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Archives for April 2014
Ohio judges hand out sentences intended to shame the offender. Read more →
On Friday night, Kyle Russell, a tech reporter for Business Insider, was wearing Google Glass eyewear while walking in the Mission District of San Francisco.
If there’s anywhere that would appreciate a little tech, you’d think it would be San Francisco. But it’s also a symbol of the tech-savvy pushing out the ‘little people.’ Read more →
As surprising as the University of Minnesota men’s hockey team’s defensive “no-show” was at Saturday night’s NCAA championship game, anyone could see the Dinkytown arrests and damage coming from a mile away. And the post-“riot” quarterbacking has been even more predictable.
And this is in a city that lost a championship game. Read more →
Not everyone openly subscribes to the prosperity theology, but it’s more common than many mainstream Christians want to admit. Read more →
Some videos are just made for a Friday afternoon. This is one of them.
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If I shout at you while driving, ‘hey, there’s a cop up ahead and he’s running a speed trap,’ there’s no way that is a crime. If people can throw as much money as they want at candidates in the name of free speech, I certainly have the right to say what I want. At least, for now.
What if my headlights do the talking? Read more →
During rush hour, the study found that the volume of traffic on the remaining lane(s) increased, but not to the point where it slowed down traffic. Read more →
The Minnesota Legislature is slowly moving a bill stripping them of their immunity if arrested, although the sense is it’s only because of the publicity the bill has generated.
It’s been impossible to find out how often the so-called ‘get out of jail’ card is being used, although the tepid reaction to the proposed legislation suggests it gets played fairly often. Read more →
Last night the kids at the University of Minnesota took to the streets to stomp on police cars after the Gophers hockey team beat the University of North Dakota in a semifinal game. Read more →
I sat down last night to begin the laborious process of changing all of my passwords now that the Heartbleed bug, described in this space on Wednesday, has been discovered. Though most reputable sites have closed the hole, keeping the same password is the very definition of closing the barn door after the horse has escaped.
Then I ran into a common problem: I have too many passwords to provide different ones for every site. Read more →
On his Facebook page,Brimfield Ohio police chief David Oliver said he was sending thoughts and prayers to the community, an innocuous enough post. But many of his readers used it to do what online readers often do: have the same argument they had yesterday and the day before. The used the event to further their own agenda — political and otherwise. Read more →
An acting company that performs short plays to teach college students about date rape, racism, and substance abuse sees firsthand that there’s no shortage of kids who have a lot to learn. Read more →
Here’s Target Field during the first pitch of today’s Twins-Oakland game. It’s not the fault of the Minnesota weather, apparently. The official attendance was announced as 20,650, which is a lie.
This scene is no more. The most famous wallpaper in the world has been relegated to the ash heap now that Microsoft has walked away from its Windows XP operating system.
The image is called “Bliss.” Is it real? Microsoft has released this video with the answer.
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