Stephen Colbert at the White House

Colbert preformed last night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. His jokes were hilarious, yet the room full of old white men don't seem to be laughing. The best part- he's standing like 5 feet away from the president and he's totally scathing. Link to torrent.

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Vintage diseases are making a strong comeback.

Mumps, whooping cough, tuberculosis, and rickets are making a comeback. These diseases were thought to have been beaten by medical science in the last century. Their return has many wondering what's going on.

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Bad Physics: Misconceptions spread in School Textbooks

Of course my list isn't 100% perfect, so I hope that it will form a basis for improvement and conceptual change, rather than becoming another source of 'Ultimate Truth.' This is a list of misconceptions which tripped me up personally.

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Canon's New MP800R Photo-All-In-One. It Does Everything For $400

Canon's new printer/copier/scanner does everything and does it fast and professionally. At $399.99, this looks awesome.

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Fujitsu announces ETERNUS8000 Model 2100: 1.3PB array

Bigger is better. Capable of up to sixteen 3.4GHz processors, 256GB of cache memory, and RAID 6 configuration.

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The absolute worst theme-park in the world.

Enter into the worst theme-park ever. As low-tech as you can get.

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Amazing photographs of a rainbow

I thought I'd seen my share of amazing rainbow photographs until I saw this one.

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How To: Build a Tornado Machine

Extremely detailed instructions for building your very own tornado machine. "The tornado machine is a vertical cylindrical box of about one meter high (3 to 4 ft) with a front opening. Air is rotating and rising in the machine, and with the means of a fine water mist a tornado vortex will form."

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Larger Than Life Sculptures - Two-stories High and Hyper-Realistic

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor who creates gargantuan-sized sculptures that capture details of the human body so well that they're hard to believe. Mueck is a master at capturing human expression and recreating the detail of muscles, skin, fat and bones that we are all made of. Also - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

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Digg Tools - Ever Growing List Of Digging Tools

Large list of various digg tools/links collected from around the web. Good website to check out.

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Azureus-BitTorrent Client Crowned Most Popular Open-Source Software

The Azureus-BitTorrent Client won the overall most popular open-source software award in SorceForge.net's first annual Community Choice Awards, the developer collaboration site said Thursday.The winning projects in a variety of other categories were also announced at the LinuxWorld Expo this week.

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