Nicolas Cage's mug is being used on the packaging of a Japanese snack food. Because, of course it is.RocketNews24 writes that Cage's endorsement of Umaibo's "Nicolastick," a 10-cent corn chowder-flavored cheese puff stick, is part of a promotion for the Japanese film Ore no Emono wa bin Laden (Bin Laden is My Prey):

If you've ever used Facebook Live, you know there is a delay in the audio/video feed. It's not very long, maybe a few seconds.Instead of just ignoring it, the Irish indie band The Academic decided to lean into it.They played their new single "Bear Claws" by looping it, as they explain (because I sure as heck can't):

Raising Dion released a trailer and comic in 2015 (previously). Now Netflix has ordered 10 episodes about raising a 7-year-old son with superpowers. (more…)

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(Photo: Joi Ito, CC-BY)He’s not the only major figure in the world of tech and ideas who goes by Chris Anderson. His namesake runs the TED conference - whereas the Chris Anderson of this article was Editor-in-Chief of Wired for twelve years. During that stint, he co-founded a company that helped launch the consumer drone industry, which he now runs (the company - not the industry).There are those who think these guys are one solitary, mega overachiever, but no. They could settle who has rights to the name through some kind of brainy public smackdown - the nerd equivalent of a battle of the bands, say. But not a chance. This Chris Anderson has been through that once already. With his band. They were called REM.No - not that REM. That REM clobbered Team Chris in musical combat back in 1991 (at the storied 9:30 club in Washington), winning rights to the name. Chris’s band then took Mike Mills’ suggestion that they rebrand as Egoslavia – a clever-ish name back when Yugoslavia wasn’t just a fading memory and a handful of spinoffs.Chris and I cover this, plus the story of his impressively misspent youth in an hour-plus interview you can listen to right here (or by typing the name of the podcast series – “After On” – into the search bar of your favorite podcast app):But we mainly talk about drones, his company (3D Robotics, or 3DR), and how he launched and grew it to millions in revenues in partnership with a Tijuana teen, while winning awards for running the world’s most influential tech magazine as a day job. Chris eventually left Wired to raise venture capital and go fulltime with his partner Jordi Muñoz (by then, all of 21). 3DR grew explosively after that – until China attacked (or rather, a wildly competitive Chinese company). Chris’s startup was almost annihilated. But fear not: they’ve pivoted.A wonderful aspect of the 3DR story is how it sprang from DIY Drones, a forum-cum-social network, which Chris launched in 2007. Catching the updraft of the rising maker movement – plus the newfound fervor for hardware spawned by the iPhone – the site soon had tens of thousands of members. People swapped code and designs, and gradually created open source hardware specs for consumer-class drones. Chris and Jordi launched their company when they realized that even within this robust community, most folks were way more interested in having drones than in building them.3DR then became one of the first open source hardware companies. And don’t be surprise if it also proves to be one of the last! Chris articulated the open source hardware business model quite persuasively in his 2012 book Makers. But it was always chancy, as open source specs can be used by anyone, one’s competitors certainly included. The hope was that “owning the community” would provide a big competitive boost. But Chris acknowledged the risks back at the start of this thing, saying “if we get it right, it’ll be a fantastic model for companies of all sorts; if we get it wrong, an instructive failure.”The outcome was very instructive indeed, and Chris no longer believes in open source hardware as a business model. But he maintains that the crucial flaw lay not in competitors accessing specs, but in the burgeoning complexity of certain chipsets and some other underlying hardware that drones rely on. This gradually made it hard, then nigh impossible for tinkerers and amateurs to contribute meaningfully to world-class drone designs, robbing 3DR of its all-but-free R&D source.3DR is still a drone company, but its product is now data, not quadcopters. They service the construction industry (the second largest in the world after agriculture, and the biggest employer in the US). That transformation is almost as interesting as Chris’s leap from being a bass-playing bike messenger/dropout to his current gig. All of this is detailed in our interview. For those in a hurry, here’s a quick guide to some of its interesting sections:0:04:14 - I ambush Chris by presenting a copy of his 1981 vinyl record and demanding an autograph. We hear the full story of his REM and that REM.0:8:47 - Chris discusses his lengthy bike messenger career, and his years of living in a squat.0:20:22 - Chris explains how he weaponized Lego, and (kinda, sorta) invented a consumer-class drone while trying (unsuccessfully) to interest his five kids in a Mindstorm-guided plane.0:26:36 - Chris starts the online community of drone-happy makers from which 3DR will ultimately spring.0:35:04: Chris articulates the open source hardware business model as he once envisioned it, and why it didn’t work out.0:41:42 Chris discusses his mighty Chinese competitor, DJI (in extraordinarily gracious terms).0:51:06 3DR pivots to a drone-driven data company focusing on the built world.1:07:34 - Some cool things Chris expects drones will soon do (and some even cooler ones he does not expect them to do.).

The President of the United States is Angry at Rex Tillerson, who was recently reported to have called Donald Trump 'a fücking moron,' a charge the Secretary of State and former Exxon-Mobil CEO does not deny.(more…)

Destinyland writes, "Slashdot turns 20 years old today [Ed: here's my post from Slashdot's 10th birthday!], and to celebrate they've gone back to look at how some of the highlights -- like the time they refused Microsoft's demand that they delete a comment. ("I'm sure you agree that freedom of speech is at least as important a principle under American law as the freedom to innovate, so I'm sure that you personally, and Microsoft corporately, will understand our hesitation to engage in censorship. Indeed, after reflecting on the nature of freedom for a little while, you may wish to withdraw your request that we remove readers' comments from Slashdot.")" (more…)

Carrie Becker's Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a detailed 1:16 scale model of a hoarder house, inside a Barbie Dream House, beautifully and hauntingly photographed. I know hoarders (and am related to a couple) and it's not a joke -- and neither is this amazing work of art. (via Waxy) (more…)

You will look amazing in sandals that look like gasping largemouth bass, seriously (max size is a Men's 10, so only the dainty of feed need apply, e.g., not me). (more…)

One of the holy grails of free and open computing is a really great free/open phone; it's been tried many times before without much success, but a new crowdfunder from Purism (who make a pretty great free/open laptop) has just crossed the $1,000,000 mark and is on track to hit its target of $1.5M in the next 18 days. (more…)

A Detroit mother, Rebecca Bredow, is sentenced to seven days in jail for not vaccinating her kids.Although there is no federal or state law in the US that forces parents to vaccinate their children, Bredow had refused a court order to vaccinate her children after agreeing to do it as part of a divorce agreement.According to Today:

Canary makes an Internet of Things home security camera that connects to your wifi and sends video to Canary's servers where it is analyzed for suspicious activity (such as motion when you're out of the house) and then you can stream video that video over the internet. (more…)

Mathematician Hannah Fry explains how to equally share a cake between three people. At my house, we try to follow the rule of "you get what you get and you don't get upset" but you know how that goes. (Numberphile)

The New York Democratic primary -- like primaries across the country -- will be a fight for the soul of the Democratic party, between the establishment wing and progressive, Sanders Democrats who want a $15 minimum wage, universal health care, free four-year state colleges, and limits on banks and the finance industry as well as foreign wars. (more…)

Christian Alcoholics & Addicts in Recovery is a "diversion program" where drug addicts convicted of crimes can be sent to get help, but an investigation by the Center for Investigative Reporting reveals that CAAIR is really in the business of supplying low-cost workers to factories, where they are worked seven days/week on threat of being returned to prison, and where workers who are maimed on the job are sent to prison and not given worker's compensation -- all for no pay at all. (more…)

Dennis Coles, aka Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan, has co-founded a cryptocurrency company called Cream Capital. The name comes from the Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 jam C.R.E.A.M. ("Cash Rules Everything Around Me.") Apparently, the company now holds the trademark on the phrase "Crypto Rules Everything Around Me." Cream Capital is planning an initial coin offering on November 11 to raise $30 million. Apparently those tokens can be traded for Ether on the Etherium blockchain."Ghostface Killah is a longtime business partner of ours," Cream Capital co-founder/CEO Brett Wesbrook told Pigeons & Planes. "I personally connected with him during a Reddit AMA on /r/hiphopheads last year when he was seeking tech-inclined people to work with in future technology focused projects. Dennis is a very forward thinking person and has a keen interest in emerging technologies. It's hard to ignore blockchain tech today even when you're a busy, touring hip hop artist."He doesn't have any technical background with cryptocurrencies. However, remember that Wu-Tang is for the children. He is very focused on what the youth and millennials are interested in. He is a very solid businessman and has surrounded himself with bright individuals with a hunger for bring new, groundbreaking technologies to market..."His work capacity will be laying out a framework for which cryptocurrencies are more familiar to everyday people."

Buckminster Fuller created this striking 1960 overlay photograph "Dome Over Manhattan" in 1960. It's one of many prints, drawings, models, and artworks in the "Never Built New York" exhibition now on view at the Queens Museum. Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, and designed by Christian Wassmann, the exhibition "explores a city where you could catch a football game in Manhattan, travel via a floating airport, and live in an apartment also acting as a bridge support." Below, Frank Lloyd Wright's "Key Plan for Ellis Island" (1959), Eliot Noyes’s Westinghouse Pavilion proposal for the 1964 World’s Fair installed at the exhibit as a scaled-down "bouncy house" model, and Paul Rudolph’s "Galaxon Pavilion," designed for the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows and recreated in virtual reality by Shimahara Illustration. The exhibition is based on the curator's book, Never Built New York. From an interview with Lubrell and Golding in City Lab:

I bought this LED headlamp in 2015 and I use it a lot: walks at night, barbecuing, reading, fixing stuff, going under the crawl space. It's basically a flashlight that you don't have to hold. It's got plenty of light on the brightest setting. Right now it's $6.79 on Amazon with free same day shipping for Prime members.

My god, it's full of stars. Artem Mironov's photo of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex won the Royal Museums Greenwich's 2017 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. He captured this glorious image at Hakos Farm in Windhoek, Namibia. Below: Oleg Bryzgalov's image of the M63 star streams and Sunflower Galaxy, taken at Rozhen Observatory, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria, won in the Galaxies category; Alexandra Hart won the "Our Sun" category for her photo of Mercury's transit across the Sun as seen from Preston, Lancashire, UK; and Jason Green was rated the "Best Newcomer" for his image of the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) taken from Frenegal de la Sierra, Badajoz, Spain.

Buckle up, VRgonauts! In this installment we’ll take a deep and hurtling dive straight into the belly of the production beast, where uncertain dangers bubble up and burn through our best-laid plans like a bad case of acid reflux. (Read previous installment here.)At this point in the production we’d gotten the approval on our 20-second proof-of-concept test from our client, TED Ed. We had been down numerous dead-end pre-production paths and had finally hit on a winning strategy: Build the 360-degree stereoscopic animation in After Effects and then upload the rendered video to YouTube for final presentation on the Cardboard platform.I was feeling deadline pressure to create the storyboards as soon as possible because by this time the script was finalized and approved. The problem was that I still hadn’t decided on a visual style for the education aspect of the short. TED Ed’s lessons are just that–real educational presentations told by utilizing all of the tricks in the animation toolbox. In a normally framed 2D production I would identify the major teaching moments in a given script and design those main pieces first. Then I would work on their periphery, designing transition sequences in and out of the main teaching highlights. The difference in designing for VR is that as a director, I cannot force the viewer to absolutely look where I want them to look, when I want them to look there. There are certainly some screen direction tricks I could (and did) employ, like having nothing visual moving anywhere but one spot in the 360 space. Or having the subtle ambient soundtrack suddenly present a stinging audio hit to alert the viewer to look around for the cause of the sound. But that tool set is limited and gets tiresome after a surprisingly short amount of time. I came to realize that I needed to let the voice-over track run without assigning visual “hits” to it, as I would normally do. Rather, I would let the VO run on its own and I would design set pieces that encompassed all of the details spoken about in the narration. By not having to isolate each teaching moment in turn, I was never forcing the viewer to continually search the environment for where to look next. This was a huge breakthrough because it freed me into thinking about larger set pieces that could contain major chunks of the story. I ended up dividing the piece into four discreet environments, each with its own character, ambience and “feel”.[caption id="attachment_545449" align="alignnone" width="680"] Storyboards for the”Mid-Cave” Shaman sequence.[/caption]When I was finally able to start laying out the piece in Adobe Animate (Flash), I encountered a host of challenges that are endemic to creating for 360 video. For instance, where exactly is the horizon line? And how large should the characters and objects be? Since there is currently no way to actually animate traditional 2D artwork inside of the VR environment, these visual decisions had to be made on the flat monitor screen, rendered as 360 stills, and then viewed in the Cardboard player to critique their various components. This required an enormous amount of back-and-forth renders. But by the middle of the production, I grew accustomed to the specific visual boundaries that we’d set up, and I found that I could reliably design on the flat screen while visualizing how it would translate into the VR world.When it came to picking colors, I was dismayed to learn that every phone model has a different visual color temperature and character (even successive iPhone models). Hence I needed to pick what I thought were the best overall palette colors and let the chips fall where they might. This took me back to the frustrating days in the early 90s, when it was effectively impossible to know exactly how a CD ROM’s visuals would be viewed because there were hundreds of different computer monitors and I just had to kinda, sorta, aim for the middle ground. Today’s VR tech set up is virtually the same. So, although I was frustrated by the fact that I didn’t have total control over the presentation of the artwork, this was familiar territory to me.When we finally got head-down into production, the animation itself contained a lot of hidden challenges. For instance, we ended up having to almost animate the entire piece twice because After Effects and Animate don’t really “play well” together. There is no way to take Animate’s timeline directly into AE and protect the timing and layers of elements. Instead I had to create the entire piece in Animate, then break it all apart and isolate each animated element. Then I had to render out multi-framed .pngs for Idle Hands to import into AE. They basically re-created my Animate timeline in AE. This is one particular hitch where Adobe can do a lot more to streamline the process by having these two apps speak to each other in a more friendly manner.[caption id="attachment_545450" align="alignnone" width="680"] Mistake or on purpose? A purposeful “smear” frame indicating a fast-moving object.[/caption]After all of the individual animated elements were exported, it was up to Idle Hands to place them into the 3D environment. We then had to design and define the depth of everything in that environment, which involved creating separate views for each eye. Initially we simply entered a horizontal offset. But while this looked great in some areas, it didn’t work everywhere. In certain locations it almost looked as if the background wall was in front of the characters. After some noodling, we determined we were only getting the proper right eye/left eye perspective in a single location; as viewers turned their heads 90 degrees everything flattened out, and looked like it was all at the same depth. At 180 degrees the eyes reversed, making distant objects look close and vice-versa. It quickly became apparent that the solution was more complex than we’d thought, and that it was going to involve a fair amount of math. The big breakthrough came when IH was able to sort out that math and place it into a custom algorithm. And it worked! That was a happy day – toasted with lots of espresso and (more) tequila – when we were finally able to get consistent results with depth rendered accurately around all 360 degrees.https://youtu.be/LjgtEy8Zo_QWatch a brainstorming session to determine how fires should light inside the “Mid-Cave”.While I continued to create all of the animation, layouts, and backgrounds, one particular pebble would not dislodge itself: I was unsatisfied with the last environment. It was a modern-day bedroom featuring a guy in a VR headset (“the Jockey”, we called him). It worked “well enough”, but something about the concept felt unconnected to me. At this point in the process I had been living and breathing the project for 14 months straight and rarely ventured outside my studio. However on a lark I decided to attend a local poetry reading in the hopes that it would recharge me to keep up the production pace. I was blissfully relaxed and just allowing the poems to flow over me when I had a proverbial lighting flash and saw that I should transform that generic bedroom into another cave! A modern day “Man-Cave” where our “Jockey” was creating contemporary VR artwork in his dark lair, just as his ancestors had done in theirs. The ending now tied up with a nice bow, I thought.[caption id="attachment_545451" align="alignnone" width="680"] Originally designed as a bedroom, this environment would later change into a modern Man-Cave.[/caption]So I continued to huff and puff, and Idle Hands continued to re-animate and render, and in time we methodically chugged apace through the entire piece. Only one element was missing: the final 360 degree spatial sound design. Now, how hard could THAT be?Stay tuned to our next installment: “The Sound Of NO Hands Clapping”.

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz may have just started a new fashion statement. Yesterday she sported a brown T-shirt with a big "Nasty" written across the front while being interviewed on Univision's Al Punto ."What is really nasty is that anyone would turn their back on the Puerto Rican people," she said to journalist Jorge Ramos, referring to the Trump administration's lackadaisical response to Hurricane Maria's devastation to the island."When it bothers somebody that you're asking for drinking water, medicine for the sick and food for the hungry, that person has much deeper problems than what we can discuss in an interview."

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell latest explainer video tackles the human microbiome - those passive, friendly, and unfriendly tiny lifeforms that inhabit and cover our body and affect our health and behavior in profound ways.

This new video from the School of Life present the concept of psychological asymmetry, and why we aren't as odd or special as we might think.

Columbus, Ohio boasts one of the fastest-growing economies in the midwest, with gains in transit, creditworthiness, and employment -- but it's also one of the most unequal cities in the country, where infant mortality is soaring alongside a horrific drug epidemic, both of which disproportionately affect poor people. (more…)

I am a die-hard Thinkpad user: they have the best warranty service of any laptop, by orders of magnitude, they're rugged enough to survive book tours, and it's very easy to install GNU/Linux on them (which is a good thing, given Lenovo's penchant for preinstalling spyware on the stock OS). (more…)

Frank Wu writes, "My wife Brianna Wu decided to run for US Congress on a serious platform of fighting for intelligent tech policy and against wage and racial inequality, and in opposition to Donald Trump’s unhinged ideas. She asked my opinion. I said I would support her in any way possible, especially if she was OK with me making my own awesome campaign ad for her. Well, here it is."

"It's an algorithm" was never a good excuse, but YouTube's had plenty of time to fix this one, and they don't even pretend to care anymore, even after media began to set quotes from anguished victims against those of smugly indifferent anonymous spokespeople.The Guardian:

The Stranger's David Lewis snuck into the Northwest Forum, a s00per s33kr1t Nazi gathering in Seattle, and attended the speeches, including the keynote by reclusive white supremacist leader Dr Greg Johnson. (more…)

At yesterday's Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Senator Elizabeth Warren took a moment to enumerate all the ways that Equifax will benefit from doxing 145,500,000 Americans. (more…)

Como identificar um comunista.

People visiting Scotland's Orkney Islands wanting to travel between Westray and Papa Westray -- islands a mere 1.7 miles apart from each other -- will most likely take a flight on an eight-seater plane. Clocking in at 80 seconds, the hop from island to island is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world.The Scottish regional airline Loganair has been flying this route since 1967 and charges approximately £21 one-way ($28) for the service.In this Great Big Story video, its head pilot Colin Mcallister says, "The flight is used almost as a bus service."(reddit)

On Tuesday night, the words "FUCK TRUMP," as well as other political statements, were projected on the Odd Fellows building on Park Street in Alameda, Calfornia.I live in Alameda, and have for many years.It's a beautiful, quiet island suburb wedged between San Francisco and Oakland. Our public schools are highly rated and it's known as a safe place to raise kids.In fact, my friend Sunny jokingly coined it the place "where hipsters come to breed," which is funny because it's true. That bumper sticker already exists.We have a grand Art Deco movie theatre, a world-famous tiki lounge, and a Fourth of July parade that can make the most disaffected feel a tinge of patriotism.Life moves a bit slower here, literally. The speed limit is 25 MPH on nearly all of the island, a throwback to when the island had a military presence.Alameda is so quaint that it earned the apt nickname, "Mayberry by the Bay."We have our issues, though it has felt as if our sheltered bubble had become remarkably unpoppable until the past couple of years.Still, it was a surprise to see such powerful words broadcast publicly on our main drag. And it wasn't just "Fuck Trump" being featured, there was a whole slideshow of messages with a distinct "Resist" bent. I'm not complaining, it was simply something I'd more expect to see in one of our other, more politically-active, East Bay cities like Berkeley.A photo and a video of the projections were posted in several closed Facebook groups created for Alameda residents, as well as in the public-facing Resistance SF Facebook page. In the closed groups, there is quite a heated debate. Most seem for the bold projections, though some worry "about the children." Others are clearly pro-Trump and completely opposed to the messaging.The man responsible was unavailable for comment but his voice can be heard describing his giant lighted messages in the video. He writes, in one of the closed groups, "I projected this tonight. Shining light is a peaceful way to resist."

In early 2016, comedian Larry David played beside Senator Bernie Sanders in an SNL skit. He also portrayed the Vermont politician in "Bern Your Enthusiasm," an SNL spoof of his own show Curb Your Enthusiasm.David's performance was so spot-on that he received an Emmy award.The pair learned earlier this year, by appearing on the PBS celebrity genealogy research show Finding Your Roots, that they are actually related. On Tuesday night, when the show's season four premiere aired, we got to see their reactions on learning that their DNA proves they are cousins.Both Brooklyn natives were charmed by the news.Sanders responded with a laugh, "You're kidding, oh my God! That's unbelievable." David remarked, "That is really funny. That is amazing. Alright, Cousin Bernie."(Consequence of Sound)

Sure you could buy a pre-made spray paint can safe but what's the fun in that? I mean, it doesn't appear to be that difficult to craft one of your own out of an empty can.Besides the used can, you just need a can opener*, PVC coupling, two-part epoxy, sticky-back craft foam, masking tape, and a rotary tool with sandpaper attachments. This tutorial by Instructables user seamster shows you how.*I'm wondering if one of these Tupperware can openers would work better to take off the bottom of the can. It pops the seal off of (regular food) cans instead of cutting into them which means there are no jagged edges.

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The stark concrete style known as Brutalism is instantly recognizable in architecture, just as it is with this espresso machine by design studio Montaag of Berkeley, California. Not content with the current aesthetic offerings of espresso machines, they decided to create their own. Bare concrete became the machine's outer shell after the studio's team went on material-discovering expeditions through local salvage yards. The result of their efforts is the AnZa (which is also available in slick white Corian):

I love decorating with owls and I use a lot of bell jars to store stuff in my kitchen. I ordered 77oz and 53oz versions of this great owl jar from Amazon!There is also a 40z jar, but I haven't gone there yet.

At contests in Southeast Asia, bird trainers compete to see whose bird is the best singer. From Clive Bell's article in The Wire:

Looks like Trump was right when he called the moron story "fake news." MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle, one of the reporters behind the claim that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a moron, made a correction today. Earlier reports on Tillerson's statement were flat-out wrong. "My source didn't just say that he called him a moron, he said a f-ing moron." Glad she cleared that up!Image: DonkeyHotey

It's fun to watch an A-list designer like Aaron Draplin (creator of Field Notes notebooks) how he goes about designing a new logo. Here, he was challenged to design a logo for a concrete foundation company. He starts by just writing the name of the company with pencil and paper (not on a computer) and sees what the letters suggest. Then he "digs around" through old design and corporate identity books he likes. Only after he's filled a bunch of pages with thumbnail sketches does he move to Adobe illustrator.[via All Good Found]

More about "the evolution of Queen Elizabeth II, as shown by banknotes" in this Washington Post article from 2015.(via r/interestingasfuck)

I bought this cute handpainted octopus cup $16 on Amazon) as a Christmas present. I'm not going to tell the recipient how to use it, but I think it would be a cool toothbrush holder.

Before state fairs became best known for Krispy Kreme doughnut burgers and other artery-hardening delights, they made the news for such compelling athletic activities as a Rolling Pin Throwing Competition. This clip is from the 1979 Iowa State Fair. Special bonus points for the soundtrack of a disco-ized theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (via r/ObscureMedia)

Hell is a ghost of a game, completed in a rush for a game jam, but what's there is a perfectly dark revisiting of those lighthearted 1980s Mac OS exploration games from the age before Myst. Waking up dead, you find yourself exploring a series of surreal but oddly tangible places, many containing seemingly trivial decisions that will affect later events. You can zip through it in a few minutes, and there are tantalizing hints -- the operating system "frame", the symbolic references to a life left behind, the shadowy figures here and there -- that never converge to mean much of anything. But it's quite evocative and the author, ahintoflime, says they're planning on expanding it into a more complete experience. And the monochrome artwork is beautifully bitty.

Athletic Silvio Sabba from Italy doesn't just pull on underwear like a normal person – he leaps high into the air and then, with perfect aim, lands his feet through the undie leg holes in record speed. He just broke his own Guinness World Record, jumping into 13 pairs of underwear in 30 seconds. Bravo!

On September 29, weeks after Equifax admitted to having lost the most sensitive financial and personal information of 143,000,000 Americans (but a week before Equifax admitted that the total was actually 145,500,000) (and counting), the IRS awarded the company a no-bid contract for $7,250,000 to verify taxpayer identities and curtail fraud. (more…)

Data analysis company Gravwell ingested 22,000,000 comments sent to the FCC's docket on Net Neutrality and posted their preliminary findings, which are that the majority of comments came from bots, and these bots oppose Net Neutrality; of the comments that appear to originate with humans, the vast majority favor Net Neutrality. (more…)

I bet he's a master at parallel parking his daily driver too.(via Laughing Squid)

The average American worker has $95,000 in their 401(k), which will not even allow them to starve with dignity; this is a sharp contrast from earlier generations of American workers, whose employers provided defined-benefits pensions -- but it also is quite a distance from the CEOs of the biggest US companies, whose average pension benefit is $253,088/month. (more…)