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Yet again, a story of stem cell advancement that barely gets noticed because it doesn’t involve destruction of an embryo.

Shaun Boyd of CBS4 Denver reports on a blind Colorado girl who went to China for experimental stem cell treatments which have radically improved her vision — she’s now taking driving lessons.

Macie Morse was born [...]

Great video. If you’re married, imagine doing this with your wife.

Yeah. Exactly.

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And to answer his question, no it doesn’t concern anyone because no one dares ask the question. It surprised me that ole Chris had the intestinal fortitude to ask it, frankly.

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It never ceases to amaze me the lack of knowledge you find on QVC. I do enjoy watching them sell shit and the products are usually decent (I’ve never felt cheated or burned ordering from them) but they really do need to brush up on their product knowledge a bit…

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As usual, the ACLU is wrong…

A high school official made a mistake by telling a student to cover up a lesbian-themed T-shirt or face suspension, the school’s principal said Friday, a day after the ACLU demanded the school apologize to the teen.

Bethany Laccone, 17, said she was asked to cloak a logo of two interlocked [...]

It won’t take long to see this proven completely:

Frontline is the best reporting on television and possibly in the world. After watching it the other night I was struck by how aggressively the show, funded by the federal government, went after the Bush administration.

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Even if there is no pattern of bias this government funded entity [...]

Rush Limbaugh completely disassembles the tools at Media Morons for America. In the interest of trying to paint Limbaugh as a chicken-hawk (oh yay, we’re back to that shit again), the idiots at MMA took recent comments Limbaugh made about fake soldier Jesse MacBeth and painted them as if he was saying them about [...]

Another iPod killer…

That’s an interesting new design, Creative. Well done… Can’t help but think it’s somewhat familiar, though…

Oh, alright then… Carry on.

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A German who persuaded doctors to give him a second penis has lost his wife after he showed her the result.

Biker Michael Gruber, 40, lost his original penis in a motorbike accident and doctors built him a second one using a mixture of skin, bone and other tissues from his own body.

The penis worked so [...]

Wolf Blitzer had Michael Moore on The Situation Room to talk about “Sicko,” the must-see documentary of the year as far as I’m concerned. To some extent, Moore’s flick comes off as hyperbolic and exaggerated, but there’s more than a small part of it that’s true. Of course, you’d have to watch it [...]

Yeah I know… I haven’t forgotten all of you… I’ll be back…

Anyway… Have a laugh here. This is what real life would be like if real life were happening in Second Life.

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As part of their “hey, me too!” internationalization efforts, Flickr has set off a shitstorm the likes of which we haven’t seen on the web since… Well… Since Flickr last censored someone…

In its continuing attempts to make the world safe for puppies and birthday parties, they’ve blocked citizens of Germany from seeing anything [...]

Equally cute story here.

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James Randi debunks James Hydrick and his Shaolin “powers”… Worth every second, I promise you…

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Heh… I love talking about myself in the third person…

Vincent Ferrari uploaded his famous AOL cancellation call on June 13th, 2006. A screenshot from AOL’s internal database shows that 10 days later AOL revised its policy for what reps should do if a customer says they’re recording the phone call.

This is a revision of [...]

Instead of dealing with mounting unresolved complaints, Kodak simply resigns from the BBB.

That’s the way to do business!

[The BBB] said Kodak has long refused to accept or respond to consumer complaints submitted by the Upstate New York Better Business Bureau, prompting expulsion proceedings in December by the council’s board.

“Every member of the BBB system is [...]

Good on him. I’m particularly glad that the assbag he dumped the ashes on was wearing yellow. Double good.

If anyone can translate the french for me, I’d be grateful… I was able to understand a few words here and there (at one point he said that the streets aren’t a toilet) but [...]

…The guy who’s choking the other guy, or the dude filming it who did nothing…

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One of my wife’s favorite language pet peeves demonstrated twice in the same sentence:

NEVER ENTER YOUR PIN NUMBER AT AN ATM MACHINE. YOU MIGHT GET THE HIV VIRUS.

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Heh… Something tells me this isn’t the last we’ll be hearing about this (click to embiggen if needed):

You heard it here, folks (and on Kotaku, and on Dvorak)…

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