Monday, 29 June 2015

Utility knife in a zipper-pull

Gerber's GDC Zip Blade measures 1.7" when closed and is intended to be used as a zipper-pull (it has a quick-release) -- the 0.68" blade locks open for a total length of 1.7" (there's also a multidriver and hexkey version) (via Canopy)

Summary of conservative responses to this week's Supreme Court rulings

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Moving The Economy Beyond The Turing Test And Man Vs. Machine

18921521595_2580afabe0_o We need economics that sees dollars as means and improving the connection between people as the meaning. Read More

State authorities investigating fire at predominantly black South Carolina church

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State authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that burned a predominantly black church to the ground in South Carolina late last week

An official with the Aiken County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina told Mashable that authorities don't yet know the cause of the fire that destroyed the Glover Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Warrenville. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is handling the investigation, and FBI agents were recently at the scene of the fire to help determine its cause

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Facebook’s Snapchatty New Photo Uploader Lets You Overlay Text And More

Facebook Photo Stickers And Text Face it. Your photos aren’t all that interesting. But Facebook’s going to help you jazz them up with its shiny new photo uploader, which just began testing on iOS. It lets you add overlaid text in any color, instantly preview filters that you swipe across your photos, or paste Facebook’s stickers on top. Facebook offered more standard filters before and had tested photo… Read More

They’re All P2P Employment Agencies

p2p Instagram is big. But Upwork and YouTube are bigger. Twitter is big. But Uber and Airbnb are bigger. Your startup idea is big. But your startup idea that pays people is bigger. What do YouTube, Airbnb, Uber and Upwork have in common? You can get paid using them. And thousands of people are getting an income from them right now. Read More

Drone delivers abortion meds in Poland to protest law

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A pro-choice group called Women on Waves flew a small drone across a border river from Germany to Poland on Saturday to deliver abortion medication to women there, where abortions are severely restricted by Polish law

The drop was successful, according to the group. Two women took the abortion-inducing pills, which the group said were prescribed by doctors in a press release distributed online

You can watch video from the drone flight, below

The flight over the River Oder from the German town of Frankfurt an der Oder into the Polish town of Slubice only lasted around 60 seconds. Prior to the launch, a group of people gathered on the Polish side of the river bank to grab the medication once the drone landed Read more...

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