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Doug Stanhope impersonates John Lydon for Huffington Post interview | Punknews.org

Ha ha! Punk rock! Baba Booey!

Doug Stanhope impersonates John Lydon for Huffington Post interview | Punknews.org

Standup comedian Doug Stanhope impersonated Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited frontman John Lydon after a Huffington Post interviewer erroneously called him twice. Stanhope described the exchange via his official website.

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How Evolution Does Rapid Prototypes

There’s a common line of thinking in the paleo lifestyle crowd: milk is for babies. Paleo folks didn’t drink the milk of other animals. Other adult mammals don’t drink milk. So, don’t drink it. Richard Nikoley, fellow mortal enemy of religion in all forms, points out that if you have the right genetics, milk is a a nearly perfect food. Continue the thought with this idea: the ability to drink milk was an spectacular mutation that spread in ancient Europe with unprecedented speed. Oh, also, yogurt gives you big balls.

Why Milk?

Throughout evolutionary history, most adult homo sapiens could not drink milk. Even today, most adults cannot drink milk. Adults who cannot drink milk don’t seem to lose very much, particularly as they can still eat yogurt and cheese. And yet the gene that allowed some adults to drink milk spread incredibly rapidly suggesting massive advantages to milk drinkers. Why? No one knows for sure but it seems to coincide with civilization. Slate has more.

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js-url: small library for parsing out parts of URLs

This will come in handy. You pass in a full URL and quickly pick out all the parts.

websanova/jquery-url · GitHub

url() – A simple, lightweight url parser for JavaScript. Also includes a jQuery version of the plugin that can be called via $.url() with all the same options. If you’re already using jQuery it may be better to use the jQuery version to avoid namespacing issues.

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SCOTUS hearing case on re-selling copyrighted works

My bet is they rule in favor of whoever has the most money already. That is, they will rule that copyright holders can limit what you do with a book printed in another country. Also, it won’t matter in the least because printed books are rapidly losing significance.

Supreme Court to hear arguments in case of student who resold books – CNN.com

Oral arguments are set for Monday in closely watched Supreme Court copyright case of a student who resold books to help pay for college.

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Valve Offers Beta Steam For Linux

I filled out the survey and hope to give it a spin. It will be really interesting to see if Steam on Linux can take hold.

Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application

We’re looking for Linux gamers to install and test our new Steam for Linux client. We are primarily interested in experienced Linux users.

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