AUSTIN, TX—Garrett Durning of the Texas Environmental Defense League has spent the last three months campaigning tirelessly for the installation of solar-powered electric chairs in state prisons. “Texas wastes more than 500,000 watts of electricity on every criminal it executes,” Durning told reporters Monday. “We live in the 21st century, and it’s high time we [...]
Daily Archives: July 5, 2008
[audio] Life Jackets Issued To All Americans For Some Reason
July 5, 2008 – 10:07 pm
Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland
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Beaver Overthinking Dam
July 5, 2008 – 10:07 pm
HUNTSVILLE, ONTARIO—Not content with functionalism, beaver Dennis Messner strives for integration-minded post-modernism.
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Bush Vows To Remove Toxic Petroleum From National Parks
July 5, 2008 – 9:07 pm
WASHINGTON, DC–Vowing to “restore the pristine splendor of America’s natural treasures,” President Bush Monday unveiled “Project: National Parks Clean-Up,” an ambitious program to remove all toxic petrochemical deposits from national parks by 2004.
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Where The Fuck Is Diane With My Fair-Trade Coffee?
July 5, 2008 – 9:07 pm
Marla? Get in here. Where the fuck is Diane with my coffee? I sent her out 15 minutes ago for a large cup of fair-trade Ethiopian Dark Roast from the La Paz coffee shop. How hard could it be? You walk your ass to the corner, hand them my Utne Reader travel mug, plunk down [...]
U.S. Ice Cubes Melting At Alarming Rate
July 5, 2008 – 8:07 pm
WASHINGTON, DC—High summer temperatures and ever-increasing levels of U.S. beverage consumption are causing ice cubes across the nation to melt at “an alarmingly unprecedented rate,” the U.S. Department of Consumer Affairs reported Tuesday.
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Traffic Secrets 2.0 Review
July 5, 2008 – 6:07 pm
John Reese’s Videos for his new product Traffic Secrets 2.0 are actually quite good. He gives away a great deal of great information in these Free Videos. The first Video is about what he calls Results Detection. It’s how to “Reverse Engineer” where the traffic is coming from on high ranking sites in Google based [...]
Make Money With CPA Offers
July 5, 2008 – 3:07 pm
Another viable Internet Marketing Strategy is CPA (Cost Per Action) (sometimes known as Pay Per Action or PPA) is an Online Advertising pricing model, where the advertiser pays for each specified action (a purchase, a form submission, and so on) linked to the advertisement. Some actions can be as simple as filling in a Zip [...]
Hot Water
July 5, 2008 – 1:07 pm
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Well this water is hot, that’s why the rock is brown. And this is another shot from Azores. Canon EOS 400D + Sigma 10-20mm.
Resolutions: 2560×1600, 2560×1024, 1920×1200, 1920×1080, 1680×1050, 1600×1200, 1440×900, 1400×1050, 1280×1024, 1280×960, 1280×800, 1280×720, 1024×768, 800×480, 480×272, 320×480, 320×240.
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Venus makes it five
July 5, 2008 – 9:07 am
Venus Williams defeats sister Serena to take fifth Wimbledon title
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Waiving the flag
July 5, 2008 – 9:07 am
Comment is free America: Ian Williams: In the United States, the definition of patriotism has been complicated since the days of the Revolution
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Senator Jesse Helms dies
July 5, 2008 – 7:07 am
Rightwing senator who opposed civil rights, gun laws, foreign aid, hippies and the UN, dies aged 86
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Japan boosts security for G8 summit
July 5, 2008 – 7:07 am
Business & economics: Huge police operation to keep anti-globalisation activists far from leaders at Lake Toya
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Pompeii in state of emergency
July 5, 2008 – 7:07 am
Italian government to appoint officials to resolve squalid conditions at tourist site
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Hostages reveal details of ’sadism’
July 5, 2008 – 6:07 am
Harrowing details about captivity of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages in Colombia emerge
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Don’t panic!
July 5, 2008 – 6:07 am
Arts & entertainment: Aliens! Kidnapping! Serial killers! What are your chances of surviving a nightmare movie scenario?
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Still crazy after all these years
July 5, 2008 – 6:07 am
Travel, life & style: Ben Mallalieu finds a tiny island in Greece where the 1960s never quite came to an end
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Venus Williams v Serena Williams
July 5, 2008 – 5:07 am
Which Williams will win at Wimbledon? Follow the match with Tom Bryant
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Obama denies Iraq policy shift
July 5, 2008 – 5:07 am
Obama may ‘refine’ policy on withdrawing US troops in move to more conservative position
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Brown: West must not give up on aid
July 5, 2008 – 4:07 am
World is suffering challenges of higher fuel prices, higher food prices and credit crunch says British PM
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