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Bubble-in forms betray individual, traceable "handwriting"

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:44 AM PDT


Original research from Princeton's Joe Calandrino, Ed Felten and Will Clarkson show that machine analysis can make very accurate guesses about the identity of people who complete bubble-in forms -- that is, there's something like a recognizable, individual "penmanship" for the small scribbles used to fill in the bubbles on machine-readable forms.
These individuals have visibly different stroke directions, suggesting a means of distinguishing between both individuals. While variation between bubbles may be limited, stroke direction and other subtle features permit differentiation between respondents. If we can learn an individual's characteristic features, we may use those features to identify that individual's forms in the future.

To test the limits of our analysis approach, we obtained a set of 92 surveys and extracted 20 bubbles from each of those surveys. We set aside 8 bubbles per survey to test our identification accuracy and trained our model on the remaining 12 bubbles per survey. Using image processing techniques, we identified the unique characteristics of each training bubble and trained a classifier to distinguish between the surveys' respondents. We applied this classifier to the remaining test bubbles from a respondent. The classifier orders the candidate respondents based on the perceived likelihood that they created the test markings. We repeated this test for each of the 92 respondents, recording where the correct respondent fell in the classifier's ordered list of candidate respondents.

New Research Result: Bubble Forms Not So Anonymous

Another universe made of cubes

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:40 AM PDT

Hooray for Earth's True Loves, directed by Cyriak Harris.

Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:16 AM PDT

Academy-award winner Richard Dreyfuss is here to help you understand your rights and obligations as an iTunes customer; at CNet's behest, he's read 2,000 or so words that comprise the iTunes EULA.
c. Termination. The license is effective until terminated by You or Application Provider. Your rights under this license will terminate automatically without notice from the Application Provider if You fail to comply with any term(s) of this license. Upon termination of the license, You shall cease all use of the Licensed Application, and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Licensed Application.

Richard Dreyfuss reads the iTunes EULA (Thanks, Alice!)

From bOING bOING Issue 9: Bruce Sterling interview

Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:12 PM PDT

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bOING bOING was a zine that my wife Carla and I launched in 1988 to cover comic books, cyberpunk science fiction, consciousness technology, curious phenomena, and whatever else surprised and delighted us. That zine, which ran for 15 issues until 1997, evolved into the very website you're reading right now.

Images Bb-Ms-Cover We've made available a free anthology of some of our favorite interviews from bOING bOING, the zine. You can access it for free with Microsoft's Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, whose sponsorship has made this project possible.

The anthology, called bOING bOING: History of the Future! is a collection of interviews with and articles by some of our favorite writers and thinkers - Robert Anton Wilson, Rudy Rucker, William Gibson, Kevin Kelly, Marc Laidlaw, and Bruce Sterling.

For the last several weeks, we've been running posts about the articles included in the bOING bOING: History of the Future anthology. Last week, I wrote about bOING bOING's interview with Rudy Rucker. This week, I'd like to introduce the interview that our friend Jon Lebkowsky (one of bOING bOING's early editors) conducted with author, design consultant, and investigative journalist Bruce Sterling. Bruce talked about hackers and phones freaks, which he covered in his book, The Hacker Crackdown. The interview appeared in bOING bOING #9. Bruce was a great supporter of bOING bOING in the early days, and wrote some excellent pieces for the zine.

bOING bOING #9 (64 pages) was published in 1992. It contained the following quote by poet Gary Snyder: "Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering."

The document is in Microsoft Word format and you can view it for free with Office Web Apps on SkyDrive whether you have Word on your computer or not. And if you'd like to download it for local perusal or printing and don't have a recent version of Microsoft Word or one of the many other applications that can open the document, you can use the free Word Viewer for Windows or Quick Look built into Mac OS X.

The History of the Future! A free anthology of articles from the bOING bOING print 'zine 1989-1997 (SkyDrive)

 


"Breastaurants" are Hooters 2.0

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:57 AM PDT

"Breastaurant" is the neologism coined to describe the booming sector of restaurants that expand on the value proposition offered by Hooters -- large-breasted waitresses in short-shorts and skimpy tops -- by adding 60" plasma screens, top-shelf whiskey selections, frosty beer mugs, enormous beer-bongs, an emphasis on flirty interactions with servers, fresh food, and specialized, pre-scripted banter like "would you like your beer in a girl-sized mug or a man-sized mug." Several breastaurant chains are thriving now, including "Tilted Kilt" (described as "Hooters goes to Scotland") and Twin Peaks (servers in skimpy outfits and hiking boots). They ascribe their customer loyalty to "sports-viewing excellence" and "touchology" (frequent touching of the table by servers), along with a mandate for servers to be warm and outgoing: "Sometimes waitresses are providing the best part of a guest's day."
Tristano confirms that the servers drive the concepts. "The increased service is absolutely the core, not the food," he says. "I suspect a lot of this segment's success has to do with server training and hiring the right people."

Though this segment of the market is definitely heating up, none of the concepts thinks they are in danger of saturation, especially since their numbers are fairly small and they're not targeting the same geographical areas. Instead, they worry about competition from sports-oriented concepts like Buffalo Wild Wings. In fact, DeWitt says today's market is similar to the one from which Hooters emerged in 1983.

"It seems like Hooters had the whole segment to itself back then, but if you do the research, they had a raft of competitors that popped up--often with really crass names like Mugs 'N Jugs--before Hooters emerged as a clear national leader," he says.

'Breastaurants' Ring Up Big Profits

Ocean Bank lost $300,000 in hack, but won't have to repay customer

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Ocean Bank, which allowed hackers to withdraw more than $300,000 from a customer's account, won't have to cover the loss. A Maine judge said its account security was "not optimal," but ultimately ruled for it because hackers obtained account credentials using malicious software installed on the customer's computers. Ocean asserted that its due diligence was covered by verifying a password. [Wired]

Blackwater video game lets you control war criminals with your Kinect

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:47 AM PDT

Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater (dropped from the roster of US military contractors due to their participation in horrific war crimes), has done a deal with 505 Games to produce an XBox 360 shooter game that will be controlled by Kinect motion-sensors. It's just the latest turn for the war criminals at Blackwater, who renamed their business "Xe" and hired John Ashcroft to serve as their ethics officer. For more on Blackwater's past, see Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
"This game and its immersive Kinect-based approach will give players the chance to experience what it is like to be on a Blackwater team on a mission without being dropped into a real combat situation," Prince said in a statement issued by 505. The game was developed with in conjunction with former Blackwater members "to ensure accuracy of moves, gestures and gameplay," the 505 release said. "The game also features a selection of officially-licensed weapons for your soldier to choose from."
Real-Life Mercenaries to Star in Blackwater, the Videogame

Disney World Enchanted Tiki Room will re-open in August and return to its roots

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:41 AM PDT

More good news in the ongoing saga of the Walt Disney World Tiki Room attraction: it will re-open in August with a copy of the Disneyland show, which is relatively faithful to the original. The Walt Disney World Tiki Room was something of an abomination, having been made over with new animatronics and awful new music and dialog. It caught fire early this year, and there has been lots of informed speculation that the re-opened show would do away with the widely loathed additions and return to its original glory. I grew up sitting on my grandfather's lap at the Tiki Room while he and I sang and whistled together to the songs and laughed at the corny jokes and I couldn't be more pleased to hear that the Tiki Room is going back to it roots.
The "new management" has been let go and the future of the Adventureland landmark is in the wings and wit of José, Fritz, Michael and Pierre - four crooning parrot hosts who ushered in sophisticated Audio-Animatronics technology at California's Disneyland in 1963 at The Enchanted Tiki Room.

In time for fall 2011 vacations, The Enchanted Tiki Room (as the Magic Kingdom attraction now will be called) is being prepared to reflect the show at Disneyland that represents a milestone in Disney theme park entertainment. While Walt Disney's creative team previously had produced movable figures, none had the sophistication of the bird-brained cast of the Tiki Room. José, Fritz, Michael and Pierre produce movements when solenoid coils hidden inside receive signals recorded onto magnetic tape and are regarded as the first "true" Audio-Animatronics figures.

Enchanted Tiki Room set to reopen in Magic Kingdom this August

Standing Desk Jockey: Eric Ragle

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:47 PM PDT

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Boing Boing reader Eric Ragle says:

Hey Mark, thought you might like to take a look at my stand-up desk. It's an adjustable desk I found in the office. I turned it around and brought the top shelf high enough to put the keyboard at a comfortable level. I put the monitors in the commonly agreed upon "hunter-gatherer" angle.

I decided to give this a go after reading some of your posts on stand-up desks [See "Previously" below -- Mark]. I did some research and apparently there is some health benefits to those of us who suffer from back problems. The first two days I decided to spend half the day standing and the rest sitting or walking to people's offices, (I fix computers at a hospital). 

My feet, calves, lower back and neck really hurt in the beginning. So much so that I thought I might be doing more harm than good. By the third day I was feeling more energetic and the pain was gradually easing up. I had kept this lingering anticipation about when I would  allow myself to sit later on in the day, but now that was gone as well. I'm able to bounce around my little office now and not be so lazy about getting something out of a drawer across the room or stepping over to a co-worker's office if they need me. All in all, this is a positive thing. I don't see myself returning to a sitting-only situation. I do plan on investing in a gel mat to stand on and if I can find some, I'd like to get some dressy shoes that are easy to slip on and off but aren't obvious when I'm walking around.

L.A. Noire short story collection free on Kindle this week

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

201106071549 A couple of weeks ago I ran the introduction to the LA Noire: The Collected Stories fiction anthology, a tie-in of the video game of the same name. I just found out that the book, published by Mulholland Books, is free this week in the following formats: Amazon.com | BN.com | iTunes | Sony.

On the Mulholland blog you can read some pieces by contributors Megan Abbott, Andrew Vachss and Jonathan Santlofer on why LA is a noir city.



Dan Clowes' "Death-Ray" dolls

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:38 PM PDT

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Alvin of Buenaventura Press says: "A limited edition of 200 mego style Death-Ray dolls are going on sale this week and being sold online through our friends in Japan at Presspop." It's $105 and is limited to 200.

Clowes' book, The Death-Ray, comes out in September.

The Death-Ray 12" action doll

MakerBot's Bre Pettis on Colbert Wednesday night

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 04:55 AM PDT


Hoo-ah! I was at MakerBot in Brooklyn yesterday and they were all atwitter with the news that Bre Pettis, the face of the MakerBot open 3D printer and the Thingiverse 3D object repository, would be on Colbert Report tonight Wednesday night. Don't touch that dial!

Bre Pettis on The Colbert Report!

Inbox Influence: plugin reveals corporate money behind the emails in your inbox

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:16 PM PDT

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez,

Today the Sunlight Foundation launched Inbox Influence, a tool for Gmail that instantly shows you the political giving and lobbying history of the people and organizations mentioned in emails you receive. The easy-to-use tool can be used as a first step in researching influence background on corporate correspondence, adding context to newspaper headlines or discovering whom is behind political fundraising solicitations.

Inbox Influence works by tapping into Influence Explorer, Sunlight's library of federal and state data of political contributions, lobbying records and more. It provides details on any identified entity in the body of the email, plus information on both the sender of the email and the company from which it was sent. With it, you can even see how your friends and family have given to political campaigns.

Inbox Influence | Influence Explorer (Thanks, Nicko!)

Ecstatic self-butchering pig

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:01 PM PDT


From the annals of autocannibalistic animal adverts: an ecstatic self-butchering pig.

Contest Entry- Yum, Pork!

Illustrated Police News: sensationalist 19th century crime newspaper

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT

As a fan of police blotters and, well, blogs, I'm sure I would have loved the Illustrated Police News, a British newspaper founded in 1863 that aggregated news of murders, assaults wrongdoings and other antics of the wretched hives of scum and villainy in the UK and around the world. In the new issue of Fortean Times, Jan Bondeson -- author of the excellent history "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities" -- leafs through what was once voted "the worst newspaper in England." From FT:
Images Images Front Picture Library Uk Dir 21 Fortean Times 10552 12 The IPN's pages were filled with murders at home and abroad, assaults and outrages, accidents and macabre events, all described with gusto and luridly illustrated. For the fortean enthusiast, the IPN has a good deal to offer. Just like Charles Fort himself, the newspaper's editorial staff sifted an enormous amount of newspaper copy from Britain, Europe and the United States in their search for dastardly crimes and sensational stories. When there were no recent murders, curios ities of other kinds were pressed into service: ghosts, freaks and hermits, strange deaths and premature burials all featured over the years, and bizarre stories from the animal kingdom were also used on occasion to bolster the paper's contents: a swan is eaten by a boa constrictor; a monkey scalds a cat with a teapot; a man is attacked by a furious magpie; and a burglar is confronted by a razor-wielding orang-utan. When an old London tramp is attacked by hooligans, he is defended by his large troupe of trained rats. Fish fall from the sky, sea monsters attack, and in two separate incidents, a child and a dog are abducted by large eagles.

The main reason the IPN was such a scandal ous newspaper was its lewd and graphic illustrations, which outraged many people. Heads were crushed and limbs lopped off; blood spouted from knife wounds; children screamed in agony when bitten by dogs, and wives desperately begged for mercy when beaten by their brutal husbands. Images that would today seem amusing and burlesque – 'fast' women fighting or getting drunk, or a lady bicyclist flying through the air after being gored from behind by a bull – also infuriated the rather more prudish Victorians.



Racism, anti-semitism, fascism, and The Smurfs

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT

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Antoine Buéno, a lecturer at Paris's Sciences Po political science university, has written a new book analyzing Smurf society in which he apparently argues that they live in a fascist dictatorship. In the book, titled Le Petit Livre Bleu: Analyse critique et politique de la société des Schtroumpfs, he argues that the Smurf's enemy, Gargaemel, is an anti-semitic caricature of a Jew. Furthermore, one particular Smurf narrative has a racist and colonialist bent. Needless to say, people are really smurfed off about this, especially as Smurfs are in the spotlight again with a new live-action movie due out next month. From The Guardian:
Littleblueeeee "People think I'm moralising, which isn't my approach at all, (Buéno says). I analyse fairly, I have fun ... I do not want to disenchant. One can keep one's childhood approach and impose on top an analytical approach which smiles to itself."

He believes the emotional nature of the responses stems from the Smurfs' place in fans' childhoods. "It's linked to childhood – it's 'don't touch my Smurfs! Don't touch my Proust's madeleine!'," he said. Le Petit Livre Bleu is a "true monograph, the first ever done on the Smurfs", says Buéno, and is "rigorous and thorough and documented", based on intuitions expressed long before his book, including the "Cold War paranoia" that Smurf stood for "Small Men Under Red Force", and exploring his belief that "popular works, however innocent they seem, have much to say about our society".

But despite its serious purpose, the book "does not take itself seriously", he said. "My approach is schoolboy, somewhat in the spirit of Monty Python (my heroes) ... Of course it's funny to talk about totalitarianism, Stalinism and nazism for small animals as friendly, innocent and popular as the Smurfs," he said. "It's so obvious that I didn't think I would have to spell it out..."

Buéno added that he does not believe the Smurfs' creator Peyo, a pen name for the late Belgian artist Pierre Culliford, added the racist overtones to the Smurfs deliberately. "Peyo was not at all politicised; all this was unconscious," he said.

"Smurfs accused of antisemitism and racism"

 


Fan-made Gweek T-Shirt

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:01 AM PDT

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Stephen Woodring enjoys our Gweek podcast about comic books, games, and science fiction, and so he made a T-shirt with the logo on it. Very cool!

Jenny Hart's embroidery artwork stolen from exhibition

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:54 AM PDT

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My supremely talented friend Jenny Hart had two pieces of her artwork stolen in Toronto. She says:

Two of my most recent works (St. John the Baptist andLou Reed as Christ) were stolen from The Drake Hotel in Toronto following the close of the exhibition Wrap Your Head Around This. Attempts to retrieve the works have been fruitless, so I am now posting about it. Please share this blog post to spread awareness that if these works surface, they were stolen.

The return of these works will be welcomed with no questions asked.

Works stolen From Toronto Exhibition

Technical analysis of BitCoin's centralization

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Smart, meaty technical analysis of BitCoin, a technology I still struggle to reach a strong positive or negative conclusion about. (Thanks, @CarlRigney!)

Boing Boing International Meetup Day in 120 cities around the world tonight!

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 10:32 AM PDT

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Don't forget: Tonight is the International Boing Boing Meetup Day! The theme is "Wonderful Things." The goal is for happy mutants in cities around the world to self-organize various cabinets of curiosities.

It's easy to participate: Start by visiting the Meetup page to join or start a "Wonderful Things" Meetup in your city. Bring your favorite significant object, coveted curiosity, conversation piece, or mysterious item to the Meetup (Don't bring something that has a lot of intrinsic value). Then tell the other happy mutants about it!

While you're at the Meetup, share your thoughts on the items that you see, and if you are so inclined, offer up a swap! Don't forget to tweet your photos, videos, and details on any exciting swaps using hashtag #BoingBoingMUP. Boing Boing's Wonderful Things Meetup day is 7 June 2011

May the bridges I burn light the way

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:53 AM PDT

Quote of the day, from Marko Rakar, Croatian data activist: "May the bridges I burn light the way"

Roald Dahl: kind of a jerk

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:51 AM PDT

I've always heard that children's author Roald Dahl was something of a creep in person, and knew that he had a reputation for doing library visits and conference appearances that turned into antisemetic rants. But this biographical sketch of him at This Recording depicts him as even creepier than suspected -- a cruel, womanizing bully, ruled by lust and petty jealousies. I continue to enjoy his fiction with my daughter (even as I worry about their misogynist subtexts), but it's a shame to learn that an author who's given me so much pleasure and wonder was also such a rotten guy. Here's the letter in which Robert Gottlieb, editor-in-chief of Knopf, essentially fired Dahl from the house:
Dear Roald,

This is not in response to the specifics of your last several letters to me and my colleagues, but a general response to everything we've heard from you in the past year or two.

In brief, and as unemotionally as I can state it: since the time when you decided that Bob Bernstein, I and the rest of us had dealt badly with you over your contract, you have behaved to us in a way I can honestly say is unmatched in my experience for overbearingness and utter lack of civility. Lately you've began addressing others here - who are less well placed to answer you back - with the same degree of abusiveness. For a while I put your behavior down to the physical pain you were in and so managed to excuse it. Now I've come to believe that you're just enjoying a prolonged tantrum and are bullying us.

Your threat to leave Knopf after this current contract is fulfilled leaves us far from intimidated. Harrison, Bernstein and I will be sorry to see you depart, for business reasons, but these are not strong enough to make us put up with your manner to us any longer. I've worked hard for you editorially but had already decided to stop doing so; indeed, you've managed to make the entire experience of publishing you unappealing for all of us - counterproductive behavior, I would have thought.

To be perfectly clear, let me reverse your threat: unless you start acting civilly to us, there is no possibility of our agreeing to continue to publish you. Nor will I - or any of us - answer any future letter that we consider to be as rude as those we've been receiving.

Regretfully,

BG

« In Which We Consider The Macabre Unpleasantness Of Roald Dahl » (via Futurismic)

Enormously moving speech on the way the Internet transforms lives

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:47 AM PDT

I'm at the Personal Democracy Forum at NYU today, and the morning plenary has been a series of fascinating short talks. But one talk, by Jim Gilliam's "The Internet is My Religion," brought the house down. Jim worked in many early and influential Internet firms, went on to produce Robert Greenwald's extraordinary films, and do many other notable things. Among them was surviving two bouts of cancer and a double-lung transplant. The story of how he went from a Jerry Falwell born-again to an Internet advocate and film producer ended with a standing ovation and not a dry eye in the house. Watch this, please, I'd consider it a favor.

Jim Gilliam- The Future of Sharing

Dog has Husky head, Corgi body

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:31 AM PDT

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When I was in Rarotonga, the house next to ours had two dogs that looked exactly like each other, except one had a Corgi body and one had a long legged dog body. This photo of a Corgi-Husky (Huski?) is so striking I think it might be fake. (Via Corgi Addict)



Science fiction writing contest: "The robot felt..."

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:10 AM PDT

Paul Malmont sez,
Simon & Schuster and novelist Paul Malmont are looking for a science fiction writer. To promote the July release of his WW2 novel about pulp writers Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and L. Ron Hubbard, The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown, the publishing house is hosting a story writing contest. The winner will have their story published in the paperback edition of the book.

In the novel, young Isaac Asimov begins a story with 'The robot felt' and ends it with, 'In the end, the robot felt nothing. He wasn't programmed to.' The contest is looking for up-to-2,000-word sci-fi submissions that connect those lines. The top five finalists, selected by online voting, will be judged by the incredible Patton Oswalt, lit-agent Susan Golomb, and R/GA agency Creative Director, Dan Harvey and Malmont.



Movie theater turns angry phone message into funny PSA

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 09:00 AM PDT


The Alamo Drafthouse, a movie theater in Austin, TX, will kick you out if you use your mobile phone to send text messages while a movie is playing. This young woman, a proud citizen of The "Magnited States of America," called the theater to express her displeasure with this rule. Salty language ahoy!

We do not tolerate people that talk or text in the theater. In fact, before every film, we have several warnings on screen to prevent such happenings. Occasionally, someone doesn't follow the rules, and we do, in fact, kick their asses out of our theater. This video is an actual voicemail from a woman that was kicked out of one of our Austin theaters. Thanks, anonymous woman, for being awesome.
Don't Talk - Angry Voicemail (Uncensored)

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Now in the public domain:

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:51 AM PDT

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Jahsonic's Microblog: "The work of Édouard Vuillard, Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, F Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West is now in the public domain in countries with the 70 years rule."

As of this year in the public domain

I'm going to be sad when this is no longer a sign of dorkery

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT

It's been almost two decades since it was first released. So why is Settlers of Catan suddenly becoming so popular? (Thanks, Carrie D.!)

Rotting Gulliver's Travels themepark in Japan

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:43 AM PDT


In 2006, the urban explorers at SleepyCity went for a trip to Gulliver's Kingdom, an abandoned Gulliver's Travels-themed themepark 2.5 hours out of Tokyo. The park was shuttered in 2001, and in five years, it had become a fine example of a haunting, abandoned themepark.
Gullivers is about 2.5 hours west of Tokyo, nestled into the darkside of Mt Fuji. The mountain areas are beautiful and lush. Dense waves of green cascade through the clouds, into the mist filled valleys below. Bizarrely golf courses and urbex pair up. Spot a golf course or driving range and surely urbex lurks nearby. The three themeparks we've exlored have been adjacent to golfing establishments. Gulliver's provides an old culture mash of European fairytale in the Japanese mountains. It's well worth the day trip for the surreal atmosphere, just watch out for people on the golf course.
Gulliver's Kingdom & Sea of Trees (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Path of Massachusetts tornado from space

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:41 AM PDT

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This is what it looks like when an F3 tornado plows a 39-mile long track into your state. It reminds me of the 1999 F5 that went through Oklahoma City, near the college where my dad teaches. For years afterwards, you could drive by and spot the scar where the tornado had demolished everything and people were starting to rebuild.

Via Jad Abrumad
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