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What's killing starfish? "We have no clue what's causing this," says one marine biologist. Read the rest... Watch 'The IT Crowd' explain perfectly how we feel about World Cup fever This represents perfectly how I feel about sports. "I want to go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird's all I've got. Read the rest... Cory coming to SLC, PDX I'm about to hit the road again, starting in Salt Lake City, where I'll be a Guest of Honor at Westercon (Jul 3-6), and will follow it up with an appearance at the SLC library (Jul 7); then I'm doing a three-day library tour around PDX, with stops in Beaverton (Jul 8), Tigard (Jul 9) and Hillsboro (July 10) (here's a complete list of my scheduled upcoming public events). Read the rest... Ring emerges from the sewers in which it was lost Man loses class ring down the toilet. A year later, sewer workers return it. Bonus: Behind-the-scenes descriptions of sewer system maintenance. Read the rest... Moths of unusual size in Southeast Asia Moths with wingspans as big as six inches are swarming in Malaysia and Singapore. Read the rest... Autopsy reveals flaws in Oklahoma execution system Clayton Lockett died in April, following a botched execution that authorities blamed on a chance collapse of Lockett's vein. Autopsy results suggest that wasn't the case, pinning blame instead on the Department of Corrections. Read the rest... San Francisco National Cemetery spends $15MM to 'permanently' level 28k headstones Erosion will no longer impact the neat and tidy lines of grave markers at the San Francisco National Cemetery. They've designed subterranean planter boxes with sockets for the headstones, to eliminate the constant need to adjust them. Read the rest... The fireflies that hunt other fireflies Male fireflies of the species Photinus carolinis light up the night in search of mates. But someone is watching. And I don't mean humans or female P. Read the rest... An Honest Review of The Triumph Bonneville Marlon's spot on review of the Triumph Bonnie pretty much keeps me laughing the entire time. The Bonnie is a neat bike - but it's not as amazing as many gushing reviews online make out. I thought I'd take a little more of realistic look at what it's like to own and ride the Triumph Bonneville. Read the rest... Coolness is "subjective and dynamic", study finds "Little is known about what leads consumers to perceive brands as cool." [The Awl] Read the rest... Tip: check treadmill carefully before commencing run "I'm an ex-athlete myself." Previously. Read the rest... Podcast: News from the future for Wired UK Here's a reading (MP3) of a short story I wrote for the July, 2014 issue of Wired UK in the form of a news dispatch from the year 2024 -- specifically, a parliamentary sketch from a raucous Prime Minister's Question Time where a desperate issue of computer security rears its head: Quick: what do all of these have in common: your gran's cochlear implant, the Whatsapp stack, the Zipcar by your flat, the Co-Op's 3D printing kiosk, a Boots dispensary, your Virgin thermostat, a set of Tata artificial legs, and cheap heads-up goggles that come free with a Mister Men game? Read the rest... Extreme close-up of squid's underarm totally looks like Audrey II Seriously, you guys. Check out this electron microscope image that won an honorable mention in the 2008 Best Science Images contest. (Thanks, P.F. Anderson!) Read the rest... Using technology to make old songs sing again In 2008, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used digital imaging machine to play back the oldest known recordings of the human voice. Read the rest... Lotus brand director: I was fired for supporting gay athletes After Lotus F1 deleted and apologized for a tweet in support of gay athletes at the Sochi games, the team's former brand director says he was fired for it. [Jalopnik] Read the rest... Brass section cover of Game of Thrones Screw the string section! [via] Read the rest... Make modern maps of imaginary worlds Explore OpenGeofiction, a "collaborative platform for the creation of fictional maps." Based on Openstreetmap, the public is invited to edit the oddly-familiar lands within. Read the rest... Flintpunk and Geekomancy [Sword and Laser 179] Would you like to be in a George R. R. Martin Book? Got $20K? Don't mind being killed? Good. You can help wolves. Also we give our first impressions of Brian McClellan's The Promise of Blood and talk Geekomancy with Michael Underwood. Read the rest... Walking Dead "Don't open/Dead inside" beach-towel The Walking Dead -- both the TV show and especially the comic -- is a triumph of visual storytelling; the infamous "Don't open/Dead Inside" panel with its chained-shut doors and grasping, bloody fingers prying around the edge is a marvel of visual economy and horror, which is what makes it just about the perfect thing to emblazon on a beach-towel. The towel measures 30" x 56" and costs $25. (via Crazy Abalone) Read the rest... Rocks made from plastic could mark the anthropocene in geologic layers Let's name the types of rock: Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic ... and plastiglomerate. Read the rest... Ten Wonderful Things for monday A snowflake, an army of pandas, a gang of galaxies, a hot dog, a fashionable gentleman, a giant head, an eyeball, a folk death-saint, and a sleepy puppy. Read the rest... Blogging History: Gezi crackdown; EFF kills stupid Internet patent; Daily Show on Ashcroft v Congress One year ago today Brutal crackdown on Turkish protests: People are gassed here non stop, in all central Istanbul areas. Tens of thousands of people are out in the streets. Read the rest... The happiest Father's Day possible in Game of Thrones [s4 finale] Kevin McFarland reviews the medieval fantasy drama's extra-brutal season closer. Read the rest... What it's like to take a 36-hour sleeper train from LA to Seattle Amtrak's Coast Starlight, which it bills as "A Grand West Coast Train Adventure," is its last remaining full-service sleeper train. The Coast Starlight is home to what would have previously been standard: a dining car, an observation car with floor-to ceiling windows, a movie theater, and a full slate of entertainment options, including the two complimentary wine tastings. Nicole Dieker takes the trip. Read the rest... Father's Day: Groucho sings "Father's Day" Once again, my favorite Father's Day anthem: Groucho Marx sings Father's Day. Read the rest... Printeer - a 3D printer for kids Printeer is a kids 3D printer that runs on an iPad and "doesn't require any intermediate steps between design and 3D printing." This is a good idea because 3D printer software is still clunky and finicky. Read the rest... Blogging History: Why Prism matters; GWB torture lawsuit; Boing Boing 2.0 One year ago today Why you should care about surveillance: We're bad at privacy because the consequences of privacy disclosures are separated by a lot of time and space from the disclosures themselves. Read the rest... Texas Country singer and songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard [RiYL 57] "I wasn't entirely sure what I was getting myself into when I walked backstage to meet Hubbard, the 67-year-old outlaw country survivor," says Brian Heater. "An elder statesman of the same scene that produced the likes of Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt -- he one of the few who'd lived to tell the tales." Read the rest... Father's Day: Gaiman's Fortunately the Milk Neil Gaiman's 2013 young adult novel Fortunately, the Milk was a fabulous tribute to dads and their ability to troll their kids with bald-faced, outlandish lies. Read the rest... Tumblers that trace whiskey's noble lineage Pop Chart Lab's Whiskey Glasses Set is comprised of four tumblers, each of which traces the lineage of different branches of the whiskey tree (rye is a notable omission). Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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