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Free/open Android-based games console raises $2MM+ on Kickstarter in one day Just look at that banana genome Venn diagram Implanting a London Oyster card transponder in a ring McDonald's chip monopoly at London Games relaxes one hairsbreadth Shouty MP is shouty Hackers take Yahoo: 453,000 login credentials nabbed Nudes of performance athletes Maker Station in Library Parking Lot = All Kinds of Awesome San Diego Comic Con Roundup: Day -1 Michael Bay's Wizard of Oz Letter to Chuck Close from the digital artist whom he threatened with a lawsuit Baseball at relativistic speeds and other wild hypotheticals Ice-cream that looks like spaghetti: spaghettieis Yoga teacher fired for glaring at Facebook employee Hip-hop sea-shanty Trees stained by a toxic spill, with the high-tide line aligned to the horizon Ron Jeremy as bait for Canadian Cannibal? Declassified report about "mind altering" drugs at Gitmo Kickstart a sculpture that lets you toss around 80,000 lbs of stone and steel Charming teens turn into cold-hearted capitalists playing AT&T phone company simulation Scarlett Johansson: $20 Million For The Avengers 2 Let's compare two Philip Seymour Hoffman characters: Plutarch Heavensbee and Scotty from Boogie Nights Bleep's "Guide To Electronic Music" Preview of Devo documentary Piranha used as scissors Free/open Android-based games console raises $2MM+ on Kickstarter in one day
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 01:00 pm The Ouya is an Android-based games console design that's been floated on Kickstarter. It's done spectacularly well, garnering over $2.3MM in the first day (now closing in on $4MM), far in excess of its target of $950,000. So much money has been raised, in fact, that the project's founders are now asking supporters for ideas ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 09:54 am Just look at it. The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants Angélique D'Hont, France Denoeud, Jean-Marc Aury, Franc-Christophe Baurens, Françoise Carreel, Olivier Garsmeur, Benjamin Noel, Stéphanie Bocs, Gaëtan Droc, Mathieu Rouard, Corinne Da Silva, Kamel Jabbari, Céline Cardi, Julie Poulain, Marlène Souquet, Karine Labadie, Cyril Jourda, Juliette Lengellé, Marguerite Rodier-Goud, Adriana ...
Read in browser Implanting a London Oyster card transponder in a ring
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 09:00 am Dhani Sutanto removed the transponder from a Transport for London Oyster card (a RFID-based stored value card used to pay for rides on public transit) and implanted it in a ring, making a lovely bit of snitchy jewelry that gets him on the bus. Oyster Ring (Thanks, Phoebe!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 04:41 am The McDonald's sponsorship deal at the Security Games in London meant that Olympic workers are not allowed to buy chips (AKA fries) unless they come with fish. A chorus of complaints from site workers has led to a relaxation of the sponsorship terms so that workers (but not visitors) can buy their chips from the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 12, 2012 04:31 am Here's a clip from yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions in the Mother of All Parliaments, the final PMQs in this session of Parliament. The house is crowded and overheated and noisy, and when MP Anne Marie Morris stands up to ask a question about education, the noise level rises, and she begins to shout, and the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 12, 2012 12:54 am Dan Goodin at Ars: "The dump, posted on a public website by a hacking collective known as D33Ds Company, said it penetrated the Yahoo subdomain using what's known as a union-based SQL injection. ... To support their claim, the hackers posted what they said were the plaintext credentials for 453,492 Yahoo accounts."
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 10:42 pm ESPN's "Bodies We Want" photo series features "tasteful" nudes of performance athletes (tasteful inasmuch as all the genitals and women's nipples are figleafed). It's a pretty amazing series, in part because so many of the images are sexually charged in some way, and yet the athletes' bodies are very different from the sort that appear ...
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By LibraryLab on Jul 11, 2012 10:27 pm A collaboration between the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a local nonprofit called TekVenture has created a hub of awesome for local makers called the TekVenture Maker Station. Although it looks plainer than even the most generic bookmobile (or school mobile classroom), this 50-foot trailer is packed with the kinds of ...
Read in browser San Diego Comic Con Roundup: Day -1
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 10:12 pm Unfortunately, I am not at San Diego Comic-Con to cover it because, well, I am in New York. But in my travels through the internet today, I've found some interesting developments leading into Preview Night tonight. For starters: a logo for the new Evil Dead. • Bleeding Cool found a banner for the remake--shooting right ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jul 11, 2012 09:56 pm As requested in the thread concerning Michael Bay's Ninja Turtles. You're welcome.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 09:00 pm Scott Blake is a computer artist who created a Photoshop plug-in called th "Chuck Close Filter," which transformed images into mosaics reminiscent of the famous hand-made mosaics created by Chuck Close, whom Blake calls "the 14th richest living artist." Close objected to the filter, and threatened legal action, so Blake complied; although Blake believes that ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 08:20 pm Randall "XKCD" Munroe's new "What If?" feature answers one wild hypothetical per week. The first two are corkers: Relativistic Baseball baseball asks what would happen if a baseball pitcher could throw a ball at 0.9C; the second, SAT Guessing, looks at the (very long) odds against getting a perfect SAT by bubbling in random guesses. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 07:10 pm Click Clack Gorilla's "ode to spaghettieis" celebrates a German ice-cream dish that looks like spaghetti Bolognese. The noodles are extruded white ice-cream. It was invented in 1969, and remains popular. It really looks like spaghetti, doesn't it? I imagine that it is made using a machine much like the one that came with the Play ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 11, 2012 07:02 pm Alice Van Ness was hired to teach Yoga at Facebook's Menlo Park Campus. She told employees who took her classes to refrain from using cellphones, but one female employee ignored her and used her phone during a session. Van Ness says she gave the employee a "look of disapproval." The employee complained to the woman's ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 05:49 pm David Minnick is a genius. That is all. A remix of the Snoop Dogg/Kid Cudi song "That Tree". The idea for this sort of remix was born when I became aware of the great similarities between the lyrical themes of rap and the lyrical themes of pirate music (Self-aggrandizement, the quest for money and treasure, ...
Read in browser Trees stained by a toxic spill, with the high-tide line aligned to the horizon
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 05:04 pm This image comes from The Line, a book of photos by Palíndromo Mészaros, "a Spanish photographer and architecture student whose life jumps between Madrid and Budapest." It shows the high-tide line of an aluminum spill from a chemical factory in Hungary, which flooded out a forest in Ajka. Mészaros lines up the red residue with ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 11, 2012 04:18 pm More than a year ago, porn celeb Ron Jeremy was reportedly asked by animal rights activists to help snare animal torturer (and eventual "Canadian Cannibal") Luka Rocco Magnotta by inviting him to be in an X-rated film. Jeremy: "It's like an episode from some TV show. The [guy] comes to the set with lube in ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 11, 2012 04:09 pm "One detainee, so-called 'dirty bomber' Jose Padilla was tricked into believing he was injected with a "truth serum" during an interrogation, possibly a form of LSD or PCP. In reality, it was a flu shot." U.S. Injected Gitmo Detainees With 'Mind Altering' Drugs (Wired)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 11, 2012 03:46 pm Zachary writes, Blurring the line between art and...a freight train, artist Zachary Coffin is leading a team building a massive human powered stone and steel merry-go-round for Burning Man 2012. This experimental hybrid of art and engineering utilizes railroad parts and more to see just how much fun you can have moving over 80,000lbs of ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 11, 2012 03:31 pm Dan Rubin says: SimCity and D&D have nothing on "New City Telephone Company," a business simulator that challenged 1970s kids to run a phone company. AT&T commissioned and distributed the game to schools in the mid-1970s, and this film documents two middle and high school classes as they navigate a minefield of disgruntled workers, plaintive ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 03:21 pm According to The New York Post, Scarlett Johansson will become Hollywood's highest-paid woman, snagging a cool $20 million paycheck for assembling for the sequel to this spring's humble, low-budget sleeper hit The Avengers. This will mean that for her supporting role -- because there was no official lead in the ensemble superhero flick -- she ...
Read in browser Let's compare two Philip Seymour Hoffman characters: Plutarch Heavensbee and Scotty from Boogie Nights
By Jamie Frevele on Jul 11, 2012 03:00 pm We all know that Philip Seymour Hoffman is an "actor's actor" -- a chameleon who can play all kinds of roles, whether they be dramatic or comedic, manipulative or a pushover. Now that we know he is playing head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in Catching Fire (and, most likely, Mockingjay), let's look at a past role ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 11, 2012 02:59 pm For $20, Bleep is selling a 55 track "Guide To Electronic Music" compilation starting from Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Shaeffer in the 1930s and 1940s through Daphne Oram, Morton Subotnick, Throbbing Gristle, Afrika Bambaata, Phuture, and Basic Channel, all the way to J Dilla and James Blake. (Of course it's not comprehensivem, nor does it ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 11, 2012 01:55 pm Official DEVO Documentary: 5-minute Preview from DEVOfilm on Vimeo. I get many requests every day from people asking me to post about their Kickstarter project. I'm sometimes tempted to filter all email with "kickstarter" in it. But then I get something like Jeff Winner's Kickstarter for a Devo documentary and I realize that I can't ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jul 11, 2012 01:22 pm [Video Link] A man who desperately needed to cut a stick into small pieces was assisted by a kindly piranha at the Cuyabeno Rainforest in Ecuador. (Via Arbroath)
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