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Help save the ACCRC James Burgett of ACCRC's skull of junked electronics (photo via Dale Dougherty) The Alameda County Computer Resource Center could really use your help, as Dale writes on boingboing: ACCRC is in desperate straits. The Bay Area electronics recycler is going through tough times with an emergency re-org and a lack of funds to pay taxes and healthcare for its employees. Its own internal problems are compounded by a sudden drop in the price of scrap metal. ACCRC has been a friend to Make and Maker Faire, and generally anyone in the Bay Area who uses computers and electronics and...
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Good example of pareidolia Forgetomori came across this neat example of pareidolia. Have you seen Jesus today? The photo above may be a good chance. Sent by Jessica Lundgren from Sweden to paranormal.about.com, you can see the clear profile of a giant bearded man with closed eyes. It does resemble common representations of a fellow named Jesus. Even though that enormous Jesus head doesn’t quite fit into the rest of the image. What’s going on there? Jessica writes that “the child died short after the photo was taken”. The link also has another photo that is either pareidolia or a hoax. Good example...
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Oh Great...Less Rainforest, More Corn Photo via belgianchocolate Are they going to have to make a Madagascar 3 movie where a lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo work to rescue some crazy lepilemurs (and pygmy tarsiers) not from foosas, but from human destruction? South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics has signed a 99-year lease entitling them to half of all Madagascar’s arable land. And, they will pay nothing to farm corn and palm oil there. The goal is to boost Seo......
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I Don’t Think Alternative Energy Means What You Think It Means: Fred Pearce to BP photo: Julian Last month British newspaper The Guardian started a greenwashing column to turn the spotlight on the dubious claims of environmental benefits that some companies put forth. In the latest of these columns, Fred Pearce takes on BP, showing how that company hasn’t really gotten ‘beyond petroleum’ at all. Check it out, as similar claims can be made about pretty much every fossil fuel company: Despite any efforts they’ve made in ......
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Mmmm lunch [Flickr]Spinn12 posted a photo: Candace and I rarely eat out, prefering to cook. However, sometimes my Subway craving kicks in really hard... Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed...
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Panasonic G1 samples at Photography BlogThe samples are ample at Photography Blog, where six RAW pictures and 40 full-size fine JPEGs are available. The camera? The first Micro Four Thirds camera ever, the Panasonic G1! For more on the G1, be sure to check the G1 diary and list of reviews so far. As far as availability, the G1 is shipping from more and more places, for $800 with free shipping in most cases: B&H Photo J&R World Amazon Ritz Camera *** Support this blog and keep it independent by making your purchases at the brand new NoisyMall.com ***...
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Husband blames "bug" for sending nude pictures from his iPhoneWhat would you do if you discovered your spouse is emailing nude photos of his better parts using his iPhone? You turn to the Apple Discussion forum and share your case with the world, of course. One such case has been entertaining Apple users this week. Susan found her husband off track by looking at the content on his cellphone. When she saw a revealing photo in the Sent folder of his iPhone, Susan confronted her husband with the discovery....
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AKVIS unveils ArtWork photo to oil painting converter — AKVIS has unveiled ArtWork 1.0, a program that applies oil painting techniques to digital images. The program allows pictures to be transformed into oil portraits, landscape paintings, or still life creations. Users can work in an assisted mode, or let the software work automatically. A "virtual artist" visually lays the brush strokes onto the reference image. The Stroke Direction tool gives full ......
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Mwuhahahahaha! - Tad Donaghe
Ahh Tad, always on the prowl for new memes :D - mokargas
THIS IS NOT EASY FOLKS. Get to it! - Tad Donaghe
Requires a speech bubble. - mokargas
*D E A D* - Derrick
So, what exactly do you mean by "do"? :-D - Jason Huebel
:P Do the pose - Tad Donaghe
Hey now, Jason, watch it! ;) - Derrick
http://friendfeed.com/e/cce0b3ea-16d7-454b-ab4e-6348fb8a60f4/The-Derrick/ Took me a few tries. But I think I got "The Derrick" down. :-) - Jason Huebel
Glad my camera is jacked cuz...uh...I don't know if I can reproduce Derrick's awesome in this pic... - Rahsheen Porter
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Employees Sue to be Paid for Time Spent Booting Up [Law]If you're manager tracks your time based on when you log in and out of your machine at work, then are you missing out on pay for the time you're waiting for your machine to boot up and shut down? That's what a series of lawsuits by employees from the likes of AT&T, UnitedHealth and Cigna demand. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. In other words, does the clock start...
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The Sound of Two Smokestacks FallingThe demolition of Long Mill Dye House in Roanoke, Virginia brought down two smokestacks but one didn't fall as planned. photo from WSLS.com Watch this AP video and listen for one of the operators warn: "Be advised: one stack apparently did not fall in the right direction." There were no reports of injury to persons or property. Long Mill demolition video A local TV station WSLS reporter wrote: Many of the people who came out to watch the building crumble worked in the mill for years, but for some it wasn’t such a sad sight to see their former employer...
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Save Time with the Help of a Free Personal Shopper [Shopping]If you feel shoppping for clothes is a chore and an expensive waste of time, think about using a personal shopper. Get rid of the mistaken idea you may have that personal shoppers are people employed by rich celebrities to dress them (those are called "stylists"). Most large department stores offer a shopping service. Simply call and ask for a personal shopper, provide measurements and a list of items you're looking for and make an appointment. They'll help you select items based on your budget and needs, and will offer an objective perspective on questions of fit and fashion. The...
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SimCity for the iPhone may ruin my life (in a good way)No game captured my imagination when I was growing up like SimCity. Certainly, a part of it was my God complex, but more it was the open-ended nature of a game with few rules that let you build a city. I spent countless hours on my computer playing it, I even spent countless hours on the Super Nintendo playing it when it was ported to that console. Now it’s coming to the iPhone — countless hours will be lost again. I got a chance to play a near-complete version of it today; it looks great. Fans of the series will...
"I got a chance to play a near-complete version of it today; it looks great. Fans of the series will recognize the SimCity 3000 look and feel, but the addition of touch screen controls makes sense for things like zoning (creating a certain type of building zone). Using the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone to do things like zooming in and out of your city also makes the game a good fit for the device." - (steve isaacs)
Oh memories! Played that for years. - Katie
Ah, now this would make me go out and get an iPhone. Love SimCity! - Mike Reynolds
I will instantly buy this application! - Matt DeLuca
NO WAY - Hao Chen
I may actually finally buy a game for the iPhone. - Akiva Moskovitz
Retro gaming - could be huge (crosses fingers for Starcraft) - Jason Kaneshiro
Neat. I'm buying this as soon as it appears in the App Store. Love SimCity. - Roberto Bonini
SimCity for the iPhone may ruin my life (in a good way) - Louis Gray
oh.. no.. That's going to distract me badly - Christian Van Der Henst
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If you have an iPhone, you’ll probably want to check out SnapTell Explorer, a free application now available on the App Store. The premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game, and the application will automatically identify the product and find ratings and pricing information online. I was skeptical when I first saw the app - the iPhone has had difficulty with image processing for barcodes, and most image recognitions systems I’ve tried on other platforms have been iffy at best. But SnapTell just works. Every time. The app correctly...
Nice! Just tried it on "The Audacity of Hope" and it worked like a charm. Except I now see that I overpaid the for the book last week. ;) - Kevin C. Tofel
Works beautifully.. even tried it on niche items such as a nurse's guide. Caught them perfectly. - Mark Martinez
I'm amazed. I took a picture of a disaster recovery booklet handed out at work and it showed up. This is 100 times better than the barcode scanner!!! Thanks! - Mike
Would it recognize shoes, clothes?? And why not extend the service to instant group buying, aka "tuangou". - Mindaugas Dagys
SnapTell: Instant Product Lookup From The iPhone. You Want This. [del.icio.us] - Brent
just took a dark, crooked generally horrible pic of about half of a book cover and it found it! Great app. - Mark Schulz
ooh. Sounds shiny! Going to get now. - Josh Bancroft
Only tried it once but worked perfectly! Its like the shazam of books. - Nelson de Witt
Holy CRAP this is cool. Worked perfectly on the few books I tried, including the brand new issue of Make Magazine that I only got last night, and two other books published within the last month. My mind = blown. - Josh Bancroft
This app works amazingly well. Wow. - karen2
wow i wish i developed this!!!! - EcoAussie
This is one reason I love the iPhone. Cool new apps keep coming out, and reignite that "this is SO COOL!" feeling over and over again. - Josh Bancroft
the future is here - gregory lent
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Santacon 2008, Global Santarchy Invasion Planned For December Santacon 2008 events are currently being planned around the world in December as Christmas approaches. Over on santarchy.com I’ve been actively tracking the cities currently being targeted for Santarchy invasions. To get a better idea of what Santarchy is all about, here’s my 40 minute documentary on the 1996 Santacon in Portland “You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ‘96″. photo by John Curley This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. Santacon 2008, Global Santarchy Invasion Planned For December Related posts:- Santacon 2007, Plans Underway for Worldwide...
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16 Kyoto Protocol Nations On Track to Meet Emissions Reductions, Through No Fault of Their Own photo: Mathias Degen Some preliminary data was recently released on how well the 39 nations which ratified the Kyoto Protocol are doing in reducing carbon emissions and the result for the group overall is, well, a mixed bag. Sixteen nations are on track to meet their obligations, while 20 are not. Part of the reason: Between 1990-2006 emissions from the countries of the former Soviet Union declined by 36% as those nation’s economies crashed on the rocks. However from 2000-2006 emissions from these nations rose 7.4%. At the same time emissions from richer developed nations rose 10......
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Never Feed Them After Midnight! Gremlins look-alikes Pygmy Tarsiers Found after Being Hidden from View for 80 Years! photo via Texas A&M In our own species, trends from the 1980's have come back into fashion recently—witness the reemergence of leg warmers—and now the animal kingdom is getting in on the '80's thing too, as Pygmy Tarsiers, animals closely resembling creatures from the 1984 movie Gremlins, and thought to be extinct, have been found in the mountaintop forests of Indonesia. The carnivorous primate had not been ......
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BLM Issues New Rules for Oil Shale Development: Last Minute Bush Administration Environmental Trashing? photo: Doc Searles Though Congress let the offshore drilling and oil shale development ban lapse back in the end of September, few expected that new rules to develop US oil shale would be proposed before the end of the year. Well, the Bureau of Land Management apparently couldn’t wait. In a move which the BLM says “could result in the addition [to US supplies] of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the Western United States” and which will “increase and diversify America’s energy supply”, new rules for ......
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What Would You Do in the Worst Case? A Freakonomics QuorumPhoto: Jamesfischer These are the economic times that try men's souls, and women's too. In the past few months, a lot of people have seen their net worth fall substantially, and I'm sure more than a few have contemplated what would happen if they lost everything. So we asked a group of people - Nick Mills, [...]...
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