Minor diplomatic spat when US customs queries Aussie foreign minister's Vegemite Kevin Kidney's Hatbox Ghost Tracking down a con artist with PACER Survey: many Icelanders believe in elves and ghosts Soundwagon/Vinyl Killer toy bus that plays LPs Russian oligarch sucker-punches rival billionaire on talk show Pirate Party wins 14(ish) seats in Berlin parliament Integrating autistic people into the community Obit for Michael S Hart, ebook inventor and Gutenberg Project founder 
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Minor diplomatic spat when US customs queries Aussie foreign minister's Vegemite
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 12:06 pm Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, reports that customs at New York's JFK airport tried to confiscate his supply of Vegemite, the Australian analogue to Marmite, a dark brown salty paste made from brewer's yeast and the sins of the …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 10:02 am Kevin and Jody Kidney created this one-off maquette of Colin Campbell's 1969 illustration depicting The Hatbox Ghost, a very short-lived illusion that was once part of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion. They're bringing it to the Walt Disney World 40th birthday …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 09:54 am On Saturday, I posted about Popehat's "Anatomy of a Scam Investigation," in which Ken, a former federal prosecutor, is documenting his work to run down a con-artist who tried to rip him off with the "toner scam." Yesterday, Ken posted …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 19, 2011 01:29 am According to this report in the Iceland Review, Terry Gunnell, associate folklore professor at the University of Iceland, has surveyed Icelanders and discovered a large number who believe in elves and ghosts (and a larger number who wouldn't rule them …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 18, 2011 08:05 pm The Soundwagon is a little toy bus that drives around a vinyl record playing the music from its onboard speaker. (The product is sometimes called the Vinyl Killer which is probably a more descriptive name.) I'd seen them in pictures …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 18, 2011 06:37 pm In this clip from Russian TV, oligarch billionaire Alexander Lebedev sucker-punches another billionaire, Sergei Polonsky, hitting him twice. Clad in very tight grey jeans, Lebedev showed a glimpse of his past as a KGB agent as he launched two blows …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 18, 2011 06:27 pm LaHaine sez, "According to the first prognosis, the German Pirate Party has entered the state parliament of the city-state of Berlin with 8,5% of the votes, counting for 14 of a total of 149 seats." Wahl-Spezial: Alles zur Abgeordnetenhauswahl in …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 18, 2011 02:08 pm On the cover of today's NYT, a 8,000+ word feature on Justin Canha, an autistic high school student who has been participating in an intensive program that aims to integrate people with autism (and not just the "high-functioning" kind) into …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 18, 2011 01:44 pm In this week's Observer, a heartfelt obituary from John Naughton for Michael S Hart, founder of the Gutenberg Project, and inventor of ebooks: Those who knew him testify that Michael Hart was an extraordinary individual – idiosyncratic, original, humane, determined …
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