June 7, 2016
We are gonna have a cat party!
Koo Koo Kangaroo is one of the strangest bands I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their music video, or why. [more inside]
ioerror may have errored
On June 4th it was announced that Jacob Appelbaum(previously) has stepped down from his role as an employee of the TOR foundation while they investigate charges of inappropriate behavior. The TOR project (previously) anonymizes Internet traffic and is seen as a key tool for dissidents and others who wish to avoid surveillance while using the Internet. Appelbaum has been a key contributor and passionate public advocate for TOR. It is not clear what impact his departure will have on the future of the project.
Usher - Honey Nut Cheerios, Twix; Macklemore - Cracker Jack, Dr. Pepper
This Is How Much Celebrities Get Paid To Endorse Soda And Unhealthy Food FROM NPR: A new study published in the journal Pediatrics describes the lucrative endorsement deals of 65 music celebrities. [more inside]
"Replaced by the simple twist of an Archimedes spiral"
Bill "EngineerGuy" Hammack focuses on one component of the Apollo lunar module. [SLYT] [more inside]
Unknown Man Dies For Unknown Reason
Why did this man travel 200 miles to die in the Peak District? The BBC looks at the unsolved death in December of an unidentified man who travelled from London to Manchester by train only to be found on the moor. The article is a companion piece to a Radio 4 podcast.
"Mr Coates risked life and limb in his stage performances..."
"... since the audience could not, would not, and did not, endure his interpretations of the classics. A riot was the inevitable result, death or serious injury the probable outcome, of these attempts." So wrote Edith Sitwell of the in/famous amateur thespian Robert "Romeo" Coates in her book English Eccentrics, here appreciated by the Paris Review blog. [more inside]
“We need less Gehrys, less Hadids, less bloated egotecture.”
Design for the One Percent by Alex Cocotas [Jacobin Mag] Contemporary architecture is more interested in mega projects for elites than improving ordinary people’s lives. [more inside]
the perfect cockpit for zooming through cyberspace
On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995, by Anna Wiener
The start up makes a step stool.
A DAD is helping his DAUGHTER move into her new apartment. They’ve rented a Uhaul, and hired movers, but he lives close enough — they’re from Westchester — that he thought he could come help, even though it’s a weekday, but he’s retired from being a wealthy banker, so he can do that sort of thing.Life, Screenwritten
GPS jammin'
FAA warns of widespread GPS outage. The FAA advisory (pdf). The FAA is warning pilots that there will be several widespread outages of the GPS syste centered on China Lake, California, home of the Navy’s China Lake Naval Weapons Center. A military GPS jamming system? Let the conspiracy theories commence.
That was the most Broadway response
And you could have it all... my empire of flavor...
It's a story of self-destruction, a wrenching reflection at the end of a life lived simultaneously too well and infinitely poorly, a lamentation of the pursuit of one more hit, hoping and fearing that this might be the one that kills you... set to Johnny Cash singing "Hurt".
The Sputnik Awards
The Sputnik Awards are a new prize for speculative fiction. The voting system is not like the other awards. [more inside]
Rad - Getting Crap Past The Radar
Good Dog
Use the Restroom Consistent with Who You are
NYC launches ad campaign reaffirming right to use bathrooms that are consistent with gender Identity. I thought we could use a bit of nice news. Linking to the NYC.gov page, because the comment sections on various news sites announcing this are a bit of a trip, and no one needs that shit.
It's a beautiful day for a horror movie... Let's play two!
Back in 2013, we saw Sadako from The Ring throw out the first pitch at a baseball game in Japan. Then earlier this year, we saw the trailer for the upcoming The Ring/The Grudge crossover movie, Sadako vs. Kayako. You can see where this is going: Sadako throws out first pitch against Kayako at Japanese baseball game. (Via.)
Nova Alea
Nova Alea is a small real-estate speculation game loosely modeled on the rent-gap theory. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. [more inside]
We were wrong about gravity...what do we have wrong today?
We are on the brink of a historic moment...
With 694 delegates up for grabs between five primaries and a caucus, it has been widely predicted that Secretary Clinton would surpass the 2383 delegate threshold needed to clinch the democratic presidential nomination today.
Jumping the gun, The Associated Press is reporting that, by their count, Clinton has already reached this number. Senator Sanders' campaign has condemned the media for its "rush to judgement" and the Clinton campaign has simply said "we still have work to do". [more inside]
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