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30% of US military women are raped while serving

“…71% are sexually assaulted, and 90% are sexually harassed”

California motorists pull over, risk lives by chasing money thrown by drug dealers in highway car chase

The Psychedelic Frogfish

See also: Wikipedia

[via:Charris]

U.S. Army to recruit immigrants with temporary visas

Running out of cannon fodder?

Indian right-wing org to receive pink underwear for Valentine’s day after attack on female bar customers

See also: Facebook group, Sri Ram Sena.

Joe Cocker – With a Little Help from My Friends (BBC Live recording, 1968)

Intense.

Edit: Original video removed, but I think this is the same recording. // Thomas 2009-07-28

Christian UK bus driver refuses to drive a bus with atheist “There’s probably no God” ad banner

See also: The home page of the ad campaign

China using tens of thousands of paid “internet commentators” to control public opinion

Santa Claus ruins party, kills eight, burns down house in L.A.

[via:Mummila]

Girls with mild autism less likely to be diagnosed than boys

Actor Robbie Coltrane’s face used on NZ wanted poster

“Robbie Coltrane is not the burglar, but imagine him aged 16 with lank greasy hair and you have the picture”

[via:wordepletion]

Pictures of ten ghost towns

…including scenes from Chernobyl (the BBC has a better collection of Chernobyl photos, though). For some reason I find abandoned cities intriguing. If you ask me, the only proper place for fugly Soviet era architecture is in photographs, movies or post-apocalyptic computer game scenery.

[via:Kottke]

The BBC’s iPlayer volume goes to 11

From Our Own Correspondent: BBC’s brilliant long-running current affairs show

Available as a podcast