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Break the Glass
This exercise has no time limit. Use the following line to start your story. Write until you are done, no edits. The sound of breaking glass stopped her. If you use this idea, feel free to link back to this post.
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Your face may already be in the database for facial recognition
Facial recognition technology is here and it might have your picture already. One would assume that if you have a twitter account and use your real picture, it has already been scooped up. Not surprising, really. Just another instance where you shouldn’t expect much privacy on the Net. National Security Agency Seal (Photo credit: DonkeyHotey)…
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When will the maddness stop?
In the name of protecting the general public, there seems to be a rash of mishaps when it comes to S.W.A.T. raids. How many children, old people, and law-abiding citizens have to be injured, terrorized or killed before we call a halt to the growing rash of police violence that is wracking the country? How…
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New task force created to combat homegrown terrorists.
English: Official portrait of United States Attorney General Eric Holder Español: Retrato oficial de Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos Eric Holder (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Eric H. Holder, Jr. on Mon. announced the creation of a task force within the Justice Department to combat an “escalating danger” from “homegrown” terrorists within the United States. The…
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Image Prompt: Spider
Most of us hate them and will do anything to smash them if we find them. I present for today’s 20 minute writing prompt, the spider! Spider babysitting! (Photo credit: mgjefferies) If you use this idea, feel free to link back to this post.
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On Seeing God.
No one has ever seen God, not so much as a glimpse. – John 1:18 Here we have a statement, given as a rule, that no one has ever seen God, yet we have evidence in the Old Testament that not only did a few people glimpse God, some saw God face to face. I guess the…
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Pakistan: Pregnant woman killed by own family
Islam is stuck in the dark ages when it comes to some of the laws that are still carried out in some parts of the world. A pregnant woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday for marrying the man she loved. English: The stoning…
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Proof that Wikipedia still needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
In July of 2008, Dylan Breves, then a seventeen-year-old student from New York City, made a mundane edit to a Wikipedia entry on the coati. The coati, a member of the raccoon family, is “also known as … a Brazilian aardvark,” Breves wrote. He did not cite a source for this nickname, and with good…
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The Cosmic Teapot
Along the lines of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is Bertrand Russell’s Cosmic Teapot. If you have never heard of this concept, here it is. Russel’s cosmic teapot has a posse (Photo credit: psd) Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove…