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To all you hippies with Tibetan prayer flags up in your dorm room: You better as fuck go to the following.
Today marks the 51st anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day, so a group of Philly Tibetans are peacefully protesting at Independence Hall. (They began with a vigil at 11:30 a.m. in Chinatown.)
You'll be able to see them at the Hall for the rest of the day. I recommend swinging by at 6 p.m., when the protesters will be welcoming a badass-sounding Tibetan who only goes by the name "Lhakpa," as he kicks off his motorcycle tour around the world to bring attention to Tibet's plight.
Awesome, and thanks for the heads-up!
Christine Adkins here with your morning fix:
The US leads the Olympics in overall medals won, but Switzerland currently has the most gold medals.
Speaking of Olympic medals, did you know this year's were made of landfill-bound electronics? Environment win.
Charged in the murders of three University professors, University of Alabama-Huntsville professor Amy Bishop Anderson was originally a suspect in a 1993 bomb attempt on one of her former colleagues.
Ricky, a West Caln Township K-9 who protected two presidents, had to be put down after his owner discovered a soft-ball sized tumor in his spleen. Sad face.
Twelve Afghani civilians died when a high-tech military rocket missed its target. Sorry about that.
Gastric bypass surgery, though still considered an experimental surgery on children, could be the next step in fighting adolescent obesity.
The economy's reverberations are felt on private college campuses, where schools are hacking away at their financial aid programs. Say hello to crushing student loan debt, kids.
Urban citizens are battling their rural neighbors, claiming that allowing the US Census to count prisoners as residents of the town in which their prison resides instead of their actual hometown inflates the population numbers of these heavily white areas.
According to the California Institute of Technology, fruit flies have brains; the first recordings of their brain activity have been studied while in flight and at rest.
And the NY Times, in its classic, understated way, gives tea-baggers some rope and lets them hang themselves on their own crazy.
How the hell do I describe my new favorite obsession, Chatroulette? Put simply by the site itself, it's a "brand-new one-on-one text-, webcam- and microphone-based chat with people around the world." So, you hook up your webcam and mic, get on the site, and it randomly connects you with one of the other thousands of users from around the globe â who can you chat with, mock, give the finger, play guitar to, flirt with, be harassed by, etc. until you're bored, at which point you press "Next" and then do it all over again, for hours and hours and hours.
It's kinda like speed dating meets performance art meets completely unfiltered Internet insanity. A succinct Fast Company article put it like this:
You might see people in horrifying masks dancing around. Chinese users seem to love virtual high fives. One person's shtick is a puppet who makes like a caring psychotherapist and will sit with you for hours. A friend reports a man holding up a sign that said, "Assroll?" â and promptly rolling over backwards, naked. (Nudity is hard to avoid.)
Anyway, give it a spin (later tonight, it's definitely NSFW). This site, I know, says volumes about how weird/disturbed/damaged/cruel the world is (a guy I chatted with last night held up a hilarious/terrible sign that read "Boobs for Haiti!"), but I'm not ready to look at it like that just yet. For now, it's just funny as hell.
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