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1 – List of scandals with "-gate" suffix – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the Watergate scandal, the media has referred to some social and political scandals by adding the suffix "-gate" to one of the key words used to describe it. This new label has sometimes stuck but often a new name is used.…

1 – Rare tongue-eating parasite found A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast. (tags: inspiration weird biology)

1 – SPEZZLE Spezzle is a planning tool that helps you or your customers make Drupal site specifications that will require minimal custom coding. (tags: drupal) 2 – Academic software for research papers | Mendeley Like EndNoteâ„¢, but free and network-enabled. Mendeley is a research management tool for desktop & web. (tags: science reference collaboration…

1 – The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna « Southern Fried Science This is a rare cross post between my regular Monday “Ethical Debate” a soon-to-be-regular series entitled “Dolphins are actually jerks”, and a soon-to-be-regular series entitled “Hippie Hypocrisy: People who try (but fail) to help”. Is it worth saving dolphins, who were…

1 – DidGlennBeckRapeAndMurderAYoungGirlIn1990.com Hoist by his own petard: "This site exists to try and help examine the vicious rumour that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. We don't claim to know the truth — only that the rumour floating around saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in…

1 – YouTube – FIGHTING DIRTY IN SCRABBLE by Mehal Shah – Ep 30 Scrabble isn't a game of who can get the best 6 letter words. It's a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners. Mehal Shah takes us through clean and sometimes dirty ways to win at Scrabble. (tags: strategy…

1 – Ziegfeld Girls – Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community These are all girls who performed in the Ziegfeld Follies in the 1910's-20's. Some went on to further careers on the stage and screen…some disappeared into obscurity. (tags: history beauty photography) 2 – The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN…

1 – John Resig – Eulogy to _why _why's entire online presence and code was presented in the sand mandala that was '_why'. The person behind '_why' simply decided to move on and close that portion of his life. (tags: ruby whytheluckystiff programming) 2 – the soundtrack to why’s (poignant) guide to ruby Siphon the…

1 – David Thorne Driving His Landlord Crazy | Standard Madness Does anyone remember David Thorne? The same David Thorne that drove his bank’s customer service rep to the edge of mental collapse with the “spider as payment email”, strikes again in this hilarious email exchange between him and his landlord (tags: humour) 2 –…

1 – BBC – Earth News – Giant rat found in 'lost volcano' A new species of giant rat has been discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea. The rat, which has no fear of humans, measures 82cm long, placing it among the largest species of rat known anywhere in the world. (tags:…

1 – Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids | The Onion – America's Finest News Source Yiha! (tags: socialnetworking facebook)

1 – Joel Klein vs. New York City teachers : The New Yorker These fifteen teachers, along with about six hundred others, in six larger Rubber Rooms in the city’s five boroughs, have been accused of misconduct, such as hitting or molesting a student, or, in some cases, of incompetence, in a system that rarely…

1 – "Dark Flow" Discovered at Edge of the Universe: Hundreds of Millions of Stars Racing Towards a Cosmic Hotspot A black hole can't explain the observations – objects would accelerate into the hole, while the NASA scientists see constant motion over a vast expanse of a billion light-years. You have no idea how big…

1 – Researcher cracks Mac in 10 seconds at PWN2OWN, wins $5k Two weeks ago, Miller predicted that Safari running on the Macintosh would be the first to fall. (tags: security mac) 2 – D&D sketch Ah, the good old days… (tags: d&d meme)

1 – Hot Air » Blog Archive » Glenn Beck: Are you “In or Out”? Skip ahead and watch the last two minutes, where he segues from a dramatic recitation of “Sticks and Stones” into the lyrics of “Revolution” off the White Album, a GB whiskey-tango-foxtrot moment if ever there was one. (tags: wtf glennbeck)…