Caturday: my new kitteh Space Invaders couch Hurricane Irene: Dude streaks through Weather Channel live shot (video, pic, NSFW) Troll who harassed woman through 8,000 hate-tweets claims free speech defense The MAD Fold-In Collection: 1964-2010 Flying While Black and Reading Antique Aviation Books lands folk musician in Security Theater Hell Eric Schmidt: If you can't use your real name, don't use Google+. 
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Caturday: my new kitteh
By Dean Putney on Aug 27, 2011 11:48 pm This week for Caturday, I brought you some photos of my new cat, Nibble. We got her this week, she's nine weeks old, and right now she lives in my housemates' room. The name "Nibble" is still sort of up …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 27, 2011 07:55 pm I have no idea if Igor Chak's "Retro Alien" (ahem, Space Invaders) couch is comfortable, or if it looks as good in real life as it does in renders, but it sure does look good in them renders! Retro Alien …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 27, 2011 06:05 pm [Video Link] It's not a real American disaster until some drunk idiot pranks a live TV news shot. Above, Weather Channel reporter Eric Fisher gets mooned while reporting Hurricane Irene. Full frontal dong-age occurs shortly after that. "We're in a …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 27, 2011 05:04 pm William Lawrence Cassidy is accused of posting some 8,000 tweets to harass Alyce Zeoli, who is described in this NYT article as "a Buddhist leader based in Maryland." Using an ever-changing series of pseudonyms, the authorities say, Mr. Cassidy published …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 27, 2011 04:33 pm [Video Link] Chronicle Books published this nice-looking collection of MAD's Fold-Ins. Al Jaffee's fold-ins, on the inside back cover of virtually every issue of MAD Magazine since 1964, have become an icon of American humor. Generations have grown up with …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 27, 2011 04:09 pm Via the ACLU and the Boston Globe, a first-hand account of how "security theater" makes us no safer, and a lot less free. Massachussetts-based folk musician Vance Gilbert (Twitter), a law-abiding citizen who is black, 6 feet tall, and loves …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 27, 2011 03:12 pm At the Edinburgh International TV Festival, NPR's Andy Carvin asks Google Exec. Chairman Eric Schmidt about privacy, nymwars, and Google+. Andy (@acarvin) has done some innovative and valuable journalism on the Twitter platform this past year, retweeting, curating, and factchecking …
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