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Historically Low 46% of Americans Support Public Library Book Banning

Books – Since 1999, support for the idea of banning "books with dangerous ideas" from public school libraries has declined from 55% to 46% and has now fallen to the lowest level of support of the past 20 years.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 26, 2007 07:45pm

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CIA tried to get Mafia to kill Castro: documents

News – The CIA worked with two of the country's most-wanted criminals in a botched "gangster-type" attempt to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday.

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Voted for on June 26, 2007 06:35pm

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Analysis Confirms GOP's Griffin Used Illegal Caging Lists

Politics – A comparative analysis of the spreadsheet with Duval County voter rolls shows that most names were of African-Americans. Michael McDonald, an Associate Professor at George Mason University and an expert on elections statistics, said that the chance that the list is randomly so different from the population is less than 1 in 10,000.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 26, 2007 06:18pm Commented on 1 time: 1

Chicken Soup for the Brain: Evolution FAQs
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Chicken Soup for the Brain: Evolution FAQs

Science – Scientists estimate that the common ancestor shared by humans and chimpanzees lived some 5 to 8 million years ago. Humans and bacteria obviously share a much more distant common ancestor, but our relationship to these single-celled organisms is no less real. A scientific theory stands until proven wrong.

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Voted for on June 26, 2007 03:16pm

Paris Hilton Released
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Paris Hilton Released

Celebrities – After a traumatic three-week stay in prison, Paris Hilton was finally released from jail at the stroke of midnight. The 26-year old celebrity quietly walked out of the all-women's jail in Lynwood, LA and headed towards her Hollywood Hills home.

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Sunk on June 26, 2007 03:16pm

Gloom and Doom in A Sunny Day
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Gloom and Doom in A Sunny Day

Do No Evil – In "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore tells us that unless drastic global changes are made, our cities will be inundated and those of us who haven't drowned will face a world wracked by cataclysmic weather and swarming with pestilence.

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Sunk on June 26, 2007 03:16pm

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Driver comes a cropper in police chase

News – A driver allegedly zonked on cocaine tried to elude police by driving through a cornfield. The moron ruined the farmer's crop, as seen in this photo. [via boingboing]

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Submitted and Voted for on June 26, 2007 01:11am

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Experts warn Darfur is "an early warning" of climate change's effects

News – Darfur's disaster could be repeated in much of North Africa and the Middle East, experts say, because growing populations are straining a limited water supply. Data show rainfall steadily declining in the region, possibly because of weather changes linked to global warming.

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Voted for on June 25, 2007 11:36pm

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How an Obscure Collection of Japanese Action Figures Changed the Way We Play

Movies – Transformers is a movie in 2007 because of the toy-media industrial complex invented in the 1980s. That's when sprawling lines of figures started to be marketed as characters in a ready-mixed narrative, making them must-have collectibles. If you're excited, it's not because you're a nerd, it's because everything is going according to plan.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 25, 2007 08:55pm

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UK Gov Says Intelligent Design is Not Science

Science – The UK government has reiterated that it sees no place for creationism and intelligent design on the science curriculum. It has also defined "Intelligent Design", the idea that life is too complex to have arisen without the guiding hand of a greater intelligence, as a religion, along with "creationism".

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Submitted and Voted for on June 25, 2007 08:51pm Commented on 1 time: 1

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Why Web 2.0 doesn't give you what you want

Humor – Very funny and probably true image of how we want Web 2.0 to work, compared to how it actually works. [via reddit]

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Submitted and Voted for on June 25, 2007 08:34pm Commented on 1 time: 1

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Blade Runner at 25: Why the Sci-Fi F/X Are Still Unsurpassed

Movies – "A quarter-century after Ridley Scott's dark vision of the future changed the face of filmmaking, special-effects maestro and MythBuster Adam Savage offers an appreciation."

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Voted for on June 25, 2007 08:06pm

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Mercury Clouds May Be Stellar Weather

Science – Splotches of mercury may be the first example of weather on a star

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Voted for on June 25, 2007 07:51pm

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'Mystery' Money Groups Hide Money Trail, Watchdog Group Says

Politics – As Congress cracks down on lobbyist loopholes, it's hard to imagine a single dollar of a political contribution could still slip into the system anonymously. Yet hundreds of thousands do, says the political money watchdog Center for Responsive Politics, through what it says is a loophole in need of closing.

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Submitted and Voted for on June 25, 2007 06:34pm

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DRM for Books: Will Publishers Learn Anything from the Music Industry's Mistakes?

Books – A report from the O'Reilly Media TOC publishing conference on the use of DRM in the book publishing business.

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Voted for on June 25, 2007 06:08pm

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