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Archives tagged ‘piracy’

Real Life Pirates in Africa

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp sails with the Dutch Navy who are protecting vessels of the World Food Programme from pirates off the coast of Somalia. More than 60 ships have been attacked by pirates off of African waters in the past year.

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∞ permalink | Humanwire, Wednesday October 15 2008 | africa, commerce, hijacking, piracy, ruud elpendorp, shipping, somalia

Bigfoot, Humane Apes, and Pirate Bono in 1/100th of the Time

Fonzie Jumps The Shark, US hunters claim to have found Bigfoot, Spain to Grant Human Rights to Great Apes, Peter Fox: Alles Neu, Career Builder Ad With Monkeys, Gerald The Gorilla Sketch, Goatee Saver (via Curiobot), The Very Loud Fenstar Flying Military Robot, Bono Leaks U2 Tracks Online by Playing His Music Too Loud, Michael Phelps Won A Bunch of Stuff This Weekend, The 1/100th of a Second Conspiracy Site, The Time Travel Fund lets you Travel Into The Future in the Future

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∞ permalink | Daily News, Monday August 18 2008 | legislation, michael phelps, military, music, olympics, piracy, pranks, robots, time travel, U2