan?"

circumstitions

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r/AskReddit

Do you own a smart-phone? Aside from the phone function, do you find the investment to be worth it?

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r/psychology

What makes women less picky when dating?

wordpress

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r/offbeat

In what universe would the Bee Gees' "Staying Alive" and Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust" turn out to have the perfect tempo needed to perform CPR properly?

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r/apple

Senators Call For Probe Into iPhone-AT&T Deal

infopackets

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r/gaming

"These days, too many top-tier games are scrapping options for extra buddies to play in the same room, on the same couch."

escapistmagazine

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r/AskReddit

A guy I work with just found $1,000 cash on the ground in the middle of a neighborhood in Chicago. What would you do with this money?

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r/lgbt

Same-Sex Behavior Found in Nearly All Animals | LiveScience

livescience

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r/geek

Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" on a Theremin

youtube

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r/Python

PyPy: News from the JIT front

blogspot

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r/energy

Best Buy to sell Brammo Electric motorcycles

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r/offbeat

Cop finds $100 bills blowing in the wind Pa. officer spots cash along road, returns stash to rightful owner

msn

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r/aww

RatLoaf

photobucket

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r/pics

Sore Loser [PIC]

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r/software

How Opera plans to reinvent the web: An introduction to Opera Unite

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r/linux

Enhancing GNOME usability with AWN, Gnome-Do and Dolphin

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r/netsec

Encrypt the Cloud, Security Luminaries Tell Google

wired

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r/tf2

Dustbowl Time Lapse

youtube

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r/todayilearned

TIL why the Babylonians were good at algebra but poor at geometry and vice versa for the Greeks

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r/programming

Facebook Chat reaches 1 billion messages a day... All powered by Erlang!

facebook

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r/linux

LMMS: An Alternative to Fruityloops

sourceforge

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r/videos

American living in North Korea

liveleak

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r/linux

Synapse.im - An IM Client Dedicated to Linux | Techgeist

techgeist

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r/pics

Pokemon Camping Trip 2005

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r/worldnews

"Many of my friends are in prison," said Saman, a student beaten by police. "Iran is becoming a dictatorship. Ahmadinejad is denying the Holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was."

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r/ZenHabits

101 Most Inspiring Quotes of All Time

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r/business

"S.F. is going broke, whether you like it or not!" - Shocking 2008 Salary Update

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r/history

Who killed the werewolf? Charles Darwin.

sciencedaily

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r/AskReddit

Is there a pronoun to use instead of writing "he/she" when the sex of the individual is unknown?

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r/gaming

How to play any game with 3-d glasses for $2

youtube

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r/self

You know how insanity means doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome? Well I think my job search is driving me insane

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r/photos

Iran's continued election turmoil [The Big Picture]

boston

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r/politics

No, Senator. The "worse thing" you've ever done was support Bush's illegal, immoral war in Iraq.

cnn

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r/technology

Opera drops 'Unite'. Features awesome innovations in sync tools and web integration.

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r/worldnews

Blood runs in the streets of Tehran as technology becomes the enemy of the state along with protesters

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r/technology

Senators Introduce “Run [Fiber Optic] Tubes Under The Highway” Bill

wired

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r/videos

Women in an office compare breast size and butt firmness [VID] kinda SFW

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r/apple

Apple puts Palm on notice: "newer versions of Apple's iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality with non-Apple digital media players."

apple

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r/pics

Largest public square in the world, full of people

twitpic

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r/apple

Apple plugs critical Java security hole affecting Tiger, Leopard

appleinsider

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r/Python

Ask Reddit: If you were to develop (and deploy) a web application written in Python 3 today, what framework and webserver-hooks would you use?

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r/books

White male seeking sexy Asian women

salon

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r/worldnews

U.S. journalists confessed to illegally entering N. Korea (They video taped their crossing)

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r/obama

A little perspective: Health care reform would only account for a fraction of 3% of the budget deficit. Most of it was created by Bush.

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r/psychology

Kids with ADHD need to fidget to focus, study says

physorg

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r/programming

"Why Programming is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly Understood and Sloppily Formulated Ideas" (Minsky)

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r/environment

The impact of a changing climate is already being felt across the United States, like shifting migration patterns of butterflies in the West and heavier downpours in the Midwest and East

nytimes

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r/economy

Goldman Sachs predicts a lost decade

seekingalpha

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r/history

Study of remains from Roman Britain suggests over 10% were of African origin.

blogspot

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r/worldnews

"All violent video games to be banned in Germany" - "The law would result in no Call of Duty, no God of War, no Crysis, no World of Warcraft, no BioShock, no Uncharted, and no Grand Theft Auto."

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r/web_design

Bad news for IE: Corporate IT departments will soon be pressured into a two-browser solution, and one of them cannot be IE.

quirksmode

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r/photography

Holy Mount Ararat (pic)

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r/opensource

Interview with Pirate Party Leader: "These are Crucial Freedoms"

earthweb

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r/compsci

Subtyping, Subclassing, and Trouble with OOP

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r/obama

Obama blocks list of visitors to White House

msn

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r/science

But for humans, it's "unnatural."

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r/science

NASA to ram Moon. No this is not NY Post. "[It will] create a crater 66 feet wide by 13 feet deep and send a 6-mile-high plume wafting into space" Visible from Earth

latimes

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r/lolcats

Testing owt sunbaff

icanhascheezburger

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r/science

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

theonion

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r/pics

Fuckin' right you're not in Kansas any more [pic]

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r/history

Architectural history and engineering evolution: old and new bridges converted into contemporary shops and housing [pics]

dornob

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r/worldnews

Iranians Retaliate for Slaying of Demonstrator by Storming Basij Militia Base [PICS]

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r/politics

While Attorney General Eric Holder remains utterly uninterested in the mountains of evidence of Justice Department corruption during the Bush-Cheney administration, he's found time to freeze bank accounts of on-line poker sites, depriving who knows how many Americans of their winnings.

pokernewstoday

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r/videos

The Daily Show: Irandecision 2009 - Sham, Wow [vid]

thedailyshow

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r/worldnews

Kim Jong-Il's oldest son survives assassination attempted by the aides of his younger brother (and current heir apparent)

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r/lists

The 6 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Science

cracked

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r/politics

In the presidential campaign, President Obama declared that he would work to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Now, the administration appears to be defending it.

nytimes

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r/cogsci

Screw the birdie ... I just want to not make a bogey. Playing it safe makes no sense.

nytimes

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r/philosophy

You Are an Anarchist

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r/politics

Kucinich: 'Another $106 Billion and All We Get is a Lousy War'

upvotes

r/worldnews

Massive protests in Isfahan, Iran now

blogspot

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r/technology

Ever Better Cryptanalytic Results Against SHA-1

schneier

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r/energy

Irish investor blows into Illinois with $1 billion for wind farm projects

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r/Art

Banksy vs Bristol Musuem- great collection of pics

flickr

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r/environment

China is now building a series of huge dams on the 2,800-mile [Mekong] river that will restrict its natural flow and threaten the sustenance of tens of millions of Southeast Asians

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r/politics

Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Says He "Made Up Stories"

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r/science

A Plant That Thrives When Used as a Toilet

nytimes

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r/economy

British Airways to employees: Please work for free

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r/lolcats

tunite

icanhascheezburger

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r/politics

Why doesn't the Right Wing control its extremists? Isn't that what they've consistently criticized the Islamic world for failing to do?

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Monster's Den: simple, tactical dungeon-crawl flash game

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Happy Bloomsday, reddit!

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r/IAmA

I'm an accountant. I'm bored as usual. What can I answer for you?

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Dateline August 2nd, 2002: Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble. (None Of This Was A Mistake)

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I am an Eagle Scout who has almost been struck by lightning 4 times, a former patent examiner and the founder of a bakery. Ask away!

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Announcing your plans to others makes you less motivated to accomplish them.

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