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12/14/11

Hot Lava Destroys an iPad 2 in Hawaii

We liked this promo -- a strange way to show the power of hot lava.


A hot book -- "God's Favorite Prayers"
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I view the real world as a chaos of complex systems whose behavior is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions, so that small alterations can give rise to strikingly great consequences.
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