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by Rob Beschizza on (#169JY)
4 Artists Paint 1 Tree is a short documentary released by Disney in 1958, in which four of its best animators (then working on Sleeping Beauty) each paint the same old oak tree. An illustration of the depth of artistic brilliance and individuality informing the technical uniformity of an animated feature, it's well worth 15 minutes of your day.They're all great, but my favorite is Eyvind Earle's, top, closely followed by Josh Meador's on the left. To the right, Walt Peregoy ("Walt Disney was a shit. We made Walt. Walt didn’t make Walt. Walt was an asshole.") holds his modernist rendering. At bottom is Mark Davis, whose technique seems delightfully contemporary. [Thanks, Wendy!]
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by Cory Doctorow on (#169HF)
Alice Isn't Dead, a new podcast from the Welcome to Night Vale crew, debuts tomorrow -- get a sneak peak with this teaser (MP3), then subscribe.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#169GZ)
The Campbell Award for best new writer is voted on and presented with the Hugo Awards -- to be eligible, you must have made your first professional sale in the previous two years. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#169FP)
London chocolatier Chocolatician has made a custom Benedict Cumberbunny for Easter, available in milk, dark and white chocolates, dusted with gold- or bronze-coloured finishes (£50), or with a 22 carat gold bowtie (£70). (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#169DN)
The Department of Defense sent Muckrock a demand for $660 million as a requirement for fulfilling a Freedom of Information Act request for records about the Hotplug, a gadget that allows you to transport computers without shutting them down -- used by law enforcement to move suspect computers to forensic facilities without shutting them down and potentially parking drives in an encrypted state. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#169AG)
Seagate has emailed its employees and ex-employees to warn them that someone in the company sent their W2 tax data to a criminal who pulled off a successful phishing fraud. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1694W)
Charlie Stross is on a tear: he's catalogued 22 screens' worth of space opera cliches, grouped by themes: Planetary civilizations, space and cosmology, biology, economics, politics, culture, technology - space travel, technology - pew! pew! pew!, aliens... His readers have added 300 comments' worth of omissions. (more…)
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by David McRaney on (#1693B)
Why do you try to drain the world of color when backed into a rhetorical corner?Why do you have such a hard time realizing that you have suggested the world is devoid of nuance when you are in the heat of an argument, reducing all every wavelength to black and white, and all choices to A or B?In this episode, you’ll learn from three experts in logic and arguing why human brains are prone to the black and white fallacy and the false dichotomies it generates. You’ll learn how to spot this fallacy, what to do when someone uses it against you, and how to avoid committing it yourself.This episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast is the third in a full season of episodes exploring logical fallacies. The first episode is here.Download – iTunes – Stitcher – RSS – SoundcloudThis episode is brought to you by Trunk Club. Like Netflix for clothes, a professional stylist helps you define your new look, and then your new clothes arrive at your doorstep in a special trunk. Keep what you want, return the rest. Get started today and Trunk Club will style you for FREE. Plus FREE SHIPPING both ways! Click here for this special offer.This episode is brought to you by The Great Courses Plus. Get unlimited access to a huge library of The Great Courses lecture series on many fascinating subjects. Start FOR FREE with The Fundamentals of Photography filmed in partnership with The National Geographic and taught by professional photographer Joel Sartore. Click here for a FREE TRIAL.This episode of You Are Not So Smart is brought to you by Squarespace, the all-in-one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website or online portfolio. For a free trial and ten percent off go to Squarespace.com and use the offer code SOSMART.Support the show directly by becoming a patron! Get episodes one-day-early and ad-free. Head over to the YANSS Patreon Page for more details.Barbara Drescher is a cognitive psychologist and skeptical activist who lectured at California State University and currently serves as educational programs consultant for the James Randi Educational Foundation. Her website is ICBSEverywhere.com.Jesse Richardson is the founder of YourLogicalFallacyIs.com, a fantastic website where you can learn about fallacies and critical thinking and easily share what you discover. He is an award-winning creative lead on a number of other projects including School Of Thought.
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Hacking a phone's fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of inkjet printer and conductive ink
by Cory Doctorow on (#166GR)
MSU Computer Science researchers Kai Cao and Anil K Jain published a new paper describing a (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#166CH)
Nicholas Longtin writes, "I saw the Photoshop of Donald Trump with mouth eyes and I had to see what that would look like in full motions video. It's horrifying. You have been warned."
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by Xeni Jardin on (#164TB)
* PHOTOSENSITIVE SEIZURE WARNING *One of our favorite animation artists right now is Kytten Janae. Here are 10 samples of her psychedelic animated visual art as animated GIFs.(more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#164JH)
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by Rob Beschizza on (#1638A)
MAME, the arcade emulator originally created by Nicola Salmoria 19 years ago, is now comprised entirely of free and open-source software. It's taken a lot of wrangling, reports MAMEDev.org, due to the large number of contributors and interlinked components.
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by Boing Boing's Store on (#162QQ)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#161MV)
THE TL;DR: “Bershukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend†is a new vinyl collection of Adnan Othman's sixties psychedelic rock that was curated and produced by my brother, and released on Sublime Frequencies. In the 1960s, British and American rock was blowing the minds of young Malaysian teens. They listened to radio hits by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, and a generation of Malaysian musicians transformed what they heard into a new form of Asian rock and roll that was entirely new of their own. The new genre became known as Pop Yeh Yeh, derived from the Beatles lyric, “She Loves You (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah).†Berkushor, which means “gratitude†in Adnan's native language, will take you there. It's on Amazon, on forcedexposure, and good ole record stores. If they don't have it in your local vinyl shop, tell them to order it. Sound samples here.[caption id="attachment_451188" align="alignnone" width="600"] “Bershukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend Adnan Othman†[Sublime Frequencies][/caption][caption id="attachment_451193" align="alignnone" width="733"] Adnan Othman, on the cover of one of his original releases.[/caption]https://youtu.be/3pxWddNzf04THE LONGER VERSION:From the “Bershukor†release notes:
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#161CG)
Anika Burgess of Atlas Obscura posted a gallery of images from the book As Above, So Below: Art of the American Fraternal Society 1850-1930, which has a forward by David Byrne.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#161BE)
Kamalkant Shah, who worked as a technician for the State Police evidence laboratory, was accused of faking drug test results by "dry labbing" - which means just making stuff up. Shah worked on 7,827 criminal cases and the state is now reviewing each one.
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by David Pescovitz on (#1615Q)
***PHOTOSENSITIVE SEIZURE WARNING***"Thunder" (1982), a 16mm short directed by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito, with sound by Takashi Inagaki."Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media," Ito said in a 1984 interview with Image Forum. "My major intention is to change the ordinary every day life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films."(via /r/ObscureMedia, thanks, UPSO!)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1613F)
My latest Locus column, Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies, explains the ways in which "reputation" makes a poor form of currency -- in a nutshell, reputation doesn't fulfill most of the roles we expect from currency (store of value, unit of exchange, unit of account), and it is literally a popularity contest where the rich always get richer. (more…)
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by Wink on (#1613H)
See sample pages from this book at Wink.White Heat has long been my White Whale when searching through used bookstores. I’ve wanted this book for going on ten years. The first time I heard the name Marco Pierre White I had been reading a copy of Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, wondering if I had what it takes to be a professional chef (I did not). Bourdain mentioned White’s book, saying that it was the first time he’d seen a “real†chef in a cookbook, a sleep-deprived, nicotine-fueled, mad man in the kitchen.I thought that I’d finally found my copy when there was a re-release a few years back, but that paperback copy is the TV dinner to this 25th anniversary edition’s three-course meal. Can a home cook use any of these recipes? Maybe. The recipes are French. They’re complicated. And the ingredients include things like caviar, lobster, and pig trotter. But, the mistake is to think of this as a straight-up cookbook. You wouldn’t flip through a book on Picasso and expect to learn how to paint. This book is evidence in the argument that food can be art.While you might not find a recipe for something to cook on a Tuesday night, you will find: Beautiful, gritty, black and white photography that makes you feel like you’re in the kitchen with this lunatic. A chef doing what chefs do, smoke. The word “fuck†on more than one page. A fresh-faced Gordon Ramsey before he started calling people “donkeys.†And a handful of recipes for dishes that allowed White to become the youngest chef to hold three Michelin Stars. White Heat 25 is fitting for any bookshelf, coffee table, or kitchen counter. – JP LeRouxWhite Heat 25
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by Richard Kaufman on (#160Z8)
While the railroad at Disneyland in Anaheim, California is out of service for a year and a half while the route is being changed and “The Star Wars Experience†is being built, I thought it might be fun to take you for a ride on The Western River Railroad at Tokyo Disneyland, which remains exactly the same as it was on park opening in 1983.While the railroads at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris run around the perimeter of the parks and are a both a method of transportation as well as an attraction (the latter at some parks more than others), the railroad at Tokyo Disneyland is something else entirely.Because of burdensome government regulations regarding railroad operation which would have prevented a typical Disney-style railroad that circled the park with multiple stations, the executives at The Oriental Land Company (a consortium of well-known Japanese corporations formed specifically to build and operate the Tokyo Disney park) and Walt Disney Imagineering cleverly decided to do something different.Called “The Western River Railroad,†the attraction has four steam powered trains: The Colorado, The Mississippi, The Missouri, and The Rio Grande. There is only one station, which sits atop the entrance to The Jungle Cruise in Adventureland. It functions solely as an attraction, and so there’s a lot more to see (particularly after the subsequent construction of some major attractions after the park opened).From the station, the train runs around the perimeter of the Jungle Cruise and then past a small scenic station called Stillwater Junction. The tracks then curve around and begin to follow the bank of the Rivers of America in Westernland (known as Frontierland at all other Disney parks). Along the way, various animals, the burning settler’s cabin, Indian braves, and Indian villages can be seen. There is also a nest of bald eagle chicks with their parents, and a tribe of prairie dogs. Often the train runs parallel to the Mark Twain steamboat. It’s all cleverly done so that there are gaps in the flora which allow you to see to the far side of the riverbank.Continuing into Critter Country, the train passes The Beaver Brothers Canoes (the Davy Crockett Explorer or Indian War Canoes as they used to be known at Disneyland) and Splash Mountain. The train literally runs beside these attractions, providing great views.Continuing to circle around the banks of The Rivers of America, the trains reenter Westernland, passing directly beside Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (trains from that attraction frequently zip by), before it heads into a tunnel for Primeval World – a duplicate of the attraction at Disneyland, which consists of many of the dinosaurs and scenes from the New York World’s Fair of 1964/65.The Western River Railroad is unique in combining both tranquility with the kinetic energy provided by multiple moving vehicles from the many attractions it closely passes. And with every one its four trains running all the time, you rarely have to wait.Now take your own trip! (I must admit it was a bit chilly at 35 degrees, but in Tokyo the parks are packed year round.)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#160VS)
I had a great time interviewing cartoonist Daniel Clowes at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles about his Complete Eightball anthology. This video was shot in glorious VHS by filmmaker Rocio Mesa and was produced by Gaston Dominguez-Letelier.(more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#160C5)
Buying a Sodastream helped our family save big on soda water, reduce our plastic waste-stream, and resulted in us providing a steady revenue stream to a sleazy company that used to run a factory in the Occupied Territories whose business model relies on patent abuse in order to sell you compressed CO2 at a markup of several thousand percent.(more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#160AF)
Code is speech: critical court rulings from the early history of the Electronic Frontier Foundation held that code was a form of expressive speech, protected by the First Amendment. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#1605M)
The Atheists, Humanists, & Agnostics (AHA!) group at the University of Wisconsin at Madison has bought these rather good ads on the local city buses, inviting people for whom "relgion has stopped making sense" to come by for a chat. (via Skepchick)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15XJJ)
An anonymous ER doctor treated a woman who claimed she had a tracking chip embedded in her body. At first he disbelieved her -- lots of people suffer from delusions that they have implanted microchips -- but then she showed him the suture.(more…)
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by Jason Weisberger on (#15XJ1)
Including a fine example of the disco call. The Groove Line by Heatwave.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15XJ3)
Samantha Bee's monologue on the 2010 midterm election -- the election that will.i.am didn't make videos for, the election where progressives stayed away from the polls, the election that put the obstructionist, do-nothing radical right into Congress and the vicious, do-everything right into state houses across the USA -- is hilarious, but like everything Bee does, it has a sting it its tail. (via Metafilter)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15XH7)
Amazon's Kindle devices run a custom version of Android that, until today, supported full-disk encryption. Now they don't. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15XF7)
As part of his PhD research for UMass Amherst, Matthew MacWilliams surveyed the psychological characteristics of authoritarians -- not the people who lead authoritarian movements, but the followers, those who defer to them. (more…)
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by Jason Weisberger on (#15XCW)
The new Ghostbusters looks fantastic. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15XCB)
Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone cover-story on Trump was astounding, and the hits keep on coming. (more…)
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by Carla Sinclair on (#15X4E)
See sample pages from this book at Wink.Neil Gaiman’s stirring narrative of Hansel and Gretel combined with artist Lorenzo Mattotti’s oppressively black illustrations give the Brothers Grimm fairytale a nightmarish quality different from what I remember as a kid. Back then the terrifying takeaway was the trusting old woman in the candy-coated gingerbread house who transformed into a mean and hungry cannibal. Don’t get me wrong, the evil old woman is still mighty sinister in Gaiman’s book, but this time the takeaway was the horror of parental abandonment and betrayal. Maybe because I’m now an adult, or maybe because it wasn’t told in such detail when I was a kid (I can’t remember), the events leading up to Hansel and Gretel finding the gingerbread house in this version are quite unsettling. Although it’s a great creepy book for kids, I’d be careful not to read it to younger children who might be sensitive to the darker side of fairy tales. After all, there are no good fairies in this book.Hansel & Gretel
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#15X42)
This $8 flashlight extends to 22-inches and has a flexible gooseneck. The business end has a strong magnet and 3 bright LEDs.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#15X1M)
One of the many interesting items in Channel 4's documentary, The Mad World of Donald Trump, is TV presenter Selina Scott's account of how Trump began sending her "extremely abusive" letters after she revealed that he wasn't as rich as he claimed (video above starts at interview with Scott).From The Daily Mail:
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by Xeni Jardin on (#15X1R)
A sexual predator in the UK who raped five women and attacked two more after meeting them on Match.com has received a sentence of life in prison.(more…)
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#15WYY)
https://youtu.be/ulxoIly3jt4Davie504 took the strings off his electric bass and sampled the sounds of tapping the pick-ups, sticking the patch-cord plug into the jack, and hitting various parts of the bass. He sequenced the sounds to produce this snappy little instrumental ditty.
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by Mark Frauenfelder on (#15WXA)
The DEA, the prison industry, politicians, and drug cartels all know the war on drugs is unwinnable, but they make so much money from the catastrophic effects of drug prohibition that they have little motivation to try harm reduction policies, which are proven to be much more effective than a hard-line approach. I enjoyed this explainer video from Kurzgesagt (German for "In a Nutshell"), which bares the truth about the dumb and destructive war on drugs.
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15WHF)
The Book Fair Game is a new open/free title from Matt Finch, a game designer with a residency at the State Library of Queensland, Australia. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15WBE)
Andrew Hacker, a professor of both mathematics and political science at Queens University has a new book out, The Math Myth: And Other STEM Delusions, which makes the case that the inclusion of algebra and calculus in high school curriculum discourages students from learning mathematics, and displaces much more practical mathematical instruction about statistical and risk literacy, which he calls "Statistics for Citizenship." (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15W9M)
An unnamed shipping company had its unpatched content management system hacked by sea-pirates, who then sorted the ships at sea by the value of their cargo to help prioritize attacks to maximize the take. (more…)
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15W6K)
Jeffrey Martin writes, "Here is the largest photo ever made of NYC (more than 200,000 pixels wide). Shot handheld from the top of the Empire State Building with a 135mm lens and a 50MP fullframe SLR."
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by Xeni Jardin on (#15TN4)
The pot smoking scene from “Walk Hard - The Dewey Cox Story†never stops being funny. 'Specially after smoking pot.(more…)
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by Peter Sheridan on (#15TKJ)
[My friend Peter Sheridan is a Los Angeles-based correspondent for British national newspapers. He has covered revolutions, civil wars, riots, wildfires, and Hollywood celebrity misdeeds for longer than he cares to remember. As part of his job, he must read all the weekly tabloids. For the past couple of years, he's been posting terrific weekly tabloid recaps on Facebook and has graciously given us permission to run them on Boing Boing. Enjoy! - Mark]Marilyn Monroe’s body has been exhumed, the Easter Island statues were made by aliens, and it is now “statistically impossible†for Donald Trump not to win the Republican presidential nomination.Like the northern white rhinoceros and Yangtze finless porpoise, facts are a perilously endangered species in this week’s tabloids.The late novelist Jackie Collins’ $30 million Beverly Hills home is up for sale, and in a full-page feature the Globe magazine describes her in its opening sentence as “The Valley of the Dolls writer.â€In this era of Wikipedia and search engines, how does a reporter, and subsequently a sub-editor, fail to know that Valley of the Dolls was penned in 1966 by that other Jacqueline - Susann, not Collins? Mind-boggling.“I killed Elvis,†confessed George ‘Dr. Nick’ Nichopoulos on his deathbed last week, claims the Globe. Except he didn’t. Guaranteed. Dr. Nick spent the last 38 years denying that he had contributed to Presley’s death by overprescribing drugs. The tabloids routinely quote unidentified “sources,†“insiders†and “pals†to lend faux credibility to statements that are often plucked from thin air. When a deathbed confession is quoted without a single source, you know the Globe has become the journalistic equivalent of the guy you see at 3 a.m. vaguely wandering the aisles of the 24-hour pharmacy dressed in pajama bottoms, stained T-shirt and flip flops: they’ve just given up caring.The “real mother†of pop icon Michael Jackson’s children is “revealed at last†to be singer Vanity, claims the Globe, no doubt because her death on February 15 means she can no longer sue. The Globe’s informant? “A source very close to the Moonwalker†who “claims to have read sections†of Jackson’s “explosive secret diary.†In this one sentence, the Globe is admitting that it hasn’t seen any of the alleged source material, but has simply interviewed an unnamed source making unsubstantiated allegations. Fact-checking, anyone? As if to prove its point, the Globe prints a tear-out photo of a portion of Jackson’s diaries, disclosing bombshell revelations about “soda†and “cookies†. . . wait - that looks like Jackson's shopping list.Can’t argue with hard evidence like that.Julia Roberts’ husband Danny Moder has been “banished to tiny old ranch house,†claims the ungrammatical National Enquirer. I can’t speak to the accuracy of the Enquirer’s years-long claim that this marriage is on the rocks, but I wonder how many of its readers might wish that they too were exiled to a “tiny old ranch house†when in reality it’s a $6.8 million 1,770 sq ft home across the street from their Malibu oceanfront home?Angelina Jolie has a “new hunk†according to the Enquirer, which is shocked to find her photographed “on several occasions†with a “Brad Pitt ringer†in Cambodia. Well, he’s the cameraman on her latest movie, so let’s be honest: it’s hard to film a movie without the cameraman and star being in close proximity.“Marilyn Monroe body exhumed!†screams the front page of the National Examiner, declaring: “New autopsy proves sexpot was murdered by the Kennedys!†It’s a great story, until you open the magazine to find that Monroe has not been exhumed, and no new evidence has been found - it’s simply the tabloid's tame private investigator calling for the exhumation because “it’s possible†that new technology might determine if she was a victim of foul play.I’m as tempted to believe the Examiner’s claim that Easter Island’s majestic moai statues were “made by alien beings,†as the Enquirer’s proclamation that “Trump must be president†and “it’s too late in the race for the other contenders to catch him.†While it’s true that Trump holds a respectable lead and carries the same air of inevitability that one feels watching a movie thriller when you just know the serial killer will ultimately face off mano a mano with the lead detective in the final scene, there are many ways that Ted Cruz and even Marco Rubio could mathematically and statistically still win the nomination or a brokered convention. Yes, the bad guy almost inevitably gets nailed before the closing credits, but the Enquirer should remember that every now and then a Hannibal Lecter will get away at the end and have a friend for dinner. Not that I’m comparing Trump to Hannibal Lecter. I wouldn’t want to insult Dr. Lecter.The Enquirer has decided that the Illuminati is the “new Scientology,†branding it a "cult†that is allegedly recruiting celebrities including Britney Spears, Beyonce, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Celine Dion. Let’s be honest: that’s either a cult with very low expectations, or one orchestrated by a Las Vegas lounge booking agent.In the celebrity glossies, People magazine’s cover offers Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton's “untold love story.†which proves so banal it should have been left untold, while Us magazine features TV’s Bachelor Ben Higgins lamenting “I put her through hell†- though he can’t tell us exactly who he put through hell, since we have to watch the can’t-miss conclusion of his epic “journey†to find love before he can reveal which girl he’s chosen to give his Neil Lane diamond engagement ring - which by the way isn’t legally hers until the couple have been together for two years, or it reverts to Neil. So romantic.Kate Hudson and Hilary Duff wore it best, actress Aja Naomi King (Who she, Ed?) carries nail polish, sunglasses and keys in her handbag, singer Loretta Lynn confesses that she can’t swim, and the stars are just like us: they shop for flowers, eat dinner, and talk on their cell phones. Gripping revelations.And if you weren’t bored to tears by this year’s Academy Awards, then race to grab your copy of People, which has 50 relentless pages of Oscars coverage - and if that doesn’t reduce you to tears, nothing will, not even the thought of President Trump in reality being a northern white rhinoceros transformed by aliens into a Yangtze finless porpoise in a business suit.Believe me. I know a source.Onwards and downwards . . .
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by Cory Doctorow on (#15TJ8)
Churba writes, "Victor from Frostworks threw together a Markov Chain Bot that randomly generates and spits out eerily accurate Trump speeches at the push of a button." (more…)
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by Xeni Jardin on (#15TDK)
Actor Ian McShane will play the central role of Mr. Wednesday in an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel 'American Gods' for the Starz cable television network.(more…)
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by Jason Weisberger on (#15T96)
In-N-Out Burger is ditching the antibiotic treated beef. While ordering a double-double animal style with chopped peppers will still be powerful tasty, it'll no longer induce rage or allow you to challenge Barry Bonds home run record.(more…)
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by David Pescovitz on (#15T3S)
Mark Allen Thornton, a PhD candidate at Harvard's Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab built this wonderfully addictive Interactive Simulation of Collective Animal Behavior in Swarms/Flocks. You can tweak everything from the number of swarmers to distance between them to the randomness of their movement.(via r/internetisbeautiful)
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by David Pescovitz on (#15T3F)
If you're searching for some uplifting bedtime reading, you might enjoy this e-book of a 1953 CIA report titled "A Study of Assassination," made public in 1997 as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. Here are a few choice nuggets:
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