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2016 Aug 18, 5:40
Mother Jones on ending private prisons and their previous piece inside private prisons: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/department-justice-plans-end-private-prison  https://twitter.com/AlexCKaufman/status/766300516007682048 
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2015 Dec 20, 11:32
FAA Grounds ‘Uber for Planes’ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/faa-grounds-uber-for-planes … via @motherboard
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Retweet of alisternburg

2015 Oct 26, 6:41
"Please stop yelling at me, I did not make up copyright law." Read @sarahjeong's explainer on © & Internet radio: http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/internet-radio-copyright-is-bad-and-dumb-a-comprehensive-explainer …
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MotherJones - Meet the people behind the Wayback Machine, one of...

2014 Jun 1, 4:16


MotherJones - Meet the people behind the Wayback Machine, one of our favorite things about the internet

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How I Met Your Mother - Ted’s Kids Like You’ve Never...

2013 Jul 23, 7:45


How I Met Your Mother - Ted’s Kids Like You’ve Never Seen Them (by howimetyourmother)

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Mike Merrill Is a Publicly Traded Person | Motherboard

2012 Jul 1, 2:01

By which is meant the following:

Essentially, each shareholder has decided to buy into Merrill ’s life and help him make better choices that will then hopefully up the stock price, allowing them to make money should they ever decide to cash out.

What? Oh, he lives in Portland.

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wired: [via motherjones]: theweekmagazine: Sticking to an...

2012 Jun 7, 3:29


wired:

[via motherjones]:

theweekmagazine:

Sticking to an exercise routine takes dedication, and many fitness junkies swear that a running companion can be a huge help. That’s why researchers have developed “Joggobot,” a quad-rotor helicopter drone designed to motivate joggers by flying in front of them. 

The aerial robot uses its camera to spot a colorful pattern on a T-shirt worn by the jogger, and flies at a safe distance ahead. The runner can control Joggobot using a smartphone: In “companion mode,” the drone simply maintains the jogger’s pace; in “coach mode,” it pushes its human trainee a little faster.

Don’t worry, there’s a video

Science!

Maybe it should chase you instead?

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BoingBoing reposts this great Cyberpunk parody photo from 12...

2012 Jun 5, 4:17


BoingBoing reposts this great Cyberpunk parody photo from 12 years ago, and Motherboard has a What happened to cyberpunk article.

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Mother Jones

2012 Apr 4, 7:20

fluxmachine:

mother jones

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Mothereffing animated gif

2012 Feb 17, 7:31

Client side animated GIF creator web app.

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(via Streetview Stereographic is Warping Google Maps)

2012 Jan 6, 6:15


(via Streetview Stereographic is Warping Google Maps)

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The Most Anticipated Shoe of All Time: Q+A With Someone Who Won A Pair of Marty McFly's Futuristic Kicks | Motherboard

2011 Sep 20, 9:27Interview with someone who bought the limited edition Back to the Future shoes: "[Interviewer] Have you watched the Back to the Future movies? [Respondent] Yeah, some of em. The hoverboards and shit. That was cool." ARGH! Not worthy!PermalinkCommentshumor bttf nike shoes

Lessig: Copyright isn't just hurting creativity: it's killing science (video) | Motherboard

2011 Apr 27, 2:22"Larry Lessig gave a new talk at CERN last week about copyright and how it has affected open access to academic or scientific information"

The Architecture of Access to Scientific Knowledge from lessig on Vimeo.

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2010_05_Dave_and_Sarah_Wedding_Dave_with_Mother_and_Mother-In-Law

2010 Jun 5, 3:54

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McSweeney's Internet Tendency: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherf*rs.

2009 Oct 27, 6:16It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherf*rs, By COLIN NISSANPermalinkCommentshumor satire halloween gourd pumpkin fall essay

Netflix Watch Instantly Recommendations

2009 May 3, 9:17
WeedsAvatar The Last AirbenderPaprikaGrindhouse Planet TerrorOutsourcedThe King of KongPrimer

Netflix lets you watch a subset of their movies online via their website and a subset of those movies are available to watch on the Xbox 360's Netflix app. so its not always easy to find movies to watch on Xbox 360. Yet, I regularly see my Xbox friends using the Netflix app and its a shame they didn't make an easy way to share movie recommendations with your friends. Instead we must share movie recommendations the old fashioned way. Here's the movies I've found and enjoyed on my 360.

Weeds
You don't have to be a stoner to enjoy this humorous and dramatic satire featuring a widow trying to raise her children and deal pot in suburbia.
Avatar The Last Airbender
An American animated series that's an amalgamation of various Asian art, history, religion, etc. that maintains a great story line.
Paprika
If you enjoyed Paranoia Agent you'll enjoy this movie in the same animation style and by the same director and writer, Satoshi Kon. Its like a feature length version of a Paranoia Agent episode in which a dream machine lets outsiders view one's dreams but eventually leads to blurring the dreams and reality.
Grindhouse Planet Terror
I didn't see either of the Grindhouse movies when they first came out, but of the two, Planet Terror is the more humorous and exciting gore filled parody.
Outsourced
A refreshing romantic comedy that still has a few of the over played tropes but is easy to enjoy despite that.
The King of Kong
A hilarious documentary on the struggle between the reigning champ hot-sauce salesman and the underdog Washington state high school science teacher to obtain the Donkey Kong world record high score. After watching, checkout this interview with the creators of the movie and the villain.
Primer
I've mentioned Primer before, but I put it on here again because its really good and you still haven't seen it, have you?
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The Moth Podcast

2009 Mar 6, 5:36"The Moth, a not-for-profit storytelling organization, was founded in New York in 1997 by poet and novelist George Dawes Green, who wanted to recreate in New York the feeling of sultry summer evenings on his native St. Simon's Island, Georgia, where he and a small circle of friends would gather to spin spellbinding tales on his friend Wanda's porch."PermalinkCommentsmoth podcast humor rss story nyc community

STARMEN.NET - MOTHER 2 / EarthBound Music

2009 Jan 31, 1:47Music from the SNES game EarthBound. Time for new ringtones...PermalinkCommentsearthbound music mp3 mother2 videogame

Sonja Eddings Brown is Rather Unpleasant - The Rehabilitated Student

2008 Nov 16, 10:13"Imagine my mild surprise when I discovered that the woman who terrorized me in my final days in high school is the face of Proposition 8. Sonja Eddings Brown is everything you would expect a Proposition 8 supporter to be: someone with misplaced values and a knack for being a big bully. Yes, a middle-aged mother of three went out of her way to threaten to kick a high school senior out of her valedictory speaking position simply because the student refused to have (strange) words placed her mouth and to be used as a propagandistic advertising vehicle."PermalinkCommentspolitics education california sonja-eddings-brown high-school via:kris.kowal

Failing Electronics

2008 Oct 22, 12:54

Electronic devices shouldn't fail, they should just sit wherever I place them and work forever. A while back my home web server started failing so I moved over to a real web hosting service. And this was the home web server I built from pieces Eric gave me after my previous one died during the big power failure the year before. The power socket on my old laptop has come undone from the motherboard so that it can no longer be powered. Just a week or two ago my Xbox 360 stopped displaying video. The CPU fan on my media center died. I also want to put my camera and GPS in this list, but the camera died due to accidentally turning on in my pocket and the GPS was stolen so those aren't the devices just arbitrarily failing.

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