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Wed Mar 10 17:00:00 EST 2010 • io9 Beastie Boys Vs. Battlestar Galactica: Our New Favorite Music Video [Battlestar Galactica] #battlestargalactica The Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" may be Young James Kirk's theme song, but it also goes great with Battlestar Galactica, as this shot-for-shot recreation of the "Sabotage" music video using BSG clips proves. [YouTube] More »
Wed Mar 10 16:50:58 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Kitty cosplay [via Global Post via TokyoMango]...
Wed Mar 10 16:41:18 EST 2010 • Metafilter Melodrama, hyperbole, money, sex and death. Sounds like an opera to me. Mimi. Carmen. Violetta. Cio-Cio San. Tosca. Lucia di Lammermoor. Manon. Anna Nicole.
Wed Mar 10 16:37:18 EST 2010 • Yes But No But Yes Mutant Coconut Squirrels From The New Species Desk... It seems a strange new species has been discovered in Britain. The Coconut Squirrel. Reports are a little sketchy, but I have my own hypothesis: Squirrels were humping coconuts. I see no other way...
Wed Mar 10 16:30:00 EST 2010 • io9 Lost Boy Corey Haim Dead At 38 [Rip] #rip Sad, sad news. Child star and vampire hunter Corey Haim has died from an apparent drug overdose last night in California. We'll never forget our favorite of "The Coreys," from his multiple Lost Boys moments to his Crank 2 cameo. More »
Wed Mar 10 16:26:11 EST 2010 • io9 Martian "River" Was Carved By Lava, Not Water [Volcanos] #volcanos A 168-mile-long channel near Mars' Ascraeus Mons volcano wasn't created by water as scientists have previously thought. New high-resolution images suggest that this trench was created by molten lava. What does this mean for the search for water on Mars? More »
Wed Mar 10 16:25:00 EST 2010 • Metafilter Simon Johnson on the Economy Last week, economist Simon Johnson (his blog; previously on MeFi) spoke at the Roosevelt Institute about the failure to regulate the financial industry, and the doomsday cycle of our economy (via).
Wed Mar 10 16:23:28 EST 2010 • The Presurfer T-Shirt Give-Away Johnnycocktail t-shirts, a British based t-shirt company, in cooperation with The Presurfer, is giving away 5 t-shirts for Presurfer readers.
Wed Mar 10 16:07:03 EST 2010 • Metafilter The Novice Effect The conventional wisdom says that in the best of circumstances, a male beginner weight trainee cannot hope to gain more than a maximum of 2 pounds of muscle per month. Enter Mark Rippetoe, author and gym owner, and his 20-year-old trainee Zach Evetts. Zach gained 2.84 pounds of muscle a week. In his article "The Novice Effect," (PDF) Rippetoe explains Zach's results and why they're not surprising.
Wed Mar 10 15:44:32 EST 2010 • Metafilter Marriage: a brief lesson in database design A database engineer considers marriage. Starts with heterosexual monogamy and eventually produces a schema that can handle...well, some interesting arrangements.
Wed Mar 10 15:30:00 EST 2010 • io9 The Dance Of The Quantum Zombies Fills Your Head With AquaCrunk [Afternoon Reading] #afternoonreading A new issue of Rudy Rucker's rebel webzine Flurb is always cause for major celebration. It only comes out a couple times a year, packed with enough weirdness for a thousand regular SF mags. The Spring/Summer issue is out now. More »
Wed Mar 10 15:26:57 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Moviegoer stabbed for complaining about a woman on her cell phone A man was stabbed with a meat thermometer in a movie theater in LA after complaining to a woman about talking on her cell phone during a Saturday night screening of Shutter Island....
Wed Mar 10 15:02:14 EST 2010 • Metafilter ...of fashion El fin del mundo
Wed Mar 10 15:00:00 EST 2010 • io9 "Techno-Snot" May Be The Most Futuristic Technology [Quote Of The Day] #quoteoftheday These days it's become a truism to say that it feels like "we're living in the future" because we have smart phones and 4chan. But SF writer David Levine says techno-snot is a sign that tomorrow has arrived. More »
Wed Mar 10 14:59:59 EST 2010 • io9 A Pregnancy Sonogram Picture That Will Turn Your Blood To Acid [Sci Fashion] #scifashion Who's that little guy gestating inside your chest cavity? Oh look! It's the alien who will doom the human race. Yes, it's the featured tee at teefury - available today only! More »
Wed Mar 10 14:50:23 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Woman imitates Michael Jackson after brushing her teeth In this weird video, a French comedienne transforms herself into Michael Jackson with just some mascara, lipstick, and scotch tape....
Wed Mar 10 14:38:40 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Widespread support for toilets that separate crap from urine People in seven European countries have expressed willingness to try "NoMix" toilets that keep crap and urine separate, allowing for more efficient waste processing and less seepage of urine-born pharmaceuticals into the water supply. The study was conducted with 2700 people in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, with 80 percent supporti...
Wed Mar 10 14:33:37 EST 2010 • Neatorama Oldest Flying Car up for Auction In 1934, electrician and hobbyist Frank Skroback built the first airplane that could be driven on a road. Or the first car that could be flown. It has six wings and an overall width of seven feet, so it can fit inside a lane. The plane will be auctioned at Red Baron’s [...]
Wed Mar 10 14:30:00 EST 2010 • io9 A Star Made Of Red Matter, From Before Our Galaxy Existed [Space Porn] #spaceporn Behold a star from the second generation of generation of stars after the Big Bang, something scientists have been seeking for a while. Its unique make-up may prove that our galaxy developed by cannibalizing dwarf galaxies. More »
Wed Mar 10 14:25:07 EST 2010 • Neatorama Woman Gives Birth Three Hours After Learning That She Is Pregnant Doctors told Belinda Waite of Bampton, UK that she had Irritable Bowel Syndrome. After she went into labor and three hours before her daughter was born, Waite was informed that she was instead pregnant: Miss Waite was staying with her partner Wyane Boyles, 28, when she unexpectedly went into labour. Their baby daughter Louise Boyles was [...]
Wed Mar 10 14:19:11 EST 2010 • Boing Boing GDC Gallery: How The Indie Fund Could Change Game Dev Destiny Like UK studio Introversion's indie-rallying clarion call at the 2006 Independent Games Festival, the announcement of an indie-led investment strategy -- simply called the Indie Fund -- could be the next watershed moment for the future of independent gaming. Organized by a consortium of indie devs that've seen breakout success (like World of Goo creators 2D Boy and Braid developer ...
Wed Mar 10 14:14:21 EST 2010 • Neatorama Epic Movie Trailer (YouTube Link) The comedy duo BriTaNick created this trailer for a hypothetical movie that would be guaranteed to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. All of the dialogue is replaced with common movie tropes. via Urlesque \| Official Website
Wed Mar 10 14:14:10 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Little Billy's Letters to famous and infamous people In the 1990s Bill Geerhart was an unemployed, not-so aspiring screenwriter in his 30s. To pass the time, he channeled his inner child, 10-year-old Billy, and started writing letters to famous and infamous people and institutions. These letters, written in pencil on elementary school ruled paper, asked funny but relevant questions to politicians, serial killers, movie stars, lobbyis...
Wed Mar 10 14:08:05 EST 2010 • Neatorama Inverse Graphing Calculator The Inverse Graphing Calculator takes words and converts them into equations that would express them graphically: The Inverse Graphing Calculator (version beta-1) is like a backwards graphing calculator. Normally, you enter an equation into your calculator and then get a graph of the curve. The way the IGC works is, you type something you’d like as [...]
Wed Mar 10 14:03:15 EST 2010 • Metafilter First they came for the smokers, but I was not a smoker... A bill to prohibit the use of salt by restaurant kitchens has been introduced to the New York Senate.
Wed Mar 10 14:00:00 EST 2010 • io9 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, And How It Probably Can?t Destroy The World [Physics] #physics "The Heisenberg Uncertainty Over-ride taps into a limitless pool of destructive energy," Owlman says in Crisis on Two Earths, describing his evil world-destruction plan. But what is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? And could overcoming it really end in explosions? More »
Wed Mar 10 13:55:12 EST 2010 • Neatorama The Shining Cuckoo Clock Artist Chris Domino made this cuckoo clock inspired by the horror movie The Shining. Every hour on the hour, Jack Nicholson’s head pokes through the door and says “Here’s Johnny!” Then the Shelly Duval figure screams. Link via Nerdcore
Wed Mar 10 13:50:18 EST 2010 • Boing Boing The Clash, Blondie, and Cobain sneakers from Converse As part of Converse's "Music Collection," they've issued a variety of Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers themed around The Clash, Blondie, Metallica, and Kurt Cobain. To be fair, they really should have made Cobain-branded Converse One Stars as those were the shoes he was wearing at his death. Now, I do dig The Clash sneakers seen here. But I am aware that Nike selling sneakers co-bran...
Wed Mar 10 13:49:24 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Art of film title sequences Art of the Title Sequence celebrates the world's greatest film/TV title sequences, those oft-experimental opening moments of a movie or TV show that really set the mood of what's to come. I've always been intrigued by this art form and it's fun to watch examples from around the globe. The site also features interviews with more than a dozen masters of the media. Art of the Title wa...
Wed Mar 10 13:46:00 EST 2010 • Metafilter The Psychology of Video Games The Psychology of Video Games. Jamie Madigan has a Ph.D. in psychology. He's also a Gamer with a capital G, has written gaming strategy guides and countless game reviews, and follows the gaming scene like some people follow baseball. In his blog, Jamie tells you "why things are" when it comes to game psychology. Conan the Loss Averse Barbarian. How Reciprocity Yields Bumper Crops in Farmville. Phat Loot and Neurotransmitters in World of Warcraft.
Wed Mar 10 13:45:40 EST 2010 • Metafilter Bike Maps Google maps now has bike routes.
Wed Mar 10 13:45:00 EST 2010 • io9 See Annalee Talk About Biohacking and Immortality Tonight In San Antonio, TX [Calendar] If you're in the San Antonio, TX area this evening, come out to see my lecture as a part of Trinity University's awesome "Reality Hackers" series. My talk is called "Curse of the Meatsack: Biohacking, Immortality, and Science Fiction." There will be much talk of implants, bionics, Jake Sully, and Davros. More »
Wed Mar 10 13:39:25 EST 2010 • Boing Boing OK Go leaves EMI, launches their own record label The band OK Go, blogged many a time here for their wonderful music videos and savvy take on the state of the music biz, is launching its own record label. From okgo.com: The band has left the EMI family of corporations to form their own enterprise, a homemade upstart called Paracadute."...
Wed Mar 10 13:31:49 EST 2010 • Metafilter That's (Electron) Entrainment! Chemically Driven Carbon-Nanotube-Guided Thermopower Waves (VIDEO) are "a new scientific area for research" and may be able to provide 100 times more energy by weight than a standard lithium-ion battery.
Wed Mar 10 13:30:00 EST 2010 • io9 Power Your Style with Portable Windmill Fashion [Scifashion] #scifashion Looking for the perfect accoutrement that can also charge your iPhone? Channel your inner Lady Gaga with this this portable, electricity-generating windmill. It won't work indoors, but looking like a cybernetic wood nymph is rad enough. More »
Wed Mar 10 13:00:03 EST 2010 • WebUrbanist Abandoned Mental Asylum Hellingly, RIP, 33 Creepy Photo Tribute When you look at these photos, do you think death and derelict nightmare or do you think urban explorers? dream? Explorers dared security guards and guard dogs to investigate and to photograph the decaying, otherwise forgotten, and rotten bedlam of massive Hellingly Asylum. Maybe these adventurers are just insane, or maybe they wanted to sift [...]
Wed Mar 10 13:00:00 EST 2010 • io9 Hulk Smash Copyright Infringement! [Badvertising] #badvertising Uh oh, the Incredible Hulk's massive green hands are being used to hawk phones and Band Aids in the Middle East. This will only get the Hulk angry, and trust us, you won't like him when he's angry. More »
Wed Mar 10 12:42:45 EST 2010 • TYWKIWDBI The anatomy lesson... modernized Technology is providing new techniques for many of the traditional teaching practices in graduate schools. Here is a reinterpretation of Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp.
Wed Mar 10 12:34:34 EST 2010 • TYWKIWDBI Navy going to the dogs A sad story about subcontractor malfeasance involving the Navy's attempt to obtain bomb-sniffing dogs -
Wed Mar 10 12:30:00 EST 2010 • io9 New Futurama Coming This Summer, With The Original Cast [Futurama] #futurama Futurama returns to Comedy Central this June, with 12 new episodes... and more to follow. And yes, the original cast is all back. The first episode is "Rebirth," and the show's 100th episode will be "The Mutants Are Revolting." [AICN] More »
Wed Mar 10 12:25:00 EST 2010 • Neatorama The Nerdfighter/Neatoramanaut Facebook Fan Page Contest We’re going to be running a FUN contest over on our Facebook page this coming Friday! You won’t find it here on the blog, just on the Facebook page. So if you haven’t yet, please become a Neatoramanaut Fan now: www.Facebook.com/neatoramanauts. The contest will have something to do with our pals, nerdfighters John and Hank [...]
Wed Mar 10 12:23:28 EST 2010 • Boing Boing Google maps goes bike-tacular, just in time for spring "Bicycle" is now an option for mode of transport in Google maps. Ostensibly, the directions given will help you avoid particularly nasty car traffic and particularly disheartening elevation changes, though Treehugger found some kinks in that when they tried to plot a route across San Francisco. There's not enough uphill slogs in Minneapolis (and I don't know St. Paul well enough) t...
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