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R.I.P. Nick Dewar 1973 - 2010

He leaves behind an amazing body of work.

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The Debit Card Overdraft Scam — How Your Bank is Screwing You (Again)

How your bank rearranges your purchases in order to charge you overdrafts and garner the equivalent of a 3520%+ annual percentage rate on individual transactions.

Don't Get Me Wrong, This is Definitely Not Funny ...

... at first glance. But can we all agree that there is something inexplicably funny about the juxtaposition of church, doughnuts, handguns and abortion? There's an HBO show buried in there somewhere, trust me. 

WICHITA, Kan. — Dr. George R. Tiller was standing beside a refreshment table inside his church, discussing his fondness for doughnuts, when a man walked up, pressed a gun against the doctor’s head and fired, a fellow church member recalled on Tuesday.

“I wasn’t sure if it was a cap gun or what,” Gary Hoepner, the church member, testified in a hearing here that offered the first significant details of what happened on May 31, the day that Dr. Tiller, one of the nation’s only doctors to perform late-term abortions, was killed.

“And then George fell,” said Mr. Hoepner, who testified he had been standing within touching distance of Dr. Tiller in the church foyer and who, like Dr. Tiller, had been serving as an usher that Sunday morning. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” added Mr. Hoepner, a member of the church, Reformation Lutheran, he said, for 52 years.

Call Mulder and Sculley — Air France Jet Disappears on Flight From Brazil to Paris

From this morning's NY TImes.

PARIS — Air France said Monday that it had lost contact with a passenger plane travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. “We have received no news from flight AF 447,” said an Air France spokeswoman in Paris, Brigitte Barrand.

The plane was carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew members, she said.

A Brazilian Air Force spokesman, quoted by The Associated Press, said that the plane disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean and a search was under way near the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha. The plane disappeared about 186 miles northeast of the coastal Brazilian city of Natal and near Fernando de Noronha, the spokesman said.

The plane had been scheduled to land at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport at 11:15 a.m. Paris time after a nonstop flight that left Rio 7 p.m. local time on Sunday.

“We are very worried,” said an aviation official in Paris interviewed by Agence France-Presse. “The plane disappeared from the screens several hours ago. It could be a transponder problem, but this kind of fault is very rare and the plane did not land when expected.”

We Live In Public — Cautionary Tale of a Douchebag

We Live In Public TRAILER from We Live in Public on Vimeo.

The Crisis of Credit by Jonathan Jarvis (Good Stuff)

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

Rachel Maddow PWNS AIG and Their Evil PR Hacks

Rachel Maddow sheds some additional light on the financial insanity that is the AIG bailout. Apparently, they're using your 173 billion on (drum roll) Public Relations.

Kirk Cameron's Fireproof Now Available on DVD – Fuck Yeah!

Kirk Cameron’s Fireproof is about God and saving your marriage and finding religion and not saying "bitch" apparently (?) It was an enormous success ($34 million gross on a $500k budget.) Where'd rednecks get that kind of money?!

This is a highlight reel from the recently released DVD ... let me repeat, this is NOT a gag reel. These are actual scenes that were included in the film. Based on these clips I'd say the plot also focuses on a profound hatred of computers, recycling and naturalistic dialog. I've watched it three times already. It's really THAT good. Swiped over at FilmDrunk.

Britain and France Crash 25% of Their Nuclear Submarines Into One Another

They only have four nuclear submarines each. So how the F do they manage to crash them into each other? Who's the Admiral over there, Benny Hill?

From the NY Times.

LONDON — Two nuclear submarines, one French and the other British, collided in mid-Atlantic earlier this month, reports in the British and French news media said on Monday, quoting sources in the two defense ministries.

Britain and France each have four missile-carrying nuclear submarines, constituting the core of their nuclear arsenals. According to military journals, Le Triomphant carries 16 ballistic missiles with a range of 5,000 miles, each with six warheads. H.M.S. Vanguard is a Trident-class submarine, 492 feet long and weighing 16,000 tons. It, too, carries 16 missiles, each with three nuclear warheads.