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I must confess I’m a big fan of Asian cuisines, but these photos really kill my appetite. They may be crunchy and full of protein, bugs simply have no place on my menu.
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Digesting the termite digestome -- a way to make biofuels?
If the biofuel known as bioethanol is to make a major contribution to our fuel supplies, then we may well require the assistance of some tiny insect helpers, says Michael Scharf, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
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Miss Louisiana Teen USA Stripped of Title
Lindsey Evans, Miss Louisiana Teen USA, is about a pound lighter, because she just lost her crown.
We just got an advance copy of a statement that will be released from Paula Miles, President of RPM, sponsor of the LA. pageant.
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25-foot maze in a 24-foot house: how I solved the world's longest picture maze in 6 months
I have always been a puzzle person since I was a little boy. There was just something about watching a picture develop out of chaos that was really intriguing to me. I also always liked the idea of “progress” in doing some crazy-big 5,000 piece puzzle: only 3,000 more pieces to go, only 1,000 more, 100 pieces, done!
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The Broken Mirror Effects
Her face, the essence of a wilted flower,the color of spring bloom. Beautiful Broken Mirror Effects Her stare, the red light district, enough to stop a room.
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Floyd founder Wright dies at 65
Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died, aged 65, from cancer.
Wright appeared on the group's first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.

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McCain Blasts Wall Street Failure, Neglects To Mention His Adviser Helped Cause It
As Mother Jones reported in June, eight years ago, Gramm, then a Republican senator chairing the Senate banking committee, slipped a 262-page bill into a gargantuan, must-pass spending measure. Gramm's legislation, written with the help of financial industry lobbyists, essentially removed newfangled financial products called swaps from any regulation.
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Beijing Olympics, One World, One Dream… This Is Sad [PIC]

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Search engine marketing
Netcallidus - A search engine marketing company specialized in strategic internet marketing. Search engine optimizers have an impressive success rate and work with many premium SEO Firms.
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Bush Fulfills His Grandfather's Dream
By David Swanson
(Originally published in July 2007, and to be published every summer until the right to do so is gone.)

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Wage Against the Machine
Nearly everyone who's looked at Wal-Mart's practices as an employer—its union busting, sex discrimination, low wages, and minimal benefits—has concluded that it's America's retail bad guy.
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Everyone Who Loves 'Wall-E,' Step Forward! Not So Fast, Republicans, Fat People
After finally seeing Wall-E Tuesday night at the El Capitan, your easily susceptible guest blogger is comfortable calling it a colossal achievement — an assertion backed up by other reviews going live today, including Variety's and Roger Ebert's.
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Red-Lace Nightie Portends Another Excruciating Night For Closeted Husband
"I was coming home late from a long, tiring day at the office, and Amanda met me at the door wearing that red thing," said Yetter, 36, referring to the size-large, satin-trimmed, babydoll-style nightgown with matching ruffled thong bikini Amanda recently purchased at Victoria's Secret. "I immediately thought, 'Oh, God, here we go again."
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AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State'
Mark Klein, the retired AT&T engineer who stepped forward with the technical documents at the heart of the anti-wiretapping case against AT&T, is furious at the Senate's vote on Wednesday night to hold a vote on a bill intended to put an end to that lawsuit and more than 30 others.
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Die, Scribd. Die.
Have you seen Scribd.com? If you haven’t consider yourself lucky. You can try to avoid it, but every once in a while, for reasons I can’t really understand, an idiot will post a link to a document there.
For instance, the other day on Hacker News, someone posted an interesting link to a paper on scalable distributed B-trees. The PDF is here, but the article links to Scribd, scribd.
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My Crazy Teeth
I have to go back to the dentist, and I don't want to.
I think that my tooth has a great personality, it's so wild, rebel & egocentric.

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Scary Amusement Park In Las Vegas
Las Vegas is a city where there are many interesting things and places to visit. This amusement park is one of them which you can visit, it is on top on a building and really can make you seek if you are looking down. As the title says, this is one very scary amusement park which is located in Las Vegas.
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Did You Know: Useless Facts!
A bunch of useless yet interesting facts in this latest did you know video.
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