World's Smallest Hotel dates from a homeownership requirement for marriage licenses Occupy Wall Street: 80 arrested in NYC, as Financial District protest moved north Mexico: Woman decapitated for posting about narcos on social networking site Control-freaky dress code at a boutique Astronaut Ron Garan, on what it's like to return to Earth from the ISS Why the world fears Anonymous: Joe Menn in the FT TOSAmend: turn all online "I Agree" buttons into negotiations Inequalistan: Chris Hayes debunks "top 10% pay 70% of all income taxes" baloney Caturday: Calico rolls a D20 Ape Lad re-interprets "Three Stooges-like mug shots" Skeletal whole-hand bracelet Ed Emberley & Friends video 
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World's Smallest Hotel dates from a homeownership requirement for marriage licenses
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 06:19 am Eh'häusl ("Little Wedding House") is the "world's smallest hotel," located in Amberg, just north of Munich. It dates to an 18th century ordinance that required couples to own a house before they got married, so some clever fellow slapped a roof and walls up to enclose a narrow alleyway between two other buildings. It wasn't ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 25, 2011 03:59 am Police arrested dozens of demonstrators today at the ongoing "Occupy Wall Street" protests in New York City.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 25, 2011 02:53 am In the northern Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, police found the decapitated body of a woman today with a message saying she was killed because she posted information about cartel activities on a social networking site. The sign indicates that the Zetas cartel was responsible. A photo of that "narco manta" is above, and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 24, 2011 07:26 pm From a recent trip to Vegas, a clandestine photo of a directive to employees at a boutique in Caesar's Palace from a crazy, crazy control freak. As this is Fall...no more flip flops. You cannot wear Sindys, Cintias or Ladys by themselves.This should be a no-brainer. Dark denim jeans. No Exceptions. We work for a ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 07:02 pm "Plunging over Niagara falls in a burning barrel."—NASA astronaut Ron Garan describes what returning home from the International Space Station feels like. (via @pourmecoffee)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 06:12 pm (photo: Demonstrators wearing "Anynomous" masks protest in Madrid. REUTERS.) Joseph Menn has a must-read analysis piece in the Financial Times today, mercifully freed from the paywall, about why the world fears so-called "hacktivists" like Anonymous. Everyone with a computer connected to the internet should read this piece. To admirers, the hacktivism trend reflects the increased ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 24, 2011 05:55 pm Kevin Owocki's TOSAmend is a provocative browser applet that allows you amend the (up-to-now) non-negotiable terms of service you had to "agree" to in order to access many services online. The applet causes your new terms of service to be submitted along with your "I agree" click, so that the provider can agree, disagree, or ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 05:54 pm Chris Hayes has a new show on MSNBC, "Up with Chris Hayes," and the first week has been pretty great. In the clip above, he illustrates the bait-and-switch trope being tossed around by conservative pundits of late—this notion that "the top ten percent pay 70 percent of all income taxes." Chris debunks that by presenting ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 05:43 pm "Dee rolls a d20, and gets a critical." Photo:, a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from darkestpaisleyphotos's photostream (aka Kate Eburg).
Read in browser Ape Lad re-interprets "Three Stooges-like mug shots"
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 05:29 pm Ape Lad reinterprets the unforgettable trio of "beer run guys" mug shots featured in Pesco's post yesterday.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 24, 2011 04:49 pm Delfina Delettrez, a designer in Rome, made this beautiful, polished skeletal bracelet (though I couldn't locate it at her site, which autoplays music) (be warned). Delfina Delettrez
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 24, 2011 04:22 pm [Video Link] I'm a year late in posting this, but I like Ed Emberly's work so much that I don't care. My kids and I use Ed Emberley's instructional drawing books all the time. He's brilliant.
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