s_lockyer





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The real robot wars view video
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 3 hours ago
- (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technol...)
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) shows off the nominees for its new robot technology competition.
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BBC's Children in Need funded 7/7 terrorist propaganda view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 3 hours ago
- (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2...)
Thousands of pounds raised by Britons for the BBC's Children in Need charity could have been used to recruit and train the homegrown terrorists involved in the 7/7 terror attacks on London.
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Small SUVs Improve in Crash Tests view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://www.time.com/time/business...)
Four small sport utility vehicles received top scores in crash tests to be released Wednesday by the insurance industry, a sign of improvement compared with SUVs built earlier in the decade.
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Gag order lifted for students who hacked subway card view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008...)
Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates are once again free to publicly discuss gaping security holes in the Boston subway system after a federal judge refused to renew a gag order requested by transportation officials.
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Runaway car rolls down 250ft hill view photo
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/20...)
A motorist stepped out of his Land Rover Freelander after parking at a beauty spot but forgot to put the handbrake on. He watched as the four-wheel drive bounced and bobbed its way through a collision course of rocks and scrub, coming to rest in a ditch.
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The Struggle to Measure Cosmic Expansion view story
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19...)
Hoping to understand why the universe seems to be coming apart at its seams, a young astronomer and his colleagues have embarked on one of the oldest quests in cosmology, to measure how fast the universe is growing, how big it is and how old it is.
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Wearing Red: An Olympic Advantage? view story
3 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 4 hours ago
- (http://www.sciencentral.com/video...)
Wondering who's got an edge in the next game or Olympic event? Here's a hint: Watch out for the contenders in red.
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Teenagers 'skate' along motorway by clinging to speeding car view video
3 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 5 hours ago
- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8...)
Either this is a clever video-editing trick or these boys in Saudi Arabia have some seriously tough sandals. This video shows what has become the latest dangerous craze to hit the desert state: street skating.
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Indonesia Celebrates: A Monkey Army view photo
2 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 5 hours ago
- (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegr...)
Boys from Central Java province dress as Hanuman the monkey god of Hindu mythology. According to scriptures he led a monkey army to fight the demon King Ravana.
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Survivors Tell of Ethnic Killing in Wake of Fighting in Georgia view story
3 votes- Submitted by s_lockyer
- about 5 hours ago
- (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20...)
The men who came to Gulnara Militaura’s house seemed to know what they were looking for. They entered her kitchen and shot her husband and his brother. Ms. Militaura, an ethnic Georgian, is accusing South Ossetians of killing her husband and his brother

