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*edit* -- for all you naysayers, according to snopes, this is real: http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/fl ightschool.asp

This is an amazingly plausible theory! Read it!



national strategy for v i c tory in ir aq N AT I O N A L S E C U R I T Y C O U N C I L NOVEMBER 2005 The following document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining. “The United States has no intention of determining the precise form of Iraq’s new government. That choice belongs to the Iraqi ...

This is really interesting. Be sure to read it!



Tank Man "Tank Man" stops the advance of a column  of tanks. Photo by Jeff Widener (Associated Press) Tank Man or the Unknown Rebel is the nickname of an anonymous  man who became internationally famous wh en he was videotaped and  photographed during the Tiananmen Square  protests in 1989. Several  photographs were taken of the man, who i s seen to stand in front of a column  of Chinese Type 59 ...

What Happens to Your body if you stop smoking Right now? I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW. In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop ba...

Now that YouTube has money behind it, Google can expect legal action from a whole bunch of people... some of it justified. That was truly insightful, at least for me. Google's core business model revolves around "fair use" and similar provisions of copyright law. I think they are most vulnerable in this area-- look at Belgium. So Google needed to buy YouTube for a couple of reasons related to t...

This Is What Waterboarding Looks Like As Congress has debated legislation that would set up military tribunals and govern the questioning of suspected terrorists (whom the Bush administration would like to be able to detain indefinitely), at issue has been what interrogation techniques can be employed and whether information obtained during torture can be used against those deemed unlawful enem...