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2010-09-02

The crazy demands of the Discovery Channel hostage taker: [1]
Sarah Palin's pick for New Mexico Governor wants to end medical marijuana: [2]
Apparently unaware that Puerto Ricans are natural-born US citizens, Ohio refuses to accept Puerto Rican birth cirtificates as proof of identity: [3]
Stranded whale in western Australian harbor will be blown up: [4]
The famous "Dont Tread On Me" flag is associated with the Tea Party: [5] (And that's an insult to the flag if ever there was one…)
New virus, originally from Japan, replaces your files with pictures of squid: [6]
Algerian hackers lay siege to the wrong castle, 2,000 miles away: [7]
Will Russia's bloggers survive censorship push? [8]
25,000 years of Erotic Ereedom, by Alan Moore: [9]
Nike files patent for auto-lacing sneakers: [10]
Indonesian court orders the local outlet of the hip Paris-based Buddha Bar to close immediately after a complaint from a group of Buddhists: [11]
Here's how to balance the budget…the sex offender tax: [12]
New Hampshire teen sues his teacher for not telling him that attaching electrical clamps to his nipples would give him a severe electric shock: [13]
Dutch college angry about ads in student newspapers for phone sex and webcam sex workers: [14]
Aussie politician – "The Australian Sex Party made me look at porn:" [15]
Here's how good Christian (Opus Dei) women keep themselves from being tempted into the evils of sex: [16]
Those Chilean miners are going to be trapped for the next several weeks. "Please give us booze and cigarettes?" "No:" [17]
Russia's annual inflatable sex doll river race: [18]
Plymouth (UK) schoolgirl accidentally kills herself in asphyxiation cleansing "rebirth" ritual: [19]
Facebook backlash forces Omaha, Nebraska newspaper to publish same-sex wedding announcements: [20]
Federal appeals court rules the University of Wisconsin cannot stop Catholic groups from receiving student fees for worship, proselytizing, and religious instruction: [21]
Anti-bullying groups are turning innocent schoolchildren into homosexuals: [22]
AT&T calls net neutrality advocate a conspiracy theorist: [23]
Using genetics to explain why Obama really is a Muslim: [24]
Researchers are figuring out ways to test the Theory Of Everything: [25]
Conspiracy theory time – Simon Wiesenthal was an Israeli spy: [26]
Bollywood celebrity bribes the censors: [27]
Novelty company fined $70,000 for selling banned yo-yo waterballs in New Jersey: [28]
Maryland woman sues after being banned by Facebook: [29]
The Complete Christian Guide to Understanding Homosexuality: [30]
Three siblings from Malawi burn themselves to death after they accuse their parents of teaching them witchcraft: [31]
Here comes Neil Gaiman's The Sandman – the TV series: [32]
British ballet dedicated to people of Tibet is pulled from China expo: [33]
Nude photos of Manitoba judge posted on porn website: [34]
A free (and legal) e-book download of Christian fiction author Tosca Lee's Demon: [35]
Digital piracy is "unadulterated theft," says Obama administration: [36]
Ron Paul supports "no gold at Fort Knox" conspiracy theory: [37]

Picture of the moment:

Saudi Arabian censorship at its finest: [38]

2010-09-01

Swedish prosecutor orders the reopening of a rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange: [1]
9/11, the musical: [2]
Japanese men take their virtual girlfriends on real-life dates, complete with hotel rooms: [3]
Huntington, West Virginia elementary school takes down its swingsets to Protect The Children (and protect itself from lawsuits): [4]
Zimbabwe artist to go on trial for depicting scenes in his paintings of civilians being massacred by government troops: [5]
Don't sign up for Obamacare: [6]
Archie comics to debut their first gay character: [7]
Whiskey made from human urine: [8]
Publisher HarperCollins and the BBC begin a court battle over a book that reveals the identity of Top Gear's The Stig: [9]
Iran's cyber-army attacks 1,000 US, British, and French government Web sites: [10]
Darpa are working on a project that would make it harder for military personnel and troops to funnel classified material to WikiLeaks – or to foreign governments: [11]
More scare stories in the press about "legal highs:" [12]
Glenn Beck versus Martin Luther King Jr.: [13]
FDA considers restricting ingredient in Robitussin and other cough medicines to stop "robotripping:" [14]
Wonkette has fun with the "Ground Zero Mosk:" [15]
Libya's leader Gadhafi (or Kadafi, or whatever) upsets Italians by pushing Islam on them: [16]
Documentary Scientology: The Truth About A Lie to premiere at France's World Film Festival: [17]
Muslim group files lawsuit against Illinois State Police for revoking the appointment of a Muslim chaplain: [18]
Porn-browsing Oz minister quits: [19]
If you're looking for a locksmith in North Carolina, look again: [20]
Bollywood censors don't like "realism" in the movies: [21]
They're still banning vuvuzelas in European sports: [22]
Fox News is upset that actor John Cusack has called for the Satanic death of Fox News: [23]
How to delete yourself from the Internet: [24]
New York City tap water is filled with invisible shrimp: [25]
Not satisfied with making women ashamed of their bodies, the fashion industry moves to men: [26]
Early man "butchered and ate the brains of children as part of everyday diet:" [27] (News story contains NSFW picture.)
Thailand's vagina tree predicts lottery numbers: [28]
They're still trying to organize a protest against Japanese dolphin hunts, despite threats: [29]
Inside the great reptilian conspiracy: [30]
Riding a motorcycle equipped with an aftermarket exhaust system could warrant a hefty fine in California if cops nab you: [31]
South Korea will allow elementary schools to hire armed security guards this month in response to a series of brutal sex crimes: [32]
Next on Greenpeace's enemies list – Facebook: [33]
Indonesia to RIM (BlackBerry) – block porn or get out: [34]
Fancy drug names cause pharmacy to dispense antidepressants instead of fertility drugs: [35]

Picture of the moment:

The strangest naked Obama pictures so far: [36]

2010-08-31

Pastor who has assailed gays and Muslims is launching the "9-11 Christian Center at Ground Zero" a mere two blocks from the World Trade Center: [1]
Federal Communications Commission asks federal appeals court to reconsider its recent decision to toss the government's restrictions on "indecent speech" on TV and radio broadcasts: [2]
The Library of Congress opens up the papers of anti-comic book crusader Dr. Fredric Wertham (Seduction of the Innocent) to the public: [3]
The BBC looks at 4chan: [4]
Behold the legal sex drive-thru: [5]
How to survive the End Times for a mere £32,000: [6]
Brazilian with an earache gets a vasectomy by mistake: [7]
Satanists book Oklahoma City Civic Center for a ritual on October 21st, and the local news gets wind of this: [8]
Hewlett-Packard holds Navy network hostage for $3 billion: [9]
Fifteen movies that killed people: [10]
Nigerian governor says abuse of child witches is exaggerated: [11]
In Georgia, Jesus has his way: [12]
Apple genome is cracked by scientists: [13]
Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium: [14]
Seattle pastor slits the throat of cute innocent puppy dog, and now the entire city is outraged: [15]
Quick testing developed for Down syndrome: [16]
This is your brain on Farmville: [17]
Australia has elected the country's first Aboriginal member of the lower house of Parliament: [18]
Senegal religious leaders react to the government's crackdown on begging: [19]
Get a free flu shot at CVS…after you spend $30: [20]
DRM company acquires technology from music search engine killed by copyright suits: [21]
Weird video game swag: [22]
Philippines loses court case for citing Wikipedia: [23]
Cop fired after threatening to arrest KFC employees over refund policy: [24]
Los Angeles city prosecutors make their second arrest in their crackdown on illegal billboards: [25]
Not much love lost between Wikipedia and WikiLeaks: [26]
Facebook pedophile hoax spreads fear to parents: [27]
Hacker creates 1/10th scale Cray-1 supercomputer: [28]
Warner Bros. Animation is clearing its vaults, and obscure (but cult-following) toons such as The Pirates of Dark Water are now seeing the light of day: [29]
Yes, even Xbox Live can be used to get kiddie porn: [30]
Wine wars – high-alcoholic "devil's wine's" are becoming more popular: [31]
New Zealand officials allow a motorist to keep her license plate that says ARYAN-1: [32]
Restrictions on transportation of dangerous chemicals will be imposed in Guangzhou, China from 20 October as the city will play host to the 2010 Asian Games in November: [33]
UK cleric says Christians could learn a lot about life from heavy metal: [34]
Uh-oh…the Us State Department is distributing free copies of an Islamic book written by Ground Zero mosque (which isn't a mosque) promoter Feisal Abdul Rauf: [35]
Remember MySpace? "Pleeeease come back to us…look, now we look like Facebook!" [36]
University of Montana starts textbook-rental service: [37]
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in Africa: [38] (…though anyone reading this blog could tell you that.)
Egypt bans Hamas pilgrims from traveling through the country for the Hajj pilgrmage: [39]
Electronics banned from Wisconsin trash starting tomorrow: [40]
Grenade fired at Thai state TV station in Bangkok: [41]

Picture of the moment:

The secret Satanic origins of Hello Kitty: [42]
Transportation porn – the vehicles of Burning Man: [43]

2010-08-30

Medical marijuana users can be fired: [1]
Pentagon considers pre-emptive strikes as part of cyber-defense strategy: [2]
School students hold funeral to bid farewell to bad words: [3]
New DDoS botnet hits nearly 200 Web sites: [4]
Body of an American climber is discovered on a Canadian glacier, 21 years after his death: [5]
Long lost Jesus icon in the Kremlin restored to view: [6]
Online gambling banned in South Africa: [7]
Wyclef Jean releases a song protesting his ban on running for President of Haiti: [8]
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider an appeal next month from the owner of Planet K stores over whether it's okay to display ugly art in public: [9]
China says their old military shoes are going to be the next hot fashion trend among US mallrats: [10]
Glenn Beck wore a bullet-proof vest at his weekend rally: [11]
California school students upset grown-ups (which is what they're supposed to do) by wearing wristbands that say the dreaded word "boobies:" [12]
Sitcom Modern Family plans to upset a whole bunch of viewers by showing a gay guy-to-guy kiss: [13]
Islam denied tax-exempt status in Italy: [14]
The estate of Agatha Christie is suddenly mad at Wikipedia for spoiling the ending of the author's stage play, The Mousetrap: [15]
How dare Those Godless Homosexuals push their agenda on innocent children in schools by suggesting Christians stop bullying gay kids: [16]
New UK passport design unveiled in fight against fraud: [17]
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood launches an Islamic Facebook: [18]
Pssst, Barack Obama isn't really a secret Muslim…he's a secret atheist: [19]
The UK Pirate Party's guide to the Digital Economy Act: [20]
Junkies in religious rehab accused of being recruited into a cult: [21]
Giant naked billboard of actress Julianne Moore is banned in Venice: [22]
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin warns protesters at banned gathering will "get hit on the head:" [23]
African newspaper banned for saying bad things about the brother of the President of Togo: [24]
Today's woman tortured for witchcraft in India is only 40 years old, instead of the usual senior citizen: [25]
Deer feeding banned in Virginia: [26]
News flash – menopause makes women horny: [27]
Skinhead mobs attack Russian rock festival: [28]
The world's only proven UFO contactee (or so he says) will present his case to the public and the media: [29]
Charleston, West Virginia to host its first-ever Hack3rCon: [30]
What it's like to get a legal threat from another country, demanding your Web site be shut down: [31]
Conspiracy theorists worry the U.S. government is infiltrating their Web sites: [32]
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami displays weird sculptures in Versailles, upsets French: [33]

Picture of the moment:

Jesus Christ, he's naked: [34]
Ladies – want a raise at work? You'd better douche: [35]

2010-08-29

Reddit's corporate owner refuses to accept marijuana legalization ads: [1] (Update: Reddit responds to its owner by saying it will run legal-pot ads for free: [2])
Diaspora, the "anti-Facebook," launches on September 15th: [3]
Anti-Islam demonstration in the UK turns into a brutal clash with police: [4]
"Church of Subgenius" rare artifacts up for auction on eBay: [5]
The Internets are mad at this lady in England who threw a live cat in a dumpster: [6]
Saudi Arabia bans "Moroccan women of a certain age" from embarking on the Hajj pilgrimage, because those women might actually have sex: [7]
Oceans invaded by millions of man-eating giant squid: [8]
Hundreds of Aussie photographers rally against laws which prevent them from taking pictures of Australian landmarks without a permit: [9]
Security measures for the Pope's visit to the UK are beginning to drive pilgrims away: [10]
Site of disputed mosque is torched…in Tennessee: [11]
The Archbishop of Mexico City is flipping mad over Mexico's legalization of same-sex marriage: [12]
Ken DeVries' movie and TV review blog: [13]
Dubai bank rejects attempt to cash two US $1 million bills: [14]
Yosemite National Park rangers raid and eradicate marijuana growing site in the park: [15]
Venezuela politician offers breast implant in $6 raffle: [Venezuela politician offers breast implant in $6 raffle]
Osama bin Laden was a CIA spy (according to Fidel Castro): [16]
MIT unveils a nanotechnology solution to clean up the oil from the ocean: [17]
More scary news about our imminent destruction from crashing asteroids: [18]
Rare Hunter S. Thompson documentary is unveiled online: [19]
The Canadian Paediatric Society is counseling innocent, beautiful pre-teen children who know nothing about sex on how to use the awful, sex-encouraging morning-after pill: [20]
Christian filmmakers hope Central Florida becomes the Hollywood of the burgeoning Christian film industry: [21]
Not that this story is meant to scare parents, but the real reason why 13-year-old girls are getting tongue piercings is so they can give better oral sex: [22]
You still can't talk about sex on Facebook: [23]
The dinosaurs were wiped out by not one, but two meteor strikes: [24]
Hollywood sues company for advertising on BitTorrent sites: [25]
Zambia task force on AIDS includes "traditional healers:" [26]
Live in Georgia? There may be a creepy sex offender living nearby, and the authorities can't do anything about it: [27]
French railways to open Nazi deportation files to US: [28]
The Exeter UFO Festival takes place September 4, 2010 in Exeter, New Hampshire: [29]
On its final mission, the NASA Space Shuttle will seek out the "anti-universe:" [30]
Westboro Baptist Church protesters attacked with pepper spray: [31]
Bahrain investigates political activist and slaps a media gag order on the case: [32]
Pet psychics prey on people who are desperate: [33]
Israel's Education Ministry is revising a textbook for being too critical of Israel: [34]
PlayStation 3 hack banned in Australia: [35]
Glenn Beck's Black Robe Regiment: [36]
Afghanistan's pedophile problem: [37]

Picture of the moment:

For its first CGI motion picture, the US gave the world Toy Story. Russia, on the other hand, gives us Nosferatu – Terror of the Night: [38] (I can't tell if this is supposed to be a comedy or drama…on the other hand, it couldn't be any worse than Vampires Suck.)

2010-08-28

A national day of protest against Target stores today: [1]
There are a lot of reasons to be against Glenn Beck's stupid rally at the Washington Mall today, but this guy is against it because he's a Mormon: [2] (He read it wrong…there's one "m" too many in the middle of that word…)
More than 2,500 of the 3,250 "Push Button For Walk Signal" buttons on New York City traffic poles were deactivated years ago, and the public was never told: [3]
Kazakhstan man cuts off his penis at Madrid's Barajas airport to avoid being extradited home: [4]
North Carolina woman convicted of resisting arrest after recording traffic stop from her porch: [5]
Vancouver Police are investigating a suspected case of bottled water tampering at the Pacific National Exhibition: [6]
Saudi Arabia immigrant housemaid claims her employers hammered 24 hot nails into her body after she complained about the workload: [7]
Artist creates an art sculpture which perpetually attempts to sell itself on eBay: [8]
UK company called And Vinyly is offering people the chance to press their deceased ashes in a vinyl album with recordings of their own voice, their favorite tunes or their last will and testament: [9]
Venezuelan politician offers breast implants as raffle prize to raise election funds: [10]
Ad agency donates two "missile"-shaped billboards to protest against the Ground Zero mosque (which isn't a mosque): [11]
Scientists create new ways to torture animals: [12]
Blockbuster Video to file for bankruptcy in September: [13]
Two dozen arrested in medical marijuana raids: [14]
Underage kid sends naked pictures of himself to adults in exchange for Xbox Live points…they arrest one of the adults for kiddie porn, but don't say what happened to the kid: [15]
Final Fantasy XIV only lets you play online for eight hours a week…game addicts everywhere are outraged: [16]
Millions of Christians will hold a worldwide day of prayer for Zimbabwe on September 26th: [17] (Because prayer is cheaper than actually sending money…)
Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio: [18]
Remember that body of a 9-year-old girl (buried in 1961) stolen a couple of weeks ago? Yep, they're blaming a cult for it: [19]
So-called "ghost hunters" looking for North Carolina's "phantom train" learn the hard way what a real train is like: [20]
What spaced-out Burning Man revelers all need – an iPhone app: [21]
By the way, the Ground Zero mosque (which isn't a mosque) may qualify for tax-free public funding…wait until the Tea Party hears about that: [22]
The battle for Wikipedia – Palestinians counter Israeli editing group: [23]
Missouri judge refuses to stop a new law on "sexual businesses" from taking effect: [24]
Hawaii man who says he is unable to bathe, dress himself or wake up in the day because he is addicted to the game Lineage II may proceed with his suit against the game's South Korean developer: [25]
Fort Wayne, Indiana novelty shop will no longer accept cash payments after being robbed for the second time: [26]
Facebook accidentally exposes an Israeli military scandal: [27]
"Giving the Devil His Due – Exorcism and the Possession Syndrome:" [28]
Bollywood takes on sexual harassment in new film, a remake of the 1980 Hollywood comedy Nine to Five: [29]
British company issues apology for "suicide bomber" card: [30]
Nettleton Middle School in Mississippi panics after its "only whites can run for student body President" policy is revealed on nationwide news: [31]
Russian magazine threatens to sue teh hawt ex-spy Anna Chapman for posting pictures on her Facebook page: [32]
The great condom cap caper: [33]
Anti-gay hate group funds campaign to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices: [34]
The latest town to be upset by billboards for a porn convention in their midst: [35]
How the ex-gay movement fosters HIV infection: [36]
Ten people "detained" (i.e. arrested) in India district for worshiping Satan: [37]
Witchcraft practitioners face death in Gaza: [38]
Was Britney spears bamboozled into saying nice things about a Japanese producer of kiddie porn manga? [39]
Logitech and Google seem like a natural match, until they come out with an advertisement like…this: [40]
More teens are becoming fake Christians: [41]
Pennsylvania high school yearbook features lovely Hitler quote: [42]

Picture of the moment:

Taiwanese animation takes on the Ground Zero mosque controversy: [43]
Rave culture meets suburban Turkey: [44]
Tron-a-Sutra: [45]
"Om nom nom nom:" [46]

2010-08-27

The government's new right to track your every move with GPS: [1]
Iranian government runs public warez server: [2]
Research creates clearing house of 14 million hacked passwords: [3]
Sweden’s highest court refuses to recognize the Madonna of the Orgasm church as a "real" church: [4]
To no one's surprise, the Pentagon is approaching "cybersecurity" with a Cold War mentality: [5]
Czech government is drafting a copyright bill to legally gut Creative Commons and chop creators' royalties by nearly half: [6]
New York bingo scheme defrauds Greek Orthodox diocese: [7]
Not the best way to smuggle something out of the country: [8]
Could you play Modern Warfare 2 without killing anyone? [9]
Sex advice from people who live with their parents: [10]
Toys R Us probably isn't the best place to market a Dexter action figure: [11]
Seven secret facts about sex toys: [12]
If you have a terminal illness, a non-religious doctor will let you die faster: [13]
Thanks to the current hysteria, you can't erect a mosque in any major US city: [14]
Yesterday, Facebook sued a company for using the word "book" in its name…today, Facebook is trying to trademark the word "Face:" [15]
Well, if the kid's Hitler costume was that good, why shouldn't he get a prize for it? [16]
Members of a sect in the Urals supposedly burnt wings on the back of a three-year old boy: [17]
Crackdown on crack pipes sold at convenience stores: [18]
Banned Family Guy episode goes on sale: [19]
EU partnership with Israel and IBM to digitize major European historical texts is seeking volunteers: [20]
The bizarre Libertarian plan of uploading brains into robots to escape society: [21]
Doctors’ groups call for mixed martial arts (MMA) to be banned in Canada: [22]
Lithuanian ISPs resist orders to censor gambling sites: [23]
A protest is planned for the Dove World Outreach Center's "Burn a Qu'ran Day" on September 11th: [24]
In honor of Mother Teresa's 100th birthday, here's Christopher Hitchen's documentary on her, entitled Hell's Angel: Part 1 – [25] Part 2 – [26] Part 3 – [27]
Huffington Post writer infiltrates anti-gay conference, hilarity ensues: [28]
Whenever our friend at Bartholomew's Notes on Religion mentions witch hunter Helen Ukpabio on his blog, her minions show up to (try to) insult him. Look and see: [29]
Happy tenth anniversary to Twisted Kaiju Theater: [30]
Ten lessons from an 18th century Japanese sex manual: [31]
Turkmenistan dictator's golden statue is toppled: [32]
The RIAA asks Congress to force ISPs to “voluntarily” fight P2P: [33]
The EFF will help bloggers being sued by copyright police Righthaven: [34]
Author of disputed CIA book kills himself "by accident:" [35]
L.A. Times explores the XXX Hollywood party scene: [36]

Picture of the moment:

A corollary to Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics – the -1 Law of Robotics: [37]

2010-08-26

Apple is seeking to patent spyware to spy on its users: [1]
Libertarian Party protests Facebook censorship of its marijuana legalization ad: [2]
Police use software to predict criminals…before they commit crimes: [3]
News media finally expose what the public already new…after Katrina, New Orleans cops were told they could shoot looters: [4]
Pot leaf ads rejected by Facebook are now appearing on Google: [5]
Doctor's remove world's largest tumor from patent's womb: [6]
Egypt prosecutes Muslim publisher over an introduction to their edition of the Christian Bible: [7]
Wow, they've finally figured out that movie theater tickets cost too much: [8]
Las Vegas man sues The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for medical expenses after he injured his back in 2007 performing baptisms for the dead: [9]
"Without a Face" – photographing Pakistan's survivors of acid attacks: [10]
Business news – Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan parlays monkey brain dinner into $445 million: [11]
Facebook sues teachbook.com for using the word "book" in its name: [12]
New Oxycontin pill to be made drug-abuser-proof: [13]
Popess Lilith von Fraumench will be on the Puzzling Evidence show on KPFA radio (94.1 FM in Berkeley, www.kpfa.org) this Friday (tomorrow) at 3:00 AM PST, 6:00 AM EST: [14]
The new fashion trend – vagina tattoos: [15]
The USA isn't the only country with problems providing health care: [16]
Ah yes, August is nearly over…time to begin the annual Christmas display wars: [17]
The ACLU and other civil rights groups file suit against the FBI for failing to respond to a Freedom of Information Act inquiry for its records on surveillance against Muslim communities in Northern California: [18]
Protein that destroys HIV discovered: [19]
Skepchick makes a YouTube video promoting the free vaccination clinic at Dragon*Con (mentioned in yesterday's update), and attracts comments from the Anti-Vaccination crowd: [20] (These folks are next to be reviewed at the High Weirdness Project.)
Charges dropped against Barry Cooper (Kopbusters): [21]
A documentary on Muslim communities in Israel…by Dr. Ruth Westheimer: [22]
Martial arts classes in Japan are deadly, and no one seems to care: [23]
So, what do those peaceful Amish folks do down there on the farm, anyway? [24]
CNN finally airs a piece on child witches in Nigeria: [25]
Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network apologizes to gays: [26]
The Taliban poison schoolgirls in Afghanistan for the ninth time: [27]
In Uganda, marriage spreads HIV: [28]
The editor of the now-defunct Indonesian edition of Playboy is wanted by police for indecency…and Islamist extremists are hunting him, too: [29]
Banned humanitarian group running aid camps in Pakistan: [30]
Sri Lanka blocks over 100 porn sites: [31]
Halo: Reach pirates are permanently banned from Xbox Live: [32]
AIDS activists to protest Larry Flynt today over his opposition to condoms in porn: [33]
Attorneys general in 17 states file a joint demand to Craigslist to remove its adult ads: [34]
"Ordain women" ads will run on London buses during the Pope's visit: [35]
China aims to stifle Tibet's photocopiers: [36]
Argentina President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner takes over the country's largest newsprint mill: [37]
Times Square will light up in white and blue tonight, in honor of Mother Teresa's 100th birthday: [38]
Facebook will drop chat support for Internet Explorer 6 in three weeks: [39]

Picture of the moment:

The surreal cannibalistic paintings of Karl Persson: [40]
Obama inflatable sex doll on display at Asia Adult Expo: [41]
Fire tornado: [42] (Actually it's more like a fire dust devil, but this news crew doesn't know what a dust devil is.)

2010-08-25

Facebook censors ads for marijuana legalization campaign: [1]
Gainesville, Florida authorities refuse to grant the Dove World Outreach Center a bonfire permit to hold their "Burn a Qu'ran Day:" [2]
Iran bans mention of opposition leaders in the press: [3]
All Internet searches at Yahoo! in the US and Canada are now using Microsoft's Bing: [4]
"Wiccans v. Creationists – An Empirical Study of How Two Systems of Belief Differ:" [5]
A free vaccination clinic at this year's Dragon*Con: [6]
Uri Geller says an island he owns off of Scotland has buried Egyptian treasure: [7]
Colombian youths in fear over Facebook hitlist: [8]
Silly Bandz are banned in (some) Boston schools: [9]
The most significant breach of U.S. military computers was caused by a flash drive inserted into a U.S. military laptop on a post in the Middle East in 2008: [10]
Are you ready for Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally at the National Mall in Washington, DC this coming Saturday? [11]
Guy is hurt in car crash, but gets the wrong hospital ID bracelet…which marks him for chest surgery for cancer: [12]
Philippine President Benigno Aquino censors his Facebook page after Internet users ignore an appeal to stop bashing his government over its recent mishandling of a deadly hostage crisis: [13]
Africans who believe in witchcraft, generally rate their lives worse than those who don't: [14]
NYC cab driver stabbed by passenger who asked, "Are you a Muslim?" [15]
Guy finds bullet in his head, five years after he was shot: [16]
Aussie high school teacher gives his 10th-grade students an assignment to plan a terrorist attack that would kill as many people as possible: [17]
Can psychedelic drugs treat depression? [18]
Turn off Fox News and get a free sticker: [19]
"Cyber warfare," conspiracy theories, and the May 6 stock market "flash crash:" [20]
Windows DLL bug hits dozens of apps: [21]
Rustock botnet ends its encryption because it was slowing down its spamming: [22]
The Internets find a new bad guy to go after: [23]
Never mind the anchor babies, this Rhode Island lawmaker is going after "anchor embryos:" [24]
India tribe's Avatar-like victory over UK mining giant: [25]
Avatar director James Cameron calls for a debate with clime-change deniers, then cancels the debate because the deniers are too freakin' weird: [26]
Correctional Service of Canada starts an internal investigation into how the Official Languages Act was renamed the "Quebec Nazi Act" on Wikipedia: [27]
US prison to use laser "pain ray" to control unruly inmates: [28]
Video game addiction helped with antidepressant: [29]
Food stamps recipients are likely to find their food stamps reduced beginning in 2013: [30]
Pac-Man hacked onto a touch-screen voting machine without breaking "tamper-evident" seals: [31]
Lagos, Nigeria bans commercial motorcyclists: [32]
Iceland's history of witchcraft and sorcery: [33]
Smoking banned in Bismarck, North Dakota: [34]
Facebook and hate speech (and breasts): [35]
California is about to sign a bill into law that would make it a misdemeanor to impersonate someone online with the purpose "of harming, intimidating, threatening or defrauding:" [36]
Tough questions for YouTube – how to handle videos of human rights abuses: [37]
Today's victim of witchcraft hysteria in India is only beaten instead of murdered, so that makes it better: [38]
Salem witch trials, the video game: [39]
"Welcome to Bank of America. Before we verify your account, please tell us about your sister's real estate holdings:" [40]
RIAA can't search for copyright violators, so they still wants Web sites to help rat out Evil Internet Copyright Terrorists: [41]
The original Nuremberg laws endorsed by Adolf Hitler will be hosted at the National Archives in Washington, DC: [42]
Wikileaks to release another confidential CIA paper today: [43]
Indonesia is now the copyright piracy center of Asia: [44]
Vietnam officials refuse to prosecute rape of transsexual: [45]
Televangelist Frederick Price's lawsuit against ABC 's 20/20 is reinstated: [46]

Picture of the moment:

Rap mogul Russell Simmons' apartment is right across the street from Ground Zero, so he did this: [47]

2010-08-24

US district judge stops federal funding of embryonic stem cell research: [1]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania now requires you to to pay $300 for a business license to operate a commercial blog in the city: [2]
Boston Archdiocese blocks its workers from reading blogs that criticize the Church: [3]
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't be blocked on Facebook: [4]
The Catholic Church issues a list of dos and don'ts for people attending the Pope's visit to Britain next month: [5] (The "banned" list includes barbeques and vuvuzelas…)
South Carolina permits dogs to attack bears for sport: [6]
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan to offer Sharia-compliant bonds: [7]
UK parents are told packed lunches for their kids are too unhealthy: [8]
Bill introduced in Michigan to ban marijuana clubs: [9]
Why it's okay for birds to be gay: [10]
Did the CIA spread LSD? [11]
Police FAIL (sadly) – one lone gunman in the Philippines holds a tourist bus hostage, and the rescue attempt police goes terribly awry: [12]
Buying a used video game cheats the makers of the game, just like all of those used book stores cheat book publishers: [13]
A step-by-step guide to eating a live cobra: [14]
UK Drug Policy commission warns police and society not to label heroin users as "junkies:" [15]
Trapped Chilean miners found alive - but rescue will take four months: [16]
Laser guns will replace traditional air pistols in the modern pentathlon at the 2012 London Olympics: [17]
Three years after the United Nations' Web side was damaged by a hack attack, the problem still hasn't been fixed: [18]
Drug Enforcement Administration needs to hire at least nine people fluent in Ebonics: [19]
Islamic radicals threaten suicide bombings against the Dove World Outreach Center for its "Burn A Qu'ran Day" on September 11: [20]
Rwandan and Congolese rebels gang-rape nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in eastern Congo: [21]
Egyptian police can't find the thieves who stole a Van Gogh painting over the weekend, so they arrest the government's under-secretary of culture instead: [22]
George Lucas sues to stop "Jedi Mind" wireless headset: [23]
Hippies rejoice – here comes an electric car with a chassis made from hemp: [24]
Oak Harbor, Washington school principals may start looking through kids' cell phones as a way to crack down on cyber-bullying: [25]
Vermont man who masturbated in public (repeatedly) is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison: [26]
News flash – time may not exist: [27]
The person who sent this writes, "After reading this, I want my Soylent Green back:" [28]
Department of Homeland Security plans to "improve" its National Emergency exercises: [29]
Psychic says life exists on Mars: [30]
Bangladesh's High Court rules that individuals cannot be forced to wear religious attire, including the burqa, in workplaces, schools, or colleges: [31]
The Social Network, a.k.a. "Facebook, The Movie" – complete with breasts and cocaine: [32]
Aussie guy loses an eye and replaces it with a wireless camera: [33]
Generals, pilots, and government officials talk about what they know of UFOs: [34]
NYC Mayor Bloomberg's remarks on cigarette tax anger American Indians: [35]
Vietnam Buddhist sect asks government to punish schismatic monks: [36]
Organizers of UK Cumbrian music festival ban "legal highs:" [37]
Birmingham, Alabama City Council says the Mayor trying to censor its new Web site: [38]
1919 German film about homosexuality to be screened in Palm Springs, California on Wednesday: [39]
The city of Siena, Italy is trying to get Sony to censor Gran Turismo 5 and remove certain flags from the game's recreation of the Piazza del Campo race course: [40]
Oh noes, some of Those Godless Homosexuals are calling themselves "Cathlolics for Equality:" [41]
UK police celebrate first conviction for "extreme porn" under new laws: [42]
A proposed privacy law in Germany would make it illegal for would-be employers to look at a candidate's Facebook page before deciding whether to hire them: [43]

Picture of the moment:

Jesus performs miracles with his money: [44]
Speaking of the Dove World Outreach Center, as mentioned above: [45]