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A legally blind archer from South Korea has set the first world record of the 2012 Olympics in London.

Rian van der Merwe took one of my laughs from Amplified and made it into an iPhone ringtone. Thanks Rian.

Cockpit Chronicles:

Al “Blacky” Blackman has reached a milestone few can claim. He has worked for 70 years as a mechanic for American Airlines based in New York, starting when he was only 17 years old.Surprisingly, he has no plans to retire. “I don’t consider this work. It’s being able to do what you like and getting paid for it.”

Al celebrated his milestone in a way suitable to his amazing employment longevity – with a flight around New York City in an original American Airlines DC-3, the oldest DC-3 still flying.

Vint Cerf, who helped create TCP/IP, says that he “would happily fertilize [his] tomatoes” with a recent article that claims the Internet was invented by Xerox.

In April, Zynga conducted a “secondary stock offering” in which insiders dumped 43 million shares of stock at $12 a share, raking in about $516 million.Yesterday, four months later, Zynga reported a horrible quarter, and the stock plunged to $3.

Ouch.

Sam Radford makes a case for Apple to allow some type of sharing between iCloud accounts.

Dan and Jim talk about the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Apple’s quarterly earnings report, guitars, and more!Sponsored by DocuSign, Sourcebits, and Hover (coupon code DANSENTME or 10% off).

A look inside an ambitious NASA plan to resurrect Skylab as an orbiting way station for the Space Shuttle.

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A couple of pieces from Bansky.

Samantha Grossman: Over the past five years, the average net worth of Canadian households has exceeded that of American households. So for the the first time in history, Canadians are wealthier than Americans — by more than $40,000, on average. … Continued

Scientists have engineered a “biohybrid robot” that mimics the movements of a jellyfish, in the hopes of building an artificial heart.

M.G. Siegler:

I have no problem if someone wants to hurt themselves. I have a problem with people who want to hurt other people. My right to extend my arm ends at your face.

“You are doing important work — please don’t stop.”

Microsoft has reported its first quarterly loss.

The CEO of laptop maker Lenovo gave away part of his annual bonus – $3 million – to his employees.

Sparrow, which develops an eponymous e-mail client app for OS X and iOS, announced on their Web site Friday that they’ve been acquired by Google and are becoming part of the Gmail team.

The statement from Sparrow CEO Dom Leca said, “Now we’re joining the Gmail team to accomplish a bigger vision — one that we think we can better achieve with Google.”

He said that the Sparrow development team will be “working on new things at Google,” but Sparrow will remain available and the team will continue to provide support for users.

Terms of the acquisition were not revealed.

Roger Ebert:

Wednesday, July 18, is the 20th anniversary of our marriage. How can I begin to tell you about Chaz?She fills my horizon, she is the great fact of my life, she has my love, she saved me from the fate of living out my life alone, which is where I seemed to be heading. If my cancer had come, and it would have, and Chaz had not been there with me, I can imagine a descent into lonely decrepitude. I was very sick. I might have vegetated in hopelessness.This woman never lost her love, and when it was necessary she forced me to want to live. She was always there believing I could do it, and her love was like a wind forcing me back from the grave.

Film citric Roger Ebert’s touching love letter to his wife. Excuse me – I’ve got something in my eye.

Hell Yeah!

There’s also no better way to gain a view into the most interesting startups than to start acquiring some, notes economist Paul Kedrosky. “[Mayer] needs to take that fire hose of startups that used to be directed at Google and redirect it at Yahoo. And the way you redirect it is to show that you’re a frequent, active acquirer.”

Agreed.

Centives:

We all think about it several times a day (it’s not just us, right?…right?) How much would it cost to become Batman? In anticipation of the impending release of The Dark Knight Rises, Centives decided to find out.The total bill? $2.8 million to show the criminal scum that the city doesn’t belong to them.

I laugh every time I see it. […]

CNET:

With AT&T officially announcing its “Mobile Share” plans and joining Verizon Wireless, there will soon be two options for customers who want to get into a family plan for data services.While these plans aren’t the best deals for individuals, large families or even groups of really, really close friends may want to consider them. That’s because the more people who sign on, the lower the price per gigabyte and user. Of course, if someone is a heavy data user, that person may want to stick with an individual plan, or risk hogging up the total available data for everyone.By and large, the plans are fairly similar.

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So smitten were they with this kitten, in fact, that they wrote him in for mayor instead of deciding on one of the two lesser candidates. Mayor Stubbs has held his position ever since.

The cat has been mayor for 15 years. He’s probably better than most politicians.

Fiat will offer Italian buyers of its 500L coupe a built-in espresso maker, saving them from having to stop at roadside cafés to get a caffeine boost.

AT&T will add shared data plans in August, following Verizon’s lead.

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