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Sarkozy's official residence is a den of piracy 3 Things the Higgs Boson can teach you about physics Touchscreen "one hand" watch How the effects of climate change can create more climate change Black widow spider The best set of infographics ever Lego's new line of toys for girls Collection of Etsy products inspired by exobiology Technology confuse lizard! Lizard no like! Bear Wednesday 2: Adorable sweater edition How the 1%-of-1% spends its political dollar HTTP status cats by GirlieMac: classic server error codes, now with cats Four Humvees unceremoniously thrown from a cargo plane Jonny McGovern - Sexy Nerd Breast cancer awareness ads feature superheroes giving themselves breast exams Canadian MPs use bogus video-game industry data to defend hated DRM law they're about to ram down the country's throat Movie monster matrioshkas Wild monkeys and boars enlisted to help measure Fukushima radiation in Japan Japan to declare Fukushima nuclear plant stable, but problems aren't over Close-order drill from hacked Elmobots Global Voices on CNN: SOPA will hurt global human rights struggles Memoir of a child kidnapped to Guantanamo Bay, tortured for six years, and released Sandusky legal sarcasm fail Good news, CEO pay is up! Ink-stained set doesn't like SOPA either Parallel parking New HP Logo will need to be frequently cleaned with a Q-tip Fox News decrees that 8.6% > 8.9% HOWTO make a Star Wars snowflake 1972 Kenner Toy Comic Book Catalog Sarkozy's official residence is a den of piracy
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 15, 2011 12:16 pm Further revelations from the YouHaveDownloaded BitTorrent logger: six infringing BitTorrent swarms included computers logged into the network of the official residence of French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Sarkozy, of course, pushed for the HADOPI law that allows whole households to be disconnected from the net if their network is implicated in three copyright complaints. Note that ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 11:00 am Last Tuesday, particle physicists at CERN did not announce that they had found the Higgs Boson particle. Nor did they announce that they had not found the Higgs Boson. Instead, what we got was an update on the state of the research. But it's a really tantalizing update. The Higgs Boson is a popular, but ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 15, 2011 05:20 am TokyoFlash's new Kisai On Air watch uses an always-on touchscreen LCD to display the time; the "minute hand" points to the hour and displays the minutes. The watch has a bunch of fun animations and some limited customizability, too. A multi-functional watch design, Kisai On Air features touch screen technology and displays the time and ...
Read in browser How the effects of climate change can create more climate change
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 03:54 am One of the interesting things about the global carbon dioxide and climate systems is the concept of feedback loops. You already know that as atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide go up (and with them, the global average temperature) you get lots of different kinds of changes all over the place. For instance, mountain pine forests ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 03:27 am Reader Pete Johnson took this awesome photo of the red-splotched abdomen of a poisonous black widow spider. One of my favorite things about this shot: The fact that you can see hairs growing on the spider's abdomen. Extra bonus: Until checking out this photo—and subsequently reading up a bit on black widows—I had no idea ...
Read in browser The best set of infographics ever
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 03:08 am At Bloomberg Business Week, Vali Chandrasekaran makes me incredibly happy by creating a series of six infographics demonstrating the ridiculous connections you can make when you start confusing correlation and causation. Did a conspiracy of baby Avas cause the U.S. housing market to implode? Was Michele Bachmann's candidacy doomed by the end of Staten Island ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 15, 2011 03:00 am Brad Wieners (my friend from the days when we were both editors at Wired and now an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek) wrote the cover story for the December 19 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek about Lego's latest (and most expensive) attempt to capture the girl market. Over the years, Lego has had five strategic initiatives aimed ...
Read in browser Collection of Etsy products inspired by exobiology
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 02:53 am The discovery of Kepler 22-b, a planet that exists in the habitable zone of a star 600 light years away from Earth, lead Etsy user Alisa to curate a collection of really neat products themed around space and exobiology. My favorite: A set of plush dolls designed to demonstrate the evolution of a fuzzy blue ...
Read in browser Technology confuse lizard! Lizard no like!
By Dean Putney on Dec 15, 2011 02:43 am Why ant no tasty? Lizard mind no grasp concept of menu selection! AAAAAAAARRRRGH! Lizard crush microprocessors!! I also originally found this as a GIF. Thanks to theortolan for Submitterating the video! [Video Link]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Dec 15, 2011 02:29 am Celebrate what's left of Bear Wednesday by cooing over the cuteness embodied in this sweater, knitted with silhouettes of tardigrades. Also known as water bears, tardigrades are microscopic animals known for surviving some seriously extreme conditions and for being inexplicably cute for something that grows from a larva. Great work, Chris Booth!
Read in browser How the 1%-of-1% spends its political dollar
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 15, 2011 01:11 am Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation sez, "The Sunlight Foundation published a very detailed analysis of campaign contributions from the 2010 cycle with accompanying infographics and profiles of the top political donors that show just who holds the power in U.S. electoral politics. Our analysis reveals a growing dependence of candidates and political parties on this ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Dec 15, 2011 12:55 am GirlieMac, aka Tomomi Imura (Twitter) just won the internet with her deftly conceived and Photoshopped series of HTTP status message "motivational poster" images, featuring cats. A bunch of them are featured above and below. The full set is here at Flickr. She's taking suggestions for more, if you can think of any she missed. (thanks, ...
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By Dean Putney on Dec 15, 2011 12:36 am I found this as an animated GIF before I saw the video. I was shocked that there was hardly any more sound in the video! [Video Link] via Canv.as
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By Dean Putney on Dec 15, 2011 12:29 am I've been a fan of Jonny McGovern's hilarious gay-oriented music videos for years, so I was glad to see a new one pop up in Submitterator. Normally I'd let a video like this speak for itself, but I'd like to highlight a few key lyrics that just make it: I be sexy strippin' while he ...
Read in browser Breast cancer awareness ads feature superheroes giving themselves breast exams
By Xeni Jardin on Dec 15, 2011 12:26 am "Nobody's immune to breast cancer. When we talk about breast cancer, there's no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor." A public health campaign for breast cancer awareness in the African country of Mozambique, created by ad firm ...
Read in browser Canadian MPs use bogus video-game industry data to defend hated DRM law they're about to ram down the country's throat
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 11:45 pm Michael Geist sez, The Canadian government has turned to the video game industry as a major source of support for its much criticized digital lock rules. Given the fact that writers, performers, publishers, musicians, documentary film makers, and artists have all called for greater balance on digital locks, the government has been left with fewer ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 10:42 pm Kevin makes beautiful hand-painted matrioshkas illustrated with whimsical, pop-culture figures. I really like this movie monster set, which features Godzilla, King Kong, Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula, Wolfman, Zombie and Mummy. Movie Monsters Russian Dolls (Set of 6) (Thanks, Kevin!)
Read in browser Wild monkeys and boars enlisted to help measure Fukushima radiation in Japan
By Xeni Jardin on Dec 14, 2011 10:33 pm Many challenges remain in measuring radiation leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, after a devastating quake and tsunami 9 months ago left that site crippled. The crowdsourced efforts of a DIY tech group called Safecast were the subject of a report I produced with Miles O'Brien for NewsHour; other projects to capture ...
Read in browser Japan to declare Fukushima nuclear plant stable, but problems aren't over
By Xeni Jardin on Dec 14, 2011 10:07 pm Surely this will end well! Japan is expected to soon declare the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant "virtually stable" nine months after a quake and tsunami led to a nuclear disaster there. The plant still leaks radiation, is vulnerable to earthquakes, and no one can figure out how to clean it up, or how many ...
Read in browser Close-order drill from hacked Elmobots
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 09:47 pm In this video, an artist skins and skeletonizes a cadre of Elmo robots, installs Arduinos in them, and hacks them to do synchronized maneuvers. Yes, I am well aware that I wrote this into a novel. Dang, I wish they showed more of the bots moving! Adrianne Wortzel first saw Tickle-Me-Elmo-TMX during her residency in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 09:02 pm James from New America Foundation sez, "Ivan Sigal and Rebecca MacKinnon, respectively executive director and co-founder of Global Voices, describe how copyright enforcement legislation must respect Internet freedom. (Remember when CarrierIQ tried to silence Trevor Eckart's research?) The precedent the U.S. sets poses greater dangers abroad:" In countries whose judicial systems are less independent and ...
Read in browser Memoir of a child kidnapped to Guantanamo Bay, tortured for six years, and released
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 08:13 pm When Mohammed el Gorani was a boy in Saudi Arabia, he found that he could not find good work or education because his family was from Chad. A friend from Pakistan offered to connect him with relatives there who would help him get educated. He took his work savings and flew to Pakistan, where he ...
Read in browser Sandusky legal sarcasm fail
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 06:53 pm Jerry Sandusky's defense lawyer tried to brush off reporters who wanted to know about the eyewitness accounts of his client raping children. Counsel Joe Amendola told reporters who believed this testimony, "I suggest you dial 1-800-REALITY." That turns out to be the number of a phone-sex line.
Read in browser Good news, CEO pay is up!
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 06:44 pm The economy's recovered! For CEOs, that is. Exec pay is way, way, way up in America. 40% up. One CEO, John Hammergren at McKesson, took home $145M. The money-quote: "Bosses won in every area, with dramatic increases in pensions, payoffs and perks – as well as salary." Even for fired CEOs, it was a good ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 06:34 pm America's newspaper editors have backed the fight to stop SOPA. Is there anyone left who supports this? Apart from the MPAA, RIAA and their shills in Congress? (Thanks, Dan!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 14, 2011 06:14 pm [Video Link] I like the fact that someone videotaped it. (Via Cynical-C)
Read in browser New HP Logo will need to be frequently cleaned with a Q-tip
By Rob Beschizza on Dec 14, 2011 06:14 pm I quite like HP's new logo (right), which the company paid for but has not yet implemented. It's a simple, clean, and unmistakable distillation of its established identity. But as Armin at Brand New says, it's not quite there: "HP still feels like a stodgy PC company trying to be cool." The ascender and descender ...
Read in browser Fox News decrees that 8.6% > 8.9%
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 14, 2011 06:04 pm I would like to know what software they used to make this graph. Wouldn't you think it would produce an accurate graph? Simpler explanation: Fox just couldn't bring itself to show a downtick in unemployment, no matter how small, so they edited it. Graphic design the Fox Way
Read in browser HOWTO make a Star Wars snowflake
By Cory Doctorow on Dec 14, 2011 05:50 pm Matters of Grey created some beautiful, downloadable designs for cutting out Star Wars-themed snowflakes, and Anthony Herrera extended the collection, adding several designs, including a smashing Admiral Ackbar. Star Wars Snowflakes (via Neatorama)
Read in browser 1972 Kenner Toy Comic Book Catalog
By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 14, 2011 05:48 pm Ethan Persoff scanned and posted a 1972 Kenner Toy comic book catalog, which was inserted into newspapers a mere 39 years ago.
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