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Star Wars Fan Captures Secret Lives of Stormtroopers

Art & Design – Star Wars fan and photographer Cindi Geeze doesn't just play with her extensive collection of Imperial soldier action figures. She props them into humorous poses and photographs them.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 08:21pm

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The Food Riots Are Getting Worse

News – Prices for cornmeal and rice have doubled in Somalia since January, and on Monday food riots wracked the Somalian city of Mogadishu. Thousands of people protested the insane prices for staple foods, and eventually police shot and killed two protesters.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 04:27pm

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Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight

Science – NASA historian and gadfly James Oberg wrote up a very detailed and very interesting report on the near-disastrous re-entry of a Soyuz carrying three astronauts back from the space station. This is really an epic tale; it looks like there was a system malfunction that would normally have doomed the crew. [via badastronomy]

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 04:24pm

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Pirate Music, Lose Your Home

News – Digital music pirates are the same as drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs in New York and Los Angeles -- at least as it relates to the government's ability to declare your place a public nuisance, shut it down for as long as a year (or worse) and fine you. So it's time to knock on your teenager's door and pray he's just downloading porn.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 03:21pm

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Comcast considers cap on Net usage

Gadgets & Tech – Comcast, the nation's second-largest Internet service provider, is considering setting an official limit on the amount of data that subscribers can download per month and charging a fee for those who go over.

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Voted for on May 08, 2008 03:19pm

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'Batmanime' Is a Blast in Batman: Gotham Knight

Movies – The geek machine has fired into overdrive for Christopher Nolan's incoming prequel sequel, The Dark Knight. But the untold hero of this summer's Batman assault may lie elsewhere -- in the Animatrix-inspired Batman: Gotham Knight, to be exact.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 03:17pm

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Review: Cloverfield Manga

Books – If you could control the Cloverfield monster what city would you attack first? That's just one of the pressing questions raised by the Cloverfield manga. Sadly, now that an English translation of the Japanese-language tie-in comic is finally available, it doesn't explain all about the monster as we'd hoped.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 02:21pm

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The Rise and Fall of Atari

Video Games – If you know anything about the pop culture of the 1970s, the name Atari is synonymous with video games. So what happened? Where did Atari go? Here's the story.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 02:18pm

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Review: Elizabeth Bear's Carnival

Books – "The reason I'd recommend it as a good way to get into one of the most prolific and exciting science fiction writers working today, is that it manages to do what so few SF novels can. That is, it offers an intriguing, intellectually-rewarding glimpse at one human possible future while also telling a rip-roaring yarn."

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Submitted and Voted for on May 08, 2008 02:17pm

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In tight Senate votes, McCain not a maverick

Politics – Over the years, Sen. John McCain has publicly condemned Republican Party leaders and occasionally voted against the GOP on selected issues. But an Arizona Republic analysis of his Senate votes on the most divided issues in the past decade shows that McCain almost never thwarted his party's objectives.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 07, 2008 07:18pm

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FBI Targets Archive.org With Secret 'National Security Letter', Loses

News – The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public, civil liberties groups announced Wednesday morning.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 07, 2008 07:08pm

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Hillary Clinton: The Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of the Democratic Party

Politics – Despite all the math counting her out, Hillary Clinton fervently remains in the race to become the Democratic nominee for president in 2008. She has become the Democratic Party's psycho ex-girlfriend, and she's not going away without a restraining order. [via reddit]

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Submitted and Voted for on May 07, 2008 05:43pm

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Incredible collection of cryptographic machines

Gadgets & Tech – The modern computer was born from Polish, British and American efforts to decode secret German and Japanese messages during the Second World War. The complex processes instantiated in these cryptographic machines are excellent examples of early hand, mechanical, electromechanical and electronic computing devices.

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Submitted and Voted for on May 07, 2008 04:42pm

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Pentagon Wants Cyberwar Range to 'Replicate Human Behavior and Frailties'

Gadgets & Tech – The Pentagon's way-out researchers don't just want to build an Internet simulator, to test out cyberwar tactics. They want the range's operators to "realistically replicate human behavior and frailties," too.

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Voted for on May 07, 2008 12:21am

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Clinton's and McCain's Gasoline Tax Holiday Reimagined as a Phishing Scam

Politics – "I started thinking about the idea of a scam, the way Clinton and McCain were trying to fool people. That led to thinking about various scams, and suddenly I hit on the idea of the Nigerian spams. Some of them are even about oil, and they're all about promising money which won't actually be delivered. That's the same dynamic here."

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Submitted and Voted for on May 07, 2008 12:20am