Troops get turbine to Afghan hydroelectric plant.

OK, this might turn out to be bad news but Ghostbusters was still a great film.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/fil...28609346b6d0a2fd28d1

Yay France!!

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Yay France!!

I don't know if it's going to work better than last time.

At least they're keeping the pressure on.

I may have spoken too soon-- couldn't have got worse in Zimbabwe anyway...

Meanwhile, I like this development
May save lives at sea if the idea is copied.

Burning Cuteness (BBC)

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A dog has risked its life to protect four kittens trapped in a house fire in Melbourne, Australia.

A step in the right direction

Slow. Cumbersome. Still in it's infancy. It, however, shows a step in the mind/body interface direction.

MTV Europe gets RickRolled

Hah! This is what the internet's for.

AIDS cured

SWEET!!!

Some people are waking up!

Net Neutrality fighters to head Obama's FCC transition team (BoingBoing)

Cruise looks stupid in an eyepatch

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From the day Tom Cruise put on his eye patch, squeezed into a pair of knee-high jackboots, and started working on his Nazi goosestep, pundits have been queuing to declare the Second World War thriller Valkyrie the most reckless gamble of his career. The film, a $90m (£60m) portrayal of the 20 July 1944 plot to kill Adolf Hitler, in which Cruise plays the failed assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, has been dogged by an almost comic array of problems since its inception two-and-half years ago.

Politicians tried to block filming in Germany. Relatives of Von Stauffenberg expressed disapproval at Cruise's links to Scientology.

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Cruise looks stupid in an eyepatch.

fix'd.

Gulf War Syndrome Found to Be "Real" and Deserving of Treatment.

Though this is also for the "Really? It took longer than ten years to figure this out and start treating our vets like human beings, AGAIN?" file.

Once they get home, if they get home, we prefer to sweep them under the rug and forget about them. Sometimes they remind us they are here, but for the most part they're assimilated.

Xmas means fresh Wallace & Gromit

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The film is described as "a classic 'who-doughnut' mystery... in the tradition of master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock".

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Originally posted by kenmeer livermaile:
Cruise looks stupid in an eyepatch

I like to think this means we can have Cruise prosecuted for treason, for glorifying someone who tried to kill Hitler.

There was a reason the Allies never tried to assassinate Hitler late in the war. One, it would have made him a martyr.

Two, old Adolf was doing such a great job of losing the war. Were he killed, there was a chance someone who could actually command an army would take his place - someone who'd made it above the rank of lance corporal.

There was a plan, I think, of parachuting two Polish agents into Germany, to snipe Hitler as he walked the parapet at the mansion he frequented in Bavaria. SOE called it off, even after it had all been planned and ready to go.

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AIDS cured

JD Shapely... fuck...