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AthFest - The Athens, GA Music and Arts Festival
via www.athfest.com by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
Shared by dknowles Same shit, different year.AthFest, the Athens, GA Music and Arts Festival, is an annual summer event featuring outdoor music, children's activities, a club crawl, an artist market, a music video competition, local music awards, an artwalk and a compilation CD.
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Youth Killed By a Helicopter While Getting His Mail Sparks Debate About Headphone Safety [No Joke]
via Gizmodo by Sean Fallon on May 16, 2008
Seriously guys, you just can't make this stuff up. A 23 year old Canadian college student was killed when a crashing helicopter struck and dragged him as he was walking to his mailbox. Apparently eyewitnesses noticed that the youth was completely unaware of his impending doom and a friend told reporters that he often listened to music through earbuds underneath the hood of his sweatshirt....
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Fort Reno Closed Due to High Levels Of Arsenic
via Dischord Records News by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Fort Reno, the park in Northwest DC which is home to the Fort Reno Summer Concert Series, has been closed "immediately and Indefinitely" by the US Park Service due to the discovery of high levels of arsenic in the soil. Until further testing is complete it is unclear what this means for this summer's concert schedule. However, there have been free concerts every summer in Fort Reno for over...
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Facebook vs. CollegeHumor beer pong canceled [Cubicle Culture]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on May 15, 2008
The smack-talk inspiring contest of beer pong — known as beiruit in some quarters — scheduled between Facebook and IAC subsidiary CollegeHumor is off. Why? Because Facebook's PR and legal departments said so, CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen told our tipster:Facebook's PR and Legal dept said they can't participate. I guess that's what its like working in corporate America...
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HOWTO detect hidden video cameras
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 09, 2008
... let you spot hidden "pinhole" video cameras:With one hand, hold up the toilet paper tube to your eye. With your other hand, hold up the flashlight at about eye level and point it away from you. With one eye, look through the tube and scan the room. If there are any small points of light bouncing back, inspect it further. It might be a camera.Link, Link to feed of Little Brother Instructables
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Social network popularity just like high school [Quotable]
via Valleywag by Jackson West on May 09, 2008
"Like the popular kids, Facebook will end up living in a trailer — just down the gravel road from Friendster." [Details] (Photo by AP/Jack Plunkett)
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PandoraBoy Brings Streaming Radio to Your Desktop [Featured Mac Download]
via Lifehacker by Adam Pash on May 08, 2008
Mac OS X only: Free, open source application PandoraBoy pulls the popular streaming internet radio site Pandora out of your browser and integrates it with your Mac desktop. With features like global hotkeys, support for your Apple Remote, and even integration with Growl, PandoraBoy looks to be the ultimate Pandora companion for OS X. PandoraBoy is free, Mac OS X only. Windows users looking for a...
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MARTA statement regarding videotaped lunacy
via Fresh Loaf by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Shared by dknowles Bitch be crazy!According to MARTA, the passionate young lady who displayed a variety of talents in a video we posted yesterday has a warrant issued for her arrest.“MARTA police were notified about this video last Friday and launched an immediate and aggressive investigation into the incident. After canvassing the East Lake Station where [...]
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Jealousy
via xkcd.com by (author unknown) on May 07, 2008
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Mechanical white board
via Hack a Day by Eliot Phillips on May 08, 2008
Filed under: misc hacks[Romado12187] just posted a walkthrough of his mechanical dry erase board project on Instructables. It was on display in the Microsoft booth last weekend at Maker Faire. Unlike [sprite_tm]'s version we covered earlier, this one is built more like a traditional pin plotter. The construction was done entirely in [Romado12187]'s dorm room and uses plywood and PVC pipes...
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