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Jabba the Cupcake World's most expensive apartments: only 9 in 62 paid full council tax Fugazi on NYT front page; aging punks everywhere go, "WTF?" Coco Robicheaux, "hoodoo bluesman" of New Orleans, has died New Yorker on the origins of OWS NYPD "Disorder Control Unit" guidelines, snagged from inside van by arrestee Occupy Caturday Rollercoaster staircase Peruvian mayor: strontium in water makes you gay Curiosity rover on its way to Mars Judge exercises extreme sarcasm on US Bank Interrogation of Byron Sonne, Toronto G20 hacker on trumped up charges for mocking G20 security Baby naps peacefully atop enormous, plush Totoro Jabba the Cupcake
By Cory Doctorow on Nov 27, 2011 12:38 pm Who knew that fondant icing was such a great medium for sculpting Hutts? Jabba cupcake (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 27, 2011 06:09 am One Hyde Park, the world's most expensive apartment building, is a notorious den of tax avoidance. The building is located in London's Knightsbridge, between the Serpentine and Harvey Nichols, and has 62 apartments, each worth millions of pounds. Only nine of the 62 owners pays their full council tax, and most of the apartments were ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 05:11 pm Read the article. Then download one of the 800 live shows in the newly restored audio archives, starting next Thursday. Then, go buy the book. (Thanks, Glen E. Friedman!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 04:56 pm Via writer Ned Sublette, who profiled him in this 2008 Bomb article, comes the sad news that New Orleans hoodoo bluesman Coco Robicheaux has died. He is said to have suffered a massive heart attack while sitting at the bar. He was 64 years old. Nola.com has an obituary, and more on the circumstances of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 04:38 pm For your post-Thansksgiving long read list, "Pre-Occupied: The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street," in the New Yorker today by Mattathias Schwartz. "It's very tl;dr," said the friend who forwarded it, but we both agree it's an essential read. Not everything fits in 140 characters, after all.
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 04:34 pm @newyorkist says, "@OccupyWallStNYC got their hands on a New York Police Department Disorder Control Unit document, allegedly picked out of a van by an arrestee." The pull quote: "A strong military appearance, with sharp and precise movements, is a force multiplier and a psychological advantage to us." Actually, many of the criticisms of the NYPD's ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 26, 2011 04:29 pm An Occupy Cal demonstrator carries a cat in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley November 15, 2011. OWS protesters converged on the University of California at Berkeley on this day, vowing to set up a tent camp in defiance of campus rules a day after police dismantled a long-standing encampment in nearby Oakland. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 26, 2011 04:26 pm This awesome rollercoasteroid staircase is underway in Germany: The walkable, large outdoor sculpture Tiger & Turtle – Magic Mountain is currently in construction on the Heinrich Hildebrand Höhe in Duisburg Wanheim (D). It overtops the plateau with the artificially heaped-up mountain by 21m | 23yd so the visitor can rise by more than 45m | ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 26, 2011 03:46 pm Huarmey, Peru mayor Jose Benitez is reportedly concerned that high levels of strontium in his town's drinking water are turning men gay. From LGBT Asylum News (unrelated photo from Travel Blog): "Unfortunately Strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we'll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality," (Benitez said.) Tabalosos ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 26, 2011 03:35 pm An Atlas V rocket containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this morning, carrying the new Curiosity rover to the red planet. Follow the updates at NASA's Mars Science Laboratory page. NASA Mars Science Laboratory + Curiosity Rover: first look (photo ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 26, 2011 03:23 pm Georgia Judge Dennis Blackmon has rejected a petition from U.S. Bank to throw out a complaint from a homeowner whose mortgage the bank refused to modify, without explanation. The judge didn't mince words on his opinion of the bank's motion: The order lays the case out like this: Phillips is in danger of foreclosure. U.S. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 26, 2011 02:17 pm Here's a video of the interrogation of Byron Sonne (more on his case here) by Officer Tam Bui. Sonne is a Toronto hacker who was offended by the security theater associated with the Toronto G20, which involved $1.2 billion worth of "security" measures and thousands of illegal arrests and unprovoked beatings. Sonne is finally on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 26, 2011 01:08 pm Redditor Honestly_ snapped this pic of a tiny baby sleeping peacefully atop a giant, plush Totoro from the Studio Ghibli masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro. Dawwww. I hope he appreciates this when he's older... (i.imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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