Warrantless Cell Phone Searches in California

A recent court ruling allows police to search your cell phone after you are arrested in California. This law normally applies to all objects on the arrestee's person, for instance a briefcase could be opened and searched. However, the ACLU maintains that the police cannot force you to unlock a password protected phone.

The Voice of God

So this is how radio broadcasters are found!

The Capital Empire

Listen and watch quickly as John Perkins lays out in terms everyone could understand how American capitalism destroys the economies and livelihoods of third world nations and their people.

Bent Objects

Have you ever seen a bottle of nail polish walking two nail clippers as if they were its pet? Now you have. And lots of other clever little ideas, too.

The Algorhythm

Take a number like 32. Reverse its digits and add it to itself. 32 + 23 = 55. 55 is a palindrome. As it turns out, this works for pretty much every number... but not every number. What's the smallest number for which it doesn't work? We think it's 196, but we're not sure.

Why Net Neutrality?

Because companies just don't get the internet.

Berth Defects

It turns out that bombing the shit out of a country with uranium and stuff and leaving the population chronically exposed to heavy metals really screws with the people's health. It's too bad that there weren't any other countries this happened in, where we might have learned from past mistakes...

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