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Assange’s brilliant mullet-wearing, classic-miming video 27 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
Oh, there’s more than one Assange. Didn’t you know? (Credit: TheJuiceMedia/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) If I were holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, I would be... [[ This i...
Ticker tape tweets let you hashtag like it’s 1867 27 Aug 2013 | 11:19 am
(Credit: Adam Vaughan) If you can post to Twitter using Morse Code, you should darn well be able to get tweets via ticker tape. Enter the Twittertape Machine, which eschews annoyingly modern... [[ Th...
The Geometric Artwork of Andy Gilmore 27 Aug 2013 | 11:19 am
The Geometric Artwork of Andy Gilmore August 26th, 2013 · 13 Comments · ART, BLOG Rochester-based artist Andy Gilmore turns math into art, creating hypnotizing and kaleidoscopic patterns that are......
The Impossible and Improbable Objects of Giuseppe Colarusso 27 Aug 2013 | 05:19 am
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Horrors of human trafficking in Florida 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Miami (CNN) — Their descent into prostitution followed different paths but ended up in the same nightmare: abuse, drugs and fear. For years, the girls who sell their bodies on certain Miami... [[ Thi...
Who checks official travel warnings? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
(CNN) — When was the last time you consulted an official government travel advisory before booking a trip? Wars (Syria), political protests (Brazil, Egypt, Turkey), floods (Germany, Manila) and... [[...
Is Abbott sexist? Does Australia care? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Editor’s note: Amanda Wilson is the former editor of Australian newspaper “The Sydney Morning Herald.” Sydney (CNN) — Tony Abbott is a throwback to older, safer times when a knockabout Aussie bloke......
Abbott, part of a tradition of political brawlers 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
(CNN) — Politics might be a tough profession, but in few places is it as bruising as in Australia where mudslinging and name-calling occur on an almost daily basis in parliament. To outsiders, the... ...
Bo trial: 5 things not to have missed 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
Hong Kong (CNN) — Few political trials can boast the intoxicating mix of sex, murder and exotic meat. But that’s exactly what the case of former political kingpin Bo Xilai offered observers in China,....
Video games a factor in U.S. killing? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:19 pm
(CNN) — An 8-year-old boy intentionally shot and killed his elderly caregiver on Thursday evening after playing a violent video game, authorities say. Marie Smothers was pronounced dead at the scene.....