ZDNet had an interesting article questioning how the Internet would hold up to the Olympic streaming demands. Since all of the video will be using unicast technologies, it is a real question.

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The Dallas News tells us that police had to free 26 cheer leaders from an elevator at the University of Texas Jester Hall. Wow.
I have to assume that this was a cheer leader camp or such, and that the girls (where were the guys?) must have been really bored. Still, 26 is a [...]

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In today’s DOTD report, I have two separate cases of police officers totally lacking in brains. In the first case, I believe it was caused by a lack of blood flow to the brain, and in the second case, it was caused by too much blood flow.
Case 1: A drunk girl comes into the [...]

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There are two levels of Darwin Awards in my mind–those who win them because they did/caused the action resulting in the subject’s removal from the gene pool, and those who were accomplices or victims of the Darwin-inducing incident. In this case we have both. Filed under Dumbass of the Day.

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Today’s Dumbass of the Day award goes to an unnamed man in Durban, South Africa. Jeff Wicks reports that the would-be thief attempted to climb over a wall protected by sharp spikes. During the attempt, both feet became impaled. When police found him in the morning, he was hanging upside down, still [...]

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While listening to NPR today, I heard a report about a protest at Virginia Tech. about the role of gun laws in Virginia. Evidentially Abigail Spangler was upset about the recent Virginia legislative decision to not do anything about gun shows. Gun control activists like to complain about the “loophole” relating to gun [...]

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It now says:
From the monkeys who typed Shakespeare comes the stunning sequel…
I don’t know if it is an improvement, but I certainly like it.
 

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I see and save lots of pictures.  A friend of mine sent me this one.  It reminds me of a big smile in the sky, not to mention a gorgeous sunset.
 

 
[Update] Someone from Digg asked why this was in the Science->Environment section.  Well, it is a nice picture of the environment.  What section would have [...]

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I haven’t done a Dumbass of the Day in a long while, so I guess it is not really “of the Day”.  Regardless, this story about Jesse Jackson made me think of the word “Dumbass”.  Then there is the category for “Stupid things people do”.  I guess I’ll have to put this down under both, [...]

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I listen to Marketplace frequently when I’m in the shower in the morning, right before 07:00. They have several desks and it amuses me that they still use that phrase. While I care about the environment, I am definitely not a tree hugger. However, I am a geek so when they mentioned [...]

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