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I have no idea what you're doing Theaters will charge premium on 2D movies in order to lower the cost of 3D movie tickets Narnia-themed kid's playroom with through-the-wardrobe entrance Copyright is alive and well on the Internet The LED light bulb you've been waiting for Nested layers of temp agencies allow WalMart's supply chain to shave pennies through terrible, illegal working conditions Prolific Instructables maker creates robotic claw business cards, spaghetti yetis, and more Byron Sonne quizzed over saved tweets, goat avatar Ride out the apocalypse with tinned sammiches Desktop versions of hilltop power-line towers Satiric birthday song for Wernher von Braun Make: Talk 010 - Andy Cavatorta, Bjork's musical roboticist Update on the Wisconsin mystery booms The war at home: Energy crisis and risk in America Historic photos of female scientists at work 10 days until the release of "The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist"! (…plus your chance to win an autographed copy today) Autopsy of a space shuttle Typographer's Scrabble turns wordplay into ransom notes Australia's hidden stash of censored books Cat walks away from a 19-story fall 1988 video of Caresse P-Orridge, age 6, and Psychic TV covering "Are You Experienced" I have no idea what you're doing
By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 01:02 pm At a dog show in Shenyang, China, a Tibetan Mastiff has no idea whatsoever what this man is trying to achieve. Photo: REUTERS/Sheng Li
Read in browser Theaters will charge premium on 2D movies in order to lower the cost of 3D movie tickets
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 12:59 pm Writing for Screen Trade Magazine Joe Paletta, CEO of Spotlight Theaters, announces that cinemas will begin to eliminate the premium charges on 3D movies and raise the prices of 2D movies to make up the difference. This gives me the rage. 3D movies give me a headache and eye-strain, and I actively avoid them. I ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 12:47 pm On Reddit, KelseyPolo describes a friend's awesome gift for her (presumably Narnia-obsessed) 9-year-old-daughter, which features a through-the-wardrobe entrance leading to a playroom annexed off of the bedroom sporting lovely floor-to-ceiling Narnia murals. My friend got her 9 yr old daughter a wardrobe for her bedroom, but it's not just any old wardrobe... (imgur.com)
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 11:39 am My latest Guardian column, "Copyright isn't dead just because we're not willing to let it regulate us," makes the case that copyright hasn't been killed by the Internet -- it hasn't even been threatened. Rather, the entertainment industry have made a nonsense of copyright by stubbornly (and ahistorically) insisting that this it concerns itself with ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Mar 24, 2012 09:29 am Briam Lam figured out the best LED lightbulb, and explains why it will eventually pay for itself: "They'll last 15-25 years compared to about a year for regular bulbs [and] 1/5th of the power ... so they can eventually save you hundreds of dollars." [Wirecutter]
Read in browser Nested layers of temp agencies allow WalMart's supply chain to shave pennies through terrible, illegal working conditions
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 24, 2012 09:22 am Dave Jamieson has a long investigative feature in the Huffington Post about the lives of subcontracted temps in the American warehouse supply-chain. Jamieson describes a world of nested layers of temps -- "temp agencies that supervise temp agencies that deal with temp agencies" -- providing layers of plausible deniability for the titanic corporations on whose ...
Read in browser Prolific Instructables maker creates robotic claw business cards, spaghetti yetis, and more
By Cory Doctorow on Mar 23, 2012 08:58 pm Instructables user PenfoldPlant creates fascinating projects! I love the robotic-claw business card (video above), but I'm also extremely partial to the Spaghetti Yeti (right), and who could say no to a giant papercraft Trojan Horse (below)?. PenfoldPlant
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 23, 2012 08:08 pm Denise sez, "Update on the trial of Byron Sonne, arrested in Toronto on explosives charges in advance of the G20 in June, 2010. This week, the Crown pulled up information off of Sonne's harddrives, including tweets from Clay Shirky and Oxblood Ruffin, 50-year-old U.S. military manuals and photos of goats. Much time was spent discussing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 23, 2012 07:29 pm Why would you buy a Candwich-brand sandwich in a can? Helpfully, the site lists three value propositions: "Healthy fast food," "Great for vending," and, of course, "Disaster preparedness." With an extended shelf-life, Candwich™ is ideal for emergency food storage needs in the event of a natural disaster. Candwich™ tastes great, and because of the special ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 23, 2012 05:51 pm Industrial designer Daniel Ballou, of Long Beach, CA, creates some pretty sweet housewares. Pictured here are his desktop power lines, which are based on the reasoning that if this form works to organize cabling as it passes over houses, hills and dales, it will likely suit the needs of desktop cable-management as well. Ballou also ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 23, 2012 04:57 pm Today would have been the 100th birthday of Wernher von Braun, an amazing scientist whose complicated legacy includes both engines of war and one of humankind's greatest achievements. Is von Braun the guy who got us to the Moon? Or is he the guy whose V2 rockets wreaked havoc on behalf of the Nazis, and ...
Read in browser Make: Talk 010 - Andy Cavatorta, Bjork's musical roboticist
By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 23, 2012 04:56 pm Here's the 10th episode of MAKE's podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I interview one of the makers featured in the magazine. Our maker this week is Andy Cavatorta. Andy is a roboticist, artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was at MIT's Media Lab from 2007 to 2010. In the current issue of MAKE, Vol 29, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 23, 2012 04:39 pm The U.S. Geological Survey says there was an earthquake—a very small, 1.5 magnitude earthquake—in the vicinity of Clintonville, Wisconsin earlier this week. The mysterious booming noises heard in and around that town could be related to the earthquake. Granted, that theory doesn't perfectly fit. But the booms have stopped now, and it's the best idea ...
Read in browser The war at home: Energy crisis and risk in America
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 23, 2012 04:32 pm Here are two myths you need to let go of: The solution to high gas prices is more oil. Climate change is something that happens to polar bears and people from Kiribati. The truth is that fossil fuels are extremely useful and valuable. And, by their very nature, the supplies are limited. Likewise, climate change ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Mar 23, 2012 04:01 pm I'm sure there are a lot of people reading this who will have a hard time understanding why I love this collection of historic photos of female scientists. "Why female scientists?" I can already hear them asking. "Aren't you doing a disservice to female scientists by singling them out as something special?" But here's the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Mar 23, 2012 03:37 pm Alvin says: "Here's some Eightball T-shirts from over the years, a Garth Gyro baseball cap, a collaborative drawing by Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware for a Comic-Con T-shirt, glimpses from an odd Hong Kong apparel campaign, and Brendan Fraser in Monkeybone, Kathy Griffin on Loveline, and Simon Pegg in Paul, all sporting Eightball tees." The ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 23, 2012 03:14 pm Before the space shuttles Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour are placed in their final interment at museums, NASA scientists are dissecting them to remove any hazardous materials and evaluate how the various components held up over years of use. Air & Space Magazine's Greg Freiherr observed some of the autopsies. I'd like to see an iFixit ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 23, 2012 02:45 pm The limited edition "Scrabble Typography Edition" stores away in a handsome set of replica type-drawers and features tiles whose letters appear in a variety of fonts. However, there are no kerning options, nor can you choose which font your tiles will be, which probably makes this game pure torture for type-nerds, but is likely pleasing ...
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By David Pescovitz on Mar 23, 2012 02:40 pm In 2005, Australian literary historian Nicole Moore discovered a nearly-forgotten archive of her country's banned books packed in nearly 800 boxes stored seven stories underground in a government repository. Moore ended up writing her own book, The Censor's Library, about the history of Australian's literary censorship. I think a great next step would be to ...
Read in browser Cat walks away from a 19-story fall
By David Pescovitz on Mar 23, 2012 02:16 pm This kitty, named Sugar, fell 19 floors out of a high-rise window in Boston and landed on her feet with only minor injuries - a scratch and bruised lungs. From Time: The height of Sugar's dive might have worked in her favor. According to a 1987 study on the so-called High-Rise Syndrome, published in the ...
Read in browser 1988 video of Caresse P-Orridge, age 6, and Psychic TV covering "Are You Experienced"
By David Pescovitz on Mar 23, 2012 01:33 pm Last night, I finally saw the film The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye about artist/musician and BB friend Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle) and his late wife, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. Jaye tragically died of heart failure in 2007 while the two were in the midst of an ongoing life-art project to ...
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