Posts Tagged ‘surge-protector’

The Casual Pepper-Spraying Cup has found his niche: he’s a droog, and he’s up for a bit of the old ultra-aerosol. Droogs (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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Ho, ho, ho, well if it isn’t fat stinking billygoat Billyboy?

Writing for MAKE:, Gareth Branwyn reviews the Fiskars ShopBoss, a sucessor, of sorts, to the multi-scissors the company shipped last year. Fiskars is the Finnish giant of bladed tools, renowned for generations for its knives and other blades. Gareth really likes the ShopBoss though he has a few reservations: The heart of the ShopBoss is

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Fiskars ShopBoss: multiscissors to the limit

Chef David Lowery created this “Cherpumple” — a “dessert version of the turducken,” composed of “CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie,” baked into three separate cakes, then assembled into an enormous layer cake. Working in the Grand Geneva Resort pastry kitchen, I had some time to make a Cherpumple and serve it at Sunday Brunch. My

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21 lb layer cake containing three pies

UC Davis music professor Bob Ostertag has written a savagely brilliant editorial in the Huffington Post, denouncing the use of military-style force by campus police, in particular the now-infamous point-blank chemical weapons attack on peaceful students on the UC Davis campus. Ostertag dissects the “health and safety” arguments put forward by the administration, the excuse

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Blazing de-bullshitification of the arguments for militarized campus police forces

The Philip K. Dick fanatics at Total Dick-Head provide their take on the meme.

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PKD vs. UC Davis teargassing cop

Source. Yiff in hell, Gingrich.

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Callista Gingrich, wife of Newt: furry-lover

Anil Dash examines Facebook’s latest navigational practices, which go beyond making a walled garden of its own content and begin to attack the open Web, including websites that incorporate Facebook’s technology. Dash concludes that Facebook now meets the formal definition of a “badware” site — the sites that generate those “Warning! This site may harm

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Anil Dash: Facebook attacks the open Web, becomes a badware site

New Zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis, and are trying to find a way to train bees to help them diagnose TB: “When we tested them with the tuberculosis odours we found the bees can still smell it down to parts per

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Honeybees can smell TB

One of the greats of science fiction and fantasy literature, Anne McCaffrey, is reported to have died. She will be missed. Our condolences to Todd McCaffrey and the rest of her family.

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RIP, Anne McCaffrey

It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the flood of outernational and psych reissues released these days, so here is one that’s not to be missed. Beginning in the 1960s, Erkin Koray has been a pioneer of Turkish rock, melding the music of his native Istanbul with Western psych, prog, swirly folky pop and funk to

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Turkish psych music from Erkin Koray

Saul Griffith, maker hero and MacArthur “Genius,” has released video evidence of his latest creations, inflatable robots. So far, Saul and his colleagues at Otherlab, Meka Robotics, and Stanford University have built a 15-foot-long walking robot, called the Ant-Roach (which I’ve seen Saul’s toddler son proudly riding proudly atop) and a robot arm/hand. The Ant-Roach

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Inflatable robots

The American Library Association has weighed in on Penguin’s dispute with Amazon’s Kindle library lending program, calling on the publisher to restore access to its books to library patrons. Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin’s response has been to order Amazon to lock

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Penguin fights Amazon by cutting off libraries’ access to the books they’ve paid for

On the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, Errol Morris posted a video interview with Josia Thompson, author of Six Seconds In Dallas. The discussion centers on The Umbrella Man, the star of quite a few conspiracy theories that were spawned on that tragic day at Dealey Plaza. “The Umbrella Man” (Thanks Scott Matthews and Hugh

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Errol Morris and JFK’s assassination

The Tor project, whose network tool helps people avoid online censorship, works by bouncing traffic around several different computers before it reaches its destination. The more computers there are in the Tor network, the better it works. Now, Tor’s developers want its supporters to set up Tor “bridges” on Amazon’s cloud computing platform, EC2. EC2

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Tor project asks supporters to set up virtual Tor bridges in Amazon’s cloud

UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi, who now knows that issuing wheedling, lawyer-approved statements doesn’t help, has figured out what does. This morning, she headed out to the protest and talked with students on the quad: “I want to advocate for you”

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University Chancellor meets students