Real Talk.

If The Dark Knight maintains its current pace, the movie should have enough momentum to overtake the original Star Wars ($461 million, including rereleases) by the end of next weekend.

The War In South Ossetia, Georgia.

HOPE THIS ISN'T YOUR MAN!

Famous blacks are getting hurt and dying! Also: Paul Newman.

DMX Freestyles At Court Hearing:

"If and when you ever fall down/ Get back up," he rapped outside the courtroom, when asked for a comment following the hearing, according to a Reuters report. "Drop something/ Stop fretting/ Pick that ... back up/ Stand for something or fall for everything/ Wait for the right pitch or miss with every swing."

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Australia has overtaken the United States as the world's most obese nation, a new report says.

Ex-NYPD cops say smiley face is link in 40 deaths by serial killer syndicate!

Street sweeper crushes Bronx dog

DMX arrested, again.

Top level domain names like totally opened up.

MySpace Page -- Funk/Hip Hop group that does songs exclusively about feet.

A meat company has been branded Dickensian after forcing its employees to clock-off every time they want to go to the toilet.

Pilots in India often fail alcohol tests.

Good News: Earth actually not at risk for being sucked into black holes created by massive particle collider.

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Sydney Pollack is dead.

I'm going to fart

Hulk Hogan involved in multiple car wreck.

Study suggests that a 12-16 hour period of fasting can help people reset their sleep cycle.

Indiana Jones Rip-offs.

Memorial Day Weekend: Indiana Jones sells over $300 million in tickets worldwide. (Think the movie sucked? You probably aren't over 30 with children -- this was the target demographic.)

Tamil Tigers kill 7 on train w/ bomb

Unruly donkey attacks 2 in Mexico, is jailed.

Harlem: Lenox Avenue sprayed with bullets; 8 wounded.

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The most peaceful place in the Arab world is ruled by a gay sultan.

New 'Indiana Jones' enrages Russian Communists. [reviews]

South Africa is wild as fuck: Disease, Martial Law, Immigration Issues that make ours look tame, and A President Who Might Be Worse Than Bush.

The best essay ever written about human intelligence.

Local skinhead murderer from 1989 meets justice nearly two decades later.

Monday: cyclists in Columbus Ohio will bike to and eat at all 19 'White Castle' locations in the city.

Nigerian News: Wailing, crying, explosions, women turning into cats, tribal tension and kidney diseases.

Back in the US: In Dallas, a naked mother argues with son and accidentally shoots herself in the finger while loading the gun (while naked). Dallas is also where Charles Ray Fuller attempted to cash a check for 360 billion.

Hillary Clinton offends the nation.

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New research in India suggests exposure to pesticides could have damaged the DNA of people in farming communities, leading to higher rates of cancer.

Brazil has more cybercriminals than Nigeria.

A Catholic priest has filed a restraining order against the parents of a severely autistic 13-year-old boy in an effort to keep him from attending the church in Bertha on Sundays.

A grandmother tells how she was bound, beaten and robbed by a gang of "ladyboys" while on holiday in Thailand.

Indiana Jones Rip-offs.

Woman rides horse to work.

Man sprays urine all over grocery store food.

Chief Bush bioethics advisor: eating ice cream in public shameful, offensive

Backstreet Boys/'N SYNC creator sentenced to 25 years in prison for decades long scam resulting in over $300 million stolen from investors.

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Real Talk

R. Kelly arrives at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building on Monday for the second day of his child pornography trial.

brand tags.

USA political election logos, 1960-2008.

All Charges Against Abused Guantanamo Bay 9/11 Suspect Dropped

A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour JetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation."

Texas teens tell police they converted skull into bong

"It was like somebody took their fist as hard as they could and smashed it into the side of your face,"

Sloth sleeps far less than previously estimated;
laziness of species called into question.

Nano-football.

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Network (1976).

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Pit bull found under hood of truck

450 pound black bear lives on grounds of Lousiana's only maximum security prison

Frustrated driver slams on breaks, barrels through pack of 50 cyclists

A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.

Speed Racer fails opening weekend at box office.

Florida teacher accused of wizardry, fired.

Red Cross relief boat destined for cyclone-devastated Myanmar sinks.

A Vietnamese man in Norway lost around 35,000 dollars after he was led to believe that mixing the cash with a special liquid would double its value

A gang of teenage girls may have blown up a house with a home-made liquid bomb, which killed a man in a neighbouring property, after arguing with another girl about a love rival.

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Six sea lions possibly shot to death in Oregon.

Amy Winehouse back on drugs and caught on tape using.

Dozens of San Diego State University college students arrested in massive cocaine drug bust; funds may have been used to partially fund fraternities.

DMX arrested again.

Emo "Movement" under fire following teenage hanging.

Coyote attempts to drag child out of front yard

Platypus genome decoded, published. The genes hint at human scrotum origins.

Bob Dylan has a radio show

A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

Blood Cashews from Senegal: Armed men have cut off the left ears of 16 villagers harvesting cashew nuts in Senegal's rebel-hit Casamance region.

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Fake 10-Year-Old Writes to Charles Manson, Manson Replies with Kind Words, Photograph, Doctoral Dissertation

Letters from a fake 10-year-old to serial killers such as Charles Manson, The Unabomber, and one of the Menendez brothers -- plus responses.

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The parents of an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl who prayed instead of seeking medical help for the diabetic child are facing homicide charges in connection with her death.

More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant.

Mars, the makers of M&M’s, announced a deal Monday morning to acquire the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, the chewing gum concern, for about $23 billion. The transaction would create a confectionery behemoth and could pressure rivals into a cascade of other mergers.

Linux Guru Hans Reiser, developer of ReiserFS filesystem, has been found guilty of first degree murder of his estranged wife. There is no body; he says she is living in hiding.

An investigation was under way at a theme park in Florida yesterday after a captive dolphin was injured fatally while performing an aerial stunt for tourists.

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Senate lawmakers in Florida have voted to ban the fake bull testicles that dangle from the trailer hitches of many trucks and cars throughout the state.

Police killed at least 11 people in a raid on Friday in the Cidade de Deus (City of God) slum, made famous in a hit film of the same name about Rio drug gangs.

Kim Jong-il builds ‘Thunderbirds’ runway for war in North Korea.

Tamil Tiger rebels have bombed military targets in the north-east of Sri Lanka using light aircraft, officials say.

A grizzly bear featured in the recent Will Ferrell film "Semi-Pro" and touted as one of the "best trained" in show business has killed its handler, but officials said on Wednesday they were puzzled by what provoked the attack.

Bicycle-Sharing Program to Be First of Kind in U.S.

A 73-year-old Austrian is under arrest on suspicion of hiding his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, police say.

'If by some miracle, your movie, which stars 41-year-old Mrs. Selznick portraying 24-year-old Catherine Barkley, does earn $50,000, you should have all $50,000 changed into nickels at your local bank and shove them up your [bleep] until they came out of your ears.'

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A Japanese teenager has committed suicide by mixing common household cleaners, releasing fumes that made dozens of people sick, officials said.

Arby's is buying Wendy's for
2.3 billion dollars.

Wesley Snipes to serve 3 years in prison
for tax convictions.

Pete Doherty's art exhibition opens in Paris.

Pixelated Lower East Side Street Art (pictured)

Detectives accused of Sean Bell murder found not guilty.

Mitochondrial DNA study suggests that humanity neared extinction 70,000 years ago; population may have dwindled as low as 2000.

Wikipedia article on Mitochondrial Eve

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Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

More than 85,000 people want to be Paris Hilton's best friend.

A driver is being treated at a Saint Johns County hospital after his truck overturned, spilling Jell-O snack packs all over I-95.

Bear from movies turns on handler in Calif., killing him

Ships and planes searched along the coast of Brazil on Wednesday for a priest who disappeared after drifting out to sea suspended from hundreds of helium-filled party balloons, authorities said.

(video)An elephant has killed three people, including a 75 year old woman during a rampage at a temple festival in India's southern Kerala.

Fan favorite Clay Aiken is preparing to wow the crowd again with his upcoming album On My Way Here when it hits stores on May 6 -- but Claymates won't have to wait until then to get a listen!

The upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country, according to a government report that says 15 percent of adult drivers nationally report driving under the influence of alcohol in the previous year.

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All Blood and Dust

You are bidding on a 19th century Vampire Killing Kit. No reserve auction !

The box weights 20.1 lbs., length 16.8 inches, width 17 inches, height 7.9 inches;made of linden tree with maroon velvet inside, six compartments. The items enclosed in the box are as followed: one wooden hammer (6.5 inches long), four stakes 6 inches-each) --- the wooden hammer has applied a small holy cross, same as the stakes; the lower side containing: prayer book, crucifix, knife and eight bottles with Pamant (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamaie (holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and secret potion. We believe a romanian monk from Transylvania has created this box during the period of 1870-1890 .

The origins of the box are in the Carpathian in the Mountains of Transylvania, Romania. It was acquired from an old priest. This Vampire Killing Kit is genuine and all the text used on it its in Latin and old Romanian. All the genuine kits are not in English language.
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A Couple of Examples of Real Talk

Example One:

The tools and theories needed to analyze social interactions are just now reaching the level of sophistication — in accuracy, in robustness – necessary to leave the lab and enter commercial duty. We are in a period analogous to the early 1970s, when developments like the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Black-Scholes equation transformed finance, changing it from an art to a science, and opening enormous new markets in the process. Now, new equations describing “crowd dynamics” are about to change our lives. And not always for the better. This is one of the most significant technology trends I have seen in years; it may also be one of the most pernicious.

But why is this technology only emerging now, not fifteen or twenty years ago? For any technology, there are only three possible answers to this question: Moore’s law, the Internet, or the government. In the case of crowd dynamics, we have the last two to thank. The Internet has made the problem tractable by providing huge, easily-collected data sets of social interactions. But the government has been the real enabler. Just follow the money: nearly every relevant research project received funding from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

I believe that crowd theory is inherently pernicious because it fundamentally relies on a simplified model of individual behavior. I’m not saying these models aren’t useful, or don’t offer real predictive accuracy. They are and they do. But by treating people as statistical stick-figures, we cheapen ourselves and, somehow, become less human.

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Example Two:

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Despite the heavy media blitz, the George Clooney, Renee Zellweger 1920’s romantic comedy, ‘Leatherheads,” opened April 4th to a gross of only $4.4 million, a fraction of the actor’s usual salary.

Charlton Heston, who appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career but who is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo, died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 84, according to his family.

Law enforcement authorities were able to enter a west Texas polygamist compound to search a temple for a 16-year-old girl, after an initial tense standoff Saturday. Though nearly 200 women and children were taken by bus from the compound this weekend, the teenage girl, whose report of abuse led to the raid, still is unaccounted for in Eldorado, Texas.
She is allegedly married to a 50-year-old man with whom she has had a child.

Police early Sunday used tear gas to disperse a crowd at a large party near the campus of Michigan State University after fights broke out and officers were pelted with bottles and cans.

Francis Clapham, 16, died after snorting £1 of heroin that he believed was cocaine.

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