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22 Apr 08

NASA to VW devs: build our world for no pay & sell your crap it in

"In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM, NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities." Great, a Mountain Dew space shuttle.

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16 Mar 08

UK police: put bad toddlers on DNA list

"Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert." Can someone please tell them we don't live in a Phi

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23 Feb 08

Trailer for Zinn's The People Speak now online

"Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Steve Earle and others readin material from Voices of a People's History of the United States." Watch and think.

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19 Feb 08

Koster throws it down at Worlds in Motion

"It’s not about virtual worlds; it’s about the real world. It’s about people. That’s what makes virtual worlds the killer app. It’s us. It’s other people." Dang, this is a must read if you're at all interested in where this stuff is going vs w

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13 Feb 08

Canada asleep on net neutrality while US makes progress

"Net neutrality is not enshrined by law but its principles are supported by some regulations. But in both the United States and Canada internet service providers have been caught engaging in practices that go against the principle." Keep the web free, her

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11 Jan 08

Getting ready for Fatworld

"Fatworld explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S." Take that McDonald's!

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18 Aug 05

Newsflash: Posh Spice don't read books

Victoria Beckham says she has never read a book in her life. It's a common trait - one in four adults say books aren't for them.

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16 Jun 05

The war on war recruiters

Summer is typically the most active military enlistment season, but the growing student counter-recruitment movement is working hard to keep youth in schools.

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02 Jun 05

High tech eye glasses block billboards

SeeFree® Visual Spam Blocking System™ based on cutting edge image-recognition and augmented-reality technology, will effectively filter out all "visual spam" you don't need, and will make your sight really free.

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31 May 05

Deep Throat revealed

One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as "Deep Throat"

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30 May 05

Anti-poverty wristbands made by slave labour

FASHIONABLE wristbands worn by pop stars, actors, top athletes and celebrities to publicise the Make Poverty History campaign are produced in appalling "slave labour" conditions, damning evidence has revealed.

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22 May 05

Teen says blogging sux0rs

Instant messaging is an epidemic, and Web journals dominate the Internet. Now MySpace.com has reared its ugly head, taking rank as one of the most vile and torturous of man's creations

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29 Apr 05

Max Barry Predicts the Brave New World

Occasionally I wonder how social values will change over the next several decades. I’m pretty sure they will change. But which ones? Here are some guesses.

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