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· February 9, 2011 · 1 minute to read

House Republicans suffered an embarrassing setback Tuesday when they fell seven votes short of extending provisions of the Patriot Act, a vote that served as the first small uprising of the party’s tea-party bloc. The bill to reauthorize key parts of the counter-terrorism surveillance law, which expire at the end of the month, required a super-majority to pass under special rules reserved for non-controversial measures. But it fell short of the required two-thirds after 26 Republicans bucked their leadership, eight of them freshman lawmakers elected in November’s midterm elections. With most Democrats opposing the extension, the final tally was 277 members in favor of extension, and 148 opposed.

Patriot Act extension fails in the House by seven votes

Tea Party + Democrats = Progress?

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· February 8, 2011 · 0 minutes to read

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· February 8, 2011 · 1 minute to read

theeconomist:

Tahrir Square, Cairo. While protests continue, our correspondent in the city suggests that something close to normalcy is beginning to return.

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· February 6, 2011 · 1 minute to read

ruineshumaines:

i swear this is a test shot. (by cole rise)

If this is a test shot, I’m sort of embarrassed to pick up my camera ever again.

(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/antimethod/3574612227/)

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· January 28, 2011 · 1 minute to read

The stars of Suzy & Hobbes: who needs Calvin?

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· January 23, 2011 · 1 minute to read

Everytime I wake up, I’m somewhere else

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· January 13, 2011 · 1 minute to read

a new study from North Carolina State University says that superstreets are actually more efficient than traditional intersections. The researchers collected data from three superstreets in North Carolina that had traffic lights and looked at travel time for both right and left turns as well as passing straight through. They also examined collision data from 13 superstreet intersections in that state that didn’t have traffic lights.

Life Without Left Turns | Surprising Science

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· January 13, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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Make it better (by Sebastianbap)

Inspirational — What will I make this year? What can I do to make those things better?

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· January 12, 2011 · 1 minute to read

thingsorganizedneatly:

from the opening title sequence of Stranger than Fiction. (see also: The Art of the Title Sequence)

Stranger Than Fiction was such a fantastic movie; it only gets better after the intro.

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· January 12, 2011 · 1 minute to read

But what about me? When did I turn into a human breaking-news outlet who has to keep up with the second-by-second details of a story and then add my own updates and analysis to the realtime mix? How can thousands of my fellow human news machines have served up 140 character analyses before law enforement officials on the ground even had a chance to put together a preliminary outline of what exactly happened? Are you really sure you wanna go faster?

Tweetage Wasteland : Do You Wanna Go Faster?