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Air France pilot begs first class passengers for cash to refuel in Damascus Beautiful blown glass retro rocketships European Directories sends legal threat to guy who wants to make it easy to stop receiving phone books Boots keeps selling quack remedies intended for babies, even after they are banned from US import over fears of broken glass Man in a coma is "fit for work," loses disability benefits Extreme space age hairdos of yesteryear Song of Mitt's Self Air France pilot begs first class passengers for cash to refuel in Damascus
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 12:18 pm An Air France jet was diverted to Damascus due to "tensions" at its destination airport in Beirut. They couldn't take off again without refueling, and the Syrian authorities weren't about to extend credit to Air France (France is part of the coalition calling for UN intervention in the conflict). So the crew passed the hat ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 09:14 am Artist Rik Allen makes beautiful blown-glass and metal sculptures of retro rocketships, with so much personality and detail. And tiny chairs. Every one of these evinces a ZOMG WANT reaction from me. Blown Glass Rockets, SCFI & Mixed Media Sculpture of Rik Allen (via Super Punch)
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 07:13 am Branko sez, Everybody in the Netherlands still receives the paper phone guide once every year, whether they want to or not, even though in these days of Google and the Internet it is nothing but a vehicle for advertisements. To help stop this form of harassment, a guy called Alexander Klöpping has registered a URL ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 06:22 am Boots, which styles itself a "pharmacy-led Health & Beauty retailer" has caught a lot of flack for selling homeopathic "remedies" that contain no active ingredients. One report actually found a Boots pharmacist referring customers who asked a five-year-old child with a three-day bout of diarrhoea to homeopathic sugar pills (advice that could potentially kill the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 05:24 am A post in a thread on rightsnet.co.uk claims that ATOS (a French private company that administers disability benefits assessments for the UK Department of Work and Pensions) has declared a man in a coma to be fit for work and cut off his benefits. This is part of a the stepped up campaign to stop ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 19, 2012 01:04 am Presumably this old Pathe reel showing women getting huge armatures with planetoids on them inserted into their hair by men wielding combs with sparklers on them and strange electric shock devices is some sort of elaborate piss-take. Though maybe I'm wrong and there was a time when the women of Wokingham, Berkshire, really did wear ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 18, 2012 11:40 pm [Video Link] "The real Mitt Romney stands up and reflects on who he is, what he believes and why he is running for office."
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