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Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation
mikejuk writes "The craigslist Charitable Fund has donated $100,000 to the Perl community for Perl5 maintenance and general use by the Perl Foundation. Craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month and it is mostly written in Perl. The entire architecture of the system is open source — a proxy array based on Perl and memcache and a backend provided by Apache, memcache, MySQL and, of cour...
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Daily Mail
Justin Adams on suicide watch after death of Craigslist prostitute wife Jaymie
Justin Adams, who has been arrested for double murder, told Oklahoma County jailors he thought about killing himself when his wife Jaymie (pictured) went missing after meeting a client.
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Gizmodo
Turn Your Old Airbus A300 Into a Lovely Hanging Lamp [Lighting]
If you're anything like me, you like to keep your fleet of private jets up to date. But selling an old Airbus on Craigslist can be a pain, so artist Paul Coudamy hacks them apart and turns them into hanging lamps. More »
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Daily Mail
Pilot warns against copycat weather balloon experiments as they 'could bring down an airplane'
Last week two Canadian teenagers Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad (pictured) sent a Lego man into space using a home-stitched parachute and spare parts found on Craigslist.
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dlisted
Memoirs Of A Stunt Queen: Vanessa Hudgens Almost Falls Out Of Her Top In Front Of The Paparazzi
Since promising the paparazzi yet another set of 10 million pictures of her frolicking around on the beach in a bikini doesn't seal the deal anymore, Vanessa Hudgens promised them a little something more like a totally natural and not-at-all staged OHMYGAH MY TITS ARE FALLING OUT OF MY TOP LIKE I PRACTICED ALL DAY OHMYEFRON STOP STOP NO I'M JOKING KEEP GOING OHMYGAH WILL A LITTLE NIP SLI...
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AllThingsDigital
Hackers and Engineers
The hackers and engineers of Y Combinator are doing what hackers and engineers do to any industry, they’re efficiently and ruthlessly disrupting the traditional model of venture capital and are going to destroy far more more wealth for their contemporaries than they create for themselves, as broadband did to entertainment, Craigslist did to newspapers, and [...]
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CNN
Ohio man pleads not guilty in Craigslist job ad killings
The accused trigger man in the slayings of three men who answered a Craigslist ad for work on a cattle farm pleaded not guilty Wednesday, officials in Ohio said.
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Reuters
"Craigslist" killings suspect pleads not guilty in Ohio
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man accused of killing three people and wounding a fourth after luring them through bogus Craigslist ads for a job as a farm caretaker pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to the charges, which could carry a death sentence.
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USA Today
Suspect in Craigslist killings pleads not guilty
The man suspected in a deadly Craigslist robbery scheme pleaded not guilty Wednesday.
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Los Angeles Times
Man suspected of selling stuffed iPhone boxes on Craigslist arrested
A San Marcos man was arrested on suspicion of selling iPhone boxes stuffed with tiles to unsuspecting customers he met on Craigslist, police said Tuesday.
Luther Clayborn Dawson, 41, was charged with four counts of grand theft Monday after detectives spotted him allegedly selling an Irvine man iPhone boxes that each contained a rectangular ceramic tile and user's manual, the Irvine Police ...
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Mashable
Is Megaupload Back? [UPDATED]
Megaupload, the file sharing website that was shut down Thursday, may have returned — but without a domain name.
This new site appears t…
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AP
Adult in Ohio Craigslist case charged with murder
AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A self-styled chaplain suspected in a deadly scheme to rob people who replied to a Craigslist job ad has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and robbery and could face the death penalty if convicted, according to an indictment announced Friday....
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science blogs
Nachtrag zum Wikipedia-Blackout: Politiker knicken ein [Geograffitico]
Ob es nun eine Folge des demonstrativen Online-Protests war, oder ob Lobbying hinter verschlossenen Türen auch eine Rolle gespielt hat, wäre zwar noch zu klären, aber fest steht, dass der politische Rückhalt fuer zwei Internet-Urheberschutzgesetze nach dem Blackout von Wikipedia, Craigslist und - zumindest symbolisch - Google für die (im Kern vergleichbaren) Gesetzesentwürfe Stop Online Piracy ...
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Washington Post
Senators drop support of piracy bill after protests
Support for two online piracy bills in Congress appeared to wane Wednesday after opponents of the legislation staged a dramatic protest in which vast swaths of the Web effectively went dark.
Visitors to Wikipedia who tried to search the online encyclopedia’s usually trivia-filled pages were instead greeted by a message informing them that the bills could “fatally damage the free and open Intern...
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Telegraph
Wikipedia and Google join anti-piracy bill protest
Wikipedia, Google and Craigslist are among the websites joining a protest about proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States.
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Los Angeles Times
Wikipedia, Craigslist, other sites go black in SOPA protest
Supporters, who believe the laws are needed to stop "rogue" websites that make it possible for illegal downloading, went after organizers of Wednesday's Internet blackout.
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TechCrunch
SocialRent Reduces Your Apartment Search Headaches
If you've ever tried to find an apartment with your friends, you've probably had a moment where you thought that there has to be something better than sites like Craigslist. A new startup called SocialRent aims to be that something better. The SocialRent team's first product, a Facebook app, is only addressing one small part of the apartment search, but it seems like a solid start toward tackli...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
New musical based on Craigslist ads captures human longing
Personal ads are just so full of stories and weirdness and all the evidence of humanity, says co-creator Bill Richardson
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Los Angeles Times
Man pleads not guilty in Craiglist underage sex case
A Santa Ana man pleaded not guilty Friday to attempting to start a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl on Craigslist who turned out not to exist. Oscar Zamora Pinedo, 35, is charged with one felony count each of contacting...
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physorg
Two accused of luring robbery victims with fake iPad ad on Craigslist
Police have arrested two men who are suspected of robbing people at gunpoint after luring them to a restaurant parking lot with fake ads on Craigslist.
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Huffington Post
Stevie Oedipus Wonder, Lost Blind Dog, Reunited With San Antonio Family
SAN ANTONIO (AP) â A blind dog that was lost and believed to be dead is reunited with his San Antonio family for Christmas, thanks to Craigslist, a school teacher and an animal care agency.
Nearly a month after Stevie Oedipus Wonder disappeared â and was reported dead â the cairn terrier mix puppy is home for the holiday, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday (http:...
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omg
"Community" flash mob: fans hope to save NBC comedy
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Community" fans are planning a flash mob at Rockefeller Center on Thursday afternoon to save the show, which has been pulled from NBC's midseason schedule. Show devotees plan to gather at 30 Rock at 1 p.m. for the event, which is being promoted via #OccupyNBC and #SaveCommunity hashtags on Twitter. Organizers are also spreading the word with a Craigslist announcemen...
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BoingBoing
Everybody who's anybody hates SOPA
A joint letter from the founders of Yahoo, Netscape, Google, Blogger, Twitter, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia, the Huffington Post, PayPal, Mozilla, Flickr, YouTube, Craigslist, eBay, and other pieces of Internet history tells Congress: "Let's not deny the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders the same opportunities we all had." Have you called Congress yet?
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NEWS.au.com
US woman gets kidney from Craigslist ad
A WOMAN who received a new kidney after posting a plea for help on Craigslist is recovering in a Miami hospital, and so is the donor.
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Huffington Post
Ben Uyeda: Craigslist Bachelor Party: How to Design a Better Hangover
For a really wild and unpredictable cornucopia of random at a bachelor party, you must turn to the one true center of miscellaneous ... Craigslist!
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New York Times
Craigslist Murder Suspect Says He’ll Be Free One Day
A teenager charged with murder in a Craigslist robbery scheme said in a letter to his father that he believed God would keep him from a long incarceration.
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FOX
Third Body Possibly Tied to Craigslist Ad Identified- Florida Man Charged With Killing Couple With Bat |
USA Today
Craigslist suspect previously jailed
A parolee tied to a Craigslist robbery scheme was in an Ohio jail but released.
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USA Today
Indianapolis prepares to host Big Ten title game, football
A Craigslist ad seeking "seat-fillers" for the game was exposed as a hoax, yet it highlighted a real issue: Is Indy a college football town?
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New York Times
Three Lured to Death in Ohio by Craigslist Job Ad
Officials in Noble County, in rural southern Ohio, were alerted to the crimes after one man escaped with a gunshot wound to his arm.
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Daily Mail
All I want for Christmas is you: Single women advertise on Craigslist for temporary holiday boyfriends
'Contracts' are simply for the holiday season and relationships will be terminated on New Year's day.
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perez hilton
Secs And Execs! Lawyer Advertises Opening For Sexual Secretary!
Here's something interesting for everybody!
A lawyer in Chicago posted a job opening for a secretary in the "adult gigs" section of their local Craigslist.
The post asked for the usual: resume, contact information, and measurements.
Wait. Measurements? What??
But hey, this economy sucks, so Debbi sent 'em in! In return, she received this email [...]
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Canadian sections of Craigslist down
Error message claims free classifieds site is down due to violations of Craigslist's own terms of service
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BBC
Craigslist deaths teen 'innocent'
The mother of a 16-year-old boy arrested in Ohio over the deaths of three men responding to a Craigslist jobs advert tells US media her son is innocent.
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News.co.au
Second 'Craigslist killing' victim confirmed
A BODY found in a shallow grave is that of a man missing more than a week after he answered an online classified ad.
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Telegraph
Two more bodies discovered by police investigating 'Craigslist killer'
Police investigating an alleged lethal robbery scheme that lured victims through Craigslist have discovered two more bodies.
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USA Today
3rd Ohio body may be linked to Craigslist plot
Authorities today found two bodies in Ohio that could be linked to a robbery-murder plot that lured victims with a phony Craigslist job ad.
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Salon
“Bored to Death” keeps itself amused
I recently re-watched the first season of HBO's "Bored to Death" (Mondays 9 p.m./8 central) -- created by novelist and newspaper columnist Jonathan Ames -- and was struck by how much it has changed. Between 2009 and now, the show's point-of-view has stayed more or less the same, but the tone, pace and emphases are different. The pilot, which showed Ames' self-named, white-wine-guzzling pothead ...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Video: Craigslist jobseeker found dead
A jobseeker from Florida responding to a bogus Craigslist ad for a job on an Ohio cattle farm was found dead and another from South Carolina was shot but escaped by running away through the woods, a sheriff said Thursday.
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