January 2010
Unhappy Hipsters →
“Even in your company, I feel so alone.” (Dwell, September 2009)
“Unhappy Hipsters”, a new Tumblr genre blog that documents lonely hipsters in a modern world, which in this case…
Penn & Teller on the ADA →
Shared by Brian
The plaintiff attorney involved in the Julian cases worked upstairs from me for a number of years. He is an intelligent and very capable attorney that is bitter and taking his…
Pediatric Urology Expert Witness Testifies In... →
The obvious signs of Neil Beagley’s failing health gave his parents ample warning that the teenager needed immediate medical treatment, a doctor testified Friday. Pediatric urology expert witness…
Judge Tosses NSA Spy Cases →
A federal judge dismisses lawsuits accusing the government of conducting a warrantless dragnet on Americans’ communications. Without addressing the merits of the allegations, the San Francisco judge…
Christian Group to Save Haitians With... →
Joining Travolta’s Scientology humanitarian effort to capture as many mind prisoners as possible, a Christian group is sending an army of Proclaimers to Haiti. Proclaimers are solar-powered…
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic →
In 1961, surgeon Leonid Rogozov was the only physician stationed on an isolated 12-man Soviet base in Antarctica when he developed appendicitis. He had to remove his appendix himself. “I didn’t…
FBI Broke Law Spying on Americans Phone Records,... →
FBI agents got thousands of Americans’ phone records with phony emergency letters to telecoms, a pending report finds. That, despite top officials learning about the work-around. No prosecutions are…
Bill Gates Is Now On Twitter, Follow Him To See... →
So far he’s shown a good grasp of Twitter etiquette in his five tweets, replying to ‘slebs Ashton Kutcher and Ryan Seacrest; retweeting successfully twice, and even has a spiffy background…
5 Awesome RV Destruction Videos →
Whether it’s due to sheer boredom or a personality befitting a professional arsonist, those who happen to find in their possession a recreational vehicle that
FBI Violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act →
An anonymous reader writes to tell us of a report from the Washington Post which alleges that the FBI “illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking…