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The Boy Scouts' Free-Speech Fight
via TIME.com: Top Stories by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
Philadelphia says the group's bias against gays and atheists disqualifies it from a rent break on a city-owned building
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Newsom: SF Homeowners Accountable for Retrofits
via Curbed SF by Jimmy Stamp on May 29, 2008
In preparation for the next Big Quake, whenever that inevitable day finally arrives, hizzoner the Gav has turned his attention to preventing the collapse of our beloved neighborhoods. His new plan requires homeowners, especially those with "soft-story" buildings (those with garages on the first level), to retrofit their buildings with seismic upgrades. At their own expense. During the 1989 Lorna...
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Patagonian volcano may be about to blow its top
via New Scientist - Latest Headlines by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
A huge dome-removing explosion may be imminent as pressure builds beneath the Chaitén volcano in Chile, say experts
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Twittering About Architecture
via Twitter Technology Blog by al3x on May 21, 2008
Here at Twitter HQ, we're not blind to the flurry of discussion over the past weeks about our architecture. For many of our technically-minded users, Twitter downtime is an opportunity to muse about what the source of our problems might be, and to propose creative solutions. I sympathize, as I clearly find our problems interesting enough to work on them every day.Part of the impetus for...
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Address Book - Google syncing without iPod touch or iPhone
via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) by Cory Bohon on May 28, 2008
Filed under: iPod Family, OS, iPhoneDid last night's news of 10.5.3 boasting Google contact syncing with iPhone and iPod touch owners get you down? Well, LifeHacker hopes to lift your spirits as they tell you how to enable Google syncing in Address Book.app without ever syncing an iPhone or iPod touch. The process requires you to edit some .plist files within Address Book.app. LifeHacker...
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Survivor: Geologist
via Highly Allochthonous by (author unknown) on May 28, 2008
I was just forwarded this, although I'd actually got some chuckles out of it already; it's one of the columns written by James Clarke for the Johannesburg paper, The Star (a tad more upmarket than the UK version). He titled it 'Even TV cameras can't excite geologists' (here's a full scan - pdf).Of course, I'm not sure that we should publicise this too much, since it...
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How to Make $50,000 a Few Pennies at a Time
via UNEASYsilence by Dan on May 28, 2008
Many financial institutions (PayPal, brokerage houses, Google) when you create an account with them, to verify bank information they deposit a small micro deposit into your bank account. Well some script kiddy figured out how to take advantage of the micro deposit system and walk away with a cool $50k. The only problem is… He got caught.A hacker has used a loophole to collect more than...
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Displacements by Michael Naimark
via Laughing Squid by Scott Beale on May 28, 2008
Displacements, is an art installation by Michael Naimark where he shot film of a living room with three people, from a camera slowly rotating in the center of the room. Once done filming, the entire room and contents are painted white and the camera is replaced with a film projector in the exact same location. Then the previously filmed room with its occupants is projected on the empty room,...
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Methane release could cause abrupt, far-reaching climate change
via EurekAlert! - Earth Science by (author unknown) on May 27, 2008
(National Science Foundation) An abrupt release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from ice sheets that extended to Earth's low latitudes some 635 million years ago caused a dramatic shift in climate, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation report in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
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Get a Free Copy of Everywhere, the Travel Magazine Produced by Telstar Logistics (and You)
via Telstar Logistics by Telstar Logistics on May 26, 2008
Longtime readers of this Internet weblog probably know that Telstar Logistics is a fake company that masquerades a vast multinational conglomorate. But just as you might imagine, fake companies don't put bread on the table. So without getting too deep into the intricacies of our corporate governance, suffice to say that Telstar Logistics is actually a real business that merely pretends to...
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