In a controversial move, Professor David Nutt recommended that the UK move ecstasy to class B from class A. Nutt continues his rant suggesting that drug policy should change. From DailyMail: He said drug classification based on research evidence would ‘be a powerful educational tool’. Basing classification on the desire ‘to give messages other than [...]

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Previously, many blogs covered a story about Hulu possibly becoming a pay site. Well, it looks like this is not quite true. A source from Hulu says that any pay features would be added to the existing site and would not effect your regular viewing habits. From EW: A source close to Hulu, however, tells [...]

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After what I can only imagine must have been a bender on chicken mcnuggets, Joel Waul of Florida watched a fateful episode of Ripley’s Believe It or Not. Episode 411 featured a giant rubber ball dropped into the desert to see if it bounced. It did not, instead it blew apart into thousands of pieces. [...]

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For the gamers and avid readers out there who are so intent on their medium of choice they forgot to blink, help has arrived. Masunaga Optical has developed the Wink Glasses. These Palinesque lenses fog up if you haven’t blinked in the last 5 seconds. A small sensor will register your next blink and clear [...]

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A look at some basic yet surprising statistics on bankruptcy. Learn more about filing bankruptcy.

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Forest suicides, dog suicides, radiation and a skeleton church. Perfect way to get ready for Halloween! From Cracked: It doesn’t matter whether or not you believe in ghosts, there are some places in which none of us would want to spend a night. These places have well earned their reputations as being so creepy, tragic [...]

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Hear any news lately about the rate of foreclosures decreasing? Well most of those are month to month comparisons. Compared to last year we are still up 29%. For Q3 937,840 homes were in foreclosure. That’s 1 in 136, compare that to celiac disease (gluten sensitivity) at 1 in 133, when will we start to [...]

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The economic woes of Iceland have caused it to possibly be the only country too poor for McDonalds. Most of the ingredients used at the only McDonald’s franchise have to be imported and are all priced in Euros. The franchise operates 3 stores for a country with about 300,000 people. Recently the Icelandic krona has [...]

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Apparently most renters would be willing to live in a haunted house as long as the price was right. Some require discounted rent others are willing to forgo their fear of the paranormal for an LCD TV. From Rent.com via Consumerist: While the survey found 11 percent of renters believe they have lived in a [...]

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A unique after school program in Taiwan has come to an end after complaints by parents. Many children were unable to achieve the level of 6th degree bad ass by swallowing fire, stepping on glass and breaking wood blocks with their bare hands. In an unsurprising coincidence at least one student reported that the courage [...]

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