prosthetic knowledge
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Students vs guns Texas seems likely to pass a new law allowing concealed weapons to be carried on all university campuses. This is, of course, contentious.
WTF?
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The Marvel Comics Swimsuit Edition via io9
Believe it or not, the Ghost Rider one (above) is the only one that seems sane.
Unless The Punisher is your thing …
More examples of Marvel characters, male and female, can be found here
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Ganjasaurus Rex
This film exists …. (via Dangerous Minds)
DEA agents burn a shitload of confiscated weed and the resulting cloud of cannabis smoke gets the attention of pothead dinosaur Ganjasaurus Rex in this stoner epic from 1987.
“Potzilla, Potzilla!”
Go to Dangerous Minds to see a clip of the movie
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Exblocker is a much-needed plug in, blocking all mentions of your Ex when you browse the web. (via stoweboyd / notational)
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Cockroach pimps a sweet ride via Hack-A-Day
Bio-hacking cockroaches?!!?!?!
This giant Madagascar hissing cockroach rides proudly atop his three-wheeled robotic platform. This project from several years ago is new to us and our reaction to the video after the break is mixed. We find ourselves creeped out, delighted, amazed, and saddened.
The cockroach controlled robot uses a trackball type input. A ping-pong ball is spun by a cockroach perched on top. The lucky or tortured (depending on how you look at it) little bug has an array of lights in front of it that illuminate when obstacles are in front of the robot. The roach’s natural aversion to light should make it move its legs away from that part of the display, thereby moving the robot away from the obstruction.
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Mortal Kombat - Rebirth (trailer)
EDIT: Just found out this is more a pitch to the studios than an actual promotional piece - a potential reboot to the franchise.
Trailer for the new Mortal Kombat movie. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the game when I was younger, but was never interested in computer game movies. Seems to have taken ‘The Dark Knight’-esque more real-world setting; yes it’s an improvement, but it was also a what-the-hell?!?!?!?!? I’m humoured and baffled at the same time ….
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Author hires actors to laugh in public while reading her book
via New York Post
This Memorial Day weekend, if you see a woman on the street or the subway laughing her head off while reading Jennifer Belle’s new novel, “The Seven Year Bitch,” it might be an act. Belle, the best-selling author of “Going Down” and “High Maintenance,” usually isn’t at a loss for readers. But this time around she’s gotten super-entrepreneurial. After receiving more than 500 résumés, she auditioned 100 actresses and hired 40 to fan out across the city and burst out laughing in public while reading her book. The actresses are being paid $8 an hour, a source said, and will hit high-traffic areas like the Red Steps above the TKTS booth in Times Square. Belle says it’s like in India where people hire professionals to cry at their loved ones’ funerals. “I’m hiring actors to laugh at my book,” Belle explains. “Publishing is no laughing matter these days.”
An idea for a flashmob?
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Ninjas rescue student from muggers
A STUDENT has been saved from a vicious assault - not by the boys in blue but the men in black.
Ninjas scared off three thugs who had the misfortune to attack the 27-year-old medical student outside their warrior school.
The German exchange student had been targeted by the men while he was riding the late-night train home, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.
They demanded he give them his wallet but when he refused and got off the train, they followed.
They pounced as he made his way through a dark alley in Sydney’s west.
They grabbed his phone and iPod and kicked him while he lay on the ground.
However, the men were spotted by a member of a nearby dojo.
Nathan Smith told his sensei and the rest of the students at Ninja Senshi Ryu and they rushed out to confront the thugs - all dressed in traditional black ninja garb.
On seeing the ninjas, the men fled, only to be later arrested by police.
“You should have seen their faces when they saw us in ninja gear coming towards them,” the school’s sensei, Kaylan Soto, told the Herald.
They also failed to notice a ninja, Nathan Smith, standing in the shadows outside the dojo. Mr Smith immediately alerted his sensei, or teacher.
Another ninja, Steve Ashley, said: “It was probably the worst place in Sydney where they could have taken him.”
via Herald Sun
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“For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko’s to upload clips from computers that couldn’t be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt “very strongly” that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube. Viacom’s efforts to disguise its promotional use of YouTube worked so well that even its own employees could not keep track of everything it was posting or leaving up on the site. As a result, on countless occasions Viacom demanded the removal of clips that it had uploaded to YouTube, only to return later to sheepishly ask for their reinstatement. In fact, some of the very clips that Viacom is suing us over were actually uploaded by Viacom itself.” -
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Video Delay in Processing: Memo Gives Us OK Go’s “WTF” Effect For Xmas UK creative coder Memo has released an early holiday present, a video delay system allowing us to reproduce the effect seen in OK Go’s “WTF” clip (Behind the scenes video on Youtube).
This piece really does contain all of The Good Stuff. Processing, live video, sharing code, the innocent joy of a child in song, and of course the Flying Spaghetti Monster (may we all be touched by his noodly appendage).
It really is super easy to get running, too. You need the Xmas2009 code (couldn’t think of a better project name Memo?), Processing, and the ControlP5 library installed. When that’s in place, the actual Processing code which builds the effect is only 104 lines!
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WTF? by OK GO
Brilliant music video
