Teh interesting (non-PHL-related) news stub thread

[Fox]

http://io9.com/5822357/confirmed-all-non...eanderthal

Confirmed! We're all part Neanderthal.

And to think that calling people "Neanderthals" was one of my favorite put-downs back in school. I guess that won't work anymore.

[Serene]

http://io9.com/5822357/confirmed-all-non...eanderthal

Confirmed! We're all part Neanderthal.

And to think that calling people "Neanderthals" was one of my favorite put-downs back in school. I guess that won't work anymore.

It'll still work man. Surely not everyone you know back in high school know this yet.

[Sforza]

Gamer dies after a long gaming session:
http://blog.games.yahoo.com/blog/866-xbo...lood-clot/

He died of a:
pulmonary embolism

[Fox]

Let that be a warning to us all.

[clonezero]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vie...n-Facebook

somethings terribly wrong about this trend >>

[J.E_Magog]

in relation to that riots/ looting going on in the UK.

[NiX]

That's not cool. And the guy 'helping' him out didn't do anything.

[Fox]

Thievery under the pretense of goodwill. It's amazing how low people have sunk nowadays.

[Twin-Skies]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/sili...40896.html

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

"There are quite a lot of people who think it's not possible," Thiel said at a Seasteading Institute Conference in 2009, according to Details. (His first donation was in 2008, for $500,000.) "That's a good thing. We don't need to really worry about those people very much, because since they don't think it's possible they won't take us very seriously. And they will not actually try to stop us until it's too late."

Now where have we heard that before? Oh yeah...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshock

[Grim]

Now where have we heard that before? Oh yeah...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshock

But before Rapture, there was The Principality of Sealand.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand

[Fox]

American rock group R.E.M disbands after three decades in the business - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-20...91698.html

[Sforza]

Girl digs self out of grave, points to rapist

COTABATO CITY, Philippines–Regaining consciousness, a 10-year-old girl clawed her way out of the ground and pointed her parents and the authorities to the cousin who raped her, knocked her out with a blow to the head and buried her in a shallow grave, the police said Thursday.

...It was not clear how long the girl had been buried.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/71391/girl-...-to-rapist

I suggest cutting his penis off then letting him get buttraped in prison

[clonezero]

If this was true and was turned into a movie I will watch it
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gazel.html

[Fox]

If this was true and was turned into a movie I will watch it
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gazel.html

Reminds me of that Finnish dude from WWII.

[NiX]

http://www.livescience.com/16806-asian-a...ovans.html

Apparently, we're descended from human/Denisovan hybrids.