The Crossroads of Sabbath walking tour is an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of Ozzy, Geezer, Tony and Bill and learn about the environment that shaped them. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes. The route has been programmed to finish at one of the finest pubs in the country where excellent ales and Thai food might tempt you.

I would love to do this.

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Apple has operated almost tax-free in Ireland since 1980, welcomed by a government keen to bring jobs to what was then one of Europe’s poorest countries, former company executives and Irish officials have said.

That’s the opening to a Reuters story where they try to convince people they dug up this dirt on Apple. The only problem is that Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer are the ones that revealed this during the senate hearings earlier this week.

Reuters assholes.

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These tips for taking wedding photos are hilarious.

Don’t get photobombed by death. LOL!

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Lovely.

Cat bearding.

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A 73-year-old Japanese artist uses Excel to produce beautiful traditional artwork.

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Radio Shack’s close ties with Maker Faire and Make magazine promise to bring hobbyists back in the doors, but is it enough to save the ailing electronics store?

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Harry McCracken tries to explain a bit about the mobile market for people who think this is a repeat of the PC business in the 90s.

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The Loop Magazine Issue 2 is now available for download from Apple’s Newsstand.

There’s a great line-up of writers in this issue including Joe King, the co-founder of Denver-based rock band The Fray, UI expert Matt Gemmell, iMore Editor-in-Chief Rene Ritchie, Peter Cohen, Stephen Hackett, and The Next Web’s Managing Editor Matthew Panzarino.

You can download The Loop Magazine from the App

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Jim and Dan talk about Tim Cook’s senate testimony and discuss the issues involved in owning a company in the US but manufacturing your products abroad. Later they delve into Google’s new 3D maps, a very young musician’s incredible rendition of Van Halen’s Eruption, the new Xbox one, and more.

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OmniPresence is the best way to sync all of your documents across all of your devices. And it works on most web hosts, including OS X Server, which means you can store all of your data yourself.

The folks at The Omni Group are some of the best developers around.

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Very impressive.

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The iMore Show 350 happened, and Peter was there.

Apple’s announced when the keynote will be for WWDC. No big surprise, it’s happening that Monday morning.

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Square, the payments startup that’s competing with major credit card companies, is now open for business in Japan.

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This looks like a promising app from Luc Vandal. You will also need to download and install an app on your Mac.

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Speaking of changing the guitar industry.

Grover Jackson is one of the pioneers of modern guitars. If I could go pick up any guitar today, it would be one made by Grover.

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Longreads:

…what if you never got into sci-fi in the first place? Where would you start?

Since its inception, speculative fiction has worked as social commentary, satire, and a creative answer to the question “What if?” Here are my personal picks to get you started.

If you or anyone you know would like to get into SciFi, you won’t go too far wrong with this

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I wonder what all those people that heckled Apple Maps will say when they see this.

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