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Cold and Spellbinding: An Alignment of Planets in... →

A special night to look is Saturday, Feb. 25th, when the crescent Moon moves in to form a slender heavenly triangle with Venus, Jupiter and the Moon as vertices (sky map). One night later, on Sunday, Feb. 26th, it happens again (sky map). This arrangement will be visible all around the world, from city and countryside alike. The Moon, Venus and Jupiter are the brightest objects in the night...

Feb 18th

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Feb 17th

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Marie's Pizza and Liquors sees no need to change |... →

The original.

Feb 16th

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Feb 15th

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Feb 9th

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Outsource Your Kid | Foreign Policy →

South Africa’s University of Cape Town beats out Georgetown University on the QS rankings. But Georgetown’s fees are $40,000-plus, compared to an upper end of $8,000 for foreign students attending Cape Town. And only one of the two comes with quality local wine and views of Table Mountain.

Jan 31st

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Jan 26th

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Jan 25th

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Jan 23rd

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Jan 20th

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Tom Araya Scream →

Do it.

Jan 19th

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The Bob Famine: Athletes Aren't Named 'Bob'... →

Nearly two thousand men named Bob have played in major American sports. Bob Sanders is still playing, but he is the only one. Here, we attempt to come to grips with the most pressing crisis in major athletics.

Jan 19th

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He sings about HTML. Yep.

Jan 17th

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Jan 17th

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Wild Belle. Good jam.

Jan 12th

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BBC News - Hackers plan space satellites to combat... →

This is my way out! Longer term they hope to help put an amateur astronaut on the moon.

Jan 6th

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Dec 18th

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Dec 18th

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Dec 18th

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Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 | NYTimes.com →

Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger, the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died on Thursday in Houston. He was 62.

Dec 16th

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Derek Boogaard - A Boy Learns to Brawl |... →

Dec 10th

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Dec 8th

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Ice Cube on Eameses and His Hometown | NYTimes.com →

In the late ’80s, before he became famous as a member of the Compton, Calif., gangsta-rap group N.W.A., Ice Cube studied architectural drafting at a trade school in Arizona. This biographical detail makes the rapper’s appearance in a new video celebrating midcentury design icons Charles and Ray Eames only slightly less incongruous.

Dec 8th

“I burned a buck dude, fuck it.”

– Mark

Dec 5th

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Nov 18th

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Nov 15th

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Nov 15th

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Nov 15th

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Prosecutors: Man bashed girlfriend over head with... →

This is totally f’d and the article is ridiculous. “When a woman messes with my guitar, she messes with my world,” Summers told officers, according to a police report. Authorities did not say the model of the guitar or whether it was acoustic or electric.

Nov 15th

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