Spanish authorities recently busted a human trafficking ring that was bringing women from Nigeria and forcing them to work as prostitutes. They coerced the women, in part, by threatening them with “Voodoo curses” if they didn’t comply. According to the Associated Press, The victims, aged 25 to 35, were forced to pay large sums of…
May, 2009
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Damn it is hard to find images of this Blackest Night Earth-2 Superman online. DC Direct initially embargoed the look of the character so most of what’s on the Internet (and still at DC Direct’s own site) is a silhouette version. This is a fairly grotuesque take on Superman even at this tiny resolution.
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Awesome philosophical conundrum t-shirt from T-Shirt Hell.
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Gizmodo has a nice scan of a limited edition poster that Lego did showing every Lego Star Wars minifig from 1999-2009. Here’ s just a sample,
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Christopher Null had an odd take on a USA Today story on the supposed harm some of us are doing to the environment by leaving on our computers at night. According to the USA Today story, U.S. organizations squander $2.8 billion a year to power unused machines, emitting about 20 million tons of carbon dioxide…
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Awesome custom-made I Heart Math bags.
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The Lego Steampunk Group Pool on Flickr features some amazing Lego Steampunk creations.
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October Toys sells its Z.O.M.B.I.E.’s (Zillions of Mutated Bodies Infecting Everyone) in green, blue, white and glow-in-the dark for $5/set. It even has a game built around the plastic undead critters.
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Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler made some waves when he posted this graph based on data from Net Applications Browser Market Share report. The most obvious feature is the steady decline of Internet Explorer’s market share from 90 percent in 2004, to just around 66 percent today. Firefox and Safari are the two browsers that have gained…
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Andrea Gohr is trying trying to put some momentum behind the Universal Edit Button extension for Firefox. As Gohr puts it, The idea is simple: whenever you are on an editable website (usually a wiki), your borwser should display an icon just like it does when you’re on a website with an RSS feed. Gohr…