One of my favorite books for reference and inspiration remains the two-volume visual feast entitled African Ceremonies. But it is huge and expensive. Faces of Africa is smaller one-volume digest version by the same two photographers delivers much of the impact in a more affordable package. Read the rest

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Researchers at Colorado State University are mapping human tongues in hopes of teaching the tongue to hear with a new device. Read the rest

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Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has written a letter to outgoing Attorney General Eric "Too Big to Jail" Holder about all those other letters the senator has sent to the AG asking why, exactly, the DoJ thinks that mass spying is legal. Read the rest

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A reader writes, "SF author Peter Watts writes about the ever-encroaching assault on our privacy and how relocating their arguments from the Internet to meatspace illustrates how ridiculous they are, and reasons to be cheerful because of the governments of the 'free world''s determination to eliminate the last shreds of our privacy." Read the rest

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Once again, Brooklyn's wonderful sf bookstore Singularity & Co is running a Kickstarter drive to research and acquire the rights to lost, brilliant science fiction classics, convert them to ebooks, and release them as free or low-cost ebooks (the last campaign rescued 36 books!). Read the rest

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Google Earth Pro lets you fly around our planet and zoom in really close to areas of interest. I was able to see some junk in my backyard that I'd been meaning to clean up. A flyover tour of Tokyo is breathtaking. Read the rest

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I'm having a lot of fun with this thing. Here are some images I've captured so far. Read the rest

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Per Holmquist's Beat Blox is a delightful electronic musical instrument where you control the sound by placing wooden blocks on turntables and spinning them. (more…)

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Provenance unknown. (via Wooster Collective)

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The National Audobon Society's magazine has a gorgeous feature on photographer Brad Wilson's incredible portraits of owls of all kinds. Read the rest

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In 1993 Billy Idol hired me to design his album cover, singles covers, and video boxes, and write his PR bio and advertising copy for his Cyberpunk CD and videos. MTV came over to his place and interviewed us. I haven't seen this in years. Read the rest

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In his column for WND, Teenage singing sensation Pat Boone revealed President Obama's diabolical plan to "release all murderers" from prison.

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Ulbricht faces a possible maximum sentence of life in prison. Read the rest

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If you want to succeed in publishing, write a biography of an American president. They sell. If you want to succeed in visual art, draw a portrait of an American vice president — with an octopus on his head. Read the rest

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After sending Roger Vanderklok for jail for the audacity of asking to file a complaint, Philadelphia International Airport TSA supervisor Charles Kieser then lied about what happened on the stand in court. He fabricated an aggressive confrontation and a bomb threat, neither of which are in evidence on the CCTV footage or in the police report. His victim was help incommunicado in jail, panicking his wife who had no idea where he'd gone. Kieser gets to keep his job.

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I bought some, and the results surprised me. Read the rest

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He exposed the Bush-era war-on-terror torture program, and for that act of bravery became the only American to serve time in connection with it. Read the rest

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This 1978 GMC van is most definitely the inspiration for B.A. Baracus' legendary 1983 van-cum-battlewagon. Read the rest

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Get more than 15 DRM-free kids tech ebooks from No Starch Press, including the amazing Lauren Ipsum, as well as a wealth of killer Lego books, books for young makers, and kids' programming guides -- support EFF and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, too!

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Blackstone audio has produced a professional, DRM-free audiobook of my 2003 novel EST, a novel about jet-lag, conspiracies, management consultants, crypto-contracts and P2P that William Gibson called "Utterly contemporary and deeply peculiar -- a hard combination to beat (or, these days, to find)." Read the rest

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