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The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic that has helped to free dozens of convicts by using DNA testing to show they did not commit the crimes. Some of them spent decades in prison first. Here’s just one example. After serving more than 25 years in Texas prisons for a crime he did [...] Amanda Palmer tweeted about her band The Dresden Dolls, got a flash mob going, and the next thing you know, she’s selling t-shirts, having an auction, and then a twitter-invitation only gig. total made this month using Twitter = $19,000 total made from my huge-ass ben-folds produced-major-label solo album this year = $0 This is not satire. Most significant death of the week? You decide: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Neda Agha Soltan. From kensands The Seeds were hippies. But they also had an raw edge to their music that influenced garage bands and punk. Their lead singer Sky Saxon died today in Austin. Pushing Too Hard was a major hit and remains a classic. Lots of celebs dying, aren’t there? What can one say about Michael Jackson? Seems [...] The cruise ships will deliberately go slow in waters off Somalia in hopes of luring pirates so then the cruise ship passengers can open fire on them with machine guns and grenade launchers. “They are worse than the pirates,” said Russian yachtsman Vladimir Mironov. “At least the pirates have the decency to take hostages, these [...] The California legislature yet again has failed to pass a balanced budget, which means the state may issue IOUs starting next week. Is there any chance they could, y’know, all act in unison as adults, putting the state before their own narrow-minded self-interest and ideologies? Ah ha ha ha, I crack myself up… [...] "This is even worse than having to fly coach and take off my shoes for TSA" (Reuters photo) As for that missing $7 billion, it was all an accounting oversight, a bookkeeping error, made worse by over zealous prosecutors who in their madness destroyed a once-prosperous business that wished only to offer insanely high [...] A London telecom company plans to use excess heat from their data center to provide heat and hot water for 450 nearby homes, who will then get “free energy for life.” Imagine the enormous energy savings once using waste heat becomes a standard practice. Iranian women upon landing in US: “We’ve seen people being beaten to death” Iran media: 8 Basijis shot dead during protests Driving home from a meeting last night on peaceful streets to our condo in a quiet area, I pondered how different it would be for anyone in Tehran now, if they even dared [...] |
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