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Good Grief! Peanutweeter Gets Taken Down Following DMCA Claim

17. June 2011 - 22:54
Peanutweeter, the hilarious marriage of random funny tweets with Peanuts cartoons, was removed from Tumblr Friday, following a claim that the blog violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. See Also: Peanutweeter Brings Peanuts, Twitter Together With Hilarious Results A tweet from the @Peanutweeter account, sent just after noon PDT, claimed that the site had been taken offline following ...


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Kickstarter Backs Artist for Self-Imposed 'Week in Hell'

17. June 2011 - 21:45
It's one of the wackiest projects we've seen come out of the oddball crowdsourced fundraising website Kickstarter. But for New York City artist Molly Crapapple, it's just her latest art experiment. Pay $20 and you get a cut of the finished artwork, and for a whopping $1,000 you get lunch with the artist herself ??- absinthe included.


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Bespoke Builder Reinvents Off-Road Icon

17. June 2011 - 21:25
The FJ44 leaves every other SUV looking weak and incapable, which is exactly what its buyers are paying the big bucks for.


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Gadget Lab Podcast: New Nook e-Reader, Google's Chromebook

17. June 2011 - 21:22
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the gang fools around with an e-reader, a new kind of netbook and an iPhone sleep aid. Yes, a sleep aid.


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Can Microsoft Use DMCA to Kill Competing Xbox 360 Accessories?

17. June 2011 - 21:07
Can Microsoft remotely disable third-party accessories from working with the Xbox 360 and get away with it?


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<cite>Measure Up</cite>, the Best Wii U Game Nobody's Talking About

17. June 2011 - 21:00
I played several other multiplayer Wii U games at E3, but I didn't feel nearly the sense of competitiveness during those sessions as I did while playing Measure Up. The game makes great use of the next-gen console's novel touchscreen controller.


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Myth Buffer: With <em>Trollhunter</em>, Andr&#233; &#216;vredal Modernizes Fairy Tales

17. June 2011 - 20:51
To describe Trollhunter as "The Blair Witch Project meets Scandinavian mythology" might be accurate, but the shorthand sells the droll mockumentary woefully short. Director André Øvredal, who has revitalized the found-footage genre, talks about making his indie film that effectively re-imagines the frightening fairy tales he describes as "childhood memories."


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5 Robots That Can Get Their Groove On

17. June 2011 - 20:11
Today, we focus on robots that have one thing in common: These guys can dance.


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Microsoft Releases Xbox Kinect SDK, Hackers Get to Work

17. June 2011 - 19:47
Microsoft released a software development kit for its Kinect gaming system on Thursday, and hackers are already testing the limits of what the device can do.


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Trans-Atlantic Biofuel Flights Kick Off Paris Air Show

17. June 2011 - 19:38
Most of the big news at the Paris Air Show usually is about what's being unveiled at the industry's big event that begins next week. But this year both Boeing and Honeywell are getting a leg up on the flurry of news by talking up how they are getting to Le Bourget Field. Later Friday, Honeywell ...


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Jihad Forums Crowdsource Fantasy Assassination List

17. June 2011 - 19:33
Online jihadi forums are putting together a fantasy league targeting prominent Americans they'd like to assassinate. The FBI's taking it seriously. You shouldn't.


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Review: In <em>Green Lantern</em>, Exposition Is a Supervillain

17. June 2011 - 19:25
By their very nature, superhero origin stories have got a lot of 'splaining to do. But even by comic book standards, Green Lantern's back story, as introduced by DC Comics in 1959, seems pretty outlandish.


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Viva La Evolution! Requiem for <cite>Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution</cite>

17. June 2011 - 19:19
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution has failed. And that sucks ammonia-washed hamburger. Oliver's truly revolutionary nutrition crusade was pulled by ABC in May, before its final episodes could even air. With only two remaining shows, the first of which airs Friday, Food Revolution's uncomfortable but often hilarious unmasking of pointless obesity, political machinations and crappy school menus ...


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Honeybees Might Have Emotions

17. June 2011 - 19:13
Honeybees have become the first invertebrates to exhibit pessimism, a benchmark cognitive trait supposedly limited to "higher" animals. If these honeybee blues are interpreted as they would be in dogs or horses or humans, then insects might have feelings.


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When Secret Sats Spy on Us, Monsieur Legault Spies Back

17. June 2011 - 19:09
Think it's unfair that the government gets to have its eyes on you up in space? Two French satellite enthusiasts have a DIY solution to level the playing field: a consumer-grade telescope, a motor, a controller, a video camera and a plan to spy on the secret satellites.


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Eagle Cam: Babies Hop Out of Nest, May Fly Soon

17. June 2011 - 19:02
The three baby eagles who hatched on live webcam for an audience of thousands have finally left the nest to hop onto nearby branches. They may take their first flights soon.


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Panasonic Drops 'Toughbook' Android Tablet, Which Doesn't Break

17. June 2011 - 18:30
Attention, all butterfingered geeks: Panasonic announced an Android tablet Thursday that's made especially for you. The Toughbook caters to those prone to excess dropping, electronics or otherwise.


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Review: <cite>Ocarina of Time 3D</cite> Reminds Us Why <cite>Zelda</cite> Is Best Game Ever

17. June 2011 - 18:21
With a stellar soundtrack, thoughtful level design and a deceptively massive feel, The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time proved to be the picture of polygonal perfection when Nintendo released it in 1998. One of Nintendo's first 3-D adventure games, it's considered by some to be the best-rated videogame ever. A gorgeously remastered version of ...


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Microsoft Helps Army Avoid 'Death by PowerPoint'

17. June 2011 - 18:11
The Army is addicted to PowerPoint -- with all the self-loathing that addiction entails. Luckily, an Army veteran is teaching soldiers how to use the presentation tool while still avoiding 'Death By PowerPoint.' And he even works for Microsoft.


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Can We Prevent the Next Bubble?

17. June 2011 - 18:08
Why are financial bubbles so inevitable, and why don??t we ever learn? Neuroscience blogger Jonah Lehrer explores how understanding the brain's weaknesses could save our wallets in the near future.


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