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Do not perform!

ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:49:45 GMT

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It isn't often that you find AT&T and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in agreement, but consensus has been reached on one ...

Raul Gutierrez: new limited-edition photo print set released

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:17:49 GMT

Raul Gutierrez is one of my favorite photographers. I particularly love his images of Tibetan life, like the Kham logging camp above. I've traveled to some of the same places, and Raul's work captures these scenes in a different way than my eyes ...

Larry King "interviews" Paul Krassner

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:41:16 GMT

Ever the happy prankster, Paul Krassner "met" with Larry King for an interview. This video was made to promote Paul's new book: Who's to Say What's Obscene: Politics, Culture & Comedy in America Today. A mock interview between ...

"MySpace mom" Lori Drew's conviction thrown out

editors@arstechnica.com (Ars Staff) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:31:01 GMT

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"MySpace mom" Lori Drew has had her misdemeanor guilty verdict overturned by the federal judge handling the case, the LA Times ...

Boing Boing Video review: Joel tries the Sigma DP2 camera

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:34 GMT

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RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:08:24 GMT

Direct link to video. There is no part of this trailer that is not made of awesome. A robot geisha transforms into a tank. Two robot geishas (I guess) spew poison milk (don't ask) out of their titties at an opponent. A girl gets stabbed to death in ...

Books as planters

David Pescovitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:38:18 GMT

BB pal Tara McGinley spotted these delightful planter kits, called Honbachi, from Japan, containing the plant, soil, and a hollowed-out book. Looks like it would be fun and easy to DIY too! Book planters...

New Orleans jazz trumpet icon Kermit Ruffins on barbecuing

David Pescovitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:12:14 GMT

Trumpet player Kermit Ruffins is an icon of New Orleans jazz. His sensational Rebirth Brass Band is a jazz/funk musical extravaganza that must be experienced live for full effect. Ruffins is also the founder of the jazz quintet Barbecue Swingers and is ...

Photos of famous people with their faces turned upside down

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:07:38 GMT

Page after page of this unsettling effect applied to well-known folks. (However, the photo of James Earl Jones looks about the same. And I guess you could argue that George W. Bush looks more distinguished). Celebrities upside down pictures...

NCBI ROFL: terrific blog about funny and odd scientific publications

David Pescovitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:59:47 GMT

My pal and IFTF colleague Alex Pang just turned me on to NCBI ROFL, a hilarious blog written by two molecular and cell biology grad students at UC Berkeley in which they point out funny, bizarre, and questionable biomedical research articles. NCBI stands ...

Laurie Anderson's Language Is A Virus video

David Pescovitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:58:09 GMT

Cory's post about the Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense, one of my fave concert films too, reminded me of Laurie Anderson's fantastic Home Of The Brave movie. I distinctly remember seeing it for the first time when I was 14 at a midnight ...

Windows 7 Home Premium to get Family Pack deal

emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:48:21 GMT

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One of the recently leaked builds of Windows 7 (if you're one to keep up with this sort of thing, the latest is build 7264) has more ...

Alan Watts on enjoying the spectacle of self-importance

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:45:44 GMT

Christopher Ryan wrote a short profile of Alan Watts for Psychology Today. He included this quote from Watts' about the self-importance of humans: “The point is that rapport with the marvelously purposeless world of nature gives us new eyes for ...

SEC boss told underling to stop investigation Madoff in 1994, then marries Maddof's niece

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:14:49 GMT

Funny coincidence: The SEC's Eric Swanson, who told his underling lawyer to stop looking into Bernie Madoff's questionable activities in 2004, married Bernie's niece Shana Madoff in 2007. (By the way, in April Shana contacted Wall Street ...

Deduct your Ponzi scheme losses

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:04:09 GMT

The IRS will let you deduct your losses from Ponzi scheme ripoffs. No word on whether losses due to the wire, the pigeon drop, advance payment or three card monte are allowable, but I'm gonna claim 'em anyway. The IRS has announced it will allow ...

Andy Paiko's wunderkammer of glass sculpture

David Pescovitz — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:41:44 GMT

Andy Paiko's glass sculptures and machines are absolutely breathtaking. Top left, a functional glass seismograph. Top right, a 5.5 foot long syringe. Other favorites include a 24-carat gold-plated coyote skull encased in a glass vessel, an animal ...

Photos of famous famous people with their faces turned upside down

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:35:09 GMT

Behavioral advertisers discover the self-regulation gospel

jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:13:02 GMT

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Behavioral advertising, in which users are fed ads based on the interests revealed by their Web browsing habits, has an obvious appeal to ...

Heather McDougal on black widow spiders

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:04:30 GMT

Heather McDougal, who writes about curiosities and wonders of nature on her blog Cabinet of Wonders, has a good essay about black widow spiders, which have infested her new trailer. Unlike brown recluse spiders, whose venom is cytotoxic, meaning it is ...

Typography Jewelry

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:01 GMT

Typography Jewelry

Sputnik Observatory: Contemporary Culture Examined

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:01 GMT

Sputnik Observatory: Contemporary Culture Examined

Portrait Machine - Interactive Photography Installat

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:30:01 GMT

Portrait Machine - Interactive Photography Installat

Today on Offworld: war-driving for treasure, cloud gaming, Dylan in The Sims

Brandon Boyer — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:01:47 GMT

Today on Offworld we took an extensive look at Treasure World (above), the just-released DS game that turns the ubiquitous cloud of Wi-Fi signals around you into collectible treasures -- it's easily one of the most magical game experiences we've ...

Man who walked into Burning Man fire loses lawsuit

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:01:42 GMT

Anthony Beninati sued the organizers of Burning Man because he said they failed to restrain him from walking into a fire. He lost the lawsuit. Beninati's complaint stated that when he approached the bonfire, the flames were still roughly 40 feet ...

People getting stuck on freshly tarred street

Mark Frauenfelder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:52:44 GMT

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Assaulted by someone you met online? Don't sue the website

jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:44:20 GMT

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Social networks like MySpace still cannot be held responsible for assaults that happen offline, according to California's Second ...

Iran: SMS re-activated after 20-day blackout

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:21:15 GMT

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Chocolate Waterboarding (food art)

Xeni Jardin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:19:45 GMT

Artist Stephen J Shanabrook's "Waterboarding" tells the tale of a "peaceful song of a pair of choir boys turned into a silent scream," through "figuratively chocolate-waterboarded choir boy Christmas statues." More on ...

Online Video Needs More Long-Form Shows to Win Ad Dollars, eMarketer

Daisy Whitney — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:12:09 GMT

Online video advertising is on the rise, but the medium will grow rise faster as consumers watch more long-form programs online, eMarketer Senior Analyst David Hallerman says. That's because longer content is more attractive to advertisers. ...

Ian McDonald's brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:11:26 GMT

Ian McDonald's Desolation Road is one of my most personally influential novels. It's an epic tale of the terraforming of Mars, whose sweep captures the birth and death of mythologies, economics, art, revolution, politics. Its publication ...