The full length version of this show: Bizarre Foods Survival Special will air on Tuesday, June 16th, at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific time, and immediately after (11pm ET) Andrew will be doing a live chat with viewers.
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F.G. sent this: Round Up Hate-Promoters Now, Before Any More Holocaust Museum Attacks. I don’t suppose that there is any point in mentioning the deep irony of this to the author. (After all, the reason that a Holocaust Museum even exists is that some seven decades ago, a national government went along with public demands that certain people be “rounded up.”) Now don’t get me wrong: the man that perpetrated the attack was obviously a dangerous loon. But I’m not ready to set up a Department of “Pre-Crime” Thought Police, a la Phillip K. Dick’s Minority Report
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I’ve been amazed at how quickly Microsoft’s Bing.com search engine has taken off. Rather than anything special provided by Bing’s software, perhaps their success can instead be attributed to Google’s Orwellian cookies retention policy and their corrupt “Pay for Rankings” marketing strategy. Google deserves only the quiet, withering death of inattention. For greater web search privacy, use Scroogle.org’s “scraper”. But regardless, learn how to clear your web browser’s history, and clear cache.
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This confirms one of my long-held assumptions: Some Very Interesting Statistics on Rape Resistance. Teach your daughters to shoot, get them some advanced training, and set them up to carry concealed, daily. (Thanks to SF in Hawaii for the link.)