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youtube.com - 12/31/2008
Carolina Camera: The Sling Shot Man (video)
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This is the story of a man who makes sling shots and shoots them like an expert marksman.
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Sling Updates: HD Streaming Coming to Mac, iPhone Sling App Scheduled for Q1 [Streaming Media]
gizmodo.com - 1/6/2009
Sling Updates: HD Streaming Coming to Mac, iPhone Sling App Scheduled for Q1 [Streaming Media]
— gizmodo.com — Sling Media revealed that HD streaming will be coming to Mac users via Sling.com, and they plan... to submit the Sling iPhone app for approval in Q1 of this year. As opposed to a standalone desktop client, Sling has opted to introduce SlingPlayer for ... (more) Sling Updates: HD Streaming Coming to Mac, iPhone Sling ...

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slingmedia.com - 1/7/2009
Sling Media News - Sling Media to Demonstrate SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone and Slingbox HD ...
— slingmedia.com — San Francisco — Macworld — January 6, 2009 — Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of... EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), is demonstrating a version of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone being developed for the iTunes store at this year's ... (more) Sling Media News - Sling Media to Demonstrate ...

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bookofjoe:  Rufus Hussey — The Beanshooter Man

Boing Boing:  Profile of slingshot champion

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Rufus Hussey — The Beanshooter Man
bookofjoe — You call it a slingshot. Down a dirt road near Asheboro, North Carolina lives a 65-year-old man (at the time the video up top was made) who learned to use a slingshot for hunting as a young boy because only his older brother was allowed to use the family shotgun. One of 13 children in a ...

Profile of slingshot champion
Boing Boing — The late Rufus Hussey shows off his respectable beanshooter (slingshot) skill in this video, probably made in the early 1990s. Watch him throw a quarter in the air and ding it with a rock, and shoot a Japanese beetle off a leaf. Rufus Hussey - The beanshooter man

Is William Gibson a bookofjoe fan?
bookofjoe — Consider the following facts: 1. On December 31, 2008, I posted a YouTube video interview (above) with Rufus Hussey, "The Beanshooter Man," brought to my attention by long-time reader/contributor ornsby chazzer. 2. Yesterday, on William Gibson's ...

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