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Source: 7 years later, Sun Microsystems cofounder Vinod Khosla loses bid to privatize public beach / Boing Boing

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Source: There’s No Tomorrow (2012)

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Source: RIP John Severson, Surfer Magazine founder / Boing Boing

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A Dude is wearing Vans in France in ’67.

A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century.

Source: Ocean might swallow California sooner than you think – Orange County Register

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Source: That Dr. Strangelove scene where the U.S. President phones Russia about an imminent air strike / Boing Boing

In ‘Sweet Little Sixteen,’ ‘You Can’t Catch Me’ and other songs, Mr. Berry invented rock as a music of teenage wishes fulfilled and good times (even with cops in pursuit). In ‘Promised Land,’ ‘Too Much Monkey Business’ and ‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man,’ he celebrated and satirized America’s opportunities and class tensions. His rock ’n’ roll was a music of joyful lusts, laughed-off tensions and gleefully shattered icons.

Source: Chuck Berry Dies at 90; Helped Define Rock ’n’ Roll – The New York Times

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David Axelrod R.I.P.