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“ABEL RAISES CAIN is an unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of infamous underground media prankster, Alan Abel. Over the past half-century, Abel has made a name for himself several times over with stunts that are just ridiculous enough to be believable, especially to a media that feeds on salacious, far-fetched stories. Alan’s daughter, Jenny, tells her firsthand account of what it was like growing up with this lovable but slightly demented prankster for a father.”

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Learn more about the NOAA on Wikipedia.

I first became aware of this forecast model via Boing Boing

The Big Picture - Boston.com: “Earthquake in Chile” Feb. 27th, 2010. Phptp by Marco Fredes for Reuters

“At 3:34 am local time, today, February 27th, a devastating magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded. According to Chilean President-elect Sebastian Pinera, at least 120 people are known to have been killed so far. The earthquake also triggered a Tsunami which is right now propagating across the Pacific Ocean, due to arrive in Hawaii in hours (around 11:00 am local time). The severity of the Tsunami is still not known, but alerts are being issued across the Pacific.” (more)

“A look back at this year’s biggest news stories, from the serious (financial collapse) to the bizarre (balloon boy), paints an interesting picture of what events held our attention in this last year of the decade. The website Journalism.org monitors the news from 55 outlets every week, calculating what percent of the week’s print, television, radio, and internet reporting is devoted to each story. Our latest Transparency is a look at the totals for all the news this year, divided into categories of politics, culture, business, and plain old bad news”

A collaboration between GOOD and Naz Şahin and Şerifcan Özcan.

That’s the same model of plane as the one Andrew Joseph Stack III crashed in a IRS building last Thursday.

All works by Sigmund Freud have entered the public domain as of January 1st, 2010:

“Under European Union law all books, poems and paintings pass into the public domain 70 years after the death of their creator. At midnight last night the works of artists and thinkers who died throughout 1939 slipped out of copyright, meaning they can be reprinted and posted on the internet without incurring royalties.” (Telegraph.co.uk: “WB Yeats and Sigmund Freud works posted on Wikipedia as copyright expires” by Matthew Moore, Jan 1st, 2010)

Read also “Public Domain Day or welcome out Sigmund Freud” on Digital-Rights.net. You can browse major works by Sigmund Freud on Wikipedia.

Boston.com / The Big Picture: Earthquake in Haiti - A view of the badly damaged presidential palace - the center portion formerly 3 stories tall - after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 13, 2010. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)