Jeffrey Martin writes, "I have been working for the last couple of years on this camera, and we have launched today on Kickstarter. It is a beautiful, small device (the size of a tennis ball) with six cameras that make a 4K-resolution, 60fps, spherical video." Read the rest

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At Wired, our Laura writes about the emerging media cycle surrounding rape scenes in TV shows and the euphemistic bullshit used to justify the bottom-shelf storytelling they embody: "If you’re a woman in media, you’re basically the sexy Halloween costume of human beings in a world where Halloween never ends." Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QOL0XInC1Wo/rape-scenes-are-lazy.html

With its smokelike terrain, salmon sun and blood-flecked landscapes, DOLLY is a visually-striking platformer that seems to take place inside a woman's head. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/of7tlOJBRcY/play-it-now-dolly.html

The Greek loan repayment deadline was extended, Reuters reports—by a leap-second. Pretty good troll, Reuters!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bWdZXVKLkpo/greece-deadline-extended-by-on.html

I just love Nathalie Lawhead's work. It's not only that she's one of my very favorites doing digital art that recalls old shareware and the early web, but her projectslike the Tetrageddon Games freeware arcade, or the jarring, comically-gruesome Froggy seem to focus on one of that aesthetic era's most interesting contrasts.

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We're in an age of information overload, and too much of what we watch, hear and read is mistaken, deceitful or even dangerous. Yet you and I can take control and make media serve us — all of us — by being active consumers and participants. Here's how. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/UP6YL8_nOxE/take-control-of-the-media-with.html

Enjoy this game about matching tiles so that monsters won't kill you, and tricking out your watercraft. Read the rest

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In my new Guardian column, I point out that the big-data-driven surveillance business model is on the rocks. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/Cwz_0xvbWgk/on-big-datas-shrinking-retur.html

Jessamyn West is a freelancer, and that means that she has to talk on the phone to earn her crust. This sucks. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/yxhvZiB4M3g/do-we-really-need-this-call.html

Hecho en Mexico. Read the rest

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The presidential candidate and professional assclown called Mexican immigrants "rapists." Read the rest

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This is the best price I've seen on the RAVPower Luster 3000mAh Mini Portable Charger ($6). It has enough juice to give most phones a full charge.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LyWAzN3_siU/3000mah-mini-portable-charger.html

For just under $4 million you can live in Frank Sinatra's Villa Maggio, a five acre home on a mountain above California's Palm Desert. Read the rest

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General Motors is moving up the on-sale date for its Chevrolet Bolt electric car to 2017, or maybe even sooner than that. It'll cost $30,000 (after tax breaks) about $5,000 less $2.5k more than the upcoming Tesla Model 3, which will offer a similar 200 mile range on a charge.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/PGoXmtCrZQE/chevys-200-mile-electric-car.html

Illustrators Adam Frost and Jim Kynvin prepared a series of charts examining the data in the Sherlock Holmes canon. (more…)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LH8PXy7HMGU/the-data-of-sherlock-holmes.html

I've had an interesting run with this motorcycle. It is probably haunted, and really doesn't want to go to Los Angeles. Read the rest

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My family is moving to Los Angeles in two weeks. Many Londoners understand intuitively why we're going. Read the rest

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These fluffy panda infants are too cute for words! Born to mothers who weren't able to care for their babies (one had cancer, another wasn't able to properly care for them) Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is hand-feeding them up to seven times a day.

So far they are doing great and breaking hearts around the world.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OfQWYgya7XM/red-baby-panda-cubs-astonishin.html

Rick Kleffel sends his latest Bookotron podcast: "Neal Stephenson discusses (MP3) the challenges of turning orbital dynamics into pulse-pounding fiction ... and his latest novel Seveneves." (Image: Bob Lee, CC-BY)

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YouTuber YJSubs stabilized this crazy video of an excavator operator using the bucket to descend an unstable sandy embankment. Read the rest

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