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Video: High-fiving people hailing cabs This fellow (mostly) delights New Yorkers by high-fiving them as they hail taxis. Read the rest... Ridiculously massive TiVo Available early next year, the TiVo Mega has 2TB of hot swappable RAID storage, 6 tuners, includes a lifetime TiVo subscription, and costs $5,000. Load it with years of shows you'll never watch! Read the rest... Senate rulebook full of derp Described by USA Today as "something like an employee manual," the U.S. Senate Handbook is just full of craziness. The architect of the Capitol can provide a compact refrigerator for a senator's office and a piano for events. Read the rest... Band class covers "Killing In The Name" High school (?) band rages against the machine. (via Devour) Read the rest... Woman dies in crocodile pit leap A 65-year-old woman died yesterday after jumping into a lake at a Bangkok zoo containing hundreds of adult crocodiles, reports the BBC: "Thai tourist attractions are said to often have lax safety rules." According to reports, she took off her shoes before jumping into the middle of a pond said to be up to 3m deep that contained hundreds of adult crocodiles. Read the rest... The cardboard sculptures of Bartek Elsner Fanciful and funky sculptural works in cardboard by Bartek Elsner, a designer and art director based in Berlin. The street art is particularly bold! Read the rest... Noct, a scary, stylish monochrome video game Explore and shoot in the infra-red near-darkness of apocalyptic ruins filled with ancient monsters; the surprisingly terrifying GIF above says everything about this 2D, top-down action RPG. There's no demo, but it's very nearly reached its Kickstarter goal--I'll be right on top of it when it comes out next summer. Read the rest... Podcasting patent holder awarded $1.3m in legal win over CBS Personal Audio LLC owns patents related to podcasting—"episodic content transmitted over the internet"—and a jury in Marshall, Texas has let CBS know it. Read the rest... Fashion week in motion Kelly Sparks (fashion director at Joyus, wife of me) points us to a fantastic series of Vines showcasing the Vogue editors' favorite looks from New York Fashion Week, including this incredible clip of a technicolor dress from the Thom Browne Spring 2015 collection. Read the rest... Timelapse assembly of giant, crowdsourced, 3D printed Ben Franklin Todd from We the Builders writes, "100 people worldwide 3D printed pieces for this three foot tall sculpture of the Houdon bust of Benjamin Franklin.; all 200 pieces were mailed to Baltimore where they were assembled at the Baltimore Node Hackerspace." I wrote about We the Builders in August -- great to see them finish up old Ben Franklinstein! He'll be on display at World Maker Faire in NYC this weekend. Ben Franklinstein is done! Give yourselves a hand. (Thanks, Todd!) Read the rest... Brain tumor removed from tiny goldfish George is recovering after the "high-risk" $200 operation, and may now live another 20 years. Surgeon Dr. Tristan Rich described the procedure as "fiddly." Read the rest... Town begs church and strip club to stop fighting Coshocton, Ohio, has about 11,000 residents, a church, and a strip club. Dueling protests are apparently a weekly event, and local law enforcement has had enough of policing them: "The protests are becoming more personal and more problematic, so we felt the need to plead with both sides to at least stop for a while." Read the rest... What it's like at a modern longsword tournament Longsword fencing is a popular new event, a rigorous and fast-moving blend of reconstructed medieval martial arts and modern sporting standards. Read the rest... Panasonic zags in camera land, with large-sensor Android smartphone and 4K point-and-shoot Panasonic's CM1 weds a 1-inch camera sensor (as found in high-end point-and-shoots like the Sony RX100 and Canon's just-announced G7X) with a smartphone running Android 4.4. Read the rest... Newsweek: American and European cover art compared On the left, the U.S. edition of the August 29 edition of Newsweek, featuring a cover story about the Ebola crisis in Africa. Read the rest... Snooping in Mom and Dad's Room A cautionary Brain Rot strip about digging for Christmas presents and seeing things that cannot be unseen. By Ed Piskor Read the rest... Temporary tattoos by accomplished tattoo artists Carl sends us, "beautiful, authentic-looking temporary tattoos designed by famous tattooers, including Dan Smith, Dean Sacred, BJ Betts, Dusty Neal, Myra Oh, and many more." Temporary Tattoos | Tattoo You (Thanks, Carl!) Read the rest... How I learned to think like a mushroom We need fungal solutions to pollution, pandemics, and starvation, says Tradd Cotter, a microbiologist and professional mycologist Read the rest... Exclusive excerpts from Charles Burns' Sugar Skull The long, strange trip that began in Charles Burns' X'ed Out and continued in The Hive reaches its mind-bending, heartbreaking end, but not before Doug is forced to deal with the lie he's been telling himself since the beginning. Mark Frauenfelder reviews. Read the rest... Rightscorp cuts-and-runs as soon as it is challenged in court Rightscorp -- a firm that asks ISPs to disconnect you from the Internet unless you pay it money for alleged, unproven copyright infringements -- was finally challenged in court by an ISP, Texas's Grande Communications; as soon as it looked like it would have the legal basis for its business-model examined by a judge, the company cut and ran, withdrawing its threats. Read the rest... 3D printed book of bas relief from Art Institute of Chicago Tom Burtonwood sez, "I have just published Folium, a 3D printed book of bas relief from the Art Institute of Chicago; it's posted to thingiverse for download: 12 pages, 9 scans featuring works of art spanning over 2000 years, from the Ancient Egyptians to Louis Sullivan department store decorations." Burtonwood's last 3D printed book, a collection of textures and reliefs, was also a free download. Read the rest... How to lace up your Vans My 7 year old and I just had fantastic debate about the proper way to lace Vans. Read the rest... Downvoting considered harmful A study [PDF] published in a journal of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence found that sites that have a "downvote" button to punish bad comments lock the downvoted users into spirals of ever-more-prolific, ever-lower-quality posting due to a perception of having been martyred by the downvoters. Read the rest... Beer labels match brewed contents to Pantone color Spanish creative agency Txaber created a series of beer packaging labels in which each brew type is presented with a corresponding Pantone color. Read the rest... Secret Law is Not Law The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn is on fire: "Let's be clear: Under international human rights law, secret "law" doesn't even qualify as 'law' at all." The US Government and agencies like the DEA, NSA, TSA and FBI conduct mass-scale domestic surveillance on the basis of laws whose interpretations are held to be state secrets and matters of national security. Read the rest... The excellent pencil sculptures of Dalton Ghetti We've featured Dalton Ghetti's magnificent pencil sculptures in years past, but they're so gorgeous, and new to many. There's an online store, too. [via] Read the rest... Giant net-neutrality videoboard at FCC's front doors wants YOUR videos Evan from Fight for the Future writes, "Fight for the Future and Namecheap just parked a truck directly across the street from the FCC with a huge video billboard mounted on top facing the agency's main entrance; we're playing net neutrality videos all day today and tomorrow." I know you've all already submitted your net neutrality comments to the FCC (you have, right? Read the rest... Photos of a beloved bull terrier posed in funny, imaginative scenes The Instagram photos of Rafael Mantesso, who stages his doggie--a Bull Terrier--in these funny and adorable compositions. [via ufunk] Read the rest... Patrick Rothfuss narrates "The Slow Regard of Silent Things" The Slow Regard of Silent Things being his next novel, a fantasy title due out at the end of October. He's narrated the audio, which'll be released as DRM-free audio at the same time as the book! Slow Regard of Silent Things – The Narrationing. Read the rest... SF predicting the present: novel anticipated Detroit water crisis Paul Di Filippo describes Ben Parzybok's new novel, Sherwood Nation: "The book is obviously as headline-friendly as the Ferguson riots, inequality debates, Occupy protests and climate change reports; but there's also a Joseph Conrad-Grahame Greene-Shakespeare style concern with the nature of power, the roles that are thrust upon us, and the limits of friendship and love." David writes, "Ben Parzybok joined me on the Between The Covers podcast to talk about the near-future drought-stricken nation within a city he created with Sherwood Nation, about how well or poorly democracies hold-up in times of crisis, and about how it feels to have a fantastical premise become a true reality in the course of writing a book." In drought-stricken Portland, Oregon, a Robin Hood-esque water thief is caught on camera redistributing an illegal truckload of water to those in need. Read the rest... 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