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• Welcome Home, Daddy!
  New Urban Legends
  
  Photograph purportedly shows a pregnant woman waiting to welcome home a husband who couldn't have fathered the child she's carrying. […]
• The Real War At SXSW: AT&T Versus 15,000 Data-Crazed Geeks
  TechCrunch
  
  We’ve talked a lot this week about the so-called “Location War” brewing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas starting tomorrow. That war will happen, but actually, there are likely to be a lot of winners because a few of the location-based services should be able to leverage the exposure to gain usage after the conference. Those with real bloodlust should p […]
• Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube
  The Official Google Blog
  
  (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog)When the first ball of this year’s Indian Premier League cricket season is bowled, fans across the planet will have a front row seat in the world’s biggest online sports stadium. Tonight the Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders will face off in Mumbai at 8pm IST, and the YouTube global community will be able to tune i […]
• Look-at-my-scrotum lawsuit dismissed
  Boing Boing
  
  A Montreal man has had his lawsuit against Air Transat dismissed. He was suing the airline because the flight attendants refused to help him look at his scrotum and determine why it had started bleeding on a flight (they gave him some sanitary towels and told him they'd land for emergency medical attention if it got worse). On arrival in Mexico, the man […]
• Mechanical cardboard junk-horse walks the streets of Bulgaria
  Boing Boing
  
  "Pony Express," a Bulgarian mechanical horse (created by T.J. Tangpuz) is made out of discarded packaging, plastic ties, and other detritus, and it delighted the people of Oryahovo, Bulgaria with its regular perambulations, before it was moved to a gallery. Mechanical cardboard horse Previously:Mechanical papercraft toys -- including a Maneki Neko […]
• Miniature cities on household objects
  Boing Boing
  
  These beautiful, fanciful miniature cities built into household objects like power-strips and desk-fans are part of the graduate show at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. The artist is uncredited, but it's very lovely work. Student Work | Kyoto University of Art and Design (via Cribcandy) Previously:Photographer takes photos of real scenes that lo […]
• French village went insane after CIA spiked its bread with LSD
  Boing Boing
  
  For 50 years, residents of the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit have tried to understand the "cursed bread" incident, a moment of terrifying mass insanity and hallucinations that left at least five dead and dozens in asylums. Now the mystery is solved: the CIA secretly spiked the bread from the bakery with enormous quantities of LSD as part of i […]
• London Olympics: police powers to force spectators to remove non-sponsor items, enter houses, take posters
  Boing Boing
  
  The Olympics are coming to London, so our civil liberties are going out the window: because nothing epitomises the spirit of global competition and cooperation like corporate bullying and unfettered truncheon-waving. Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters, and will be able to stop people carrying non-sponsor items to sporting events […]
• A Thought for Deep Lent
  Caught by the Light
  
  The unfolding saga in the Diocese of South Carolina, one of the latest flash points of controversy in the Episcopal Church, generated a lot of comment at Episcopal Cafe this day in an article posted by Andrew Gerns. Proposed resolutions coming up at their specially postponed diocesan convention ring simultaneously of both the sixteenth and nineteenth centuri […]
• Advertising: Instant Ads Set the Pace on the Web
  NYT > Technology
  
  Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft let advertisers buy ads in the milliseconds between the time someone enters a site’s Web address and the moment the page appears. […]
• Targeting the Good Cell
  MetaFilter
  
  Targeting the Good Cell: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covers the latest stem cell advances, built around a gripping 2008 series (1, 2, 3) about the competitive race to reprogram mature cells into functionally embryonic stem cells. They also include a somewhat self-congratulatory rumination on this series and the challenges if making detailed science journa […]
• And It Begins: Foursquare Shatters Its Check-In Record The Day Before SXSW
  TechCrunch
  
  The official Foursquare account just sent out a tweet letting everyone know that today is already the service’s biggest day ever. This is interesting since it’s actually the day before the SXSW conference kicks off in Austin, Texas. According to the tweet, Foursquare broke 275,000 check-ins (the previous record, set last Friday) for the day “hours ago.” This […]
• Updates on previous entries for Mar 11, 2010*
  kottke.org
  
  Secret restaurant menus orig. from Mar 10, 2010 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here. Tags: post updates […]
• Check-In For Charity During SXSW With CauseWorld And TechCrunch
  TechCrunch
  
  There are no shortage of location-based services launching this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Many of them allow you to “check-in” places to let others know you are there. So how do you differentiate between then and decide which to use? Well, here’s one good way. CauseWorld, is a free iPhone and Android app that lets you check-in places, but it has an adde […]
• March 12, 1790: Batteries Now Included
  Wired Top Stories
  
  Before J.F. Daniell develops a much improved battery, the devices were impractical and downright dangerous. His innovations enable the telegraph and other technology to take off. […]
• If it's Thursday, must be time for TEC to sue
  BabyBlueOnline
  
  Yes, The Episcopal Church has found someone new to sue. Feel the love. From here:The Episcopal Diocese of the San Joaquin filed a lawsuit Thursday against St. Columba's -- a Fresno parish that joined dozens of other churches in seceding from the national Episcopal Church in 2007. The diocese maintains that it and its bishop are the rightful owners of th […]
• Arthur Penn's "Mickey One"
  MetaFilter
  
  Often dismissed as a failed experiment, this oddity from Arthur Penn is a constantly surprising and enigmatic classic. Two years ahead of Bonnie and Clyde, this New Hollywood prototype is ragged and frantic, a skewed but thrilling attempt to rewrite established narrative form. Penn's existential noir thriller, informed by a dose of French new wave eleme […]
• McClatchy—Recession is fueling a boom in insurance Fraud
  TitusOneNine
  
  The sour economy is producing a bumper crop of cash-strapped consumers, business owners and shady agents who're fueling a wave of insurance fraud that's keeping regulators and law enforcement officials busy from coast to coast. Whether it's worthless health plans peddled by fax, staged auto accidents, arson or slip-and-fall accidents at the lo […]
• Computers One Step Closer To Reading Your Mind
  TitusOneNine
  
  Machines that decode your thoughts aren't limited to the realm of science fiction anymore. A computer program that analyzes brain scans was able to tell which of three short films people were thinking about, according to a study in the journal Current Biology. "We were able to predict just from their brain activity which of those memories they were […]
• Births to Minorities Are Approaching Majority in U.S.
  TitusOneNine
  
  In the latest sign of the nation’s shifting racial and ethnic composition, births to Asian, black and Hispanic women in the United States are on the verge of surpassing births to non-Hispanic whites. Minorities accounted for 48 percent of all births in the nation in the 12 months that ended in July 2008. While it will most likely take years for health statis […]

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