Ming: Klytus, I’m bored. What plaything can you offer me today? Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet…Earth. Ming: How peaceful it looks…[Causes an earthquake.] Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this…ah…Earth? Ming: Later. 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The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchical_Collectivism">Ingsoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></em>http://phantom-thought.com/post/833153073http://phantom-thought.com/post/833153073Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:50:12 -0400<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5388500&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines">Family: Ex-North Carolina coach Dean Smith dealing with memory loss</a>http://phantom-thought.com/post/824785736http://phantom-thought.com/post/824785736Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:03:00 -0400<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100716/bs_yblog_upshot/did-a-mystery-plumber-design-the-new-bp-containment-cap">Berkeley prof: ‘Mystery plumber’ may have designed the new BP containment cap - Yahoo! 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