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| What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin |
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Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial - PCWorld |
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| Topic: Technology |
4:55 am EDT, Aug 31, 2010 |
If the misplacement of the Lincoln Memorial on Google Maps is, in fact, an example of Google censoring search results, then it's not the first time. Google has previously removed controversial search results from its listings, including White Nationalist, anti-Semitic, and radical Islamic results from German and French Google search results.nullnull
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| Topic: Society |
3:18 am EDT, Aug 27, 2010 |
Well, this is simply the biggest pile of crap I've seen from any gov't in a few days at least. Philadelphia has decided that bloggers must pay for a $300 licence. WTF. Since when did free speech so decidedly turn into "fee speech"? If Nashville tries this, I'll send them a picture of my "special" finger. Screw Philadelphia |
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World of Proteincraft : Discovery News |
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| Topic: Games |
11:59 am EDT, Aug 17, 2010 |
Compared to slaying dragons or building civilizations, figuring out the shape of a protein doesn’t sound particularly thrilling. But turn the task into an online game, replete with the competition and camaraderie of “World of Warcraft,” and the masses will come.
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Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ | Gadget Lab | Wired.com |
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| Topic: Recreation |
3:33 pm EDT, Aug 16, 2010 |
Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered stretches from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. First, he identified on a map the route he would need to drive to spell out the message. He put a GPS device in his car to trace the route he would follow. Then, he hit the road.
Man Scrawls World’s Biggest Message With GPS ‘Pen’ | Gadget Lab | Wired.com |
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Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring |
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| Topic: Society |
6:59 pm EDT, Aug 6, 2010 |
Noah Shachtman: The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents -- both present and still-to-come.
CEO Christopher Ahlberg: We can assemble actual real-time dossiers on people.
Decius: Money for me, databases for you.
Decius: What you tell Google you've told the government.
Eric Schmidt: If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Google, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring |
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Recently Single Al Gore Finally Able To Listen To W.A.S.P. Albums | The Onion - America's Finest News Source |
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| Topic: Humor |
8:56 pm EDT, Aug 2, 2010 |
NASHVILLE, TN—Finally unhindered by his wife Tipper's 25-year-long household ban on violent and sexually explicit music, former vice president Al Gore, 62, reportedly embraced his newfound independence this week by listening to the albums of the heavy metal band W.A.S.P. "For the first time in decades, I get to play the kind of music I like without someone nagging me about what a bad influence it is," said Gore, sitting on the floor of his living room as he cued up the song "Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)" on his stereo. "And I get to crank it up as loud as I want."
Recently Single Al Gore Finally Able To Listen To W.A.S.P. Albums | The Onion - America's Finest News Source |
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