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ZipCarp

from The Onion
New Zipcarp Service Offers Short-Term Carp Rentals

BOSTON—Announcing its plan to offer short-term, affordable carp rentals for urbanites and college students who don’t own a carp of their own, Zipcarp Inc. launched a brand-new fish-sharing service earlier this month.
According to company officials, Zipcarp’s inaugural fleet consists of 8,000 carps in six major American cities and several [...]

Proof Music Is Inherent Not Acquired

Steve Sabol (NFL Films) Gone

from The New York Times
Steve Sabol, Cinematic Force for N.F.L., Dies at 69
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Steve Sabol, who was the creative force behind NFL Films, his father’s innovative enterprise that melded cinematic ingenuity, martial metaphors and symphonic music to lend professional football the aura of myth and help fuel its rise in popularity, died on Tuesday in Moorestown, [...]

Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2008

from Museum Of The Moving Image



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Shine On You Crazy Moonjam

Paileontology

from Smithsonian Magazine
The History of the Lunch Box

Sadly, the metal lunch box has mostly gone the way of the overhead projector. Today’s kids often tote their lunches in soft insulated polyester versions that fit easily into backpacks, just the latest development in the long and distinguished history of midday-meal transporting devices.
The seemingly inactive Whole Pop Magazine [...]

Flash Waterslide

from CBS Cleveland
Ohio Teen Travels Quarter Of A Mile Through Sewer After Falling Into Drain Pipe

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An overflowing creek in a Cleveland suburb sent a 14-year-old boy on the ride of his life.
Jeffrey LaPorta traveled more than a quarter of a mile Tuesday through multiple storm sewer pipes, at times completely submerged in water, [...]

Here is the head of the man who played with my honor.

from CNN
Turkish woman awaits trial after beheading her alleged rapist
From Talia Kayali, CNN

(CNN) – A woman in Turkey is awaiting trial after beheading a man who she says raped her repeatedly for months and is the father of her unborn child. Her lawyer says the woman killed the man to protect her honor.
Nevin Yildirim, a 26-year-old [...]

Of Course It’s Art

from AP
NY COURT WEIGHS IF LAP DANCE IS TAX-EXEMPT ART
BY MICHAEL VIRTANEN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — No one would confuse the Nite Moves strip club with the Bolshoi Ballet, but what the lap dancers do there is art and entitled to the same tax exemption other performances enjoy, a lawyer argued in what was [...]

50 Objects of New York

from The New York Times
A History of New York in 50 Objects
By SAM ROBERTS

An artichoke and an elevator. A Checker taxicab and a conductor’s baton. A MetroCard and a mastodon tusk.
Inspired by “A History of the World in 100 Objects,” the British Museum’s BBC radio series and book, we recruited historians and museum curators to [...]