Wednesday the Nineteenth of June, 2013

Atlas of True Names - British Isles
"The Atlas of True Names reveals the etymological roots, or original meanings, of the familiar terms on today's maps of the World, Europe, the British Isles and the United States." (filed under: maps history language)
Dim Lighting Sparks Creativity - Pacific Standard
"Those in the dimly lit room solved significantly more problems correctly than those in the brightly lit room. They also felt freer and less inhibited than their intensely illuminated counterparts." (filed under: light brains)
NYT weeklies 14 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Leaping Shampoo and the Stable Kaye Effect. - YouTube • More-numents for London - YouTube • BBC Question Time and its Problem with Science | A Primate's Manual • notes.husk.org. ATL, ORD, LAX, DFW - the four busiest airports in.... • CHERT - BERLIN - Artisti • Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe | Math with Bad Drawings • Kim Dotcom: All Megaupload servers 'wiped out without warning in data massacre' RT News • Weird Dreams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Acupuncture Doesnt Work << Science-Based Medicine • Marvin Heemeyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Dark Owl Records • Printing tiny batteries | Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences • Cost-benefit analysis and state secrecy: Foiled plots and bathtub falls | The Economist
Recently listened to:
The Ecstasy Of Dancing Fleas Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Bloodbuzz Ohio The National
Don't Forget the Empties [It Only Takes One to Cause a Tragedy] Concretism
Niggling Discrepancy King Biscuit Time
Experiment Number Six Lemon Jelly
Sunburst Salako
Satan Rejected My Soul Morrissey
Swollen Trees The Flashbulb
Sway Strangelove
Waiting For Alberto The Monochrome Set

Tuesday the Eighteenth

New ebook DRM will change the text of a story to prevent piracy — paidContent
"Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute is working on a new ebook DRM dubbed SiDiM that would prevent piracy by changing the actual text of a story, swapping out words to make individualized copies that could be tracked by the original owner of the ebook." (filed under: books mutation piracy borges)
Fare | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Beer Can | Flickr - Photo Sharing!ob4 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: notes.husk.org. On Humans and Systems. • electromagnetism - Distorted colors of Google StreetView photographs near electric power lines - Physics Stack Exchange • Nikki Pugh >> Inkvisible #1: Getting to know the medium • BBC News - Culture minister: No threat to northern science museums • On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World - NYTimes.com • Cats And Dogs by H. P. Lovecraft • 612 - The Map as Medicine: an Inky Souvenir of a Soothing Park | Strange Maps | Big Think • Shakespeare.txt.jpg << Tom Scott • Spending review 2013: the cuts that don't need to happen | Society | The Guardian • Drivatar in Forza Motorsport - Microsoft Research • BBC News - Shape of a room 'heard' by acoustic echoes • Needle ice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • The New Aesthetic McDonalds app (via Twitter / hrtbps) • Snazzy symposium for Bigfoot blimp project | Doubtful News • Uri Geller psychic spy? The spoon-bender's secret life as a Mossad and CIA agent revealed - Features - Films - The Independent

Monday the Seventeenth

Exclusive: How Google Will Use Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands
"When balloons would go down, the payload would separate and glide earthward by parachute. Civilians stumbling on the scary-looking package would see a non-branded message reading HARMLESS SCIENCE EXPERIMENT, and a promise of a reward for those who called a number to return it." (filed under: air internet science)
GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits | UK news | The Guardian
"Some delegates were tricked into using internet cafes which had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic." (filed under: surveillance illusions politics email)
No Entry | Flickr - Photo Sharing!P1020775 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: This man lost his house because his Kickstarter was too successful - Quartz • Wood you believe it >> Radio Taxis Group • Earliest Use of Chocolate in America Discovered, Suggesting Ancient Immigrants ~ Western Digs • Internet anonymity is the height of chic | Technology | The Guardian • The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Frustules of Diatoms] • Bat'leths: Sizing your Bat'leth • Gif Love! The Piramida Concert | Efterklang • Protect your head the world is complex << Mind Hacks • Why the war on drugs has been made redundant | Science | The Observer

Monday the Tenth

Obsolete Constellations
"The following list contains former constellations that are no longer recognized as official by the International Astronomical Union." (filed under: space history) (via: james)
Motovun: stairs and view | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Ballast | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Serpentine Gallery 2013 Pavilion | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Borderline Copyright Infringement, Streatham | Shit London • 611 - Our One-Continent World: Pangea (Political) | Strange Maps | Big Think • The New Aesthetic BR:Kuwait is a crazy mix: a super-affluent... • High-Tech NYPD Unit Tracks Criminals Through Facebook and Instagram Photos - New York City - DNAinfo.com New York • Photoshop Live -Street Retouch Prank - YouTube • Governments Worry about Plastic Weapons Made with 3-D Printers - SPIEGEL ONLINE • Revelations Give Look at Spy Agencys Wider Reach - NYTimes.com • Happy 70th birthday Colonel Blimp! | British Film Institute • Kickstarter for All-Female Gaming Miniatures Reaches Goal in 30 Seconds | The Mary Sue • DeviantArt artist says Dwayne Johnson movie deal has inspired 'overwhelming' response | The Verge • Why Jony Ive Is Flattening iOS 7 | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

Saturday the Eighth

Fake shops used to make towns neater for G8 - RT=C9 News
"Local councils in Northern Ireland have painted fake shop fronts and covered derelict buildings with huge billboards to hide the economic hardship being felt in towns and villages near the golf resort where G8 leaders will meet this month." (filed under: architecture illusions ireland)
Glanced at: Welcome | Whistle • Nothing Exchange | Nothing Exchange • Addiction to unhealthy foods could help explain the global obesity epidemic • Rubble • Extremely Rare Giant Oarfish Caught on Camera in Gulf of Mexico | Biology | Sci-News.com • The Man Who Laughs (1928) - YouTube

Friday the Seventh

Points Is A Smart, Robotic Street Sign That Takes You Where You Want To Go | Co.Create
"Points’s three arms are constantly changing the information they display, based on dynamic signals they pull in from their surroundings." (filed under: signs technology art)
Welcome to Night Vale deck - Dvorak - A Blank-Card Game
"The Glow Cloud is considered to be located at all Locations." (filed under: games cards creations)
Greetings from Margate | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Untitled | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: ChessBase News | Experts weigh in on Ivanov's performance • The Parable of the Golfers • Hanover woman's font used in 'Gatsby' movie - Richmond Times Dispatch: Metro-Richmond Business And Financial News • Tim Ferriss: Metahacker I.M.H.O. Medium • Accelerated Fat-Loss | Mind Body Spirit • ReplaceReader • BBC News - Britain's 1m and 100m banknotes

Friday the Thirty-First of May

Google Maps personalization will hurt public space and engagement. - Slate Magazine
"In Google’s world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to. Since no one formally reviews public space or mentions it in their emails, it might as well disappear from Google’s highly personalized maps." (filed under: maps cities delusions)
Glanced at: BBC News - What can we learn from children's writing? • Science and technology: Sunny uplands | The Economist • Julian Baggini Burning books • First-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms chemical bonds • BBC News - Mars pebbles prove water history • Hospitals Struggle to Get Workers to Wash Their Hands - NYTimes.com • Norway crime novelist talks his way to live interview record | Reuters • The Controversial Topics of Wikipedia | Wired Science | Wired.com • Big ice cubes - All this • U.S. stands out as a rich country where a growing minority say they cant afford food | Pew Research Center • Tim Harford Article Misinformation can be beautiful too

Wednesday the Twenty-Ninth

Deutsche Bahn Gets Drone to Stop Train Graffiti in Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE
"The new drone, outfitted with an infrared camera and the company's red and white logo, will use GPS to document the times and places where vandals are observed, making it easier to prosecute offenders." (filed under: surveillance graffiti) (via: blech)
Michelangelo's David Correctly Oriented
"No living person has ever seen or photographed this primary view of the world's most famous sculpture. Since 1873, the original of David has been in the Galleria dell'Academia in Florence, but it was originally turned so as to face into a nearby column, and has been left in that position ever since." (filed under: art secrets)
Game of life and death | Flickr - Photo Sharing!Glanced at: Not Fawlty Towers - YouTube - Mammoth find: Preserved Ice Age giant found with flowing blood in Siberia RT News - Game of life and death | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - My iPhone thief: why I shook his hand | UK news | The Guardian - panopticorp | Wix.com - Exclusive: 'Snoopers charter would not have prevented Woolwich attack, says MI5 - Crime - UK - The Independent - Legend of the Cipher and the Art of Self Expression | Peace X Peace - Bundle of Holding - 1994 Baker Street: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1993) Part 1 - YouTube - Al-Qaida fires troublesome terrorist employee for failing to fill out expense reports, execute spectacular attacks | al.com - NHS privatisation: How private firms like Virgin already run frontline services by stealth - Ros Wynne Jones - Mirror Online - Moby Dick, or, The Card Game by King Post Kickstarter - The Castle Doctrine - A Localization journey - A Farmer's tale - A Delightful Experience - On mocking [LWN.net] - Photographing hallucinations Mind Hacks - Justin Beckerman builds working one-man submarine - CNN.com -
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