black sheep aus!
The nationalist Swiss People’s Party (who garnered 26% of the vote in the last elections) is proposing a deportation policy reminiscent of Nazi-era practices. Under the plan, entire families would be expelled if their children are convicted of a violent crime, drug offense or benefits fraud. And get a load of their black sheep poster campaign, or their 2004 poster, with the dreaded black hand reaching for (gasp!) a Swiss passport. Yodel-odel-ay-eeeeeee-who?
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25 Years Later, It’s Still Dark and Rainy
Ridley Scott is presenting Blade Runner: The Final Cut, a re-edited version of the cyber-punk classic, at the 2007 Venice Film Festival.
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Totally Stoked
Texify is a pretty convenient web-based way to typeset LaTeX equations and get a linkable image.
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Strangelove’s Doomsday: fiction meets facts
Dr. Strangelove’s Doomsday device may be more fact than fiction. We’ve had doomsday stories here before, but what if dead hand control of nuclear devices is real? Perhaps live-hand control is better. You could always try your hand at a nuclear apocalypse.
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Who’s your daddy now?!
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It will get on all your disks, It will infiltrate your chips, Yes it’s Cloner!
The Computer Virus Turns 25. “I guess if you had to pick between being known for this and not being known for anything, I’d rather be known for this. But it’s an odd placeholder for (all that) I’ve done.” In 1982, ninth-grade student Rich Skrenta decided to play a prank on his friends. He wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines. It is thought to be the first computer virus to be unleashed “in the wild.” Related: A History Of Viruses.
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How long will you live?
An insurance company’s cute little flash application tells you how long you’re going to live.
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Good Night, Sweet Icarus
R.I.P Paul B. MacCready Paul MacCready, inventor of the Gossamer Condor, the first human powered heavier-than-air aircraft, and the Gossamer Albatross, the first human powered aircraft to cross the English Channel, has died, according to AeroVironment, the company he founded.
“You can do all kinds of things if you just plunge ahead,” he said in an interview with Science in 1986. “It doesn’t mean you’re any good at them, but you can be good enough.”
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ZetaFlow
ZetaFlow. Blow up a few of his spaceships, then build your own to blow up. Some instructions inside.
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Influence Me
John Lennon’s Jukebox (BBC,Google vid,48min)
wiki “In 1989, John Lennon’s jukebox surfaced in an auction of Beatles memorabilia at Christie’s, and was sold for £2,500 to Bristol-based music promoter John Midwinter. Lennon had apparently bought the jukebox � specifically a Swiss KB Discomatic � in 1965, and filled it with forty singles to take with him on tour. Midwinter spent several years restoring the box and researching the discs catalogued in Lennon’s spidery handwriting. When Midwinter developed cancer, and his health began to deteriorate, his desire to see the player featured in some kind of documentary became all the more important.”
Guardian article,music.
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Body parts
News stories about washed up body parts are quite rare, which makes the latest case off Vancouver even more unusual.
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You haven’t been eaten, until you’ve been eaten by a grue
Let’s Tell a Story Together (A History of Interactive Fiction)
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No thanks! I am going home to masturbate!
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