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Stowaway microbes may have contaminated Mars, hinder search for life - Popular Science

Hutaree defense team challenges their "no-bail" status with increasing effectiveness - Detroit News

So Prime Minister what do you really think? - The Sun (U.K.)

British PM Gordon Brown shows his utter contempt for a typical member of his party's base. Calls a simple working-class woman a bigot and cry-baby for her questions to him on a forgotten but still live microphone.

Buy guns because you want them not as an investment - Notes From The Bunker

My feelings exactly. Just buy what you need or want. Leave the "investment" stuff to the professionals.

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Pentagon shooter was nutty anti-Bush, 9/11 "truther". - Patterico's Pontifications
Look who's talking -Technology Review
"Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny."
The rise of cyber-vigilantism in China - Slashdot.org/
They hunt down miscreants found on the web and give them a meat-space beatdown for their transgressions. Hmm....

Meet the real 'Uptight Seattleite' - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Monica Guzman)
Interview with the author of US. Funny as hell. Spot-on accurate too.
A month after the keystone paper proposing a link between a common childhood vaccine series and autism was retracted, the debate rages on. - Scientific American online (Katherine Harmon)
The scientifically illiterate conspiracy types just won't give it a rest.
The story of a fatal coyote attack in eastern Canada - Outside online (Elizabeth Royte)
These things do happen but still... less than 200 attacks in 50 years compared to 4.5 million domestic dog attacks during the same period tells me this isn't as much of a problem.
Are Sperm Donors Really Anonymous Anymore?-Slate (Rachel Lehmann-Haupt)
Nope.
Mars does have canals after all. They're just filled with ice. - i09 (Analee Newitz)

The Little Black Book of Violence: Getting Smart About Fighting Right - PJTV (video)
An intelligent and insightful discussion about personal and social violence in America.
Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs inside their bodies' to foil new airport scanners
- Daily Mail (UK)
Send astronauts to Mars via Phobos? - New Scientist
A professional analyzes John Edwards libido - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Lumber companies planning GM forests for the southeast - Scientific American
Replacing native fir species with GM eucalyptus trees.
J.D. Salinger's long good bye - Wall Street Journal
In the real sense of it Salinger has been gone since 1963.
An alarm clock that wakes you at your brain's "perfect" time. - Brainiac blog

The ultimate (but totally illegal) close-range personal-protection weapon evah!