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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 12:21 pm Broad Sustainable Building (BSB) is an innovative Chinese architectural firm whose mission is to erect "medium-cost, super-saving utility buildings and to promote a futuristic urban lifestyle." They are planning to build the world's tallest building, the Sky City Tower in Changsha, Hunan, whose 220 storeys will be erected in 90 days. The timelapse video above ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 11:13 am Etsy seller Jumahl specializes in birdhouses that look like vintage campers, from Airstreams to Shastas. He's a woodworker with 40 years' experience, who makes everything from yachts to banjos. Vintage Camper Birdhouse (via Neatorama)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 10:08 am Jonathan "Song a Day" Mann's latest is "The Vagina Song," inspired by Michigan's legislative fight, in which Republicans have censured a woman Democratic lawmaker for using the word "vagina" in an abortion debate. the VAGINA song (Song A Day #1262) (Thanks, Jonathan)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 09:04 am Jeremy sez, "Church founder Ivan Stang has released a brief statement naming his (iron-fisted?) successor. Something inside me has died. I just KNEW I should have pulled its beak off first. Seriously, this shit HURTS." Rev. Ivan Stang announced today his retirement from the SubGenius Foundation, citing his ill demeanor and declining patience with internal ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 16, 2012 01:11 am This unhappy fellow is a tarantula that has been colonized by cordyceps, a fungus that "invades and eventually replaces the host tissue." Paging Mr Mieville, your subconscious mind is manifesting again. Tarantula infected with Cordyceps (i.imgur.com) (via Super Punch)
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 16, 2012 12:17 am The long-awaited sequel to the 40 worst Rob Liefeld drawings of all time is upon us. Here are 40 MORE Of The Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. [Progressive Boink]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 10:51 pm Yanis Varoufakis, "an academic economist," recounts the story of how his widely read writings on the Euro crisis led to a job offer from Valve software, who were contemplating the creation of a shared virtual currency between two worlds. Valve founder Gabe Newell was contemplating balance of payments when he realized "this is Germany and ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 09:34 pm [Video Link] Todd Wilder has made a smaller version of the Lego Mystery Box (which I posted about in February). To open it, you have to pull on pieces in a specific order. He's hoping to get enough votes at Cuusoo that Lego will sell it as a kit. Mystery Box (Cuusoo Project)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 09:23 pm [Video Link] My 9-year-old daughter and her friends love playing with her Fort Magic kit (the manufacturer sent me a couple of review kits). You get a box full of PVC pipes and connecters and clips to attach sheets or tarps. You can build all sorts of things with them, from dangerous blow guns (we ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 09:12 pm A class action lawsuit has been filed against PublishAmerica, a notorious vanity press that has long appeared in the Writer Beware! bulletins from the Science Fiction Writers of America, which warns of bad business practices from publishers (and "publishers") who prey on naive would-be authors. From the complaint: Defendant PublishAmerica is a book publisher that ...
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By Erik Davis on Jun 15, 2012 09:05 pm Mind Blowing Movies: World on a Wire (1973), by Erik Davis [Video Link] When you think about movies that blew your mind, you often think about flicks you saw when you were an adolescent or even a kid, when there was so much room for the explosion to occur. For me, it was movies like ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 07:06 pm K0re on YouTube had a genuinely wonderful day in Switzerland that included the HR Giger museum, lashings of absinthe, and a good deal of time in the company of a machine that patiently rotates wheels of cheese. I wanted to see the Giger Museum and Bar in Gruyeres about an hour away from Montreux. The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 06:59 pm Dave created a quite fab Super Mario 3-style map for the Toronto subway system. Delighted with the popular interest in the design, he's offered it for sale as a poster. Toronto TTC Subway/RT Map – Super Mario 3 Style (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 15, 2012 05:51 pm Sotheby's just auctioned off a working Apple I computer for $374,000. It included the manuals and the Apple I cassette interface. Someone else paid $27,500 for a 1974 memo by Steve Jobs about how to improve Atari's World Cup arcade game. "Apple 1 computer and Steve Jobs Atari memo sold at auction" (BBC News) Lot ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 15, 2012 05:11 pm The National Research Council published a report today, reviewing and analyzing peer-reviewed literature, federal and state documents, data requested from private companies, and more ... all in an effort to better understand the link between earthquakes and natural gas fracking techniques. Because this is the National Research Council, you can read the whole thing online ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 04:11 pm From the year 2000, Ben Engelsberg sez, "Mike Keith forumlated this brilliant poem using all 100 scrabble tiles for each of 6 verses in iambic pentameter." A Scrabble-Tile Poem (Thanks, Ben!)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 15, 2012 03:29 pm Between 1910 and 1913, surgeon George Levick traveled with Robert Scott through Antarctica on a mission to reach the South Pole. Along the way, Scott's team recorded their observations of Antarctica and its wildlife, observations that were later published in scientific journals. At least, most of the observations were published. Some of Levick's notes ended ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 15, 2012 03:00 pm This is a page from Gustavademecum for the Island of Manhattan: A Check-List of the Best-Recommended or Most Interesting Eating-Places, Arranged in Approximate Order of Increasing Latitude and Longitude — Prepared for the convenience of mathematicians, experimental scientists, engineers, and explorers. Which is possibly the best name for a dining guide ever. Physical chemist Robert ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 02:44 pm The Slo-Mo Guys -- a YouTube channel filled with fast things in slow motion -- have a go at a hard drive. It's pretty amazing on its own -- seeing that blurred, too-fast-to-follow arm slowed down is like kung-fu bullet-time for electronics. But once they start splashing water on the mechanism? Woah. How a Hard ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jun 15, 2012 02:25 pm Sound it Out # 27: Laetitia Sadier - "Find Me the Pulse of the Universe" Laetitia Sadier sings like no one else. She bravely meanders all over the vocal spectrum, frequently dipping into a bit of drone or off-key oddness only to somehow catch herself before hitting a sour note. Sadier was the signature voice ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 02:16 pm [Video Link] Jane ní Dhulchaointigh is the inventor of Sugru, a moldable plastic repair material. I've been using Sugru ever since I discovered it a few years ago. Here's a video Jane made about fathers who have come up with neat ways to use Sugru. She says: We make lots of films about awesome fixes, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 15, 2012 01:57 pm A welder in Phoenix assembled a robot out of car and motorcycle parts that serves as a wine-rack. It weighs "Approx 1,000lbs," stands six feet high, holds 32 bottles of wine (or other beverage of choice) and is liberally wired up with glowing LEDs. Yours for a mere $7,000.00. For the discerning individual who appreciates ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 01:51 pm Our pal Coop is the guest of honor at the launch party for his new book, Idle Hands: The Art of Coop, published by Baby Tattoo. Join us at Studio Servitu in Downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the release of Coop's first new book in 10 years. Idle Hands: The Art of Coop presents 200 ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 15, 2012 01:06 pm I guess they happened to have a fake head of George Bush in the props department? Maybe that's where the Phil Dick android head is, too! According to the creators of Game of Thrones' DVD commentary, the head of ex-POTUS George W. Bush made an appearance on a spike in the show's 10th episode from ...
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