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McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant

Improv Everywhere Mission: McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant: McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant Featuring: Simmons, Todd, Kula, Balaban, Krafft, Skillman Digital Photography: Agents Kula & Todd DV Cam (hidden): Agent Kula About a month ago, I was brainstorming a mission idea with a few friends called “Five Star Fast Food”. The idea was to deck out a fast food […]

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Thermometer pill for football players

Boing Boing: Thermometer pill for football players: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 Thermometer pill for football players In the 1980s, NASA developed a wireless thermometer-in-a-pill to keep tabs on the body temperature of astronauts. Now, some American football players are swallowing the pills to protect themselves from potentially-deadly heatstroke. The thermometer pill is part of HQ […]

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MyDD :: John Hinderaker unhinged::2005 REDUX::

MyDD :: John Hinderaker unhingedJerome Armstrong wrote: John Hinderaker,  who writes for Time magazine’s “Blog of the Year”, dived into calling Jimmy Carter treasonous (“Jimmy Carter isn’t just misguided or ill-informed. He’s on the other side.”) This week, Hinderaker has become unhinged: You dumb shit, he didn’t get access using a fake name, he used […]

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The ongoing national disgrace of lawless indefinite detentions:

Unclaimed Territory – by Glenn Greenwald: The ongoing national disgrace of lawless indefinite detentions I’ve honestly run out of adjectives to use when discussing the Bush administration’s treatment of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla. Last month, I wrote about the torture — there is no other accurate word for it — to which Padilla alleges, quite […]

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Meanwhile back in Kabul……

New Taliban rules target Afghan teachers – Yahoo! News: KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban gunmen who murdered two teachers in eastern Afghanistan early Saturday were only following their rules: Teachers receive a warning, then a beating, and if they continue to teach must be killed. The new list of 30 rules, decided on during a […]

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