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My name is Jeff, and I write this blog. I work as an interface designer in Denver, CO. I am also an amateur musician and an atheist.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Is heat ray torture?
Los Angeles wants to use a heat beam to control inmates. The ACLU thinks this is torture and is worried that abuse of the device will injure prisoners, while the sheriff hopes it will be an effective way to keep the prisoners peaceful without hurting them.
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Arrested for getting a kid to swear for YouTube
Josh Eastman posted a video he took of an 8-year-old neighbor swearing and saying racial slurs, so the kid’s mom had him arrested for ‘impairing the morals of a child’. Eastman says that the kid said these things on his own, though apparently you can hear a voice egging him on off-camera. Eastman also says, “It was fun things, funny.”
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Possible terrorist tried out for Canadian Idol
Khuram Sher once tried out for Canadian Idol, singing Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated”. He was just arrested as a suspected member of a terror cell.
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81-year-old sucks venom, stomps snake
Loyd Church, who lives along Vannoy Road, said he was in his garden last week when the snake snapped at him and bit him on his hand between his thumb and index finger.
“I was picking cucumbers, and he was hiding up under them vines,” the soft-spoken Church said Friday.
Church, who avoids going to the doctor whenever possible, said he remembered seeing his father treat snake bites as a boy and decided to perform the same procedure.
“I gripped my hand and stuck it down in,” Church said, describing how he used a knife to cut a slit between the two fang marks before sucking the venom out. He then killed the snake by stomping on it with his boot.
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Hitler emoticons
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China has a big old traffic jam
Construction has caused a 60-mile, 10-day (and counting) traffic jam in northern China. Some people have been stuck for 5 days, and locals are taking advantage of the situation.
Though there were no reports of road rage violence, drivers complained about price-gouging by villagers who were their only source of food and water. A bottle of water that normally costs 1 yuan (15 cents) was selling for 10 yuan ($1.50), while the price of a 3 yuan- (45 cent-) cup of instant noodles had more than tripled, media reports said.
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