The victims were targeted by as many as 27 men from a rival settlement who are supporters of one of the sect’s former leaders .
Via: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
BOSTONCalling the death a tragic loss and saying he was truly devastated by the news, self-described Apple product loyalist Eric Cavanaugh is treating the passing of the companys former CEO Steve Jobs as if his fucking dad just died, sources confirmed Thursday.
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-user-acting-like-his-dad-just-died,26270/
Let’s take a moment to salute the athletes, politicians and warriors who kept up a fight long after a reasonable person would have said, ‘Fine, you win.’…
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19452_5-unstoppable-forces-vs.-immovable-objects.html
So this is cool. Electric airplanes have been gracing our pages for years now, and while they remain infeasible as a replacement for commercial airliners , they continue to inspire folks with their increasingly impressive feats of sustainable derring do. This guy? Flew 200 miles in two hours on electricity alone. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Via: http://www.treehugger.com
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Many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true.
They’re almost always wrong….
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http://www.cracked.com/article_19454_5-famous-hidden-song-meanings-that-are-total-b.s..html
Meanwhile in Australia..!
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http://i.imgur.com/wnB9g.jpg
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Postage stamps from the Soviet Union give us a taste of what the space program looked like from behind the iron curtain
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/the-soviet-space-program-from-sputnik-to-1989-in-postage-stamps/246155/
In 2009, more than 7.2 million people in America were in prison, jail, on probation or parole.
That’s 500,000 more than the entire population of Washington state. Here, we break down America’s prison demographics, look at President Obama’s 2012 budget for prison spending, and show you which states saw a decline — or an increase — in prison population during the recession of 2008-09.
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http://visual.ly/recession-and-americas-prisons
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