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Sign of the times. Wikipedia now has an ever-growing list of Selfie Related Injuries and Deaths.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths
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Via Boing Boing and Motherboard
"In fact, in 1996, Ted Cruz (yes, that Ted Cruz), cowrote one of the most important and forceful papers arguing that legal intervention (regulation, maybe!) is necessary to prevent large corporations from taking advantage of the masses."
Link: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ted-cruz-law-paper-vote-with-your-wallet-doesnt-work
Congress just voted to allow ISP's to sell customer data to corporations. and this is how much it cost to buy Congress.
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The National Post has done me a favour in compiling a short list of Putin's Adversaries. No wonder Trump wants to be friends so bad...
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A good one, courtesy of Longreads, the fiction and biography of L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.
Link: https://longreads.com/2017/02/01/xenus-paradox-the-fiction-of-l-ron-hubbard/
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When I was a kid in Moose Jaw we'd go swimming at the Natatorium. We didn't call it the swimming pool or rec center, it was the Natatorium. Even though in the summer we only used the outdoor pool, and technically that wasn't a Natatorium. Anyways, there was a diving board there, 7 Meters at the high board, but it was always closed so the adventurous could jump off the 5 meter lower platform, rumour had it that someone had once done a belly flop off the top board and exploded when they hit the water and that's why it was always closed and of course we all believed it...
Which makes the following video of Swedish Divers working up their courage all the more interesting...
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000004882589/ten-meter-tower.html?src=vidm