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McVideogame. Run your McEmpire, but be careful to keep the workers happy and the cows fed. From la Molleindustria (this link NSFW due to some racy games). If you succeed at McEmpire how about the photocopy business? Corporate games from a different point of view. (via Business Week, dead tree version)
comment posted at 10:17 AM on Mar-16-06

The happiness poll results are in and to no one's surprise, rich people are happier than poor people. Also, Republicans are happier than Democrats.
comment posted at 10:12 AM on Mar-16-06

Africa splits (Geographically speaking). Take a look at the photos, they are breathtaking.
comment posted at 8:50 AM on Mar-16-06

When students fail, and citizens are not allowed, to protest, maybe only actors can say what needs to be said. [WMV link here].
comment posted at 11:15 AM on Mar-15-06
comment posted at 11:52 AM on Mar-15-06

What is it about hybrid cars that brings out such ignorance and bile?? Some Massachusetts columnist named David Baumann has some fresh new disinformation about hybrid cars. He states that hybrids are just too dang complicated for an American driver, that they actually get 25 mpg, and people are either being tricked into buying them, or buying them as some kind of political statement. I wonder which party I got enrolled in when I bought mine? I should check on that, I might want to vote in the primaries. I don't mind that he doesn't like them, he's not required to. I do mind that such a bizarre mashup of rumor, misinformation, and dark fantasy can be presented to the public under the guise of being news.
comment posted at 9:40 AM on Mar-15-06

I was waiting for the D train to take me up to Lehman College in the Bronx on Saturday evening... A short and bittersweet encounter that could only happen in New York.
comment posted at 6:32 AM on Mar-15-06

8 people and 3 houses were swept away on Kauai today - the island that was already slammed and battered by weeks of rain (over 18 inches in 24 hours last month). More dams are expected to fail. Today's disaster should have been predicted?
comment posted at 6:43 AM on Mar-15-06

Safety of In-Flight Cell Phone Use Airlines are currently preparing to allow use of cell phones for in-flight calling. A Carnegie-Mellon study raises interesting questions about potential interference with critical avionics.
comment posted at 11:17 AM on Mar-14-06
comment posted at 8:26 AM on Mar-15-06

Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park' Forgive the link to Fox News, however it is an AP story.
comment posted at 8:11 AM on Mar-14-06
comment posted at 8:18 AM on Mar-14-06

300,000 March in Chicago against Immigration Control Act of 2005. General Question, Why did this not make national news? Compare to their front page now. Its like it never happened. 1/4 million people didn't matter enough.
comment posted at 10:23 AM on Mar-13-06
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comment posted at 11:01 AM on Mar-13-06

The Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of liquid water spewing from geysers on Enceladus, one of Saturn's icy moons.
comment posted at 11:44 AM on Mar-9-06

There's water on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Here's hoping space tourism can pick up the pace a little.
comment posted at 11:48 AM on Mar-9-06

"I just hit several people with a vehicle," he told the dispatcher. "I don't have any weapons or anything on me; you can come and arrest me now." Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar punishes 9 Chapel Hill students for the actions of the United States government. "People all over the world are being killed in war and now it is the people in the United States turn to be killed."
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comment posted at 4:31 AM on Mar-13-06

Prisons Often Shackle Pregnant Inmates in Labor. Sometimes human rights abuses are committed right in our backyard [the U.S.]. Shackling females to beds while they give birth is a practice that has been investigated by Amnesty International. A woman in labor writhes in pain on a hospital bed, and as she does, a shackle secures one of her ankles to the bed rail. It sounds like something out of a medieval chamber of horrors. But believe it or not, that's what happens when a female prisoner in California -- and in 20 other states -- gives birth. More here, and on prisoners' rights in general.
comment posted at 5:29 AM on Mar-2-06

Laurie Pycroft , age 16, took a year off school to build websites and futter about on the Internet. When animal rights campaigners waged a series of protests against a new biomedical research lab being constructed at Oxford University - with the extremist group Animal Liberation Front threatening buildings, students and staff as "legitimate targets" - Laurie decided to form Pro-Test, an organisation in support of animal testing, and stage a counterdemonstration to the monthly anti-testing demo at Oxford. The result: On 25 February, at least 700 protestors, eminent scientists, politicians, and students showed up. So did the media.
comment posted at 12:46 PM on Feb-28-06

Fresh is best. "It's like drinking their youth."
comment posted at 5:20 AM on Feb-28-06

Was U.S. Patent Number 7,000,000 reserved for DuPont? The USPTO issues utility patents every Tuesday. Patent numbers are normally assigned sequentially first to the week's general and mechanical inventions, next to chemical inventions , and finally to electrical inventions. In the Official Gazette (OG) published on February 14th, there was gap in the list of the list of electrical patents where the patent number 7,000,000 was supposed to be. And at the very end of the list of chemical patents you find U.S. Patent 7,000,000 assigned to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company of Wilmington, Delaware. Just random chance, I wonder, or perhaps just another indication of the ability of corporations to influence U.S. government agencies?
comment posted at 5:17 AM on Feb-28-06

Diebold whistleblower busted for whistleblowin'. Stephen Heller, who leaked classified information showing how Diebold illegally used uncertified voting machines in California in 2002, is being charged with sundry computer crimes by the LA County DA's office.
comment posted at 9:12 AM on Feb-27-06

Really, the Olympics still mean something. No they don't: "They are a random collection of winter activities, most of which have their own world championships anyway, which should suffice." Not even a Lindsay Lohan hookup story could save these games.
comment posted at 9:46 AM on Feb-27-06

tea-bagging ruined my life a ruinous teabag incident
comment posted at 10:07 AM on Feb-24-06
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comment posted at 10:59 AM on Feb-24-06

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