HOWTO track down a con-artist Silvio Berlusconi prostitution-ring wiretaps: sex with eight women in one night, "I'm only prime minister in my spare time" Optimized for instability Internet Archive adds its three millionth scanned book New Daniel Pinkwater novel being serialized online in weekly chapters Deco commercial illustrations for Arrow Collars Women's sex-strike ends civil war (sex vs violence) CATURDAY: The Lightness of Lord Buckley Bean Michele Bachmann, anti-vax ignoramus 
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HOWTO track down a con-artist
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 18, 2011 12:05 am Ken, a former "fed" (of some description) on the group blog Popehat, received a "toner-scam" (a scam whereby someone sends you an invoice for a service you never ordered or received in the hopes that you'll pay it without noticing) …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 09:00 pm Italian magistrates investigating a prostitution ring have been wiretapping prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and have recorded the oligarch boasting about ordering eleven women for a single night (he was only able to have sex with eight of them), complaining that …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 17, 2011 07:52 pm Paul Spinrad snapped this photo at Maker Faire NY. He writes, "A cyclist rides a tall bike with a short wheelbase and tiny wheels that provide minimal gyroscopic balancing effect. The bike was built by William Thomas Porter of Brooklyn." …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 07:18 pm The Internet Archive's Book Scanning project just added its three millionth text. Unlike Google Book Search, the Archive only scans public domain works, and, more significantly, places no restrictions on the scans' usage. Another significant difference is the Archive's privacy …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 06:39 pm Zack sez, "The author of such surreal delights as LIZARD MUSIC and THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN EMERGENCY has gone to the web to premiere his latest work before it heads to hard-copy. Daniel Pinkwater's BUSHMAN LIVES will update with a new …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 05:15 pm JC Leyendecker's commercial illustrations from the 1920s sure were beautiful. J C Leyendecker Arrow Collar artwork 1920's
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 03:12 pm Women in Mindanao, Philippines ended a violent, armed, intervillage fight by going on a "sex-strike" until their husbands stopped killing each other, as confirmed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Women's 'sex strike' ends fighting in Mindanao villages …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 17, 2011 03:00 pm Video Link (via Tara McGinley).
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 17, 2011 01:07 pm Michele Bachmann chooses STD's - watch more funny videos Michele Bachmann went on national TV this week to tell the world that the HPV vaccine could render women "retarded." Here's Funny or Die's response, which is apt, because while it's …
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