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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being British How bus passengers avoid each other Divers making weird faces in midflight Crop circles appear in Washington Pepper-spraying cop exits force Jerry Springer starts off on wrong hoof with Bronies "RIP Al Gore" TOM THE DANCING BUG: Cold, Thirsty and Hungry on a Desert Island Valve user agreement now disallows class-action suits Doonesbury has a new protagonist Royal toast sold Twitter apologizes for part of the Guy Adams/NBC/Olympics affair Comics Rack: The Hypo, Snake Oil #7, Drama and Turtie Needs Work Minecraft gets major update Man busted for feeding gator that ate his hand OMGCATSINSPACE Gore Vidal, 1925-2012 Gentleman argues with neighbor about fence (video) Snow leopard munches on a squirrel (video) Where pianos go to die Music industry, in sum Deluxe vinyl edition of Eraserhead soundtrack What can we learn from the Colorado shooting? Bathing suits matching book covers Dan Harmon scores yet another sitcom deal, this time at CBS Ebola in Uganda Nudists on a semiconductor Magician Ferdinando Buscema on Expanding Mind podcast Should you buy an unlimited-ride Metrocard? Interview with the Berlin Patient The Unbearable Lightness Of Being British
By Wystan Mayes on Aug 01, 2012 12:51 pm Photo: Shimelle (cc) The epithets attached to the Olympic opening ceremony piled up: eclectic, spectacular, monumental, shambolic, parochial, world-beating, hideous, embarrassing, filmic, and even inspiring. In its parts, the spectacle was all of these things because of the whole, which formed a blurting gush of free-floating anxiety, a confession on a therapist's couch. Many commented ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 01, 2012 12:50 pm Yale University sociologist Esther Kim traveled thousands of miles on buses to study "nonsocial transient behavior," basically how passengers keep their distance. Of course, the most obvious unspoken rule is that you should never sit beside someone if you can avoid it. Kim published her study in the journal Symbolic Interaction. "We engage in all ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 01, 2012 12:36 pm TheFW has gathered together a gallery of striking photos of Olympic divers' faces, captured in midflight by various photographers working for Getty Images. It turns out that divers make some pretty weird faces. This Is How Olympic Divers Really Look While Diving (via Making Light) (Image: downsized, cropped thumbnail of a photo by Matt King ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 12:22 pm Spokane's KHQ-TV reports the appearance of crop circles in a Washington wheat field. Reporter Mike Perry: The circles resemble a four-leaf clover and remind [landowner] Cindy Geib of Mickey Mouse ears. The design knocked down about an acre of their wheat. Some of it could be salvaged by combines when the harvest starts in a ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 12:15 pm The cop who pepper-sprayed seated students at UC Davis last November is no longer employed by the force. [Sacbee via Digg]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 12:02 pm Adrian Chen writes that Bronies—adult male fans of girly TV show My Little Pony—have swiftly organized a united front against Jerry Springer's Brony casting call. [Gawker]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 11:44 am Dan Munz and Alex Balk spotted that people on Twitter are unaware of the separation of Gores.
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By Ruben Bolling on Aug 01, 2012 11:40 am Tom the Dancing Bug by @RubenBolling is supported by readers like YOU. Join the team by going to the INNER HIVE -- it's easy, fun, and you get STUFF.
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 11:38 am To buy games from Steam, you must now sign an agreement not to join class-action lawsuits against operator Valve. [Steam via Ars]
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 01, 2012 11:31 am Doonesbury has an official new lead character: Alex Doonesbury, the daughter of Mike Doonesbury, who has been the comic's protagonist for more than 40 years. Writing for ThinkProgress, Alyssa Rosenberg does a great job of summing up Alex's appeal, and what it means to have a new generation at the fore of one of the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 11:29 am This leftover slice of toast, left uneaten by Prince Charles on the morning of his wedding to Diana Spencer, was sold for $360 at a recent auction in London. [Hansons via AP]
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 01, 2012 11:22 am Here's a followup on the earlier story about Twitter suspending a journalist's account after he tweeted the work email address of an NBC exec and asked people to write in complaining about NBC's broadcasts of the Olympics. Twitter has confirmed that their own employees alerted NBC -- who are working in partnership with Twitter on ...
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By Brian Heater on Aug 01, 2012 10:53 am Happy Read Comics in Public month! In honor of the world's fourth favorite made-up geek holiday (August 28th -- happy early birthday, Jack Kirby!) here are some picks to help you get started on your outdoor sequential art consuming skills. This time out, we've got something for the history buffs, something for the kids, something ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 01, 2012 10:46 am A wild array of new features arrived today for Minecraft, the all-conquering digital RPG Lego addiction vortex: trading with villagers, bonus chests in new worlds, and countless new map features and block types are in the list. Most interesting of all, though, is the new (and definitively alpha) "adventure mode", which makes it far harder ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 01, 2012 10:34 am Wallace Weatherholt, 63, was leading a tour of Florida's Everglades when he allegedly reached over the side of his boat to feed a fish to an alligator. The 9-foot alligator bit off Weatherholt's hand at the wrist. Weatherholt was subsequently charged with a misdemeanor for unlawful feeding of a gator. (News-Press)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 01, 2012 01:20 am A Tumblog of Greatness: OMGCATSINSPACE. (thanks, @sbethm)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 01, 2012 12:18 am Writer, analyst, and eloquent opinionator Gore Vidal died today. He was 86. The LA Times reports that he died Tuesday in his Hollywood Hills home, from complications related to pneumonia. In his lifetime, Vidal received the National Book Award, wrote many novels, short stories, plays and essays. He was a political activist, and received the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 01, 2012 12:11 am [Video Link] "Ya know what? How ya doin, motherfucker?" (via Joe Sabia)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 01, 2012 12:07 am Video Link. A man films a snow leopard snarfing up a squirrel in a zoo enclosure, while his little son watches in curiosity. (thanks, Joe Sabia!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 31, 2012 10:17 pm If you ask your piano mover to donate your old, expensive-to-repair piano to a good home, chances are, she or he will reassure that this will come to pass, but chances are that your beloved instrument will be tipped into a trash heap with a tremendous, final crash. There must be something we can do ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jul 31, 2012 09:14 pm In three four short panels, the Oatmeal does a fine job of capturing the problem and promise of the music industry in the 21st century. The state of the music industry - The Oatmeal (via Reddit)
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 31, 2012 08:16 pm The Eraserhead original soundtrack recording will get the special vinyl reissue treatment in August from Sacred Bones Records. This deluxe edition includes the LP, a 16 page booklet, three 11" x 11" art prints, digital download, and a 7" of the heartwarmer above, "In Heaven (The Lady in the Radiator Song)" penned by Peter Ivers ...
Read in browser What can we learn from the Colorado shooting?
By Cory Doctorow on Jul 31, 2012 08:12 pm Bruce Schneier asks what lessons we can learn from the shooting in a Colorado movie theater, and answers the question with admirable good sense: The rarity of events such as the Aurora massacre doesn't mean we should ignore any lessons it might teach us. Because people overreact to rare events, they're useful catalysts for social ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 31, 2012 07:54 pm Matchbook is is Kate Imbach's Tumblog of bathing suits that match book covers. And vice versa. (via @nickbilton)
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By Jamie Frevele on Jul 31, 2012 07:18 pm So, interesting story: Sony and NBC fire Dan Harmon from the show he created. Harmon then sells an animated pilot to Adult Swim. Then Harmon got a deal to write a multi-camera sitcom pilot for Fox. And now, Harmon has another deal to write another sitcom for CBS. Next logical move: sitcoms for outer space. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 31, 2012 06:59 pm Yesterday, Xeni told you that the deadly virus Ebola has reemerged in Uganda. The disease has actually been infecting and killing people in the western part of the country for three weeks. We're hearing about it now, in big font, because some sources have reported that the disease has reached Kampala, the country's capital. (Other ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jul 31, 2012 06:39 pm Infineon Technologies' Lim Saw Sing discovered a colony of microscopic nudists having an orgy on the surface of an integrated circuit. Of course, there is some chance, albeit small, that they aren't nudists but rather just the polyimide surface itself after being exposed to etching by reactive ions. In any case, the image took a ...
Read in browser Magician Ferdinando Buscema on Expanding Mind podcast
By David Pescovitz on Jul 31, 2012 06:06 pm Stage magician and "magic experience designer" Ferdinando Buscema, who I've previously posted about, was a guest on the always-provocative Expanding Mind podcast with Erik Davis and Maja D'Aoust. The conversation was fantastic and highly illuminating. It resonated with my own interests in magic (and art and science) as a tool to shift our perception/understanding of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 31, 2012 05:37 pm Unless you count a three-month internship in college, I've never lived in New York City. But, between friends and work, I've managed to visit every couple years or so and I've nearly always picked up an unlimited-ride Metrocard for my week in town. Turns out, choosing to do so is an excellent example of Maggie ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jul 31, 2012 05:11 pm Timothy Ray Brown (aka, The Berlin Patient) is the first person to go from being HIV+ to HIV-. Usually, he's described as the first person to be cured of AIDS. Scientists are a bit more circumspect about the situation. Brown got a bone marrow transplant using marrow donated by a person whose body has natural ...
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