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November 18, 2009

PODCAST: Cory Doctorow talks Makers, 3-D printers, and Disney at Harvard Book Store [MP3]
By Shaula Clark

Cory Doctorow opens his mouth, and nerdgasms fall out: at any given moment, he's liable to be spouting off about feral robot dogs, space domes over Disney World, or building a haunted hotel modeled after a Quake level ("I'll open-source this idea," says he). And we'd expect nothing less -- after all, he's one of the superclocking brains behind BoingBoing, that exalted bestiary of sweet-ass geekdom.

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Podcast, Robots, Harvard Book Store

March 05, 2008

Fashion Quiz: Who is the fiercest of them all?
By Sharon Steel

A. Avril Lavigne, our favorite little married pop-punk foul-mouthed songstress, who just scored an exclusive design deal with Kohl's? Will it be Hot Topic meets Chanel? Or will it just be pink and black and Kelly Osbourne?

B. Karl Lagerfeld, who delivered the following zingers (among many more) in a nine-page Q&A cover story for Prestige Hong Kong:

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music, Celebrity, choose your own adventure

February 26, 2008

Atlanta bar owner builds crime-fighting robot; can Skynet be far behind?
By Ryan Stewart

Photo by Jenni Girtman; ganked from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution site

The man pictured above is Rufus Terrill, who owns a bar called "O'Terrill's" in Atlanta. That thing is a robot he built to fend off the various vagrants, thugs, drug dealers, and other such miscreants who terrorize his bar.

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booze, people doing awesome things, Robots

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