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Science publishing giant Elsevier has pulled its support from the Research Works Act, a bill that would have restricted the ability of scientists doing government-funded work to place their papers with open access journals. The action follows a scholarly and scientific boycott of Elsevier, and has led to the collapse of the bill. I believed

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Elsevier withdraws support from Research Works Act, bill collapses

Brian Jewett makes various kinds of sculptural housewares, including ticket bowls (“Made by winding multiple rolls of tickets into one disc, shaping and sealing”). He made this ticket-bowl teapot as a commission for teapot collectors Gloria and Sonny Kamm. Ticket Bowls (via Craft)

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Teapot made from tickets

Furious Pete, a body-builder, shows how with just a few hours’ preparation he can look absolutely ripped or paunchy and out of shape. He starts by doing a brief, intense exercise and cosmetic regime and produces photos that make him look like he’s rippling with muscle and completely devoid of body-fat. Then he eats a

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Bodybuilder can go from ripped to flabby in a few hours

Design student Victoria Caswell created this “Boy Scout Survival Sewing Kit” that puts all the sewing essentials into a rugged, macho knife-roll-style package. Student Work – Victoria Caswell (via Super Punch)

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"Survival" sewing kit

[Video Link] Like a 20-below Burning Man on ice. Fun! It’s taking place until February 5 atop Medicine Lake, Plymouth, Minnesota. Learn all about it here.

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3-Minute Tour of the 2012 Art Shanty Projects

Why does the University of North Carolina-Charlotte need a SWAT team? “Virginia Tech and Columbine,” explains Lieutenant Josh Huffman of Campus Police. Radley Balko, a journalist who covers the militarization of police, says: Yes. Virginia Tech and Columbine.

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UNC-Charlotte gets its own SWAT team

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How to train children to not vomit when they become astronauts

The cover of the latest Village Voice, art directed by John Dixon. I like the way the top line information is in the reflection along the top of the bin. How fun would it be to go through airport security and put this issue in a security bin, with nothing else? (Via coverjunkie, a great

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Village Voice cover

Just in time for the 75th anniversary, some photos of the “first” science fiction convention, in Leeds (shown here, Walter Gillings, Arthur C. Clarke, Ted Carnell, in front of Theosophical Hall). Although the site pooh-poohs the idea that the first Philcon was the first-ever con, I’m somewhat loyal to the notion, for the completely ahistorical

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Photos from the first science fiction convention, 1937

Government Attic’s latest FOIA haul is a compilation of FBI documents concerning the security of telephone services, 1952-1995. The collection is posted as a single 66MB monster PDF. Get cracking! On reading the PDF, I mean.

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FOIA haul covers a half-century of government telephone security phear

Aerodyne is Jeffrey Stephenson’s latest hand-made Art Deco PC. In keeping with the (modern) times, it’s a compact Mini-ITX affair in mahogany and aluminum, with an Intel i3 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB solid state drive. Stephenson plans to make no more than a handful of them, to order.

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Aerodyne, a compact hand-made Art Deco computer

The STRIP Act, proposed in the US House of Reps, would require TSA employees to stop dressing like police officers, because they aren’t cops, and when they give orders to travellers, travellers assume that these are the orders of real law enforcement officers, rather than minor bureaucrats: The bill, which has drawn 29 co-sponsors in

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Proposed law prohibits TSA employees from dressing like cops

Jessica sez, “The 20th annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden features dozens of NYC landmarks carefully recreated using millions of plant parts, like twigs, bark, berries, leaves, and much more. Some highlights are the Brooklyn Bridge (which trains actually run on!), the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, and Radio City

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NYC landmarks recreated with twigs and plant-matter

The Bughouse Future Fossils series are a set of highly detailed, weathered concrete castings of near-contemporary technology, from DJ turntables to film cameras to Atari joysticks. They’re a nice memento mori — a weighty-but-whimsical reminder of our own technosphere’s doomed frailty. bughouse :: Future Fossils (via DVICE)

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Future Fossils: contemporary technological artifacts cast in concrete

Submitted by studentrevolt, this video depicts computer delivery al fresco in Beijing. Video Link [youtube.com]

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Computer delivery man just throwing boxes around

The Guardian catches up with Alan Moore, writer of V for Vendetta and noted grumpy, uncompromising debullshitificator, and asks how he feels about the Guy Fawkes mask from his comic becoming a symbol of Anonymous and Occupy protests. “I suppose when I was writing V for Vendetta I would in my secret heart of hearts

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Alan Moore talks V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks

Instructables user Urant decided to create a pocket-sized espresso machine that could be built using simple tools and parts from a local home-improvement store. He came up with a tiny, soldered contraption with its own tinsy winsy alcohol stove that uses a filed-down syringe to deliver a very slow drip of fuel for a boil

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HOWTO make a home-made pocket-sized espresso machine with tiny alcohol stove