1. Reddit: "If you have a parrot and you don't teach it to say,"Help, they've turned me into a parrot", you are wasting everybody's time."



2. Discussing Google+, Boing Boing explains why many professional people, especially scientists, need to use pseudonyms.



3. The Miami New Times says it uncovered emails showing a Newsweek writer trying to set Shaq up with some ladies.



4. One-week clearance sale at Entertainment Earth.

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1. How to find PDF manuals for electronics using Google and Amazon.



2. New York City worker admits masterminding $7M food-stamp fraud.



3. "The man tapped by Rupert Murdoch to oversee News Corp.’s internal probe of wrongdoing . . . is best friends with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, who is leading the U.S. investigation into the company."



4. The BBTS has available for preorder the hardcover collection of the #1 issues for all of DC's new 52.

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The Daily Mail:

Jackie Onassis believed that Lyndon B Johnson and a cabal of Texas tycoons were involved in the assassination of her husband John F Kennedy, ‘explosive’ recordings are set to reveal.

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Back in 2003, Peter Milligan wanted to bring Princess Diana back from the dead and make her a member of mutant super hero team X-Statix. The storyline was going to be called "Di Another Day." There was too much protest, so Diana was replaced:

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1. Devastating review of Puzzle Agent 2:

But sadly there’s not a glimmer of interest or wit in the telling, so you’re in fact drumming your fingers as people slowly jabber about nothing, waiting until it ends. I chose to play good puzzle games on my iPhone during these times.

2. Grotesque corruption in medicine.

3. The sale items for July at Things from Another World have been posted.

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1. Reggie Bush has apparently decided not to turn over his Heisman trophy after all. (Good, let them explain some more why he shouldn't keep his trophy, but Cam Newton can.)

2. A primer on the NBA contract negotiations (it's pretty optimistic that a deal will get done).

3. Age of Conan is now free to play.

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1. It's mildly interesting from a karmic standpoint that the National Enquirer supposedly videotaped To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen cheating on his wife. It's more interesting to wonder who tipped them off so they could get the scoop.

2. Photo gallery of China's 26-mile Jiaozhou Bay bridge (the current longest ocean bridge in the world). Via.

3. Scientists think these ants raise other bugs for food. Via.

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1. "The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as investigators have uncovered major holes in the credibility of the housekeeper who charged that he attacked her in his Manhattan hotel suite in May, according to two well-placed law enforcement officials."

2. Charlie Sheen says he used steroids for filming Major League. Via.

3. The first half of this article by Bill Simmons about how Hollywood tried to trick people into thinking Ryan Reynolds was a movie star is somewhat interesting. But the second half, about how Will Smith engineered his career like a stat expert, is really fascinating.

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1. Georgia's crackdown on illegal immigrants has apparently led to millions of dollars' worth of crops rotting in the fields.

2. That didn't take long. Recruiting scandal at Oregon. Via.

3. Scott Beale is determined to suck up more of my free time with a photography tumblr.

4. Very accurate description of introverts (or me, at least).

5. Sword & Sworcery is $1 for the iPod today. Peggle's free for Android at Amazon, but my wife's Droid (still under its initial contract!) is apparently too antiquated to download and run it.

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1. I first mentioned this years ago, but The Edge lost a big vote in his efforts to build a big compound in Malibu.

2. Ann Althouse: "A middle-aged politician sitting at home masturbating because young women thought he was cool when he yelled at that guy that one time is not macho."

3. Member of Canada's national water polo team (and possible Olympian) identified as Vancouver rioter.

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1. It's not so much the sexting, but the shocking arrogance in who the congressman was following on Twitter that's surprising. I bet any enterprising journalist could have a field day looking at who star athletes follow on Twitter.

2. I love the Ned Stark is stupid meme. Seems like I've been waiting for that feeling to become popularized for years and years.

3. It's all about knowing which rules you can get away with breaking (and be willing to break).

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1. "Take a look at perhaps the most unusual prison job rehab program in the country. Here, convicts are trained to become deep-water divers and graduate to well-paying — and sometimes dangerous — jobs upon their release." Via.

2. One absolutely stunning claim about John Thompson after another. I can't imagine how this guy has a job if this stuff is true.

3. I sure hope this Ask Me Anything Request at Reddit gets fulfilled: "An Olive Garden employee who has been sent to Tuscany by the company to learn the art of Italian cooking."

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