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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 12:10 pm Here's a video of a Chicago TSA operative searching a three year old boy who is in a wheelchair, wearing a body-cast, on the way to his family trip to Disney World. The boy's parents were not allowed to hold him or touch him to comfort him during the procedure. A toddler in a wheelchair ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 11:08 am Batman-and-bananas from DeviantArt created a fantastic springheeled set of cosplay boots as part of a steampunk version of Chell from Portal 2. These started as two pairs of shoes, one cheap pair of black pleather boots and an old pair of canvas shoes. The heel 'spring' is actually plastic tubing as I could screw this ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 10:43 am Metafilter founder Matt Haughey gave an inspiring talk at Webstock about being a 40-year-old Web geek who came of age in the Bay Area in the 1990s dotcom boom. Matt talks about finding work-life balance, and how hard that is to do if you follow the grow-big-fast model of Internet startups. He describes another way: ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 19, 2012 10:01 am This fellow is Brookesia micra, a tiny chameleon species newly discovered on the island of Madagascar. Seen here is a juvenile, but even an adult only reaches approximately one inch long. According to National Geographic, "Scientists (from Germany's Zoological State Collection) think the diminutive new chameleon species might represent extreme cases of island dwarfism, whereby ...
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By Advertiser on Mar 19, 2012 10:00 am ADVERTISEMENT The following is a paid post from Microsoft: Do you ever feel like newsletters, deals, and updates are weighing down your inbox? This isn't the spam of your inbox. It's the bacon. That's called graymail, and the amount you receive each year, if equated to the weight of real mail, would be the equivalent ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 19, 2012 08:56 am Rick Prelinger sez, I'm delighted to let everyone know about our newest Internet Archive collection which, for want of a cooler title, we're calling 35mm Stock Footage. Digitized from 35mm original negatives and release prints dating back to the first decade of the 20th century, these unedited sequences were shot for feature films but never ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 18, 2012 06:18 pm On How to Be a Retronaut, a collection of military STD posters from the end of WWI and through WWII. Update: These appear to be drawn from a larger set at Mental Floss. Military STD Posters, 1918-1945
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 18, 2012 04:57 pm Artist Anna Schuleit was commissioned to produce an installation in the massive, ancient Massachusetts Mental Health Center before it was demolished. She filled it with 28,000 flowers. Here, Colossal talks with Schuleit about "BLOOM," the resulting installation. The reactions to Bloom ranged from expressions of delight to raw and renewed sorrow. It was a strange ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Mar 18, 2012 01:31 pm A new season of my favorite lifestyle improvement edu-tainment program, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule, airs tonight at 1230am on Adult Swim.
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