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May 16

20Divers find oldest ever bust of Caesar in a river in France 15Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed talking with Iran the very same day Bush attacked Obama for suggesting the exact same thing. 4Lockheed Martin Awarded GPSIII 20Jon Stewart: The Change You Deserve 4Doorway to hell found in Uzbekistan 4Fire Alarm Box Traps Pranksters [FailPic] 15"Environmentalists" opposing off-shore MA windfarm turns out to be front for oil/coal/mineral companies 16Moroccan Spiced Grilled Chicken Breasts 14$8,000,000.00 painting from 0 feedback user, free shipping! Zimbabwe’s Rulers Unleash Police on Anglicans 9A Girl and Her Dog [PIC] 1399% of public comments received were against media consolidation. The FCC ruled to allow more consolidation anyway. Last night, the Senate overturned the FCC's rule. Tell the House to do the same! 2Firebug Command Line API 17 Oil hits new record of $127 as Bush visits Saudi Arabia~"It's the dollar's value stupid" 17Most Extreme Places on Earth 4English Russia » Darvaz: The Door to Hell 8Cute, young ass 17IE 7.0/8.0b Code Execution 0-Day Released 13Note to Fed: One market bubble may be an accident... two in the space of a decade begins to look like carelessness 4AppAppeal » Reviews of Web Based Applications 18Gizmo's Tech Support Alert | A kind of WikiPedia for Freeware 23Senators Ask FBI to Explain Flawed 'National Security Letter' to Internet Archive 4Orchestra accident. Check the guy on the right. Ouch! 20Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda 1Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep? 4Official asks medical staff to "refrain" from making diagnoses of PTSD in Iraq veterans because the resulting disability claims are costly. 2Honeywell & Airbus To Turn Algae Into Jet Fuel 3Managing Software Engineers 17The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure: Scientific American 20BBC NEWS | UK | Wildlife populations 'plummeting' 12Remember the Student Suspended for Supporting Gay Rights? The Courts Are Forcing the School to Notify Students, in Writing, that Standing Up for Gay Rights is Okay 21Decent Book Clubs for Sci-Fi Fans? 5Hitler argued that the Invasion of Poland was critical to defend the Homeland, and he used fake intelligence reports to do it! 1Editorial: Teach for America 15Die Videos der re:publica’08 6The High Priestess of Coupons 5The 64 Manliest Movies To Date | Campus Squeeze 14Solar bra brings conservation closer to the heart 13Robo-geek or Super Soldier? 15How Information Can Escape From Black Holes 2impertinence: Fic: Good God I Wish I Was Back In My Time (Fall Out Boy) 12Evidence that Bush lied about giving up golf 4Breaking: CA Supreme Court Overturns State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban 21Comedy Friday: Chris Matthews?! That's Right, He Threw a Beatdown Last Night of Epic Comedic Proportions 1020 Web Development Tools I Should Probably Be Using 4Graffiti art to boost your inspiration 2SourceForge.JP: Project Info - MobaSiF (Moba/Mobile Simple Framework) 6Former Chief Prosecutor of Nuremburg Trials: "...Prima facie case...that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity...an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation" 7Wolf Shirt GETS YOU LAID 8A personality test for your cat - Yahoo! News 27Lori Drew Indicted On Federal Charges For Her MySpace "Joke" That Lead To A 13 Year Old Committing Suicide 1413 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness 2Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database? 1NSF Research Reveals Chain Letter Travel Patterns 9Filament Group Lab Example From Page from: jQuery Interactive Date Range Picker with Shortcuts 3Snackr: an RSS ticker built using Adobe AIR and Flex. 24The war is going to end because it is politically unsustainable. Want Proof? Yesterday, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding. 1510 Surprising Health Benefits of Sex 19Bush hails Israelis as ‘chosen people’ but ignores Palestinians on ‘catastrophe’ day 2U.S. State Department Veterans Say the Official Account of 9/11 "Flawed", "Absurd", "Totally Inadequate", "a Cover-up" 19Swedish Woman, 75, Has World's Fastest Broadband Connection 12UIパターンいろいろ - DesignWalker 4Real-World Tufte Graphics in 11 Lines of Code: Juice Analytics 5Bob Ross is Alive! Video 3Dutch Voting Machines De-Certified 17Schwarzenegger on taxes, immigration and more - who knew he was so logical? 15(function() { : YCodaSlider 2.0 (BETA) 11" Die Berliner Mauer : Startseite " 5Shape-Shifting Malware Hits the Web 21Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case 1For Wall Street Workers, Ax Falls Quietly 17Bill O'Reilly's producer from Inside Edition 10More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers 13U.N. says world economy on thin ice - does anyone even listen to the U.N. anyway, are the really relevant 3Don't worry about $127 a barrel oil, just one more dollar and it'll overflow into the sign bit. -$128 oil for all! 4The Ampersand 21Bill O'Reilly's Producer - CollegeHumor video 2ADUni.org: ArsDigita University Curriculum 3 Hawaiian Volcanoes: Beauty & Terror 17Why are you giving nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, while threatening to destroy Iran for using it? 7Old-Style Mechanical Pumps Balk At $4-a-Gallon Gas, Too 6How do you clean a Space Needle? 15The Microwaved CD Robert Mondavi, 94, California Winemaker, Dies 19Female teacher plus male student plus sex equals one month in jail 2One Day I Chanced Upon A Mystery (Wherein I Encountered Dollar Store Mystery Bags) Tone Your Arms—in 10 Minutes! - MSN Health & Fitness - Women's Fitness 1How to Adjust the White Balance of a Digital Photo 6Rebate [Pic] 15Man's rare ability may unlock secret of memory 15Masturbating train driver leaves intercom on [SFW (w/headphones)] 13Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden 13Asus to embed Linux into all motherboards 6British policing at its best. Or not. [pic] 16Brute force cat 2.0 [Pic] 17Obama Faces Racism in West Virginia Video - Metacafe 3A Baseball Hat That Reads Your Mind 1013 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness | Little Tutorials 10*NOW* Firefox 3.0rc1 is released. 24Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter attention sp... 1024 + 1 Photography Podcasts That Will Inspire You 17At an NRA rally, Mike Huckabee just joked about Barack Obama getting shot. 24Ukraine officially joins WTO 16Der kleine OpenSSL-Wegweiser - heise Security 8Sex scenes, bloody action & intellectual prowess: The 64 Manliest Movies To Date 7Windows doesn't know when to shut up your money: 5 Basic Guidelines for Managing Your Finances 2"Houston, We Have a (Crazy Ant) Problem" 17Linux On A Stick: Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive 18Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation 30The Open GPS Tracker is a small device which plugs into a $20 prepaid mobile phone to make a GPS tracker. 3[Saq.] ARToolKit を Flash に移植したよ。 3Lots of Monty Python 1California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban 1How to spot weak arguments at The CreateDebate Blog 10Yahoo! SearchMonkey: Oooh ooh oooh 18Ron Paul: Big Government is Responsible for the Housing Bubble 1Chasing Utopia, Family Imagines No Possessions 15Ars Technica bought by Condé Nast for $25 million 10Sometimes I have trouble reading the comments on reddit.com, and I think the solution would look something like this. [large pic] 250 Free Icon Sets - The Web Squeeze 2Neo-Con General Calls For Terror Attacks In Iran District Puts All the World in Classrooms 3Official Google Mac Blog: App Engine Launcher for Mac OS X 10Students suspended over ignenious t-shirts: "Class of .08 Seniors" 14Ancient church emerges from flooded valley for first time in 50 years 1Senators OK $1 Billion for Online Child Porn Fight 2020 Of The Best Cities In The World For Telecommuting 1Exhibition Review | 'The Horse': Man’s Best Friend, Hoofed Department 18What To Do With Old Laptops? 3liveusb-creator - Trac 18This is why people say Americans are stupid. 20Junior High Sweethearts Get Engaged in Math Class [PICS] 14http://www.cubeecraft.com/ 9City tells church to stop feeding the homeless (What Would Jesus Do?) 2$100 Laptop Platform Moves On Editorial: A Disgraceful Farm Bill 15Giant shrimp can see beyond the rainbow 2set up a pirate radio station 18Portia de Rossi To Marry Ellen DeGeneres 2「頭脳流出」の実際：Googleを辞める理由とは (1/3) - ITmedia エンタープライズ 12The war is going to end because it is politically unsustainable. Want Proof? Yesterday, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding. 1DARPA Celebrates 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope Op-Ed Contributor: Bob the Builder 10Once we were Programmers 7A man thought to be a federal drug agent, who had spent months alongside police kicking down doors and making arrests, turned out not to be an agent of any stripe. 2http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/16/breaking-conde-nastwired-acquires-ars-technica/ 13What can a three thousand dollar camera do? [PIC] 1Birth of a turtle 3JavaScript のイベントハンドラ - daily dayflower 11Total Idiot Pays $71,540 for Lifetime Internet Access 1613 reasons for UML’s descent into darkness 17Portia de Rossi To Marry Ellen DeGeneres 2Olbermann To Bush: "This War Is Not About You...Shut The Hell Up!" 9Colbert assists Bush: 'Obama is a secret time-traveling Nazi Muslim' 19Code Quality In Open and Closed Source Kernels 2A Tale of Four Kernels 13Rare rainbow iceberg spotted in the Antarctic (pic) 1Billions of electronic-eating 'crazy rasberry ants' invade Texas - Times Online 2Video Tabs Archive 1In the South, a Force to Challenge the G.O.P. 4Blogs Blossom into a Big Business - eMarketer 12Heinz is breeding sweeter tomatoes to protect against the rising cost of corn syrup 12US-Saudi oil axis faces day of truth - "The myth of Saudi spare capacity is convenient for everybody: it gives OPEC leverage, and it gives the West hope." 15What if gas cost $10/gallon? [non-linkjacked] 15Plasma Blade demo (on a dead person) (vid) 19reddit : please add a "already seen" tag to the interface, old (even if good) link popping again and again are not fun. 3US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all 13Keep Tab On Home Security With A Webcam And Twitter 3Multitouch Goodness: Full-Screen Multitouch Mac OS X Is Here (But Not from Apple) 17Blogs dedicados a los programas de Adobe 2Rainwater Harvesting Vertical Garden, AzSustainably.com, Rainwater Garden 15Polar Bear now protected by Endangered Species Act 26ABC Australia : Unanswered 9/11 questions 4Dead Sea Scroll Put on Rare Display in Israel 2US Senate Asks for National Security Letter Explanation 10Graffiti art to boost your inspiration [PICS] 24Poor Fat People. The World's problems are their fault, says the BBC. 1In Indonesia, life plays out in the shadow of fiery peaks 2Amputee Sprinter Wins Olympic Appeal to Compete 12Top reasons your CSS columns are messed up - Warpspire 8Cornell scientists create first genetically modified human embryo, destroy it after five days 10Obama Demanding Investigation over VA Email re whether or not the Department of Veterans Affairs is under-diagnosing combat-related PTSD as a cost-cutting measure. 1Film: Shaking Up the Crowd at Cannes 19Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Admires Bush 20There's no question about it, a new breed of speculator is pouring money into the oil market and helping drive prices to record levels. Olympic Dream Stays Alive, on Synthetic Legs 26Plasma Blade demo (on a dead person) (vid) 20Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden 1Tasting the Bounty of San Francisco Markets 17What the hell is this? The Giant Makeup mines of Peru? (Google Maps) 20best of the best free icons 2Gay Marriage Ban Overturned By Cal Supreme Court 17Bletchley Park Facing Financial Ruin 18Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers 22The 64 Manliest Movies To Date | Campus Squeeze 15Seth's Blog: Why word of mouth doesn't happen