This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens
gizmodo.com --  Photographer Ben Cooper took this photo of a Delta 4-Heavy rocket launching at Cape Canaveral using a sound-activated camera. And when your camera is that close to a launch, your lens probably won't survive...
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20,000 U.K. war vets in prison system
www.cbc.ca --  An increasing number of British war veterans are caught up in the criminal justice system, according to a study released Friday in London...
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Bizarre Creatures Found in Japan [vid]
www.youtube.com --  Probably fake.. what do you think?..
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Now they find water on Mars: Meteorites uncover ice which could point to life
www.dailymail.co.uk --  International space missions have found evidence of ice on Mars - a sign the planet could sustain extraterrestrial life. Nasa said its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted ice at five new Martian craters, likely kicked up by meteor impacts. 'This ice is a relic of a more humid climate from perhaps just several thousand years ago,' said Shane Byrne of the University of Arizona. 'This is a real water resource.'..
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Eerie bioluminescent plankton glows blue when disturbed [vid]
www.youtube.com --  An eerie iridescence has lit up Marlin Marina but the cause of the glow-in-the-dark phenomenon is not supernatural. The scene usually reserved for the deep looks like an underwater glowstick and has been linked to the bioluminescence of plankton being carried in an algal bloom...
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20+ Powerful Wordpress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks
speckyboy.com --  After putting in all of the time, and perhaps money, into your Wordpress website or blog, its now time to secure and protect it from outside enemies and general bad guys: hackers, spammers and all round tossers...
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Carl Sagan Autotune
www.youtube.com --  A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan's Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's Universe series...
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Cubedudes: 18 Superheroes Built out of Legos
www.comicsalliance.com --  Ah, Legos. Much like biological cells, these tiny little blocks contain within them the potential to build so many things: medieval castles, space stations, pirate ships, and now -- superheroes...
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Left4Dead Teletubbies Mod [vid]
www.youtube.com --  This is creepy. "Flameknight7 made a mod that changes all the common infected to Teletubbies. The complete package comes with a sound mod and you hear the zombies saying "Eh oh" and at the end of a round, listen to the music."..
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Moon Myths: The Truth About Lunar Effects on You
www.livescience.com --  The moon holds a mystical place in the history of human culture, so it's no wonder that many myths — from werewolves to induced lunacy to epileptic seizures — have built up regarding its supposed effects on us. "It must be a full moon," is a phrase heard whenever crazy things happen and is said by researchers to be muttered commonly by late-night cops, psychiatry staff and emergency room personnel...
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Obama steps up pressure on Iran
news.bbc.co.uk --  US President Obama has further stepped up the pressure on Iran following the discovery of a second nuclear plant in the country. He said it showed a "disturbing pattern of evasion" by Tehran, and that talks planned for next week now had added urgency...
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10 Most Bizarre Uses For Duct Tape
www.oddee.com --  some people have too much time on their hands..
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Texas police take on blog commenters
news.cnet.com --  Everyone in Austin, Texas always seems unusually charming to me. The people in Starbucks always have time for a chat. And the staff at the wildly gothic Mansion at Judges Hill (which, I am told, used to be a very fine rehab facility) can induce a smile by merely looking at you. However, it appears that when certain citizens of Austin get behind their computers, they turn into monstrous villains...
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The Pit of Life and Death
www.damninteresting.com --  Just outside Butte, Montana lies a pit of greenish poison a mile and a half wide and over a third of a mile deep. It hasn’t always been so – it was once a thriving copper mine appropriately dubbed “The Richest Hill in the World.”..
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The Sound of the Aurora
www.damninteresting.com --  If you happen to be reasonably close to one of the Earth’s magnetic poles, the next time there’s a particularly intense aurora, go outside. Get as far as you can from sources of noise – traffic, barking dogs, TVs – and listen. Listen carefully...
5 Comments - Submitted by Brett on September 27, 2009