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I just learned about the 'pen trick' for Kryptonite locks. I'm surprised it took twenty years for someone to discover this.

Or maybe it's because they're making pens thicker now. Have you noticed? Is this because people's fingers are getting too fat to pick up regular pens?

Here's something to ask yourself, maybe keep yourself up with at night. How much longer would people live, if all our advances in medicine weren't offset by eating tons of refined sugar and starch and food additives and pharmaceutical-grade nutrients, and breathing and eating pollutants?

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Berlusconi 'hurt in tripod attack' (CNN)

I just liked the title of this... it made me think of The White Mountains, or maybe The War of the Worlds.

For those of you playing at home, the answer is 'because he's a neofascist knucklehead.'