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Wal-Mart Worker Crushed to Death on Black Friday; Union Responds (28)
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A worker at a New York Wal-Mart location was crushed to death this morning, "Black Friday," when hordes of shoppers overwhelmed to get inside for bargain-hunting. Snip from AP account: At least four other people were injured, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island was closed. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a "tragic situation" and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at ...
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Jared Cherup said:
Exactly why I think everyone that participates in Black Friday is a moron.
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Russ said:
Are we really at this point in our super consumerism that we will kill someone to save $52 on a tv? Sick.
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Sysop said:
Digamos que foi uma 'Dark Friday' para ele...
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Promethean said:
Wait.. ..so people tore doors off of the hinges and this is Wal-Mart's fault? No.. it is a modern irony that while we make slow steps in positive directions with some issues that we slowly slide into barbarism in others. To lay the blame for the fact that a group of human beings decided to stop behaving like human beings at the feet of Wal-mart is beyond ridiculous.
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Alex said:
How is this wal-mart's fault? Isn't this the fault of the 200 idiots to which $30 savings on a shitty off brand tv was worth more than a human life?
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Another one bites the dust (1)
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According to a number of people, it seems that German distributor Neuton will close down next week. The company, which distributes well-known labels like Tresor, Perlon and Rephlex (in Germany), looks likely to join a long list of vinyl distributors that have gone out of business since the start of this decade, including EFA, Prime, Integrale, Intergroove UK and Amato. With just Word & Sound, Kompakt and Intergroove Germany left as major distributors in Germany ...
Freakin' Friday's Silver Lining (1)
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Mark posted on Boing-Boing last year this article on Fake News that I wrote, which examined the retail numbers cited by the National Retail Federation about sales over Thanksgiving, and so-called Black Friday. I made the point that this news is fake news, coming from a press release generated by a retail trade organization and then spoon-fed to us by uncritical reporters. While the stories credit the source, the headlines give the impression that the ...
Enterprise (D) Takes on a Super Star Destroyer (11)
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(Video Link) Yes, we’ve all been subjected to Star Wars vs. Star Trek videos before, but this one is really, really good. Run time: 5 minutes, 36 seconds. Via Topless Robot
Pop-Up Porn Teacher Cops a Plea to Escape Jail Time (16)
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You may recall a case last year involving Julie Amero, a substitute junior high school teacher in Connecticut that was arrested and threatened with a 40 year prison sentence after the computer in her classroom began to display pornographic pop-ups in front of her students. Any one with even the slightest knowledge of computers could tell you that this was completely ridiculous—especially after learning that the computer system in the school was woefully ill-equipped to ...
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The New America: Idiots Could Ruin Your Life For Nothing
All Airports Should Have A Recombobulation Area Like The One In Milwaukee [Recombobulation] (34)
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Today is a travel day for millions of Americans, so we thought we'd focus on the positive. Here's a good idea that needs to catch on. Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport has a sign after their TSA check point that reads "Recombobulation Area." It's just a little patch of carpet with a few chairs, but the sign makes people smile. "See? You're getting recombobulated right now," Melissa Fullmore said Tuesday morning to another traveler who was ...
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Dani said:
Cute.
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nathos said:
WIN
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JDAL. said:
The airport security procedure in the U.S. is so appalling, I really think that this is the least that can be provided to let folks get their shit back together.
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4braham said:
OH: I just want to be combobulated to start with.
Battlestar Galactica's *The Epic Journey* Trailer Is Actually Epic [Must See TV] (18)
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It's Adama! No, it's Roslin! Adama! Roslin! And she's pissed off! Oh January 16, you are not coming fast enough. That's when you will see the end of the epic journey of the humans and the cylons, the final episodes of the last season of Battlestar Galactica, which will answer the most important question of them all: Who's the Final Cylon? Would Apollo and Starbuck actually do it on camera? Discuss. [Sci Fi Wire]
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dknowles said:
Damn it! I *just* started watching BSG. Why do I keep getting into TV shows right as they're ending?
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jlapenna said:
at least its just that the story is ending, not that the show was cancelled. im on s1e4 right now and because of jerk.friends knows who many of the cylons are.
wave of love (1)
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last thursday morning I opened an email from Blivs’ soccer club manager, it linked me to the youth soccer league and very sad news that a ten year-old boy, a member of another team, had just been killed in a car accident. His name was Jonathan, his nickname was Pretty Boy and he loved soccer so much that he begged the paramedics not to cut his jersey off him because he had a game the ...
Ex-Ford worker: "The bailout is the dumbest thing in the world" (1)
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"They're just going to eat that money up," says former Ford employee Joe Terry. Another retired auto worker adds: "We were fat, dumb and happy." Here's the current-events post of the day. (St. Petersburg Times)
Survival Research Labs (SRL) turns 30 today (6)
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Survival Research Laboratories, the legendary machine performance project that started it all, turns 30 today. Founder Mark Pauline has a blog post up about this milestone, with a copy of SRL's first-ever ad, above. Mark says, Id like to thank all those who have helped me make SRL what it is, both voluntarily and involuntarily. Im still having a blast. Even moving all 160 tons of my stuff to the new shop in Petaluma has ...
The law of unintended consequences? (6)
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Wendy Whitaker is a sex offender. At 17, she had oral sex with a boy, just shy of his 16th birthday. She's losing her house because she cannot live within 1000 feet of any area where children congregate, and the local church runs an unadvertised daycare. In 2006 she sued over the residency restrictions. Last Thursday, she lost. She filed a new lawsuit, saying that her sex offender status is cruel and unusual punishment. Like ...
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mikebee said:
just another day in Ameristan
Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart make mashed potatoes (55)
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Martha Stewart made mashed potatoes with Fatherhood star Snoop Dogg on her television show recently. About the very funny video clip above, she blogs: [He] taught me some of his very own language called Snoop-guistics. He and his posse add ‘izzles’ onto the ends of words. It’s kind of a code, or a way of communicating so that others won’t know what they’re talking about. Example: fo shizzle is how they say, for sure. Snoop ...
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Matt said:
Quite a segment. Martha's been in prison much more than Snoop Dogg.
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Joshua Rivera said:
AMAZING
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Alex said:
What
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Alex said:
Lots of sharing today, couldn't resist sharing this one with Snoop & Martha. ("Oh you want me to take the skizzin off of it!")
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Dan said:
Jenny, can I rap about it?
Androids Dream Up Electric Jams [Robots] (4)
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Georgia Tech actually has a Robotic Musicianship Group in its Center for Music Technology, which means that some lucky so-and-so's are getting government funding to form hippie drum circles with an array of artificial companions. In the video above, two robot demonstrate their ability to listen to grooves laid down by living breathing meatbags, and jump in on their own instruments when the mood strikes. Professor Gil Weinberg explained this "musical Turing Test" to Wired: ...
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Adval said:
Moinen orkesteri olis ihan jees.
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dknowles said:
This is fucking cool.
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