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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 15, 2012 09:18 am Brent Thome, a computer scientist in San Francisco, is building a mechanical computer out of beautiful, laser-cut gears that will compute and draw fractals. He's documenting as he goes in a fascinating blog, in which he also recounts his adventures with kinetic wooden sculpture. I've been working on this for a while now. Its a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 15, 2012 01:00 am In Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate, recently published in Complex Systems, a Japanese-UK computer science team describe how they made functional logic gates by constructing a maze of narrow tunnels and spooking soldier crabs into running through them in predictable ways by exposing them to bird-of-prey silhouettes. Lead researcher Yukio-Pegio Gunji (Kobe University) and colleagues ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2012 10:48 pm Michael Zoellner took the iconic Recursive Wil Wheaton t-shirt photo and turned it into an Augmented Reality Wil Wheaton Particle Emitter. When the photo is viewed through an AR app, it begins to fire an animated stream of correctly positioned recursive Wil Wheatons, each one more particulate than the last. You probably have heard of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2012 09:11 pm Tennessee and Arizona have been locked in a race to see which state can past the worst, most invasive, least constitutional anti-woman and racist legislation. In case you've lost track of which state is winning the race to the bottom, Skepchick provides a helpful scorecard. Arizona makes a strong showing, but I think that, for ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 14, 2012 08:10 pm From the Make Flickr pool, linux-works shares his secret for making dull instrumentation knobs shiny. I bought a very old (1960's or 70's, roughly) power supply from eBay, in need of rejuvination. Look at the two red knobs, top group and bottom group. both knobs were removed from the device, very thoroughly cleaned with hot ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2012 07:10 pm GoogleBBS is a functional BBS-style text interface to Google implemented in JavaScript. The creator, Austria's Masswerk, gave it this one-line description: "Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s." GoogleBBS (via Waxy)
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2012 05:08 pm Denise Balkissoon reports on a new twist in the trial of Byron Sonne, the Toronto security researcher who's been trapped in a kafkaesque nightmare ever since he was arrested on a raft of stupid "terrorism"-charges related to his efforts to point out that the billion-plus-dollar G20 security emperor had no clothes. Denise writes: Byron Sonne ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Apr 14, 2012 05:01 pm This gives new meaning to "Dust Buster".
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 14, 2012 03:02 pm "Everything is coming up roses" is an electrical sculpture by Robert Weschler: it's a clothes-iron that's been modified to scorch images of the Virgin of Guadalupe into any garment upon which it is rested. The steam holes of a working iron were re machined to mirror the iconic aura of the Virgin of Guadalupe. When ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Apr 14, 2012 02:29 pm On eBay - this cute wooden model from 1963 that shows you how to lift things without hurting your back. Current high bid is $83. I wish the seller had a video of Oscar in action. His name is Oscar, and his raison d’etre is to show you how to lift a heavy box without ...
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