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Alan sez, “Two items here on the same theme: Ruben Bolling, comic author of Tom The Dancing Bug, contributor to JoCo Funnies, etc. has a raffle posted on his blog. If you donate to the American National Red Cross through a page he has set up, you will be entered into a drawing for a        

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Two US Navy dolphins discovered an antique torpedo off the coast of San Diego, CA. The Howell torpedo is one of 50 produced, remarkable as it is the first locomotive torpedo developed and was fly-wheel powered. Surprisingly this marks the 24th recovered! Check out HNGN for the story: An early naval torpedo was discovered deep        

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Navy dolphins find antique torpedo

Noah Swartz writes, “Aaron Swartz was the ‘answer’ to the final ‘question’ in the ‘Techie Dropouts’ category on last night’s episode of Jeopardy, preceded by other famous techie drop outs like Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.”        

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What happens inside a caterpillar’s cocoon? Scientists got to watch the whole process with the help of X-ray 3D scanning technology. In the video above, you can watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. Over the course of 16 days its breathing tubes (shown in blue) and its digestive system (shown in red) change shape        

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Watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly, in 3D

Tami Katzoff interviews Ben Burtt for MTV News: While researching the sounds from the classic series, Burtt discovered that they were created with a Hammond chord organ. “Going back and getting some organ recordings and playing with it, I was able to fashion some things very similar to the transporter, perhaps exactly the same way,        

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Back to the 60s with Star Trek sequel’s sound designer

This bloody cleaver purse — which hides the handbag cavity in the cleaver bag — is $33 at Vampire Freaks. No idea if it’s remotely practical, but it does look like a giant, bloody cleaver. Bloody Cleaver Clutch Purse (Thanks, Neha!)        

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Purse that looks like a bloody cleaver

Josh Stearns of Free Press sends word that the journalism organization has just launched a citizen sign-on letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder and the US Department of Justice about the AP phone records scandal. “We’ll deliver these to both the DOJ and Congress and call for an investigation,” says Stearns. “We also have        

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Free Press launches citizen sign-on letter to US DOJ, Holder on AP phone records scandal

Well, this is fabulous news: Rapture of the Nerds, the novel Charlie Stross and I published last year, is a finalist for the 2013 Campbell Award for best novel. It’s in some truly outstanding company, too — check out that shortlist!        

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Rapture of the Nerds is a Campbell Award finalist

It’s always fun to cruise through Fantagraphics’s store in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. You never know what you might stumble across amid the new comics releases, independent zines and assorted odd runs and old stock there. I happened upon a copy of Justin Green’s Sign Game (ST Publications and Last Gasp Of San Francisco).        

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Sign Game: tricks of the trade from a professional sign painter

Video above: “From Guatemalan Soil, Unearthing Evidence of Genocide,” a report I produced with Miles O’Brien for PBS NewsHour on the science behind the historic genocide trial that is in its concluding phase today, here in Guatemala City. Complete transcript of the video report is here. Forensic science, data analysis, satellite images, and a massive        

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Guatemala: The science behind historic genocide trial of General Ríos Montt (video report)

“A few years ago I got busted for dealing acid and marijuana. The judge gave me three years in the Idaho State Penitentiary.” From Real Stuff #1 (Fantagraphics, December 1990).        

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Real Stuff: Dennis the Sullen Menace

Among the most recent video posts you will find on our all-new video archive page: • 2 months on an Antarctic icebreaker • Hannah Peel covers OMD’s “Electricity” on an antique music box • DroneShield: crowdfunded, networked drone detectors • Homemade laser pops 100 balloons • Homemade Thor’s hammer with an 80,000 volt Tesla coil        

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I wrote yesterday about Dan Kaminsky’s excellent thoughts on BitCoin, and wished aloud for comparable work from Ben Laurie. It turns out such work exists: here’s Ben’s critique of BitCoin, and here’s his proposal for an alternative. Both are short, clear, excellent reads.        

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Ben Laurie on BitCoin

Alan sez, “The fine folk doing open-access science at PLOS are once again crowd-sourcing their T-shirt design. They want something that ‘appeal[s] to the computational biology community and encapsulate[s] a recent advance or innovation in the field.’ You have until May 14 to submit ideas for a shirt that will debut at their July meeting        

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PLOS Computational Biology wants your t-shirt designs

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~5/Me2xalhhmJk/gweek_093.mp3 In this episode of Gweek, I talked to the terrific crime writer Duane Swierczynski. Duane has a new book out today, called Point & Shoot. It’s the third and final novel in his Charlie Hardie series (see my review here). Next week, Dark Horse is releasing X #1, written by Duane

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Gweek 093: Crime writer Duane Swierczynski

“Slash” has emerged as a new conjunction, which is a rarity in slang. I love the fact that people spell out “slash” and then hyphenate it, and find it hard to believe that they’re not doing this for the sheer delightful absurdity of it all: …But for at least a good number of students, the        

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Slash: a new conjunction

Have at it. My top score is 11 because I can’t type.        

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Drop: Minecraft creator’s latest game is a typing tutor (or seems like one)

Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and CICLOPS director, writes: One of the most gorgeous sights we have been privileged to see at Saturn, as the arrival of spring to the northern hemisphere has peeled away the darkness of winter, has been the enormous swirling vortex capping its north pole and ringed by Saturn’s famed        

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The Red Rose of Saturn

PHOTO: James Rodríguez/mimundo.org. “Protest demanding continuation of Genocide trial aganst Rios Montt.” A brief Saturday update from Guatemala, where the genocide trial of former US-backed military dictator Rios Montt and his head of military intelligence Rodriguez Sanchez has been on hold after a series of legal actions involving various Guatemalan courts. In case you’re just        

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Guatemala: Genocide trial may soon restart; Obama to meet with Central American leaders

Tony from StarShipSofa sez, “StarShipSofa is hosting a live writers workshop all in video with SF writers Mike Resnick and Paul Di Filippo. StarShipSofa built its reputation by featuring science fiction from the best authors of our time, from living legends whose works have inspired generations to the rising stars of the genre. StarShipSofa’s focus        

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Live sf writing workshop with Resnick and Di Filippo

Yoonseo Kang sez, “Open Tech Forever is a new open source hardware cooperative: a worker-owned R&D and education company that teaches others how to make hardware and start their own businesses. The Open Tech Forever team has recently launched their Indie-gogo crowdfunding campaign to fund the construction and documentation of an open source R&D factory        

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Open Tech Forever: open source hardware co-op

If you haven’t heard about the insane letter sent around to a sorority by its concerned and thoroughly awful social chairwoman, you’re probably doing something right. Nevertheless, there is a gem of good in every wickedness, as Funny or Die demonstrates with this dramatic reading of the letter in question [NSFW]        

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Wonderful reading of awful sorority letter sent by horrible sorority sister

Damen Corrado from Imperium Pictures let me know about this nice video tribute to MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman. He says “it features a lot of his work from the current exhibition at the Society of Illustrators in NYC, and interviews with Al Jaffee and Bob Grossman, with a jazz soundtrack by Nik Turner of Hawkwind.”        

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The Art of Harvey Kurtzman – a short film

Leo Kent of Humans Invent writes about a new free service in Sweden that uses Instagram to find out how to make Asian food. Ask CT Food is a new service people can use through Instagram to find out the ingredients and methods of cooking Asian food. If you’re at a restaurant and want to        

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Use Instagram to reverse engineer food

Lavie Tidhar writes, “My new novel, MARTIAN SANDS (billed as Total Recall meets Schindler’s List!) is now available – it’s a remix of the Mars of Philip K. Dick and Edgar Rice Burroughs, a book about the Holocaust, possible time travel, A.I. and just a little bit of the Wizard of Oz.”        

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Lavie Tidhar remixes Dick, Burroughs, the Holocaust and Oz