[insert reference to the duke boys here]

Wow. I went to Palermo once and got ripped off by a Scooter Rental place for like 500 Euros. I went and talked to the police and they just scoffed and told me what I thought was a problem wasn't a problem.

They are such scammers over there!

Good pastries though...

The thing is clear plastic what possible information did she glean from opening it?

Also, no smiling.

This is also a joke free zone, none shall laugh, NONE SHALL LAUGH!

tagging a glacier doesn't that clean it self up like sidewalk chalk?

Just ordered it :)

There's an old saying that if you took all the splinters from the cross there would be enough wood to build a boat.

I think it's especially applicable here.

funny that it's written in the third person but signed by Yoko...

One of these guys is probably part of the crew that robbed me in sicily.

I wish that they would get lots of the cronies too.

"for each one of us that fall, 10 more will rise from their parents basements.."

lol, too good

Its interesting that they pin the decline in amphibian population more on pollution and climate change. Really this is the result of a fungal pandemic

A fungus common in Africa made its way to South America where a large portion of Amphibians live and has devastated frogs, salamanders and all other Amphibians over the last 40 years.

Sensitive as amphibians may be to climate change the real problem is a way to attack frog killing fungus.

Don't know if anyone has read Mary Roach's book Spook (fairly new) but this reminds me of the chapter on reincarnation.

I wonder if the same psychological phenomenon is at work here. If reincarnation can be summed up as a psychological phenomenon at all then it would mostly likely manifest it self differently in cultures where reincarnation is not widely excepted.

I don't know exactly what they plan on doing with the money donated. Another productive activity would be to just send malaria preventing nets that cost a quarter.

tsol: You're probably right, the UN must be the problem, or it could be the countless Congolais who prefer to destroy their country. All the Congolais I know got out during the last revolution, or the one before that, or the one before that.

The problem isn't just having security forces it's finding a way to change a culture.

As for the UN, name something good they've done that hasn't screwed up five other things.

Screen zoom is kind of cool I guess, OS X has supported full screen zoom for your entire desktop for years now.

IE7 users 1 upped! :p

I second many of the questions here. Is it more efficient than previous versions? I don't need a media player that takes up 200 MBs of ram to sit in the background and burn cpu cycles.

They should have shock troops that guard the buildings, if someone takes a glace without paying, or is a "glance pirate" so to speak, out comes the taser.

Everyone with a taser wins!

braschlosan- so you installed OS X on hardware that's not meant to be supported by the OS and you're complaining that it was hard to get working?

Well, it takes some work to get linux running on a toaster too but that doesn't mean that linux is the problem.

The drivers are meant for apple hardware, thats one of the reasons OS X is more stable. It's like getting mad because the airplane you just bought doesn't handle very well on the highway.

I agree with Joelanders, what's worse, that they infected your machine or that they don't cough up the goods after screwing you. (no pun intended)

Wow, that's the most non-nonsensical ad I've ever seen.

"Sugar swings. Server some."

wtf does that mean?!

Anyone that thinks this is interesting should check out Mary Roach's book Stiff. She has a whole chapter on the guillotine and the different studies done by scholars back in the day to see how long people lived and stayed conscious.

Really good read actually.

"The largest bill ever printed is the $100,000 gold certificate"

I think we all know that's not true

Phasor: I hadn't heard there were riots in Scandinavia though I agree that when Al Queda puts a bounty on a cartoonist's head it's something that we should take note of.

The fact that they leave a commenter anon isn't all that strange (their fashion of doing it maybe) My favorite part is that they don't know how long they've been in business.

From the homepage:
we are in this business over 20 years...
From the about page:
We opened in 1995...

wait...so..2007 minus 1995...hmmm

It's amazing that something that big can seem to come out of no where.

I heard of a guy that was night diving in the arctic circle. Visibility was really low and you could only see a few feet. He turned and his light was on a giant eye as big as his head just a foot away.

Inside of your dry suit wouldn't be very dry after that.

wow, how did he translate "sysadmin" they don't even have the internet in france do they?

pas de menaces svp, je plaisante! :p

I'd love to just church bash without doing any research but this priest got his ideas from somewhere.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6966658.stm Has the story where south africa had to recall 20 million condoms (many of which never came back)

This started a lot of conspiracy theorists engines that condom makers were intentionally trying to infect africans with aids.

Given Mozambique's proximity to south africa it's not a stretch to think that this priest got his ideas a few clicks down the rumor mill.

If you don't think there are plenty of Africans that believe this you're wrong. Some friends of mine just got back from a few year stint in South Africa (I know that's not Mozambique) and they said they heard lots of people say that they were waiting for most of the population to die of aids before trying to change the political climate.

It's easy to see why a country so close to south africa might share some distrust.

If she was really acting so irate I don't think it would be strange to leave her in handcuffs. The holding cell is not the same as a prison cell and would be more to keep people in until they can be moved.
At least that's my guess.

On the other hand, how in the world can someone strangle themselves with their own handcuffs?!

"bitch mudders ass"

lol, I don't know what that is but I'll take four!

The Dark Web project is just going to drive more of us onto the darknet so we can't be tracked.

Just like DRM, surveillance of this kind is likely not to effect the people it's intended to. They'll make their activities discreet and encrypted while the rest of us get tagged as "LOLcats sympathizers" and (if you're on livejournal) emotional wastelands.

PopeRatzo: Racism certainly is a problem in America but I don't like the implication that it is a purely American problem.

How about France where they came very close to electing a man who was going to throw all non-french born peoples out (ie arabs and africans)

Or what about Lithuania where my friend recently asked someone what they thought about Hitler and they responded "Well, he was probably a bad guy but at least he took care of that Jew problem"

Or Mexico where Guatemalans coming over the border are beaten, robbed and sent back.

Or Korea where being Japanese makes you almost instantly hated.

I could go on but the point it, I think America is actually ahead on the curve.

GK has it right, without more data these statistics mean nothing.

You could also say that CCTV cameras cause crime. Because they are more likely to put them in high crime areas after a year you can say "Hey look! Wherever we have cameras we have tons of crime!!!"

Not that I'm a fan of government surveillance on their own citizens.

I was always confused about what a Grue was when playing Zork...or Return to Zork...or the Legend of Zork.

Speaking of Text based adventure game did anyone every play "Legend of the Red Dragon" available only on BBS' That game was great and I bet it could be popular once again if someone did an online rehash.

The translation for the text on that page is as follows:

These stamps, probably meant to acompany foodstuffs, are shown 12 to a sketch. They show how our grand parents imagined the year 2000! The inventions destined to improve daily life go hand in hand with those more destined for more intelligent or exploratory purposes(rough), curiously the clothing styles stay the same as they were back in the day!

This might be unpopular to say but you do see him clearly pull back when the cops goto grab him. I'm not a lawyer but I think that counts as resisting arrest.

I don't think the assault charge will go far. It looks like his arms go up in a defensive position, not in on offensive manner.

The audio isn't clear but it doesn't sound like they tell him what he's being charged with either until well after they've handcuffed him.

It's interesting to try to argue the ethics of using such a report. On the one hand it was gathered by very unethical means but on the other if we don't use it all that human torture goes to waste! ::ducks::

This reminds me of all the research done in Nazi Germany that the Allies picked up after the war and used.

Course you have Jennifer, I mean, who hasn't!?