Archive for October, 2013
Man Held in Solitary Confinement for 41 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit, Released from Prison on Verge of Death
October 2nd, 2013Via: The Times Picayune: In the last 41 years, Herman Wallace has been incarcerated for a robbery he did commit, indicted for a murder a court ruled he didn’t and diagnosed with a cancer that will end his life. But Tuesday night, he passed through the prison gates and, as a free man, made his […]
Box: Projection-Mapping Onto Moving Surfaces
October 2nd, 2013Via: Bot & Dolly on Vimeo: Box explores the synthesis of real and digital space through projection-mapping onto moving surfaces. The short film documents a live performance, captured entirely in camera. Box from Bot & Dolly on Vimeo. Research Credit: alvinroasting
Jellyfish Force Nuclear Plant Shutdown in Sweden
October 2nd, 2013Via: AP: It wasn’t a tsunami but it had the same effect: A huge cluster of jellyfish forced one of the world’s largest nuclear reactors to shut down — a phenomenon that marine biologists say could become more common. Operators of the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in southeastern Sweden had to scramble reactor number three on […]
Recovery: More Americans Are Struggling to Afford Food
October 2nd, 2013Via: Gallup: More Americans are struggling to afford food — nearly as many as did during the recent recession. The 20.0% who reported in August that they have, at times, lacked enough money to buy the food that they or their families needed during the past year, is up from 17.7% in June, and is […]
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
October 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time. Finally, a young woman passed by walking alone to her suburban home. Smith wrenched her handbag from her grasp, jumped into […]
Japan: New Robot Picks Ripe Strawberries While Farmers Sleep
October 2nd, 2013Via: AFP: A robot that picks ripe strawberries while farmers sleep has been unveiled with claims it could cut workloads by two-thirds. The device, unveiled Wednesday, can pick a piece of fruit every eight seconds by using three cameras to determine which strawberries are ready to pick. A mechanized arm then darts out to snip […]
PCIe Flash Storage on Laptops
October 1st, 2013A friend of mine showed me his brand new Apple Macbook Air. That thing is very fast. There are many articles out there about how Apple used PCIe based flash storage to achieve that incredible throughput—but you sorta need to have the jarring experience of running applications on that machine for those numbers to hit […]
Is Saddam Hussein’s Fortune in a Warehouse in Moscow?
October 1st, 2013Via: Daily Mail: A cargo of 20 billion euros in cash (£16.75billion) has lain unclaimed at a Moscow airport for six years amid allegations it could be the secret fortune of Saddam Hussein. The stash, now under high security in a cargo depot, is held on 200 wooden pallets each worth 100 million euros, enough […]
The California Industrial Hemp Farming Act
October 1st, 2013Via: Vote Hemp: Vote Hemp and the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), the nation’s leading hemp grassroots advocacy organization and industry trade group, respectively, each working to revitalize industrial hemp production and processing in the U.S., are excited to report that Governor Jerry Brown has signed SB 566, the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act. After moving […]
Mystery Parachuters Dressed in Black Land in Lower Manhattan
October 1st, 2013[???] Via: NBC: Police are looking for a pair of parachuters wearing black suits and helmets who landed near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan early Monday, Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The parachuters landed on the sidewalk at about 3 a.m. near the Goldman Sachs building on West Street, Kelly said. It’s not […]
