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Desire Bot: A Twitter Bot That Re-Posts What the World Wants A Twitter bot that reposts tweets it finds that begin with 'I just want' and pairs the nouns used in that tweet with matching images from Flickr. [via mefi projects]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 10:16 PM PST - 19 comments

"Death #1: Devoured by bats. Death #2: Sailed too close to the Elder Continent; my ship, bones gained sentience." People have been discussing Sunless Sea, the nouveau-Roguelike game just released by FailBetter Games. What else are they saying? Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "...the most delicious collection of words in all of gaming." Eurogamer: "This is the video game at its most mystical and revealing." There is, of course, a trailer. [more inside]
posted by jsnlxndrlv at 10:12 PM PST - 49 comments

Camera+Wolf, lots of teeth and tongue... From the Wolf Conservation Center.
posted by HuronBob at 9:03 PM PST - 12 comments

Dagny Of Gor; or, what happens when Atlas Shrugged meets the works of John Norman.
posted by acb at 6:24 PM PST - 18 comments

The station is called Junction Gate, a colony seed that never fully blossomed. You see plans for mines, habitat modules, research facilities, and shipyards.
posted by boo_radley at 6:07 PM PST - 55 comments

I know you may not care, but I do. I care about how to tell a personal story like the one I’m about to write, without falling into a million traps laid out in front of you. I’m thinking of the issues of trust and betrayal that come across between a writer and his or her subject. The transfiguration that inevitably takes place in writing. And my friendship with Philip Roth: in which trust was the fundamental condition, despite ambiguity playing a subtler, if ever-present, role.
posted by nevercalm at 5:56 PM PST - 7 comments

"Another simple pseudo-scientist who gets a pat on the back for finding what he was looking for. No subtle thinking here. No qualifying or consideration of alternate interpretation. No honest presentation of the limits of your study. No alternative explanations. This is why the majority of social scientists are flimsy. It is a weak science desperately pretend[sic] it has hard evidence for complex phenomena." [more inside]
posted by Made of Star Stuff at 2:50 PM PST - 64 comments

"A man who doesn’t help is 'busy'; a woman is 'selfish'." Regardless of your opinion of the advice Sheryl Sandberg gives to women in this article, it has some interesting (and disheartening) statistics about how the majority of "office housework" is expected to fall to women:

In a study led by the New York University psychologist Madeline Heilman, participants evaluated the performance of a male or female employee who did or did not stay late to help colleagues prepare for an important meeting. For staying late and helping, a man was rated 14 percent more favorably than a woman. When both declined, a woman was rated 12 percent lower than a man. Over and over, after giving identical help, a man was significantly more likely to be recommended for promotions, important projects, raises and bonuses. A woman had to help just to get the same rating as a man who didn’t help ... When men do help, they are more likely to do so in public, while women help more behind the scenes. Studies demonstrate that men are more likely to contribute with visible behaviors — like showing up at optional meetings — while women engage more privately in time-consuming activities like assisting others and mentoring colleagues. As the Simmons College management professor Joyce K. Fletcher noted, women’s communal contributions tend simply to “disappear.”

posted by Librarypt at 1:54 PM PST - 82 comments

Deep water freediving exposes its practitioners to a form of narcosis, which induces several symptoms, among which a feeling of euphoria and levity that earned this phenomenon its nickname of “raptures of the deep”. In the short film, Ocean Gravity, world champion freediver Guillaume Néry shows us what freediving looks like. In the short film, Narcose, he shows us what it feels like. [warning: may be vertigo-inducing, NSFW] [more inside]
posted by Room 641-A at 12:11 PM PST - 22 comments

Dylan performed no songs at the tribute to him. He just talked and talked. Here are some excerpts.
posted by Sir Rinse at 12:07 PM PST - 30 comments

It came to Al Gore in a dream 17 years ago: An Earth-viewing satellite at L1, streaming a live image of the "blue marble" to an "all Earth, all-the-time" internet TV channel. NASA quickly constructed Triana (nicknamed GoreSat by its critics*) at a cost of $100 Million, but, after the 2000 elections, the satellite was literally shelved.

After being pulled out of storage in 2012 --- and repurposed to also serve as a Sun-facing replacement to the CME-detecting ACE satellite --- Triana (now DSCOVR) will launch on Sunday at 6:10PM EST (watch live on NasaTV). [more inside]
posted by pjenks at 11:04 AM PST - 36 comments

Russia has a problem: Driving on the sidewalk. The remarkably brave activist group СтопХам ('stop him') are responding with cameras, windshield stickers and by putting their bodies in the way.

Episodes: • A Clash with Chechen Mafia • No Driving on Sidewalks • A Dude Shows Up with AK-47 • A Brawl with an MMA Fighter • Crazy Guy with a Crowbar • Guy With a Gun and a Bat • Confrontation with Nightclub Owner & Bouncers • Wannabe Gangster & His Mother • A Fight on Campus • Ladies' Day • Woman Goes Berserk • Hit & Run • Bully Vs. Wrestler • Bully Vs. Wrestler 2 • Magic Stickers • Passerby Punches Driver • Sticker for the Lady [more inside]
posted by anemone of the state at 10:32 AM PST - 44 comments

San Cisco are a band from Fremantle in Western Australia.
posted by josher71 at 6:39 AM PST - 9 comments

“I went on to the foreshore when the tide was out, looked around the riverbed and found three pieces within 20 minutes.”
(The Doves Type, previously.)
posted by scruss at 5:57 AM PST - 22 comments

Apotheon is a Metroidvania-style 2d sidescroller released earlier this week by Alientrap Games. The artwork? It's traditional. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 5:45 AM PST - 24 comments

It’s a question where the obvious answer is the right one – new audiences live there. Just as Tumblr is more diverse than the Internet as a whole, so comics fandom on Tumblr is more diverse than comics fandom on IGN or CBR or Newsarama. It’s younger, queerer, more racially diverse and most obviously a lot more female – and those voices lead the conversation, they don’t constantly have to fight to win a place on it. It’s also – perhaps anecdotally, perhaps not – newer to comics.

Tom Ewing looks at the (critical) success of Marvel series like Young Avengers and how it's reaching a new audience, the Tumblr generation looking for "social justice and feels". [more inside]
posted by MartinWisse at 3:01 AM PST - 29 comments