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Galactic Mail

FedEx vs UPS in a future extrapolation of today’s shrinking consumer market. In space, customers are hard to come by…

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Drone Aircraft to Patrol Canadian Border

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Look out, Canadians… Skynet is now online.

The US Border Patrol is preparing to deploy a ‘Predator B’ unmanned drone aircraft along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, presumably to detect drug growing and smuggling operations along the US-Canadian border.

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The Brave Bloggers of Iran

Though created seven months ago, this piece is a highly topical tutorial on the recent history of Iran, describing how the digital revolution is altering the political landscape there.

Yes! Go! Score! Win!

This piece started as a snippet from some footage that Storey and I shot of ourselves while playing FIFA. I have no idea why this is what it is now. Sometimes, the editing tools decide for you…

Pizza Hut Apparently No Longer Interested in Pizza

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Finally willing to be intellectually honest about its product, Pizza Hut is changing its name to “The Hut.”

While the company claims that this is a branding move to keep in touch with the “texting” (read as “illiterate”) generation, it does afford several advantages to the franchise:

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Conference O’ Twits

Ever wanted to be depressed by Youtube in five minutes or less? Check out this interview series from the Resident (known in our world as the owner of a highly popular non-Mep Kurt Vonnegut video.)

Of course, none of the attendees can actually verbalize what’s good or useful about Twitter, they just enjoy being around like-minded Twits.

Sci-Fi Movie Timeline

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Terrific idea from Dan Meth to compile many of the most popular forward-looking movies and see what year they portray.

I think we should turn this map into a celebration schedule a la the Chinese Zodiac. According to which, this year would be the year of Freejack. Emilio Estevez would finally have his time to shine. And, as an added bonus, we could kick off another Rolling Stones worldwide tour to pay homage to Mick Jagger’s character.

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Weird Al: Craigslist

Do you have any Styrofoam peanuts?

Daily Show Dances on NYT’s Grave

It’s really amazing that a Comedy Central spoof news show has amassed so much clout that they can now openly mock New York Times executives in the New York Times’ own house.

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