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High-speed computer vision system beats you at Rock, Paper, Scissors every time Genetically-evolved semiconductors Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination at TEDGlobal 2012 TOM THE DANCING BUG: Barackman, The Dark Knight vs. Bane Capital! Suspected burglar with drill isn't Rubegoldbergian light-switch cover TV "psychics" are stock photos London police crowdsource the panopticon On the fate of bad advisors LulzSec members plead guilty Antisemitic Elmo Tumor heavier than host Rasputin's Bastards: epic, psychic cold war thriller The Soviet synthesizer that bridged occultism and electronic music Anti-cheating ring brands I'M MARRIED into the flesh of your finger TSA dumps Grandpa's cremains all over airport, laughs at distraught relative as he picks bone fragments off the floor An amazing story of a father's love Lobby card for a movie that should have existed: "The War With Myself" Map of world weed use London's towering SHARD is a microcosm of everything that's wrong in the world Wee Turtle vs. Raspberry (VIDEO) Bruce Sterling on Alan Turing, gender, AI, and art criticism Final episode of Search Engine podcast The history of margarine 80 Teddy Ruxpins with robot voices tell you how the Internet feels Excellent 8tracks mixes from SpaceBunnySounds Brain Rot: The Red Tube Bar Tapes The perilous world of banana slug sex Cat Power- "Ruin" (MP3) Decorate your house with vintage microscope images High-speed computer vision system beats you at Rock, Paper, Scissors every time
By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 12:56 pm Researchers at UTokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab have created an unbeatable Rock-Paper-Scissors robot that uses a computer vision system to analyze opponents' hand-shapes for precursors to their final move and form a winning response in a split second, so quickly that to the human eye, it appears that the robot has responded simultaneously: It only takes ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 27, 2012 12:55 pm Researchers have "evolved" new semiconducting structures in a process that could someday lead to higher-performing computer chips. The UC Santa Barbara bio/nano-engineers amplified the DNA of silicateins, the proteins that guide the formation of marine sponges' silica skeletons. The natural mutations produced by that process resulted in silicateins genetically encoded to produce different templates for ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Jun 27, 2012 12:52 pm Massimo Banzi is the co-creator of the popular electronics prototyping system called Arduino. He spoke at TEDGlobal 2012 about the cool things people are making with Arduino. Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that's inspired thousands of people around the world to make the coolest things they can imagine -- ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 27, 2012 12:05 pm A man in Bochum, Germany called police this weekend, concerned about a loud mechanical noise in his flat. Tracking the noise to the storage cellar, police expected to find a burglar with an electric drill. Instead, they found a vibrator that had fallen off a shelf, switched on, and was humming against plumbing pipes. (The ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 12:00 pm Etsy's GreenTreeJewelry makes these whimsical, rube goldbergian light-switch covers that let you toggle the switch by means of a delightfully superfluous mechanism: "This light switch cover is completely functional. Levered handle toggles back and forth, turning on and off light switch." Toggle Light Switch Plate (via Red Ferret)
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 10:50 am Peter sez, "This blog entry describes how Alan Rice, a student in Ireland, became suspicious about some of the photos displayed as 'Live psychics' to be called at €2.44/min on Irish TV. He used image searches to find photos of some of the 'psychics' on stock photo sites. Other people chipped in and..." Psychic Pat ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 10:20 am London's Metropolitan Police have produced an app called Facewatch ID that is billed as a crowdsourcing tool for identifying suspects shown in stills from CCTV footage of last summer's riots. But the 2,800 riot images also include "a further 2,000 images of people wanted by the police for offences not connected to the riots." From ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 27, 2012 10:11 am Josh Fruhlinger on the crap policymakers of medieval England: "One thing about Edward II's biography is clear: He had a series of intense attachments to men whose counsel he valued above all others, and these men weren't the right kind of men to advise a king." [Awl]
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 27, 2012 10:03 am Two LulzSec members, Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis, pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday. Two other defendants will go to trial in April. [NYT] Previously.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 27, 2012 09:50 am Elmo was removed from Central Park zoo in an ambulance after embarking on a anti-semitic tirade: "the scariest Elmo I've ever seen in my life," observed a bystander. Video link via Gothamist, The Awl, etc. Update: There is also footage of Antisemitic Elmo screaming "TOUCH MY SHIT," etc.
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By Rob Beschizza on Jun 27, 2012 09:42 am Doctors in Mexico removed a 33-pound tumor from a 26 pound toddler. [AP]
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 27, 2012 09:06 am Rasputin's Bastards is David Nickle's latest book, an epic novel from one of horror's weirdest voices. During the cold war, the Soviets established City 512, a secret breeding experiment intended to create a race of psychic supermen. It worked far, far too well. The dreamwalkers of City 512 may have given lip-service to their masters, ...
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By Klint Finley on Jun 27, 2012 08:00 am You don't play the ANS synthesizer with a keyboard. Instead you etch images onto glass sheets covered in black putty and feed them into a machine that shines light through the etchings, trigging a wide range of tones. Etchings made low on the sheets make low tones. High etchings make high tones. The sound is ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 11:27 pm TheCheeky sells a $550 titanium wedding-band with I'M MARRIED etched on the inside in block serif caps. After wearing it for a sufficient time, your finger will bear the indelible mark of those words, advertising your marital status even if you slip the ring off. With Arnold, Tiger and two timing IMF guy in mind, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 10:00 pm John Gross of Indianapolis claims that a TSA operative at the Orlando airport opened up the tightly sealed jar, labelled HUMAN REMAINS, which bore his grandfather's ashes, and then proceeded to butterfinger Grandad all over the terminal. Then the TSA person laughed at him, while he got on his hands and knees and started picking ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 26, 2012 09:31 pm This story from the Chattanooga Times Free Press is one of the most inspiring, heart-wrenching stories I have ever read. It's about Matt Nevels, a lifelong Southern Baptist, and the changes that happened in his life after he found out his son was gay. My heart is with this man and his family in so ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 09:22 pm From the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Adam Baron's fab "The War With Myself" photo-collage in the form of a lobby card for a film that never existed (but should have). The War With Myself
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 26, 2012 09:18 pm Where in the world do people smoke the most dope? According to the United Nations' World Drug Report 2012 released today, it's the Pacific island of Palau. As reported in The Economist, "Nearly a quarter of people aged 15 to 64 (in Palau) smoked pot in the past year. Italians and Americans also like to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 08:17 pm Aditya Chakrabortty writes in The Guardian about the Shard, a titanic building that already towers above London, and explains how it is a microcosm for everything that's wrong with the world today: So one of London's most identifiable buildings will have almost nothing to do with the city itself. Even the office space rented out ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jun 26, 2012 07:38 pm No berry is safe from Peanut the turtlet.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 07:19 pm Bruce Sterling gave a speech at the North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) on the eve of the Alan Turing Centenary, and delivered a provocative, witty and important talk on the Turing Test, gender and machine intelligence, Turing's life and death, and art criticism. If you study his biography, the emotional ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 05:54 pm The very last episode of TVOntario's Search Engine's just went out (MP3), and I'm honored to say that it's an interview with me. I started out with Search Engine when it was a broadcast on CBC radio, and I've been pleased to appear on the show several times since it moved to TVO. Host Jesse ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 26, 2012 05:49 pm Writer Christine Baumgarthuber has a really interesting article in the June issue of Dissent magazine about what working-class Victorians ate, and how their diets (and health) changed with the introduction of relative convenience foods, cheaper sugar, and margarine. I don't know the cultural history of food—or the medical history of changes in public health—well enough ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jun 26, 2012 05:13 pm Sean Hathaway stuck 80 Teddy Ruxpins on a gallery wall and hooked them up to a sentiment-analysis engine fed by a social media scraper. Snippets of emotional, throwaway text are turned into synthetic ruxpin-utterances, accompanied by emotional music: TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak ...
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By David Pescovitz on Jun 26, 2012 05:12 pm My friend Nicole Tindall turned me on to the fantastic 8tracks.com mixes of SpaceBunnySounds. After-Hour Space Lair Groovin' offers rare groove and sci-fi instrumentals from Klaud Doldinger, Aaron Neville, and Don Gere. The opener is Gere's blazing main theme for Werewolves On Wheels, a 1971 film whose soundtrack was recently reissued by the tireless crate ...
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By Ed Piskor on Jun 26, 2012 05:10 pm I had to attend a comic convention this past week to support my Wizzywig graphic novel, which made a new Hip Hop Family Tree strip impossible. It'll be back next week though.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 26, 2012 05:08 pm Banana slugs are hermaphrodites. Every slug has both a penis (which pops out of a pore on its head, like you do) and a vagina. Or, rather, every slug should have a penis. The truth is that quite a few of them don't and the story behind that discrepancy is rather strange and horrifying. Since ...
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Jun 26, 2012 05:04 pm Sound it Out # 29: Cat Power - "Ruin" Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has finished her first album of new material since 2006's The Greatest. It's called SUN and it's out on September 4. Chan played every bit of music on the record, and it comes on the heels of what sounds like ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Jun 26, 2012 04:25 pm I love these images of diseased cells that are currently for sale on Etsy. The photos appear to be prints made from slides taken at Duke University in the 1970s. You can pick up a set of six 8x10s for $24 or four 8x10s for $16. Via Michelle Banks
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