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16 Jul 2009 21:30

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World: RIP Kodachrome film, you will (maybe) be missed (by some of us)

Last month, Kodak announced it was killing off one of its signature products. Check out these pictures taken before Mama took their Kodachrome away. source
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16 Jul 2009 20:43

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Biz: This guy’s “augmented reality” business card is kinda trippin’ us out

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

  • Well isn’t he just a fancy pants. James Alliban, an ActionScript developer from London, has created one of the trippiest business cards we have ever seen using something called “augmented reality.” We don’t really get how it works, but Muggles probably aren’t supposed to anyway. source
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16 Jul 2009 20:03

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Biz: Moonfruit can thank Twitter for its insane rise in popularity

  • You can’t buy a campaign like that. It would have cost us millions.
  • Internet entrepreneur Wendy Tan-White • On the success of Moonfruit’s creative, Twitter-powered marketing campaign. The web hosting company gave away ten Macbook Pro laptops to people who used “#moonfruit” in their tweets, which pushed the hashtag to the top of the trending list. Since then, their website has seen a 200% rise in visits from the UK and an astounding 1,000% rise in visits from the US.  • source
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16 Jul 2009 15:43

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World: Summer camp: a week of sunburns and heartbreak…and swine flu!?

  • 3 Canadian summer camps hit with a swine flu outbreak source
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15 Jul 2009 19:40

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World: Chechen human rights activist kidnapped and murdered

  • It seems to be open season on anyone trying to highlight the appalling human rights abuses in Chechnya. It’s high time the Russian government acted to stop these killings and prosecute those responsible.
  • Director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth • On the hostile conditions journalists and human rights activists face in Russia. Prominent rights activist and researcher Natalia Estemirova was abducted outside her home in Ingushetia this morning and found dead just hours later. Estemirova was well known for her work in Chechnya and won the inaugural Anna Politkovskaya prize in 2007.  • source
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15 Jul 2009 18:41

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U.S.: The space shuttle Endeavour launches off…FINALLY!!!

After five failed attempts, the Endeavour launched off today at 6:03 p.m. ET. Took ya long enough, NASA! source
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15 Jul 2009 14:57

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Culture: Accio profits! The Half-blood Prince breaks Dark Knight’s record

  • $22 million raked in by the new Harry Potter at midnight last night source
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15 Jul 2009 13:52

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World: What the Daily Telegraph is telling its readers, in a nutshell

  • Really, just forget everything we said. Women who drink booze are more likely to get raped…um, never mind. Women who dress “provocatively” are more likely to get raped…er, scratch that. Actually, remember everything we wrote in that article June 23? Yeah, we figured you would. Now you can go ahead and forget it all, wasn’t filled with a lot of “truthiness”…sorry. source
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14 Jul 2009 21:22

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World: Today is the 220th Bastille Day. That’s a lot.

The French national holiday commemorates the storming of Bastille in 1789. But for some it’s kind of just like a huge party, which we think is pretty awesome too. source
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14 Jul 2009 19:25

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U.S., World: According to some fancy math, Iran’s election was likely a fraud

  • His data is highly, highly, highly suggestive that something odd was going on.
  • Political Scientist Henry Brady • On American statistician Walter Mebane’s findings. Don’t ask us to explain all the math ShortForm style, but he dissected some of the numbers from the election in Iran and, in short, things smelled a bit fishy.  • source
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