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How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPSpriceonomics.com
As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales. -
MAME is going open source to be a 'learning tool for developers'gamasutra.com
The folks who maintain MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) are aiming to make the project completely open source in order to expand both its pool of supporters and its utility to developers and historians. -
YC-Backed New Story Crowdfunds Houses For Homeless Familiestechcrunch.com
New Story is a startup in Y Combinator's current batch that raises funds to build homes for those who lost theirs due to a natural disaster, starting with.. - scientificexploration.org
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Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy - Gwern.netgwern.net
Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered as one of the Hard Sciences -
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How 500px serves up over 500TB of high res photos | StackSharestackshare.io
How 500px serves up over 500TB of high res photos - <em>By Paul Liu, DevOps Developer, at 500px. You can find him here on [StackShare](htt... -
California man sues Uber claiming it stole ride-sharing ideareuters.com
May 15 (Reuters) - A California man has sued UberTechnologies Inc and its Chief Executive Officer TravisKalanick, claiming they stole his idea for a cellphone-based carhailing service.Kevin Halpern -
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Bombingnytimes.com
The federal jury that convicted Mr. Tsarnaev last month of 30 charges had to decide whether he would receive the death penalty or life in prison. -
Atari's Cyan Engineering - Splendor in the Grass documentaryyoutube.com
Here's another rare VHS tape that I archived several years ago. This is a short documentary from 1982 about Atari's famous "think tank", Cyan Engineering, th... -
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What You Get When You Blend a Drone and a Geckonytimes.com
Researchers have figured out how to enable a quadcopter drone to stick a landing — at any angle — much like a flying gecko. -
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Pill of super-protective 'heavy' fat may be key to eternal youthnewscientist.com
Bolstering cells with a dose of heavy fat may be the key to curing degenerative diseases. And it may help you hold back the years -
Autocomplete just got a whole lot betterblog.atom.io
At GitHub, we’re building the text editor we’ve always wanted: hackable to the core, but approachable on the first day without ever touching a config file. We can’t wait to see what you build with it. -
How Your Hometown Affects Your Chances of Marriagenytimes.com
People are less likely to marry if they grow up in certain places, especially liberal ones.