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Just look at it. Banana Slicer Previously:Just look at this awesome banana bunker. Boing Boing Just look at this awesome banana saver clip. HOWTO disassemble a banana - Boing Boing Robber uses banana as "gun" - Boing Boing Hemant "The Friendly Atheist" Mehta Interviews Ray "The Banana Man ... Giant ...

Is Britain's war on photography coming to an end? After the Independent newspaper got senior officials to admit that anti-terror legislation was being "widely abused...to question and search innocent photographers," the Association of Chief Police Officers has sent out a strongly worded memo to all ...

A group of students at the University of Michigan has formed a smartphone orchestra. Attached to the musicians' wrists, each iPhone runs an app recreating a selected instrument: "Now everybody has a smartphone, the question of how you get an instrument into people's hands has disappeared." [BBC]... ...

The British government has reached new heights of absurdity in stonewalling the release of a report on the efficacy of drug prohibition. The report was commissioned from independent academic researchers, and various activist and citizen groups have spent years filing four separate Freedom of Informa ...

Read this account of James Love's conversation with Ambassador Ron Kirk, the head US Trade Representative, on the question of why the Draconian Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is taking place in secret. Love cornered Kirk on a United Airlines flight from Geneva to DC following a WTO Ministerial ...

The Star gained exclusive access to 122 reports into the GTHL's most serious on-ice incidents last year. They revealed a disturbing pattern of growing racism, hits to the head and referee ...

A look back through history suggests any environmental praise that landed on Parliament Hill over the past dozen years has probably been undeserved.

Is this the last Nazi war crimes trial? As the clock ticks down on the life span of suspects, that may be an obvious question. But the answer is anything but.

Documents show vets and others were owed money for months.

A 14-year-old girl is facing an abduction charge following the disappearance of a 10-month-old infant from his home Friday evening.