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Encourage bureaucracy Lincoln's idiot bodyguard got drunk in the same bar as John Wilkes Booth the night of the assassination ZX Spectrum is 30 New world record for letting bees crawl all over you Tides carry ball across Pacific Leo Geo, a lengthwise comic about a journey through the Earth Creative Suite 6 subscription plans announced My Dinner with Marijuana: chemo, cannabis, and haute cuisine Private security at London Olympic site illegally harasses photographers shooting from public land The Muslims are Coming! Frankenthulu mask Valve employee manual describes the greatest workplace I've ever heard of Greedy anglerfish sculpture for a banker Inadvertent art-photos of the Soviet-era Czech secret police Funny fold-out highbrow kitchen shelf/book shelf/mantelpiece cover-ups HOWTO: "Obliterating Animal Carcasses With Explosives" Bagelvangelist Murray Lender, of Lender's Bagels, has died Which Pentagon contractor launched an idiotic propaganda campaign against USA Today? Encourage bureaucracy
By Rob Beschizza on Apr 23, 2012 12:38 pm How to be a horrible boss. [Diego Basch via Hacker News]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 11:55 am Marilyn sez, "With all this brouhaha about Secret Service agents misbehaving in Cartagena, I remembered this story in Smithsonian magazine two years ago about the unreliable presidential bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater the night he got shot. The story is by Paul Martin (my former boss), who is ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 23, 2012 11:49 am Sinclair's ZX Spectrum, the astoundingly successful sub-£100 personal computer, is 30 years old today. [BBC. Photo: Iñaki Quenerapú]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 23, 2012 11:02 am Last wednesday, beekeeper She Ping covered himself with 331,000 bees to claim the world record from Ruan Luangming. As 33.1kg of insects crowded around his body and face, She Ping's eyes and mouth were kept clear by an incense-waving apprentice. Photo: REUTERS/China Daily
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 23, 2012 10:53 am "A soccer ball that bobbed onto the shore of a remote Alaska island is likely the first salvageable debris from last year's Japanese tsunami that could be returned to its owner" [Reuters]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 10:50 am Jon Chad's Leo Geo and His Miraculous Journey Through the Center of the Earth is a kids' comic story that blends science and fancy to tell the story of a scientist who goes all the way through the Earth's center from Argentina, headed for Taiwan. The long, skinny book is meant to be read "vertically," ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 23, 2012 10:44 am Adobe's Creative Suite is to become an $80-a-month subscription service, with discounts for people who accept annual contracts: just like cellphones! Thankfully, you can still buy the retail version of the suite in various pre-set bundles: just like cable television! ... the company expects that most of its users will slowly migrate to the subscription ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 23, 2012 10:30 am Photo: Xeni Jardin I went to a "cannabis dinner" in a loft in downtown Los Angeles on a day of great significance for potheads: 4/20. I first heard about these speakeasy gatherings from an LA Times article by Jonathan Gold. They're hosted by a zany, playful computer science major turned Hollywood film sales rep turned ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 10:04 am A few of the 10,000 G4S private security guards hired to police the London Olympics have been videoed while illegally harassing photographers who were taking pictures of the Olympic site from public land. In the video, the guards make lunges for the press-cameras, put their hands over lenses, and make inaccurate statements about whether and ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Apr 23, 2012 10:01 am Above, a trailer for a comedy film project for which there's now a Kickstarter fundraising campaign. I LOL'd; I'll be kicking in a few bucks. Description: A group of Muslim-American standup comedians go on the road counter Islamophobia using the only weapon they have: jokes. The Muslims Are Coming! follows these comics as they visit ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 08:48 am ~AfterlightRob's Frankenthulu mask makes me yearn for a whole series of Famous Monsters of Filmland/Cthulhu mask-mashups -- the mummy, Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon... The same artist has a sweet Nosferatu mask. Frankenthulhu mask (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 23, 2012 12:31 am Valve's employee manual may just be the single best workplace manifesto I've ever read. Seriously: it describes a utopian Shangri-La of a workplace that makes me wish -- for the first time in my life -- that I had a "real" job. It is so goddamned good that I couldn't pick just one (or two) ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 11:09 pm "Avaritia" is a new mixed-media assemblage from Jud Turner: "The name is taken from the Latin term for 'greed' and the bait this mechanized angler fish is using is a coin from 1799. Heightening my enjoyment of the subject (greed) it's a commission for a German financier!" "Avaritia"
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 09:30 pm In 2010, Vice Magazine commemorated the publication of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes' "Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police" with a set of photos taken by the Soviet-era Czech secret police. As noted, these photos, shot blindly with hidden cameras, are actually pretty good art-photography. They were spying full-time on ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 06:26 pm Discovered yesterday at the London Comica Comiket show at the Bishopsgate Institute, Isabel Greenberg's marvellous austerity-ready posh bookshelves, kitchen shelves and mantelpieces, these being long fold-out illustrations filled with fancy items, high-minded literature, and positional goods that you can use to cover up your shabby personal effects and trashy books. Isabel's website is only displaying ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 22, 2012 03:09 pm As the Forest Service makes ready to explode a cabinfull of frozen cows, we could all benefit from refreshing our frozen livestock explosion know-how with this official USDA Forest Service memo, "Obliterating Animal Carcasses With Explosives." The following examples illustrate partial obliteration (dispersion) for a horse that weighs about 1,100 pounds (453.6 kilograms). In the ...
Read in browser Bagelvangelist Murray Lender, of Lender's Bagels, has died
By Xeni Jardin on Apr 22, 2012 01:58 pm The Economist has a great piece out today on the life and legacy of Lender's Bagels founder Murray Lender, who died one month ago at age 81. He is credited with making the bagel a mainstream breakfast staple throughout America. Without him, memes like the one above, and possibly bagels like the one above, would ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 22, 2012 01:07 pm When USA Today began investigating Pentagon propaganda contractors, a bizarre harassment campaign commenced against reporter Tom Vanden Brooke and his editor. Websites and user accounts were registered in their names. A defamatory Wikipedia article was created. Bogus comments were posted to make them look bad. The hare-brained misinformation efforts, directed against America's second-highest circulation daily ...
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