Colorado House Speaker Forced To Find More Clever Ways To Murder Undead Civil Union Bill

We thought it was pretty special last week when Colorado House Speaker Frank McNulty killed a civil union bill dead by fleeing the chamber and never coming back. But the goddamn zombie civil union bill ROSE FROM THE DEAD when the stupid governor ordered the Lege into a special session to vote on it and other important things that got hung up by McNulty?s clever plan of running away so no one could vote. So what has he done to finally drive a stake through the heart of these icky legal protections for homosexual families? Well, he decreed that the session would only last three days, and that bill, which had passed through three committees already? Well, we?d best see what objections the Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs might have to people visiting their dying same-sex partners in the hospital!

Answer: all of the objections. The Committee on Veterans and Military Affairs had all the objections to civil unions, somehow, because that is what they oversee, we guess. And that is why they voted 5-4 to kill it in committee.

McNulty, naturally, blames Gov. John Hickenlooper and the Democrats, for being ?divisive? and trying to ?tear the state apart.? That is because a supermajority of Colorado voters approve of the civil unions bill, so the Democrats are being divisive by forcing the Republicans (minus all the GOP women) to vote against what their constituents want. DIABOLICAL! [ThinkProgress]

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Building Block Coffee Table: Bored Kids and Hip Decors Unite! [Wish You Were Here]

Was there anything worse when you were a kid than visiting someone whose home was completely devoid of toys? An hour of conversation felt like a lifetime of boredom, but this building block coffee table ensures you never put kids through that same torture in your own home. More »

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Unedited: When Everyone Told Me I Was Super Dumb for Loving This 'Idiotic' Dip Bowl [Food]

Sometimes an invention comes along that's ahead of its time. It presents a different way of looking at things that many find scary, hard to accept, or just downright confusing. More »

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People Aren't Ditching Cellphone Contracts for Prepaid Devices—Yet [Carriers]

Long-term smartphone contracts are expensive and make carriers buckets of money. A report indicates that people are slowly wising up: In the first quarter of this year, carriers lost contract subscribers for the first time ever. Is this the beginning of the prepaid future? Not exactly. More »

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Microsoft to go carbon neutral this summer (Americablog)

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Tesla coil gun exists, may shoot lightning

Inspired by the graphic novel "Five Fists of Science" -- and perhaps encouraged by the plucky MIT student who made his own Tesla coil hat and survived -- a DIYer named Rob designed a Tesla coil gun, which he says is fully functional. Rob used a Nerf gun cast in aluminum for the housing and created a high voltage switch with a 3D powder printer. The gun is powered by an 18V ion drill battery and a flyback transformer housed inside a PVC plumbing end cap. Though Rob has yet to fire the gun, photos show what he says are sparks from the setup, and a demo clip is on the way. While video proof is always nice, so is preserving your life. We wish Rob the best with both.

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Gillmor Gang: Tomorrow Never Knows

The Gillmor Gang ? John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor ? turned off their minds, relaxed, and floated downstream on the push notification inbox of tomorrow. Borrowing a page from the Tibetan Book of Windows, the Gang debated the impossibility of multitasking, the existence of a new uber operating system, and the overall impact of surrendering to the void. Revolver marked the exact center of the Beatles arc; everything before was prologue, everything after continues to expand as the media is transformed. A quarter of a million may seem like a lot of dollars for playing one song once on a TV show, just as we await the size of the Facebook IPO. Recorded first and sequenced last, Tomorrow Never Knows is the end of the beginning.

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