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Surreal oil paintings of a world taken over by giant bugs and flying sharks Caleb Brown's oil paintings bring us into a bizarre end-of-days scenario where super sharks, massive insects and towering otters take over humanity from every angle. Read the rest... Former FCC commissioner to Washington: "You should be ashamed of yourself" Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps has publicly excoriated Congress and the FCC for the state of Internet access in America, which he called "insanity," saying that America's political class "should be ashamed of ourselves." Copps was speaking at a DC event examining the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which created the short-lived practice of requiring American telcoms operators to share their lines with new entrants, allowing many competing DSL providers to flourish. Read the rest... Supreme Court invalidates software patent because it's a software patent In a stunning verdict, the Supreme Court has tossed out a patent because it is a software patent, ruling that "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention" -- that is, adding "with a computer" doesn't make a new patentable invention. Read the rest... Aaron Swartz documentary "The Internet's Own Boy" is a CC-licensed download today Starting today, "The Internet's Own Boy," Brian Knappenberger's award-winning, acclaimed documentary about Aaron Swartz, is available as a Creative Commons-licensed (CC-BY-NC-SA) video download. Read the rest... Bootcamp For Obese Rabbit The Romford Recorder reports: The five-year-old bunny butterball - ironically a dwarf lop - was badly malnourished when first spotted by the family-of-six in a pet store window. Read the rest... LEGO X-Wing Fighter My daughter and I are building this fantastic LEGO X-Wing Fighter. She has fallen in love with the Star Wars animated series and this is my excuse to get a toy I always wanted. The Porkins mini fig is a plus. Read the rest... Bars in Alaska offer free pregnancy tests Bars in Alaska have installed free pregnancy tests in their women's bathrooms in an effort to curb drinking among pregnant women. Read the rest... How Tyson took out Michael Spinks before throwing a punch Mike Tyson's legend was secured when he KOd undefeated rival Michael Spinks in 90s. But less well known is that Tyson destroyed his opponents mind before the fight even began, by entering the arena to sinister British postindustrial drone music instead of a standard entrance theme. The real battle was, literally, Coil vs Kenny Loggins, and it was over before it began. Read the rest... Minecraft bans money-making server swizzes The world's most entitled and whiny gamer community started screwing itself for cash, then creator Notch took it away. What happened next was entirely predictable. Read the rest... Bowie and Jagger's Dancing in the Street without the music By Mario Wienerroither. Brilliant and sublime. [via Sploid] Read the rest... FabLab: a free game that creates 3D printable toys Makies, the 3D printed toy and game company, has launched FabLab, its inaugural game! FabLab is a free game for people eight and up, through which you create and customize a character and its accessories, which you can also get as real-world, one-off, custom-fabbed objects. Read the rest... 7 signs that you're in a cult Evangelical leader Mike Bickle proposed the following indicators of a cult. 1. Opposing critical thinking. 2. Isolating members and penalizing them for leaving. Read the rest... RIP, Daniel Keyes, author of "Flowers for Algernon" Daniel Keyes, the MD who wrote the classic science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon, has died at 86, of complications from pneumonia. Read the rest... Who was the rhetorical stand-in for evil before Hitler? Before Hitler, who was the rhetorical human embodiment of evil? The Egyptian Pharaoh of Exodus. The Pharaoh has, of course, now been upgraded to embody the glowering rhetorical sexuality of Yul Brynner [via Kottke] Read the rest... Live hangout today to kick off Banned Books Week announcement I'm doing a live Google Hangout today at 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific/6PM UK to kick off the announcement of Banned Books Week, which will focus on comics and graphic novels this year. Read the rest... CALL CONGRESS NOW, END NSA MASS SURVEILLANCE If you call your Congressional rep today, we can stop NSA mass surveillance in its tracks. Today, Congress will vote on a critical amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill: under this amendment, the NSA will be prohibited from using its prodigious budget to conduct mass, warrantless surveillance and to sabotage security standards and technology. Read the rest... Glow in the dark Pee-Wee Herman tee For the next six hours, you can score one of these Pee-Wee Herman themed limited tees from Tee Fury, with glowing eyes! Read the rest... An electronic gadget to silence loudmouths Charles Platt shows you how to build a noise-detecting siren that stuns rude shouters into silence. Read the rest... Boob and sock money not welcome in the sweaty summertime, sorry From Adam R. Bowser's Nova Scotia-based Twitter feed, a timely retail sign: "Due to the rising summer temperatures...We will NOT accept any BOOB or SOCK money! Read the rest... Georgia man shoots himself in the penis, visits friend I hope his friend is a urologist. Via 13WMAZ: "When he got to the friends house, he took off his pants and saw that he had 'shot himself in the penis and that the bullet exited out of his buttocks.'" Read the rest... Blogging History: Max Barry's Lexicon; Discover Electronics kit; Kottke reads DRM talk One year ago today Lexicon: smart, sharp technothriller from Max "Jennifer Government" Barry: Max Barry's new technothriller Lexicon is a gripping conspiracy novel about a cabal of "poets" who have mastered the deep language of the human brain and can use it to boss the rest of us around. Read the rest... Jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver, 1928-2014 The great jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver died today "of natural causes" at his home in New Rochelle, New York. Read the rest... Best-paid CEOs perform the worst In Performance for Pay? The Relation Between CEO Incentive Compensation and Future Stock Price Performance , a paper from U of Utah business-school professors, the relationship between executive performance and executive pay is intensively investigated. Read the rest... Robert Scoble thinks privacy advocates have "overstepped their bounds", has useful advice for victims of violent stalkers, and is jealous of your threesomes Robert Scoble is settling nicely into his new role as a vigorous critic of your privacy. That said, he's unhappy I quoted his remarks about being "so tired of privacy advocates", and is doing that thing where you find a nasty anonymous comment and represent it as the sum of criticism to engender sympathy. Read the rest... The Pennsylvania town that's been on fire for 50 years Centralia, Pennsylvania is Hell on Earth. It's the town where a 12-year old boy once fell into a pit that "suddenly appeared in his grandmother's backyard. Read the rest... Hidden mother photos, close up magic, and a cool new kitchen scale [Gweek 151] Our returning guest is Choose Yourself author James Altucher. Brought to you by Stamps.com. Click here for a special $110 offer! Read the rest... 7 fun toilet paper tube tricks Seven tricks you can do with empty rolls of toilet paper, written by the late Martin Gardner. 5. A Mysterious Force: Two tubes are alongside each other on a table. Read the rest... Newspapers' nostalgia has deluded them into thinking print can be "saved" As Register Newspapers' high-profile paywall experiment implodes, Clay Shirky offers an acerbic obituary and a dire warning in Nostalgia and Newspapers, which discusses the futility of trying to "save" print, and the news industry's enormous, wishful-thinking blindspot about its own business. Read the rest... Meet Migaloo, the real-life Moby Dick There are four known white humpback whales in the world. They are not albinos. Migaloo, who lives near Australia, was just spotted for the first time in a year. Read the rest... Mayor resigns after surveillance cam catches him tossing dog poop in neighbor's yard The mayor of San Marino, California has resigned after being caught on surveillance video tossing a small bag of dog poop into a neighbor's yard. Read the rest... Follow us online:   forward to a friend   unsubscribe from this list

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