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Inventor proclaims laziness, shows off self-making bed

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Inventor proclaims laziness, shows off self-making bed: “It’s one thing to exemplify laziness; it’s another to buck the habit just long enough to invent something to keep you idler, longer. Enter Enrico Berruti, an everyday fellow who has created something that almost anyone with a bed could see as useful. His Selfy bed, quite simply, uses a variety of moving parts, bars and linens to make itself at the push of a button. To be fair, Mr. Berruti was thinking of disabled individuals who would have a difficult time making their own traditional bed when conjuring this thing up, but he didn’t hesitate to mention his own indolence as motivation. Hopefully there’s some kind of safety feature to prevent users from accidentally activating the thing while they’re still snoozing — can’t imagine that being any “

(Via Engadget.)

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Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations

Bush administration: Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to domestic military operations: “Danny sez, ‘Following on from the memo allowing torture overseas, Kurt Opsahl from EFF has spotted a footnoted reference to a memo from the Administration that says ‘our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations.’

So, if you’re abroad and deemed an enemy combatant you can be tortured. If you’re in the US, and you’re caught up in a ‘military operation’, you lose the bill of rights. Where exactly is the constitution supposed to apply?’

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(Thanks, Danny!)

(Via Boing Boing.)

Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days

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Rezko trial uncovers drug-fueled party days: “For those of you following the US political race you might know about Tony Rezko, a Chicago political fundraiser linked to the Obama campaign, and his ongoing fraud trial. What you may not know is that his partner in crime, Stuart P. Levine, was a first-class head who liked to party down at drug orgies, as recent court testimony confirms:

Levine focused a harsh spotlight on decades of taking marijuana, cocaine, quaaludes, LSD, Ecstasy, crystal methamphetamine and ketamine, which goes under the street name Special K.

He said he took the drugs once or twice a month, mainly at parties with unspecified male friends. They brought the drugs and he would buy, often paying about $1,000, he said.

When in town, the parties would often take place in a suburban rendezvous ‘that came to be known as the purple hotel,’ Levine testified.

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Levine testified that his parties started in the morning and lasted until evening when he would go home as if he’d spent a hard day at the office.

‘To deceive my family,’ he testified.

Gosh, that doesn’t sound familiar at all. At least he picked the good drugs.

From www.pjstar.com. Posted by jamesk.”

(Via DoseNation.)

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