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20-year old Iraqi woman dies; father ran her over for being too Westernized

Nov 2, 2009
A young Iraqi woman died tonight in Arizona because her father believed she had become too Westernized. Noor Faleh Almaleki, the 20-year old pictured here, moved to the Phoenix area in the mid-90s with her family. Her father, Faleh Hassan Almaleki,...

Instructions for building an autonomous sentry gun

Nov 2, 2009
Here are complete instructions (software, source code, build manual, hardware) for an autonomous sentry gun that will shoot anything that moves. DIY autonomous sentry gun

86-year-old WWII vet on gay marriage: "what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?"

Oct 21, 2009
Darren sez, "A disarming video of an 86-year-old WWII veteran from a public meeting on Maine's marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009." The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was...

From Death Row convicts' advocate to Middle School mentor

Oct 19, 2009
In today's New York Times, a terrific piece by John Schwartz about an attorney who traded 20 years of struggling to keep death row prisoners "from the executioner's needle" for a new job at a middle school populated by poor, at-risk...

Vegas uses computers to nab card counters

Oct 16, 2009
As if Vegas casinos don't already rake in enough money from suckers, now they are developing technology to automatically detect people who count cards. The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual "...

EU kills 3-strikes proposal (yay!) but all is not well (eek!)

Nov 5, 2009
You might have seen that the EU's "Telecoms Package" squeaked through with some protection for users' rights intact -- specifically, the proposal to allow "3-strikes" rules (whereby everyone in your house would lose internet access if any member was...

Mash-up video culled from 99 classic albums

Nov 5, 2009
The jam band Phish came up with a list of 99 classic albums, one of which ("Exile on Main Street") they surprised an audience by covering in its entirety at a Halloween concert in Indio, California. As an intro for the Phish performance, London-based...

The lobster abomination

Nov 5, 2009
I suppose the people in Maine who voted against gay marriage will now organize to shut down the lobster industry, right?

1962 fallout shelter design booklet

Nov 5, 2009
The Mt. Holly Mayor found a stockpile of civil defense documents at an an estate sale. He uploaded this DIY "Family Shelter Designs" booklet published in 1962 by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. As a bonus, he linked to the fun 1983 Donald Fagan video about...

Goldwag: Hoaxes, celebrity, and death on the Net

Nov 5, 2009
Guestblogger Arthur Goldwag is the author of "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more" and other books. Some of you might...


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