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Woman sues over harmful panties

June 20, 2008 10:49am

4-eyes good, 2-eyes baaaaad!

Police pretend students killed to teach dangers of drunk driving

June 17, 2008 10:25am

Having actually known someone who was killed by a drunk driver when I was in middle school, and I didn't even much like him, I can attest that this is truly traumatic. Not like, "Oh my god, my boyfriend is cheating on me" fake teenage trauma, but real adult emotional distress.

This is flat out child abuse. Even with the best of intentions, you don't ever have the right to inflect serious emotional distress on someone else by lying. The principal really deserves an immediate dismissal for this kind of thing.

There's an expectation that we send our students to public schools, and the staff is committed to keeping them safe from harm. Not casually inflicting it for "their own good".

HOWTO spot a photoshop job

June 2, 2008 6:20pm

So, Randy and Paula were probably really there - their light sources match, and the posing interacts a lot more with the environment.

Motorola Reintroduces "Car Phones"

April 3, 2008 5:35pm

Well, it's not as easy as it sounds. St is a common abbreviation in addresses, and it means two different things. It could be Saint (Saint Louis) or Street (Main Street), and even both at once (Saint George Street).

One thing I learned from 3+ years as a software engineer at Whitepages.com - it's not possible to programatically parse US addresses with 100% accuracy. What does 100 S N mean, is it 100 South N street, or 100 S North street? 100 Green Drive - is the street named Green, or named Green Drive? (There are many streets with 'street types' that are actually part of the name.) You can get to the 80/20 ratio easily, and even up to the 90s with some work, but it's not a system that's programatically solvable.

Which isn't to say that St meaning Saint is the right choice over street if you had to pick just one - it's not. (I'd probably do a heuristic where it's Street if it's at the end of the address and Saint elsewhere.) (Not the TV show.)

Hmm, don't miss that job. :-)

Edison electrocuted an elephant 105 years ago today

January 4, 2008 8:26am

Since it's a film, there's an IMDb page for this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0231523/

If you like this, you might like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom!

Your body has 10x more bacterial cells than human ones

December 5, 2007 8:51am

Not me. My bacteria count goes to 11x!

(Maybe I should bathe more often.)

Photos of white unicorn

November 28, 2007 4:27pm

Yay, I feel much better now.

Photos of white unicorn

November 28, 2007 9:27am

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