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Terrorism: Everyone Is a Suspect, Especially You »
Public Intelligence | Submitted by: Chuck"The document... lists the use of anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address as a sign that a person could be engaged in or supporting terrorist activity. The use of encryption is also listed as a suspicious activity along with steganography... In fact, the flyer recommends that anyone overly concerned about privacy... should be considered suspicious and potentially engaged in terrorist activities." Discuss...

If Thy Urinal Offends Thee »
Der Spiegel | Submitted by: Francis Cardinal George"Women in the northern German town of Lüchow have expressed their dissatisfaction with the design of two urinals in the men's toilet of a museum dedicated to the Rolling Stones. They are shaped like red lips, similar to the legendary logo of the band, but they look more feminine, and they lack tongues." Discuss...

Sodomy With a Twist (of Lemon) »
The Local DE | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III"The dismembered, partially cooked corpse of a missing man has been found in a Berlin apartment, where prosecutors believe he was killed after a sex game spiralled out of control... Carsten Srock, was found with his limbs expertly carved off with either an axe or large knife. The body pieces were then wrapped fastidiously in plastic bags and cling-wrap, and left to sit in the two-room flat for around three weeks." Discuss...

Soccer Riot! 70 Dead »
NPR | Submitted by: PETE58"The tragic riot following a soccer game Wednesday in Port Said, Egypt, which left more than 70 people dead and at least 1,000 wounded, highlights the problems with security in this country... Egypt has declared three days of mourning ... [and] angry members of parliament denounced the lack of security at the match and gathered for an emergency session." Discuss...

Fifteen Years of Mystery Meat »
Daily Mail | Submitted by: The Medicated"A teenage girl who has eaten almost nothing else apart from chicken nuggets for 15 years has been warned by doctors that the junk food is killing her. Stacey Irvine, 17, has been hooked on the treats since her mother bought her some at a McDonald’s restaurant when she was two." Discuss...

Hawaii: The Surveillance State »
c|Net | Submitted by: Soylent"[Hawaii]'s House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure, H.B. 2288, says "Internet destination history information" and "subscriber's information" such as name and address must be saved for two years." Discuss...

Carding Gang Initiation Steep But Effective »
Athens Banner-Herald | Submitted by: mungo"Anyone who wanted to join Yadav's ring had to prove himself by having group sex with Yadav -- sometimes with other men, women or both -- all while Yadav videotaped the scene... Though the sex satisfied Yadav's own perversions, he used the unusual initiations to weed out people he thought might belong to law enforcement, according to Athens-Clarke police Detective Beverly Russell, who helped break the cloning ring." Discuss...

Inmates Redecorate, Upsetting Porcine Establishment »
Wire Services | Submitted by: tetheredgoat(se)A hazard of using the incarcerated as slave labor: "Inmates working at a Vermont correctional unit's print shop managed to sneak a prank image of a pig into a state police crest that is emblazoned on police cars, and 30 cruisers sported the design for the last year, officials said on Thursday." Discuss...

Accused Abuser Claimed "Ghost" Injured His Wife »
The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: gargoylezero"A Wisconsin man charged with domestic abuse told cops that a "ghost" was actually responsible for injuries suffered by his wife, according to police. The bizarre claim by Michael West, 41, did not prevent the Fond du Lac man's arrest for strangulation, battery, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest." Discuss...

Liberal Cat Found Dead »
New York Daily News | Submitted by: scarred 4 life"An Arkansas campaign manager says he came home Sunday and found his family’s cat fatally bludgeoned on his front steps -- with the word liberal scrawled across its side... According to a statement from Democratic congressional candidate Ken Aden's campaign, Jacob Burris’ cat had been hit so violently that one of its eyeballs was barely hanging from its socket." Discuss...

Jewish Newspaper Floats Trial Balloon »
Guardian | Submitted by: anonymousThe owner of a Jewish newspaper in Atlanta has said he deeply regrets writing a column suggesting that Israel consider "a hit" on Barack Obama if he stands in the way of the Jewish state defending itself. Andrew Adler told the Guardian he wrote the column in the weekly Atlanta Jewish Times "to get a reaction" from the paper's readers. "The reactions indicate that the Americans probably wouldn't let Israel get away with this. That's what I wanted to see," he s...

State Bill Outlaws Use of Fetuses In Food Industry »
NPR | Submitted by: sharkfag"I don't know if it is happening in Oklahoma, it may be, it may not be. What I am saying is that if it does happen then we are not going to allow it to manufacture here." To that end, his proposed statute reads, "No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingred...

Earth's Atmosphere Developing Rings »
Alabama AWX | Submitted by: spooz"The breaking waveforms of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are the result of shearing winds up at cloud level. A particular type of turbulence can develop in a layer of cirrus cloud, which happens to form below an inversion between air currents of differing speeds and/or directions. Sea waves break as their bases are slowed down upon reaching shallow water and their crests surge ahead. Cloud waves break in the same way: when their crests are pushed ahead of their trou...

Masc Fish Trans Sex At Will »
New Scientist | Submitted by: circus penis"When it comes to selecting mates, hawkfish keep their options open. The flamboyantly coloured reef dwellers start life as females but can transform into males after maturing. Many marine animals do this, but these fickle fish have a rare trick up their fins: they can change back when the situation suits." Discuss...

Colbert Tries to Buy South Carolina Election »
The State | Submitted by: gleep glop"We hammered out a contract over barbecue. Colbert Super PAC would pay up to $400,000 directly to the state and counties to defray the cost of the election. In return, the primary’s official name would be The Colbert Super PAC South Carolina Republican Primary. This name would appear on all press releases, official notices and signage, including the debates. We would finally raise democracy to the same level as the Tostitos™ Fiesta Bowl and Kardashian™ wedd...

Magic Bullets »
The Economist | Submitted by: rf"The XM25, as the new gun is known, weighs about 13lb and fires a 25mm round. The trick is that instead of having to be aimed directly at the target, this round need only be aimed at a place in proximity to it. Once there, it explodes -- just like Shrapnel’s original artillery shells -- and the fragments kill the enemy. It knows when to explode because of a timed fuse. In Shrapnel’s shells this fuse was made of gunpowder. In the XM25 it is a small computer insi...

Mossad Kills a 4th Nuclear Scientist »
Sky | Submitted by: Rosannadanna"Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, died after two unidentified men on a motorbike fastened a magnetic bomb to his vehicle outside a university in east Tehran... The current head of Iran's atomic organisation, Fereydoun Abbasi, escaped another such incident in November 2010, when he managed to scramble out of his car with his wife just before the attached bomb exploded." Discuss...

Uighur Organ Harvest Season »
Weekly Standard | Submitted by: Bort"By the end of 1999, the Uighur crackdown would be eclipsed by Chinese security’s largest-scale action since Mao: the elimination of Falun Gong. By my estimate up to three million Falun Gong practitioners would pass through the Chinese corrections system. Approximately 65,000 would be harvested, hearts still beating, before the 2008 Olympics. An unspecified, significantly smaller, number of House Christians and Tibetans likely met the same fate." Discuss...

German Surveillance Network As Daughter's Payback »
Naked Security | Submitted by: mambo"Der Spiegel published a story in yesterday's edition of their magazine that the hack on the German police surveillance system "Patras" was prompted by a senior officer spying on his daughter's internet activities... It appears that a senior policeman from Frankfurt am Main installed spyware onto his daughter's computer to keep an eye on her online activities." Discuss...

Iran Condemns Pornsite Programmer »
Guardian | Submitted by: ditchley"Iran's supreme court has upheld the death sentence for a web programmer who faces imminent execution after being found guilty of developing and promoting porn websites... "The use of vaguely worded charges is not new in Iran, but the allegation that these were carried out on the internet is. It is an unwelcome addition to the catalogue of ways in which Iran finds it can execute its own citizens." Discuss...

Kim Dotcom Is The Coolest Person On Earth »
TorrentFreak | Submitted by: ditchley"MegaUpload, one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, has been shut down by federal prosecutors in Virginia. The site’s founder Kim Dotcom and three others were arrested by the police in New Zealand at the request of US authorities. MegaVideo, the streaming site belonging to same company, and a total of 18 domains connected to the Mega company were seized and datacenters in three countries raided." [Links on MegaUpload's fascinating founder] ...

Dear Departed Leader »
National Post | Submitted by: Fort McMurray Oil Plant Dictators"We hope his passing brings positive change allowing the people of North Korea to emerge from six decades of isolation, oppression and misery. The regime's reckless decisions and hairstyles have resulted in North Korea being an impoverished nation and a country isolated from the international community because of its rogue elevator shoes and ballistic missile programs." Dull but nice map. Discuss...

The Force is Strong in This One »
Oregon Live | Submitted by: TheRevDirtyHarryHammerEven Jedis have bad days. "Police in Portland, Ore, were alerted to a disturbance in the Force Wednesday night after a man allegedly went on a rampage with a plastic light saber at a local Toys R Us store... Officers arrived and attempted to take the suspect into custody but he continued to swing the light saber and was yelling incoherent statements. One officer attempted to use a Taser but it was ineffective. A second officer used a Taser whi...

Raising Basement Veal For Fun and Profit »
San Francisco Chronicle | Submitted by: exwife bite"Tamara Breeden's ear was badly damaged. She had dozens of welts, bruises and lacerations on her scalp, which led her to wear a wig. She had similar injuries on her legs, arms and back. She also was extremely thin, with her hip bone protruding... Weston had more than 50 Social Security cards, power of attorney documents and similar forms when she was arrested, authorities said." Discuss...

Hummus Enrichment Averted »
Daily Mail | Submitted by: Winston Tastesgood III"The only information I really have is that he became stuck in a rather large machine which some people call an auger and others call it a grinder, Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol County District Attorney's office said... The company, which is the second largest hummus brand on the market according to The Jewish Week, temporarily shut its factory down while an investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

Elevator Carnage in Brooklyn »
New York Times | Submitted by: murcuryvapor"The man, who appeared to be in his 40s, first sprays the woman in the face, then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant as she turned and cowered, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists... The man struggles to light a barbecue lighter. He then ignites a Molotov cocktail -- a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant with a rag stuffed in its neck." 2nd article, a couple d...

Family Values Mayor Bills Citizenry for Gay Sex Toy »
Boston Herald | Submitted by: cheese fries"Receipts show Southaven Mayor Greg Davis, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008 on a family-values platform, charged the city $67 for a purchase at a gay sex shop in Canada... The Mississippi auditor on Nov. 2 demanded Davis pay back more than $170,000 for personal expenses billed to taxpayers. There are no criminal charges from the auditor's investigation." Discuss...

Cat Takes the Bus! or, How Did This Get on Daily Rotten »
London Telegraph | Submitted by: puffintopWhy would someone submit this to Daily Rotten? "The 15-year-old Tom even sits on bemused passengers' laps as the bus makes up to 10 mile round trips from Bridport to Charmouth in Dorset. Dodger is such a regular customer that some of the drivers take tins of cat food to work with them to give to him. They even know what stop to let him off at. At the end of his journies the roving moggy returns to his home and owner Fee Jeanes." Discuss...

Newt Gingrich's EMP Doomsday Fantasy »
Discovery | Submitted by: sgrannel"A nuclear weapon could be detonated above North America, reasons Gingrich, and the resulting electronic interference would render the nation's power grid, satellites, computers etc., useless. Death and mayhem would ensue. It would be a bit like Mad Max, but with less '70's hairdos. Without adequate preparation, people won't know how to walk away from their broken electronic devices and function as normal human beings. We would basically lose our civilization...

Wartime Secrets Provide Fuel for Fish Dinner »
MSNBC | Submitted by: azdollarbill"The 400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were supposed to have been destroyed as the last American troops prepare to leave Iraq. Instead, they were discovered along with reams of other classified documents, including military maps showing helicopter routes and radar capabilities, by a reporter for The New York Times at a junkyard outside Baghdad. An attendant was burning them as fuel to cook a dinner of smoked carp." Discuss...