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Terrible real estate agent photographs Terrible Real Estate Agent Photographs is a Tumblr devoted to "inexplicably bad property photographs." Read the rest... Norman McLaren's animation/sound painted right on film A short documentary about Norman McLaren (1914-1987), a pioneering filmmaker who painted directly on the film print to create animations and drew on the film's optical sound strip to produce avant-garde music. Read the rest... Computer-generated camouflage for the physical world MIT researchers have demonstrated an algorithm that analyzes photos of a real world scene and then generates an incredibly-effective camouflage pattern to wrap objects later placed in that location. Read the rest... Incredible footage of a supercell in Wyoming (Video) [Video Link] Supercells are thunderstorms with a rotating updraft — a spinning, twirling column of rising air that can turn into a tornado. Read the rest... More than 100 cars sunk in Houston bayous A non-profit search and rescue firm claims sonar data shows more than 127 automobiles at the bottom of the bayous in Houston, Texas, and that police told them to shut their traps about them, even if they may have bodies inside, because it's too costly to deal with them. Read the rest... NASA releases free eBook on communicating with aliens I think I know how you're spending the coming long weekend. Read the rest... Wikileaks says NSA recording all calls in Afghanistan The National Security Agency records the entire content of every phone call in Afghanistan, claims WikiLeaks. The organization named the country referred to in previous news reports as "Country X". Read the rest... Are we prepared for even a "good" hurricane year? The outlook for the Atlantic hurricane season is promising — there's a 50% probability of below normal activity. It's worth noting that still means 1-2 major storms. Read the rest... Diagnosis: Suffering PTSD was unrecognized by the medical community 40 years ago. Now, writes psychiatrist and aid worker Lynn Jones, it may be over-recognized. Read the rest... Chinese museum closed for displaying counterfeits Chinese police closed down Liaoning's private Lucheng Museum after discovering that more than 2,000 of the historical artifacts on display, one-third of the collection, were fakes, reports The Guardian. Read the rest... The Scary Ham: disposing of an old man's prized meat Science fiction writer Ellen Klages is a wonderful storyteller; as Toastmaster for the Nebula Awards, she held an audience spellbound with the delightful, terrifying story of her late father's prized Scary Ham. Read the rest... Cool infographic: Visualizing the paths of migrating humans "The global flow of people" is a beautifully designed exploration of new data on migration flows between and within world regions for five-year periods between 1990 and 2010. Read the rest... Scientist discovers new species ... in his own nose. Read the rest... Animation: David Bowie talks Ziggy Stardust Animation of David Bowie talking about Ziggy Stardust rock stardom, from PBS's Blank on Blank. Read the rest... Morgan Freeman on physics on helium (video) [Video Link] Only one flaw: not long enough. Read the rest... Funny videos for new Toca Town app Here are a couple of videos [one | two] that poke fun at parents who get irritated with activities that make kids happy, like making rude noises with a ketchup bottle and having a pillow fight. Read the rest... Crowdfunders reboot vintage NASA satellite A NASA spacecraft, launched in 1978 and retired in 1997, has a new life after being found drifting but operational in 2008 Read the rest... Who should you believe on climate change? 99% of the world's scientists or a game show host? Read the rest... Staggering international album release dates is crazy Mariah superfan Milo Yiannopoulos had to choose between buying a plane ticket to get her latest album the day it came out, or torrent it — "Record companies are forever whining about piracy, at the same time driving to copyright infringement the very people they should be enlisting as ambassadors." Read the rest... Did GCHQ reveal secrets about computer insecurity when it exorcised the Snowden leaks from the Guardian's laptops? When Prime Minister David Cameron ordered two GCHQ spooks to go the the Guardian's offices and ritually exorcise two laptops that had held copies of the Snowden leaks, we assumed it was just spook-lunacy; but Privacy International thinks that if you look at which components the spies targeted for destruction, there are hints about ways that spies can control computer hardware. Read the rest... Coder needed to make 8-bit Zardoz game a reality A while back, we posted about Nick Criscuolo's fantastic intro to a non-existent 8-bit game version of classic Connery SF outing Zardoz. Read the rest... Zen and the art of fantasy writing Fantasy Authors Aidan Harte and Brian Staveley discuss what it means to build a world all your own. Read the rest... Good advice from bad people Zac Bissonnette says even horrible people like Donald Rumsfeld, Newt Gingrich, and Bernie Madoff are occasionally worth listening to. Read the rest... Maker Mayhem: Car Seat Dog Leash Matt Maranian's latest installment of Maker Mayhem: Low Moments in How-to History examines the Car Seat Dog Leash project as a lesson in the laws of physics Read the rest... Hudson's Bay blankets, a centuries-old tradition The Hudson's Bay 6 Point Blanket is a centuries-old Canadian classic of comfort and wool and stylish stripes, and, as I discovered, it's kind of a pain in the ass to source from outside of Canada. Read the rest... The oldest living things in the world "The Oldest Living Things in the World is an amazing hybrid," says Carla Sinclair, "part traditional coffee table book displaying gorgeous photographs, and part memoir of Rachel Sussman's journey trekking around the world to photograph the oldest living things that she could find." Read the rest... Randomly weird stock photo of the day: Hamburger Hell-hole Two remarkable stock photos by Evgeny Atamanenko for Shutterstock. Above, "diet concept. frightened girl in the stress and flying around the burgers on a red background." And below, "diet concept. Read the rest... Uber launches in Saudi Arabia, where women can't drive Uber, the San Francisco-based smartphone app that links people with cars for hire, today launched in the Saudi capital Riyadh after three months of beta testing. Read the rest... Notable objects in 9/11 museum, and why one reporter was kicked out The most tasteless thing inside the just-opened September 11 museum in New York City is probably this commemorative cheese plate. Read the rest... Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts Ellen Kushner writes, "The editors of Interfictions Online are happy to announce the birth of the journal's latest issue, the third in the past twelve months of the trailblazing journal of the weird, the interstitial, and the uncategorizable. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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