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In a seriously failed attempt to make themselves look good after the G20 in Toronto this week, police put on a display for journalists of what they seized during the summit..

GlobeandMail reports:
Julian Falconer, a Toronto lawyer representing four independent journalists in summit-related police complaints, called the display of unrelated objects a “public-relations exercise [that] borders on the absurd.”

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......discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history," turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.

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Tax dollars at work ;-)

Brad’s phone rang with the telltale tone of an inner-office call. “Yeah,” he briskly blurted out as he picked up the phone, “what’cha ya need?” That was actually his nicewayof answering the phone. As the senior trader at Æxecor, one of the world’s largest energy trading companies, Brad didn’t need to impress anyone and, in his mind, displaying anything less than vicious hubris would be a sign of weakness.

“Err,” the receptionist nervously answers, “there’s a… err, delivery for you, sir. They—”

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Stephanopolous Interviews Iranian president Ahmadinejad, with quite amusing responses.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/57209.html

In a not-uncommon development for the social-networking leader, Facebook's recently released privacy controls are leaving the company a bit red-faced. As a result of a new policy that by default makes users' profiles, photos and friends lists available on the web, almost 300 personal photos of founder Mark Zuckerberg became publicly available, a development that had gossip sites like Gawker yukking it up.

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Artwork by MYLES CLIMO

Wanna keep polluting without engaging your conscience? MONEY IS MAGIC!

Have you ever worried that knuckle cracking will give you arthritis or wondered why pregnant women don't tip over? Me too.

Research into those topics--as well as studies finding that diamonds could be created from tequila and giant panda feces are good for composting--received Ig Nobel Prizes in a ceremony on Thursday night at Harvard University.

The prizes, awarded to scientific achievements that "cannot and should not be reproduced," are presented in the week before the real Nobel prizes are announced and are sponsored by the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research."

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And here are some of the comments from below the video on Digg.com

"That's not fucking good." Really? What was the first clue?
Never underestimate the comedy potential of when you combine teenage rednecks with high-power machinery.

yeah cause we all know a fuckin yankee would have rolled it more than once and it'd have been a piece of shit '73 camaro