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Profile of video/gif artist Max Capacity Bees ground Delta flight Life on Mars: A round-up of Curiosity-related awesomeness Memory card leads to long-lost camera's owner Baby deer saved Science fiction grand master Jack Vance rockin' a uke and a kazoo Temple killer was white supremacist Fire alarm enters tenth hour without relent Five reasons to play D&D Man crushes 7 police cars with tractor Hi-res image from new Mars rover Meanwhile, in space... Today, science willing, Curiosity rover lands on Mars. Here's how to watch. Gender-neutral toy department Profile of video/gif artist Max Capacity
By David Pescovitz on Aug 06, 2012 12:58 pm Glitch video/GIF artist Max Capacity work pushes the grainy VHS cut-ups and early home computer bit constraints of 1980s cyberpunk into the digital realm. Network Awesome and Radosaur Productions interviewed him for Tumbkr's Storyboard effort. "Max Capacity: Net Necromancer"
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 11:18 am Honeybees clustered under the wing of a Delta Airlines flight at Pittsburgh International Airport last week; the plane could not depart until a beekeeper was summoned to take possession of the swarm. CBS reporter Mary Robb Jackson adds that swarms of bees are not uncommon at the airport, where 25,000 to 30,000 occupied Taxiway-C last ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 11:13 am They were chanting "Science! Science! Science!" and "NASA! NASA! NASA!" in Times Square last night, as the Curiosity rover touched down on Mars at about 1:30 am Eastern time. The best parts are yet to come. As chemistry professor and blogger Matthew Hartings pointed out this morning, Curiosity is, fundamentally, a chemistry project. Curiosity will ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 11:12 am Found by Vermont teacher Jon Noerr in a creek near Pharaoh Lake, a muddy Canon XT Rebel had clearly taken its last shot. But the memory card was ship-shape, and its contents made it possible to track owner Michael Comeau down and give him back his long-lost photos. The memory card's contents contained a hodgepodge ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 10:49 am A cute, speckled deer "scampered" into the woods Thursday after being rescued by from a 20-ft hole in Suffolk County, NY. [Huffington Post. Photo: Suffolk County Police Department] • Two grey tiger kittens who spent hours trapped in a drain pipe were rescued by Igram County Animal Control. Officials believe the kittens were thirsty, and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 06, 2012 10:46 am The video description says it all, really: Science fiction legend and grand master Jack Vance, 96, owns you completely with his ukelele and kazoo. He plans to sell music from his Go For Broke Jazz Band as well as the e-books already for sale on his website. Vance sings and plays harmonica, kazoo, ukelele and ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 10:46 am Wade Michael Page, who killed six people inside a Sikh temple Sunday, was a "frustrated neo-Nazi who led a racist white supremacist band," reports the AP. Page told a white supremacist website in an interview in 2010 that he had been part of the white-power music scene since 2000 when he left his native Colorado ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 10:40 am Public housing officials in Pittsburgh are hunting for whoever has the key to turn off a fire alarm triggered yesterday evening. As of 8 a.m. Monday, it's been blaring for 10 hours straight; if you have the key, please get in touch with the Allegheny County Housing Authority. [WPXI Pittsburgh]
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 06, 2012 10:37 am I thought Grimm Wisdom's "5 reasons to play D&D" was a great list -- and it made me want to get my 4-y-o out of bed and have a go at the stripped-down version we play with random toys, polyhedral dice, and miniatures. But I blogged it instead -- here's the first three, I'm gonna ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 10:35 am A man accused of using a tractor "like a monster truck" to crush seven police cars is out on bail. Roger Pion, 34, of Newport, Vermont, was reportedly angry at a recent arrest; he now faces up to 16 years in prison. Here's Laura Carpenter in the Newport Daily Express: Fortunately, no one was in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 06, 2012 10:29 am From NASA: "This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 10:05 am Maaaaaars? MARS! Marsmarsmarsmarsmarsmarsmarsmars ... Thanks, Kate Davis!
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 05, 2012 02:01 pm Watch live streaming video from spaceflightnow at livestream.com This is it, guys. Tonight's the night. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity will attempt to land on the surface of Mars today. Here is Boing Boing's guide for how to follow her descent. Spaceflight Now's coverage should be excellent. Here's an excellent history of human exploration ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 05, 2012 01:34 pm Harrods, one of London's most iconic department stores, has bucked the established practice of strongly gender-segregating its toy department, contracting with Shed Design to create a "gender-neutral" toy floor. The London department store commissioned the multi-million pound Toy Kingdom to be grouped by theme rather than gender, with new zones including an enchanted forest, a ...
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