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Podcasts of This and That. "Spreading Santorum" Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One. As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss.
Spreading Santorum, the page defining “santorum” as a by-product of anal sex, has finally dropped from the top results on Google. The related anti-Santorum blog, however, remains. And a page from Urban Dictionary keeps the definition alive, more explicit than before. This is our universe, can you comprehend it? [VIDEO] Airline Routes Are a Pretty Good Predictor of Twitter Connections - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology. A study finds that -- surprise!
Psychology. How to Get a Copy of Your FBI File (idea) The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful thing.
If you've ever wanted to know just what those guvmint bastards have on you, anyway, here's your chance. Just fill in the italics in this form letter with the appropriate information, get your signature notarized, send it off, and you're in business! This should be free, though if your search returns reams of information, you may be charged 5 cents per page in duplication fees. The law says that your request must be responded to within 10 days, but you can expect something closer to 2 or 3 months for a definitive answer with the current backlog of paperwork.
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All recently scanned images posted to the Reading Room adhere to the NARA 300 DPI standard. Learn How to Pass (or Beat) a Polygraph Test. New York City Homicides Map. Crime Map Beta. Futility Closet. The Black Hole. What do horses have to do with glue? 10 Most Bizarre Cargo Spills. Tons of Mackerel A truck full of fish overturned and dumped its load into Northern Ireland farmer, Gordon Flinn's, field in January 2012.
The tons of mackerel were piled two feet deep in places. The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital, but was not seriously injured and was able to return to the scene. The truck was removed and the road opened later that night, but the Flinns may have to put up with a fishy smell for some time. UFO sightings reveal more strange metal boxes along coastal beaches. As of late afternoon Feb. 8, Bill Hanshumaker, a public marine specialist and (Ph.D) doctor of marine science at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in nearby Newport, told Huliq in an interview that, “I don’t know what they are.”
In turn, Doctor Hanshumaker said he’s advised “surf monitoring” about these strange metal boxes that suddenly appeared along local beaches Feb. 6, and now seem to be multiplying like Star Trek “Tribbles.” The photograph that accompanies this report – taken during the afternoon of Feb. 8 near Bray’s Point -- of yet another strange metal box stuck in the surf up is one of a possible group of a dozen or more that have been sited up and down West Coast beaches. Meanwhile, the British government also photographed similar huge metal boxes on beaches in Sri Lanka in the late 1990’s and in early 2004 and 2005. UFO history filled with “mystery boxes” Mysterious Metal Boxes Found On West Coast Beaches? Huge Lego Man Washes Up On Florida Beach.
Nerd Paradise. Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook. Richard Allan, a former member of Parliament in Britain who is the European director of policy for Facebook, and another executive from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, will meet with Max Schrems, a 24-year-old college student.
Mr. Schrems, a law student at the University of Vienna and a user of Facebook since 2008, has led a vocal campaign in Europe against what he maintains are Facebook’s illegal practices of collecting and marketing users’ personal data, often without consent. This Sentence Has Five Words.