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Old-timey German nose-error-correcting contraption Manhood camping firequest Rowan Atkinson reportedly injured in crash The Slap Hat Google Plus's "Real Name" policy is abusive; Facebook is not a "Real Name" success story Color video from Hiroshima Robot makes a cookie Americans still being killed by racial segregation Earth's two moons Climate change and earthquakes: It's complicated Alan Moore: Storyteller Man busted for DIY fission experiments Getting digital copyright right: pay artists, but don't break the Internet Photo: Escher painting refracted in a drop of falling water Can you identify this phone thief? How Felicia Day's online gamer serial makes good TV, good business and good art Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - So many cool watchies, so few limbs to put them on Old-timey German nose-error-correcting contraption By Cory Doctorow on Aug 05, 2011 06:33 am This delightful vintage German contraption will cure your nose erros (Potato Nose, Saddle Nose, Duckbill Nose, Wide Nose, Pointy Nose, Long Nose, Hook Nose and Slant Nose) and give you a "Greco-Roman Normal Form" in short order. All for 7-10 … Continue reading → Read in browser Manhood camping firequest By Rob Beschizza on Aug 05, 2011 06:13 am The Manhood Camping Firequest is NOT A GAY THING. [Craiglist via @Annaleen/@charliejane] Read in browser Rowan Atkinson reportedly injured in crash By Rob Beschizza on Aug 04, 2011 10:27 pm Fresh from setting the fastest time ever recorded by a celebrity on the BBC's Top Gear, Blackadder and Mr. Bean star Rowan Atkinson reportedly received "minor injuries" in a car accident today. Hollie-Rae Merrick writes: Emergency services were called to … Continue reading → Read in browser The Slap Hat By Rob Beschizza on Aug 04, 2011 09:12 pm This is no normal hat. This is a Slap Hat Extreme. To be clear, it is intended for "tactical" slapping. Previously: Tactical pen. Read in browser Google Plus's "Real Name" policy is abusive; Facebook is not a "Real Name" success story By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2011 08:17 pm Here's danah boyd in very good form, explaining why "Real Name" policies like the one Google has rammed down Google Plus users' throats (and like the insanely naive one that Randi Zuckerberg would like to foist on the entire Internet) … Continue reading → Read in browser Color video from Hiroshima By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 04, 2011 06:49 pm The Nation's Greg Mitchell has a new book out about the strange saga of color video, shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the nuclear bomb attacks, which was suppressed for nearly 40 years. You can see a couple of clips … Continue reading → Read in browser Robot makes a cookie By David Pescovitz on Aug 04, 2011 06:49 pm Here is a video demonstration of a Willow Garage PR-2 robot making a single large cookie. Willow Garage also makes the robot that UC Berkeley researchers taught to fold laundry and pair socks. This baker robot was programmed by Mario … Continue reading → Read in browser Americans still being killed by racial segregation By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 04, 2011 06:37 pm How many Americans die because of routine racial segregation (the social kind, not Jim Crow)? According to calculations by the EpiAnalysis blog, it could be as high as 176,000 people per year. (Via Robin Lloyd) Read in browser Earth's two moons By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 04, 2011 06:33 pm There's a big difference between the side of the Moon we can see, and the side we can't. Although it seems pretty pockmarked to the layperson, "our" side of the Moon is actually the smooth half. On the dark side, … Continue reading → Read in browser Climate change and earthquakes: It's complicated By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 04, 2011 06:13 pm In the wake of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami last March, I started seeing a lot of headlines like this: "Does climate change mean more tsunamis?" "Did climate change cause the Japanese earthquake?" In those stories, environmentalists and climate science … Continue reading → Read in browser Alan Moore: Storyteller By David Pescovitz on Aug 04, 2011 05:11 pm Alan Moore: Storyteller is a lush new artbook about the writer and comic genius behind Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and From Hell. The hardcover monograph spans Moore's entire career, from his early performance pieces and … Continue reading → Read in browser Man busted for DIY fission experiments By David Pescovitz on Aug 04, 2011 04:25 pm Richard Handle, 31, of Stockholm Ängelholm, Sweden was attempting DIY nuclear energy experiments in his home. Wondering whether possession of radium, americium, and uranium might be illegal, he contacted Sweden's Radiation Authority to ask. His suspicions were confirmed when police … Continue reading → Read in browser Getting digital copyright right: pay artists, but don't break the Internet By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2011 04:02 pm I'm headed to Vancouver this weekend to give a keynote at SIGGRAPH; I did a long interview with Blaine Kyllo from the Georgia Straight about the subject of my talk -- that is, how you build a digital copyright system … Continue reading → Read in browser Photo: Escher painting refracted in a drop of falling water By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2011 02:06 pm Reddit's Smsilton took this incredible 60mm macro shot of an iconic MC Escher painting being refracted through a drop of falling water, and documented the process: Yeah I used the Canon 60mm macro f/2.8. I shot at ISO 640 and … Continue reading → Read in browser Can you identify this phone thief? By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2011 01:35 pm Do you know this man? He stole a mobile phone from a man on the street near my flat in east London this morning. I took this picture just before he ran off. If you know him please dial 101 … Continue reading → Read in browser How Felicia Day's online gamer serial makes good TV, good business and good art By Cory Doctorow on Aug 04, 2011 01:01 pm Forbes's David Ewalt has a really good profile on Felicia Day's innovative work in producing uncompromisingly niche-focused, medium-cost Web video that is both more artistically satisfying for her than TV was, and more lucrative. 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