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Photo of a Boston cop delivering two gallons of whole milk to a couple with a 16-month-old child that were locked down during yesterday's manhunt.

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Stephen Colbert lets the terrorists know what's up with Boston.

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Redditor posts photo of himself giving suspected bombing terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev bunny ears in fourth grade.

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A sign of the times

Last night as the events in Watertown unfolded it quickly became apparent that Twitter was running circles around any mainstream media coverage trying to keep up with the events as they happened. 

Tonight, just moments after the capture of the second suspect the Boston Police Department tweeted this: 

CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.

— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police)

April 20, 2013

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Incredible photo of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev moments after he was taken into custody.

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The man with no name

I'm in the process of pretty much deleting my entire online identity. I'm not really hiding from anyone or anything but it's just sort of working out like that. 

I deleted my Facebook account for personal reasons. It was something I had secretly been wanting to do for a while but didn't feel like explaining to my family about why I did it. Recently I had something come up that sort of brought everything to a head and just deleted it. 

Right now I'm backing up my personal website data and getting ready to delete my hosting account so as soon as that's done the only thing I'll really have left is my Twitter account. I'm considering switching to a nerd hero Twitter as well so that may go by the way side soon.

I'm sure someone could probably figure out who I am if they wanted to but for now I'm just happy lurking in the shadows nerding out and posting when I feel like it.

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Tarantula End of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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(by jojo (imagesofdream))

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"The father of all men is 340,000 years old" - More than twice as old as originally thought

Michael Hammer, a geneticist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, heard about Perry's unusual Y chromosome and did some further testing. His team's research revealed something extraordinary: Perry did not descend from the genetic Adam. In fact, his Y chromosome was so distinct that his male lineage probably separated from all others about 338,000 years ago.

"The Y-chromosome tree is much older than we thought," says Chris Tyler-Smith at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, who was not involved in the study. He says further work will be needed to confirm exactly how much older.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old.html

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Google poems. Type two words into Google search box and watch as a poem is born.

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When you start making fashion choices this bold you are old enough to move out of your parents' house.