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People expected the warbles of a teen opera singer but instead got The Fall's Mark E. Smith, world champion drunk pissed-off post-punk mumblecore king.

Good summary of the Stanford Investments fraud and regulatory failures.

The most ambitious project is the "immobilization device" built by Peak Beam Systems for the U.S. Army. Fitted to a small unmanned helicopter, "the Xenon based searchlight [can] be pulsed with a unique modulation (strobe) effect that results in immobilization to those within the beam," according to a contract announcement.

According to Rueters [sic], the rapper said that he has joined the group because he was "doing what's right and representing what's right," adding that as a "leader of the hip-hop community" he would share what he learned with other artists.

great photos of antarctic stuff.

Raniere historically has the dubious distinction of being featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2003 as the "world's strangest executive coach"

Among about 160 files that Johnson claims contained sensitive data (.pdf) were two spreadsheets containing information on 20,000 patients, which identified four patients being treated for HIV-AIDS, 326 patients being treated for cancer, 201 being treated for mental illnesses and thousands afflicted with various other diseases.

Unexpectedly great interview with Margot Kidder. She knows everybody and did everything and is smart as hell.

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