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In this 1945 Mechanix Illustrated article, Harold S. Kahm sets out the facts for any would-be ride-designers looking to hit the jackpot with a new high-speed thrill. Starting with the origin story of the bumper car (a WWI munitions plant worker built a miniature truck for hauling parts, the plant workers went crazy riding it,

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HOWTO get rich from carny rides, 1945

Superman can be a real jerk! “Comics Showing Superman Crazy Sociopath WTF Funny” (Happy Place)

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Sociopathic Superman comics

A group of Anons are about to dump a torrent 2.6GB of email containing “detailed records, transcripts, testimony, trial evidence, and legal defense donation records” about the Haditha massacre, in which 24 unarmed Iraqi men, women and children were killed by the USMC. The announcement states that Anonymous stole 2.6 gigabytes of e-mail belonging to

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Anonymous ready to dump 2.6GB of Haditha docs

One of the first “physibles” available for download on The Pirate Bay’s 3D object download site was a 3D model of TPB’s pirate-ship logo. Canadian Charles Randall ordered one up from Shapeways, and it’s arrived. “I was entertained by telling shapeways.com that I owned the copyright on the design though, something they force you to

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3D printed Pirate Bay ship

A $250 USB keytar with DAW automapping, MIDI-assignable motion sensitivity and an internal battery for optional use with an iPad? Yes. [Alesis]

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Vortex, a USB keytar

Warner Brothers has canceled production of Elfquest, a movie about the feral descendants of space-faring shape-shifters and their quest to uncover the truth about their ancestors’ crash-landing on a primitive planet, because that sounds rather too much like The Hobbit. These guys need to watch today’s Die Antwoord video tailer and get a clue about

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Elfquest too much like The Hobbit, says Warner Brothers

After repeatedly insisting that establishing a national censoring firewall with DNS-blocking was critical to the Stop Online Piracy Act, the bill’s sponsor (and chair of the House Judicial Committee) Rep Lamar Smith has blinked. He’s agreed to cut DNS-blocking from the bill, in the face of a threat from rival Rep Darrell Issa, whose House

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Lamar Smith and Patrick Leahy blink: take DNS-blocking out of SOPA and PIPA

John Huntington sez, “I’m preparing a new (and self published) edition of my book, Control Systems for Live Entertainment. And so I put a survey online and got over 100 respondents. It’s not a huge sample size, but what was most interesting to me was how much they were willing to pay for a printed

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Investigating reader preferences for a core technical reference book on the eve of its self-published rebirth

On Submitterator, Musicman pointed me towards this great presentation on LOLspeak as a form of language play, and why people engage in that play. According to Lauren Gawne, who gave this speech last week at the Australian Linguistics Society conference, the choice to use LOLspeak has a lot to do with establishing identity—the playful identity

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The academic linguistics of LOLspeak

China keeps the identities of its taikonauts a closely guarded secret. But a philatelic cover—postmarked envelope, to those of us who don’t collect stamps—may have given away the names of the seven military pilots who are being trained go to space, including the woman who could be China’s first female in space. Collect Space says:

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Stamp collectors may have outed first Chinese woman in space

The Swiss government commissioned a study on the impact of copyright-infringing downloading. The independent study concluded that downloaders use the money they spend to buy more legitimate entertainment products. So they’ve concluded to maintain Switzerland’s extant copyright law, which makes downloading for personal use legal. It’s a rare victory for evidence-based policy in a world

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Swiss gov’t study: downloading leads to sales, so we’re keeping it legal