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This handbill — which can be seen in the British Museum — dates back to the 1650s, and was produced by the first coffee shop in London, in St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill. It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up

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Coffee ad from the 1650s

Days after CEO Thorsten Heins promised that Research In Motion was not “in a death spiral,” it lost a patent litigation case filed by Mformation, maker of remote wireless management software. The jury awarded Mformation $147.2m. The verdict on Friday in a San Francisco federal court comes at a bad time for RIM, whose stock

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RIM hit with $147.2 million patent verdict

I get a ton of spam sent to my personal WordPress site, which is evidently sent using some kind of toolkit for would-be SEO scumbags. The spams use the SEO-target’s URL as the sender’s web-page, and consist of a bland, usually mildly positive, usually ungrammatical comment. This morning, I woke up to find that someone

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Large collection of default spam-comments from a slimy SEO tool

Matt Alt in Tokyo, following up on a recent BB post about a 1979 American view of the future, shares this wonderful scan. He says: This is 1969′s view of 1989! It’s from Shonen Sunday Magazine, a weekly comic compilation. Beautiful, groovy art. Hey, at least they got the “Roomba” right (even if they were

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Vision of the future, from 1969 Japan

AGS, in Manistee, MI, has something for everyone — whether you’re shopping for a bong, a dildo or a frisbee. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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One-stop shop

Uber, a spunky startup that’s made a name for itself by using mobile devices to hook up people with rolling stock — starting with an app that let idle limo drivers in San Francisco know about people who couldn’t get a cab due to the city’s notoriously dysfunctional taxi regulations — has a great new

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On-demand ice-cream trucks from Uber

Jason sez, BurningManRides.com is a carpool site that helps attendees share rides to the Burn. Created by the rideshare service Ridejoy, the site allows users to easily request or offer a ride and get matched up with other Burners going along their route on the same date and time frame. For those lucky enough to

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Rideshare service for Burning Man

Michael Geist sez, The Supreme Court of Canada issued its much anticipated rulings in the five copyright cases it heard last December. It will obviously take some time to digest these decisions, but the clear takeaway is that the court has delivered an undisputed win for fair dealing that has positive implications for education and

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Canadian Supreme Court upholds fair dealing and user rights in copyright

ESPN’s “Bodies We Want” photo series features “tasteful” nudes of performance athletes (tasteful inasmuch as all the genitals and women’s nipples are figleafed). It’s a pretty amazing series, in part because so many of the images are sexually charged in some way, and yet the athletes’ bodies are very different from the sort that appear

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Nudes of performance athletes

What’s the use of running a basket-case, tin-pot totalitarian dictatorship if you can’t drill an elite honor guard to perform breathtaking feats of close-order drill? Case in point, the official honor guard of Belarus. Домино (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Belarusian honor guard struts its stuff

Via MyModernMet, the work of California-based multimedia artist Lauren DiCioccio, whose “Sewn News” series features hand-embroidered imagery seen in back issues of The New York Times. Above, Lady Gaga in the The Arts section. “I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in

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All the news that’s fit to embroider

Noah Scalin’s bonus skulls on his skull-a-day site, made from two- and three-inch vacuum tubes, are tremendous: “Most of the ones I own have this extra bump at the top so I decided to try leaving it unpainted giving you a peek inside and making them have a bit of an alien/robot feel.” [BONUS] 399/400.

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Vacuum tube skulls

This is Chad Roberts, who wins the Internet today with a Star Wars X-Wing beard. EPIC STAR WARS X-WING BEARD (via Geekologie)

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X-Wing fighter in beard

Just look at it. Halloween Cute Banana Cat (via JWZ)

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Just look at this kitten in a banana-split costume, eating a banana

How much comfort and ease does a hunter need? In St. Louis Country forest, shooters are not only building “Deer Stands” larger than some houses, but cutting down swathes of forest to make it easier to nail their targets. John Myers writes: “We’re getting over-built. We’re seeing mansions out there — basically hunting shacks on

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Deer-hunting "mansions" on public land

Ainsworth, a “remedy store” sells “homeopathic” “remedies” — diluted-to-nothing, heavily shaken essences of substances that are good for what ails ya, providing whatever ails you is treatable by placebo (and they’re happy to sell you “remedies” for potentially serious illnesses that are otherwise eminently treatable provided you’re willing to use science instead of profitable nonsense

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Homeopathic doses of the Berlin Wall and tap water

John Schwartz wrote a great profile of John Scalzi in the NYT, in honor of his latest book, the absolutely cracking Redshirts, an existentialist comedy space-opera. The novel, Mr. Scalzi’s eighth, is something of a hit, especially for a work of science fiction without light sabers — or any of the accouterments of big-brand series.

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John Scalzi, profiled in the NYT

Police Tape is an Android app from the American Civil Liberties Union that is designed to allow citizens to covertly record the police. When activated, it hides itself from casual inspection, and it has a mode that causes it to send its recording to an ACLU-operated server, protecting against police seizure and deletion. Citizens can

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Police Tape: an ACLU mobile app to secretly record the police

Noah sez, “I thought you would appreciate these giant insects made from repurposed materials (including vehicle parts and bits of a blown up toolbox) by metalworker Ben Marcacci, who is currently at Camp Dwyer in Afghanistan.” Noah is correct. I started making these types of piece’s when I relocated to Camp dwyer (Aug 2011), I

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Junkbot insects from a metalworker in Afghanistan

BitTorrent Labs have released the alpha version of their “OneClick Chrome Extension,” a Javascript-based Web app that obviates the need for a separate BitTorrent client. Using their plugin, you can download BitTorrent files as though they were regular, server-hosted downloads. As Patrick Williams explains in a blog post on GitHub, I stumbled upon the Chrome

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Clientless BitTorrent downloads in your browser, using Javascript

I’m very taken with James Charlick’s photo, “The Grand Library,” shot in an abandoned house during an urban exploration expedition. The Grand Library

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Library in abandoned house

From Sociological Images’s Lisa Wade: Mitt Romney’s campaign put out a set of graphics illustrating a “gap” between what Obama promised and what he has delivered. The graphic is in the form of a Venn diagram, a visual designed to show the overlap between two conditions… Unfortunately, Romney’s overlapping circles are not Venn diagrams, making

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Mitt Romney doesn’t know how Venn diagrams work

The UK has spent more money bailing out its banks in the past 12 months than it has spent on science since the time of Christ.

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One year of econopocalypse would pay for a civilization’s worth of science

MrBrickLabel has a Flickr set of absolutely gorgeous vintage Chinese firecracker labels. I have been collecting firecracker and firework labels since I was 5 years old (1968). I appraise, buy, sell and trade firecracker labels. Everything you see here could possibly be for trade. I will try to post everything eventually.

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Vintage Chinese firecracker label-art

Becky sez, Almost a year ago, Just Do It!, a film that follows the adventures of direct action environmental activists in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate summit, was unleashed on the world. A joyful romp around the ins and outs of our corrupted political system, the film grants its viewers the kind of access

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Just Do It doc on direct-action environmentalists now available as free, CC-licensed BitTorrent download