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From Harry Wallop, Consumer Affairs Editor, telegraph.co.uk:
In a survey, which reveals “deeply worrying” levels of ignorance about the Apollo space programme, which sent three men to the moon forty years ago this month, 11 out of 1009 people surveyed thought Buzz Lightyear was the first person to step onto the moon.
A further 8 people thought [...]

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[Update] And for our non US visitors this is the best alternative link I could find: YouTube.

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The one and only, Weird Al Yankovic:

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Very interesting study at Wellesley College that shows the virginity rates among their students.
3. There is evidence that geeks get laid the least in college. Check out the rates for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics. [forwardOn via user niing]
Read more and see the chart.

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The New York Times has a great “mashup” of twitter and common keywords used during the superbowl over time.
As the Steelers and Cardinals battled on the field, Twitter users across the nation pecked out a steady stream of “tweets.” The map shows the location and frequency of commonly used words in Super Bowl related messages. [...]

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The internet exploded, because Michael Phelps smoked pot.
Mr Phelps, 23, who won eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last year, was pictured by the News of the World inhaling from a glass pipe.
The picture was taken in November at a party in the University of South Carolina, the newspaper said.
Mr Phelps apologised to fans [...]

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From Carlos Miller’s blog, “Photography is Not a Crime — It’s a First Ammendment Right,” he states:
Seconds after BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed Oscar Grant, police immediately began confiscating cell phones containing videos that have yet to see the light of day.
In fact, the only videos that have been seen by the [...]

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WASHINGTON—Network news cameras covering Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony Tuesday captured Hillary Clinton silently moving her lips along with each word of the minute-long presidential oath of office.
[Via Dan via The Onion]

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As of about 3:54pm (EDT), Circuit City’s website (circuitcity.com) has gone down for maintenance – or so it appears.
Maybe they are updating their website with their liquidated prices.
It’s liquidation time! Well, As long as it’s approved.
For those of you who are unsure of what is going on, read this: “Circuit City joins CompUSA in death”
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It’s been very obvious – for a long time – that Circuit City isn’t going to last much longer. Personally, I’ve never been a big fan, and their employees don’t all disagree. 
A source in the know informs us that no matter how exactly things move forward from here (it’s still murky as to the logistical [...]

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