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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 15, 2011 11:57 am [5:30am PT] Live ABC News stream of Bloomberg's presser here, NYC stream here. There's a large crowd outside. Journalists to follow, who are there, include: @antderosa, @quinnorton. Bloomberg: "Our intention was to allow people to go in and protest, or peacefully enjoy the park. They will not be allowed to use tents or sleeping bags ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 15, 2011 01:33 am In today's CRAFT, I explained how to make a salt cellar and tiny spoon out of wood. A couple of years ago I whittled a wooden spoon as a thank-you gift for our family friend Valerie, who was my daughter's elementary school art teacher. Valerie appreciated it so much that my wife asked me to ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Nov 15, 2011 12:22 am Sony's latest ultraportable laptop is stunning. It's beautiful and lightweight, with a classy metal chassis and impeccably tasteful trim. It has a powerful i7 CPU, 1600x900 13.1" display and a lightning-fast SSD. It's half a pound lighter than the competition. And it exemplifies everything that is wrong with its creator. Unfortunately, it also costs much ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 09:20 pm Security researcher Mikko Hypponen reports finding a piece of malicious software that was cryptographically signed by a forged Adobe certificate originating with Government of Malaysia: Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute, whose signing certificate was "stolen quite some time ago." There are several hundred parties that are trusted by OSes, browsers and software to issue ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 07:32 pm Here's a great little video explaining laser-sintering, the process by which some 3D printers do their magic -- melting fine powders, bit by bit, into 3D shapes. How Laser Sintering Works
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By Xeni Jardin on Nov 14, 2011 07:27 pm A Monday re-post for those who missed: I traveled to Japan with PBS NewsHour's Miles O'Brien, and helped produce this story about efforts to use DIY tech and the power of crowdsourcing to gather and share information on radiation levels throughout the country, post-Fukushima. We traveled inside the evacuation zone, and what we learned may ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Nov 14, 2011 07:06 pm NOTE: If you did not get Gweek episodes 24 - 26, then please re-subscribe using this feed URL. In this episode of Gweek, I'm joined by Boing Boing's managing editor, Rob Beschizza, and Joel Johnson, editorial director of Kotaku. Here's what we talked about: The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Rob has been playing it incessantly but ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 14, 2011 06:52 pm Apparently 32 non-human animals (not including microbes or fruit flies) were on the final Space Shuttle trip back from the Space Station. Air & Space Magazine posts about NASA's animal research in space. Above is an astrofrog on Spacelab in 1992. NASA's animal research policies have come a long way since its days of shooting ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 14, 2011 06:49 pm Feel old by listening to these 11 obsolete sounds. (Via Andrew Moseman)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 14, 2011 06:40 pm In 2008, some scientists proposed that cows can sense magnetism and actually line up in fields along Earth's magnetic lines. It's the sort of paper that everybody in the media wants to talk about for, roughly, two weeks ... and then never mention again. But that's not how science works. One research paper does not ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Nov 14, 2011 06:38 pm Lisa sez, "Mob Rules Games is a small, indie-startup founded on the core idea that game developers and the community of players should work together as much as possible. All of their content will be licensed under the CC-licensed and all their software will be Open Source licensed under Go modified version of the BSD ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 14, 2011 06:19 pm The downside to having a brain disorder: Your brain works differently than the majority of humans'. That can make it difficult to participate in society. It puts people at risk for poverty, abuse, and exclusion. The benefit to having a brain disorder: Your brain works differently than the majority of humans'. That means that you ...
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 14, 2011 06:13 pm For the last year, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future have been researching the future of science to identify big areas of science we think will have a transformative impact over the next decade. We read a lot of papers, conducted interviews, hosted an Open Science unconference, held an expert workshop with ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Nov 14, 2011 05:51 pm Sadly languishing in committee since 1997: A bill to make buckminsterfullerene the official State Molecule of Texas. (Via Carmen Drahl)
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By David Pescovitz on Nov 14, 2011 05:50 pm The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office reports some of the wonderfully odd requests its received at its embassies around the world: In the last six months staff have been asked for a telephone number for Phil Collins and Prince Charles's shoe size. Another request was from a man stranded at the airport by his dominatrix… ...
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