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A video game store shopper apparently didn't have enough Christmas spirit and ended up in jail after a road rage incident.
The man, charged with aggravated menacing, is accused of waiting along Ohio 32 for a shopper coming from Eastgate Mall and trying to run her SUV off the road, the Ohio Highway Patrol said.
The Cincinnati Post

Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics
TOPEKA, KS--The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law be repealed.

Von Hagens invented plastination while at the University of Heidelberg in the 1970s. The process involves replacing water and fat in the corpse with a polymer, and it has allowed him to exhibit dissected human bodies in life-like poses. But a giant squid, with its lack of a rigid internal skeleton for support, and relatively poorly understood circulatory system, poses some novel challenges.

To research the project, von Hagens visited O’Shea in October to study some much smaller species such as arrow squid. “We dissected a number of ‘sacrificial’ squid,” says O’Shea. This week, O’Shea sent a mature female giant squid, measuring about 10 metres including tentacles, and a mature male, just under 7 metres, to Heidelberg. (via boingboing)

Missouri's most violent criminals will no longer be permitted to play violent video games that simulate the kind of offenses that resulted in their incarceration in the first place. Prison officials pulled the games, which included such killfests as Hitman: Contracts, once they were informed of their violent content. Science fiction and sports games were not pulled as part of the sweep, so more nerdy prisoners will not be affected by the changes.

I think the real question is why they had them in the first place? Yes, I understand the argument that it's easier to keep them in line if they're docile, but c'mon... I can't tell you how many times I've wished for a place where the meals were prepared for me, could play video games, and not have any responsibilities to worry about (like work).
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Speaking of giant penises, here's how you do it properly: photos of last night's GWAR show are up now. Those guys are just so totally awesome. It's like they get up on stage and hose you down with awesomeness. An arterial flow of sticky red awesomeness.
-- DNA Sequencing

November 28

The Military Industrial Complex
Lockheed is the nation's largest military contractor.
Lockheed writes more code than Microsoft.
Their CEO says they stand ‘at the intersection of policy and technology.’
To others that means you can't tell where the government ends and Lockheed starts. One watchdog says about government checks and balances on big contractors ‘The fox isn't guarding the henhouse, he lives there.’

If Wal Mart were a nation it would be ranked 19^th biggest economically. It is the biggest company in the United States.