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Unusual and humorous high voltage electrocution hazard signs from around the world.

Photo by Glynnis Ritchie

Photo by biphop

A for Attorneys - Firing them
B for Bill of Rights - Shredding it
C for Constitution - Not upholding it
D for Dollar - taking it to the brink of collapse
E for EEVS - Homeland Security's "No work list"

Bring 'em on

A search for "Seven wonders" on Google does not return as top search result a link to the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World compiled by historian Herodotus (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305–240 BC). Instead, it returns a link to the "fake" seven wonders compiled through an unscientific online poll.

How important is the reddit front page compared to the inside pages and the new page?

We decided to find out. We tracked the progress of one of our stories from the New page, through the inside pages (http://reddit.com/?offset=x, where x is 25,50,75, 100 etc), to the front page and then back through the inside pages to obscurity. As it embark on its epic journey, we counted how many users reddit sent our way from each page. The results were hardly surprising, as you can see in the chart below.

German politicians have expressed anger at a magazine that ran computer generated image of Polish leaders sucking Chancellor Angela Merkel breasts as its front cover.

The Polish weekly Wprost ran the image with the title "Stepmother of Europe," showing Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski, sucking Merkel's nipples.

by John P. Geis, II, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

The following scenario is for illustrative purposes only.  It is designed to raise some of the doctrinal, strategic planning, and operational issues that directed energy weapons will pose.  To posit the U.S. as the only owner of these weapons produces a rather uninteresting scenario of rapid U.S. victory. The key challenges to our future warfighting capability will occur when our opponents also possess modern weapons, and when the U.S. is responding in an expeditionary mode.  This future picture is murkier, and the outcome is much less certain.  The following scenario uses real places, and in some cases real people; however, it is not a prediction of what will happen, only a plausible future of what might happen.[i]  It has its roots in two alternate futures from the Chief of Staff-directed study, Air Force 2025, specifically the worlds of “2015 Crossroads,” and “King Khan.”[ii]