Lessig Sings the Blues: "Walden Pond Blues" IEEE Spectrum: basics for a maker workbench Air Force's "Jesus Loves Nukes" training no more? More Sad Guys On Trading Floors Sad Etsy Dogs Gollum, bearer of the ring 10-year old Girl Scout owns slow game Retro Game Master HOWTO sound Canadian Woman leaps from burning building in London Panelists want "more intelligent" hacker hit list Stories told with ripped-up photos Huge fire in London Dasparkhotel is a series of tubes London tube map with distance grids Oscar Pistorius first amputee to compete in World Championships Clinical significance is not the same as statistical significance HOW TO: Run a placebo controlled trial of an anti-venom Baroness Greenfield links Internet and autism, Internet has hearty laugh Geographically accurate Tube map Japanese tsunami and the birth of icebergs Open Science Summit 2011 Would you trade a house for "personal dinosaur services"? Smithsonian inventors quiz What is a Jitney? A game of 20 Questions between a hungry Somalian child and an affluent North American, where it's clear the North American isn't very good at the game and, frankly, clueless. The End, a game of death, belief and science Secrets of the best twitter fakers DSLR controller app for Android Mainstream shoppers largely unaware of games not called "The Sims" 
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Lessig Sings the Blues: "Walden Pond Blues"
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 09, 2011 04:38 am Here's a great mashup of a Larry Lessig riff on Thoreau and political transparency, mixed with a slow, soulful blues, to excellent effect. "Walden Pond Blues" was mixed by Admiral Bob, who performs the music under a CC-BY license. Walden …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 09, 2011 03:47 am IEEE Spectrum put together a solid "DIY Essentials" list for a hardware/electronics workbench. From IEEE Spectrum: Most of us start out using batteries or cannibalizing power adapters, but a good bench Power Supply lets you control voltages precisely as well …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 09, 2011 03:38 am The Air Force is no longer providing ethics training that is meant to make Christian soldiers feel better about nuclear weapons. From Military.com: The training slides include quotations from the Bible, portraits of Christian saints, prophets, and famous American generals …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 09, 2011 03:02 am The Dow dropped 600+ points? That must mean it's time to revisit the original Tumblr that's been "turning the economic crisis into one of those clever Internet memes" since October 7, 2008! Ladies and gents, please join me in once …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 09, 2011 02:52 am Sad Etsy Dogs is the spiritual sequel to Sad Etsy Boyfriends. [via Metafilter]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 09, 2011 01:26 am Gollum at a wedding [Tour With]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 09, 2011 01:00 am Many social games have measures to prevent cheating by mucking around with the date settings. But kids are too smart to be stopped that easily. PC Magazine's Sara Yin reports on a brilliant exploit discovered by CyFi, a 10 year-old …
Continue reading → Read in browser Retro Game Master
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 09, 2011 12:43 am Kotaku is celebrating old-school gaming with a retrospective series of newly-dubbed TV shows, Retro Game Master, presented by Shinya Arino. New episodes "air" on Thursdays, and the choices are a refreshing step beyond the standard A-list classics: The Mystery of …
Continue reading → Read in browser HOWTO sound Canadian
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 09, 2011 12:12 am Writing for the OED, Stefan Dollinger (director of the Canadian English Lab, University of British Columbia at Vancouver) provides indispensable notes on talking Canadian: We can find the linguistic expression of the Canadian east-west connection at all linguistic levels. Vowels, …
Continue reading → Read in browser Woman leaps from burning building in London
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 11:56 pm This amazing photo, showing a woman leaping from a burning building in London, is doing the rounds on Twitter. It's hard to verify, as the website of credited photo bureau Wenn is down, for what may be obvious reasons. Some …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 11:47 pm Computer researchers at Defcon want LulzSec and Anonymous to "get more intelligent and focused", reports Wired's Kim Zetter.
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 11:27 pm Torn Lives is a photoblog which "collects torn pictures along with something reflecting back on the missing parts". [via Dangerous Minds]
Read in browser Huge fire in London
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 09:11 pm The BBC has aerial footage of a huge blaze in the London Borough of Croydon, after violence broke out on the U.K. capital's streets for a third day. Camberwell, where I lived for years, is reportedly in a state of …
Continue reading → Read in browser Dasparkhotel is a series of tubes
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 08:09 pm Dasparkhotel (The Park Hotel) is, literally, a series of tubes. Constructed from repurposed sewer pipes, each tiny room offers a double bed, storage space, a light, and the fun of an inside that is very nearly outside. Nearby are shared …
Continue reading → Read in browser London tube map with distance grids
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 07:59 pm London's famous tube map sacrifices geographical accuracy to make a useful diagram. Though a boon to travelers finding their way around the complex network, it does have drawbacks: for example, the distances between stations are all wrong. This makes it …
Continue reading → Read in browser Oscar Pistorius first amputee to compete in World Championships
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 07:45 pm "Oscar Pistorius will become the first amputee athlete to compete at the able-bodied World Championships, after being named in South Africa's squad." [BBC]
Read in browser Clinical significance is not the same as statistical significance
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 07:22 pm A great example of why details and context always, always matter, from the surgeon/blogger at The Skeptical Scalpel: Twelve patients who served as their own controls wore compression stockings for a week and then no stockings for a week alternating. …
Continue reading → Read in browser HOW TO: Run a placebo controlled trial of an anti-venom
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 06:57 pm The fascinating story of how researchers ran a placebo-controlled trial of a new scorpion anti-venom. (Via Ed Yong)
Read in browser Baroness Greenfield links Internet and autism, Internet has hearty laugh
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 06:44 pm Baroness Susan Greenfield is an Oxford neuroscientist known for dire, evidence-free predictions about how the Internet and video games are probably going to turn us all into mentally deficient social cripples any minute now. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she gets made fun …
Continue reading → Read in browser Geographically accurate Tube map
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 05:44 pm London's Tube map is a masterpiece of abstraction, abandoning accuracy to create a more easily-navigated mental map of the city. Designed by Harry Beck in 1931, the diagrammatic format has changed little, even in the stylistic details, since then. Occasionally …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 05:35 pm Scientists have long speculated that large tsunamis could be linked to the calving of icebergs—where chunks of ice break off of the side of a glacier or ice shelf and float away. The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that happened in …
Continue reading → Read in browser Open Science Summit 2011
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 08, 2011 05:27 pm Guido sez, My friend Joseph Jackson is organizing again the Open Science Summit this year. After the great success of OSS in 2010, it is back to help to gather and broadcast voices from all around to discuss the ways …
Continue reading → Read in browser Would you trade a house for "personal dinosaur services"?
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 05:25 pm Suddenly, I'm curious. Back in the days when newspaper classifieds ruled the Earth (and charged by the line), did wacky parodies like this one from Vancouver Craigslist also exist? Or is this sort of humor dependent on the Internet and …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 08, 2011 05:02 pm Fun trivia game at the Smithsonian website—Given a list of inventions, how many of the inventors can you name in 6 minutes. Cheat if you must, but know that every time you do, you make an adorable baby alpaca cry.
Read in browser What is a Jitney?
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 04:13 pm The Jitney, a legendary form of transportation said to be available in The Hamptons, is explained here by Nina Katchadourian. Headphones at respectable workplaces, if you please. [via The Awl]
Read in browser A game of 20 Questions between a hungry Somalian child and an affluent North American, where it's clear the North American isn't very good at the game and, frankly, clueless.
By David Ng on Aug 08, 2011 03:54 pm Photo: Feisal Omar / Reuters NORTH AMERICAN: Is it an animal, mineral or vegetable? SOMALIAN: Yes sir, I believe it is all three, sir. NORTH AMERICAN: Hmm... Can I get it online? SOMALIAN: I'm sorry, sir. I do not understand …
Continue reading → Read in browser The End, a game of death, belief and science
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 03:40 pm Tom Chatfield writes in: "The End is a free, online web-game commissioned by Channel 4 Education, and scheduled for release in August 2011. It is a game of self-discovery for 14-19 year olds which integrates strategy, puzzles and philosophical questions …
Continue reading → Read in browser Secrets of the best twitter fakers
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 03:14 pm Adam Penenberg on the secrets to a successful fake twitter character: "To do it right is like being a method actor: You have to get inside the head of a famous person but with a twist; the post has to …
Continue reading → Read in browser DSLR controller app for Android
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 02:27 pm DSLR controller is an Android app that allow you to remotely control the functions of your fancy Canon shooter. Wired's Charlie Sorrel writes: "To control a camera with an iPhone, you need to first tether the camera to a computer …
Continue reading → Read in browser Mainstream shoppers largely unaware of games not called "The Sims"
By Rob Beschizza on Aug 08, 2011 01:59 pm The computer games people buy in shops are not the ones they buy online. [RPS]
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