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Some novel ideas about prison reform (Steve Sailor, iSteve blog)
Make them much smaller.

Adding Star Wars machines to classic paintings (Cyriaque Lamar, io9)
Geeks will love this.

A short telling of some ELF arson attacks by a participant (Mackenzie Funk, Outside)
The teller, Chelsea Gerlach,  is currently serving a nine year federal sentence .

How a well connected real estate developer destroyed a Brooklyn, NY neighborhood using eminent domain laws (Damon Root, reason.com)
You get the governance you deserve eh?

Around one accident in four is caused by someone dicking around with an electronic device instead of paying attention to the road (Bogen Dorpher, Slashdot)
Only one in four? That's low. I'd put it right around one in three myself.

U.S. Army brass wet dreaming about buying a new combat rifle (Lance Bacon, Army Times)
No word about where they expect to get the money for it though.

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Dearborn's Fordson HS varsity football team to practice from 11pm - 4am during Ramadan to accommodate muslim students - ESPN

Obama administration largely like a Bush third term - American Conservative (Jack Hunter)

" 'As Obama came into office, [former Secretary of State] Condoleezza Rice predicted he would follow the policies of Bush’s second term, and that is pretty much what happened, apart from a different rhetorical style.' Obama Democrats continue to confuse that style for substantive difference, exemplifying the same sort of mindless partisanship that characterized the Bush Republicans they once abhorred." If elections mattered that much we wouldn't have them.

Whoa! Greedo shot first? - io9

Reportedly a 2011 Blu-Ray Star Wars boxed set release will change our cultural history. In the classic Han Solo vs. Greedo stand-off in the Mos Eisley cantina it is reported that Greedo will shoot first. Hmm...I liked the way Han shot Greedo first from underneath and through the table without warning; it established his scoundrel credentials.

Three "conventional wisdom" notions about modern America that are utterly & demonstrably false - Lewrockwell.com (Jim Quinn)

"In the space of the last 15 years the American public have fallen for the three whopper delusions: 1. Buy stocks for the long run, 2. Homes are always a great investment, [and] 3. Globalization will benefit all Americans."