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  • Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    Outrage: School accused of using laptop to take photos of student at his home without his knowledge

    It's the start of yet another lazy Saturday, so let's make things a little more interesting with a side dish of outrage. A 15-year-old student in Pennsylvania has accused his high school of spying on him using a school-supplied MacBook. The school had accused the boy “inappropriate behavior” that it found him engaged in via the built-in Webcam. Lawsuits are flying, as you might imagine.

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  • Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    Michael Jackson’s sad, sad toy barn

    These panoramas show the remains of MJ’s secret toy lair complete with C3-P0, Batman, and Darth Vader dolls along with some bikes, some Bruce Lee stuff, and a few lumpen Power Rangers. This is the detritus of an overgrown kid with attention disorder. It jumps from cool thing to cool thing and even includes an arcade [...]

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  • Fixed-Gear Freestyling From 1899

    Fixed-Gear Freestyling From 1899

    This movie was shot by (or at least for) Thomas Edison way back in 1899, and shows that the fixie-tricksters are doing nothing much that’s new. The rather dry description from the Library of Congress archive page describes the clip thusly: “Neidert,” of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his [...]

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