Barely a week after it was first proposed, Hungary's internet tax looks to be dead in the water. Tens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets last weekend to protest the tax, which would have seen internet use charged per gigabyte transferred....

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Here's some trivia for your next trip to the pub. Did you know that, in Virginia, you don't have to tell the cops your phone's unlock code, but you're obliged to open it if you use a fingerprint based passcode? It's a quirky piece of legal precedent...

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Virgin Galactic's latest plane/rocket, dubbed "SpaceShipTwo", crashed after takeoff this morning above the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Director Stu Witt told Bakersfield, California's KGET that the plane crashed east of Mojave. Two...

Batdad hasn’t released anything in a while, but it was totally worth it considering that this compilation is absolutely hilarious! Check it out!

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“The logic is that street harassment is on a continuum of actions that take away a woman’s right to her own body. Someone assumes a body is there for him to stare at, and then to comment on, then to approach, then to touch, then to have sex with. It’s the idea that a woman’s body exists intrinsically for men’s pleasure that the catcalling video is seeking to raise awareness about.”

- Alison Maney in her article at Kicker about the street harassment video

When autumn comes around, we always look forward to seeing all the vibrant gold and red colors in natural landscapes. Here’s a small sample of the splendid photography that’s showing up in a fall foliage search on Flickr for this year.

Gunnison, Colorado.
“The clonal nature of aspen is never more apparent than in fall, when clones can be distinguished by their varied hues.” – Jeff Mitton

Algoma, Ontario, Canada.
“Looking down Landslide Valley and the blaze of fall colours. In 1926, Willard Isaiah Thayer (1872-1956) opens Hiawatha Lodge and Recreation Park in the Hiawatha Highlands, overlooking Landslide Valley. During the 1920’s Thayer develops the area around Crystal Falls and Landslide Valley as a tourist destination for: hiking / nature trails, camping, swimming, fishing and skiing. Thayer, a local entrepreneur, started Thayer Lumber Company in 1910, had various interests in forestry, saw milling, aggregate extraction (Landslide Valley), and tourism. Kinsmen Park was created by Thayer’s donation of land to the local Kinsmen Club. In the 1970’s the City of Sault Ste. Marie bought the rest of Thayer’s estate to create a conservation area.” – twurdemann

North Idaho.

North Elba, New York.
“Contrasting a great landscape with “good” light in the sky is the most obvious approach to landscape photography. This means the biggest amount of freedom in composition and the highest potential epicness, if the conditions are cooperative. However, I’ve excluded the sky more often in my photos lately and often like the results even more than the photos I take with the obvious way. This is a wonderful example of these tendencies. It will probably end up being my favourite composition from the Adirondacks, condensing the place to its essence. It’s a stand of colorful trees beside the Cascace Lakes right next to the road between Lake Placid and Keene.” – Jan Zwilling

Eastern Oregon.

Madawaska River, Burnstown, Ontario, Canada.

Shenandoah, Virginia.

Holyoke & Easthampton, MA

Enjoy, and share, more photography in the Colorful fall landscapes gallery.

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Zombie prank with amputee. [video]

Oh my

Wow, that’s E-vil.

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The ugly afterlife of crowdfunding projects that never ship and never end

A project can go off the rails and fail even after its funding succeeds for a number of reasons. There can be unforeseen costs, or design problems, or a team member quits or fails to deliver their part of the project. Often, when a project skids to a halt, the final updates are obscured from the public and sent only to backers, which may be part of the reason failures are often not well-publicized. Occasionally, backers who receive them pass them on or post them publicly on forums, which is as good as it gets in terms of letting the outside world know a project did not ultimately pan out.

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Sexism. Does it still exist?
Many men say no.

And those men are idiots.

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"William Burroughs with a Jack-O-Lantern he carved with a hatchet, October 31, 1996," by Philip Heying.

Tonight’s View
#sunset #autumn #marvista #losangeles #california #beautiful (at Mar Vista, Los Angeles)

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