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Mr Macaroni Criticises Davido For Allowing His Aide Assault Two Fans Who Wanted To Make Video With S

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Popular Nigerian comedian Mr. Macaroni has chastised Davido for allowing his aide to attack two fans who sought to make a video with him in a recent social media post. Following a video in which his right-hand man Lati attacked two fans for attempting to take photos with the singer at an event, Davido has been making the rounds on the internet. Taking to his X account, Mr Macaroni responded to the footage, saying it is a sad and dehumanising one from Davido and Lati, and that the assault was unnecessary. Read More...

Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts

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Twenty minutes into his State of the Union address last week, President Obama entered the realm of uber-geekery — three-dimensional printing. The magical devices capable of printing prosthetics, violins and even aircraft parts have the potential, the president said, "to revolutionize the way we make almost everything." Forty miles away from the Capitol, in Glen Burnie, Md., Travis Lerol is proving Obama’s point — with guns. In a spare bedroom, where an AR-15 rifle leans against the wall, Lerol is using a 3-D printer no larger than an espresso machine to make plastic rifle parts and ammunition magazines in between tea sets and chess pieces. Read More...

Will Hermess tremendous biography of Lou Reed, reviewed.

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Uncle Lou, my friend and I used to call him — it seemed right to think of him this way, because he was nobody’s dad and “friend” seemed like a stretch. But an intimate, still. Or the illusion of one. The great virtue of “Lou Reed: The King of New York,” the new and very fine biography by Will Hermes, is that it’s really two biographies: of a bored and in some respects ordinary suburban teenage boy, typical of postwar America, and of his alter ego — the louche, urbane, ambi-poly decadent forever trembling at the absolute limit of Experience — brought into existence by his lonely daydreaming. Read More...