JESUS WEPT

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It Is Back.

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Man convicted for killing and eating China's last Indochinese tiger

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Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church:

"With the blessings of NASA and GOD, we could indeed be the first anti-homosexual church in space. Furthermore, perhaps we can establish a Westboro settlement on the Moon -- where we might, at long last, enjoy an existence truly blessed by His grace.

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cool signs

[see the rest here]

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yes

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fuck yes

The Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer has said it will continue its association with Tiger Woods despite the golfer's highly public personal problems.

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primates and syntax

By modifying a call sequence or the order of calls within a sequence, the messages are changed, and can relay precise information about the nature of the danger (a falling tree, a predator), the type of predator (eagle, leopard), how the predator was detected (acoustically, visually) but also about social events unrelated to predation (gathering before the group moves to another site, an encounter with another group of the same species at territory boundaries...)

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rotating kitchen

rotating kitchen from Zeger Reyers on Vimeo.

(thanks parag!)

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I Will See This.

Roger Ebert on Avatar:

Watching "Avatar," I felt sort of the same as when I saw "Star Wars" in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his "Titanic" was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.

[link] (i have not read this review, nor do i plan to; have only read the excerpt quoted above)

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berlusconi

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy is recovering in hospital after an assault left his face covered in blood following a rally in Milan.

He suffered two broken teeth, a minor nose fracture and cuts to his lip after being struck by a man wielding a souvenir model of the city's cathedral.

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"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind,"

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this sums it up

Golf, as everyone knows, is the planet's most outrageous sport, full of edgy, unrepentant rebels who love to flout the boundaries of mainstream behavior. Have you ever seen a golf tournament? Sometimes those guys wear pleated pants. Sometimes they wear flat-front pants. It's a miracle more of them aren't in prison.

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