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Alice in Waterland: disturbing vintage postcard from mermaid park

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:22:55 GMT

Ape Lad sez, "Weeki Wachee Springs (Florida's mermaid themed attraction) presents Alice in Wonderland, featuring a sexy re-imagining of Alice and a very disturbing Mad Hatter." Weeki Wachee Presents 'Alice in Waterland', What ...

Pound for pound, bats can drink you under the table

editors@arstechnica.com (Chris Lee) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:44:00 GMT

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One of the very nice things about fruit is that it will often ferment all on its own. And a few animal species take advantage of this, ...

Nintendo, Modern Warfare worldwide top sellers in 2009

bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:40:00 GMT

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The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited, and Enterbrain, Inc. track the three biggest gaming markets in the world: the United States, Japan, ...

5Min is the "Hulu for Niche Content," TechCrunch

Andy_Plesser — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:45:25 GMT

5Min, the creator/syndicator of instructional Web videos registered a whopping 30.5 million video views in December, according to a report on TechCrunch. The site creates original videos and syndicates user generated and third party content. In her story, ...

Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy

segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:22:00 GMT

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The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will ...

Failed project: goldfish in a light fixture

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:58:28 GMT

Make Online is featuring a number of first-hand accounts of failed projects, big and small. The first in the series is about Sean Michael Ragan's attempt to make a combination light fixture / goldfish bowl. I don't see any failure here. This ...

Haitian Voudu ceremony in Brooklyn

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:11:28 GMT

A photo and audio essay by photographer Stephanie Keith from the NPR "Speaking of Faith" program. Voudu Brooklyn, from this larger special episode on that program about the living voudu faith of Haitian expatriates in NYC. Program audio is here ...

No formal charges from first climate e-mail investigations

jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:09:00 GMT

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There seemed to be no end of armchair scholars willing to evaluate the legal, scientific, and policy implications of the e-mail archive ...

Artist Danni Shinya Luo video interview

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:05:56 GMT

Danni Shinya Luo has a show coming up at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, February 5 - 28, 2010. Danni Shinya Luo's main subjects are meditations on the beauty of female figures, and the psychological tension that exists between them. She ...

Amazon acquires touchscreen tech maker: is a Superkindle coming?

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:47:01 GMT

Nick Bilton in the NYT reports that Amazon has snarfed up a small company in New York and plans to "use its technology to ...

Beware the Breast Implants of Death

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:33:07 GMT

Generally, I refrain from linking to WorldNetDaily. But squint your eyes a bit and pretend you're reading the National Enquirer (it's not hard) while digging this article about Muslim terrorists using breast and butt-cheek implants as bomb ...

Google now offers search results from "within your social circle"

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:28:35 GMT

Dave Winer notes that Google has quietly rolled out what may end up being a significant leap forward in search: query results that yield ...

Giant boat crashes into dock

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:09:49 GMT

Following our one-day-old tradition of posting videos of huge moving things crashing into huge non-moving things, here's a ship that seems angry that another ship took its berth and decides to teach it a lesson by wedging it aside....

Die Antwoord, S. African zef-rap, and Progeria survivor Leon Botha

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:05:21 GMT

So, a couple days ago, I blogged about South African band Die Antwoord (in English, "The Answer"), after my friend Clayton Cubitt pointed me to them. Here's the earlier BB post. Since then, boom! goes the internet. BB commenter Wingo summed ...

Can Silverlight save Windows Mobile from plummeting sales?

p_emil@hotmail.com (Emil Protalinski) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:52:00 GMT

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Windows Mobile is steadily losing market share as consumers look to more frequently updated devices with a larger availability of apps. ...

Proto Pee-Wee, 1957

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:15:17 GMT

The wonderful pop Americana historian Charles Phoenix shared this remarkable photo of an Ur-Pee-Wee from 1957. A man posing between a beautiful bongo drum and colorful display of plastic wrapped jazz albums predicts the Pee-Wee Herman look. Strike a pose ...

Teaser for A.D. animated zombie movie

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:36:16 GMT

Scott says: What? Animated Zombies...? Hell yes! After years of saturating the marketplace with family-friendly animated fare, "A.D." just might be the genre-busting shot in the arm Hollywood needs. Written by Haylar Garcia and Directed by Ben ...

CBS Says Premium Service for TV.com "Could Evolve"

Andy_Plesser — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:30:49 GMT

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week. Nothing is ...

Scientists hash out the uncertainties of climate sensitivity

Maggie Koerth-Baker — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:26:08 GMT

In a perfect world, we'd have all the answers and solve the problems of humanity sometime before dinner. Sadly, in real life, dinner is often delayed, or put off altogether in favor of a microwave noodle pot. On those long, metaphorical evenings, we ...

Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:00:00 GMT

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Blogging is falling out of favor among the young'uns these days as they move to quicker-moving social networking sites. At the same ...

Gorgeous steampunk kitchen sink

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:53:31 GMT

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Scratch to win: the Bell Brothers' turntablist-puzzle game Record Tripping

Brandon Boyer — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:45:52 GMT

Probably the easiest pick for web game of the week I'll make in some time, Record Tripping, the latest from Flash duo the Bell Brothers, probably couldn't survive easily on any of its individual parts, but adds up to a fantastic circular whole. ...

iPhone app creates International Typographic Style designs from your photos

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:43:03 GMT

This looks like a fun iPhone app -- "addLib is an application for iPhone that edits your photos and creates infinite types of design based on educated theories." addLib mixes the Grid System, a fractal theory, the golden ratio and the Facial ...

TV Newsroom worker looking at nude photos in background

Mark Frauenfelder — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:24:52 GMT

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Three Key Video Trends to Watch This Year, According to Online Video Analyst Will Richmond

Daisy Whitney — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:03:50 GMT

Keep an eye on how the growth in online video will shift this year into the mobile world via smartphones like Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, said Will Richmond, the publisher of daily news site VideoNuze. Will and I host...

Italy preparing to hold YouTube, others liable for uploads

nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:44:00 GMT

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User-generated content sites have always resisted the idea that they should be regulated like traditional broadcasters, but Italy has been ...

Mass Effect 2 text illegibility on SD TVs result of design decision

bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:05:00 GMT

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Mass Effect 2 relies heavily on dialog and story to grab gamers, but many playing the game are having problems reading the text. The problem ...

Child porn and rape victim, 19, seeks restitution from downloaders

Xeni Jardin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:00:14 GMT

Downloading a copy of "The Misty Series" is a felony. The girl whose sexual abuse began at age 4, and was documented in horrific detail in that child porn video series, is now 19. The pedophile uncle who raped her at age 8 and filmed the abuse ...