Entries from June 2006

How screwed up is this? A photographer named Jill Greenberg torments kids to get them to cry, photographs them and [...]

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If you read the Constitution, you’ll notice something about what it does: It lays out the powers and (to some [...]

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Lesson learned today: If you need to send a package overnight, stick with FedEx and avoid the US Postal Service. [...]

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Winners of Webbys, one of the biggest awards given to Internet-related people and ventures, are limited to five-word acceptance speeches. [...]

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In the movies, the Good Guys can the location of someone’s cell phone just by punching their number into a [...]

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I usually prefer to link directly to a news story I want to tell you about, but that isn’t possible [...]

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I was sitting in a conference the other day about applying game theory to networking. The idea, in a nutshell, [...]

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This is interesting. Back in March 2004 1994, NBC News reported how the Bush Administration turned down two opportunities to [...]

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…on a planet much like our own, but where the rules of reason don’t apply, the US military says that [...]

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Many of us know how Diet Coke + Mentos = geyser. But what if you rigged a setup with 100 [...]

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Raise your hands in excitement during graduation, get kicked out. The school district handbook also states that “students who raise [...]

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You know you’re getting significant work done in your yard when your wife sends you a note that reads, “The [...]

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The headline reads “South Alabama Man Facing Bestiality Charge.” But the story gets even better — it has to, when [...]

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I love Photoshop, but I also know that it can be overkill for a lot of people — and the [...]

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Guess what? If you’re angry on the road and take it out on other drivers, you’re not an inconsiderate jerk [...]

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When zero tolerance gets stupid: Example 1. Example 2.

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Curious about the Army’s official guide to interrogations (the Army Field Manual 34-52, “Intelligence Interrogation”). Get your copy here (14 [...]

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A new study from GMAC found that one out of 11 people who took a test similar to a written [...]

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In Albany, N.Y.’s Crossgates Mall, there’s a memorial to the Karner Blue butterfly under a staircase. It’s there because, in [...]

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