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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Does PETA ad featuring a young, pantsless woman in a neckbrace promote veganism, or offend?

Seeded on Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:57 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

A call to PETA revealed that the campaign was slated to be launched on Valentine's Day; the accompanying BWVAKTBOOM.com website, launched Monday, includes "tips on how to have sex safely with vegans—such as mounting all TVs and mirrors securely to the wall." But does the …

odd-news, peta, vegan, stupid-ads
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Choose a Motorcycle That Fits

Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:47 AM EST (Allstate Blog)

So, you’ve decided to buy a street bike! Maybe you’ve thought about this for years, wishing for it, fantasizing about it, imagining how it would feel to ride through the pleasing warmth of a summer’s day and into a life of adventure.

motorcycle, not-news, street-bike
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US Toilet Paper Choices Contributing To Indonesian Rainforest Destruction : TreeHugger

Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:42 AM EST (TreeHugger)

WWF continues putting pressure on Asia Pulp & Paper: Their newly released report, Don't Flush Tiger Forests finds that toilet paper, paper towels and tissues made from APP fiber are rapidly expanding into US supermarkets, restaurants, and hotels under the Paseo and Livi bra …

environment, wwf-report-shows-asia-pulp, tags-bathrooms, related-asian-pulp
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A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium

Seeded on Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:36 AM EST (io9)

Behind the well-publicized threat of mass death lies a secret history of nuclear projects being used to destroy individuals. In the late 1940s, United States citizens were injected with plutonium without their knowledge.

health, atomic-energy-commission, ebb-cade, billings-hospital
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Pakistani man fights police over 40-foot shark

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 3:42 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

"We are told to protect and facilitate the people to see this rare fish, but this man is not allowing this," said police inspector Mohammad Aslam at the scene.

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Omaha girls handed a technical foul for wearing pink fundraising uniforms at home | Prep Rally - Yahoo! Sports

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:20 PM EST (Yahoo! Sports)

A high school girls basketball team in Nebraska is struggling to understand why officials would have upstaged the school's well-meaning charity game in which they wore pink uniforms to honor the Make-A-Wish Foundation by handing the team a technical foul

sports
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“Dressing psychiatrists like wizards on the witness stand”

Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:55 PM EST (Overlawyered)

When a psychologist or psychiatrist testifies during a defendant’s competency hearing, the psychologist or psychiatrist shall wear a cone-shaped hat that is not less than two feet tall. The surface of the hat shall be imprinted with stars and lightning bolts.

odd-news, fools-caps
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Icelandic lake monster spotted slithering through ice

Seeded on Mon Feb 6, 2012 10:50 PM EST (io9)

This creature has been sighted on and off since 1345 and possesses an origin straight out of one of Hellboy's less exciting adventures

odd-news, iceland-review
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Turbine Cowboys Gives Wind Power Its Own Reality Show

Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2012 12:55 PM EST ( CleanTechnica)

The Turbine Cowboys crew has been filming as far south as Baja California and up north to Alaska, which is a hint about the direction it’s going in.

entertainment, public-affairs, public-information, american-labor-as, weather-channel-companies
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Jim Bakker's Christian amusement park is now a post-apocalyptic ghost town

Seeded on Sun Feb 5, 2012 12:44 PM EST (io9)

In 1986, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA was the third most-visited amusement park in the US, behind only Disney World and Disneyland.

odd-news, hurricane-hugo, tammy-faye-bakkers, heritage-usa
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At LifeEdited, Everybody Is A Critic. Hop in and Give Your Opinions, Suggestions and Thoughts, and Win Prizes : TreeHugger

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:49 PM EST (TreeHugger)

TreeHugger founder Graham Hill founded the LifeEdited project to reduce his footprint to the comfortable essentials, to eliminate the fat in our design and our lifestyles

environment
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M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" Video Brings Arab Drifting To The Masses

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 12:44 PM EST (Jalopnik)

It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East.

entertainment, video-brings-arab-drifting-to, greatest-dyno-video-of-all-time
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Slab City: Living Off the Grid in California's Badlands -

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 7:38 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

"Chicago" Joe Angio and his wife Anna did everything by the book to secure their slice of the American Dream. They earned college degrees, started a small business, bought a house and pair of cars, paid their taxes and credit-card bills on time.

california, hippies, home-garden, free-rent, slab-city
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Feds Seize 307 Sports-Related Domains Ahead of Super Sunday

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 9:36 AM EST (Wired News)

Federal authorities said Thursday they had seized and shuttered 307 domains, 16 allegedly engaged in unauthorized live sports streaming and the remainder accused of selling fake professional sports merchandise, including National Football League paraphernalia.

sports, new-york-giants, san-francisco-david-kravets-124, website-senior-writer
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Top 10 Solar Technologies to Watch Out For

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 9:22 AM EST ( CleanTechnica)

Solar power technology is moving forward by leaps and bounds, with some new advancements being built out into usable installations virtually every day.

technology, solar-roadways, spg-solar-floatovoltaic, andalay-ac
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MIT Developing Paintable Solar Cells Made Of Plants

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 9:13 AM EST ( CleanTechnica)

In a report published by Scientific Reports, researchers say they’re successfully working toward making low-cost solar cells from plants. Source: Clean Technica (http://s.tt/15wZr)

technology, energy-efficiency, photosynthesis-on-your-roof, still-working-mershin-s
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Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake | Wired Science | Wired.com

Seeded on Fri Feb 3, 2012 8:53 AM EST (Wired News)

After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.

science
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Astonishing discovery of 'supergiant' crustaceans made off New Zealand

Seeded on Thu Feb 2, 2012 10:26 PM EST (grind tv)

There are ordinary amphipods, known to be mostly tiny shrimp-like crustaceans that thrive in aquatic environments around the world, and now there are "supergiant" amphipods, which are 10 times larger and, frankly, quite freakish-looking

new-zealand, odd-news, shrimp, crustaceans
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Scores killed in Egypt football violence

Seeded on Wed Feb 1, 2012 4:46 PM EST (alJazeera Magazine)

At least 73 people have been killed in clashes after a football game in the Egyptian city of Port Said, medics say. About 1,000 others were injured in Wednesday's violence, including police

middle-east, world-news, source-al-jazeera, progress-al-jazeera
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Cute ‘Pluto-kun’ cartoon dispels plutonium fears

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:00 PM EST (Pink Tentacle)

In the early 1990s, Japan's Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) -- a nuclear energy research organization which is now part of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) -- created a pro-nuclear PR cartoon entitled "Pluto-kun, Our Reliable Friend." The aim o …

odd-news, japans-power-reactor, honourable-japanese, manhattan-projects, tokyo-joe-your, japan-atomic-energy-agency, nuclear-boy-video
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Asteroid Threat to Earth Sparks Global 'NEOShield' Project

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:46 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

A new international consortium has been launched to address the impact threat to Earth, but, more pointedly, to organize, prepare and implement mitigation measures.

technology, european-space-agency, give-earth-close-shave, spacecom-bus-sized
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BBC News - Audio slideshow: Bombay's jazz age

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:17 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

When you think of jazz in the early 20th Century you may think of New Orleans, Chicago, New York or Paris. What isn't so well known is that the Indian city of Bombay - now Mumbai - had its own flourishing jazz scene in the 1930s

entertainment
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Topless protesters detained at Davos forum

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:24 PM EST (Yahoo!)

With temperatures around freezing in the snow-filled town, they took off their tops and tried to climb a fence before being detained.

world-news
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Jobless Man Builds House That's Literally Made of Money : TreeHugger

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:15 PM EST (TreeHugger)

Over the last couple of months, Buckley has amassed a former fortune: a whopping 1.4 billion euros (US$2.3 billion) in decommissioned paper currency and used it to build himself a home -- proving that even if you're not made of money, your dwelling could be.

irish, arts, insulation, paintings-british, euro-good-for-somehting
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The Dawn of the Electric Highway

Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:17 PM EST (ecomagination)

The United Kingdom took that first big step this summer with what’s being claimed as the “world’s first national charging network.” Spearheaded by Ecotricity, a private green energy firm, EV motorists will soon be able to travel from London to Edinburgh  …

ev, environment, united-kingdom, state-charging-stations
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Latest Comments

Immigrants trickling back to Ala despite crackdown

Sun Feb 19, 2012
Then let the farmers work through legal channels to get a meaningful guest worker program instituted. Farmers hiring illegals is what is Bull@!$%# , the farmers and the illegal workers should be not allowed to continue the flagrant violation of the law.

My Apology To My Friends In The Newsvine Photographers and Everyone Else I Offended In The Events Leading Up To and The Aftermath of My Unceremonious Booting For "Blatant and Unapologetic Copyright Infringement"

Sun Feb 19, 2012
OK -- I guess I missed the drama too. Maybe because I quit posting pictures on FF and WE around the time the "brand" was insisted upon. Heck, I thought it was even silly to have to wait till 12:00 est to publish if you wanted to be included in fotofriday.

Shootings Gun Laws Police State --An Owl's View of Arizona

Fri Feb 17, 2012
Thanks, I think I'll stay out of the valley. The traffic was pretty near as bad as here even when I lived there. It's really funny -- I never felt the need to wear a gun when I was over there, maybe because I knew so many other folks had theirs.

Shootings Gun Laws Police State --An Owl's View of Arizona

Fri Feb 17, 2012
Thanks for the article owlsview. Arizona has it's share of problems but for the most part it's a great place. It's hard to listen to people that want to bash a state whose citizens want to have a bit of freedom.

Beginning color theory for creative people.

Thu Feb 16, 2012
Wow, man -- I see colors (said in my best hippy voice) Thanks Vlad, very informative.

Myths And Facts About Electric Cars

Wed Feb 15, 2012
Interesting article -- Thanks. EVs have come a long way in a few years.

Obama's Broken Deficit Promise - Yahoo!

Mon Feb 13, 2012
So did he pledge or promise? Whichever -- He should be held to it. and do you really want the same applied to the right? Of course! Don't you? It's sort of tiring listening to "they did it first" as an excuse for the performance of this administration.

Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds

Tue Feb 14, 2012
Here is how the money was doled out -- for and against. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s510/money Interesting that a few that accepted money from opposing groups voted for the bill.

Does PETA ad featuring a young, pantsless woman in a neckbrace promote veganism, or offend?

Tue Feb 14, 2012
The ad reminds me of a crappy SNL skit.

A US government program secretly injected people with plutonium

Sat Feb 11, 2012
Is your "spidey" sense tingling?
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[image]Palestinian Arabs stone Christian tourists on Temple Mount

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First, the lie that is being published by countless Arab media: Dozens of Palestinian residents foiled, on Sunday morning, an attempt by dozens of fundamentalist Israeli Zionist settlers to break into the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem. Now, what really happened: Stone …

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Immigrants trickling back to Ala despite crackdown

Ana Jimenez and her husband were so terrified of being sent back to their native Mexico when Alabama's tough crackdown on illegal immigrants took effect that they fled more than 2,000 miles to Los Angeles, cramming into a two-bedroom apartment with more than 20 other relatives.

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My Apology To My Friends In The Newsvine Photographers and Everyone Else I Offended In The Events Leading Up To and The Aftermath of My Unceremonious Booting For "Blatant and Unapologetic Copyright Infringement"

 For anyone that doesn't know last year I was banished from my favorite group on the vine and from the Foto-Friday feature that was a mainstay of my column every week.

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Weekend Exposure: A Few Weird Photos and Some Others From China

  A. Mac's abstract creativity impressed me greatly, so I thought I would post a few photo mistakes I made in the guise of calling them "abstract", along with a few others I had not yet posted. 

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[image]$6 Trillion In US Bonds Seized In Zurich, Said To Pose

Source: This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied | zero hedge

Back in the summer of 2009, a peculiar story circulated when two Japanese individuals were arrested trying to smuggle $134 billion in US bonds into Switzerland from Italy.

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