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Charity game jam Skifcha = cat + wub Birth control is safer than pregnancy: Day 1 at AAAS 2012 Anime, pulp and smut in Garoto Nacional Vintage European soap packages RFID blocking at the point-of-sale Canada's government muzzles scientists, stonewalls press queries about health, environment and climate Afrocyberpunk: the future and science fiction in Africa Freedom sounds like fighter-jets Data viz: whom did the UK government invite to emergency talks about the health reform bills? $5,075 loan from Western Sky Financial will cost you $40,872.72 Dan Kaminsky on the RSA key-vulnerability Pin-up art on old fruit-crate labels Education is a snap at the Central Institute of Technology in Australia Ordeal on the Isle of the Everlasting Dead Oh my God, entertainment industry people are still pitching for SOPA How to optimize your caffeine intake: there's an app for that MC Chris cartoon show Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into possession and sale of a gram of pot The infinite cycle of Soap Charity game jam
By Rob Beschizza on Feb 18, 2012 12:52 pm Independent game developers including Mojang, Oxeye Game Studio and Wolfire Games are jamming live this weekend. The theme: real-time strategy shoot 'em ups set in a steampunk ancient Egypt. Watch the stream at Humble Bundle.
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 18, 2012 12:29 pm Skifcha, who has a Facebook page and may be seen in its full glory at xgabberx's Vimeo, is now available in stereo. There are more adventures. [Thanks, Joel!]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Feb 18, 2012 11:39 am It's that time again. Maggie is back at the largest science convention in the Western Hemisphere for four days of wall-to-wall awesomeness. Each day, she'll tell you about some of the cool things she learned watching scientists from all over the world talk about their work. Check the bottom of each post to find links ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 18, 2012 10:59 am Get your weekend going with Garoto Nacional by Strausz, a blast of anime, explosions, monsters, NSFW flesh, etc., set to a pounding dance track of similar dimensions. [Video Link. Released by Penetra Records]
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By David Pescovitz on Feb 18, 2012 10:24 am Over at Accidental Mysteries, a delightful collection of Vintage European Soap Packaging. (Thanks, Randall de Rijk!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 18, 2012 10:02 am Spotted by the cash-register at London Drugs, a giant discount pharmacy-cum-big-box-store in downtown Vancouver, these cheap RFID-blocking credit-card sleeves. RFID-blocking wallet, point of sale, London Drugs, Vancouver, BC
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 18, 2012 09:53 am The Canadian Harper government's policy of not allowing government researchers to speak without approval and without being attended by political minders is in the news again. A series of speakers at an AAAS meeting told the international science community that climate, environmental and health research that calls government policy into question is routinely suppressed. Prof ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 18, 2012 09:52 am Here's an interesting, short memoir about science fiction in Africa, written by Jonathan Dotse, a science fiction writer in Accra, Ghana. Dotse describes how his early exposure to science fiction changed his outlook on life, and how he sees the field relating to the future of Africa. Imagine a young African boy staring wide-eyed at ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 17, 2012 10:25 pm This ad hearkens back to the days before America came to mistrust its military-industrial complex, the dreamtime when the scream of jets was a sound to comfort your children. Freedom Has a New Sound
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 17, 2012 08:40 pm Dr Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre sez, "I did a really sophisticated and complex data visualisation. I think you might enjoy it. There's definitely a pattern in there, I just need to decide what statistical tests will best extract the signal from the noise." Who is, and is not, invited to Cameron's emergency NHSbill summit? A ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 17, 2012 05:57 pm Western Sky Loans boasts that it's "not a Payday Loan!" Whatever it is, a 116.73% APR on a $5,075 loan seems a bit steep. After 84 monthly payments you'll have spent $40,872.72 paying it back. $5,075 loan from Western Sky Financial will cost you $40,872.72 (Via imgur)
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 17, 2012 04:00 pm Dan Kaminsky sez, There's been a lot of talk about some portion of the RSA keys on the Internet being insecure, with "2 out of every 1000 keys being bad". This is incorrect, as the problem is not equally likely to exist in every class of key on the Internet. In fact, the problem seems ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 17, 2012 03:26 pm In the Vintage Ads LiveJournal group, a contributor called Noluck-Boston is currently digging up a fantastic set of cheesecake/pin-up fruit crate labels of yesteryear. Here's Foot-High Melons, and On Rush Vegetables.
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 17, 2012 03:15 pm A charming advertisement for a college down under, by Henry and Aaron. Stay to the end. Send the kids out the room. [via Gizmodo]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 17, 2012 03:12 pm "The four posts of the death-machine tipped off Lang's fate: They were going to tear him apart -- nice and slow!" (Via Subtropic Bob)
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By Rob Beschizza on Feb 17, 2012 02:38 pm You'd think that the proponents of SOPA[1] would give up that legislative dead parrot's ghost. But they're still doing the rounds on radio and in print, claiming that millions of Americans were 'duped' into opposing their harmless little internet censorship law. The fresh (!) talking points go like this: Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and others ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 17, 2012 02:19 pm Tim O'Reilly tweeted: "Quantified self for caffeine addicts -- IOS app to optimize intake. (Didn't know half-life in body was 5 hours!)" Two doctors at Penn State University have developed Caffeine Zone, a free iOS app that tells you the perfect time to take a coffee break to maintain an optimal amount of caffeine in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Feb 17, 2012 02:11 pm Nerdcore rapper MC Chris is getting his own cartoon show, which apparently involves zombies, the music industry and profanity. Just as it should. the mc chris cartoon teaser trailer (via Neatorama)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 17, 2012 01:19 pm More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age. Last year in three high schools in Florida, ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Feb 17, 2012 01:09 pm For people who still think it's important to shower with soap, this is neat: a piggybacking soap bar system. When the bar of soap becomes a sliver, you just stick it into the hollow part of a new bar of Stack soap. Soap bars that join together - STACK I haven't used soap or shampoo ...
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