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Two things that would thaw Walt Disney with the heat of his own rage What's wrong with TPP, the son of ACTA $5 gets you this set of cat hobo embroidery patterns Google's Nexus 7 tablet already behind the counter Amazon phone for Christmas? XKCD reveals your visual perception quirks TOM THE DANCING BUG: Accused Burglar Incorporates Self Ghostbusters 3 hires screenwriter, but Will Bill? Still not sold on Michael Bay's "Ninja Space Turtles" Welcome, Jamie Frevele Can Chumbawamba be replaced with a sequel to Independence Day? Child-sized hamster ball with matching bowling alley Is your member of Congress on the House Judiciary Committee? We need you to fight the return of SOPA! Higgs Boson "set to music, plays like a jaunty tango." Kim Dotcom offers FBI a deal they are very likely to refuse Face-recognition phone unlock Fables 17: Inherit the Wind A Handbook For Yogasana Teachers Crack the crypto in Agrippa, win every William Gibson book ever published Skull hands London libel case sought to silence journalist Nest Learning Thermostat Epic Hurr Behold, the Doucheburger Crustacean species is newly named after Bob Marley Summon-a-car startup Uber remains legal in Washington, DC (for now) Belarusian honor guard struts its stuff Browser extension converts all YouTube comments into HERP DERP All the news that's fit to embroider Call Me (Cookie Monster) Maybe (video) Two things that would thaw Walt Disney with the heat of his own rage
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 01:00 pm What you are about to see is a bunch of stultifyingly counterfeit Disney characters performing at a concert where Dear Leader, Jr. of North Korea, Kim Jung Un, was in attendance. I'm wondering if he was, perhaps, slightly underwhelmed. Bonus: a right smack in the center of an "Oh SNAP" bullseye. The following is an ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 12:52 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Carolina Rossini has a very good editorial explaining what's wrong with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret trade treaty with punishing copyright provisions that's being negotiated by the USA, repeating the worst sins of ACTA and magnifying them (among other thing, TPP will make implementing the notorious SOPA into a trade obligation ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 11, 2012 12:27 pm Two of my favorite people -- Adam "Apelad" Koford and Sublime Stitching's Jenny Hart -- have combined their impressive creativity to produce a set of Hobotopia embroidery patterns. The world is a better place because of it.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 12:26 pm The Verge rounds up release-date rumors surrounding Google's Nexus 7 Android tablet, well-received by critics. GameStop allegedly already has them in-store, but under lock and key; leaked inventory data from Office Depot suggests they'll be receiving them tomorrow at the earliest; B&H lists an August street date; and Google itself is promising delivery in 1-2 ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 12:23 pm The Wall Street Journal's Lorraine Luk writes that the fabled Amazon smartphone could go into production as soon as this year.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 12:21 pm Today's XKCD, "Visual Field," is a terrific mind-bender: a series of optical experiments to try with your computer's screen and a rolled-up piece of paper that demonstrate the quirks of your visual field: your blind-spots, your ability to perceive detail, night vision, the ability to perceive polarization, sprites and floaters, color perception and so on. ...
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Read in browser Ghostbusters 3 hires screenwriter, but Will Bill?
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 12:00 pm We all know that Ghostbusters 3 is not going to happen, because Bill Murray will waffle back and forth until everyone is dead and no one will be able to do the movie with actual ghosts. But that doesn't mean we can't report on new developments about it. It's like hearing your really fun cousin, ...
Read in browser Still not sold on Michael Bay's "Ninja Space Turtles"
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 11:30 am Good news coming from the "Ninja Turtles" front! A leaked script found by Latino Review's El Mayimbe contains references to the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villains Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang. But this also comes with bad news, because there is apparently a synopsis floating around as well. It mentions the turtles "[coming] to Earth" ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 11:16 am Attention! Please welcome our new editor, Jamie Frevele, who will be focusing on movies, TV, and other amusements and entertainments. Jamie Frevele writes and and performs comedy in New York City and was an editor at The Mary Sue until we stole her. She's also written for The Huffington Post, Mediabistro, and Newsday, and hopes ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 11:00 am So, incredibly bummer summer news, you guys: Chumbawamba, a band that has actually been around for 30 years and became fleetingly famous for exactly one song that made sense only to people from the UK, has announced that they've broken up. And this means that something needs to fill the void of "ideas and melodies, ...
Read in browser Child-sized hamster ball with matching bowling alley
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 10:45 am Hammacher Schlemmer's Human Bowling Ball is a $4,500 amusement for children aged 5-12. It consists of: one giant, inflatable hamster ball and; one inflated bowling lane. You insert your progeny into the former and entice them to run quickly at the latter, caroming off the sides to the amusement of all. This is the inflatable ...
Read in browser Is your member of Congress on the House Judiciary Committee? We need you to fight the return of SOPA!
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 10:16 am As I wrote yesterday, Rep Lamar "SOPA" Smith is trying to sneak through another variation on SOPA in the form of the the Intellectual Property Attache Act, which was steaming through Congress without any public scrutiny or debate. Now it's begun to stumble, and TechDirt reports that "support for the bill is wavering. Some of ...
Read in browser Higgs Boson "set to music, plays like a jaunty tango."
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 10:12 am The data set which revealed the existence of the Higgs Boson may be represented as musical notation. [The Atlantic]
Read in browser Kim Dotcom offers FBI a deal they are very likely to refuse
By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 10:08 am MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom offered to hand himself over the FBI, if only they would unfreeze his assets to permit the hiring of attorneys. [Juha Saarinen / Wired]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 10:03 am The latest version of Android unlocks your phone when you look at it. I wonder if you can specify an emotion? [Roy Furchgott / NYT]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 08:52 am The latest installment in Bill Willingham's astonishingly, consistently great, long-running graphic novel series Fables is volume 17: Inherit the Wind. The premise of Fables lets its creators use any mythos, any tradition, any narrative, and mix and match as necessary, and Willingham and his illustrators continue to show that these possibilities are indeed endless. While ...
Read in browser A Handbook For Yogasana Teachers
By Cool Tools on Jul 11, 2012 07:00 am This book is a tome of body science for yoga teachers with over 1000 pages in the second edition. I purchased it a few months ago. While I've skimmed the entire volume, I've spent the most time on the appendix related to balance in yoga postures. Most yoga instructors can tell you a handful of ...
Read in browser Crack the crypto in Agrippa, win every William Gibson book ever published
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 12:23 am Quinn DuPont writes in with "A cracking challenge to cryptanalyse a William Gibson poem ('Agrippa', written in 1992). The winner will receive a copy of every William Gibson book published. Project is academic (non-commercial)." Gibson's poem is a beautiful work, and it came on a floppy disk that erased itself after displaying the poem's text ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 11:44 pm A body-modified memento mori from Jason Traeger, who maintains, with Martin Sprouse, a blog collecting unexected instances of the Black Flag Logo.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 10:49 pm "English litigation is a long and costly process that could almost have been designed to bludgeon a defendant into submission." — Nature writer Quirin Schiermeier, who recently prevailed in a characteristically insane U.K. libel action.
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By Cool Tools on Jul 10, 2012 10:26 pm Last year I replaced my old-looking but perfectly functional programmable thermostat with a better looking, WiFi-equipped model. The remote aspect of it was good. We could set "away" temps, and restore normal temps on our way back home. And the programmable part was always good – cool at night, not working so hard when we're at ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 10, 2012 09:37 pm Upon reading Xeni's post about Herp Derp, a browser extension that turns all YouTube comments into "herp derp", I remembered that I have on-hand an image to express my own slackly-murmuring state of blissful detachment from the hell of other people, as required. There are many such images, but mine is epic. You're welcome.
Read in browser Behold, the Doucheburger
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 09:28 pm From Kate Black: This is @666burger's Doucheburger. It is gold leafed Kobe beef formed around foie gras, and topped with cave aged gruyere, truffle butter, lobster, caviar, and kopi luwak bbq sauce. It is fucking delicious. More photos by Kate here. And Glukakke is the one doing the gold leafing there.
Read in browser Crustacean species is newly named after Bob Marley
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 09:20 pm Reggae legend Bob Marley has something in common with Barack Obama and Elvis Presley now: All three men are have biological species named after them. "In Marley's case, it's a small parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests fish in Caribbean coral reefs, now known as Gnathia marleyi." Were he alive today, we have to imagine ...
Read in browser Summon-a-car startup Uber remains legal in Washington, DC (for now)
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 09:17 pm At the NYT, Brian X. Chen reports that Uber, the nifty internet service that uses a "clever algorithm to summon a car quickly with a smartphone app" was nearly banned by politicians in the Washington, DC. After six months, the company has finally won a battle with the city, which had been trying to deem its ...
Read in browser Belarusian honor guard struts its stuff
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 10, 2012 08:43 pm What's the use of running a basket-case, tin-pot totalitarian dictatorship if you can't drill an elite honor guard to perform breathtaking feats of close-order drill? Case in point, the official honor guard of Belarus. Домино (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Read in browser Browser extension converts all YouTube comments into HERP DERP
By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 08:40 pm Tanner Stokes writes: "I loathe YouTube comments. Here's a simple browser extension to convert them to 'herp derp'. If you insist on reading the original (which is highly discouraged), click the comment." Ladies and gentlemen, Herp Derp YouTube Comments. Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox all supported. THANK YOU, DEAR MAN. (via Rob Sheridan)
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 08:38 pm Via MyModernMet, the work of California-based multimedia artist Lauren DiCioccio, whose "Sewn News" series features hand-embroidered imagery seen in back issues of The New York Times. Above, Lady Gaga in the The Arts section. "I describe the beauty of the ritual experience of newspaper-reading by describing the paper as a tactile and fragile object in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Jul 10, 2012 08:32 pm Cookie Monster from Sesame Street spoofs Carly Rae Jepsen's hit pop song "Call Me Maybe." [Video Link]
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