not all who wander are lost

Pity they don't know how painful those injuries are, yet they seem pretty good at causing them. The need some schooling.

No charges after death of released man

A Rhode Island grand jury has decided against bringing criminal charges against police officers involved in the arrest of a Connecticut man who died last year after being released from custody.

It's nice to know some companies are run by sane management

Anti-Santa bus driver gets new route

This time of year it’s not only reading, writing, and arithmetic that’s on a child’s mind, the most prominent topic is that once-a-year list for the jolly man with the rosy cheeks and white beard; one Norwalk bus driver was moved to a different route after allegedly telling a child that that man, Santa Clause, does not exist.

Wimpy Cops Arrest Mom For Squirting Them With Breast Milk | The Stir

This article is really dumb. Yes, the cops probably put her into a bad position, needlessly. That does NOT negate the fact she assaulted the with bodily fluids. Think

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Man uses Neti Pot, Gets Fatal Brain Amoeba Infection - ..seriously. Plus 2 kids died from the same… http://t.co/WEDpW6I

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Man uses Neti Pot, Gets Fatal Brain Amoeba Infection

..seriously. Plus 2 kids died from the same microorganism this summer.

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OS X 10.7 Lion — definitely not work the headache

I made the mistake of upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion. I had no good reason to do it, other than that I prefer the new style of dialog buttons. Bad move. It has serious issues with its NVidia graphics drivers, and WindowServer crashes (which means you get booted to the log-in screen and all your apps are terminated). Sad.

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Safety Tips from AirBnB = Rely on others, it's not our problem

Wow.. they want you to:

Research the potential renter using FACEBOOK, in addition to the airbnb site.. no personal references, though..
Keep one night’s rent (what, $20?) as a “security” deposit..
Oh, and “It takes a Village”, according to them, which means you should rely on your neighbors to monitor for suspicious activity. Seems to me that neighbors are the emergency fall-back, and that for a company to try and build it’s business model around that.. is ridiculous.

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Stormtrooper plans to walk across Australia to raise money for charity - Telegraph

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Apple store artist raided by Secret Service - BlogPost - The Washington Post

This surprises me; not that he did it, but that it became enough of an issue to warrant law enforcement activity. See, Apple uses Deep Freeze on the in-store demo Macs, which prevents data on the HD from being changed — after each reboot the machine is back to it’s original state, with any added software or files gone. Seems to me this store either fracked up their demo set-up, or they aren’t rebooting the computers as often as they’re supposed to..

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My god, you’d think they were building an outdoor range and using kids as targets, to listen to these assholes

Rally against gun range near school Parents in Waterbury are planning to rally this morning over plans to open a indoor gun range near their children’s school. Read more: http://wtnh.m0bl.net/r/ip2td

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Minnesota furloughs 75% of IT staff amid shutdown | ITworld

Oooh good! Minnesota has just effectively acknowledged that they aren’t going to be working on anything IT-related that’s non-critical, and even then only in special cases.. sounds like the right time to take advantage of known-issues that they won’t be patching in the DMV, OEMS, etc…..

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