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Tuesday the Fifteenth of May, 2012

Drunken Bohemian Rhapsody rendition may offer fame, but no fortune - The Globe and Mail

"On the ride back to the police station, Wilkinson decided to belt out a manic but lyrically faithful rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody. [...] Content ID caught a 'melody match,' and notified EMI, the music company that owns the rights to Bohemian Rhapsody." (filed under: music sound technology law police)

Glanced at: Three Point Landing - YouTube • Jeremy Deller picked for British pavilion at Venice Biennale | Art and design | The Guardian • 'Emergency Water Storage Tank', Charles Ginner | Tate • The Tanks: the 2012 programme | Tate • JS GameBoy Color Game Center • Greeks apologise with huge horse • Year of the Dungeon: Dungeon Crawl Classics' Missing 250 Pages • Kerkerkruip - Details • Nuclear Proliferation: Kodak admits having weapons grade Uranium in nuclear reactor in New York for decades | eGov monitor | The Information Daily • The evolutionary biology of the unicorn. << • Nightmare with Night of the Living Dead (a well known public domain movie) - Google Groups • This American Lie | The New Republic • The David Sedaris dilemma: A fine line between realish and real - The Washington Post • A Time Machine And Other Poems • Creative Review - Mind The Map • BBC News - NHS risk register veto 'unjustified' • George Lucas Does Something Likeable For a Change: Revenge on Rich Neighbors | Movie News | Movies.com • The nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno recreated in Lego by Mihai Mihu - Telegraph • Epic time-lapse map of Europe - YouTube • Project Barnum • APOD: 2012 May 15 - All the Water on Planet Earth

Monday the Fourteenth

BBC News - Sonic device deployed in London during Olympics

"The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones." (filed under: sound london police technology weapons)

Crossword writer accused of coded message to kill Chavez's brother - Telegraph

"Answers to clues included "Adan", "asesinen" (meaning "kill") and "rafaga" (which can mean either a burst of gunfire, or a gust of wind)." (filed under: crosswords secrets crime)

Glanced at: Charlie Brooker | When you lose touch with popular culture, it's tough to get back | Comment is free | The Guardian • H&M Under Fire For The Use Of A Ridiculously Tan, Blatantly Altered Model - The Frisky • Essex Fingerposts - a set on Flickr • Ludum Dare >> Ludum Dare 23 • Great Locomotive Chase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Tim Harford Article Leaders do not need to milk price of pint • The 15 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Bootleg Toys | Cracked.com • Max Payne 3 and the Perfect Marriage - IGN • Kracie - happy kitchen #4 - mini hamburger - YouTube • Stories in your pocket: how to write flash fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk • The Home of National Flash-fiction Day 2012 • Boris Johnson: next BBC boss must be Tory | Politics | guardian.co.uk • Rebekah Brooks's missing BlackBerry message puzzles IT experts | Technology | guardian.co.uk • Crossword roundup: Leveson - the lines | Crosswords | guardian.co.uk • IAmA 24yo electrical engineer with magnets implanted in my fingertips. AMA. : IAmA • There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe - Scott Hanselman • The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman • Hanging around: my night in the AirHotel | Stage | The Guardian • The $144,146,165 Button notes.unwieldy • Escape notes.unwieldy • Sex survey a let down in bed << Mind Hacks • Game stories and meaningful play - newsmary • More Aerial Photographs Of London | Londonist • Explore Paris vs. New York, Vahram Muratyans brilliant... • Lies, damn lies, and statistics about red light jumping | Environment | guardian.co.uk • Will Work for Fun - Kill Screen • Calling all #sophospuzzle fans AusCERT is here, and so is #DECODEME 2012! | Naked Security • Tim Harford Article Thats a lot of Wonga for a business loan! • BBC News - Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sight • Creative Review - FF Chartwell: a graph-making font • BBC News - 'One pound fish' market seller on his internet success

Friday the Eleventh

Pixel-fitting by Dustin Curtis

"The Hulu logo is a gooey, blurry [anti-aliased] mess that is seen by millions of people every day. Because it is at the top of every page on the entire site, it sets the tone for the quality of the experience. It should have been pixel-fitted." (filed under: design) (via: waxy)

Glanced at: Delta Heavy - Get By (Official Video) - YouTube • Amsterdam Tries to Change Culture With Repair Cafes - NYTimes.com • HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy - Forbes • My Crime? Riding A Bicycle On A Public Street - DocAltMed • MAKE | MAKEs Exclusive Interview with Andrew (bunnie) Huang The End of Chumby, New Adventures • BBC News - Tokyo search for young penguin escapee • Daily Kos: Mitt Romney already Etch A Sketching his high school 'prank' of assaulting his gayclassmate • Is The Free Internet A New God? • notes.husk.org. The Lunar Ranging Retroreflector, as placed on the.... • twak's blog: Sity source code • Iranian cartoonist sentenced to 25 lashes for drawing MP | World news | guardian.co.uk • New Bing hands-on - YouTube • Plinko Poetry (@PlinkoPoetry) - New interface for electronic poetic expression • If childrens drawings were made into toys | Today I Learned Something New • Fantasy Flight Games [News] - Announcing Android: Netrunner • www.freeantennas.com • Ten things I hate about games #2: Non-standardised inputs - LOOK, ROBOT - LOOK, ROBOT • The Assassination of Spencer Perceval - UK Parliament • BBC News - Mayan art and calendar at Xultun stun archaeologists • The London Perambulator (full length documentary) - YouTube • Tired of London, Tired of Life • Tales from the Prep Room: Making Sand Swim : Ri Channel • World Record Breaking Paper Airplane - NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection • Make Your Own Plastic Bottle Greenhouse - Making Your Own • McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Sorry, EveryoneMy Personal Website Is Now Behind A Paywall. • The Eatery: Massive Health Experiment #01 • Buy Cheap Train Tickets Online - Save up to 80% - redspottedhanky.com

Thursday the Tenth

Prototyping without physics - Edge Magazine

"In fact, there is a literal infinity of foundational systemic toys upon which meaningful games can be built, yet for the most part, the game industry focuses on building baseline game engines that simulate one single toy that is proven to only be marginally fun: physical reality." (filed under: games design simulation) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: Feels Bad Man: How Mobile Is Stopping the Lulz | Underwire | Wired.com • Schism Tracker - Schism Tracker wiki • My Vintage London | Daleks trying to get on a London bus, 1960s • MST3K - Mike Enjoy's Noh Theater - YouTube • Dennis Rice and the @TabloidTroll Twitter account | Bloggerheads • The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to) • Recursive Drawing • The woman who lives in a shed: how London landlords are cashing in | Society | The Guardian • Dolls' houses: it's a small world | Life and style | The Guardian • Pennywort removal | | Thames21Thames21 • What can curators learn from coders? | Aron Ambrosiani • British Transport Police Media Centre - Thief who stole suitcase containing familys sentimental possessions is jailed - Reading • File:ShimadaK2007Sept09-MentosGeyser DSC 3294++.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Mushrooms on toast recipe • Blue Plaque Duels | CURIOCITY • The London Perambulator | a naked lunch of place • yfrog Photo : http://yfrog.com/ocg3ylaj Shared by tomgauld • Instagram • BBC - Media Centre - Springwatch 2012 • Are old games still relevant? - LOOK, ROBOT - LOOK, ROBOT • In war for talent, 'brogrammers' will be losers - CNN.com

Tuesday the Eighth

The Beauty of Twitter's Unfollow Bug - Megan McArdle - Technology - The Atlantic

"Polite evasion is an underrated principle of social interaction and it's nice to see Twitter arrive at it by accident." (filed under: society illusions)

Glanced at: 'Prince of Persia' creator Jordan Mechner on telling stories in 48 kilobytes or less | The Verge • notes.husk.org. party outings 1964 front cover by smallritual on.... • The Decline and Fall of 'Draw Something' - Technology - The Atlantic Wire • Serpentine pavilion goes underground with Ai Weiwei and Swiss architects in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk • Gray code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Infovore >> Finishing the Intervalometer: the value of finishing, and making whats in your head • Disposable camera: the Trashcam photography project in pictures | Art and design | guardian.co.uk • Flying Horse - Gatorrada (Cat-Toast) - YouTube • Mechanizing a Miniature Main Street Electrical Parade on Vimeo • 50 stunning Olympic moments No28: Dick Fosbury introduces 'the flop' | Sport | guardian.co.uk • UCL Museums & Collections Blog >> Blog Archive >> Call My Bluffalo: The B-Roll • Rouse Simmons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Twitpic - Share photos and videos on Twitter • Fantasy Homeland | Prospect Magazine • Science and Truth - Were All in It Together - NYTimes.com • Herman Miller's Discover Blog - Design Meets Technology • BBC News - Ministers block release of NHS risk register • Sherlock Holmes - UK • Vodka Eyeballing | Vodka Eye Shots • Twitter / @Krizanovich: There was The Ring #film p ... • Rosetta Code • The rise and fall of Dark Warrior epilepsy << Mind Hacks • ANNABANANNA Colours made to order Knitted BRAIN by Anabananna • Nikki Pugh >> Walk with landscape-reactive sashes: Gretton, Brookfield Plantation and Rockingham • How truthful is Tech City? Milo Yiannopoulos The Kernel • David Quantick: A little bit of nonsense is the secret of a sane life - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent • 2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today - The Globe and Mail • Well miss you. - Blown Covers • Avacyn Restored Basic Lands : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering • Avacyn-gle Ladies, Part 3 : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering

Monday the Seventh

A Week in the Life of London’s Public Transit System >> Simulacra

"The poster shows every entry to each of London’s 330 Underground, Overground and Docklands Light Railway stations over the course of a week. Stations are coloured according to the lines that they serve." (filed under: tube design transport london) (via: blech)

Glanced at: moritz.stefaner.eu - Msli Ingredient Network • Cowbirds in Love :: a daily comic by Sanjay Kulkarni • Flickr: useless objects attemping to make place but failing • Fly me to the Dome: Londons first cable car makes maiden voyage over Thames - London - News - Evening Standard • chainsawsuit by kris straub - the tim burton challenge • What Do Animals Think? | Animal Intelligence | DISCOVER Magazine • 564 - A Ghostly Billiard Game | Strange Maps | Big Think • How To Improve Eyewitness Testimony | Wired Science | Wired.com • The frequent fliers who flew too much - Los Angeles Times

Friday the Fourth

Belgium makes kids text while driving to learn its dangers | DVICE

"Before the test, the examiner shows them an official looking letter, which says that a new government directive asks them to show that they can use a phone safely while driving." (filed under: transport phones lies) (via: zarba)

Glanced at: Lion tries to eat baby PART 1. - YouTube • Argentina's Falklands Olympic ad an insensitive stunt, says UK | UK news | guardian.co.uk • Curious Rat - Home - I'm Giving Up Reading for aYear • Memories of the Love Bug worm | Naked Security • Zynga's New Ad Pitch for Draw Something: 'Draw This Brand' | Digital - Advertising Age • A Big Little Idea Called Legibility • Chelsea submit offer to buy Battersea power station in new ground plan | Football | guardian.co.uk • notes.husk.org. I was shocked to read [Ted Nelsons] justification.... • 'IKB 79', Yves Klein | Tate • Bergy Bits and Growlers • mascots gone wild • Pastor Sean Harris: crack the wrists and punch children you suspect of being gay - Boing Boing • The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic • Man dressed as penguin receives more votes than the Liberal Democrats | News | Edinburgh | STV • BBC News - Philip Glass: Have a sleep during Einstein on the Beach

Tuesday the First

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias << Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

"They conclude, “We found no evidence of publication bias in reports on publication bias.” But of course that’s the sort of finding regarding publication bias of findings on publication bias that you’d expect would get published." (filed under: science meta) (via: timharford)

Glanced at: Mormon Flow Chart for Your Soul << Molly Muses . . . • Tilt illusion << Richard Wiseman • Austrian alpacas show shear delight - in pictures | Environment | guardian.co.uk • The meaning of competition and the fading importance of being first | TheMediaBriefing • Punks Not Dead | Rock, Paper, Shotgun: No Probe, Horuly • Hard Copy, pt. 1 Quinns • Flood fears rise as rain drenches south of Britain | UK news | guardian.co.uk • Fuck The Rain umbrella • mordor_via_bank.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024768 pixels) - Scaled (87%) • Johnny Marr has no negative thoughts about The Smiths, seriously | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club • International Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening Day 1 May 2012 • "Resolution" (25 Pages) - reddit.com/r/zombies - Imgur • Welcome - The Data Journalism Handbook • BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - You and Yours, Rising food prices and soundalikes on adverts • iPayRoadTax clothing I Pay Road Tax • John Peel's record collection: the first look | Music | The Guardian • Stephen King: I'm rich, tax me | Books | guardian.co.uk • The Mockbuster: coming soon to bargain bin near you - in pictures | Film | guardian.co.uk • Gamasutra - Features - Five Ways Games Appeal to Players • Squid Pint Glasses

Monday the Thirtieth of April

5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds | Cracked.com

"[Most people follow political news] purely as a form of entertainment. They're like sports fans, rooting for their "team" to win. And as you're going to find out, virtually all political news coverage is written to appeal to those people." (filed under: news politics america) (via: newsmary)

Double X Science: Science, health, medical news freaking you out? Do the Double X Double-Take first

"Headlines are often misleading, at best, and can be wildly inaccurate. Forget about the headline. Pretend you never even saw the headline." (filed under: science news)

Olympics 2012: A Bruce Schneier Moment - Charlie's Diary

"The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics. [...] If one of those things is ever fired, either in anger or by accident, it'll shower white-hot supersonic shrapnel across the extremely crowded residential heart of a city." (filed under: weapons architecture london terrorism)

Glanced at: Sign outside Brockley market | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Fooblr waiting page - Suspension railway, Royal Panarmonion Gardens | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - William Forsythe Choreographic Objects: Works & Projects - Singularity University: meet the people who are building our future | Technology | The Observer - Tottenham Court Road bomb suspect was BNP candidate | Political Scrapbook - Shopping Will Never Be The Same Worlds First Virtual Store Opens in South Korea | AX3 | Global Asian Lifestyle + Pop Culture Webzine - Fish-shaped building inaugurated in Hyderabad Hungeree - Good Guy Lucifer meme | quickmeme - Blue Crown | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Melvin and Vorthos : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering - The Great Gatsby - For Nes - Arguing with Homeopaths | Letters of the Proceedings of Matt Parker - Zen and the Art of Cycle Maintenance : Daily MTG : Magic: The Gathering - Campaign Wiki DungeonMaps: One Page Dungeon Contest - The never-ending NHS act | Westminster blog | Jim Pickard and Kiran Stacey share their views on the UKs political scene for the Financial Times FT.com - Sonderbooks >> Blog Archive >> My Prime Factorization Sweater - BBC News - Bovine TB: Prof Chris Pollock quits over badger cull U-turn - What stopped Boris Johnson from appearing on the Sunday Politics? | Politics | guardian.co.uk - Pantone color forecasts: Are they accurate? - Slate Magazine - Go figure voters need to use the Mayor electoral system imaginatively MayorWatch - William Forsythe Choreographic Objects: Works & Projects - a2num | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Even Martians cant be as bad as alien Tories, says Ken Livingstone - Mayor - News - Evening Standard - Kickstarter Sets Off $7 Million Stampede for a Watch Not Yet Made - NYTimes.com - Zombie meltdown SCI-FI-LONDON parade | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Piratebay is blocked. The state is monitoring your web traffic. No problem: it's time for a VPN. - bengoldacre - secondary blog - BBC News - The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules - Yellow and 'Bees | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - P1060969 Andrew Hubball I think | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Dog Strangled by Phone Cord Saves His Own Life by Dialing Emergency Number - Vetstreet - Strange organism has unique roots in tree of life - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com - BBC News - In pictures: Bletchley Park decay - Porn panic! | Martin Robbins | The Lay Scientist | Science | guardian.co.uk - All Grown-Up: Sexing Up the Internet With the Daily Mail | VICE - The Single-Pixel GIF - BBC News - Does Occupy signal the death of contemporary art? - BBC America beeps out swearing in The Thick Of It - Americas - World - The Independent - Identity Crisis: Your Name Is Famous But You Aren't : NPR - Letters of Note: Accept me for what I am - completely unacceptable - Triggertrap: nine ways to activate your DSLR with an iOS device, choose one -- Engadget -