February 2012
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Hurling food isn’t just an American thing, either. The Greeks have been known to...
– Here’s A Pie In Your Eye: A Brief History Of Food Fights (via npr)
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Iran is threatening to respond to any U.S. aggression in a crushing manner amid heightened tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
“We will respond to any threat or aggressive action in a crushing manner,” spokesman Massoud Jazayeri said. “Our response will definitely lead them to regret their actions. We hope that this doesn’t happen. If it does happen, however,...
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There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have...
– Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream (via joshuanguyen)
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I constantly get the saddest e-mails from people saying, ‘I’ve...
– Jon Maddux, CEO of a foreclosure agency that helps clients with strategic default (and charges a fee for it).
Read more: What happens when you walk away from your home?
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Lego man in space: one (very) small step
Two teenagers from Toronto sent a Lego man carrying a Canadian flag into the stratosphere. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both 17, attached four cameras to a balloon carrying the toy astronaut 24km above Earth. A week after launch they recovered their Lego man in a field, and discovered they had captured stunning...
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We’ve seen the Arab Spring. Maybe this is the Hollywood Spring.
– Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, speaking on a panel about the Stop Online Piracy Act at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday.
Read more comments from the SOPA forum on Storify
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The drones were terrifying. From the ground, it is impossible to determine who...
– David Rohde, in the Reuters Magazine article “The Drone Wars.”
Read the rest of the article | Download Reuters Magazine [PDF]
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Bus driver kills 9 in India rampage: Incredible video from the Indian city of Pune where nine people were killed and 27 injured after a transport bus driver went on a rage and smashed into nearly 40 vehicles. [Andrew Raven reports]