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Finally, you can listen to my new tunes. Here is Sneaker, a mini cyberspace adventure.
Download it for $4, or stream it for free. Hope you like it!
Spiders dodge cannibalism through remote copulation
In other animal-related news, male orb-spiders break off their own genitals while inside females, which keeps pumping semen into her, to increase the odds of fertilisation in case the female, which has a penchant for cannibalism, decides to eat him. (This strategy is probably not recommended for humans.)
This doesn’t seem like a very nice thing to do to a bunch of ants, but wow. (via)
(Source: youtube.com)
Announcing: Extra Credit
I started a Memberly thing. Been curious about it forever. Those guys are running a really great thing.
Ross squeals like a pig when he wants to go for a walk.
This is why we don’t link to people’s articles that have been reproduced without permission elsewhere, kids.
Nice police cars guys. I guess.
Can’t wait for Tufte’s next book, The Visual Display of Words on Photos.
I don’t read anyone consistently aside from Gruber. I see and read so much stuff that even with great engaging writers, there’s a sameness to much of their work that doesn’t interest me
Kottke making my head completely fucking explode. How can a person say this? Is it a joke? (via Langer)
(Image via shilkpatel)
The FBI’s Informant Network
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Did I read this? No. Did I reblog for the picture of Waffle House? Yes.
My latest post on Syllabi about FBI informants and the Waffle House terrorists is currently getting an avalanche of reblogs from a bunch of awful teenagers that have erased every word of the post and just really like Waffle House. I guess that’s what I get for putting it on Tumblr. (Edit: Because I’m on radar, apparently! Thanks Topher, kind of!)
No excuses for phone hacking. No argument. No excuses either for copyright stealing, but plenty of ignorant argument!
Rupert Murdoch on Twitter has to be a fucking liability for somebody
Something's Got to Give
Almost 15 years have passed since the infamous Patco strike, which ended with President Reagan firing 11,400 of the nation’s 17,000 controllers, but the F.A.A.’s system for moving airplanes safely across the skies has never been closer to chaos. Many of the nation’s airport control towers and radar rooms still have fewer fully trained controllers than before the strike, yet the number of flights they must guide through the teeming skies has soared in some facilities by 200 percent. Meanwhile the computer and radar equipment they must do it with has grown scandalously old and degraded. Last year, air traffic control centers — some with 30-year-old, vacuum-tubed computers — suffered more blank radar scopes, dead radios and failed power systems than in any previous year, according to Representative John J. Duncan Jr. of Tennessee, chairman of the House aviation subcommittee.
Published in 1996, this is one of my favourite longform articles. Great Sunday reading.
I was doing some research for a Syllabi post and stumbled across this awesome three-part debunking of the myth that you can manafacture a poison called Ricin in your home. This myth has been circulating since the days of BBSs when a teenager with no biochemical knowledge uploaded it to an anarchist BBS, replete with spelling errors, and it’s been edited and distributed and referred to in the media ever since, with almost nobody noting that it’s complete bullshit.
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