Posts Tagged ‘jill’

“How do you upchuck if there is no up or down? ISS commander Chris Hadfield explains what astronauts do if they have to vomit.” More information on this very important skill for space travelers here.        

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How to barf in space

Whether you’re in London, Ontario; London, England; or London, Kentucky, a penny is now all but worthless. Canada is the first to stop minting new ones; with the evidence suggesting that resulting inflationary pressure is insignificant, will the US and UK follow? [Freakonomics]

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Canada kills the penny coin

Should the same crime deserve greater punishment if motivated by racial hatred or bigotry? At The New York Times, former editor Bill Keller says no, with the murder of Treyvon Martin as his entry point to the issue. He thereby instantaneously won the argument for his opponents, explains Choire Sicha. Here there is a convergence

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Bill Keller on Hate Crimes

“[It's] the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents. Basins and buckets of boys’ urine are collected from primary school toilets. It is the key ingredient in “virgin boy eggs”, a

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Virgin boy piss eggs a treat in China

“He explained to me, quite sincerely, he had been hanging curtains naked in he kitchen when he fell backwards on to the kitchen table and on to a potato,” said Sheffield, England A&E nurse Trudi Watson. “But it’s not for me to question his story.” [Metro]

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Potato removed from clergyman’s anus

Dr. Joline Zepcevski, a sci/tech history researcher, quoted by Jeremy Hsu on why much science fiction is as interesting for the technologies abandoned as those newly invented: “Technology is not pre-determined as ‘better’—it becomes better when a society deems it to be better or more advanced. With respect to “The Hunger Games,” there is no

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On sci-fi and technology

Ice Cube shares his appreciation for Charles and Ray Eames. “Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames” (via Gabe Adiv’s Pinterest)

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Ice Cube

Drink your cannabis, say some raw-pot advocates. It won’t get you high, but it’s good for you. I’m skeptical, but I know one thing: unless you’re growing your own, it is likely not good for your wallet.

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Marijuana is the new Wheatgrass

Epic action-RPG Diablo III will not be released in February. Rumors persist that the game is finished, but Blizzard will not launch it unless the game’s real-money auction house, where players may buy their way up the loot latter, can go live on day 1. The problem: it’s been ruled illegal gambling in South Korea,

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Diablo III delayed

The government of Belarus has passed a law that makes it a misdemeanor for citizens to browse websites hosted outside of the country. The law goes into effect in the former Soviet republic on January 6.

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Belarus bans browsing foreign websites

Hundreds of US prison inmates, including 43 who were serving life sentences, registered with the IRS as income tax preparers. “The IRS officials told auditors it would suspend tax preparer identification numbers already issued to prisoners and deny any future applications from inmates.” USA Today via ABC News.

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Prison inmates register with IRS as tax preparers, audit finds

My son and I were looking at volcano videos on YouTube and got a chuckle out of this European Railways commercial.

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European railway commercial: Ash cloud animation

Apple’s design chief, Jonathan Ive, is named a Knight Commander in Britain’s new year’s honours list. [BBC]

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Sir Jonathan Ive

In 1997, Apple gifted the Stanford University Libraries its historical collections of paperwork, hardware, software, artifacts, and other materials documenting the organization since Woz and Jobs founded it in 1976. The Associated Press toured the collection. No, it’s not available for public viewing.

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Inside the Apple archives at Stanford Libraries

Friday Freak-Out: The 13th Floor Elevators performing “You’re Gonna Miss Me” on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand in 1966. The track is available on the essential album “The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators.”  You’re Gonna Miss Me – a documentary about the musician Roky … Roky Erickson’s Devotional Number One – Boing Boing Book

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Friday Freak-Out: The 13th Floor Elevators perform "You’re Gonna Miss Me"

Are electronics dehumanizing music and art? Here’s what pioneering composer Karlheinz Stockhausen had to say on the matter back in 1972. Midway through, he riffs on the proto-human scene in 2001. For a nice point-of-entry into Stockhausen’s work, I suggest Kontakte (1959-1960), his first composition that melded traditional instrumentation with electronics, including a tape recording

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Stockhausen on humanity in electronic art

Flexing, or bone breaking, is a mix of street dancing and contortionist movements mostly specific to Brooklyn. This video in particular is mesmerizing, almost ritualistic with this group of shirtless guys in gas masks all dancing together in the subway. Other riders seem to either not notice them or look on in a trance. [Video

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"Zilla March": flexing in the New York subways

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Video: History of Lyrics that Aren’t Lyrics

This fellow is undergoing a test of a mid-century modern net seat developed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. “Seat Vibration Set” (Thanks, frycook!)

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1960s video: human testing of aircraft seat

After weeks of promises, a game controller company failed to deliver a long-placed order in time for Christmas. The customer complained, carbon- copying his email to industry bloggers and luminaries. The company’s representative not only threw abuse back at the customer, calling him a “bitch”, but boasted abut his relationships with the CCd editors of

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PR man to find out if what they say about "any publicity" is true

Clones of popular games are nothing new to the video game business. But the modern ease of it, and ready access to online marketplaces, creates a ready supply of shameless knockoffs. The law, however, doesn’t always side with outrage. [Guardian]

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Is plagiarism killing game development?

GoDaddy may have dropped its support for SOPA, but Jason Kottke points out that there are many other reasons to give it a wide berth. At Macworld, Glenn Fleishman (previously) posts a fat guide to the technical ins and outs of transferring domains, with special attention given to getting them out of one particular registrar.

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How to transfer your domain name

Please enjoy Abraham Orellana (aka AraabMuzik) hammering on his Akai MPC drum machine/sampler/sequencer at the 1500M2 nightclub in Warsaw, Poland.

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AraabMuzik hammering on his drum machine

At TechCrunch, Alexia Tsotsis counts more than 40 tech companies publicly opposed to SOPA.

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Tip of the iceberg

Czech dissident, playwright and president Václav Havel is dead at 75. [BBC]

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Václav Havel dies