Saturday, August 30, 2008

Man Claims To Have Found Zodiac Killer's Disguise, Knife

A Northern California man says that the Zodiac Killer is his stepfather, Jack Tarrance. During a chilling interview with CBS, he shows the hood the killer wore and the killer's knife.

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10 Important News Stories as Depicted by 5-Year-Olds

With all of the wars, gas shortages, a looming depression and no more Olympics to pretend aren't boring, things are pretty bleak. We wondered if our world would look any less depressing if viewed through the eyes of a five-year-old.

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15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped

There's a whole bunch of jaw-dropping pics that the internet declared 'FAKE!' the moment they appeared. But as it turns out, some of them are, in fact, insanely surreal photographs of weird stuff around the world.

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The Disturbing Origins of 5 Common Nursery Rhymes

We grew up memorizing these seemingly nonsense lines of verse from Mother Goose, which seem to exist for no other reason than to keep toddlers entertained. There couldn't possibly be some kind of weird, twisted history to them, could there?

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Colbert: The Repo Man Is Gonna Miss Bush

On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen cut through all of the doom and gloom of the Democratic Convention by profiling someone who's flourishing in the current economy: A repo man.

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10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On

In our never-ending quest to provide you the tools and knowledge to raise your kids in your own geeky image, we present you with a list of 10 geeky movies to raise your kids with. This is a starter list, and by no means comprehensive. It also skews towards the younger set because we have to lay the proper geeky foundation.

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Four-Foot SNES Controller Actually Works [PICS]

Taking inspiration as well as construction cues from the massive NES controller table built in May, SCAD Inc., which I will charitably call a garage-based novelty enlargement collective, set out to build a giant-sized SNES controller, complete with functioning buttons. A few months later the build is complete, and it looks, well, huge.

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250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your Bandwidth

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps.

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MySpace's Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker

In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it.

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