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Texas Governor Rick Perry suggests that gay people who want rights should move out of Texas, since they're not wanted there.

Link is currently a transcript from a video recording. I'm looking for an official NBC source on this.

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Ed Book is amazing.

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( Funny picture, mildly not work-safe. No bad words, no nudity, just nipples pressing through thin opaque fabric )

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" The game designers across the nation are playing is; can they design a logo and get it approved without the client realising it's a big spurting penis?

We asked our readers to send in the best cock logos from around the world for our team of experts to evaluate. Now we present to you the very cream of the cocks. "

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Nigerian police detain murderous cow.

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The Great Cornholio Soundboard!

I *so* need to get home where I can play with this properly.

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Spam-mimic! An encoder that takes any message you want and encodes it to make it indistinguishable from spam! And then decodes it to turn it back!

If you use standard encryption, it's obvious you're sending something encrypted. Nobody looks at spam, nobody notes spam, and receiving spam is totally unremarkable, so anyone reading your mail will just skip it to get to the good stuff!

Sneaky!

( A test that speaks truth to all )

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How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?

Charismatic: Only one. Hands already in the air.

Pentecostal: Ten. One to change the bulb, and nine to pray against spirit of darkness.

Presbyterians: None. Lights will go on and off at predestined times.

Roman Catholic: None. Candles only.

Baptists:At least 15. One to change the light bulb, and three committees to
approve the change and decide who brings the potato salad and fried
chicken.

Episcopalians: Three. One to call the electrician, one to mix the drinks, and one to talk about how much better the old one was.

Mormons: Five. One man to change the bulb, and four wives to tell him how to do it.

Unitarians:We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the
need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found
that light bulbs work for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a
poem or compose a modern dance about your light bulb for the next
Sunday service in which we will explore a number of light bulb
traditions, including: incandescent, fluorescent three way, long-life
and tinted, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.

Methodists:Undetermined. Whether your light is bright, dull, or completely out,
you are loved. You can be a light bulb, turnip bulb, or tulip bulb.
Church-wide lighting service is planned for Sunday. Bring bulb of your
choice and a covered dish.

Nazarene: Six. One woman to replace the bulb while five men review church lighting policy.

Lutherans: None. Lutherans don’t believe in change.

Amish: What’s a light bulb?

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'Kidnappers' who stole a Dalek from a Somerset tourist attraction have sent its owners a ransom note - and the robot's amputated plunger.

The 5ft model, believed to be an original from the cult BBC Dr Who series, was taken from Wookey Hole Caves near Wells on Monday. On Thursday, staff found the plunger arm and a ransom note on a doorstep. The note read: "We are holding the Dalek captive. We demand further instructions from the Doctor."

The group, signing themselves Guardians of the Planet Earth, added: "For the safety of the human race we have disarmed and removed its destructive mechanism."

Wookey Hole manager Daniel Medley told BBC News: "The arm has been removed quite carefully, it hasn't been ripped off, there's no torture involved. So if we get the rest of the Dalek back, we should be able to put it back together like a jigsaw. The police think it was probably taken by kids or students, but there is also the idea that it could be heading to Edinburgh for the G8 protests."

Now THIS is dedication:

Desperate to keep his job at all costs, a pizza delivery guy continues to deliver pizzas after being shot during an attempted mugging.

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"Why is Io volcanic?"

"Because its *solid land* is raised and lowered by tide, 5 times as much as Earth's oceans are."

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How to treat Cystic Fibrosis: "Well, combining Ebola and HIV seems promising!"

Regulators in the US could soon be asked to approve a human trial of gene therapy for cystic fibrosis that uses a hybrid of the HIV and Ebola viruses.

Tests on monkeys show the hybrid virus delivers genes to the lungs far more efficiently than any other method developed so far. And while the idea of combining two killer viruses sounds horrifying, the risks should be low.

Kobinger now plans a more extensive monkey trial to convince the US Food and Drug Administration that human trials will be safe. The hybrid virus is created by adding HIV RNA, a stripped-down version of the Ebola surface protein RNA and the therapeutic gene to cells. The hybrid virus then self-assembles. Crucially, only the therapeutic gene is incorporated into the hybrid virus, so it cannot replicate.

All attempts in the lab to force such viruses to regain the ability to replicate have failed. Even if this did happen in the body, the resulting virus would resemble HIV, as the hybrid contains no Ebola genes - and HIV cannot infect lung cells. If it did get into the blood, where normal HIV thrives, such a virus would not replicate as efficiently as wild-type HIV. While the patient might suffer, the virus could never reach high enough levels in the body to infect others, Ray Pickles, a gene therapy researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says.

The biggest risk is that if a patient becomes infected with wild-type HIV, the wild-type virus and the hybrid could somehow merge, but such recombination has never been observed in HIV.

Life is Tetris!

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Soon to engineer birds to eat really, really fast moths.

Colombians planning to genetically engineer moths to eat coca plants.

More Ed Book Awesomeness.

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Miami Beach passes a law stating that convicted sex offenders may not live within 2500 feet of a school, day care center, park, playground, or school bus stop.

This, of course, means that sex offenders may not live in Miami Beach, period.

As well, it totally disregards the results of all the studies - which show that a sex offender living near a school is not any more likely to reoffend, that most sex offenders go after family and family of friends, not strangers, and that danger to children in such a zone actually *increases* because they trust strangers - after all, they CAN'T be a sex offender.

Not believing in puppies is, apparently, treason in Florida.