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May 17

43He's blind and 78, but this bowler still sees a perfect 300 35To All The Whiney College Kids -> Grow up and get over it. 34The Argument for Making Commercials for Perscription Medicine Illegal 33BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Click's top free software 32Saying Goodbye to Air Travel. The airline industry has no future. The same is true for airfreight. 29Cheers! (pic) 29God damn, I've been looking forward to seeing Obama attack Bush/repubs 28 3D spider TATTOO! [PIC] 27Superdelegate wants to know which candidate you support. Poll on the right side of the page. 27End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip 24The tragedy of suburbia 24Economy of Europe Defies U.S. Slowdown 24U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan so it can continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come. (Shame! Shame!) 23Tell Congress to Arrest Karl Rove! 23Mass Photography 23Umpherston Sinkhole, Australia. 22Who Wouldn't Like A Grandma Like This One (Pics.) 22Rapper Ice T and his life of crime. Unpunished Life of Crime. 21Don't like speeding tickets? I present Trapster. Discuss. 21Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia Foundation Board has cesored Wikinews, may have set a dangerous precedent that could remove all of its CDA section 230 immunity 20Unmanned Aircraft Pose US Airspace Problems 20World's Newest, Most Powerful Laser Comes Online 20The World's Spookiest Weapons 20Senate Votes To Revive Ban On Media Cross-Ownership - company can't own TV station and newspaper in same town, for example 20Obama Says Bush Policies Strengthened Iran, Hamas 19Sinkholes 1825 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 2 | Vandelay Website Design 18Banking industry's most lucrative business: Doc video about credit cards made in 2004 for years later we have a credit crisis, very interesting choice of words in the end scenes 18It's National Tell-A-Stupid-Person-That-Barrack-Obama-Isn't-Muslim Weekend. Get Busy! 18Can we get a "Marked As Innacurate" feature on reddit? There is too much BS showing up on this website. 17Ancient Rare Ramayan Pics go on display in London(IMAGES) 16New Joker Poster - The Dark Knight 16Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - 11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation 16I want to know what happened to this girl (pic) 16Wash the blood from your hands [pic] 16The Muslim population in Denmark, constituting a mere 4% of the total, refuses to integrate, consumes 40% of the welfare, and constitutes a majority of the country’s convicted rapists. 16"It's concievable that when I turn the machine on, I start getting messages from the future" 15"If they want a debate about protecting the United States of America, that's a debate I'm ready to win because George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for," Obama said 15Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000 15Carl Icahn will destroy Yahoo 15This Picture Scares Me [PIC] 15"It is natural when you are a debtor nation that you lean in the direction of inflation, because it makes paying it back so much easier." 14FBI fears hardware backdoors in US military kit (Say a US fighter jet is flying along and someone on the ground turns it off. Wouldn’t you manufacture that in if you were the Chinese?) 14‘Shock of consciousness' sweeps China in wake of temblor 14Microsoft is lying and intentionally screwing up your log files 14Green Tech: The ZERO emisions school bus. [pic] 14The Prize: This one's for you, Redditors...[comic] 13Indiana Jones is back - and he's buff: Harrison Ford holds back the years at Cannes 13It will deliver a beam of infrared light that is more powerful than the total energy consumption of all human activity on the planet 13Two Modesto men are facing mandatory 20-year prison terms for medical-marijuana convictions in federal case that ignore California law legalizing medical marijuana 13Winds of change: The U.S. can greatly boost clean wind power for 2 cents a day. Now all we need is a president who won't blow the chance. 13High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers 12Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck' 121 hour later: You have 74 friends and 480 friend requests. Oh wait, it's exponential, isn't it. Shit. 12Hear 2.0: "It doesn't have a Wienie!" 12I knew JFK, says Gore Vidal, and believe me Obama’s the better leader 11UPDATE! 25 years after first computer date, couple's marriage still going strong 11I'm a feminist, and that's why I don't support Hillary. 11Introduction to Digital Filters (online book) 11 Iran busts CIA terror network 11Dada’s Boy: A reexamination of Chris Farley’s tragically short career. 10Honesty is always the best policy [Craigslist Personals] 10oops... 10Surrender Humanoid [COMIC] 10Now This Is a 3D Tattoo [pic] 10Pharyngula: The Subtly Different Squid Eye 10Why do some people enjoy eating insanely hot chile peppers? Because they get you high (sort of). 10What 11 years on the Internet will get you 9Facebook's Glass Jaw 9In Lori Drew's indictment in the Megan Meier suicide case, prosecutors have made a dubious argument: Violating any website's TOS is a federal offense 9For a Sharp Brain, Stimulation 9Petawatt lasers heat solid density matter to 10 million degrees 9C++ vs Lisp 9Where everybody knows your name... [pic] 9The Sacrifices of War (Pic) 8Madrid's 'Air Tree' Will “Climatically Transform” Urban Architecture 8Soldier Refuses Iraq Tour, Citing 'Stomach-Churning Horrors' 8Serious Business on GTA IV - To take a life, or not to take a life. 8the longest burning lightbulb is now 107 years old 8Solar Blimp Could Bring Power To Disaster Areas 8Taking your laptop into the US? Be sure to hide all your data first 8Ronald Reagan: Chamberlainian appeaser of the 1980s - Glenn Greenwald 8what's that in the corner there? [pic] 8World's largest tomato plant 8US Closes European Web Sites Promoting Tourism to Cuba 7France: One million strike in defence of education and social services 7Wacky Chemistry Commercial from Europe 7New Zealands Leap of Faith [pic] 720% of U.S. Has Never Sent E-mail 712 Compelling Monuments Dedicated to Peace 7FlexTD 7Macworld | Control the world 7OPML Resources for ReadWriteWeb Readers - ReadWriteWeb 6Tom Brokaw interviews Warren Buffett 6Removing the Big Kernel Lock 6jQuery iPod-style Drilldown Menu | Filament Group, Inc. 6James Howard Kunstler on the Tragedy of Suburbia 6Why Twitter Matters 6Grape: a new, conceptually very interesting, desktop 6Grape