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Woman makes dolls to replace people in her village The already-tiny village of Nagoro in eastern Iya on Shikoku, Japan is shrinking. Only a few dozen people still live there. Read the rest... TOM THE DANCING BUG: Bob Figures Out Invincibility Tom the Dancing Bug, IN WHICH Bob figures out invincibility. Read the rest... Alice Coltrane's music from the ashram Alice Coltrane -- the jazz pianist, organist and composer who was the second wife of John Coltrane -- was a devotee of Indian guru Sathya Sai Baba. Read the rest... Has the whale exploded yet? Maybe. Keep checking back. Read the rest... Satellite launch debris found in Brazillian Amazon A fisher on northern Brazil's remote Uriandeua river stumbled on a huge chunk of detritus dropped from a UK Space Agency satellite launch. Read the rest... Barack Obama will take a backseat to no one when it comes to (promising) Network Neutrality Back before Barack Obama appointed a Net Neutrality-destroying cable lobbyist to run the FCC, he was clear: "I will take a backseat to no one when it comes to Network Neutrality." President Obama and Big Telcoms: delivering high-speed fiber to the campaign promise every election cycle! Read the rest... Possible food poisoning at Food Safety Summit More than 100 people reportedly fell ill with food poisoning while attending a high-profile Food Safety Summit in Baltimore, Maryland. The 1,300 attendees included representatives from the Food and Drug Administation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tyson, McDonald's, and many more agencies and food companies. Read the rest... Ten conspiracies told as intriguing whodunit stories Over at Wink, Carla Sinclair reviews Brad Meltzer's History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time, an illustrated book loaded with facsimiles of documents related to famous unsolved mysteries and cover-ups. Read the rest... TAILS: Snowden's favorite anonymous, secure OS goes 1.0 TAILS -- The Amnesiac Incognito Live System -- is a highly secure operating system intended to be booted from an external USB stick without leaving behind any trace of your activity on either your computer or the drive. Read the rest... Smooth sales-patter from Union Square's Gentleman Peeler Here's a 2008 video of NYC's legendary Union Square potato-peeler salesman, Manchester-born Joe Ades, the Gentleman Peeler, whose patter was as smooth as the carrot slices he produced with his sharp little gadgets. Read the rest... Where are the stolen girls of Nigeria? And why don't we care more? Three weeks ago in the remote northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, over 200 girls were kidnapped from their boarding school dormitories in the middle of the night. Read the rest... The Sculptor: Scott McCloud's masterpiece, finally in production If you care about comics and/or literature, you have probably read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, a book of media theory on par with McLuhan's Understanding Media. Read the rest... Humble Image Bundle: name your price for Walking Dead, Saga, Chew and more; benefit CBLDF too! The latest Humble Bundle teams up with DRM-free indie comics leader Image Comics, offering nine digital titles from Image on a name-your-price basis. Read the rest... Obesity driven by overconsumption of protein-mimicking carbs and fats In an editorial for Nature, Stephen J. Simpson (academic director of University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre) and David Raubenheimer (Leonard P. Read the rest... PWNMEAL: Cards Against Humanity's epic Pax East prank Every year, Cards Against Humanity gives away a limited edition "PAX Pack" to attendees at PAX East, making the giveaway as surprisingly awesome as they can. Read the rest... Edible cookbook embossed upon lasagne noodles Korefe presents "The Real Cookbook," a book whose leaves are large lasagne noodles, impressed with a recipe for lasagne. Read the rest... NSA spying means Brazil's $4.5B fighter jets won't be built by Boeing Brazil's buying $4.5B worth of fighter jets. And rather than buy them from American military-industrial complex go-to Boeing, they're buying them from Sweden's Saab. Read the rest... Genderswapped Boba Fett cosplayer A cosplayer at C2E2 stops and poses in her elegant, gender-swapped Boba Fett getup. She's the kind of bounty hunter our galaxy needs! Read the rest... Gweek podcast 144: Black Terror vs. Killer Robot Your browser doesn't support the HTML audio tag. You can still download the show, though! var audioTag = document.createElement('audio'); /* Do we not support MP3 audio? Read the rest... New business card Picked them up from the printers yesterday. Read the rest... Drowning in Problems: Notch's surprisingly moving text game Notch, the celebrated creator of Minecraft, has a new, existential webgame: Drowning in Problems. It's a pretty damned great example of telling stories with interactivity, and how the medium can evoke emotion without resorting to the clumsy trickery of narrative. Read the rest... Mark's Bullseye picks: Zombie Dice and Hitman Go Jesse Thorn, host of the NPR show Bullseye, says: Whether you're looking to zombie-fy yourself, or get absorbed into the world of a contract killer, Boing Boing's Mark Frauenfelder's got just the game for you. Read the rest... Austin police chief is angry that people are angry about police misbehavior [Video Link] Ted Balaker, creator of the Don't Cops Have Better Things to Do? video reports, says: Cops across America really don't want you to jaywalk. Read the rest... "Reinvent Artificial Intelligence" video discussion with Kevin Kelly 4/30/14 [Video Link] My friend and Cool Tools partner Kevin Kelly is hosting a roundtable discussion tomorrow about artificial intelligence via Google Hangouts on Air. Read the rest... Scientifically kinda-accurate Earth cake, with molten core of raspberry jam Behold the splendid "Earth Cake" baked and decorated by Redditor Clatence. "The cake is a mixture of chocolate and red velvet cake mixes," Clatence explains. Read the rest... This Day in Blogging History: Pirate Party Iceland wins 3 seats; US census crapgadget; Russia's $0.03/song MP3 service One year ago today Icelandic Pirate Party lands three seats in Icelandic parliament: The three new Icelandic lawmakers include Jón Þór Ólafsson, a business administration student at the University of Iceland; Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson, a computer programmer; and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a well-known WikiLeaks volunteer and former member of parliament from 2009 to 2013. Read the rest... How do Facebook and Twitter personalize your 'smart' newsfeed? With scary science. Steven Levy has a feature in the new Wired Magazine about the personalization technology behind Facebook's "smart" newsfeeds. "We've grown accustomed to a world in which data flows by us, letting us dip into the steam whenever, wherever, and however we want," writes Levy, who breaks down the algorithms and formulas the company uses to build your "personal feed." Read: "Go With the Flow." [WIRED.com] Read the rest... Music for an imaginary science filmstrip OMGVinyl's description of the new LP from Symbol (Christopher Royal King) is so perfect: I was brought back to a dimly lit elementary classroom... Read the rest... Working women in US who survive breast cancer and chemo 30% more likely to lose their jobs within 4 years A new study shows that working women with breast cancer who receive chemotherapy and live for four or more years after treatment are 30% more likely to lose their jobs within those first four years of survival. Read the rest... Oswald's Grayfolded: plunderphonics Grateful Dead now on vinyl In 1994, "plunderphonics" pioneer John Oswald released "Grayfolded," a nearly two-hour composition made from more than 100 recordings of the Grateful Dead's live performances of their song "Dark Star" from between 1968 and 1993. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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