Grizzly bear eats video camera: close up of terrifying maw
Here's a video of biologist Brad Josephs's GoPro camera being eaten by a grizzly bear in Alaska; he'd set it out in order to get footage for a BBC documentary. The grizzly went above and beyond the call of duty. …
More11 year old and his 3D printer
Alex sez, "My colleague Chris Neary and filmmaker Nathan Fitch made this great short film about 11-year-old inventor Andrew Man-Hudspith, who was so intent on getting a 3D printer he made a PowerPoint presentation to convince his parents to help …
MoreNMA on Rob Ford's crack video
Taiwan's Next Media Animation -- basically, news-of-the-weird, made weirder with instant machinima-esque videos -- weighs in on the allegation that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was caught on video smoking crack.
Crack smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford caught on tape! …
MorePrinting a gun is hard
Caleb sez, "The Department of Defense ordered that 3d printed gun removed from the Internet. That didn't work out. You can still download it and print it. I did, and found that the files are a mess and …
MoreHelp Young Knives get their record finished
I'm still mad that Young Knives' fantastic last record Ornaments from the Silver Arcade never got released in the U.S. (though we featured a song from it). They've been doing a lot of experimenting with ambient sound recording and …
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Woman smacks cop so she can go to jail and quit smoking
Sacramento's Etta Lopez apparently waited outside the Sacramento County Jail for a cop to emerge and then slapped him, so that she could be thrown into jail. She wanted to go to jail because she believed it would help her …
MoreHacking Politics: name-your-price ebook on the history of the SOPA fight
Hacking Politics is a new book recounting the history of the fight against SOPA, when geeks, hackers and activists turned Washington politics upside-down and changed how Congress thinks about the Internet. It collects essays by many people (including me): Aaron …
MoreChasing away the big black bird: a monologue on cancer and depression by Jeff Simmermon
I had testicular cancer in the spring of 2009. The cancer wasn't really the hard part, it was mostly the depression, combined …More
EFF beats the Trans Pacific Partnership to Peru, sounds the alarm about upcoming brutal, secret copyright treaty meeting
… MoreThe latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership starts today in Lima, Peru. Embedded in the trade agreement is an IP chapter that, according to leaks, exports the worst of US copyright
HOWTO make glowing Converse
The good people at Adafruit have an easy way to make your Chucks glow!
… MoreMake your logo light up with this simple Converse sneaker mod. All you need is EL panel and an inverter tucked into the tongue of your
Book-and-record set for the League of Space Pirates
Noah Scalin sez, "Thought you might enjoy this little video I made to promote the latest release from my science fiction project League of Space Pirates (yes, apparently they still have As Seen On TV commercials in the future). It's …
MoreHelp make Abercrombie and Fitch synonymous with homelessness
As you know, Abercrombie and Fitch is a horrible shitshow of a company whose owner refuses to make large sized clothes so that "unattractive people" can't wear them, and who burns surplus clothing rather than donating it to charity to …
MoreDictionary of Numbers: browser extension humanizes the numbers on the Web
Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that watches your browsing activity for mentions of large numerical measurements and automatically inserts equivalences in real-world terms that are meant to clarify things. For example, a story about a 300,000 acre forest …
MoreWatch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly, in 3D
What happens inside a caterpillar's cocoon? Scientists got to watch the whole process with the help of X-ray 3D scanning technology. In the video above, you can watch a caterpillar turn into a butterfly. Over the course of 16 days …
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