The hindenburg is universally known, maybe because like 9/11 it got live coverage. Less known is the wreck of the Shenandoah, America's first helium zeppelin. I happened to see a sign about it at a rest stop near where it crashed in Ohio.
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In 1923, the Navy built the ZR1 Shenandoah, the first rigid and helium airship constructed in the United States. It made a transcontinental flight in October 1924, covering more than 9,000 miles (14,484 kilometers) in 19 days. On September 3, 1925, during a publicity tour, it broke up during a violent storm over Ohio. Although it did not burn, 14 of the 43 crewmen were killed.

After reading this, I looked at my local McPaper - similar story. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080630/NEWS02/80630068

This would be funny, except that gummies are made from gelatin, and gelatin is made from pigs, cows, etc. gtbr@gml.cm

The case is a foundation for the right to privacy later set out in Roe v Wade.
It's closely related to two other cases, Talley v California (1960) and Bates v Little Rock (1961).
Talley expanded the Alabama case to hold that there's a right to anonymous speech, and the government can't require identification disclaimers on political speech. 48 years later, the government still isn't following its own rules in Talley, and goes around fining people or threatening them with jail for publications without disclaimers. It's important to understand that these cases come out of the civil rights movement. Today many of the officals enforcing these unconstitutional policies think of themselves as liberal Democrats, so it's useful to be able to show them how they are acting like 1950s-era segregationists. They might not care about computers privacy or freedom, but a letter from the local NAACP branch might get their attention.

That's not their only scam.
People.yahoo.com is a useful resource for looking up names, addresses, reverse phone directory etc.
But with every result you also get an ad from intellius offering you more info on the person you were searching for, for a low low $20.
But they don't really necessarily have any actual info - every search gets the same pitch. You can test this by searching for a random string.
t5%ssw#)klwedxz. OK, no wait, it's been updated since the last time I tried - you still get an ad for intellius, but it no longer makes the false claim. Still, that's part of how they built their business.
Yahoo also promotes the "free credit report" for $20 scam.

http://xkcd.com/413/

the link for mathemetician's apology goes instead to 'a passion for mathematics', somehow related but probably not the intended book.

It's unlikely that the motive for not taking title is taxes, unless it works differently there than here. The penalty for not paying property taxes is the government can take and sell the home - usually a few years later.
However, if the local government is overzealous, they can make it uneconomical to own property, by rigidly enforcing housing building zoning and "health" codes. Happened to me when I tried to provide my neighborhood with some community gardens.
Potential squatters: if the bank hasn't taken title, see if you can buy up for $1 a quitclaim deed from the prior owner, and check the courthouse to see what the tax and lien situation is. Start a church if you need to avoid an overpriced property tax on the now-not-worth-very-much house.

This is the university of florida, not "some university in florida". I wonder whether the principle that that there is no copyright in speech by the government applies here. Don't know the answer, just raising the question.

http://www.stripcreator.com is a bit like that, maybe more primitive. I've been doing a strip there for a few years. http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi .
It's not funny and it's not art, but it's art therapy. Something I started doing after reading the artists' way. It's just really easy to use.

I just spent several hours reading this story and some of the other columns. I was a customer of the Boulder store in the mid-80s. Mostly I bought 1950s era pulps like Astounding and Galaxy, for 10 cents each.

What's the copyright status of the 1934 german book? Public domain? Any copyleft translations out there?

Goodwin and LBJ may or may not have been lovers.
Bill Clinton didn't invent the pattern.
Caro's books are a must read for anybody interested in Johnson or interested in political theory.
I'm eagerly awaiting volume 4, about 5 years from now.

It is February here in the northern hemisphere. It's snowing. For the past several years, electric heat has been cheaper than gas. So there is no "waste" heat at my house - I leave the lights and computers on all winter.

Another comment on chimps aren't monkeys. Chimps are people. Some of the ads show chimps being violent to humans, when the reality is that humans being violent to chimps is far more common.
That said, where do I buy my trunkmonkey button?

While they are no great loss the real question is how do we profit off of this? They had nice stuff that if I could aquire for 25 cents on the dollar, i'd be happy
First, do a bit of research, find out which federal bankruptcy court the case is filed in. Get the documents. That might run you a dollar a page, and or get a PACER subscription.
Next, contact listed creditors. They already expect to get screwed, to the extent that their debts are unsecured. Offer to work with them on a win/win basis to try to get some value for them, liquidating inventory. Offering 25 cents on dollar might get you listened to.
Next, I don't think this is the kind of bankruptcy that has a receiver appointed to liquidate. Chapter 11 is probably just about restructuring debts. But even so, they have guys tasked with raising cash by getting rid of stuff.
Print up letterhead, write to said guys, see what you can haggle.
One time my car broke down in Ohio, and I met this guy, probably just a bum, but he was very detailed about how to work with receivers in bankruptcy and claimed he had a warehouse full of loot, er, goods, that when the time was right he was going to sell off.

>>>What kind of sauce????
A. Cock sauce (sriracha.)
B. Duck Sauce! Wabbit sauce! Duck Sauce!
C. Stop asking for sauce; this isn't 7chan.

Shark!

Easily hackable. Cut bottom of bottle, scan story, re-glue. I wonder if the stories involve locked room mysteries?

It took me a sec to sort out that you meant scrumptiously yummy, and not something to do with rugby or school-run-mums.

I've been wanting a FUBAR tshirt.
Now we have a graphic for it. Any Makers want to get on this?

Black is the new pink?

I'm 47 and intimidated by remotes and iphones and such. My mom is in her 70s, failing eyesight, and technology resistant. My sisters got her a jitterbug phone, http://www.jitterbug.com/, designed to be user friendly for older folks. She likes it and uses it. I should probably get one myself.

I'll throw in a gratuitous link to my blog, http://vark.blogspot.com, since the last time I posted here I got a buncha hits. Most recent posts is about the word "vervetish".

I just use this:
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The institute for justice www.ij.org has been fighting for years on this issue - the economic right to sell fancy boxes, instead of only a state-regulated monopoly being able to sell you a box.

Some people rescue greyhounds, I rescue stuffed animals. Free to a good home, you pay shipping.
Can we get a Pleo for Randall Munroe?

Some people rescue greyhounds, I rescue stuffed animals. Free to a good home, you pay shipping.
Can we get a Pleo for Randall Munroe?

Accessorize with this pink taser from amazon, $350.

Mexican grocery stores are a good place to find double-strength vinegar (10% acetic acid solution) for those boingboing readers without a mad scientists' supply shop handy.

new here, link didn't work in above post maybe this one will. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/fsb/0705/gallery.inflated.fsb/8.html
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lionfish balloon, from the guys who make giant inflatable rat.