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Picture Blocking Beer Cooler Keeps Your Face Out of Embarrassing Photos
Dec 16th
cylonlover writes “It may sound like something dreamed up by a cheesy men’s magazine as a joke, but apparently this is a real thing that actually exists. Ostensibly, the Norte Photoblocker is a functional beer cooler surrounded by four sensors that can detect the flashes from cameras or cell phones. If a flash goes off in the direction of the Photoblocker, it fires its own flash to flood the resulting photos with bright white and obscure anyone nearby. Now you can go about your usual business of cheating on your spouse, being an idiot around your boss, or drunkenly harassing fellow party-goers without worrying that some wildly irresponsible person will tag you in a photo and posts it online.”
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#OccupyLA
Oct 11th
Dozens of people are camping out on the lawn of the Los Angeles City Hall, and have been since last week, hoping to make an impact in the movement now known as Occupy Wall Street (#occupywallstreet). Though several thousand miles away from the hub, LA protesters are committed to the same cause as their fellow citizens in New York: to protest the state of the economy, particularly the corporate banks and other federal institutions and heads who make up the
PayPal Co-Founder Gives Out $100,000 To Not Go To College
May 27th
Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel says the key to quicker business innovation is skipping college. His foundation is handing out $100,000 to 24 people under 20 to drop out of college for two years and start companies. From the press release: “As the first members of the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, the Fellows will pursue innovative scientific and technical projects, learn entrepreneurship, and begin to build the technology companies of tomorrow. During their two-year tenure, each Fellow will receive $100,000 from the Thiel Foundation as well as mentorship from the Foundation’s network of tech entrepreneurs and innovators. The project areas for this class of fellows include biotech, career development, economics and finance, education, energy, information technology, mobility, robotics, and space.”
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HTC EVO 3D coming to Europe, keeping the sexy name and specs
Mar 29th
Earlier this year, HTC allowed its previously Verizon-exclusive brand name out to prowl the globe with the Incredible S, and now it’s doing the same with the heretofore Sprint-only EVO moniker. The EVO 3D, says a tweet from HTC’s French mouthpiece, is coming to the land of baguettes, stylish mustaches and stripy pullovers, though a little bit of mystery remains as to when exactly its arrival shall be. Whatever the schedule (the EVO 3D’s set for a “summer” release in the US), the rest of Europe’s unlikely to be left out, meaning a 4.3-inch superphone with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1080p video recording in 2D and 720p in 3D, HTC’s newest Sense skin and Android’s freshest Gingerbread build, is headed out to the Old World. And that, fellow pilgrims, is a mighty awesome thing indeed.
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Are Democrats, unions really in sync?
Mar 15th
The success of Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Wisconsin Republicans at stripping most collective bargaining rights from public unions has triggered a fierce political backlash.
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Gays ousted from military now hoping to return (AP)
Dec 30th
AP – Joseph Rocha reported being cruelly hazed by Navy colleagues. Katherine Miller resigned from West Point halfway through, weary of concealing her sexual orientation. David Hall was outed by a fellow Air Force cadet and booted from the career he loved.
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U.S. soldier suspected in fatal shooting of 2 fellow soldiers
Sep 28th
A U.S. soldier is in custody in connection with the shooting deaths of two fellow soldiers and the wounding of a third in Iraq, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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Love triangle skydive murder trial begins (Reuters)
Sep 26th
Reuters – A Belgian woman went on trial on Friday charged with the murder of a fellow skydiver and love rival who plunged to her death after her parachute was sabotaged.
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iPhone app for U of A students
Sep 9th
Students at the University of Alberta have introduced an iPhone application to help fellow students navigate around campus.
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Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers (AP)
Sep 5th
AP – Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison.
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Democrat Maxine Waters Faces Ethic Investigation (The Atlantic Wire)
Aug 4th
The Atlantic Wire – The House ethics committee has announced charges against Democratic
Congresswoman Maxine Water, who is from California. Waters used her congressional authority to meet with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on
behalf of the Massachusetts-based OneUnited bank, in which her husband,
as a former director, owned $250,000 of stock. OneUnited
eventually received $12 million in federal bailout funds Here’s what
people are saying so far about the case, which comes as fellow
Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel is mired in his own ethics
investigation.
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Eminem leads album chart for fifth week (Reuters)
Jul 29th
Reuters – Eminem ruled the U.S. pop album chart for a fifth week on Wednesday, fending off a strong debut from fellow rapper Rick Ross.
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