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Kyle Montgomery 2015 Crystal Mary

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I would DIE FOR THIS

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Real

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Theo Jansen  Strandbeest

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Side note: These don’t have motors. They’re completely momentum/wind-powered and literally just wander around beaches unsupervised like giant abstract monsters.

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these are both amazing and COMPLETELY TERRIFYING

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IF I SAW ONE OF THESE COMING I WOULD CRY

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As I mentioned in my last entry, I've been watching Babylon 5 lately. It's not a perfect show, but it has one big advantage: it's consistent and believable. Contrast this with Doctor Who. Doctor Who is fun to watch, but if you think about it for more than two seconds you notice it's full of plot…

Let's start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check. Secret police, check. Determination to brutally kill everyone who doesn't look like them, check. Leader with a tiny villain mustache and a tendency to go into apopleptic rage when he doesn't get his way, check. All this from a country that was ordinary, believable, and dare I say it sometimes even sympathetic in previous seasons. (...) So it's pretty standard "shining amazing good guys who can do no wrong" versus "evil legions of darkness bent on torture and genocide" stuff, totally ignoring the nuances and realities of politics. The actual strategy of the war is barely any better. Just to give one example, in the Battle of the Bulge, a vastly larger force of Germans surround a small Allied battalion and demand they surrender or be killed. The Allied general sends back a single-word reply: "Nuts!". The Germans attack, and, miraculously, the tiny Allied force holds them off long enough for reinforcements to arrive and turn the tide of battle. Whoever wrote this episode obviously had never been within a thousand miles of an actual military.

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via Christian Bök at twitter:  "The Great Order of the Universe"—(which quotes, verbatim, two paragraphs that are perfect anagrams of each other)

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Nine issues affecting the Home or Pro versions of Osram LIGHTIFY were discovered, with the practical exploitation effects ranging from the accidental

Infosec issues on a lightbulb, some of them compromising the entire network.

the Grid is wide open, all messages can be overheard, and there are more than enough traitors out on the line.

[girafaegoista]

United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers

An online community known as “targeted individuals” says its members are being surveilled by groups of stalkers as part of a sprawling conspiracy. But psychiatrists beg to differ.

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Is technology making the world indecipherable? — Samuel Arbesman — Aeon Essays

Human ingenuity has created a world that the mind cannot master. Have we finally reached our limits?

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Narratively is a platform devoted to untold human stories. We avoid the breaking news and focus instead on ordinary people with extraordinary stories.

Theo Anthony’s short film “Chop My Money” depicts a day in the life of three street kids in the Eastern Congo. Largely unsupervised and living in a region ravaged by war, David, Guillan and Patient — or “Bill Gates Congo Man,” as he likes to be called — are self-proclaimed gangsters, although their primary money-making routine consists of hustling the town’s NGO workers for spare change. But the tough-talking trio conforms to no preconceptions of what children growing up in a war zone should be like. Instead, they insist on writing their own story.

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Ben Greenman on Twitter: “Yahoo’s prematurely published Rihanna record review is a masterpiece of post-modern non-journalism.”

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A recent cartoon for the Guardian. More here: http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons

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Texas, April 11, 1942

For that reason, on some days you may have to pass up one of those three Dr. Pepper enjoyment hours.