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Found: multiple people combined into single mummies An annual shooting spree in North Carolina You cannot poison an opossum America's ISPs set to spy on your network access to help entertainment industry ACTA IS BACK: Leaked docs show Canada/European Commission trying to sneak ACTA into Canada & back into Europe Crowdfunding a guide to crowdfunding Amateur game invites player to beat up woman Just look at this kitten in a banana-split costume, eating a banana Verizon locks down Galaxy S III Deer-hunting "mansions" on public land How CNN and Fox's rush to be first made fools of them Walking Dead vol 16: A Larger World PUNKS NOT DAD pays tribute to Monkey Boots Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie Outfits inspired by game characters Gibson reference in Airwolf script Crixus: gladiator mask Ernest Borgnine, 1917-2012 For sale: Volcano House - $750,000 Homeopathic doses of the Berlin Wall and tap water Found: multiple people combined into single mummies
By David Pescovitz on Jul 09, 2012 12:59 pm A decade ago, archaeologists found two 3,000 year-old mummies buried on Scotland's South Ulist island. The mummies had been preserved by immersion in a peat bog but not actually buried for another several hundred years. Turns out though that the skeletons aren't actually a single man and woman but rather bones from six people that ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 09, 2012 12:36 pm In certain parts of the United States (including Birmingham, Alabama) shooting guns into the air is one way that some locals celebrate major holidays, like the 4th of July. For those of us who didn't grow up with celebratory gunfire, this cultural practice can be difficult to understand—especially given the fact that it is dangerous. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 09, 2012 12:09 pm As we established last week, marsupial biology is freaking crazy. Here's more proof. For this, you don't even need to go to exotic Australia. The common American opossum produces a protein called Lethal Toxin-Neutralizing Factor (LTNF). This protein does pretty much what the name implies—seeking out potentially deadly poisons and neutralizing them. The benefit: Opossums ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 12:00 pm Douglas Rushkoff writes on CNN about the new US "six strikes" copyright regime, an unholy alliance between the major entertainment companies the the nation's largest ISPs, which gives your ISP carte blanche to spy on all your private Internet traffic on the off chance that you might be interfering with Universal Music's profit-maximization scheme. If ...
Read in browser ACTA IS BACK: Leaked docs show Canada/European Commission trying to sneak ACTA into Canada & back into Europe
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 11:29 am Michael Geist sez, Last week, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to reject ACTA, striking a major blow to the hopes of supporters who envisioned a landmark agreement that would set a new standard for intellectual property rights enforcement. The European Commission, which negotiates trade deals such as ACTA on behalf of the European Union, has ...
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By Glenn Fleishman on Jul 09, 2012 11:27 am Crowdfunding has fascinated me since 2009, when Kickstarter, Sellaband, Indiegogo, and others were starting to pick up steam in allowing hundreds to thousands of individuals to contribute relatively small amounts to fund artists and groups recording albums, building products, and making films. Even after thousands of projects had been funded and completed, it was common ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 10:36 am When Anita Sarkeesian kickstarted a research project into female videogame tropes, you might have expected some nasty remarks from game culture's contingent of adolescent boys.But Sarkeesian's been subjected to much more: attempts to hack her website, comics depicting her being raped, and even a video game where the player pounds her face into a bloodied ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 10:03 am Just look at it. Halloween Cute Banana Cat (via JWZ)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 09:57 am Verizon reportedly shipped the Samsung Galaxy S III with an encrypted bootloader to prevent anyone from messing around with it. Naturally, it was cracked in hours. The models released by other carriers have unlocked bootloaders. [The Verge]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 09:43 am How much comfort and ease does a hunter need? In St. Louis Country forest, shooters are not only building "deer stands" larger than some houses, but cutting down swathes of forest to make it easier to nail their targets. John Myers writes: "We're getting over-built. We're seeing mansions out there — basically hunting shacks on ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 09, 2012 09:30 am SCOTUSblog's Tom Goldstein reviews what happened in the moments after the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. The first to get it wrong was last to get it right, but Bloomberg was correct before CNN and Fox rolled the dice on-air.
Read in browser Walking Dead vol 16: A Larger World
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 08:11 am The sixteenth collection of the astounding graphic novel series The Walking Dead, A Larger World, is recently published, and the creators continue to vindicate my decision to follow this one for years and years and years. As I wrote of the 15th volume, The Walking Dead has sucked me in through several narrative techniques: it ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 09, 2012 01:27 am Dan writes, "Monkey Boots: The latest hilarious DIY video from the middle aged British punk band, Punks Not dad. This time dealing with retro footwear and a west side story rumble between punks and fans of Adam and the Ants in 1981. This video is introduced by sitcom legend Peter Bowles From to the manor ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 08, 2012 11:25 pm As Rob posted, Ernest Borgnine died today at 95. From Marty to SpongeBob SquarePants, McHale's Navy to From Here To Eternity, Borgnine had a fantastic and fantastically-diverse career. For Rob, Borgnine was Dominic Santini from Airwolf. But my favorite Borgnine role will always be the gleeful Cabbie in Escape from New York (1981).
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 08, 2012 10:25 pm Console to Closet offers tasteful and subtle fashion homages to your most beloved video game characters. To the right, a fabulous ivory summer dress-and-red-wedges combo accessorized to evoke everyone's favorite blood-streaked mannequin-raping cleaver-wielding psychic projection of male self-hatred.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 08, 2012 10:02 pm Nice.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 08, 2012 09:13 pm Leatherworker Tom Banwell's latest piece, his "Crixus" mask, is very nice cross between the Hannibal Lecter transport mask and something from the Road Warrior: "I realized that the center seam between the eyes--while helping the skull look--was unnecessary and if I eliminated it I could add a row of spikes there. I changed the leather ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 08, 2012 08:08 pm He won an Academy Award for his portrayal of a lovelorn butcher in 1955's "Marty," but to me he's Airwolf's Dominic Santini. [CNN]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 08, 2012 06:34 pm The perfect lair from which to hatch your evil plans for global domination. While many a volcano has flared up lately with maddening consequences, the cinder cone that hosts the “Volcano House” in Newberry Springs, Calif., offers nothing but cosmic, barren beauty. The creation of architect Harold J. Bissner Jr., the dome house has been ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 08, 2012 06:03 pm Ainsworth, a "remedy store" sells "homeopathic" "remedies" -- diluted-to-nothing, heavily shaken essences of substances that are good for what ails ya, providing whatever ails you is treatable by placebo (and they're happy to sell you "remedies" for potentially serious illnesses that are otherwise eminently treatable provided you're willing to use science instead of profitable nonsense ...
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