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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 07, 2012 12:12 pm We can provide just a tease, but you will definitely want to see this: Daniel Day-Lewis is playing Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, and the first official photo of him -- courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, where you can see the full picture -- has been released. Honestly, I don't know how Day-Lewis does this. ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 07, 2012 10:47 am The UK's Manchester National Health Service Trust has reportedly banned metal paperclips due to staff injuries. If this policy spreads, it may be time for Henry Petroski to write a new afterward to his classic book "The Evolution of Useful Things" that includes the fascinating history of the paper clip. From Metro: In a memo ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Aug 07, 2012 10:35 am Sound it Out # 31: Redd Kross - "Stay Away From Downtown"The brothers Steve and Jeff MacDonald are the core of Redd Kross, who played their first show opening for Black Flag at a middle school graduation party in 1978 (Steve was 11; Jeff was 15). The band quickly became a big part of the LA ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 07, 2012 10:34 am In 1974, my favorite portrait artist Drew Friedman, then 15-years-old, visited the offices of MAD Magazine. And all he got was the crummy souvenir above. Actually, he also got a terrific blog post out of it that he's just now published. From Drew's site: (MAD publisher) Bill Gaines' office was a cluttered, messy mini-museum, filled ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 07, 2012 10:29 am During the storm a couple of nights ago, we heard an almighty thunderclap and our dogs came dashing into the house. Once the rain ebbed and we went outside, we found this scene just around the corner: a wall apparently blown to pieces, with cinderblock chunks thrown as far as 40 or 50 feet. It ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 07, 2012 09:51 am Jill from Tachyon Books sez, "Is the Rapture of the Nerds just around the corner? Or is the Vingean posthuman technological Singularity the biggest myth since Y2K? You know—and you can prove it in verse. Post or email (tachyon@tachyonpublications.com) Tachyon a haiku that is either pro- (it's totally gonna happen) or con- (as if!) Singularity. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 07, 2012 09:17 am Neal Stephenson is a talented essayist, a fact that anyone who read his seminal In the Beginning... Was the Command Line will be aware of. Some of the finest moments in his fiction is really nonfiction, essays that make up part of the story, which some critics take umbrage at. I love it. I happen ...
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By Ed Piskor on Aug 07, 2012 09:00 am Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 07, 2012 08:28 am Just perfect. Can't wait. The Robotic Arms: Sir, You Are Being Hunted's Teaser [RPS]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 07, 2012 12:24 am Mat Honan was hacked. The nightmare unfolded minute by minute, a sequence of security failures daisy-chaining their way into a disaster. But there was a single point of entry: Apple's willingness to hand over the keys to his account to anyone with the last four digits of his credit card number and home address. What ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 06, 2012 08:58 pm Richard O'Dwyer, creator of the legal UK website TVShack, faces extradition to the USA (even though TVShack is probably legal in the USA too). As usual, the MPAA has managed to get lawmakers to do their bidding so well that it has made them look like the villainous corporate scumbags everyone suspects them of being. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 08:53 pm This animated GIF composed of descent images captured by NASA's Mars Curiosity rover as it headed towards landing is better than all the kittens on the internet combined. The video version is here. (via @nasasocial).
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 06, 2012 08:52 pm Ten minutes after NASA posted a video of the Curiosity landing on Mars to its official YouTube channel, the video was taken down again, replaced with a message saying it had been removed due to a copyright claim by Scripps Local News. It's not clear whether Scripps actually filed a takedown notice with YouTube or ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 06, 2012 08:44 pm Fat XXX's "If Hemingway wrote JavaScript" is a great piece of imaginative writing, speculating about the coding styles that various literary titans (Shakespeare, Hemingway, Dickens, Breton and more) would have employed: function theSeriesOfFIBONACCI(theSize) { //a CALCKULATION in two acts. //employ'ng the humourous logick of JAVA-SCRIPTE //Dramatis Personae var theResult; //an ARRAY to contain THE NUMBERS ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 08:30 pm Photo: Two of the first images transmitted back by Curiosity, as seen on monitors at JPL 20 minutes after the rover landed on Mars. (Xeni Jardin) NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was a magical place to be last night, as engineers, flight specialists, NASA administrators, space celebrities, and scientists from many fields gathered to witness the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 07:58 pm The great ranchera songstress Chavela Vargas has died. She was born in Costa Rica, and became one of the most timeless interpreters of what was, and is, a predominantly masculine music genre. She came out as a lesbian at age 80. She was 93 when she died. An LA Times obit is here. Though Vargas ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 06, 2012 05:18 pm Standup comedian Tig Notaro took the stage Friday night at Largo as part of her farewell to Los Angeles as she prepares to move to New York to begin work on Amy Schumer's new show. But that wasn't all she was announcing: she revealed that following a string of personal tragedies (a terrible bout of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 04:24 pm Worth noting, especially if you read my piece last Friday about problems with America's electric infrastructure: Wikipedia's list of infamous software glitches includes the problems with General Electric Energy's XA/21 monitoring software that helped make the 2003 East Coast Blackout happen. (Via Kyle McDonald)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 04:18 pm I don't know what the best words ever written in the English language are, but I'm willing to put "Top of Launch Pad 39A, Address is Approximate" up there on the short list. Among the images you can now explore online with the click of your mouse are the space shuttle launch pad, Vehicle Assembly ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 06, 2012 04:02 pm Before May 2, 2011, Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow was working on a movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden. After May 2, 2011, she had to rework her movie a bit, because that manhunt officially ended when SEAL Team 6 tracked down their target and killed him. Then it was revealed that Bigelow got ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 04:00 pm I recently posted a couple of articles featuring heartfelt letters from people who had earned their Eagle Scout awards as boys, but no longer wanted to be associated with the Boy Scouts of America and its rule banning gay scouts and GBLT troop leaders. Instead, they were choosing to return their awards to the BSA, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 06, 2012 03:41 pm The Leidenfrost Effect is a lovely sounding name for some very strange and nifty physics. When you heat up a liquid, it will, eventually, boil away into a gas. Different liquids have different boiling points. But here's the weird catch: When you suddenly put a liquid in contact with something much, much hotter than its ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 03:18 pm More like this: "TOTALLY NOT 'SHOPPED PICS FROM MARS" (Thanks, Sean Bonner!)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 06, 2012 02:44 pm This fellow hopes to break a world record throwing playing cards with vegetable-slicing speed and accuracy. If you'd like to learn this useful skill, you might start by reading Ricky Jay's 1977 classic book "Cards As Weapons."
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 06, 2012 02:28 pm In Smithsonian, Sarah Everts traces the deodorant business to Edna Murphey, a high school student from Cincinnati who around 1910 took an antiperspirant her surgeon father invented, meant for his sweaty hands in the operating room, and dabbed it in her armpits. Murphey dubbed the product Odorono and took it to market, but sales were ...
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Read in browser Mars Curiosity moment of joy: NASA JPL team high-fiving after landing (video)
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 01:51 pm [Video Link] As the post-landing press conference begins, NASA and JPL MSL leaders high-five and cheer with the Mars rover engineering and flight control team. I shot this last night (on my iPhone, pardon the shakiness) inside the Jet Propulsion Lab, at 11:15pm PDT, about 45 minutes after the rover landed, against all odds, on ...
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 06, 2012 01:37 pm No, not Hal Holbrook but Mark Twain himself. Thomas Edison shot this film of Twain in 1909 and it is the only known footage of the author. To celebrate, Jason will cook me one of his celebrated Mark Twain steaks, pan-fried of course. (via Mental Floss)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 06, 2012 01:36 pm This just in from Mars: NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image of Curiosity while the orbiter was listening to transmissions from the rover. Curiosity and ...
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By Jamie Frevele on Aug 06, 2012 01:32 pm Here is some excellent news that I promise is excellent, just wait for the second part: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and let's leave it there) is coming to television, developing a supernatural drama series for Syfy called Proof. And here is that second part that should have many of us very ...
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