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It’s called trepanation, and this extreme cousin to acupuncture has been around for at least 8,500 years. Though it’s recently fallen out of favour — mainly because it comes with a pretty fair chance brain damage, death, or searing agony at the very least — the practice is aimed at heightening the consciousness of […]

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About 25 young ne’erdowells are being forced to take court-ordered poetry classes after they threw a party in Robert Frost’s summer Vermont home, smashing windows and furniture and littering the property with plastic beer cups.

And yes, I came up with that headline all by myself.
From AP/AOL News:

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” [the teacher] […]

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Remember those ads for Lifelock, an identity theft prevention company, where the firm’s CEO plasters his social security number on the sides of buses to illustrate the effectiveness of his protection services? Enter the inevitable:
From the New York Times:

Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses […]

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Yes, I know the title is cheesy. Has that ever stopped me before?
Found by Asher on divine caroline — a site I’m really starting to like — is a layman’s analysis of some of the chemicals, drugs and other heebie-jeebies in your food, by Brie Cadman:

The other day I was snacking on some bright […]

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You know, in general.
I can just imagine the telephone survey conversations:

Survey guy: Hi, I’m Bill from the Opinion Research Corporation, and I’m calling about a survey commissioned by CNN. How are you, sir?
Man: Not so good, actually.
Survey guy: Thanks for your time. *click*

Talk about a useless poll and a pointless news story.

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From the BBC’s irony department:

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.
But then some of them saw TV […]

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In a shocking revelation, CNN says an “unspoken demographic” (racist white people) may not vote for Obama because he’s black:

As both Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton race to make history, some political observers believe Obama might have a unique problem because he’s African-American.
They claim voters often say they’ll go one way, then act quite […]

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