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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2012 12:12 pm Sanal Edamaruku, an Indian skeptic, went to Mumbai and revealed that a "miraculous" weeping cross was really just a bit of statuary located near a leaky drain whose liquid reached it by way of capillary action. The local Catholic Church demanded that he retract his statements, and when he refused, they had him arrested for ...
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By Adam Levin on Apr 13, 2012 11:54 am No doubt you've seen the studies that show how social networking sites hurt productivity, and I am pretty sure you've read, heard or watched countless stories about how companies have tried to solve that problem. And you would have to be living in a cave in Bora Bora---specifically a cave without WiFi---to not know that ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 13, 2012 11:48 am Designer Mike Monteiro on why it's important not to work free of charge: "Even in cases where I might do discounted work for a charity, I always send them an invoice showing the standard rate with the discount applied. Because I want them to see and appreciate the value of what they're getting." [Gizmodo]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2012 11:42 am The Brothers Leung are a creative family in Toronto, who've just launched a kids' picture book called The Pirate Girl's Treasure, which combines storytelling and origami: In this spectacularly original picture book, the story mirrors an origami activity: As a pig-tailed pirate girl travels through mountains, valleys, a cave and finally by sea to reach ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2012 10:08 am CISPA, the pending US cybersecurity bill, is a terrible law, with many of the worst features of SOPA -- surveillance and domain seizures and censorship and so on. What's more, it is being supported by one of the largest Web companies in the world: Facebook. DemandProgress is asking its supporters to write to Facebook and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 13, 2012 10:35 am On the surface, David Rees's How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants is just a protracted mockery of the mania for "authenticity" and "artisanship" -- poking fun at the pretense of snobbish reworking of everyday objects ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 13, 2012 09:35 am Phillip Pullella writes: "Roman centurions, complete with red skirts, tunics, armor, swords and feathered helmets, fought in front of the Colosseum. But this time it was with a modern enemy - Rome's city police. The police arrived at the ancient amphitheatre to enforce an eviction notice for the men, who ask for money to have ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 13, 2012 09:27 am "For the lucky Brits," as Fox News put it, are 14" pizzas with sausage-stuffed crusts. The Pi of this pie makes for 44" of hot dog.
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 12, 2012 09:32 pm BB pal Tom Kalil of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy gave a presentation today about Grand Challenges, "ambitious yet achievable goals that capture the public's imagination and that require innovation and breakthroughs in science and technology to achieve," like NASA's Green Flight Challenge and the Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 12, 2012 08:47 pm Ted Cassidy and friends do The Lurch on the TV variety show Shivaree, October 30, 1965. (Thanks, Gil Kaufman!)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 12, 2012 07:42 pm I have not read many of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. This comic anthology of his work looks like a fun way to get acquainted with the Great Old Ones. A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master of the eerie. Featuring collaborations between established writers and artists as well as debut contributors, The Lovecraft Anthology ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 12, 2012 07:34 pm Jorg Sprave of the Slingshot Channel demonstrates for Businessweek how to make a pencil shooter from commonplace items sitting around your office. Bloomberg Businessweek today released its second annual "How To" issue with 44 pages of advice from more than 60 CEOs, tech visionaries, politicians, media and sports personalities, designers, and artists on "How To" ...
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By David Pescovitz on Apr 12, 2012 07:00 pm Yes, it really did happen. On June 8, 1986 at Coney Island's historic Sideshows by the Seashore. And man, what a freak-out that must have been.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 07:00 pm In this outtake from Alive Inside, we meet an elderly man who's been in a nursing home for 10 years, and who is disengaged, listless and unresponsive to his environment. Then he is exposed to music from his earlier life, and is instantly transformed, engaging with the people around him. Oliver Sacks provides commentary in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 06:29 pm US antitrust regulators have never really been able to find the right place to stick their lever and pry when it comes to the Internet (witness their failure to understand Microsoft's platform dominance in the 90s). Now they're going after various publishers and Apple over price fixing (my publisher is included, and for the record, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 05:17 pm I really enjoyed Paul Ford's New York Magazine story on the Facebook/Instagram acquisition. By building his analysis on the way that the "user experience" focus is different in different parts of Facebook, and within Instagram, Ford captures something that's been missing from the coverage, a way of looking at the acquisition that puts a name ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 12, 2012 04:55 pm Here is a random cute cat video. I pass it on because it's adorable. Video link
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 04:08 pm Tim Hornyak writes about the new oversized Canadian commemorative quarters, which will feature glowing dinosaur skeletons, which is exactly what I've always wanted on all my money. Made of cupronickel, the coin has a face value of 25 cents but is much larger than a regular Canuck quarter. It shows an artist's rendering of Pachyrhinosaurus ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 03:05 pm Here's a gallery of Soviet-era anti-drunkenness posters. Some of the illustrations are really fabulous, almost Boschean in their depiction of besotted debasement Антиалкогольные плакаты из СССР (Note: users report that the linked site triggers malware warnings) (via How to Be a Retronaut)
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 12, 2012 02:25 pm For the answer—and damn you if you don't already know it—check out The Oatmeal's fantastic strip explaining it. [via Waxy]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 12, 2012 02:17 pm In this photo from Highwaywilding.org, a lynx is captured by a motion-sensitive camera overlooking a highway overpass. The overpass was built to give wildlife a safe method to cross the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park; since 1996, more than 200,000 wolves, bears and cougars have done so. [Via Fark and The Edmonton Journal]
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 12, 2012 02:01 pm Mark sez, "My amazing and beautiful wife arranged had an R2D2 cake made for my 40th birthday. It was made by Stacked Cakes which is located in a small country town 20 kilometres outside Canberra in Australia. The link is to their log where there are photos and video of it being made." They also ...
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