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My love for e-paper has not dimished.

(via geekologie, sparking tech)

The Intertube Madness is about to transcend datastreams and vox addled voice effects. February 10th marks the day you can march for Anonymous. They have rules, as noted, in the video below.

I won’t be there. I will be watching.

(via warren eills)

It’s not quite a glass-domed city yet, but St. Petersberg has taken the first steps towards that goal. British architecture firm Wilkinson Eyre, best known for the design of the Gateshead Millenium Bridge in Newcastle, unveiled a bold new plan to revamp the old market of St. Petersburg, Russia by putting it entirely under glass. Over the next few years they’ll be putting a giant sheet of reinforced glass over Aprasin Dvor, a shopping district. A matching glass bridge will span the river.

(via i09, ponzu

(found because of geekologie. the bastards)

It has been some time since I’ve seen a Handsome Donkey video.

That was all too short.

(via handsome donkey email, Agnes and Myrtle)

(via college humor, ponzu)

Don’t get any fucking new ideas, Chris Carter. Better yet, don’t bother revisiting old ones.

Well water of the tiny Canadian town of Gypsumville, Manitoba (population 65) has been poisoned by an extraterrestrial.

The invader: A meteorite which struck down almost a quarter-billion years ago, creating the 25-mile-wide (40-kilometer) Lake Martin impact crater.

The ancient impact shattered the granitic ground so that extraordinary amounts of fluoride now taint the well water. Slightly higher than recommended amounts of fluoride can cause mottled teeth, while even higher concentrations can lead to neurological problems and softened bones.

This is could be the first time a meteor impact has been tied to a modern health threat, say the geologists who made the discovery.

There is a special hell for you, sir.

A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts — documents representing “the heritage of all Americans,” according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay — to pay his household bills.

Daniel Lorello, 54, is accused of taking the rare items from the New York State Library, including Davy Crockett Almanacs, Currier and Ives lithographs and the 1865 railroad timetable for Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train. Authorities believe he hawked them for tens of thousands of dollars, using much of that to pay off his daughter’s credit card debt.

“This crime is especially repugnant, because it’s dealing with historic documents,” state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. “It’s literally stealing the legacy of the state of New York page by page.”

[...]

In a handwritten statement released by Cuomo’s office, Lorello said he took “more than 300 or 400 items in 2007 alone.”

He said he “particularly liked” artifacts associated with the Revolutionary, Civil and Mexican wars, World War I, black Americana and “anything related to the Roosevelts and Jewish items.”

Officials found hundreds of documents and artifacts in Lorello’s home over the weekend. Authorities believe the theft goes back to 2002, although it accelerated in 2007.

“I took things on an as-needed basis to pay family bills, such as house renovations, car bills, tuition and my daughter’s credit card problem,” Lorello wrote.

He said he took many items last year because his daughter “unexpectedly ran up a $10,000 credit card bill.”

Incompetence runs in the family. Surprise.

(via yahoo news)

Things I look forward to seeing.

Ambient Intelligence is a key component in the next epoch of mobile and wireless communication systems.

[...]

However, the enabling technology that provides systems with information to allow for Ambient Intelligence has been neglected and currently consists of many independent modes of input, mainly relying on active user interactions or specialised sensor systems gathering information.

Tangible results of the SENSEI project are:
1) A highly scalable architectural framework with corresponding protocol solutions that enable easy plug and play integration of a large number of globally distributed WS&AN into a global system -providing support for network and information management, security, privacy and trust and accounting.
2) An open service interface and corresponding semantic specification to unify the access to context information and actuation services offered by the system for services and applications.
3) Efficient WS&AN island solutions consisting of a set of cross-optimised and energy aware protocol stacks including an ultra low power multi-mode transceiver targeting 5nJ/bit.
4) Pan European test platform, enabling large scale experimental evaluation of the SENSEI results and execution of field trials – providing a tool for long term evaluation of WS&AN integration into the Future Internet.

(via grinding.be)

Seth McFarlane. I like what he did here.

Joked on both sides.
Check.

Made fun of BIONIC WOMAN.
Check.

Seth McFarlane, stop trying to make me like your comedy again.

(via ontd, squirrel monkey you tube)