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Animatronic face-ripping Undead Ted horror-toy The 700th Undead Ted horror-toy was a face-removing, talking animatronic that sold for £420 on Ebay. I love that it can do more than one line; I like to think of it as the reincarnation of good ole Teddy Ruxpin. (via IO9) Read the rest... Former governor: University of Minnesota leading massive human experimentation coverup The death of clinical trial subject Dan Markingson is just the tip of the iceberg in a tale of corruption, mismanagement, and deaths. Read the rest... The sexy tapestry selfies of textile artist Erin M. Riley Textile artist Erin M Riley weaves internet-native images of women in various states of undress, presenting themselves in sexualized display, and in the context of drug and alcohol use. Read the rest... Watch these frolicking sea lampreys build nests We're used to thinking of sea lampreys as a bad thing, an invasive species. But that's in the Great Lakes. In New England streams, the lampreys are native and necessary to ecosystem health. Read the rest... DMV refused license to teen until he removed makeup A teenager in South Carolina was refused his driver's license because he "did not look the way a boy should." Chase Culpepper, 16, ultimately removed his makeup in order to get the photograph taken. Read the rest... Why did the PicturePhone fail? Introduced in 1964, the PicturePhone was a fascinating, ahead-of-its-time technology that ultimately failed miserably — costing Bell half a billion dollars. Read the rest... Sculptures made from repeating human bone motifs Czech artist Monika Horčicová makes beautiful, haunting sculptures comprised of repeated, 3D-printed human bones. They remind me of the Capela dos Ossos in Portugal, whose walls and vaults are lined with bones of 5,000 parishoners from nearby churches. Read the rest... Were dinosaurs more like birds, lizards, or tuna? Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded? That's a debate that's been going on since 1968, when Yale scientists first proposed that dinos could have been active, agile, and fast. Read the rest... Modern-day US civil war depicted in "A Better World" Here's an exclusive excerpt from Marcus Sakey's A Better World, the second book in the Brilliance saga. In the Brilliance saga, since 1980, 1% of the world has been born with gifts we'd only dreamed of: the ability to sense a person's most intimate secrets, or predict the stock market, or move virtually unseen. Read the rest... Possible hidden Latin warning about NSA in Truecrypt's suicide note When the anonymous authors of the Truecrypt security tool mysteriously yanked their software last month, there was widespread suspicion that they had been ordered by the NSA to secretly compromise their software. Read the rest... YouTube to "block indie labels" It will drop labels that do not join its new subscription music service, reports The Guardian. [via] Read the rest... Cory's Tedxoxbridge talk: How to break the Internet I gave a talk last month in Cambridge at the Tedxoxbridge event called How to break the Internet, about how urgent it is that the Internet is fundamentally broken, and why we should be hopeful that we can fix it. Read the rest... What an army of ducks looks like Surrounded by a vast sea of duck, this motorist and his passenger are left with no option but to incredulously film the invasion. Watch and fear, mangy simian, your time is up! Read the rest... Pencil stylus Pencil is a new stylus designed to overcome the iPad's lack of touch sensitivity, taking care of pressure, angle, erasing and palm rejection. Read the rest... Copyright trolls cut and run at suggestion that they're a front for disgraced firm Guardaley Now that evidence has surfaced suggesting that Guardaley, a disgraced firm of German copyright trolls, is secretly behind the legal actions of notorious US trolls like Malibu Media, the US plaintiffs are running scared, asking judges to dismiss their cases before they can be dragged into a discovery process that might confirm the link. Read the rest... 1984 Doug E Fresh and MC Ricky D Bootlegs Ed Piskor presents the latest from The Hip Hop Family Tree Read the rest... Apple settles in ebook price-fixing dispute Apple has agreed to settle with consumers who accused it of illegally conspiring with publishers to stop Amazon selling titles at a loss. [BBC] Read the rest... Hidden painting found under Picasso masterpiece One of Pablo Picasso's most famous works, The Blue Room, was painted over an earlier work now revealed by infrared imaging. Read the rest... Dual tornados level Nebraska town [Video] Two tornadoes touched down yesterday and devastated the Nebraska town of Pilger, killing a 5-year-old and injuring 19 others. StormChasingVideo.com published this incredible footage of the two funnels, which came within a mile of one another as they demolished the community of 350. Read the rest... Riot control drone that fires paintballs, pepper-spray and rubber bullets at protesters The Skunk, a drone from South African company Desert Wolf, is billed as the first riot-control drone -- it fires dye-balls, pepper spray and rubber bullets at protesters, blinds them with strobes, broadcasts control messages to them, and records them. Read the rest... Interviewing Leila Johnston about Hack Circus My latest Guardian column is an interview with Leila Johnston about her Hack Circus project, which includes a conference, a podcast and a print magazine, all with a nearly indefinable ethic of independence and art for its own sake. Read the rest... Game of Thrones s4e10 season finale [Boars, Gore, and Swords] "The Children", Season 4, Episode 10, of HBO's Game of Thrones packs a lot of paternal angst into the season finale of the fourth season. Ivan and Red are joined by Oakland based comedian O.J. Patterson, the force behind the San Francisco Bay Area comedy blog, Courting Comedy. Read the rest... I stopped a ten million dollar robbery "For various reasons, including my wife Claudia is slightly worried I could get killed, I am changing all of the names. All of the other details are intact." A true story by James Altucher Read the rest... SF novel based on free/open game "Project: Starfighter" Stephen sez, "Around 13 years ago, I wrote a GPL video game called Project: Starfighter. It is a multi-directional shoot 'em up, with an intricate plot and a diverse cast of characters. Read the rest... Oligopolistic America: anti-competitive, unequal, and deliberate A brilliant, enraging op-ed in the Washington Post from analysts from the New America Foundation and the American Antitrust Institute shows how the Reagan-era policy of encouraging monopolistic corporate behavior has made America unequal and uncompetitive, creating a horror Gilded Age where the Congressional consensus is that laws cannot possibly put a check on bad corporate actors. Read the rest... US deploying 275 troops to Iraq, considering air strikes President Obama today notified Congress that 275 US military personnel will be deployed to Iraq to "provide support and security for U.S. Read the rest... Classic art improved with emoji: Ukrainian artist Nastya Nudnik Artist Nastya Nudnik's 'Emoji-nation' series adds elements of computer user interface to great, historic works of art. "I adore playing on contrasts and try to put dualism in every work, no matter if it is an illustration, a painting or a collage," she says. Read the rest... Pretty portraits of periodical cicadas Photographer Alex Wild captured the lovely image of a periodical cicada above, one of many available as prints on his website. Read the rest... Budapest night train, made of light Photo: "Budapest Light Tram" by Krisztian Biriny. [mymodernmet] Read the rest... Cheetah cub at zoo rejected by mom becomes friends with puppy "A 6-week-old cheetah cub at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park named Ruuxa was rejected by its mother and has no siblings. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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