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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 01, 2012 12:13 pm This was posted to Twitter by Dan Porter, CEO of OMGPop, in response to an employee who did not wish to stay on after the company was bought by Mark "Just copy what they do" Pincus's Zynga. There are two men who clearly deserve one another's company. Update: There's more! An anonymous source within OMGPop ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 01, 2012 12:04 pm Hurray! Drew Friedman has an art show coming up later this month. I asked him to tell me a bit about the exhibition, and he kindly obliged: "Drew Friedman MY WAY," opening April 27th, marks my first "official" New York Gallery show. Although my work has hung in comics shops, group shows, and dance clubs, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 01, 2012 11:55 am Denise Balkissoon writes, "This is the last week of the trial of Byron Sonne, computer security consultant charged with explosives after the G20. This week, his defence called Fryderyk Supinski, who was a member of a hackerspace with Sonne. The two had planned on building model rockets together. Sonne is charged with four counts of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 01, 2012 11:54 am The official release date for The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist is today. So go buy the book already! Or enter today's contest for your last opportunity to win an autographed copy (details after the jump.) Alvin says: "Our countdown ends with a bang: a 4-part mega-post of very random, but quality Clowes odds ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 01, 2012 11:09 am …and our countdown continues with more Clowes oddities that couldn't be included in the book. Museum Bound The exhibition Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes displays original drawings in an installation environment. This first major survey of the artist's work accompanies the publication of the extensive full-color monograph. The exhibition, which opens April 14 ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 01, 2012 09:20 am This photo comes from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It show a school (?) of nautiluses devouring some chicken. Allen owns a large yacht called the Octopus, which has a couple of ROVs on board. This photo was taken by one of the ROVs at a depth of 876 feet, near the Pacific island of Palau. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 01, 2012 08:48 am Marilyn sez, "Nelson Dellis began training his memory after his grandmother died of Alzheimer's, and last week the 28-year-old won the U.S. Memory Championship for the second year in a row." The technique? Translating data into visual images and placing them into a "memory palace" – a place in your mind that you can walk ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 01, 2012 02:10 am The Independent's Simon Calder reports that the US Department of Homeland Security has ordered air carriers to hand over the personal information of British people travelling to the Caribbean, Mexico and Canada, even for flights that don't fly over US airspace. What's more, they demand the right to order passengers to be yanked from flights ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 31, 2012 08:56 pm Tomi Ahonen has a really interesting post on how it is that major, top-selling phone companies -- Siemens, Motorola, Palm, Nokia, Windows Mobile, RIM -- can see their sales fall off a cliff as the whole world seems to decide, en masse, that the phones are no longer the bee's knees. Ahonen marks it up ...
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By Cool Tools on Mar 31, 2012 04:59 pm Three times a week I get up early to go lift weights with a colleague. One of the main motivations for getting out of bed is the knowledge that I'll have ample coffee throughout the day to keep me going post-workout. In the past I've carried the previously reviewed Contigo (which is still the best ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 31, 2012 03:48 pm A group of researchers at Drexel University have demonstrated a method of recovering credit card details and other sensitive information from used Xbox 360s, even after they have been "reset to factory defaults." The method is straightforward and uses readily available tools. Ashley Podhradsky, one of the Drexel researchers, says, "Microsoft does a great job ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 31, 2012 01:32 pm Designer Christian Annyas has assembled a gallery of "100 logos from American and Canadian railroad companies," dating from 1845 to 2000. They show a microcosm of a century and a half's worth of evolution in design sensibility, but they also show just how lovely and evocative many of the logos of these forgotten railroads once ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Mar 31, 2012 01:22 pm Deborah sez, "This landlord of an abortion clinic has turned the tables on anti-abortion protesters. His army of volunteers calls the anti-abortion protesters at home and say thanks for your concern but he's just a landlord and can't do anything about it. Very nice turning of the tables on the anti-abortionists." Jezebel's Cassie Murdoch tells ...
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