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Rush Limbaugh and Karl Rove, both of whom dropped out of second-rate colleges, are claiming that Sotomayor, who graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and was an editor of the Yale Law Review, doesn't have the intellect to serve on the Supreme Court.

politico

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Zero Punctuation: Duke Nukem Forever?

escapistmagazine

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Look, I'm 100% pro-gay marriage, I was outraged by what happened on Nov. 4 and marched in rallies on Nov. 5. But today's ruling was judicially sound. Even though I disagree with the amendment, that doesn't make the amendment itself unconstitutional. So lets save our fight for another day.

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In case there is any doubt, I want to assure you that these pictures are real and not clever composites made in Photoshop. Chipmunks can be very easy to get along with, once you've taken the time to befriend them.

flickr

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Fuck: N Korea warns of possible military strike -- "No longer bound by the 1953 armistice"

com

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The logistics of who can get drunk are nontrivial [xkcd]

xkcd

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Steven Chu, the US Energy Secretary recommends painting roofs white to increase solar reflectivity... Read the comments below, from of all the idiots that can't comprehend the concept.

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There's no base other than base 10!

cowbirdsinlove

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Christians follow a religion which teaches that we atheists deserve to be tortured forever. Then we are intolerant bigots for being upset with this belief system. Does anyone else find this hilarious?

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r/geek

Simply put: This is awesome. Two women play Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor on a giant piano

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r/bestof

Ah, 12-year-old engineering. (This, and his better reply.)

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An article to all those who add 'MBA' after their name in an email sig

examiner

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Swine Flu Pandemic billboards in Australia.

flickr

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(Ferris Bueller's Day Off) Cameron's house is for sale!

realtor

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Jesus had two dads; why can't I? [pic]

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Google Bets Big on HTML 5

oreilly

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r/humor

Best Gay Protest Sign [pic]

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Australian government admits less than 32% of secret censorship list is related to underage images

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You have a 5-hour rain delay during your college baseball game. How do you pass the time? Dance-off! (Skip past the Macarena at the start).

youtube

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My car's rear window was broken by what?

youtube

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Forbidden love (pic)

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McDonald's cheesburger sign [PIC]

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How Not to Do Web Site User Registration

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the only man standing is... [PIC]

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Study says "sexting" no worse than playing doctor or spin the bottle

breitbart

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Hello, Im an atheist and I DO Judge you- I think that your acceptance of religion has perpetuated the biggest sham in human history and therefore supported torture, genocide and suffering all in the name of your god

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Douchebag of The Year (GIF)

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Deng Yujiao was an unknown 21-year-old worker in a Chinese provincial town: one of millions quietly scraping a living. Now she is an unwilling hero to tens of thousands of compatriots after stabbing to death an official who she says tried to rape her when she rejected his advances.

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r/wikipedia

The only person known to go voluntarily to the Auschwitz camp as a prisoner

wikipedia

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The Classiness Scale © T-Rex

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Writing and using extensions with Google Chrome is going to rock

chromium

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Guy drives his power wheels to campus and gets ticketed. Three times.

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Who needs photoshop?

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John Lithgow joins Dexter cast as serial killer!

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r/Music

I just discovered Grooveshark and my mind is Officially Blown!!

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"Natural remedies" retailer puts themselves up for a Q&A, hilarity ensues.

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r/photos

Think [PIC]

flickr

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r/technology

F-Secure recommends: Put Your Passwords on a Post-it

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What a chair!

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"It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: you came up with the idea. Why do you believe it?" -Ricky Gervais on being an atheist

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"At a time when the feds are spending with such abandon in an effort to stimulate the economy why is it tolerable to leave states in a position where they are forced to fire teachers? How can there be federal funds readily available for banker bonuses but not to keep teachers in the classroom?"

truthdig

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Beaten into submission

thedailywtf

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r/linux

ASUS turn back on Linux success and insult users with new claim you'd use Windows if you really want the most out of your laptop/netbook

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r/xkcd

Designated Drivers

xkcd

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North Korea Uncovered <br> A small group of people have taken a wiki approach to spying on North Korea using Google Earth and the web. The results are a CIA analyst's dream.

nkeconwatch

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From the RNC talking points on Obama's SCOTUS nominee: "Stripping "under God" out of the Pledge of Allegiance and completely secularizing the public square;" What's wrong with removing 'under God' from the Pledge? It was only inserted in 1954.

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r/web_design

This should be required viewing for clients.

psstpassiton

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r/environment

German court rejects Monsanto plea to end GMO maize ban: New studies could indicate that the poisonous substance (generated by genetic mutation) could not only have an impact on the pests which it is aimed at combating, but also on other insects."

reuters

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Feral girl in Siberian city of Chita was brought up by cats and dogs

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r/philosophy

“In schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived... Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged.”

nytimes

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r/todayilearned

Today I learned there are 7, 6, 5, or even 4 continents depending on your country of education

wikipedia

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Turns out FBI Informant made up supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues

alternet

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Wiwa vs Shell Oil trial postponed. Ken Saro-Wiwa, an acclaimed writer and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders

wiwavshell

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Ask Zach Weiner, creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, anything you want

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Infographics (comic)

bradcolbow

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Twenty years after Tiananmen, China erases the incident by buying off scholars and giving students something to dream about.

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Law demands that G.W. Bush be barred from Canada or prosecuted for torture

afterdowningstreet

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A 12 year old Afghani boy was taken to Guantanamo, tortured and abused for over seven years

yahoo

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r/math

1094 Maths Videos To Stream or Download from Cambridge University Lectures

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A man that was abused as a child by the Catholic Church in Ireland gets seriously passionaite about the recent scandal.

youtube

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That $700 billion bailout has since grown into a more than $12 trillion commitment by the US government and the Federal Reserve.

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Conservative radio host who got waterboarded admits technique may produce bogus intelligence

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I shot the Serif

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Daily Motion uses HTML 5 video with Ogg Theora and Vorbis

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r/environment

Big Oil made over $600 billion during Bush years, invested nothing in clean energy.

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Scientists have genetically modified primates to make them glow green and pass on the change to their children.

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r/geek

Prepare for Impact! Zune HD is REAL

engadget

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list of things i don't like about python

jessenoller

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r/scifi

I just saw "Moon" (starring Sam Rockwell) at the Seattle International Film Festival and the director was there for a Q&A after the film! I recommend it highly.

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For the fourth year in a row, US marijuana arrests set an all-time record! A marijuana smoker is arrested every thirty-eight seconds!

2solitudes

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r/lolcats

I hope

icanhascheezburger

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r/history

Scandalous Facts About Historical Figures

listverse

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r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Concave flakes

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Christians upset that the internet is not censored.

com

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A touching moment [PIC]

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Heya reddit, this is "Bullet Time", a little flash game I made for a 48 hour contest. Thought I'd share!

kongregate

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r/Bacon

What is there other than this? [comic]

catandgirl

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Arnold, meet our new pet, Pinchy... (pic)

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r/happy

Baby Squirl [PIC]

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EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data

arstechnica

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Penny Arcade! - Additional Infamy

penny-arcade

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Follow up - Baby with anencephaly dies

blogspot

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A British Cheese-Rolling Race . . . WTF pics

boston

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r/self

Is it just me, or was Mel Gibson's remake of the Life of Brian not as funny as the original?

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r/sports

Barcelona 2, Manchester United 0

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r/linux

Has ASUS all but given up on Linux?

com

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r/Music

If I own a vinyl, is it still illegal to download the album by otherwise illegal means?

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r/geek

New DVDs store up to 1.6TB

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What is there other than this? A small room, a hot meal, an inevitable death.

catandgirl

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Biolumiescent wave of a Red Tide in California [pic]

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Sarah Palin's Outrageous Hypocrisy on Teen Sex--Palin knew her daughter was having sex in her own house. What does it take to get discredited as a right-wing "family values" merchant these days?

alternet

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Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

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Ever feel like you've got a few different "people" in your brain, fighting for dominance? Is this normal?

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The Animaniacs mock their nitpicking fans with the "Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation"

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r/environment

Amazon Deforestation 2000-2008 [pics]

nasa

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For modern browsers, a way cool HTML 5 demo

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r/canada

Canadians Take Notice, the U.S. Is Militarizing the Border

alternet

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Anyone here use ack? It's a lot better than grep.

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r/energy

US wants to paint the world white to save energy

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Darth Vader's secret? Breathing Xenon!

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IRS: tax revenue down 34%

usatoday

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John Carmack: iPhone Doom progress

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Multilingual Patients Can Show Different Levels of Psychosis Depending on the Language Being Spoken

mindhacks

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The Vendor-Client relationship in real world situations

youtube

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r/tvcritic

"Deadwood" (2004)

imdb

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Mancow: Sean Hannity Called Me After I Was Waterboarded And Said, ‘It’s Still Not Torture’

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Pixar versus Dreamworks

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r/DIY

The Best How-To and DIY Sites

pcmag

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UK student atheist societies face prejudice and death threats

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"SICP has its own agenda: convincing the reader that the most important thing computers can do is interpreting computer programs." What's wrong with that?

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r/Health

Canada's healthcare saved her; Ours won't cover her

latimes

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Why you won't be building your killer app on a distributed hash table

blogspot

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The Cervix Photo Gallery!

beautifulcervix

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r/psychology

Bitter behavior is so common and deeply destructive that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder.

latimes

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Reddit, what gets you out of bed in the morning?

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Google is giving away free(!) android phones to every atendee at Google IO

androidcommunity

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A machine the can roll and process 1.5 million dice rolls a day

gamesbyemail

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How spellcheckers work: Levenshtein, Soundex and more

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r/web_design

Target IE6 and IE7 with only 1 extra character in your CSS

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Shetland Pony Adventures

harkavagrant

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In the US, we say "average joe" to refer to a "common" type of person. What are the equivalents in other countries?

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"Almighty God created the races ... and he placed them on separate continents... The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix." -- How religion was used to try to keep interracial marriages illigal. It failed in 1967, it'll fail in 2009

wikipedia

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Super ugly otters born at Seaworld.

liveleak

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AskGaming: Would you be interested in an SNES-style Online RPG?

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r/ronpaul

Peter Schiff on FOX "I might Run for Senate"

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When I was in kindergarten, I pinched a mentally retarded kid as hard as I could because he wouldnt show any sign of pain. What is he most shameful thing you've ever done?

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r/Frugal

I was kicked out of a store for comparison shopping with a phone, thoughts?

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Awkward Family Photo of the Day: The Pile On

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SIBEL EDMONDS: Announcing 'Project Expose MSM' | Whistleblowers set to name names, turn tables on media who've betrayed our trust | Newsweek reporters named in 'real-life' case example of new project...

bradblog

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r/wikipedia

Everybody get Butt Naked! (sfw)

wikipedia

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r/movies

Put the book back on the shelf: 13 book-to-film adaptations that the authors hated

avclub

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r/bicycling

US bike sales higher than car sales in First Quarter of 2009

huffingtonpost

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Woman blasts off boyfriend’s penis with firecrackers

mosnews

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Nationwide sales tax under consideration. Will dramatically increase the price of everything, but everyone can finally see a doctor for free.

washingtonpost

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Fallout 3 banned in India due to cultural and religious sensitivities (it has cows in it). Never mind the fact that bovine leather happens to be one of the country's largest exports. Sacred cows are only sacred when it's convenient.

wired

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Factor's implementation of polymorphic inline caching

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r/photography

Butterfly Landing

flickr

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Israelis get four times more water than Palestinians, says World Bank report

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r/canada

Police have arrested 62 in a sweep aimed at busting up the high school marijuana trade in Clarington, a rural region east of Oshawa - Kingpins? No, they "arrested both buyers and a few dealers, most for simple possession of small amounts"

thestar

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Tutorial on Real-Time Physics Programming for Games : PART 2

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r/australia

The Australian Christian Lobby is upset at Conroy's supposed "backtracking" on the internet filter

com

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r/ronpaul

Rand Paul: The Other Doctor Paul (and potential US senate candidate) Get to know him a little better - 14 min. audio interview with Lew Rockwell

lewrockwell

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r/apple

White MacBooks silently bumped to 2.13GHz c2d, nvidia 9400M and faster memory

apple

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Bowser's Minions

youtube

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r/Health

Cancer death rate dropped nearly 20 percent in 15 years

cnn

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Natural Selection preorders open now - best HL mod now standalone #2

naturalselection2

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clip of Barney Frank in 2005: Housing Bubble? What Housing Bubble? "You're not going to see a collapse"

youtube

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'Straight people must stand up and be a voice for gay people'

huffingtonpost

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Little candy thief

dailymotion

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r/space

Scientists Call Hubble a 'Whole New Telescope' After Repairs

space

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r/aww

Owlette loves his ear scratch

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Zombie nuns will eat your soul [PIC]

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A Traffic-Free Broadway NYC (slideshow)

nytimes

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Alien found in Lahore, Pakistan....killed by children.....WTF!!!

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So Burris did try to buy Obama's seat from Blago.

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Cancer drug erases fingerprints

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r/gadgets

Blue Lounge cable clips. Stop your cables from falling on the floor when you take your laptop away.

bluelounge

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TurboGears 2.0 finally released

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So why is destructoid on the top of the gaming reddit title? I see no reason for them to be a part of this. Let them start /r/destructoid

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Have any of you actually visited RushLimbaugh.com? Goddamn.

rushlimbaugh

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The six biggest ways (we know about) that TARP scams taxpayers.

salon

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r/xkcd

What's up, Randall Munroe! I saw Jurassic Park, too!

cowbirdsinlove

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The Python Module of the Week series, or PyMOTW, is a tour of the Python standard library through short examples

doughellmann

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My $3.3M mistake

sivers

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r/canada

MP Fail: Garry Breitkreuz introduces bill to abolish gun registry, then doesn't bother showing up to debate it in the House of Commons

nationalpost

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Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter has passed away after getting a cord from a treadmill accidentally wrapped around her neck yesterday

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r/space

How to use pulsars for interstellar navigation

technologyreview

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The Iraq War Really Is a Crusade. According to French President Chirac, Bush told him that the Iraq war was needed to bring on the apocalypse.

sott

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r/economy

The ungovernable state: As California ceases to function like a sensible state, a new constitution looks both necessary and likely

economist

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A is for Ackbar, B is for Bantha

flickr

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r/australia

Would it make better environmental sense to eat kangaroo instead of beef for us Australians?

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r/bicycling

Side-by-Side Tandem [PIC]

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r/ruby

MacRuby, changing the Ruby ecosystem

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Las Vegas real estate meltdown (25 minute video). Very Interesting.

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r/compsci

How spellcheckers work: Levenshtein, Soundex and more

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r/ReverseEngineering

Art of file - graphical interpretation of a file

coldwind

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Supreme Court buys cops' 'trust us' argument, overturns long-standing ruling that stops police from initiating questions unless a defendant's lawyer is present, a move that will make it easier for prosecutors to interrogate suspects

crooksandliars

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r/philosophy

What if history's philosophic development happened on an Internet message board? Get ready for Hume to rebut Descartes with "Alright, you French sack of shit."

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Over 90 percent of economists see US recession ending this year with bumpy recovery

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They Risked Their Lives To Extend Hubble S.T.'s Life

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Are there any programming or CS audiobooks out there? I drive a lot so I want some, but I can't find any.

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Why We Should Listen to Peter Schiff's Bad News - TIME Magazine

time

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this guy is really good with the pen....wait till the end....

youtube

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Home Secretary to be sued over MI5 torture allegation

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Shuttle Atlantis being towed [pic]

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Do you believe that the universe is deterministic? Meaning, if there was a powerful computer that could simulate every particle in the universe, could it determine the course of your life?

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r/Health

Cancer Patient Delayed at US Airport for Four Hours Because He Had No Fingerprints

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AskProggit: I just spent a day tracking down a bug that resulted from a single character typo, using * instead of &. What were your most elusive, frustrating, idiotic, or fail-so-hard-its-a-win bugs that you've encountered?

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An elusive supernova explosion, detectable only in radio wavelengths, was discovered last month in the nearby galaxy M82.

space

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GHC on SPARC: The CAS experiment

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r/cogsci

From virtual to real life competition racing in 12 months

topgear

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Web Developer Gang Sign <img>

flickr

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Milwaukee, Don't Give the Public's Water Away to a Private Company

alternet

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Anyone else filled with that same sense of excitement and wonderment that they first felt, when they see this icon?

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Ahhh, a little more

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Bush explained to French Pres. Chirac that the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Mid-East and must be defeated.

alternet

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An awesome guitar version of the Frog Theme from Chrono Trigger

youtube

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Hello, I am an Atheist and I do not want to kill or judge you for your religious beliefs. Everyone entitled to their own opinion and that's how it supposed to be!

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What you wrote, what you meant, and what you did [Pic]

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Two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.

$r/offbeat - Two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.$

wikipedia

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r/lolcats

Did enneebuddee

icanhascheezburger

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Former WOW Addicts: Whenever I look at a screenshot of WOW I feel a slight urge to play it again, after which I feel physically sick. Does this happen to you too?

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r/listentothis

Kings of Convenience - Misread [Indie]

youtube

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Stone Axe Disproving Creationism Found After 150 Years In Museum

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Abort! Abort! A320 caught in crosswinds.

metacafe

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r/sports

Magic up 3 games to 1 on Cavs

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Nasccar Driving Education [PIC]

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Accenture switches tax havens

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What would happen if the North Korean government fell?

theatlantic

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The $800 Killer Gaming PC

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Fusion dreams delayed: International partners are likely to scale back the first version of the ITER reactor

nature

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Natural Selection 2 releases first teaser! Imagine Starcraft where every unit is a player. They did it first and best, and now they're doing it again.

kotaku

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It's payback time! Bull 1 - Matador 0

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r/tf2

We met the red spy, this fanmade video shows what the blue spy can do.

youtube

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r/ruby

Engine Yard Has Taken Over Ruby 1.8.6 Maintenance

infoq

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You'll wish that Brooke Hogan's album cover is satire, but it's not...

dlisted

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r/nonprofit

The Video Shell Oil Desperately Doesn't Want You to See

youtube

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Super Colbert with Frickin' Lazers! [gif]

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Religion and non-religion to be excluded from South Carolina classrooms. Wait, what?

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r/Buddhism

Shaolin Temple | TROMPYX

trompyx

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r/cogsci

"Blue brain" project to build a functional model of the mammalian brain

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15 Sexist Vintage Ads

oddee

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r/technology

The Zune HD is Official

engadget

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911 Truthers Praise Bush/Cheney for Not Attacking the US in the Last 7 1/2 Years

opednews

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Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil: “It is very clear that Chevron, just like Shell, uses the military to protect its oil activities. They drill and they kill.”

truthdig

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r/ZenHabits

Ten Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

stevepavlina

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The Chinese and Arabs are buying poor countries’ farms on a colossal scale. Be wary of the results

economist

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Reddit, Do you think aliens have ever visited our planet?

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Her mother would not approve of it [pic]

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r/australia

New series of The Chaser airs tonight at 9pm on ABC

net

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Gehenna: word that translates to "Hell" in Judaism, Christianity ... and Islam. The place is derived from an actual geographical site in guess where? ... yup, Jerusalem.

wikipedia

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Nigel Lythgoe’s homophobia inflamed when two men dance together on SYTYCD

realityblurred

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Stunning images of kingfishers in action

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UK journalist Suzanne Breen: 'I'll go to jail rather than give up source'

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Norwegian sunsets [pics]

thomaslaupstad

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AskReddit: Is there anything that you did as a kid that, when you think back, makes you wonder how you survived?

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r/lolcats

Wake the fuck up, Audrey Hepburn!

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r/writing

One extreme (and rare) way to get over writer's block

boingboing

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Remember Bush vs. Gore? Now Bush's lawyer is working to nix Prop 8

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r/happy

‘Mississippi Burning’ Town Elects Its First African-American Mayor

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Housing Is Not Just Bad, It's Getting Worse

time

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"...after five years of staying clean an individual with a criminal record is of no greater risk of committing another crime than other individuals of the same age."

cmu

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r/economy

Bond market says "No Mas!"

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Priests can't marry (women) and can't have gay sex either. Is there a better system for filtering pedophiles out there?

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...is a small community grocery store owned by WHO?

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Half Life 2 G-man sightings

youtube

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