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Rubik’s robot solves the Cube  — Lego style
Rubik’s Cubes are easy. Assuming that you are a robot named “Cube Stormer” composed entirely of Legos. The robot can take any standard cube that’s been randomized and solve it less than 12 seconds and sometimes less than five. Be very afraid humans; our future robot overlords are growing in power. First Rubik’s Cubes, then next thing you know we’re dealing with a full-scale Borg invasion and there goes the neighborhood!
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Noise complaints, DPS silence the “Music Man”
On Monday, the day the music died, a DPS officer asked Misha Seymour to leave campus after several noise complaints were filed over Seymour’s recorder. Attention everyone: Apparently all you have to do to get people kicked off of a public campus is say that they make too much noise.
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Vancouver activists erect tent village for the city’s homeless
As a constructive response to the displacement of Vancouver’s massive homeless population for the Winter Olympics, housing rights, indigenous rights and anarchist activists have collaborated since Monday to maintain a tent city downtown on an empty lot leased for condominium development. While public money is funneled into Olympic festivities, activists are addressing the needs of Vancouver residents with donated time and materials.
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Allegations of off-field violence continue
LeGarrette Blount sucker-punched a Boise State player; Jeremiah Masoli allegedly stole some laptops; Rob Beard was charged with fourth-degree assault; and now LaMichael James allegedly beat his girlfriend. Sheesh. At this pace, by next football season, the entire roster will be behind bars.
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The U.S. Olympic Team: Not the best, but the most!
With six gold medals, five silvers and seven bronze, the U.S. team has a seven-medal lead over Germany’s 11 total medals. Winning isn’t everything, but congratulations to the U.S. teams anyway. Maybe the glory of winning the most medals will somehow transfer over to helping out our dismal economy. We can always hope.
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Tiger Woods finally breaks the silence
It’s never easy for a celebrity to get caught cheating, but it’s hard to have any amount of sympathy for them. Though he’s fallen a great deal, perhaps he can earn back the great respect that he once commanded, at least on the green. Hopefully he’ll get back to his golf game and not his “other” games.
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