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Friday, August 22, 2008, 07:00 PM: Simulations of Society with Loren Cobb

Loren Cobb will present his peculiar 15-year journey into sociological model-making for various military entities, including US Southern Command, the Swedish Ministry of Defence, the British Ministry of Defence, the United Nations, and a miscellany of Latin American countries (Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, ...).

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So what does a bull in a china shop really do?

Mythbusters test a bull in a china shop

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Is The Simpsons still subversive?

"I will not instigate revolution." That's what Bart has to write out repeatedly in an early episode of The Simpsons, which traditionally begins with him chalking up punishment lines on the class blackboard. But is Bart still a rebel, or nowadays would he write instead "I must not uphold family values"? "It's hard to be Che Guevara forever. Inevitably success makes you part of the establishment."

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DRM lobby scrambles to block HD DVD crack

A digital rights management (DRM) licensing authority is strong-arming search firms, bloggers and open source advocates in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of a software key that disables copyright protection on Blu-ray and HD-DVD disks. Cory Doctorow decided on Monday to remove the information from a blog to which he contributes after receiving a cease-and-desist letter. The crack first surfaced in mid-February on a Doom 9 forum.

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Celebrity Mugshots

Paris Hilton, Kelis, Bobby Brown, Don Vito, Hugh Grant, and others.

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The 50 Craziest Pop Stars Ever!

#42. Little Richard Invent rock & roll? Check. Watch people fondle your girlfriend? Check Case History: By age 14, Richard Penniman had been beaten by his father for effeminacy and sexually abused. On tour, Richard enjoyed watching his girlfriends being serviced by other musicians — including Buddy Holly, who Richard says was hung like a stallion. Cocaine abuse (and arrests in public bathrooms) followed. Richard wasted away to 115 pounds, became nearly schizophrenic and was almost shot over a coke deal. Crazy Moment: Once renounced rock & roll after a sign from God. (It was actually Sputnik flying over Australia.) He's So Crazy: "I had to scream like a white lady!"

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Avirl Lavigne Rocks Shanghai

Canadian pop punk queen Avril Lavigne on Wednesday kicked-off her first Chinese mainland concert at Shanghai's Qi Zhong Tennis Centre.

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Ariz. Collision a First for TV Choppers

It's an aerial dance familiar to residents of many large cities as television news helicopters share the sky, jockeying to position their cameras for live shots of fires, car chases and other breaking news events. Two of the aircraft got too close while covering a Phoenix police chase, colliding and killing four people. KNXV-TV Channel 15 and KTVK Channel 3

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Dismal show by Bollywood in mid-year report card

Star appeal, big budgets and swanky foreign locations have all failed to bring cheer to Bollywood as the world's biggest film industry struggled to make a profit in the first half of 2007. Most entertainment analysts agreed it was almost impossible for Bollywood to repeat the success of 2006 -- its best year ever -- but the failure to deliver even one blockbuster so far in 2007 has surprised all.

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