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20/11/2009
» Customs agents foil suspected reptile smuggler at LAX | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
In an apparently cold-blooded attempt at smuggling, a Lomita man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport this week with more than a dozen wriggling lizards strapped to his chest. Michael Plank, 40, was detained by U.S. Customs agents after they discovered 15 live lizards stuffed into his money belt, officials with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said Friday.
Plank was returning from Australia on Tuesday when agents found two geckos, 11 skinks and two monitor lizards in his possession. Australian reptiles are strictly regulated, and Plank didn’t have a required export permit, officials said. The lizards are valued at $8,500.
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DO YOU NEED A PICK ME UP
BECAUSE THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER
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I think of this video a lot for some reason. Sometimes I think it would be fun to have my own pet Kathleen Hanna to jump around my room dressed like Punky Brewster.
yes, if by ‘sometimes’ you mean ‘every second of every hour of every day i have ever lived since discovering the existence of kathleen hanna.”
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A man peers out the window of a recycling facility in Dharavi. Inside the warehouse, residents gather and sort all manner of refuse collected from around the city: paint chips, oil cans, computer parts, jars, clothing, scrap metal, and more. Mumbai’s slums are hives of small-scale economic activity. According to The Guardian, 250,000 people in Mumbai’s slums make their living through sorting, delivering, and selling recycled materials. (FP)
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is your mod queue too quiet? some suggestions:
- S: "Everyone who likes Glee is a horrible person. "
- me: "if you've ever smiled while watching Glee you might as well have killed and eaten a puppy"
- S: "If you can't understand that Glee is the most awful television series ever made, you are clearly not a human being."
- me: "if you are reading this from a place other than a violent rioting protest against the very existence of Glee, you have no soul."
- S: "If you haven't written Fox an angry letter demanding that Glee be taken off the air yet, why are you reading this?"
- me: "i personally advocate the violent murders of all actors on the show."
- S: "Kevin McHale totally can't even sing!"
- me: "the worst tv show in the history of the medium."
- S: "I haven't even watched Glee, and I know it's bad."
- me: "people from the future will hold it up as an example of our backwards ways that directly caused the downfall and destruction of our entire civilization."
- S: "It's really unfortunate that every other television show on Earth handles disability with such grace and sensitivity, and Glee just can't get its scripts out of the gutter."
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Lights in homes illuminate the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela, at dusk. (FP)
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patriot act bag, by nancy bresline.
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Student Rustin O’Neil, center, is stunned with a taser gun as Vianney Vargas, left, looks on they and others sit on a road on the UCLA campus where vans holding attendees where driving leading away from the Covel Commons. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok) (via Photos: At Least One Student Was Tasered at UCLA Today (and a Protest Recap) - LAist)
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» Free legal assistance for bloggers and online media creators - Boing Boing
The Online Media Legal Network is a project from Harvard’s cyberlaw center the Berkman Clinic that works with partners to hook up bloggers and other creates who are under legal threat with lawyers who can help them solve their problems. The Online Media Legal Network (OMLN) is a network of law firms, law school clinics, in-house counsel, and individual lawyers throughout the United States willing to provide pro bono legal assistance to qualifying online journalism ventures and other digital media creators.
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“Big Fat Lies” graphic created by and via hoyden about town with data from an Australian study.
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