The video game Wolfenstein II, the latest iteration of an exercies in killing virtual Nazis, has angered Nazis with an online presence because it is about...killing Nazis.
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Video game Wolfenstein II angers neo-Nazis
The video game Wolfenstein II, the latest iteration of an exercies in killing virtual Nazis, has angered Nazis with an online presence because it is about...killing Nazis.
These male jumping spiders evolved dance moves because the ladies ignore them
Saturday, October 7, 2017
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Today in History
| 1571 | In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain’s Don Juan de Austria. | |
| 1765 | Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it. | |
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| 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he is found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place. | |
| 1870 | French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours. | |
| 1913 | In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management.” The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes. | |
| 1944 | A prisoner uprising takes place at Birkenau concentration camp. | |
| 1949 | Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. | |
| 1949 | East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, is formed. | |
| 1976 | Hua Guofeng, premier of the People’s Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party of China. | |
| 1985 | Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel. | |
| 2001 | The US invasion of Afghanistan in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 begins; it will become the longest war in US history. |
Women Are Posting Naked Yoga Photos On Instagram for an Important Reason
Here's the story behind the social media trend
Huge celestial fireball appears over China
NASA data put the velocity of the fireball at 14.6 kilometers per second, generating impact energy equivalent to 540 tons of TNT as it blazed across the night sky near the border with Burma.
Researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains
By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the
National Institutes of Health saw the first, long-sought evidence that
our brains may drain...
Your kids might be able to see better if they play outdoors more...
The ready availability of technology may make the children of today
faster at configuring a new smartphone, but does all of that screen
time...
Robot For Sale
A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie.He decides to test it out at dinner one night.
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
The son says, “I did some schoolwork.”
The robot slaps the son.
The son says, “OK, OK. I was at a friend’s house watching movies.”
Dad asks, “What movie did you watch?”
Son says, “Toy Story.”
The robot slaps the son.
Son says, “OK, OK, we were watching porn.”
Dad says, “What? At your age, I didn’t even know what porn was.”
The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, “Well, he certainly is your son.”
The robot slaps the mother…….
Robot for sale!
For the first time, LGBT pride flag to fly on federal land
It’s a rainbow-colored triumph whose meaning is compounded by the shadow Dumbass Trump’s junta has cast over LGBTQ rights. A
rainbow flag will soon fly at the Stonewall National Monument in
Manhattan, the first such flag to be permanently placed on federal land
and maintained by the National Park Service, activists announced on
Thursday.
Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
Columnist calls for repeal of 2nd Amendment — and destroys gun nuts’ favorite arguments
New York Times columnist Bret
Stephens said in an explosive op-ed piece on Thursday that the Second
Amendment should be repealed. “I have never understood the wingnut
fetish for the Second Amendment,” Stephens wrote.
Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’
The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that
killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re...
Milwaukee mother accused of burning autistic son to death in a bathtub
Amelia Di Stasio, 23, has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the killing of her only child Antonio Di Stasio. She has been in jail with bail set at $400,000.
School district punishes teachers for discussing anti-Semitism with students after swastika vandalism
A senior English teacher discussed
anti-Semitism with her students after swastikas were drawn on the school
— only to be reprimanded by the school district’s superintendent.
Nazi calls for 'action' against Illinois Jewish man
Meet Madagascar’s oldest animal lineage
There are precious few species today in the biodiversity hotspot of
Madagascar that scientists can trace directly back to when all of
Earth’s continents...
Friday, October 6, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1014 | The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title “Slayer of Bulgers” after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops. | |
| 1536 | William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvoorde, France. | |
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| 1696 | Savoy, Germany withdraws from the Grand Alliance. | |
| 1801 | Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland. | |
| 1866 | The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymour, Indiana netting $10,000. | |
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| 1941 | German troops renew their offensive against Moscow. | |
| 1966 | Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin. | |
| 1969 | Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. | |
| 1973 | Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. | |
| 1981 | Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak. | |
| 2000 | Yugoslavia’s president Slobodan Milosevic and Argentina’s vice-president Carlos Alvarez both resign from their respective offices. |
Hilarious Video Shows The Moment Bernie Discovered He’s Related To His SNL Impersonator
What a heartwarming – and hilarious – discovery!
Brace yourself America, Charlie Hebdo has arrived
40 Percent of Cancers Are Related to Being Overweight
Obesity-related cancers of the liver, stomach, and pancreas are rising
McDonald’s worker served 'happy’ meals with cocaine
Judge sentences Michigan mom who won't vaccinate her son to seven days in jail
Southwest Airlines targeted woman because she was a Muslim
Sex offender arrested for threats against Howard University students
John Edgar Rust has been arrested making
racially-motivated threats against students at the historically-black
Howard University in Washington, DC.
Oklahoma men recount being sent to 'christian' 'slave camp' instead of prison
Instead, McGahey told the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal news site, he found himself in a “slave camp.”
These sorts of rehab facilities, Reveal noted, “have become the bedrock of criminal justice reform” — centers that are supposed to rehabilitate people who may otherwise join the large number of formerly imprisoned people who end up back in the system.
While many of the programs “promise freedom from addiction,” they’ve instead “turned thousands of men and women into indentured servants.”
Inmates at Alaska prison forced to walk naked on a ‘dog leash’
Male inmates at Alaska’s Spring Creek
Correctional Center were “sexually harassed” as punishment and forced to
be walked naked on “dog leashes” in front of female staff.
A Rare Visit from a Family of Lynx
So for the next half-hour, Newton says he just went back and forth, from window to window, photographing them.The family stayed for about 40 minutes, then calmly left the yard. You can see the whole collection of photographs at Newton's site.
At one point, Newton decided to test his luck by going outside to continue photographing the kits. While the mother was cautious and alert, he says she was also very calm with him in her presence. Moreover, some of the kits were very intrigued by Newton.
"I actually had my bathrobe on," says Newton. "So I didn't have legs, as far as the kits could tell. And I didn't have eyes or a head. I just had this big round thing that went 'Click, click, click.' So I think the little kittens didn't have any clue what I might be."
Prehistoric squid was last meal of newborn ichthyosaur 200 million years ago
Scientists from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest
specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and found an additional
surprise preserved in its stomach.The ichthyosaur...
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