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22 Aug 2009 10:36

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World: The Afghanistan election lost a couple folks some digits. Yikes.

  • 2 unlucky people lost one ink-stained digit apeice; thanks Taliban source
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18 Aug 2009 22:52

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Offbeat: Thank you for scarring our eyes: Bea Arthur painted nude

We don’t want to travel down that road and back again. Daily Beast, your heart may be true, but you’re not a pal or confidante. (The link’s not NSFW; the art is.) source
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21 Apr 2009 23:54

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Biz, U.S.: Great! The bailout program could be a huge target for fraud.

  • The sheer size of the program … is so large and the leverage being provided to the private equity participants so beneficial, that the taxpayer risk is many times that of the private parties, thereby potentially skewing the economic incentives.
  • Inspector General Neil Barofksy • In a massive quarterly report on the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Sound like fun? It totally is. We hope, if the banks defraud us taxpayers, they do it in really cool ways, like buying themselves gold houses and rocket cars. • source
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11 Apr 2009 22:47

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Tech: How an ugly worm named StalkDaily grabbed Twitter by the throat

  • Some evil person who hates you figured out that you can run Javascript code in Twitter bio fields. source
  • When an infected Twitter user’s profile is viewed on the Web, that Javascript executes. source
  • The code propagates quickly, causing lots of scary things to happen to Twitter users. source
  • Panic, fear and crying by Tweeters everywhere takes over the Interweb. PANIC! AHH! source
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26 Feb 2009 10:51

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Offbeat: Nadya Sulemen, the octet mom, has a porn offer on the table

  • $1 million from Vivid if she does porn. Eww, grody. Uh, why? source
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