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Solar Eclipse Cruise Grooves to Boredoms’ Electro-Drum Circle
Avant-garde Japanese band Boredoms is taking its electronically enhanced drum circle shtick to the middle of the ocean, where it will provide a live soundtrack to a total solar eclipse. Organizers of Tokara The Sun & Moon Festival have booked a Russian ferry and hired the Boredoms, along with New York’s Gang Gang Dance and Japan’s [...]
06.16.09 From Underwire -
Burris’ Shock Discovery: the Pentagon Has Research Labs!
How lame of a Senator is Roland Burris, the hack brought in by Illinois’ indicted ex-governor to take Barack Obama’s seat? The guy has himself an appointment to the Armed Services Committee. Which means he oversees the Pentagon, in theory. But during last week’s proceedings of that committee, Burris seemed genuinely shocked to discover that [...]
06.16.09 From Danger Room -
‘Weird Al’ Channels Lizard King on ‘Craigslist’
Veteran musical spoofer “Weird Al” Yankovic does his best Jim Morrison imitation in a new song called “Craigslist.” The lyrics to the song, a low-key rant with occasional Lizard King-style yowls, could have been copied-and-pasted from ridiculous posts on the free classifieds site. The tune sounds a lot like The Doors, and for good reason: Original [...]
06.16.09 From Underwire -
Web Attacks Expand in Iran’s Cyber Battle (Updated)
More and more of Iran’s pro-government websites are under assault, as opposition forces launch web attacks on the Tehran regime’s online propaganda arms. What started out as an attempt to overload a small set of official sites has now expanded, network security consultant Dancho Danchev notes. News outlets like Raja News are being attacked, too. The [...]
06.16.09 From Danger Room -
More augmented urbanism oozing from purses and pockets
*I see a lot of these, but this one is spooky. Maybe because it is so divorced from the desktop computer paradigm. *Also, the pricing feature is hairy. I don’t think I’ve ever read an AR scenario where people walk around projecting price-tags onto stuff, but it’s so late-modern-capitalism that it seems stupid to have overlooked that. You [...]
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Steampunk break
*World needs more European steampunk. Enough with the Anglophone stuff already. *Got a very Max Ernst SEMAINE DE BONTE feeling in these. https://www.photomichaelwolf.com/le_petit_journal/
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
North Korea Hearts Ahmadinejad, Sends Congrats on ‘Victory’
Well! It’s nice to know that, in a pinch, the other remaining member of the Axis of Evil won’t forget you. According to Korea Central News Agency, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the North Korean Supreme People’s Assembly, sent a note of congratulations to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his apparent election victory: Kim [...]
06.16.09 From Danger Room -
3d Organ Bio-Printer in Action
*Okay, it’s a tad blue-sky, but I really like the look of that fabricator. That gizmo’s not exactly “printing organs” — it’s stereolithographing layered clumps of living organ cells separated with paper-thin sushi-wrapping — but hey, what’s wrong with that? Load it up with some turkey cells and you could, like, print out turkey bacon.
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Geeky Summer Reading for the Two-to-Fives
The two-to-five contingent are a wild and wily folk, changing whims and wants at a moment’s notice. And while the summer months are certainly time for play outside, having good books to lean on during thunderstorms, at bedtime and any time, is essential. Our son will be three in August, and here are a few books [...]
06.16.09 From GeekDad -
Iran Reporting = MSM Fail?
Iran has clamped down on foreign media, effectively confining reporters to their offices as the country braces for more anti-government demonstrations. Press cards have been invalidated, and foreign reporters have been informed they cannot cover “unauthorized” demonstrations, forcing news agencies to use screen grabs from government television. A BBC correspondent says these are the “most [...]
06.16.09 From Danger Room
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Scary-Looking Concept Bike is All Corners
While we like the thinking behind the BaubBike, a bicycle both modular in design and also fairly easy to build from standard square-section steel tubes, in practice it looks both dangerous and rather uncomfortable. There’s a reason bike frames have been triangular for so long: stiffness. A steel frame will flex a lot, and the triangle [...]
06.16.09 From Gadget Lab -
The least appropriate tweets from the big Twitter conference
*It’s the “140 characters” conference in New York City today, and the attendees (and their followers) are tweeting like there is no tomorrow. People are complaining that they can’t hear the speakers for the eager rattling of Twittering keyboards. https://140conf.twazzup.com/ *And what are they saying? Maybe 200 tweets a minute, and that’s just with the #140conf [...]
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
GM Killed the Wrong Brand
General Motors is unloading three brands and tossing one overboard in a scramble to stay afloat, but the one it scuttled may be the one it should have kept. It turns out Pontiac, which got the axe, is the brand people wanted to see saved and Saturn should have been sacrificed. That’s according to the guys over [...]
06.16.09 From Autopia -
Smuggled Doctor Who Photo Packs Major Spoiler
A new photo hustled from the set of the special year-ending Doctor Who episodes reveals a major bit of casting news and a huge spoiler for David Tennant’s final outing as The Doctor. The grainy photo shows Tennant standing shoulder-to-shoulder with John Simm (The Master). Simm’s appearance in the show is no huge scoop, but beside [...]
06.16.09 From Underwire -
Hands-On With Lonely Planet iPhone Guide NYC: Crashy, Handy, Bagel-y
In order to bring you the best, most in-depth look at the Lonely Planet New York City Guide for the iPhone, I took a week-long trip to the Big Apple. Is there nothing I won’t do for you, the loyal Gadget Lab reader? A little over a week ago we took a quick look at the [...]
06.16.09 From Gadget Lab -
This Food Is Out Of This World!
Duly inspired by the upcoming 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission which occurred July 16-24, 1969, FunkyFoodShop is offering 11% off their Professor Retro’s Space Food Sampler. The sampler includes a variety of foods eaten in space, all interesting and quite good. There is freeze-dried ice cream, freeze-dried fruit, drink powders and Space Food [...]
06.16.09 From GeekDad -
Encrypt the Cloud, Security Luminaries Tell Google - Update
Google is putting millions of users at risk of fraud from hackers and needs to enable encryption by default on its most popular web apps, including Gmail and Google Docs, a gaggle of security researchers told the search giant Tuesday in an open letter. At issue are the current default settings for Google’s popular web applications. [...]
06.16.09 From Threat Level -
Dan Aykroyd Called My House Yesterday
No really, he did! Actually, it’s not all that amazing; rather, it’s a pretty cool little bit of marketing. We put down a deposit on the new Ghostbusters video game at our local Gamestop, and the call telling us the game would be available for pick-up this week was a robo-call recording of Mr. Elwood [...]
06.16.09 From GeekDad -
GeekDad Goes to Taiwan: Travel Essentials
After spending three weeks in Taiwan (mostly in Taipei) with my five-year-old Geeklet, I have a better idea of what things are the essentials and which are a little more expendable. Here, a short list of what you really need while getting around the city. 1. Good walking shoes If you’re going to spend much time in [...]
06.16.09 From GeekDad -
GOP Warlords vs the Cybernetic Monkey-Men
*This satire really ought to seem funny to me. It has every kind of mordant, off-the-wall gesture toward humor that I commonly make myself. This must be a guy with a very similar sensibility to mine, who simply has a rather different ideological take on contemporary events. *I’m not saying I’d roll on the [...]
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond
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Happy Tux Paint Day!
June 16th, 2009 is the 7th anniversary of the very first release of Tux Paint, and thusly has been declared Tux Paint Day! What is Tux Paint, you ask? It’s a very fun open source drawing program for kids. Some features include a paint brush, rubber stamp, line tool, shape tool, text tool and a very [...]
06.16.09 From GeekDad -
Accordion Hero II Squeezes Out Counterfeit Concertina
Accordion Hero 2 is quite possibly our favorite fake product ever, even better than the non-existent Accordion Hero 1. Hit all the right notes and get the crowd on their feet waving their beer steins in unison - you are an accordion hero! Accordion Hero comes with one Gloss Black USB accordion controller. Kirschrot (Cherry Red) controller [...]
06.16.09 From Gadget Lab -
Fixed-Gear Freestyling From 1899
This movie was shot by (or at least for) Thomas Edison way back in 1899, and shows that the fixie-tricksters are doing nothing much that’s new. The rather dry description from the Library of Congress archive page describes the clip thusly: “Neidert,” of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his [...]
06.16.09 From Gadget Lab -
HonlPhoto Speed System Carrying Bag
David Honl makes cheap and useful light shaping tools for flash photographers. You may remember that we liked the look of the gear and had a crack at making our own fake copy of the strap’n’stick Velcro based kit, with pretty successful results. Just announced today is a new member of the lineup: a purpose made [...]
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DIY iPhone Dock Made From Dead CDs
What do you do once you have ripped every last one of your CDs to MP3 format? Take out a Dremel and some glue and turn them into a stand for your iPhone, of course. Those pointless plastic disks can now sit supporting your MP3 player rather than taking up much needed landfill space. To make [...]
06.16.09 From Gadget Lab -
I’ll let the furniture speak for itself here
https://www.fabbaloo.com/2009/06/chair-made-of-itself.html
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Watching Those Imaginary Gadget Ancillary Rights
https://www.scifi.com/warehouse13/ *I see. “Warehouse 13″ would appear to be a supernatural-fantasy TV adventure cop show, entirely centered around its special effects props: in this, steampunk gear. *I can’t say this development surprises me: it really seems logical and clever. What a cool way to monetize a sci-fi show. *You have to wonder what kind of *ads* would support [...]
06.16.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
BlackBerry Goes on Tour
Research In Motion has launched a new 3G BlackBerry phone called the Tour 9630 that continues the design aesthetic of its recent Curve and Bold phones. “With its striking design and well-balanced mix of powerful, useful features, the new BlackBerry Tour will offer a compelling choice for the growing number of wireless customers looking to upgrade [...]
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Olympus Camera Packs SLR Aspirations in Compact Body
Combine the large sensor and interchangeable lenses of a digital SLR with the compact portability of a point-and-shoot, and you get something that looks a lot like the Olympus E-P1. Cute, isn’t it? The E-P1 is a design homage to the Olympus Pen F, so unofficially Olympus is calling it the “Digital Pen,” which seems like a [...]
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Lost Season of Doctor Who Coming to Life as Audio Dramas
A sci-fi production company is restoring a long-lost piece of Doctor Who history by resurrecting the show’s cancelled 23rd season as a series of audio dramas. The shows, starring then-Doctor Colin Baker, were originally supposed to air in January 1986. But a cost-cutting network boss pushed back Who’s premiere that year to September, essentially killing the [...]
06.15.09 From Underwire
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GE’s Immelt: We Actually Hire People
If GE’s Jeffrey Immelt had any qualms about being the closing act at Wired’s Disruptive by Design Conference — the CEO of an established behemoth of a company following a full day of chats with start-up, bottom-up movers and shakers — he wasn’t letting on. “People may not like guys like me right now,” Immelt said, [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
See Them While You Can: Endangered Butterfly Gallery
<< previous image | next image >> digg_url ="https://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/butterflies/"; With so many creatures facing extinction, it’s heartening to read of the Large Blue butterfly’s resurgence. One of six members of the Maculinea family, it was once found throughout England but had vanished by the early 1970s. That’s when University of Oxford ecologist Jeremy Thomas went to study the [...]
06.15.09 From Wired Science -
High-Altitude Wind Machines Could Power New York City
The wind blowing through the streets of Manhattan couldn’t power the city, but wind machines placed thousands of feet above the city theoretically could. The first rigorous, worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there is enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to 40,000 feet to meet global electricity demand a hundred times [...]
06.15.09 From Wired Science -
Pirate Bay Launches VPN Service
The operators of The Pirate Bay launched a long-awaited VPN service Monday, promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online. The IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service, at about $7 monthly, is named for Sweden’s IPRED law that went into force in April. That law empowers copyright owners to acquire data from ISPs identifying [...]
06.15.09 From Threat Level -
Jeff Bezos: Why the Kindle Is So Expensive
Nobody is likely to confuse a Kindle with a cellphone, but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said Monday he considered the cellphone business model: undercharge for the device and make it up on content and service fees. But, Bezos told Wired’s Steven Levy at Wired’s Disruptive by Design conference in New York, it’s cheaper in the long [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
In Paris, Arms-Dealers Unleash Mime for Fresh Video Assault
Israeli arms-maker Rafael was teased from Tel Aviv to Mumbai when it made a beyond-awful Bollywood-themed music video, touting its missiles to the refrain “dinga dinga dee.” So, naturally, the company stopped making promotional clips that play on cultural stereotypes, right? Amazingly, no. For this year’s Paris Air Show, Rafael has produced a new promotional clip. [...]
06.15.09 From Danger Room -
Electrifying News From Jaguar
We already knew Jaguar is developing on a range-extended electric version of its venerable XJ sedan, but now comes word that the British automaker plans to go electric with a drop-top two-seater. Jag is hard at work on the XE roadster, and the word from Conventry is the car could come with an optional range-extended electric [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia -
Palm Pre Scores a Modest Hit, Despite Problems
One week after its launch, the Palm Pre appears to be a modest success for the struggling handset maker and its carrier, Sprint. Despite problems with supply and consumers who are disappointed by the device’s puny battery life, the companies together sold enough smartphones — helped in part by a well-orchestrated publicity campaign — to put [...]
06.15.09 From Gadget Lab -
Minotaur Maps Pixies’ Massive Pop-Punk Influence
Back when the Pixies first debased pop music with five stunning albums in five quick years, nobody could have known the lasting influence of the band that jabbed “loud-quiet-loud” into alt-rock’s veins. Now, two decades after the release of Doolittle, the band’s most-applauded effort, a massive new art-rock retrospective called Minotaur serves as a monument to [...]
06.15.09 From Underwire -
Student Oscar Winners Play in Sci-Fi Sandbox
Pajama Gladiator hit the sci-fi sweet spot and came up a winner Saturday when the short film earned its maker, Glenn Harmon of Brigham Young University, the Student Oscar for best animation. Harmon was one of 13 college students to pick up trophies from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which held its [...]
06.15.09 From Underwire
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Senators Introduce “Run The Tubes Under The Highway” Bill
National broadband plan? We don’t need no stinking, national broadband plan, two Senators all but announced Monday, introducing a measure that would require states to build tubes for internet fiber optic cables under every bit of highway or rail they build or modify with federal funds. And that could be a lot of tubes, given the [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Male Libertarian Americans In the Computer Industry
*In case you were wondering why “Scientology Vs Anonymous” somehow felt so much freakier than “Mythbusters Vs Creationists”… https://www.reason.com/news/show/133865.html 20,000 Nations Above the Sea Is floating the last, best hope for liberty? by Brian Doherty July 2009 (((
06.15.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
Battlestar Boss Teases The Plan Spinoff
What’s the plan for The Plan? Cast members from the TV movie spinoff of Battlestar Galactica have yet to be confirmed for July appearances at Comic-Con International, but series’ co-creator Ronald D. Moore offered clues about what to expect during a recent conference call. “There are definitely surprises,” said Moore of the two-hour movie directed by [...]
06.15.09 From Underwire -
Bristol Cars Offers Bespoke Souvenirs
The boutique British carmaker Bristol, known for “making a few less cars than people want to buy,” has begun offering an exclusive line of souvenirs for their most devoted fans. Just don’t try to order online. If you’ve never heard of Bristol, you’re not alone. The company prides themselves in exclusivity and an understated luxury that’s [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia -
Anonymous and Secure TorFox Browser Foils the Script Kiddies
Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean somebody’s not logging your web activity surreptitiously. Lucky for you, there’s TorFox, a new mashup that marries the open-source Firefox web browser with the venerable Tor anonymizing web router service. The browser can be loaded up on a USB stick and run on any PC without writing any logs, [...]
06.15.09 From Webmonkey -
Sea Arrrgh
*Normally I don’t post this strange outpourings of this “organization,” but the blog here is swarming with big glossy seductive Scientology ads this week. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Sea Arrrgh shivers the timbers of Scientology Worldwide - In this month of June 2009, Anonymous launches OPERATION CRUISE CONTROL, also christened as Sea Arrrgh II, an international event which brings [...]
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Vivek Kundra, America’s CIO, Details Plan to Let Us Mash Government Data
Bureaucratic inefficiency and secrecy around government data have been hallmarks of our federal government since politicians wore powdered wigs. The country’s new chief information officer hopes to mutate governmental DNA in the direction of openness by releasing a massive amount of data about everything from swine flu to train schedules to the public, in a [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Are You a Pixies Fan? Prove It and Win Signed Minotaur Box
Minotaur isn’t your father’s box set, according to Pixies’ front man Black Francis. The massive package, which comes in a $495 limited edition and a $175 deluxe edition, “goes beyond sticking five CDs into a box,” he told Wired.com by phone, while picking up a pair of custom Clarks from “a very unusual cobbler.” “It truly [...]
06.15.09 From Underwire -
Bollywood for Beginners
*We haven’t had a Bollywood post in a while. But a Bollywood guide from American leftist radical mag “Mother Jones”?! Gee whiz, gotta blog that one. https://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/video-bollywood-beginners *Features embedded video!
06.15.09 From Beyond The Beyond -
FiatChrysler - The Next Better Place for EVs?
Fiat and Chrysler have only just married, but Silicon Valley startup Better Place already is looking to the automaker to help push electric vehicles into the mainstream. Some top guys at Better Place, including chairman Idan Ofer, recently met with Lapo Elkann, grandson to and one of the heirs of the late Gianni Agnelli, the principal [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia
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Crunching Iranian Election Numbers For Evidence of Fraud
It was a Dewey-Truman upset all over again, but without the picture-worthy banner headline. High on a wave of support from Iranian youth, reformist candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi was ready to claim victory in Iran’s presidential election last Friday. But before the night was over, he’d been deposed by official results reporting that incumbent hardliner Mahmoud [...]
06.15.09 From Threat Level -
Exploring the Moral Toll of War in Army of Two
LOS ANGELES — A locker full of weapons. A panicked security guard waving a revolver. We, two armed mercenaries, could shoot him and take the guns. But at what cost? Army of Two: The 40th Day, coming later this year for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, has its work cut out for it. The original Army [...]
06.15.09 From GameLife -
How to: Build a Next-Gen Aircraft Carrier
Think your job is complicated? Try building America’s first new class of aircraft carrier in two generations. A while back, I took a trip down to Newport News, Virginia, where Northrop Grumman engingeers are putting together the 100,000-ton monster ships that are supposed to form the backbone of the U.S. Navy for the next 100 [...]
06.15.09 From Danger Room -
China Is the “EV Tipping Point”
China is poised to embrace electric vehicles in a big way. When that happens, cars with cords will catch on faster than the H1N1 virus. Shai Agassi, the founder of Better Place, says China is on the verge of green-lighting EVs. That could have a seismic impact on the production of electric cars because China is [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia -
The Lovechild of Xbox Live and Facebook
Neil Young, CEO of ngmoco:), almost ran out of time to show his video Monday, which would have been a huge bummer. He was supposed to limit his talk to ten minutes today at Wired’s first-ever business conference in Manhattan. Luckily, he couldn’t bear skipping his slide with a movie of hands holding iPhones that [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Shai Agassi: China is the EV Tipping Point
Shai Agassi has come up with the 21st-century adaptation of that oh-so-20th-century line about GM: What’s good for China is good for the rest of the world. Agassi, CEO of Better Place, told Wired’s first ever business conference Disruptive by Design Monday that China is on the verge of green-lighting electric cars in a big way. [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Gesture Controlled Mouse Makes its Retail Debut
Nintendo’s Wiimote has been a big hit. Now a new mouse from HillCrest Labs uses similar motion-sensing technology to let users control an on-screen cursor with the flick of their wrist. The bangle-shaped mouse called the Loop Pointer is designed for use by consumers who connect their PC or Mac to a TV, says the company. Through [...]
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Peugeot Extends Diesel’s Dominance of Le Mans
Peugeot has at long last broken Audi’s dominance of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, placing one-two in a wild contest that once again saw diesels dominate. The race was expected to be another demonstration of Audi’s dominion over the Circuit de la Sarthe, where it had won five years running. But this year’s race saw [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia -
Iran’s Tweets: Windows into Protests - or Digital Mirrors?
The Tweets are coming in furious and fast from Iran’s growing pro-democracy movement. And it’s hard not to get caught up in the sense that all of Iran is getting swept up in internet-powered protests. Andrew Exum wonders whether our enthusiasm for social media can color our coverage of events. “Are we simply finding common cause [...]
06.15.09 From Danger Room -
Mysterious Gamma-Ray Bursts May Have Ties to Failed Black Holes
Gamma-ray bursts are the most massive explosions in the universe since the Big Bang, and yet scientists still know relatively little about them. Dark bursts, such as the one in the center of the artist’s rendering above, remain especially mysterious. New research published last week on the arXiv website, and not yet peer reviewed, suggests that [...]
06.15.09 From Wired Science
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Tesla Motors Founder: Let Me Run Detroit
Elon Musk has tackled electric cars, space ships and modular renewable energy stations. Now he wants a real challenge: running Detroit. “When the mess gets sorted out, I’d like to have a conversation with whoever’s in charge at the time — the car czar or whoever — and say ‘I’d like to run your plants, if [...]
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Five for Fighting (Tehran Edition)
* Massive opposition rallies; police backing off… or closing in? * “They used some kind of riot control gun in their last attack, never seen it before.” * State media switching sides? * “Follow the developments in Iran like a CIA analyst“ * Breaking through Tehran’s firewall
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Flickr Makes it Simple to Post Photos on Twitter
The photo hosting service Twitpic has emerged as one of the most popular way to post images to Twitter. But what about that Flickr account you’ve got? Surely there’s a way to get those images over to Twitter? So far, Flickr.com, the grand poobah of online image hosting sites, has largely ignored Twitter. But that’s about [...]
06.15.09 From Webmonkey -
OpenX CEO Sees Online Ad Renaissance on the Horizon
The internet has wrecked the conventional model of advertising-driven content, but parts of that model can be revised, OpenX CEO Tim Cadogan said Monday. And he’s here to help. “In the next year or two, you’re going to see an online renaissance in online advertising,” Cadogan told Wired’s first-ever business conference, Disruptive by Design. The renaissance, [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Activists Launch Hack Attacks on Tehran Regime
While demonstrators gather in the streets to contest Iran’s rigged election, online backers of the so-called “Green Revolution” are looking to strike back at the Tehran regime — by attacking the government’s websites. Pro-democracy activists on the web are asking supporters to use relatively simple hacking tools to flood the regime’s propaganda sites with junk traffic. [...]
06.15.09 From Danger Room -
Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson on the Future of Free
You could call it Anderson’s Law: Digital drives the prices of content down to zero. Don’t agree? It’s like arguing with gravity. “This law of gravity is un-fightable,” Wired Magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson told the opening session at Wired’s first-ever business conference, Disruptive by Design. “Because if you don’t do it, someone else will. Because they [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: Sam’s Sly Shipping Service
This week, super-villain Jack Smith’s right-hand, Samantha Sly is shipping out counterfeit action figures to a number of duped toy stores around the US; she needs a little help with packing the shipping cartons. E-mail your solution to the puzzle by 10:00 PM EST Thursday evening for your chance to win a $50 gift code [...]
06.15.09 From GeekDad -
Q and A: eMusic CEO Explains Controversial Price Increase, Sony Deal
When eMusic announced a deal on June 1 to start selling back catalog material from Sony Music Entertainment later this year, it also raises the prices of its monthly plans, upsetting some of its customers. On the surface, this looked to be yet another major-label money grab; in return for their favorite indie-oriented music service being [...]
06.15.09 From Epicenter -
Molding Glass Hands
My wife and I like to decorate our home with objects that have sentimental value. There are a few posters and paintings and objects that are relatively generic, but the things we value the most have a connection to our family in some way: photos of kids/vacations/weddings, portraits Jody’s mom painted of the dogs and [...]
06.15.09 From GeekDad -
Star Wars Cakes and More at Cake Wrecks
We GeekDads love our cakes. It’s even better when we can combine our love of cakes with our other interests. Cake Wrecks, one of my favorite food blogs, highlighted some great Star Wars themed cakes recently as a celebration of Star Wars Weekend at Disney. One of the featured cakes is this amazing replica of the Millennium [...]
06.15.09 From GeekDad
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Ironic Art Geek Ready for His 15 Minutes
Artist Howard Steenwyk has created a new line of capitalism inspired T-shirts open to interpretation by the general public, and he's giving some away to you.
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Robocalling for the Rest of Us with Phonevite
I coach my 6-yr-old in both soccer and baseball because, in general, I want to be the craziest person in charge of him. And that’s been great for our family: We meet people we otherwise wouldn’t; we spend a lot of time together outside; it offsets computer/Wii-screen pallor. But if you coach–or lead a scout [...]
06.15.09 From GeekDad -
Porsche’s ‘Widowmaker’ Gets Even Deadlier
The speedmeisters at 9ff have taken the already potent Porsche 911 GT2 and transformed it into an 850-horsepower beast decked out in classic Gulf livery that couldn’t be sexier. The BT-2 is a testament to the simple idea that more horsepower is always better. Not that the GT2 is a slouch, what with that 520-horsepower engine [...]
06.15.09 From Autopia -
Mario: Love Him, Or Hate Him?
Over the last 28 years, Mario has built an illustrious resume. He’s rescued princesses, cured infectious diseases, and amassed a fortune in gold coins. We’ve seen him in sports games, brawlers — even a first person shooter (sort of). And at E3 this year, Nintendo revealed their longtime mascot’s latest outings: a return to his 2-D platformer roots and [...]
06.15.09 From GameLife -
Queen Elizabeth Decrees It’s Now ‘Sir Christopher Lee’
The actor known eternally as a vampire and a fallen Jedi knight is now a real-life knight of sorts, as Queen Elizabeth II granted Christopher Lee the title of Sir. Lee received his new title along with golfer Nick Faldo, X-Men 2’s Alan Cumming, celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon and celebrity chef Delia Smith — among others. The [...]
06.13.09 From Underwire -
Taking to the Streets — and Tweets — in Tehran
Iranians are taking to the streets to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. While Ahmadinejad’s rivals claimed widespread electoral fraud — and appealed for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, to intervene. Khamenei, however, appeared on state television today to congratulate Ahmadinejad on his victory. It appears the authorities may have blocked text messaging, a [...]
06.13.09 From Danger Room -
Newly Discovered Element Needs a Clever Name
A gang of obviously very clever people have discovered a rare new element to stand proudly alongside Hydrogen, Barium and Krypton. Now, it needs a name. Sigurd Hofmann (one of the few newsworthy people you’ll see named “Sigurd”) at the Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany found a single atom of a super-heavy element. It’s all [...]
06.13.09 From Underwire -
International Phone Hacking Ring Busted; Stole $55 Million Worth of Calls
Authorities in several countries have helped bust an international phone hacking ring that cracked into thousands of corporate phone networks in the U.S. and elsewhere in order to route calls through the networks at the expense of the hacked companies. Three foreign nationals were indicted in the U.S., according to a document unsealed on Friday, for [...]
06.12.09 From Threat Level -
VIDEO: Mission One Electric Motorcycle On the Isle of Man
Thirteen bikes hit the grid for today’s inaugural TTXGP in the Isle of Man, and Mission Motors sent some video of its bike on the circuit during the practice session. Thomas Montano was one of 13 riders to line up for the start of Friday’s race and the first out of the gate. He circled the [...]
06.12.09 From Autopia -
Miyamoto: Why I Spiked Mario Galaxy 2’s Story
LOS ANGELES — Super Mario Galaxy 2 won’t have as deep a storyline as its predecessor, says Mario’s creator Shigeru Miyamoto. Super Mario Galaxy, the 2007 game that marked the iconic mascot character’s first adventure on Wii, was notable for the fact that its narrative was much deeper than the series’ usual paper-thin, save-the-princess plot. But [...]
06.12.09 From GameLife
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Miyamoto Wants New Zelda Exclusive to MotionPlus
LOS ANGELES — If Shigeru Miyamoto has his way, the next Legend of Zelda game for Wii will require the Wii MotionPlus add-on. In a roundtable Q&A session last week at E3, the head of Nintendo’s game design department told the press that the game would use the $20 add-on, which adds greater motion-sensing capabilities to [...]
06.12.09 From GameLife -
It Wasn’t Even Close For Green Grand Prix Winner
The top finisher in the TTxGP motorcycle green grand prix left the rest of the grid in his dust, lapping the course at an average speed of 87.43 mph - almost 10 mph faster than his closest competitor. It was no contest for Rob Barber, who was favored to win the inaugural event on the Isle [...]
06.12.09 From Autopia -
Q&A;: Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto on Mario, Zelda, Project Natal and More
LOS ANGELES — Shigeru Miyamoto has a lot on his mind. In a one-on-one interview at last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the head of Nintendo’s game design department and creator of Mario touched on a wide variety of topics: His new Mario and Zelda games, of course, but also what he thinks of the competition’s new [...]
06.12.09 From GameLife -
Back to the FutureGen: ‘Clean’ Coal Plant Gets New Backing
The Department of Energy’s flagship “clean coal” power plant has a new lease on life, thanks to a billion dollars from last year’s stimulus package. The plan to build the plant, which will be the first large plant to capture and bury its carbon dioxide emissions in the ground, was scrapped by the Bush Administration in [...]
06.12.09 From Wired Science -
Newspaper Twitter Feed Hacked
The Twitter feed of the Deseret News – owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — tweeted in unauthorized tongues for days until the San Francisco social-media site performed an exorcism of sorts. The feed for the Mormon site began broadcasting anti-Mormon musings on Sunday. The devil who hijacked the account locked out [...]
06.12.09 From Threat Level -
Meteorite Strikes Teen’s Hand; He Survives
One very unlucky German teenager was struck by a meteorite this week, but survived to tell the tale. Details are sketchy, but according to Telegraph.co.uk, as 14-year-old Gerrit Blank walked home from school, the red-hot object fell out of the sky, hit his hand, and crashed into the ground, leaving a foot-wide crater. “At first I just [...]
06.12.09 From Wired Science -
You Will Respect This VW
This rusty Volkswagen Type 2 Transporter first hit the road during the Eisenhower administration and it’s about as aerodynamic as a crate, but it can do the quarter mile in less than 13 seconds and probably blow your ride so far off the drag strip Lewis and Clark couldn’t find you. This 56-year-old breadbox recently did [...]
06.12.09 From Autopia -
Leaks, and How To Not Have Them
Here’s Sony’s Jack Tretton, speaking to Chris Morris at CNBC, on leaks: People don’t respect confidentiality in this industry. It’s tough enough to keep a secret within your own company, much less when you speak to third parties. So true. E3 2009, otherwise known as The Year In Which Everything Leaked, was a parade of anti-climaxes because [...]
06.12.09 From GameLife -
Election Official Moonlights as Political Consultant to Republican Candidates
A Texas registrar of voters has been working a second job selling voter data and campaign services to Republican campaigns, according to local news reports. Ed Johnson, the associate registrar of voters in Harris County, is the paid director of a small political consulting firm called Computer Data Systems, which he launched in 2003 with a [...]
06.12.09 From Threat Level -
May NPD: UFC Game a Smash Hit
THQ’s Xbox 360 version of UFC 2009 Undisputed was the top-selling videogame in the U.S. for the month of May, the NPD Group reported Thursday. I guess this sheds a little more light on why Electronic Arts just announced its own mixed martial arts game at E3 last week. UFC 2009 easily beat the everloving snot out [...]
06.11.09 From GameLife
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AT&T; Unveils New Privacy Policy. No, Really
AT&T has a new privacy policy, and this time it means it. Even the New York Times‘ Saul Hansell says it seems earnest, despite all that messiness with helping the National Security Agency warrantlessly wiretap the internet for years. Here’s the summary of AT&T’s new company-wide policy. * We will protect your privacy and keep your personal [...]
06.11.09 From Threat Level -
Su.pr Combines URL-Shortening With the Power of StumbleUpon
The Su.pr dashboard. Click the image for a larger view. StumbleUpon has launched a new URL shortening service known as su.pr. The site is currently an invite-only beta, but you can follow @stumbleupon on Twitter where the company is announcing invites. Now you’re probably thinking,does the world really need yet another URL shortening service? Well, no, but [...]
06.11.09 From Webmonkey -
‘DVD Jon’ Mocks Apple … Big Time
SAN FRANCISCO — Jon Lech Johansen, also known as “DVD Jon,” certainly knows how to rankle the establishment. As a teen, he cracked and published the code for breaking the content-scramble encryption system on DVDs. Years of legal battles later, he’s gone legitimate, with big-named investors such as Michael Ovitz and Li Ka-Shing behind his San Francisco-based [...]
06.11.09 From Threat Level -
Hands On: Red Steel, Rabbids, and Other Ubisoft Delights
LOS ANGELES — Ubisoft’s booth alone could suck up a great deal of an E3 goer’s time, with lots of quality games for every platform. Here are my quick impressions of everything I played or saw from the publisher. Red Steel 2 The original Red Steel, a Wii launch title, was the first game to use the [...]
06.11.09 From GameLife -
Video: Maple Seeds Ride Self-Generated Tornadoes
High-speed video reveals that maple seed pods remain airborne for miles by harnessing the power of tornado-like vortexes generated as they spin. The flat, elongated pods are densest at their seed-containing ends, a configuration that causes them to rotate while falling. Rotation produces the pods’ nickname — whirlybirds — and creates tiny vortexes above their leading [...]
06.11.09 From Wired Science -
Scientists Create a Form of Pre-Life
A self-assembling molecule synthesized in a laboratory may resemble the earliest form of information-carrying biological material, a transitional stage between lifeless chemicals and the complex genetic architectures of life. Called tPNA, short for thioester peptide nucleic acids, the molecules spontaneously mimic the shape of DNA and RNA when mixed together. Left on their own, they gather [...]
06.11.09 From Wired Science -
Swine Flu Upgraded to Pandemic, Sans Pandemonium
Swine flu is officially a pandemic, the World Health Organization announced today in upgrading its evaluation of the disease to its highest risk level. It’s the first influenza pandemic pronouncement since 1968. Through June 11, the World Health Organization had confirmed 28,774 cases of swine flu and only 144 deaths, though many, many more people are [...]
06.11.09 From Wired Science -
Preview: The Continuing Story of Mass Effect 2
LOS ANGELES — As I watched a Bioware employee churn through foes in a presentation of the upcoming RPG Mass Effect 2, one thing became abundantly clear: I’m going to have to play through the first one all over again, aren’t I? While the sequel to Bioware’s sci-fi role-playing game for Xbox 360 and PC is [...]
06.11.09 From GameLife -
Video: Century-Old Taxidermy Yields Clues to Climate Future
BERKELEY, California — A hundred years ago, zoologist Joseph Grinnell was thinking about you. Long before ENIAC or ARPANET, the visionary first director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California-Berkeley was focused on preserving data for future generations. He and other research biologists fanned out across California trapping and preserving the animals [...]
06.11.09 From Wired Science -
Feds Swoop In on Nationwide Pickpocket, I.D. Theft Ring
Federal prosecutors in Virginia have leveled conspiracy and bank-fraud charges against the alleged leader and nine members of a national organization of high-tech pickpockets that’s been the scourge of police around the country since at least early 2007. The suspects allegedly stole the identities and bank-account information from victims around the country through pickpocketing and other [...]
06.10.09 From Threat Level
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