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• Live Insects Challenge Humans in Bizarre Computer Game

  Sat Jul 8, 2006
  • How bad do you have to feel if a cricket beats you at a video game?

• New Report Shows 17 States at High Risk For Compromised Election Results Due to Electronic Voting Machine Problems

  Fri Jun 23, 2006
  • Because it makes way too much sense and would make it harder to steal elections. Another alternative would be for the voting machine to print a ballot that the voter could then confirm had the correct selections on it before putting it into an old fashioned ballot box for use in later recounts.

• Feature: Move to Block DEA Medical Marijuana Raids Heads for House Floor Vote Next Week

  Fri Jun 23, 2006
  • You'd think that the politicians would have learned from the tremendous success Prohibition was at keeping people from drinking alcohol that the War on Drugs is just a waste of taxpayer dollars.

• Dan Rather's Raw Deal

  Fri Jun 23, 2006
  • It stops being wacky conspiracy theory in the right-winger's minds when the left is involved. Sadly only half in jest.

• A Common Parasite Reveals Its Strongest Asset: Stealth

  Wed Jun 21, 2006
  • True. But this is the first time I've heard of a parasite that does host-behavior modification and is widespread in humans in the First World.

• No cash? No card? Just stick in finger

  Wed Jun 21, 2006
  • I see this as leading to muggers cutting off your finger. Thanks but no thanks.

• Girl's savior faces 3rd strike

  Thu Jun 15, 2006
  • I agree. While certainly a previous criminal history should be considered when sentencing someone for a crime, three strikes laws take the ability to alter sentence to suit the circumstances out of the hands of the judge.

• Top Court Upholds No-Knock Police Search

  Thu Jun 15, 2006
  • I think that someone busting down a door without even identifying themselves as a police officer is a pretty clear case of unreasonable search and seizure, but what the hell do I know?

• How to get your articles read on Newsvine

  Thu Jun 8, 2006
  • Voting for articles you seeded does have a legitimate use - training the recommendation engine. If I seeded something, obviously I'm interested in that subject, so voting for it will help the recommendation system find similar articles for me later.

• The 4 Stages of Global Warming Denial

  Wed Jun 7, 2006
  • Sure, the weather recovered from Krakatoa, but Krakatoa was a one time thing. We pump more and more CO2 into the air every year, without giving the system a chance to recover from the excess.

• 'Battlestar Galactica' Collects Peabody

  Tue Jun 6, 2006
  • I really have mixed feelings about a move to NBC - on the one hand, it'd be great to have more viewers, that'd make it more likely to last longer as a series.