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Shares of two relatively unknown companies, Oculus Innovative Sciences and Oculus VisionTech, surged on Wednesday, possibly benefiting from a case of mistaken identity among investors.

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Nick Bilton shows how to kick forgotten corporate eyes out of your Twitter, Facebook and Google accounts: "it’s time to start deleting." [NYT]

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Rick Reilly will no longer be able to copy Rick Reilly. ESPN has announced that Reilly — who has penned a column for ESPN.com since joining the company in 2008 — “has decided to go part time” and will “concentrate on television duties.” This, of course, is all code for “Reilly won’t stop trying to pass off his old columns as new ones, so we had to cut his writing duties.”

In February, Reilly’s column titled “Don’t act like you’ve been there” featured multiple exact sentences from a column he wrote in 2009, titled “You just won the US Open! Act like it!” The self- plagiarism was so bad we were honestly worried about the guy. It was as if he sat at his desk with both columns open on his computer, and cut and pasted until he had the February piece finished. Actually, that’s probably exactly what he did.

When FishbowlNY aksed ESPN about the similarities between the columns, Josh Krulewitz, ESPN’s VP of communications, told us in February, “We are reviewing the situation with Rick.”

Consider the situation reviewed.

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Yet again, confusion prevails over the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, with Malaysian authorities quickly denying a report by the Wall Street Journal that the missing plane flew on for four hours after losing contact with control towers. 

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This new price point is set to go into effect in a week.

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We’re about a month away from the start of a new season of Mad Men, which means Jon Hamm is out and about doing delightful media appearances. 

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Gawker is demanding that the lawsuit filed by Quentin Tarantino — claiming that Gawker violated copyright laws by posting a link to the leaked script to The Hateful Eight — be dismissed. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gawker is claiming that reading a script doesn’t qualify as copyright infringement.

Robert Penchina, Gawker’s lawyer, is arguing that there is no proof that anyone who clicked the site’s link to the read the Tarantino screenplay did anything wrong:

Here, the Complaint does no more than raise the possibility that some member of the public who accessed plaintiff’s script using Gawker’s link subsequently violated Tarantino’s rights by committing an infringement. Because plaintiff did not allege any facts showing that an infringing act actually was undertaken by a third party — merely accessing the script by clicking on the link is legally insufficient — plaintiff did not state a claim for contributory infringement.

Penchina goes on to note that if there is no proof any Gawker readers “actually saved or otherwise made a copy” then there isn’t anything of substance to Tarantino’s lawsuit.

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David Foster Wallace’s famous essay "Consider The Lobster" explores unsettling questions about how much pain lobsters feel when we cook them. By law, that introductory sentence must be on this blog post, which is about new research into whether lobsters and crabs feel pain.

In the Washington Post today, Tamar Stelling has a nice overview of recent work by scientists trying to pin down actual evidence for whether or not invertebrates like crabs, lobsters, octopuses, and squid actually "feel pain," as we understand it. There are plenty of behaviorist philosophers willing to weigh in on this question without knowing a damn thing about neurons, but what the scientists have to say is more compelling:

If he applied a brief electric shock to one part of a hermit crab, it would rub at that spot for extended periods with its claws. Brown crabs rubbed and picked at their wound when a claw was removed, as it is in fisheries. At times the prawns and crabs would contort their limbs into awkward positions to reach the injury. "These are not just reflexes," Elwood says. "This is prolonged and complicated behavior, which clearly involves the central nervous system."

Octopuses and squid also show similar behavior, and possess the same kinds of nerves that detect certain pains in humans. Read all about it here.

It is really not so bad being a vegetarian.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program and the agency’s own inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — "We paid for this food!" said Rep. Louie Gohmert. "You gotta eat it!"

It was the first evening of CPAC, and Gohmert was holding court at a party for his new political committee — the evocatively named GOHPAC. Frank Gaffney was there. Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was there too, occasionally side-eying the reporters in the room. "Bo Snerdley," the call screener/impersonation maestro on Rush Limbaugh’s show, chatted with guests and took questions about what it took to get into radio. A stream of guests snacked on mini-focaccia sandwiches and crudite, or paid $20 to start a tab at the bar.

Some of the guests were running for Congress. Gohmert ushered Niger Innis, the black conservative activist and pundit, over to a microphone. Innis had just started running in Nevada’s 4th district, a new seat drawn in 2011 to elect a Democrat.

"I was asked by a media commentator, will you be joining Louie’s group when you make it to Congress?" said Innis. "I said, no, I’m not joining Louie’s group. I’m going to be his black siamese twin when I get to Congress!"

Gohmert roared with laughter and hugged his pal. "I’ll be in the trenches with Louie," said Innis. "I have been before."

"We have any more candidates?" asked Gohmert.

A young man named J.D. Winteregg approached the mic.

"I’m running in Ohio’s eighth district against Speaker Boehner," he said.

The crowd, led by Gohmert, cheered and applauded.

"Obviously, I’m going to need help, so, thank you."

Winteregg passed the mic back to Gohmert. "Thank you," said the congressman. "All right, awesome."

The din picked up as Gohmert’s guests gave short speeches — Phyllis Schlafly, Tea Party Patriots’s Jenny Beth Martin. Gohmert kept to the side, bursting with emotion. He grabbed the mic back to describe what he felt.

"It takes me back to a funeral I attended at Arlington National Cemetary," said Gohmert. The crowd, urged very strongly by Snerdley, stopped muttering. Gohmert told the story of Ross McGinniss, a soldier who was on patrol in 2006 when an insurgent tossed a grenade into his humvee. "Instead of jumping out of the humvee to save his own life, 19-year old Ross jumped out of the hole, took the full force, gave his own life. Four people are alive today because of Ross McGinniss."

The room had fallen silent. "Nobody here will hopefully have to give their lives to save four other people. But this country is in jeopardy. If it takes an hour a week, four hours a week, we can save this country for future generations. If we do that they will look back and call us blessed."

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