More boring stuff from the Net :|

• Don't Trust Government - by Charley Reese
  I suddenly realized why Adolf Hitler was so popular during the first years of his administration. In the early days of the Third Reich, if you weren't a criminal, a communist or a Jew, you never saw the dark side of the Nazi government. You saw an economy
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• Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
  "The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said a
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• Free Joomla templates, free Drupal themes, free Wordpress themes at osskins.com Free Joomla template: ITShop
  themes galore!
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• Psychology Today: Trashing Teens
  In every mammalian species, immediately upon reaching puberty, animals function as adults, often having offspring. We call our offspring "children" well past puberty. The trend started a hundred years ago and now extends childhood well into the 20s. The a
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• Physical Oxymoron on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
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• College Exam Impacts All of China
  "This is the culmination of years of studies. This test will decide the rest of their lives," said Ma Jingshun, speaking for his son, a hulking 18-year-old whose voice had sunk to a soft mumble because of nerves. Extracurricular activities do not count, a
  (tags: education)
• google-diff-match-patch - Google Code
  Compare two blocks of plain text and efficiently return a list of differences.
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• Wellington Grey — Miscellanea — The New Physics
  lol
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• Money - Philanthropy - Income - Poverty - Finances - Daniel Handler - New York Times
  lol….“As you know,” I said to her, “we’re the 100-something-thousandth richest people in the world, according to that Web site. That’s the top .001 percent, which is crazy and possibly monstrous. Come the revolution, we will be guillotined, an
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• Trees and crops reclaim desert in Niger - International Herald Tribune
  So Danjimo and other farmers in Guidan Bakoye took a small but radical step. No longer would they clear the saplings from their fields before planting, as they had for generations. Instead, they would protect and nurture them, carefully plowing around the
  (tags: environment)
• Biofuels or Bio-fools? — AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online
  Here’s an ethical question: in a world where people starve, does it make sense to run cars on food? Ethanol fans don’t worry about this question too much, however, because they don’t see ethanol’s competitors—oil and gas—as having a claim to t
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• Don't Be Fooled by $1 Salaries
  "Salary has become such a minuscule component of CEO compensation that it is now largely irrelevant," said J. Richard Finlay, founder of the Centre for Corporate & Public Governance. For the 11 CEOs in the group who earned more than $30 million, salary wa
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• OUT THERE: Marathon monk recalls rigors of grueling ancient quest - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
  A strict regimen dictates that in each of the journey's first three years, the pilgrim must rise at midnight for 100 consecutive days to pray and run along an 18-mile trail around Mount Hiei, on the outskirts of the ancient capital of Kyoto. Fujinami left
  (tags: body)
• The Graduates: Comment: The New Yorker
  What makes for the stress is meritocracy. Meritocratic systems are democratic (since, in theory, everyone gets a place at the starting line) and efficient (since resources are not wasted on the unqualified), but they are huge engines of anxiety. The more
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• The Jun-Pierre Blog » Blog Archive » A Leonardo Funny Book
  Painter and comic artist Jun-Pierre Shiozawa visited the Tokyo National Museum recently to view da Vinci's Annunciata which created protests in Italy when the Uffizi Gallery lent this artwork to Japan. Shiozawa then created a fantastic "manga review" of t
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• A struggle for young Palestinian minds
  Palestinian children spend more of their school day studying Islam. Critical jobs in public education are filled by Islamic stalwarts. A once-banned social studies reader, crammed with hard-line rhetoric, is now in classrooms.
  (tags: education)
• THINGS YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW WITHOUT THE MOVIES
  -The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place - noone will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building undetected.
  -When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a
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• ARTICLE: Proposed ethanol pant would need water from city – lots of it (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com)
  Ethanol production's high consumption of water has some cities worried whether new refineries will tap into too much of the local water supply. The failure to get adequate water has been enough to derail some proposals, said Mark Muller of the Institute f
  (tags: biofuel)
• Money - Labor - Income - Poverty - Finances - New York Times
  “PAF (huff)” — the Poverty Alleviation Fund — “is a third-generation project (huff),” he said. The program is flexible; the money can be put to many uses. It is “demand driven”; villagers decide. It is “transparent”; the accounting is
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• Tuzki (兔斯基)
  These bunnies known as Tuzki (兔斯基), are the latest to steal the hearts of Chinese netizens. Simplistic, noseless and mouthless, these bunnies have been hot on Chinese internet, particularly with QQ and MSN users since the beginning of 2007. Wang Mom
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• Global Liquidity Crisis when the Credit Boom comes to an End :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Forecasting & Analysis Free Website
  “World wealth isn't growing, world DEBTS are growing and the place they are growing the fastest is the US which is the sole terminus of world trade at this point. The biggest growth industry today is selling debt instruments. The entire existence of hed
  (tags: economics)