ACLU is suing Connecticut state police for making false charges against a man who was protesting a DUI checkpoint. On September 11, 2015, Connecticut resident Michael Picard was filming a… Read the rest of the article: Police accidentally record themselves conspiring to fabricate criminal charges against protester
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Mark Frauenfelder Raejali Buntut, 32, overslept and missed his August 21 flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, so he did what anyone in the same situation would do: make fake boarding passes… Read the rest of the article: Man arrested after using fake boarding passes to live in Singapore airport lounge for 3 weeks
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Mark Frauenfelder Enjoy this song by the Pre-Fab Four!
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Mark Frauenfelder I spent a few days in beautiful Victoria, Canada last week. What a fantastic city! One of the highlights of my trip was spending some time with Andrew and Christina,… Read the rest of the article: Inflatable travel pillow for sleeping on planes
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Mark Frauenfelder I'm much more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop, but I enjoyed this short video about Photoshop users talking about the powerful image editing application. For over two decades, Photoshop… Read the rest of the article: Short documentary about the evolution of Photoshop
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Mark Frauenfelder Reality shatter. The two objects are traveling in exactly the same manner. Watch when it turns gray. pic.twitter.com/HpZsudeXSG — Cliff Pickover (@pickover) June 18, 2016 Clifford Pickover says, "Reality shatter.… Read the rest of the article: The two objects are traveling in exactly the same manner
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Mark Frauenfelder JAKE TAPPER: "Well, just as a point of fact, again, Donald Trump did not accept when Barack Obama released his birth certificate in 2011. He kept up this whole birther… Read the rest of the article: Even by Chris Christie standards, his lie about Trump's birtherism is a whopper
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Mark Frauenfelder Kevin Kelly and I interviewed Tim O'Reilly on the Cool Tools podcast. Our guest this week is Tim O'Reilly. He's the founder of O'Reilly Media, a company the spreads the… Read the rest of the article: Tim O'Reilly shares his favorite books, running shoes, and a cure for colds
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Mark Frauenfelder I use TripIt for travel planning, but I'm going to give the new Google Trips a try. It stores your travel plans offline, so you don't need to have a… Read the rest of the article: Google announces new travel planning app: Google Trips
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Mark Frauenfelder New Jersey governor Chris Christie has vehemently denied knowing anything about his staff's scheme to punish a local mayor by ordering lane closures on the George Washington Bridge in 2013.… Read the rest of the article: Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree – Chris Christie knew about bridge lane closures as they happened
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Mark Frauenfelder When Amazon released the Echo Dot, the mini-me version of the Echo, the only way you could by it was through an Amazon Echo. It was $90 and almost always… Read the rest of the article: Now you can order the Echo Dot from any web browser
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Mark Frauenfelder New York City councilmember Ritchie Torres wants to know how much cash NYPD seizes every from citizens every year using using civil asset forfeiture, so he introduced legislation requiring annual… Read the rest of the article: NYPD: We can't tell you how much cash we seize because it would break our computers
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Mark Frauenfelder RĂ©mi Gaillard is a former shoe store salesman who has become the "seventeenth most subscribed comedian on YouTube," according to Wikipedia.
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Mark Frauenfelder Kratom is a mildly psychoactive plant that has been used in Asia for centuries to treat pain, fatigue, depression,and anxiety. In the US it has shown promise as a way… Read the rest of the article: 127,891 people have signed a petition to keep kratom legal
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Mark Frauenfelder Fifteen years ago Graham Smith of Liverpool had a bowel operation. The internal nylon stitches in his abdomen caused him pain. "For 15 years I have been hunched over and… Read the rest of the article: Engineer designs tools to perform DIY operation on himself
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Mark Frauenfelder This chain reaction kit is on sale at Amazon for just $10 right now. It has parts and instructions to build a bunch of different Rube Goldbergian machines. Design and… Read the rest of the article: Klutz LEGO Chain Reactions Kit for $10
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Mark Frauenfelder From clay to hand I don't know anything about the sculptor, but it is fascinating to watch them make a block of clay look like a human hand.
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Mark Frauenfelder It is fun to watch a bullet shot from a 44 go through a block of ballistic gel. "Sonoluminescence is a a phenomenon that occurs when gas bubbles are suspended… Read the rest of the article: Sonoluminescence in ballistics gel
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Mark Frauenfelder What i think of when someone says starcraft balance "The name given to that one dramatic moment … when everything can change all at once is the tipping point." —… Read the rest of the article: Tipping point example