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The Commons: NASA's Section
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| The Lowereast blog brings to attention a curated section of Flickr called The Commons. Although this section is associated with the Library of Congress, everyone is free to contribute and use the... (More) |
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Snoop Dogg Joins the War on Cybercrime
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| In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's Norton want you to show off your lyrical skills on the subject of cybercrime and enter the "Hack is Wack" cybercrime rap... (More) |
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Ontario's 10 Most Memorable Roads
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| Did you know that where Highway 401 intersects with highway 400 it is not only the busiest road in the province, it's the most heavily travelled in all North America? Its average annual daily... (More) |
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Hawking: God Unnecessary to Create Universe
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| In his new book, The Grand Design, British Physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn't necessary for the creation of the universe. Instead, he believes that the unravelling of a complex series of... (More) |
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James Lee's Website: SaveThePlanetProtest.com
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| As news have reported last night, the hostage-taking situation at the Discovery Channel building ended after police shot and killed the gunman, James Lee. Reportedly, Police described the gunman as... (More) |
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Jersey Circus
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| What happens when you take Family Circus and you mix it with Jersey Shore? This scary thing happens... (More) |
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Garfield Minus Garfield
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| Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep... (More) |
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WikiLeakiLeaks
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| For all its championing of transparency, secret-sharing website Wikileaks.org is more secretive than almost any media organization. You can help shed some light on Wikileaks by submitting your... (More) |
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Burning Man's Open Source Cell Phone System
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| "Today I bring you a story that has it all: a solar-powered, low-cost, open source cellular network that's revolutionizing coverage in underprivileged and off-grid spots," tells us Julie Bort of... (More) |
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Mourning the Loss of the Hard Copy Dictionary
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| "The third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary," tells us the guardian.co.uk's Aida Edermariam, "will probably never be printed". With the print market disappearing, the new edition of the... (More) |
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The 10 Worst Masturbation Stories
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| Apparently, Jezebel's Sadie Stain asked its readers if they have ever been caught masturbating and to please share their stories. Well, apparently the readers did answer and Sadie has put together... (More) |
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Cellphone Use While Driving Endeangers Relationships, Not Safety
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| Matt Palmquist, of miller-mccune.com, points us to this interesting study: while we all have heard ad nauseum the warnings of using a cell phone while driving, several recent studies have shown... (More) |
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Chinese Red Army 'Performs' Michael Jackson's "Beat It"
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| What happens when you masterfully edit Michael Jackson's "Beat It" into this 1976 video of the Chinese Red Army performing the Long March Song Cycle? This, friends; this. (More) |
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Race and Social Media
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| According to Danah Boyd, a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society, Facebook presents itself as a quiet community full of upstanding citizens and clean, easily... (More) |
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The Beginning of the End for the Printed Book
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| "Until six months ago I was clinging to the idea that printed books would likely last for ever. Since the arrival of the iPad I am now wholly convinced otherwise. The printed book is about to... (More) |
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Small Canadian Internet Providers Getting Screwed Less by Bell and Telus
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| The Canadian Radio-Television & Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)'s chairman Konrad von Finckenstein has ordered big phone network owners such as Bell and Telus to offer smaller wholesale... (More) |
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Canada is a Telecom Backwater
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| Naguib Sawiris, the billionaire scion of Egypt's most prominent business family who has set up shop in Iraq and North Korea, and is now the bold backer of Wind Mobile Canada, says he has... (More) |
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A Children's Treasury of Facebook Comments About 'the Mosk'
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| According to Wonkette, here is a fun Internet adventure you can partake in: type "mosk" into Openbook. It will show you status updates of people who are too dumb to put any privacy setting on their... (More) |
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How To Take a Better Shit
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| Shortly before Christmas in 1978, the leader of the free world came down with a severe case of hemorrhoids. The pain was so bad that President Carter had to take a day off from work. A few weeks... (More) |
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@gamejester's Constitutional Amendments for Boss Fights
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| Game journalist Jason MacIsaac has just about had it with the non-sense gamers have to face when dealing with The Final Boss. He argues, among other things, that The Final Boss shouldn't get... (More) |
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Beware of the Afghani Hash Monster
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| The American soldiers stationed at Combat Outpost Wilderness were nearing the end of their yearlong tour. A few months previously, their job had changed from combat-oriented missions, including... (More) |
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Welcome Back, Persistent Advertising!
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| Julie Matlin, reports this article on the New York Times, had recently seen a pair of shoes on Zappos.com that she thought were kinda cute. But Ms. Matlin wasn't ready to buy and left the site.But... (More) |
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How Panhandlers Use Free Credit Cards
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| In New York City, an advertising executive recently handed over her American Express Platinum Card to a homeless Manhattan man after he had asked her for change. The man, who had been without home... (More) |
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@Twaggies: Twitter Inspired Comics
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| Twaggies takes comments that people have made via Twitter and illustrates them very literally in the form of a memorable single-panel comic. Check out the site here and you can follow them on... (More) |
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A Big Sea of Planes: Quantitative Display of World War II Bombers
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| In 1942, as a result of an inspiration derived from President Franklin Roosevelt's assertion that America would produce 185,000 war-focused aircraft in 1942 and 1943, 4,500 aircraft models... (More) |
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