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• Official list of English words misused in EU documents

  
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  A brief list of misused English terminology in EU publications [PDF] is a fascinating look at the emerging dialect of English that is emerging out of the EU bureaucracy, in which odd bureaucratic language has to be translated from and to many languages. It’s a good window into concepts that are common in one ...
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• How clay water filters for Ghana are made

  
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  Gmoke sez, “Susan Murcott and her team’s factory making clay filters for Pure Home Water in Ghana. Over 100,000 served, so far.” They’re shooting for 1,000,000. Pure Home Water, Ghana: AfriClay Filters         See the original post: How clay water filters for Ghana are made
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• Real Stuff: Dennis the Sullen Menace

  
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  “A few years ago I got busted for dealing acid and marijuana. The judge gave me three years in the Idaho State Penitentiary.” From Real Stuff #1 (Fantagraphics, December 1990).         Continued here: Real Stuff: Dennis the Sullen Menace
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• Watch the latest videos in Boing Boing’s video post archives

  
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  Among the most recent video posts you will find on our all-new video archive page: • 2 months on an Antarctic icebreaker • Hannah Peel covers OMD’s “Electricity” on an antique music box • DroneShield: crowdfunded, networked drone detectors • Homemade laser pops 100 balloons • Homemade Thor’s hammer ...
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• Guatemala: "An attempt to decimate the future," Ixil testimony at genocide trial

  
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  Skylight Pictures, the team behind “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator,” and “When the Mountains Tremble,” have been here in Guatemala observing and documenting the historic genocide trial against former dictator General Jose Efraín Rios Montt. Here is Episode #10 of their ongoing series of web updates from the ...
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• Russian paratroopers deploy inflatable Orthodox church

  
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  This is a film of a training session of the Russian Army deploying an inflatable Orthodox church and paratrooping priests.         Read More: Russian paratroopers deploy inflatable Orthodox church
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• Iceland Supreme Court upholds Wikileaks win, orders Visa to process donations or face fines again

  
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  In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal abruptly cut off donation payments to WikiLeaks, crippling its source of funds. Today, however, some more of those donations may be returning due to a decision at Iceland’s Supreme Court. Last July , an Iceland court ordered that Valitor — formerly Visa Iceland — ...
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• Fake malaria drugs might soon be spotted, thanks to handheld device

  
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  A simple handheld device could soon thwart the growing scourge of fake and diluted antimalarial drugs in Africa and Asia. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced plans to manufacture the device, called CD-3, and then deploy it to Ghana for preliminary tests. Estimates suggest that malaria, a ...
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• Juggler for Jesus selling dad’s huge fossil collection

  
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  David Cain of Middletown, Ohio is selling off his late father’s massive collection of fossils that takes up several rooms in an unmarked storefront. Cain says the most valuable items are 200 megalodon teeth, and a dozen dinosaur egg nests. He’d like to get around $250,000 for the whole lot. The challenge, says ...
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• Drug Czar pretends the 1.5 million people arrested every year for nonviolent drug offenses don’t exist

  
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  Tony Newman of the Drug Policy Alliance says: “Yesterday during a nationally televised event at the National Press Club, Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske repeated the federal government’s claim that they ended the war on drugs in 2009 and are now prioritizing drug treatment and prevention over incarceration. They cite an ...
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• Girl who lost her hearing after West fertilizer plant exploded is now okay

  
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  The Today Show tracked down the Texas father who shot that now iconic video of the West fertilizer plant explosion — the one where you can hear his daughter screaming and pleading with him to leave after the explosion happens. Derrick Hurtt and his family were within 300 yards of the factory when it went         ...
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• Controlling a robot arm with an Android phone

  
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  Students at the University of Toronto created an Android app for a course project that allows for wireless and intuitive control of a robotic arm from an Android-powered smartphone.         Read More: Controlling a robot arm with an Android phone
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• Photos of bugs with drops of water on their heads

  
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  This is the best gallery of bugs with drops of water on their heads I’ve ever seen. Dmitriy Yoav Reinshtein, I lift my drop of water to you.         Continue Reading: Photos of bugs with drops of water on their heads
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• Internet penetration is never correlated with increasing power to dictators, and is usually correlated with increased freedom

  
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  Philip N Howard wonders if there are any countries that have, on balanced, suffered as a result of the coming of the Internet — say, because improved networks created so many opportunities for dictators to spy on dissidents that it swamped any free speech/free association benefits that the Internet delivered. So he ...
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• Guatemala—Rios Montt genocide trial, Day 20. Will case be thrown out by Constitutional Court?

  
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  In the Guatemalan Supreme Court, reporters swarm as appeal introduced by Constitutional Court to throw out genocide trial. Photo: @xeni. I am blogging from inside the Guatemalan Supreme Court in Guatemala City this morning, on day 20 of the trial of former Guatemalan General and genocide and de factor dictator Rios ...
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• Siri, keeper of secrets

  
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  Robert McMillan writes: “Not everyone realizes this, but whenever you use Siri, Apple’s voice-controlled digital assistant, she remembers what you tell her. How long does she remember? Apple isn’t saying. And the American Civil Liberties Union is concerned.” [Wired]         Originally posted here: Siri, ...
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• How heavy metal is infiltrating higher education

  
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  Heavy metal has long been relegated to the fringes, transgressing norms through guttural screams and chaotic walls of sound. But as the Wall Street Journal reports , the genre has recently spawned its own branch of academic study at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where scholars, musicologists, and so-called ...
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• The secrets of bomb forensics

  
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  At the New Yorker, Paige Williams visits forensic chemist Adam B. Hall to talk about the surprising things you can learn about bombs and their makers by looking at the effects they produce — from the type and color of the smoke, to the smell that lingers in the air, to what the “boom” sounds         More: ...
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• Rep Steve Israel trying to score points with 3D printed gun hysteria

  
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  Michael Weinberg from Public Knowledge sez “Last week, Rep. Steve Israel introduced a bill designed to regulate firearms that cannot be found by metal detectors. The bill makes a passing reference the 3D printing, which is fine. But the rhetoric that Rep. Israel is using to promote the bill is both muddled and ...
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• Comic book keyboard

  
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  A nice find from our G+ BB Community member D.S. Deboer.         Excerpt from: Comic book keyboard
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