[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels. The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones. On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30). To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.
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By David Pescovitz on May 29, 2012 12:30 pm An oil-exploration team in Egypt stumbled upon a crashed World War II fighter plane that's apparently been sitting in the Sahara desert for 70 years. Apparently, the Royal Air Force P-40 Kittyhawk is in fantastic condition. Relatively speaking, of course. From National Geographic: At the suspected time of the crash, Flight Sergeant Copping, the P40's ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 29, 2012 12:27 pm The current volume of The New Yorker is the "Science Fiction issue." In it, a previously unpublished 1973 essay by Anthony Burgess about his novel, A Clockwork Orange. In “The Clockwork Condition” (p. 69), an essay written in 1973 but never published, Anthony Burgess reflects on the “true meaning” of his most famous novel, A ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 29, 2012 12:15 pm The Sex Pistols have reissued "God Save The Queen" on a limited-edition 7" picture disc to celebrate the song's 35th anniversary. From the official Sex Pistols site: Originally released on May 27th 1977, during the Queen's Silver Jubilee, 'God Save The Queen' made its mark in history. The BBC amongst others refused to play it ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 29, 2012 11:59 am Last week, Gary Connery, wearing a wingsuit, jumped from a helicopter at an altitude of 2,400 feet and landed safely. "Stuntman Takes a Superhero Plunge" (New York Times)
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By Ed Piskor on May 29, 2012 11:51 am Read the rest of the Hip Hop Family Tree comics!
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By David Pescovitz on May 29, 2012 11:42 am BIPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85 compiles cold wave and Casio-dominated robot music that emerged from the unholy matrimony of post-punk and the nascent electro-pop scene of Europe. Above, Act's "Ping Pong." "BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85" (Amazon)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on May 29, 2012 11:36 am [Video Link] When I was at TED earlier this year, I happened to sit down next to film maker Louie Schwartzberg. He makes gorgeous nature films. I recently watched the videos on his YouTube channel. They are all stunning. This video was shown at the TED conference in 2011, with scenes from "Wings of Life," ...
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By David Pescovitz on May 29, 2012 11:31 am The Firefly Gathering is one of several "rewinding" or "primitivism" camps for learning self-sufficiency and wilderness skills and crafts like fire-making, mushroom hunting, canning, diaper-free parenting, trapping, and cooking wild game (and, er, road kill). Turnstyle's Mike Belleme brought his camera to camp. (Warning, some of the photos of animal "processing" may be upsetting to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 29, 2012 10:06 am Ken Doyle, a professional safecracker who's been practicing his trade since 1978, explains the ins and outs of safecracking to McSweeney's Suzanne Yeagley: Q: How often do people get locked in vaults? A: More often than you'd think and bank PR departments would like. ... Q: Do you ever look inside? A: I NEVER look. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 29, 2012 10:01 am [Video Link] The newest video from Joe Sabia's CDZA project.
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By Xeni Jardin on May 29, 2012 09:08 am In the New York Times today, Brian Lam (formerly of Gizmodo, now the creator of Scuttlefish and Wirecutter) writes about OpenROV, a low-cost submarine designed to be an affordable tool for "curious students and amateurs, as well as provide a highly valuable shallow water tool for explorers and scientists." This month, NASA engineer Eric Stackpole ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 29, 2012 08:57 am The key difference, writes blogger Jason Bittel, is in the biting. Venomous animals internally create a toxin and then inject it into prey or foes. Poisonous animals usually secrete their toxins on the outside. So here's a rule of thumb: If you are dying because an animal has bitten you, chances are, it was a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 29, 2012 08:45 am Step 1, naturally, is to be in Manhattan. I'm in New York City today and Scientific American contributing editor Steven Ashley was kind enough to reminded me that my visit is coinciding with Manhattanhenge—a twice-a-year event when the sun lines up with Manhattan's street grid. This year, there will be a Manhattanhenge on May 29/30 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2012 09:08 pm Chris Sims, Laura Hudson and Colleen Coover have executed as series of "Great Comics That Never Happened" for Comics Alliance, and they're fabulous. Exhibits A and B: Great Comics that Never Happened: Batman and Jay-Z Solve 99 Problems! (Chris Sims), and Great Comics That Never Happened #21: Jack Kirby's 'My Little Pony' (also Chris Sims) ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2012 06:00 pm Alexandra sez, "I'm writing to tell you about Modkit, a new interface for microcontrollers like Arduino. Modkit uses a graphical programming language based on the kids' programming language, Scratch. To write an Arduino program, you simply snap little blocks of code together. Basically, I think Modkit will make microcontrollers accessible to a much wider audience ...
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By Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2012 03:02 pm Mike sez, "Photographed a wedding reception in upstate NY this weekend -- the cake was awesome! The couple are both geeks and have three geeky teenaged daughters who helped design it.... Take a look at the cell phone video!" Cameraphone MP4 video (Thanks, Mike!)
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By Xeni Jardin on May 28, 2012 01:42 pm André Kuipers, a Dutch physician and astronaut with the European Space Agency, was on board the ISS when the SpaceX Dragon vehicle berthed. He took this photograph, and wrote, Inside of the Dragon module. Beautiful. Spacious, Modern. Blue LEDs. Feels a bit like a sci-fi filmset. Of course it is from Los Angeles. He wrote ...
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By Xeni Jardin on May 28, 2012 01:28 pm The Moscow-based security firm credited with solving various mysteries around Stuxnet and Duqu today announced the discovery of Flame, a data-stealing virus said to have lurked on thousands of computers in the Mideast for as long as 5 years. A Kaspersky Lab spokesperson described it in a Reuters interview as "the most complex piece of ...
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