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Record player + video camera =
Phonographantasmascope, animator Jim LeFevre's extension of the zoetrope. "It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating stroboscope methods other 3D Zoetropes use."
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at 12:38 AM on June 23, 2008
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New Kiribati "...will future climate change refugees become a new caste of service sector workers inhabiting a sort of Floating Hotel & Duty Free Mall ... ?"
Small island states are on the front line.
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at 8:16 AM on June 19, 2008
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GrifBall!
Red Vs. Blue's Sarge and Caboose introduce the rules. A sample match:
Bungie Vs. RvB. Context: Since the release of online multiplayer first-person shooter Halo 3, Bungie have allowed players to customise maps with the placement of objects, weapons, spawn points etc. using the
Forge feature. Combined with customisable rule sets, unusually innovative custom games are possible.
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at 6:16 AM on June 17, 2008
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Ping.fm lets you update your social network statuses, blogs and microblogs simultaneously from one place. The current
sign-up beta code is "tastyping".
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at 2:23 AM on June 12, 2008
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page2rss is a simple, effective RSS scraper. For instance, here's an
RSS feed for
Astronomy Picture of the Day. A powerful feature: "You can add a button to your browser's bookmarks toolbar that will create Page2RSS feed for the page you are currently viewing."
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at 2:18 AM on June 2, 2008
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Peculiar corpses: "
Incorruptibles remaining free of decomposition have baffled scientists to this day. These bodies are discovered in many different environments, including environments that would typically cause an accidental or deliberately preserved corpse to decompose rapidly." The photographed examples seem to all be associated with Christian faith. Hmm. "[At Oratorio di San Lorenzo] in Palermo, however, corpses are treated as characters in a play":
The Museum of the Dead, reassuringly less preserved.
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at 4:25 AM on May 30, 2008
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"When I get the time when I'm not raking, whenever I'm near water, I'll beach comb for bits of wood, feather or anything else that appeals and make
some boats."
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at 1:14 AM on April 21, 2008
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"Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug". Stranger Photos Have Happened.
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at 4:03 AM on March 21, 2008
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Lucky Soul's 'Lips Are Unhappy'
isn't the likliest of contenders for the UK's coveted Christmas number one, but this is the track (from a shortlist) selected by listeners of Last.fm to receive Last.fm's backing. Profits go to charity, as is the norm for Xmas No. 1 entries.
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at 8:55 AM on November 26, 2007
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See For Yourself
- Purves Lab's optical illusions web page with empirical explanations of familiar and unfamiliar illusions.
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at 3:32 AM on November 16, 2007
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Ninjatune podcasts
including Coldcut and Big Dada podcasts, a Ninjacast which delves into the record crates of various ninja artists, and of course a Solid Steel podcast with 60-odd mixes available.
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at 3:13 AM on November 10, 2007
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These Come From Trees
"Testing shows a 'These Come From Trees' sticker on a paper towel dispenser reduces paper towel consumption by ~15%"
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at 8:18 AM on November 7, 2007
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Don't know which candidate to support in the 2008 election? Let a
web script match a candidate to your views!
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at 6:21 AM on August 9, 2007
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Operation Banner [
Wikipedia], the British Armed Forces' campaign in Northern Ireland that began in 1969, ended midnight on July 31, 2007. The period included Bloody Sunday in which 13 civilians were killed by the British Army. The Guardian have published
a summary of significant events (and one going
further back). In pictures:
Guardian,
BBC.
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at 11:16 AM on August 1, 2007
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