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Airline passenger dies after pleas for help are refused - Kansas City Star
via Google News by (author unknown) on February 24, 2008
... NEW YORK | An American Airlines passenger died after a flight attendant said he couldn’t give her oxygen and then tried to help her with faulty equipment, a relative says.Cousin: Woman dies on commercial flight from Haiti to New York airportInternational Herald TribunePassenger on flight with empty oxygen tankKGANWAPT - Grand Forks Herald (subscription) - NBC30.comall 189 news articles
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Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too! [Riaa]
via Gizmodo by matt buchanan on February 19, 2008
This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: Because it'll lead them to "everything from handguns to large quantities of cocaine [and] marijuana," not to mention terrorists and murderers!The whole video is over 60 minutes long—these are just two of the more outrageous...
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XKCD comic on Internet arguments
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 19, 2008
Boy, does today's XKCD ever resonate with me -- every year, my New Year's resolution is "stop arguing with strangers on the Internet" and every year, I break it within days. Link
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Steal This Wiki launches alpha version of Steal This Book for 21st Century
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on February 18, 2008
For the past 18 months, the Steal This Wiki project has been industriously updating Abbie Hoffman's 1971 classic, Steal This Book, and now they're ready to ship. Ploney Almoney sez, "We now have our first alpha available for people to download as ODT or PDF, it is a huge bloated draft with minimal images but we have added just about every survival tip we could think of for shelter...
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Your Favorite Scifi Films As Russian Woodcuts [Reinterpretations]
via io9 by Kevin Kelly on February 18, 2008
As Chancellor Gorkon from Star Trek VI would say, "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon." We'd reply by telling him that unless he'd seen Star Wars in the original Russian folk art version, he was a pansy. Russian artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created some pretty impressive versions of films like The Matrix, The Terminator (or maybe that's...
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Captain Kirk Knows How to Treat a Lady!
via Headlines for Milkandcookies.com by (author unknown) on February 18, 2008
Captain Kirk showin' allaya suckas how to be a real gentleman.
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Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing?
via Slashdot by kdawson on February 18, 2008
dynamo52 writes "I'm a freelance network admin serving mainly small business clients. Over the last few months, I have noticed that any time I run any type of bandwidth testing for clients with Comcast accounts, the results have been amazingly fast — with some connections, Speakeasy will report up to 15 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up. Of course, clients get nowhere near this performance in...
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The D&D Designers Answer Your Questions
via Slashdot by Zonk on February 18, 2008
In January we had the chance to ask the designers of Dungeons and Dragons Fourth Edition a few questions about the new version of the classic tabletop game. The Wizards of the Coast Community Manager, Mike "Gamer_Zer0" Lescault put our questions to members of the development team, including: Andrew Collins, Chris Perkins, Scott Rouse, and Sara Girard. Some of the questions weren't quite...
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