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Rob Beschizza at 6:35 am • • 
Chemical analysis of Archaeopteryx remains show that the creature was patterned "light in colour, with a dark edge and tip to the feather", say researchers from the University of Manchester.
Rob Beschizza at 6:33 am • •
"What started out as a casual sightseeing trip to a historic castle in the Netherlands took a bizarre turn for one Dutch woman, who claims she may have spotted some kind of UFO." [Fox]
Rob Beschizza at 5:43 pm • •
In 2005, an unopened copy of the self-deleting game surfaced on Ebay where it was promptly bought for $733,000 by a man from Japan named Yamamoto Ryuichi. Ryichi had planned to document his play through of the game on YouTube. The only video Ryuchi posted was of him staring at his computer screen and crying.
Rob Beschizza at 12:55 pm • •
Expert troll Esteban Winsmore invades private residences in Second Life, the virtual world you haven't been thinking about lately, but which has finally achieved an uncanny and thoroughly creepy degree of virtual reality. [NSWF language. Thanks, Heather!]
Rob Beschizza at 9:36 am • •
We are often accused of being cynics. But even we can see quite plainly that the Prism story is huge, important, and newsworthy, and that the person who made the story happen deserves credit for helping it come out. Oddly enough, the cynics on this story reside in the ultra-establishment. They are the journalists and pundits who feel compelled to demonstrate their own sophistication by dismissing these revelations as old hat (though documented proof of these programs has never been seen before). They are those who have grown so inured to the gross overreach of government power that they can no longer conceive of it as scandalous.
David Brooks' piece is particularly grotesque, and not simply because going to it means having to look at one of his weird Zoolanderesque mugshots. Check out this paragraph:
He betrayed the privacy of us all. If federal security agencies can’t do vast data sweeps, they will inevitably revert to the older, more intrusive eavesdropping methods.
Don't make me beat you, honey.
Rob Beschizza at 8:57 am • •
The severed head of a deer was left on a self-service supermarket checkout, prompting a police investigation. The innards of the animal were found in one of the aisles of the Tesco shop in Saffron Walden, Essex, police said. ... A spokesman for Essex Police said nobody had been arrested. A spokeswoman for Tesco apologised for "any distress caused".
I don't know what the big deal is. Don't we all do the same when the stupid self-checkout won't beep something?
Rob Beschizza at 9:13 am • •
Alex Jones, American radio host and conspiracy theorist, was invited to the BBC's Sunday Politics. It is not to be missed.
Rob Beschizza at 8:11 am • •
Iain Banks, author of bizarre literary novels and visionary science fiction, is dead at 59.
Barely weeks ago, Banks announced that he was a cancer patient and that his latest book would be his last. Yesterday, the Sunday Times published an interview with Banks, in which he discussed the disease's impact and how it took form as The Quarry, which will be released June 20.
Rob Beschizza at 1:39 pm • •
For $75, Burner Phone will ship you a "completely anonymous" phone set up for 30 days of use. The only caveat: you then have to eat it.
Just kidding, you can throw it away. The payment system, which requires a credit or debit card, seems a weak link. Even if Burner Phone destroys their records, the banks won't. Also, you have to trust Burner Phone, and, presumably, whoever that dude is in their domain's DNS.
Update: Bitcoin support's coming soon, the creators say in a thread at Hacker News. [Thanks, Fredley!]
