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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 16, 2012 01:00 pm Zachary Pollock is looking to raise $26,400 on Kickstarter to buy "a lot of [Lego] bricks" for use in a 780,000-piece re-creation of the entire first level of Super Mario Bros. Once completed, it will be exhibited in Portland and Seattle, with possible side-trips to PAX and SDCC. In 2005, I rediscovered my passion for ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 16, 2012 12:01 pm If you live in the UK or Ireland, write about science, and have not been paid for that work, then you are eligible to apply for the Wellcome Trust's Science Writing Prize. The Prize is aimed at fostering high quality writing among science communicators who are either just starting their careers, or who write mainly ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 16, 2012 11:47 am This photo, taken by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a pair of shoes resting on the sea floor amidst the wreck of the Titanic. It's a powerful image, on its own. But with the background information, it becomes downright tear jerking. Note the position of those shoes. Now think about the position of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Apr 16, 2012 11:35 am Forty percent of the Earth's surface is devoted to agriculture. The Colorado River, tapped for irrigation, no longer flows into the ocean. Agriculture also makes up 30% of all human-created greenhouse gas emissions—more than electricity, more than transportation. Agriculture matters. And it's not an option, but a necessity. In this talk for TEDxTwinCities, University of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 16, 2012 10:30 am The Republia Times is a game in the darkly humorous tradition of Floor 13. But whereas Floor 13 cast you as a secret government chief out to influence the media through cover-up and intimidation, Times casts you as the newspaper editor reacting to intimidation from above. Your task is to increase the government's poll ratings—or ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 16, 2012 10:09 am Organizers of a 5km race in the Philippines added unusual obstacles for the entrants: "Two hundred actors dressed as post-apocalyptic zombies hid behind trees, bushes and rocky uphill climbs along the five km course to surprise the unsuspecting runners and symbolically feast on their brains by stealing flags attached to the runners' waists." [Peter Blaza ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 16, 2012 10:02 am Holo-Tupac performed last night at Coachella; here is a YouTube of very uncertain life expectancy. NSFW language! Oddly, he lacks a shimmering H badge on this forehead, as required by the Jupiter Mining Corporation's bylaws on holographic human resources. [via Super Punch]
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 16, 2012 09:42 am On this morning's Today Show segment on leakers, NBC's media analysts decided that people who anonymously leak evidence of criminal or ethical wrongdoing are attention-seeking narcissists. Don't be outraged! Now potential whistleblowers know not to leak to NBC. But there's more to the craft than simply avoiding hacks. At Wired, Ryan Singel has the essential ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Apr 16, 2012 09:30 am Pineconeman at Etsy, via @dogboner. Please commence analysis.
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 16, 2012 09:16 am Google co-founder Sergey Brin gave an interview to The Guardian in which he expressed his fear that the rise of walled gardens like Apple's iOS ecosystem and Facebook, combined with increased state action (even in so-called "liberal" western states) to spy on and control the Internet, that the Internet faces a real existential crisis. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 16, 2012 09:07 am Tim Powers's latest novel is Hide Me Among the Graves, and it is a fine example of the work of a much-beloved author, and a spooky ride through Victorian London to boot. In Hide Me, Powers retells the lives of pre-Raphaelite sculptor Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his siblings, notably the poet Christina Rossetti. Powers is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Apr 15, 2012 03:25 pm Here's an unsourced bit of netstuff (the shortened URL resolves to Weibo, the Chinese Twitter analog) showing an Asian woman with half her face made up, to startling effect (though perhaps her unmade-up substrate is also very asymmetrical, see this split-and-matched version). The power of makeup (i.imgur.com)
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