Not such a bright idea? ~Peilo

 When Steve Tucker emerged from prison a year ago, he was a 50-year-old man starting over from scratch, as reflected by his modestly furnished apartment.

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Your mind:

 it’s just another piece of hardware. Make sure you download the latest patch and upgrade to the newest operating system. That, in so many words, is the fate of humankind described by David Pescovitz, co-editor of the BoingBoing.net blog and research director with the Institute for the Future.

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Crotch-grabbing is a common habit among superstitious Italian males, who believe the gesture wards off bad luck. What does the crotch have to do with luck? Because it’s the seat of fertility. The crotch grab goes back at least to the pre-Christian Roman era and is closely associated with another superstition called the “evil eye”

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I didn’t know about this…and its actually recommended by Microsoft

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A problem, the Schwarz-Christoffel formula which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London.

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High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

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Virginia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the first US felony conviction for spamming, narrowly denying an appeal that argued that spamming was protected by the First Amendment.

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The Clinton campaign paid a group of people, all African-American, to hold her campaign signs on a Dallas street corner.

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See that banana you’re eating? It probably killed somebody! Just kidding, sort of. Bananas don’t kill people, people kill people … over bananas. And soda. And a bunch of other stuff you buy every day.

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