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Xeni Jardin Joe Sabia says "I drove 10,000 miles from England to Mongolia this summer in a piece of shit Fiat Seicento (.899cc engine). I filmed this in Kazakhstan: "Tupac in Kazakhstan."… Read the rest of the article: Tupac in Kazakhstan
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Xeni Jardin Hitler finds out Oasis is splitting up. Link (via @nopattern)
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Xeni Jardin Today, a federal appeals court ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be held liable for the wrongful detention of people held as witnesses after the 9/11 attacks. The… Read the rest of the article: Ashcroft may be held liable for those wrongfully detained after 9/11
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Xeni Jardin @BBVBOX: "Simulation of a typhoon, to be experienced individually on a chair in the centre of the storm." Link (via @EthanZ)
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Xeni Jardin Tennessee teen Calvin Inman has a medical condition that causes him to cry tears of blood. The only context in which I've ever seen or imagined this is vampire novels… Read the rest of the article: Teen cries true blood
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Xeni Jardin According to this post on science fiction blog io9, the network I still spell out in my mind as "SciFi" — recently rebranded as "SyFy" — may be considering cooking… Read the rest of the article: SciFi became SyFy, may soon become SyFry
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Xeni Jardin The cover sheet of the daily "Incident Action Plan" for firefighters battling the Station fire still burning in Los Angeles contains an odd warning: "No energy drinks." Officials say the… Read the rest of the article: Firefighters told to cool it on the energy drinks
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Xeni Jardin Say what you will about Mark's grody kombucha, but it does not contain floaty dead amphibians: Frog or toad found in Pepsi can, FDA says
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Xeni Jardin In today's New York Times, Miguel Helft reports that YouTube is negotiating with major Hollywood studios over an agreement that would allow the web video service to stream feature-length movies… Read the rest of the article: Pay-per-view feature films coming to YouTube?
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Xeni Jardin (Ed. Note: The Boing Boing Video site includes a guest-curated microblog: the "BBVBOX." Here, folks whose taste in web video we admire tweet the latest clips they find. We'll post… Read the rest of the article: @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
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Xeni Jardin More at Dangerous Minds. Apparently it's somewhere in Mexicali. Pienso que prefiero éste sobre el otro que está en París. (via a number of Spanish-language blogs which trace back to… Read the rest of the article: The House of Louis Vuitton (SPOILER: yeah, it's a knockoff)
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Xeni Jardin Good food for thought in this op-ed by Adam Cohen, which picks up on the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (disclosure: a group we're all big supporters of here… Read the rest of the article: The death of "locational privacy"
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Xeni Jardin Above: Never Can Say Goodbye, a short documentary film by Dianna Dilworth that shows how hardcore Michael Jackson fans are mourning their idol's death. The documentary is a follow-up to… Read the rest of the article: Michael Jackson trufans, after his death: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
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Xeni Jardin September 2, 1969: Forty years ago today, in Leonard Kleinrock's UCLA lab, a group of computer scientists managed to pass bits of data from one computer to another over some… Read the rest of the article: Happy 40th birthday, Internet
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Xeni Jardin Video link (MSNBC), and YouTube link (for folks in places where the official source is region-blocked.) This, my friends, is why we have television. Man, but Rachel Maddow kicks all… Read the rest of the article: Rachel Maddow interviews Tom Ridge on politicizing terror threat alerts
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Xeni Jardin NASA image of the Los Angeles fires, as viewed from high above our planet. The image was acquired mid-morning on Sunday — the fire has since more than doubled in… Read the rest of the article: The Los Angeles fires, as seen from space.
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Xeni Jardin While covering human trafficking between North Korea and China, Current TV employees Laura Ling and Euna Lee were captured and detained by North Korea. They were sentenced to 12 years… Read the rest of the article: Laura Ling and Euna Lee's first statement on their North Korea capture
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Xeni Jardin (Warning: video is totally gross). Via this SF Gate item, a Chicago-based animal rights group called Mercy for Animals shot the video above of baby chicks being ground up alive… Read the rest of the article: Baby chicks ground up alive: animal rights video goes viral
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Xeni Jardin A ginormous amphibious air tanker called the Martin Mars just made a massive water drop over Mount Wilson, the hill northeast of Los Angeles where the century-old Mount Wilson Observatory… Read the rest of the article: Big-ass flying boats full of water save LA from fiery doom!