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• Google Street View’s underwater journey

  
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  Last September, Google expanded its Street View service to include locations under the ocean , and if you’re curious about just how the company managed, TechCrunch has a great rundown of what goes into capturing all of those cute little sea turtles. As you’d imagine, it all starts with camera-equipped divers, and ...
  4 days ago

• Tumblr Tumblr Tumblr, Yahoo!

  
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  Yahoo Inc.s board has approved a deal to acquire blogging startup Tumblr, people familiar with the matter said Sunday. Yahoo has agreed to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the company, one of the people said. Tumblr would continue to operate largely as an independent business, the people said. Yahoo! acquired Ludicorp and ...
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• PS4′s ‘play while downloading’ feature arrives on PS3 first with ‘The Last of Us’

  
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  With the PlayStation 4, Sony is trying to lower the friction in buying games from PSN by letting you start playing games while they’re still downloading . Now it looks like the new feature will actually make it to the PlayStation 3 in time for the PSN release of Naughty Dog’s anticipated The Last of Us on June ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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
  4 weeks ago

• 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 — ...
  4 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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