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Monday, 31 December 2012
quote [ This year in geek: The best robots of 2012 ]
Robot stuff in the extended.
[sci&tech] [by mechanical contrivance@7:01pmGMT] [+6 Good] [12 comments] |
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Saturday, 3 November 2012
quote [ This Election Day, Massachusetts is poised to approve the Death With Dignity Act. “Death with dignity” is a modernized, sanitized, politically palatable term that replaces the now-antiquated expression “physician-assisted suicide.” ]
Oregon and Washington have similar laws and civilization hasn't crumbled yet. Should terminally ill people be allowed to die in order to avoid suffering?
[by mechanical contrivance@5:56amGMT] [+10 Good] [60 comments] |
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Saturday, 29 September 2012
quote [ A fifth-grade teacher fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense outside his neighbor's house during what he thought was an attempted burglary and then discovered it was his son, state police said. ]
If only he'd had a gun blah blah blah...
[by mechanical contrivance@12:05amGMT] [+9 WTF] [81 comments] |
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Tuesday, 22 May 2012
quote [ Views from across the globe, including a couple we shot ourselves. ]
It's an annular solar eclipse. That means the sun isn't blocked entirely and we get to see a ring of fire. Coincidentally, it was only visible on Earth from within the Ring of Fire.
I imagine a certain someone who hasn't posted here in a long time would love this. [sci&tech] [by mechanical contrivance@1:04amGMT] [+6] [23 comments] |
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quote [ NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A judge here sentenced Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail on Monday for using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate having sex with a man, in a case that galvanized concern about suicide among gay teenagers but also prompted debate about the use of laws against hate crimes. ]
[by mechanical contrivance@12:36amGMT] [+5] [79 comments] |
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Thursday, 29 March 2012
quote [ A Massively Multiplayer Adventure ]
It's a simple rpg that runs within a web browser using only HTML5 and Javascript. Mozilla created it to showcase the capabilities of HTML5. It's free and you don't need to create an account.
[games] [by mechanical contrivance@11:45pmGMT] [+10 Interesting] [48 comments] |
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Monday, 12 March 2012
quote [ Coke and Pepsi change the way they make their drinks to avoid a cancer warning label in compliance with Californian law ]
You know how some foods turn brown when you cook them? That can cause cancer now, but only in California.
[by mechanical contrivance@11:03pmGMT] [+7 Interesting] [73 comments] |
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Monday, 6 February 2012
quote [ Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, just behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder phonograph records has been brought back to life after more than a century of silence. ]
More in extended.
[by mechanical contrivance@11:39pmGMT] [+10 Old] [18 comments] |
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Tuesday, 13 December 2011
What's for dessert?
quote [ I made a Tang pie. Here's what I thought of it. ]
Some other sweet and fattening food in the extended.
[by mechanical contrivance@2:20amGMT] [+10 Interesting] [107 comments] |
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011
quote [ Lolita City, a child pornography site run on over a concealed “darknet,” has been taken down by Anonymous members, and account details of 1,589 users from the site’s database were posted as evidence. ]
Anonymous doles out their own personal brand of justice by taking down a bunch of kiddie porn sites. Anonymous continues to be anonymous in extended.
[by mechanical contrivance@2:06amGMT] [+10 Good] [28 comments] |
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