News & Not News Megathread

Dar_Klink

Last Guardian when? - CyberKlink 20XX before dying
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/1203/1279782618914.png
If you wanna see the "new rules," which ended up being pretty funny because they didn't even mention 4chan by name during the program.

Overall though, it's sad that the parents had no idea what was going on with the daughter, but still pretty typical. Parents need to learn to watch over the internet! (just glad mine didn't when I was younger :troll:)
 

Aazealh

Administrator
Staff member
The only thing to come out of this that's worth mentioning is the dad's reaction and its subsequent remixes.
 

Vampire_Hunter_Bob

Cats are great
Something news worthy....

Attempted Car Theft destroys car!
A bear climbed into an empty car in the US state of Colorado, sounded the horn and sent the vehicle rolling down hill with the terrified animal still inside.

The car's owner, 17-year-old Ben Story, took a snap of the panic-stricken bear as it demolished the inside of his vehicle in its bid to escape.

Police in Larkspur, near Denver, eventually freed the animal by opening the door from a distance using a rope.

It is believed the bear was attracted by a sandwich left on the back seat.

Mr Story and his family were asleep when the bear opened the unlocked door of his 2008 Toyota Corolla in the early hours of the morning and climbed inside.
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The bear was last seen running into the woods.
 

Oburi

All praise Grail
I'm surprised nobody posted this. It's a bit older news now but still...

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/17387/96683
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110619/bedbugs-bad-for-business

Did we cure AIDS and cancer or something? We can't be this bereft of real problems.
 

Lithrael

Remember, always hold your apple tight
Griffith said:
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/110619/bedbugs-bad-for-business

Did we cure AIDS and cancer or something? We can't be this bereft of real problems.

Bedbugs are one of those things where it's no big deal unless you're allergic/sensitive and then it's like HOLY SHIT I CAN'T LIVE HERE. Also they are mean nasty horrible little hard to kill fuckers. They get AUGH points from me for their mating style. Males have a hypodermic needle looking thing for their junk. They don't even bother looking for the right hole on the female, they just stab her through the side and fill 'er up. Unsurprisingly this lowers the female's lifespan but in the MOAR EGGS THAN U game it's a winning strategy and so gets passed on through the buggy generations.
 

Walter

Administrator
Staff member
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100910/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_software_resale

This might affect used game sales. Or not. We'll see how it plays out.
 

Oburi

All praise Grail
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/17/ground-black-people-cookb_n_541817.html

Just add salt and freshly ground black people!
 

Vampire_Hunter_Bob

Cats are great
'The Wire' writer David Simon among MacArthur genius grant winners
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092706331.html

"It was exacerbated when I went online and looked at the people who'd gotten fellowships in the past. The majority of them are involved in endeavors which are very tangible -- efforts to combat poverty or economic disparities, or to improve the environment. And while I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life . . . it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. I definitely felt a little sheepish after looking at the list.

This year's list of fellows includes three physicists, three denizens of Cambridge, a sculptor and a type designer, a jazz pianist and a violinist, an entomologist from Minnesota and an indigenous language preservationist from Mashpee, Mass. Simon is one of a few "geniuses" whose names may be recognizable to people outside their fields; others include Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard historian and author of the Pulitzer-winning "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family," and theater director David Cromer, who will mount a Broadway revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth" with Nicole Kidman next year.

Simon, 50, was born in the District and has lived in Baltimore since his reporting days at the Sun, where he covered crime in the '80s. His television work, which exhumes drama from urban decay, has worked its way into academia and onto op-ed pages -- the tuberati routinely laud "The Wire" as the best TV show in the history of the universe -- but has not been showered by Emmys or massive ratings. His first reaction was to deflect the money (paid quarterly for five years) to charity, but the foundation urged him to take time to absorb the news.

This is really good news for David Simon, congrats dude!
 

Griffith

With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
This article's headline is right out of The Onion:

Swanky new Vegas hotel’s ‘death ray’ proves inconvenient for some guests

:guts:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100929/bs_yblog_upshot/swanky-new-vegas-hotels-death-ray-a-mild-inconvenience-for-some-guests


Also, this is just awesome:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/man-lives-with-croc-for-20-years-22154983
 

Rhombaad

Video Game Time Traveler
Johnstantine said:
An earth-like planet has finally been discovered. It's pretty close to the real deal.

And it's only 20 light-years away! Ready the shuttle for launch!

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2022489,00.html?hpt=C2

Wow. Words can't even express how awesome this is. Twenty light years is obviously pretty far away and we have almost no hope of reaching something so distant in our lifetime (Hawking drive, please!), but what a discovery.
 

Rhombaad

Video Game Time Traveler
Jesterhead said:
Probably extinct.

That's a possiblity, but it's also possible that life is still evolving there and isn't self aware yet. Or they're far more advanced than we are and have made it to our neck of the woods already. They might have discovered our planet the same way we've discovered theirs. Or there's nothing living there at all.
 
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Xem

Guest
Sorry I'm not super-educated on the subject, but does anyone know how long it takes light to travel twenty light years? I've been under the impression that most of the stuff we look at in space isn't even really there anymore.
 
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