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Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg (4 July 1883 – 7 December 1970) was an American cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning. He is best known for his series of popular cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines, complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The Reuben Award of the National Cartoonists Society is named in his honor. In addition, there are several contests around the world known as Rube Goldberg contests which challenge high school students to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.

Yorktown physics students end year with crazy contraptions

Source: LoHud.com

Vice President Joe Biden on Saturday praised the 972 members of the U.S.- 10:57 pm The son of a man shot dead by city police led more than 100 protesters Saturday in demanding...- 10:44 pm There was a serious message behind the lively street fair along S ...
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Purdue Team Builds World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine

Purdue Team Builds World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine
300-step beast beats Purdue's record from last year
Read more Apr 9 2012, 3:30pm CDT
 

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Price tag has little to do with artwork's value

Source: Detroit Free Press

Money doesn't just talk in America, it screams. That's a problem when it comes to art. The noisy gawking at price tags too often drowns out an honest dialogue about, you know, actual art. Money buys art, but it doe ...
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Eagles' Rodgers-Cromartie thinks he'll be a good fit at cornerback

Source: Biloxi Sun Herald

Analysis doesn't roll as smoothly off the tongue of Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie as it does for his cornerback running mate, Nnamdi Asomugha. But Rodgers-Cromartie had no trouble on Thursday pinning down what it feels like to be playing on th ...
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NPR Film: 'Men In Black 3': A Cartoonish Blast To The Past

Source: KQED

From the Department of Inessentiality, Summer Division, comes Men in Black 3, one of those franchises that lost all creative life in the first sequel but keep drawing breath anyway, thanks to an iron lung powered ...
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Rube Goldberg Style Monotron Mod Gets Even More Goldbergian

Source: Synthtopia

Keith Handy wrote in us know that he’s made some more mods to his awesomely odd device that is designed to make the Korg Monotron easier to play. The device features a ‘Giant Pitch Bar’ that allows for more much ...
Full article at: Synthtopia  More like this  2 days ago, 8:34am CDT

Off topic: Moving’s the theme: Rube Goldberg machine, gardens, bike lanes, ketchup

Source: Good Morning Silicon Valley

dermbuilder: It seems to me that software should never be patentable under any conditions, because software is a... sd: Cutting people and dollars is the default action of senior management that really has no clue what ...
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InstaCRT is Rube Goldberg's answer to Instagram

Source: The Verge

Described as "the world's first real world camera filter," the developers created the unique filter as a "response to all the faux photoshoppn' filters out there." It takes around 20-30 seconds to process each photo, based on a Ruby script create ...
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Obama’s Attacks on Bain No Surprise

Source: The New Media Journal

In a recent column, David Brooks (NYT) condemns President Obama for his attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, pointing out the crucially important role private equity firms have played in rehabilitating a formerly "bloated" ...
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18. A Rube Goldberg Machine

Source: GovLoop

From Melvinthemachine.com So what’s new? Early 2012, we had some time to spare and we felt the need to challenge ourselves once again, so we set out to build a new Melvin. This time around we could determine our own boundaries and that’s why we decided ...
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