"Jurisprudence of Artilects: Blueprint for a Synthetic Citizen" by Frank W. Sudia, JD., a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Science and Technology Law, tries to get the laws ready for synthetic citizens BEFORE they exist. picked by michelleroberts 3 years ago

Input your birthday and find your birthday star! A birthday star is a star whose light left said star about the time you were born. Mine is in the constellation Eridanus. It is called 40 Eridani in the Historia Cœlestis Britannica of John Flamsteed and Edmund Halley. It is called NS 0415-0739 A in the NStars database. It has visual magnitude 4.43 meaning that you could see this star with the ... read full post picked by KingKoopa 2 years ago

Owen Wilson's recovery has suffered a setback after he went on a massive drinking binge. "He looked like he'd already been drinking. He was stumbling when he came in and literally falling down when he left (a Santa Monica hotel)." picked by mitzuzake 2 years ago

Terrell Owens wore a shoe on his left foot for the first time in 2008 on Wednesday since his high ankle sprain on Dec 22. picked by icepigs 2 years ago

Oops, I did it again. That sheet music on the left is really a fugue. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

A minor league ball girl makes an incredible catch on a foul ball in left field.(real or not?) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

The 4 Tops front man passed on in his sleep this morning.

He was 72 picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Halfway during the flight, a middle aged man left the lavatory covered in his own fecal matter.

At that point the flight attendant tried to move passengers away from him and ordered the man to clean himself. picked by suebe 11 months ago

A man who tried to kill himself has received £90,000 damages from the hospital which saved his life but left one of his arms damaged.

*Shakes head* picked by Doggylives 9 months ago

Who let the dogs out?
*woof*
*woof*
*woof* picked by bornbad 6 months ago

There's only one place left in this world that hasn't been explored, and it is guaranteed to teach us more than the rest of the planet has ever told us. It's the bottom. picked by Pazez 2 months ago

In the split 5-4 vote, a majority of the justices ruled that the city of New Haven, Connecticut, improperly threw out the results of promotional exams that officials said left too few minorities qualified.


More information on the case Here and Here picked by Doggylives 5 months ago

Removed because of "copyright infringement" claim. picked by pandorarin 2 years ago

It seems that sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn is minutely wasteful, unless we're talking about more than 95,000 big square brown trucks, in which case the wasted time and fuel is immense. picked by tigertony 2 years ago

When known pranksters Rick and Marilyn Jones left town for a wedding, neighbors seeking payback eyed their property and decided to stick a fork in it _ a few thousand forks, in fact. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

A tenacious police dog and a telltale mullet haircut left no doubt among Kitsap County sheriff's deputies that a 28-year-old South Kitsap man was the person who walked into a neighbor's home uninvited Saturday morning.

pic not related picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

In typical Chinese fashion, a news story describing a successful launch of the mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts, launched hours before the rocket had even left the ground. picked by tigertony 1 year ago

Firemen and RSPCA officers were left feeling like right Twit-twoo's after spending hours trying to rescue a toy owl from a telegraph pole. picked by Bornbad 12 months ago

A dog has defied the odds to walk again after he was left in a full body cast for a month following an attack which left him with a broken neck. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Nassau County prosecutors announced today that Wal-Mart will avoid criminal charges for any wrongdoing in contributing to the Black Friday stampede inside a Long Island store that left one employee dead and several others injured. Update to this and this picked by suebe 7 months ago