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The Tiger And The Cicada

As reported on TechCrunch. by ANDREW AUERNHEIMER This is an essay by Andrew Auernheimer akaWeev, a hacker who was convicted of hacking AT&T’s iPad customer information service and sentence to 41 months in prison. He mailed this essay from prison. In the homes and organizations of the powerful one finds the totems of predators. The Bohemian Grove bows to the owl spirit of Moloch. Both the USA and the Nazis took the eagle. Warmongers are…

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Contact lenses could zoom, thanks to leftover 3DTV technology

As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Olivarez-Giles A DARPA-funded project has built contact lenses that can zoom in and out in to aid those with degrading eyesight. A group of researchers — from the UC San Diego and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) — said in a report that it has built a 2.8x zoom contact lens that could eventually fit on human eyes. The group’s telescopic lens currently relies on a set of 3D…

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To Make Better Photos, You’ve Got to Throw Them Away

As reported on Wired. BY PETE BROOK Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters), Synchronized Swimmer and Artist, Miami, FL. (Issue 9) Mr. Henry X, Weed Dealer, New York, NY. (Issue 01) Meredith Ostrom, Artist, New York City. (Issue 08) Kalle Lindmark, Artist, Malmo, Sweden. (Issue 07) Jonathan Hulland, Human Rights Activist, Rangoon, Burma. (Issue 12) Joey Frank, Artist, Resident at The Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY. (Issue 05) DJ Harvey, DJ and producer, Venice, CA. (Issue 03) Gui…

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Nook’s Android app now supports HD magazines on tablets

As reported on Engadget. By Mariella Moon Next time you fire up the Nook app on your Android tablet, you’ll be able to browse HD magazines — assuming your device has a 1280 x 720 screen. Introduced three months ago on Retina iPads, the feature now jumps to the latest version of the Android app, along with a number of other updates. New magazine titles aside, version 3.4 lets you enlarge book illustrations and adds support for the system’s…

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Into the heart of CERN: an underground tour of the Large Hadron Collider (video)

As reported on Engadget. By Joseph Volpe “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I’ve been to see ALICE — though there was no looking glass to jump through, just a retina scanner and one very long elevator ride down into the earth. I’ve toured a CMSthat has nothing to do with online publishing. I’ve even gently laid my body on the most powerful particle accelerator in the world…

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