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By David Pescovitz on Jul 23, 2012 12:53 pm A man hiking in Ogden, Utah snapped this photo of a fellow who apparently was wearing a goat suit and socializing with a herd of real goats. The Division of Wildlife Services is concerned for the man's safety. From KSTU: "He was clumsy, working his way down the cliff trying to catch up with the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 23, 2012 12:50 pm The World Intellectual Property Organization has been working on a treaty to protect the rights of disabled people with regard to copyright since 1985. Most of the world's rich countries and developing nations support this work. However, two key entities are stonewalling and holding up the treaty: the European Commission (despite strong support from the ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 23, 2012 12:48 pm On July 14, during the Marvel panel at Comic Con, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige revealed that the studio's second big movie for 2014 (following Iron Man 3) was going to be Guardians of the Galaxy, and that one of the characters would be Rocket Raccoon. A couple of weeks before that, in late June, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 23, 2012 12:46 pm Over at our sponsor Intel's My Life Scoop site, I wrote about Minecraft, the Metaverse, and 3D printing: When I started playing Minecraft with my kids last year, I immediately thought of the Metaverse — the shared virtual reality system in Neal Stephenson's now-classic 1992 science fiction novel, Snow Crash. The Metaverse was a simulated ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 23, 2012 11:10 am If you aren't familiar with American Boy Scouting's Eagle Scout award, it might be a little hard to explain how important this story really is. Eagle Scout is a big deal. For one thing, it takes a lot of work to get the position. A scout has to earn 21 merit badges and then spearhead ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 23, 2012 09:49 am In 1976, a fellow named Clifford LaBrecque built this "museum quality" model of Bigfoot and now he's selling it on eBay. "One look and it shouts this is the "real thing"--eyes that follow you, and hands, fingers, and toes, are all in great detail," reads the auction listing. Starting bid is just $80,000. I sure ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 23, 2012 09:04 am Photo: Randy Stewart (cc) Twenty-one were burned by hot coals at a seminar hosted by motivational speaker Tony Robbins. Carol Pogash at The New York Times describes the cultish atmosphere of victim-blaming (including by themselves) after the show, which included a "performance coach" going on about the uselessness of modern medicine. Mr. Robbins was not ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 10:45 pm Here's a video of the 1972 Gesundheit Radio "sneezing," a function it was programmed to perform twice annually in order to clear the dust from its sensitive components. TIL that in 1972 a radio was designed that 'sneezed' every 6 months in order to protect the microprocessors from dust (vimeo.com)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 10:00 pm Corning, whose actual tax bill was -0.02 percent on $3B in earnings (that is, they got a refund), sent a rep to Congress to complain that its taxes were too high.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 08:42 pm Here's Mr Romney on the campaign trail in 2007, in Radar O'Reilly's hometown of Ottumwa, Iowa, demonstrating his mastery of First Amendment jurisprudence and the nature of the technology industry -- as well as the technical feasibility of pornography filters -- promising mandatory game-rating systems (with a prohibition on their sales to kids) and a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 07:54 pm The "Mitt Romney just made" page is a running calculator that shows a realtime estimate of Romney's earnings while you watch (He made $940.38 while I wrote a couple of blog posts and got a bowl of cereal for my daughter). It also lets you calculate your own Romney earnings. For example, making a 10-minute ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 07:50 pm Here's a long, long photoset of imakethenews and his girlfriend doing a complete teardown and rebuild of a seriously decayed 1975 Serro Scotty Sportsman teardrop camper trailer. The rebuild is clever, sensitive and ingenious, and the result is a an up-to-date but still nostalgic masterpiece. 1965 Serro Scotty Sportsman (via Digg)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 05:47 pm It's not clear to me whether this photo of Winston Churchill in a bathing suit comes from 1911 or 1922 -- the title of the How to Be a Retronaut page is ambiguous -- but either way, he cut a fine figure of a man. Winston Churchill in his swimsuit, 1911/1922
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 04:00 pm The Tax Justice Network's Estimating the Price of Offshore Revisted report says that over $21 trillion has been squirrelled away in offshore tax-havens by 90,000 super-rich tax-cheats (0.001% of the world's population). The crime was abetted by a network of "enablers" from banks like UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. Much of the money has ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 22, 2012 02:00 pm Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing took $3,000,000 out of his bonus and shared it among 10,000 of the company's junior employees. From CNN: Yang had earned $5.2 million in bonuses for the fiscal year ending in March. His total earnings, including salary, incentives and other benefits, amounted to $14 million, according to the company's annual report. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 22, 2012 01:22 pm [Video Link] I met Brett Hamilton when I blindly hired him through Taskrabbit to help me move some monstrously heavy armoires. While we were giving ourselves hernias I learned that he is the bassist for Falling Still, and I've been enjoying their music ever since. Here's their latest video, for a song called "If U ...
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