Boing Boing: Spherical video of Haiti

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This 360-degree video view on the ground in Haiti is one of the more interesting things I've seen CNN do online....


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Boing Boing: Fiorina's latest political video featuring furries!

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Former HP big chief Carly Fiorina is running for the US Senate. The latest video released by Carly for California is really something. The insanity really gets rolling at 2:27. As my pal Sean Ness says, "I love seeing furries in ads!" (Thanks, Chris Arkenberg!)...


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Boing Boing: Reporter fired for trying to be objective

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Jonathan Springston, a senior reporter for the Atlanta Progressive News, was fired from the online news service because, according to an email from the site's editor to Creative Loafing magazine, Springston "held on to the notion that there was an objective reality that could be reported objectively, despite the fact that that was not our editorial policy at Atlanta Progressive News." (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)...


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Boing Boing: RIP Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner, a pioneer in modern recreational mathematics and inventor of popular math games, has died. For thirty years, he penned a math games column in Scientific American (you can buy the full collection here). He was 95 years old. Martin Garnder, 1914-2010 [Discover]...


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