[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels. The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones. On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30). To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.
Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week Skinless My Little Pony made from bacon Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton 3D printed, pre-assembled robot hand Tech entrepreneur secretly lives at AOL HQ for two months Manatee and kid Letterpress edition of Pride and Prejudice seeks funding Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster Lady Gaga, Queen of Demon YouTube launches new Human Rights channel with Witness.org and Storyful Father John Misty: "This Is Sally Hatchet" (music video) On the importance of audiobook performers Steampunk bicycle from Roger Wood Arthur, Animated: Stop-motion progression of crocheted portrait (video) The secret world of swamp mud Tron: Uprising first episode online If Tetris was a (stupid, Battleship-style) movie Robert Johnson meets the Devil, or not Philip K. Dick Festival coming to San Francisco, September 22-23 Google publishing data on all copyright takedowns it receives Boars Gore and Swords Season 2, third best Game of Thrones podcast Life before plastic What the hell is going on in Quebec? Poland's future of copyright Penn Jillette's rant against Obama's drug policy Stalking the Paparazzi Every Heath Ledger scene in Dark Knight Chris Ware interview 80-year-old skydiving first-timer falls out of tandem harness Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week
By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 12:00 pm NTK was once the greatest weekly tech newsletter in the universe -- snarky and funny and informative and just great. It's been dead for a good long while now, and this being the fifteenth anniversary of its founding, it's time for a revival. Danny O'Brien, one of the NTK originators, has announced a retro NTK ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:42 am On Deviant Art, BAwesome-BAcon has crafted a pork-product pony to die for: "I have recently taken my love of My Little Pony and combined it with my love of bacon. The result, something that is borderline awesome with a hint of crazy and a smidget of cute." Bacon Pony (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:16 am Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding proposal. I mean: Z. O. M. F.G. On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 01:11 am Confectioner Alexandre Dubosc made this Tim Burton themed zoetrope cake, which animates to display iconic imagery from many of Burton's best-loved films. There's even a sneaky Jack Skellington up top. The Caketrope -- Making of (Thanks, Kim!)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 12:00 am Chris writes, "The Anthromod Mk2 hand is a robotic hand where everything, apart from the tendons, are 3D printed. Unlike other printed hands the Mk2 requires minimal assembly, and is also available from the online 3D printers Shapeways. This is an ongoing project and later designs will plan to add greater functionality such as sensing. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 11:04 pm An enterprising young fellow named Eric Simons secretly lived at AOL headquarter for two months. He was given a badge while working a short stint at AOL's Imagine K12 incubator event for young education entrepreneurs. He really enjoyed his visit, so he just stayed, and his badge kept working. He used the company showers and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:46 pm CMGW Photography snapped this beautiful shot, "First Contact," in which a young girl and a manatee share a moment through a pane of glass. First Contact
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:00 pm James sez, "The Bowler Press is taking on printing a letterpress, three-volume edition of Pride & Prejudice, and they are trying to fund the costs of getting the materials to do so with crowd sourcing. The link is to the IndieGoGo crowd funding site for the project, where folks can donate to the project and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 08:00 pm Hugh sez, "San Francisco muralista Mona Caron has created a stunning to poster to mark the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass in San Francisco this September." Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Bike Angel Poster by Mona Caron (Thanks, hughillustration!)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:57 pm Muslim women hold posters during a protest objecting to U.S. singer Lady Gaga's Indonesian concert, at Jakarta's business district May 24, 2012. Pop star Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital on June 3 over security concerns, police said last week. Three Islamic groups have expressed their opposition to ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:43 pm This week, YouTube announced the launch of a new Human Rights channel in partnership with advocacy nonprofit WITNESS, and social news-gathering service Storyful. The new channel is "dedicated to curating hours of raw citizen-video documenting human rights stories that are uploaded daily and distributing that to audiences hungry to learn and take action," and "aims ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:36 pm [Video Link] Above, a new video from Father John Misty's "Fear Fun" album on Sub Pop Records. Video directed by Grant James. Richard Metzger first turned me on to Father John Misty (the new project by J. Tillman), and writes about this video, "I have no idea what the fuck is going on here, although ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:15 pm In the New York Times, John Schwartz writes about audiobook performers, who may be "little known outside of the community of devoted listeners," but serve an important role. "If somebody's going to spend 10 or 20 hours in my ears, turning me into a local jogging spectacle, I'd better enjoy the experience," writes Schwartz. "That ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 07:13 pm The latest from Roger Wood of Klockwerks: "I was asked to make a kinetic Steampunk sculpture for a show in New York; here it is."
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By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 06:54 pm [Video link] Fiber artist Jo Hamilton says, This is a stop motion video I made to document my process of crocheting one of my larger than life portraits in yarn from start to finish. In my work I use a traditional basic crochet technique taught to me at an early age by my Gran. I ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 25, 2012 06:24 pm Earlier this week, I showed you how scientists can use a simple, hand-operated tool to collect stratified core samples of mud at the bottom of a swamp. The deeper the samples go down, the older the mud is—until, eventually, you're looking at 6000-year-old muck, the remains of a lake bed that filled in with sediment ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 06:16 pm Tron: Uprising premiers on June 7 on Disney XD. They've posted the first episode, titled "Beck's Beginning, in its entirety to YouTube. I think Alberto Mieglo's fantastic art direction is in the tradition of Peter Chung's "Aeon Flux" and Bruce Timm's "Batman: The Animated Series." Mieglo posted some stunning production art on his personal blog.
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 06:10 pm Warialasky's trailer for a big-budg apocalyptic science fiction movie based on Tetris is all too plausible in the era of Battleship: the Movie: "Official Tetris Teaser Trailer. The invasion is beginning. It is inevitable. You created them, you can destroy them! I did not create Tetris, I was but the messenger. Tell me how to ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 05:51 pm It's perhaps the most famous story in the history of the blues: In the 1920s, a mediocre guitarist named Robert Johnson went to a Mississippi crossroads at midnight where the Devil "tuned" his guitar in exchange for Johnson's soul. Assuming that the story may be, well, apocryphal, who made it up? Radiolab investigated. "Crossroads" (Radiolab)
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By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 05:37 pm The Philip K. Dick Festival, scheduled for September 22-23 in San Francisco, is sure to be a heady, reality-bending time. Organizer and Total Dick-Head blogger David Gill informs us that he's lined up presentations by Jonathan Lethem, Erik Davis, Paul Sammon, and many other big thinkers on such subjects as self-induced amnesia, computer simulations, mysticism, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 04:47 pm For many years, Google has published a "Transparency Report" with the number of non-copyright-related takedown notices it receives from governments, police, courts, individuals and corporations. Now, the company have added copyright takedowns to the mix. Sadly (and weirdly), this part of the report isn't searchable, as Alan at Copyfight notes: "I cannot search to see ...
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By Jason Weisberger on May 25, 2012 04:45 pm I recently spent a couple of days catching up on my absolutely favorite podcast: Boars Gore and Swords. San Francisco based comedians and hosts Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott are back; making getting it wrong so very right. The dynamic duo started podcasting in Season One; half enamored and half bewildered by HBO's Game of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 04:00 pm Stewart Brand sums up Susan Freinkel's Long Now talk: "What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of," a history of the world before plastic: "Bakelite was invented in 1907 to replace the beetle excretion called shellac ("It took 16,000 beetles six months to make a pound of shellac."), and was first used to insulate eletrical ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 03:48 pm (Photo by Philip Miresco) Quebec is in the throes of mass protests. A prolonged student strike over tuition hikes triggered a law placing broad restrictions on the freedom to protest, and giving the police the power to arbitrarily declare even "approved" protests to be illegal. Over 500 were arrested in a single Montreal protest, after ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 03:00 pm The Modern Poland Foundation held a future of copyright contest, which invited short stories about copyright's future. They've published the winners in a free ebook.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 02:25 pm [Video Link] Penn's excellent rant against Obama's ruinous drug policy that keeps 750,000 non-violent people in prison. He points out that if Obama had been imprisoned for his admitted drug use, his life would suck right now. And yet, Obama supports a policy that make good people's lives suck, wastes billions of dollars, and nurtures ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 02:10 pm [Video Link] A young celebrity lives four houses away from us, and our street is often filled with paparazzi. Two days ago, the cops came twice to deal with these jackasses. Vice made a video about them, called "Stalking the Paparazzi." (NSFW language)
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By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 02:00 pm The Cussing Channel has produced a Dark Knight Joker supercut, featuring all the on-camera Heath Ledger scenes. It rather stopped me in my tracks -- Ledger really put in an astounding performance, something that is underlined three times in red by ten straight minutes of Ledger doing his thing. Rules: Just The Joker, just the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 01:59 pm [Video Link] An interview with Jimmy Corrigan creator, Chris Ware. (Via Drawn & Quarterly)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 01:52 pm [Video Link] She obviously didn't want to jump. I wonder if the skydiving company charged extra for the extra thrill. (Via Geekolgie)
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