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Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobsA copyeditor at the Toronto Star greeted the news that union copyeditor jobs were being eliminated in favor of freelancers by heavily editing the publisher's memo announcing same, pointing out all the ways in which the publisher could benefit from editorial aid. This is very funny stuff, but ... |
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Car-thief steals car to drive to car-theft arraignmentA stolen car in Vallejo, CA, was located at a courthouse. The thief had stolen the car to drive to his arraignment on an earlier car-theft charge. Police said that Botchvaroff's own car had been impounded after a prior arrest (for something other than car theft that time), so he apparently stol... |
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Zoomquilt II: Flash zoom-through paintingThe Zoomquilt II, a 2007 sequel to the jarring Zoomquilt of 2004, is an even more hypnotic Flash zoom-through collaborative painting with bits from more than 30 different artists. Zoomquilt 2 (via @Chris_Carter) ... |
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What MP3 player should I buy?I'm in the market for a new MP3 player -- my second-gen iPod Nano is finally dead, and I don't want to buy another iPod, or any other player with DRM built in. I figure that any company that wants to devote its engineers to figuring out how to frustrate my desires doesn't really want my business.... |
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Tiny jack-o-lanterns carved in seed-podsMaster haunt modeller Ray Keim sez, "After a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, I figured out how to carve Putka Pods [ed: small, pumpkin-like dried seeds] into extremely tiny jack-o-lanterns!" Putka Pod Possibilities! (Thanks, Ray!) Previously:World record for... |
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Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating HeartAnd Now, Some Ripped-From-the-Headlines Context.....First, why a beating heart? Traditionally, if you had a clogged artery on your heart and doctors wanted to sew in some "bypass" arteries to get around the sluggish ones, the surgeon would shut your heart down, using a heart and lung ... |
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