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The Secret Life of a Broadcom Exec

Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III was in custody Thursday on charges that he slipped ecstasy into the drinks of technology executives, maintained a warehouse to store cocaine and tried to conceal his illegal conduct with bribes and death threats.  [...]
The 18-page indictment on drug charges alleges that Nicholas kept four properties in Orange [...]

New Website Provides Last Chance Bible Thumping

If millions of Christians suddenly disappear from the face of the Earth as the opening act for

Armageddon, Threat Level thinks most nonbelievers will be too busy freaking the hell out to check their e-mail. But if they do log in, now they can be treated to some post-Rapture needling from their missing friends [...]

Kids Encouraged to Die Early to Lessen Carbon Footprint

What’s your carbon footprint? Not that there is fundamentally anything wrong with it, but the cult like status of the carbon neutral crowd is amusing to say the least. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Planet Slayer website undoubtedly takes the cake for lunacy. You see, one section of the website invites children to take a greenhouse [...]

Overnight Stays at the Border if Canada Copyright Law Passes

The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal

electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.
The deal could also impose strict regulations on Internet service providers, forcing those companies to hand [...]

Houston, We Have a Problem and it Stinks

Shit is about to hit the fan, literally.

Just days before the planned delivery of the international space station’s largest laboratory, its crew is facing a much more down-to-Earth problem: a stopped-up toilet.
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Long a subject of bathroom humor, these high-tech commodes must use fan-driven air flow instead of gravity to transport human waste away from [...]