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LASR: behind the curtain of the Navy's robotics laboratory

I don't know all that much about the Naval Research Laboratory when I arrive in DC for "the public's first opportunity to look inside" the space's new $17 million Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR). I give the cab driver the address, and he casually tells me that it "stinks," illustrating this notion with a universally familiar hand gesture. He means it literally, too - that you can smell the place, simply driving by in a cab, with the windows up. He says this with such assurance, such gusto, that I fully expect it to smell like the city dump. A wall of stink.

It's not much to go on, but it's something. And while I can thankfully report that his reaction was a bit overstated - at least on this particular day - there's certainly a distinct odor to the place. It's a sprawling 130-acre complex that sits sandwiched between the 295 freeway and the waters of the Potomac River; a series of nearly identical big, white buildings facing inward toward a grassy courtyard. On the way in, a space with what appears to be crushed cars is visible from the freeway.

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Thunder Edge Mavericks 102-99, Take 2-0 Lead (VIDEO)

Kevin Durant #35 and Kendrick Perkins #5 of the Oklahoma City Thunder celebrate beating the Dallas Mavericks in Game Two of the Western Conference Quarterfinals in the 2012 NBA Playoffs on April 30, 2012 at the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City defeated Dallas 102-99.

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Dan Savage apologizes for criticizing students who walked out of lecture

By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com

Dan Savage has apologized for lashing out at high school students who walked out of a lecture he gave in Seattle two weeks ago, during which he said that anti-gay passages in the Bible should be ignored.

?We can learn to ignore the bullsh-- in the Bible about gay people,? Savage said, ?the same way we have learned to ignore the bullsh-- about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bullsh-- in the Bible about all sorts of things. The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.?

While many cheered, dozens of students and advisers walked out of the auditorium at the National High School Journalism Convention?on April 13. Savage, co-founder of the anti-bullying It Gets Better Project, called their walk-out ?pansyass.?

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Savage, the editorial director of the Stranger, an alternative news weekly in Seattle, took to the paper?s blog on Sunday to apologize. ?

?I wasn't calling the handful of students who left pansies (2,800+ students, most of them Christian, stayed and listened), just the walkout itself,? he said.

?I was not attacking the faith in which I was raised,? he added. ?I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against?and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying ?motivated by faith?)?because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong.?

Organizers from the National Scholastic Press Association, which organized the convention, issued a statement criticizing Savage's lecture: "In his attempt to denounce bullying, Mr. Savage belittled the faith of others ? an action that we do not support. Ridicule of others? faith has no place in our programs, any more than ridicule of the LGBT community would."

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Pessimisting Airplane GPS Always Knows the Best Place to Land in an Emergency [Video]

A company called Vertical Power has created a GPS-based co-pilot for smaller private planes that's constantly worried about the worst-case-scenario when flying. But that's a good thing, since in the event of an emergency like an engine failure, it already knows the nearest and safest place to land. More »

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500 Characters Or Less: Shortmail Updates Its iPhone App With Offline Mode, ?Let?s Chill? Feature

There aren't too many people who love email these days, but few of us can actually live without it. Thankfully, there are a number of startups that are trying to make email more manageable. One of them is 410 Labs' Shortmail, which restricts messages to 500 characters or less. If anybody tries to send a longer message to your @shortmail address, the email will bounce and your sender will be asked to write a short message. This Twitter-like model should make for briefer and more focused discussion. Shortmail just launched its updated iPhone app today, which includes an offline mode, as well as the ability to "put a message on ice" and have the app remind you to answer at a later date. The update now also lets you see which of your recipients have opened your messages.

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