In a victory for the attorney representing the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara Greene and a blow to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a federal judge has ruled that text messages exchanged by Kilpatrick and other city and police officials must be released as part of a lawsuit against the city involving the dancer's death.

THIS is the real story behind Kilpatrick. For all of the misdeeds around his other conduct, it will eventually end in a conspiracy to murder trial. Yes... it can get worse.

Judge rules attorney can get texts in Greene case

An update on the pro-Tibet tech-art protests happening in Beijing: Students for a Free Tibet tells Boing Boing that a group of five pro-Tibet activists displayed an LED Throwie Banner near the Olympics site in Beijing, and were promptly detained by Chinese authorities.

I knew this was going to happen. This is not the Man you can play around with. People "disappear" and are never seen again over there.

Activists detained after lighting up "Free Tibet" LED throwies banner near Olympics

Accelerating decrepitude.

A brief history of all Internet memes ever

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90% of users are lurkers who tend to read content but rarely, if ever, contribute anything whether creating original content or commenting on any content.
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9% of users contribute occasionally by either writing original content or commenting on existing content, even though we now know that most tend to do the latter.
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1% of users contribute the most by regularly creating new original content or commenting on existing content.

1% = possibly noteworthy.

VatorNews - The Opinions of the few

Cyan [Banister, founder of Zivity]: Her hope is that this event creates more engineers.

Team Party Crash: Live from the Girl Geek Dinner

So far, she has collected 119 filters from all over the country. She hopes it won't take too long for Clorox to start recycling.

Yes, and the carbon footprint for shipping these filters? THINK people!

Clorox on Brita cartridge recycling: Not so easy

The officers took with them his picture and some intelligence: he's missing part of two fingers on his left hand. He doesn't go anywhere without his girlfriend, who's four or five months pregnant. They also thought Flesher might be with his one-armed brother, but neither man could be found. They crept up driveways and surrounded the homes, guns at the ready, to no avail. He wasn't anywhere they expected.

Here's the treatment for a new country music song.

U.S. Marshals nab hundreds in warrant operation or Another Country Music HIT!

There were people who wanted to make sure this event didn't go off as planned, and I'm very proud it was able to go off despite the change of venue," said Drew Johnson, president of Tennessee Center for Policy Research, a libertarian think tank that partnered in the launch. "There have been a lot of attempts to quiet us in our findings about global warming alarmism so it's not surprising it would happen to this event.''

yes, global warming alarmism. must be the same science that's used to float that balloon!

I cannot wait to see this skewered on the Colbert Report.

Global warming skeptics launch air attack on Gore

NICE guys knew it, now two studies have confirmed it: bad boys get the most girls. The finding may help explain why a nasty suite of antisocial personality traits known as the "dark triad" persists in the human population, despite their potentially grave cultural costs.

File under "bunk".

Bad guys really do get the most girls

The Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS) was developed for use by personnel in many electrical and electronic related Navy ratings. Written by, and with the advice of, senior technicians in these ratings, this series provides beginners with fundamental electrical and electronic concepts through self-study. The presentation of this series is not oriented to any specific rating structure, but is divided into modules containing related information organized into traditional paths of instruction.

Complete electronics curriculum.

Davidson College Instrumentation Specialist - NEETS