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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 17, 2012 09:34 pm I was not looking forward to moving two monstrously heavy pieces of furniture from my house to my sister-in-law's house. They probably weighed about 200 lbs each, but we had to get them out to make room for some new heavy furniture we bought. So I used Taskrabbit to post a notice that I needed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 08:55 pm Republic Report has released figures documenting the fact that the average member of Congress gets a 1,452% salary hike when she or he leaves office and becomes a corporate lobbyist. They point out that politicians are allowed to negotiate these raises while they are in office, and don't have to disclose this fact when they're ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 06:53 pm Here's a POV video of a fourth grade girl psyching herself up for her first run down an intimidating ski-jump. The tension mounts as she narrates her anxieties and checks in with her instructor for comfort, and the payoff -- a successful run and delighted cheering -- is all the better for it. Girls first ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 04:51 pm Further to the ignoble saga of Anonymosus-OS, an Ubuntu variant targeted as people who want to participate in Anonymous actions: Sean Gallagher has done the legwork to compare the checksums of the packages included in the OS with their canonical versions and has found a long list of files that have been modified. Some of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 03:20 pm Newly released documents shed light on the San Francisco edition of the CIA's notorious MK-ULTRA program (through which people were unwittingly given massive doses of LSD to see if the drug would be useful for brainwashing), which ran from 1953-1964. There's lots of detail about MK-ULTRA's work in NYC and Montreal, but the San Francisco ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 03:02 pm From the newly released collection of Margaret Thatcher's papers by the Cambridge University archive, "Doodles left by President Reagan on the table beside Margaret Thatcher at the G7 summit at Ottawa in 1981." Doodles left by President Reagan on the table beside Margaret Thatcher at the G7 summit at Ottawa in 1981
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 17, 2012 03:00 pm Sculptor Jud Turner writes, "I thought you might enjoy this full-sized goat, 'Tanngrisnir', named after one of the two goats in Norse mythology that pulled Thor's chariot. He ate them for dinner every night, saved the bones, and by morning they had come back to life. Hopeful analogy for recycling, it's made from 100% recycled ...
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By Michael Schreiber on Mar 17, 2012 02:38 pm Fans of the popular public radio program This American Life - and I count myself among them - learned last night that the single most downloaded episode of the show ever - an exposé of sorts of Apple's production operations in China - was to a great extent a work of fiction. The episode in ...
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