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Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Seen around and about... 

"It's good to be President!", tattletales the Secret Service. (Well, it used to be, seems like the recent guys have been a lot less fun.)


What's a seat in the European Parliament worth?


Next bailout: The Post Office. No -- the mainstream media, Dan Rather insists!


The world's highest-educated Luddites:
Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems...

The researchers also discussed possible threats to human jobs, like self-driving cars, software-based personal assistants and service robots in the home...

A humorist interviewed in the Onion's A.V. Club speaks more sense on energy economics than you'll get from Washington.


@#$%^&!, that helps!


Irate citizens act to end all the excess f***king in F***king. [link fixed]