SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc expects China to join Japan and South Korea as one of its three largest markets by revenue in Asia-Pacific in two to... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:26 am
The February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix included this great, long article on the state-of-the-art of horror movie makeup. All the information he could dig up gave only a suggestion, not a solution... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
The February, 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix included this great, long article on the state-of-the-art of horror movie makeup.
All the information he could dig up gave only a suggestion, not a solution of Pierce’s problem in turning Karloff into a duplicate of Osiris for “Im-ho-tep,” in which picture the mummy comes to life. Manifestly embalming fluids and perfumes have no place in makeup for the camera, so for a month Pierce experimented with pigments, paints, drying materials. He had to have a rotted cloth that would not fall from the body, yet would crumble easily when the body stirred from its coffin. The face must look very old and withered and dry. The eyes must be closed, yet seem to see.
An assistant spent a week feeding double-weight cheese cloth in two widths—two and three inches—through a barrel-like cylinder over a gas flame, winding it gently over a turning wheel. This cooked and charred the cloth without actually burning it.
Pierce experimented with 20 dry colors until at last he looked down into his mixing pot on exactly the yellow-gray color with which good mummies are covered. Burnt umber, light umber, fullers’ earth, other colors, glue and hot water combined to produce this mud-like substance. With a little cotton and the standard make-up pigments Pierce was ready for the big job— a seven hour ordeal—of turning back the pages of time 3700 years, all for a five-minute effect on the screen.
By Chris Lester, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Feb. 19--As the son of an Iowa dirt farmer, and as someone whose defining money moment remains the farm crisis of the 1980s, I'm struggling to process the following numbers: Corn: $5 a bushel. Soybeans: $13 a bushel. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Clay Barbour, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Feb. 19--Combating drought and complacency is the goal of a new multimedia program launched Monday by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities and the city. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Christine Armario, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Feb. 19--Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy pledged yesterday to make the Mastic area a better place to live, as concern grows about sex offenders and negligent landlords there. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Jen Aronoff, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Feb. 19--It's been more than two years since word first emerged about the massive development called River Oaks Village at Lake Norman, planned along the Catawba River in the town of Catawba. By the looks of the vacant site, little has changed. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By William M. Welch The city and county of San Diego, still recovering from deadly wildfires in 2007, have failed to provide adequate fire protection and remain vulnerable to massive damage in the future, according to a report being released today. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Feb. 19--DURHAM -- Water lines for new developments cannot be put into service during Stage 5 water restrictions, according to an ordinance amendment approved Monday night by the City Council. Durham is now under Stage 4 water restrictions. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Ad Crable Without state assistance, municipalities wonder how they will make costly improvements required to help Chesapeake Bay. Your sewer bill is likely going up. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Henry Brean By HENRY BREAN REVIEW-JOURNAL In 1979, the U.S. military began work on a short-lived scheme to hide a mobile arsenal of nuclear missiles in the Nevada desert. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 19 Feb 2008 | 11:00 am
By Luke Anderson All around the internet people have been pronouncing HD DVD dead. The past week I’ve seen it on dozens of sites, however, it really hasn’t been official. Until now. Toshiba... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:56 am
By Evan Ackerman This cute little guy is KOTA, a 40 inch long battery powered baby triceratops. If you’re a preschooler, you can ride comfortably on KOTA’s spring-loaded back, holding onto... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:55 am
The Narrative Fallacy writes "Scott Aaronson has posted a draft of his article from this month's Scientific American on the limitations of quantum computers (PDF) discussing the question: Will quantum computers let us transcend the human condition and become as powerful as gods, or are they a physical absurdity destined to be exposed as the twenty-first century's perpetual-motion machine? Aaronson says that while a quantum computer could quickly factor large numbers, and thereby break most of the cryptographic codes used on the Internet today, there's reason to think that not even a quantum computer could solve the crucial class of NP-complete problems efficiently. Aaronson contends that any method for solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time may violate the laws of physics and that this may be a fundamental limitation on technology no different than the second law of thermodynamics or the impossibility of faster-than-light communication."
HANOI (Reuters) - Dead poultry have been found in rivers and streams in northern Vietnam, a sign of a possible new bird flu outbreak during a prolonged cold spell, officials said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:51 am
By Luke Anderson I’m admittedly a lazy person. However, there are are lines that even I draw, like unrolling and tearing my own paper towel. I don’t recall many occasions when I was unable... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:48 am
Sony's Blu-Ray has finally won the battle of the high-definition DVD formats with Toshiba announcing it is to axe its rival HD DVD technology. By Jemima Kiss Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:40 am
LONDON (Reuters) - British viewers will be able to download a selection of BBC programs from Apple's digital store iTunes, under a deal announced by the public broadcaster's commercial arm... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:40 am
Bertalan Mesk from the excellent ScienceRoll blog has uploaded a presentation he gave recently at the Medicine Meets Virtual Reality conference. The presentation, embedded below, is a great overview... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:34 am
China will launch a record number of spacecraft this year, state media reported Tuesday, amid a rise in tensions among world powers over the militarisation of space. China... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:19 am
Atlantis' astronauts got their spaceship ready for the ride home on Tuesday, wrapping up a two-week mission to add Europe's new orbital laboratory to the international space station. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:10 am
Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived). A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:06 am
Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived). A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 10:06 am
Atlantis' astronauts got their spaceship ready for the ride home on Tuesday, wrapping up a two-week mission to add Europe's new orbital laboratory to the international space station. ... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:55 am
By Evan Ackerman Digital media is all over the place, in all kinds of different formats, and it’s often a huge pain in the ass to get it from one place to another, especially if the internet is involved.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:54 am
From Bach to Led Zeppelin, music has always had a powerful emotional pull for critic Nick Coleman. But since he lost hearing in one ear, listening is agony and his favourite artists no longer move him.... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:45 am
A student-built, solar-powered car capable of speeds of 45mph was shown off in London. Created by students at Durham University, the car is the only UK entry in this... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:42 am
By Evan Ackerman We wrote about this watch phone back in December when it was rumored to be a TAG Heuer design. Now, it looks like it’s possibly being produced outside of the TAG Heuer brand, by... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 9:21 am
The next installment in the Harold and Kumar franchise is called "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantánamo Bay," in which our lovable heroes end up in America's gulag when someone overhears them talking about "bongs" and thinks they're talking about "bombs." The criminals who run the prison camp on behalf of the US government evince distress at this because they hope that the world will see the secret prison as a clean, well-run, efficient gaol (filled with people so dangerous that they can't be convicted of any crime).
The focus on Guantánamo as a creative subject can lead to distortions, Admiral Buzby said. “It’s as if someone turned up the gain on our life to make it sound really bad.”
Some writers say it may be too late for anyone to change perceptions. “That one word — Guantánamo — has come to symbolize so much,” said Michelle Shephard, a reporter for The Toronto Star, whose book “Guantánamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr,” is scheduled to be published next month. Mr. Khadr was first detained when he was 15.
Scott Jaschik sends us to Inside Higher Ed, where a librarian explains why the tradeoffs we're facing with social networking sites — e.g. privacy vs. a space to build one's personal "brand" — echo issues faced years ago by academics who publish in journals that their institutions' libraries can not then afford. The author argues that, as the Open Access movement is busily restructuring academic publishing, we need to find a way of retaining the personal value to the individual of social networking and Web 2.0 sites, and not allow that value to be eclipsed by the commercial worth of the data the sites obtain about us. In the author's view, the tension is in "...the fundamental relationship between the individual's desire to share their thoughts and experiences with others and the commercial entities that provide the distribution channel for that act of sharing."
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels over the years: This shot of the entrance to a Wal-Mart store in an underground mall in Dalian, China.
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Jon "DVD Jon" Johansen and friends launched "doubleTwist" today -- a project that removes DRM from music and allows it to be synched to a variety of devices (Jon's the guy who was prosecuted for helping to break the DRM on DVDs). Jon sez, "Although some of the news articles out today about doubleTwist focus on the fact that we help consumers convert their iTunes Store purchases to MP3, that's only a small part of what doubleTwist does. doubleTwist helps consumers sync to a variety of devices and share media with their social networks without having to think about codecs and bitrates."
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Some of the mystery surrounding the Antikythera Mechanism, a mechanical computer recovered from a 2100-year-old Roman shipwreck near Britain Greece has been unravelled. The device was an astronomical calculator -- and it employed a differential gear!
Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read the faintest inscriptions that once covered the outer casing of the machine. Detailed imaging of the mechanism suggests it dates back to 150-100 BC and had 37 gear wheels enabling it to follow the movements of the moon and the sun through the zodiac, predict eclipses and even recreate the irregular orbit of the moon. The motion, known as the first lunar anomaly, was developed by the astronomer Hipparcus of Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction, the scientists speculate.
Remarkably, scans showed the device uses a differential gear, which was previously believed to have been invented in the 16th century. The level of miniaturisation and complexity of its parts is comparable to that of 18th century clocks.
Here's a cute little Instructable for turning one of Ikea's ILEN side-tables into a home theatre PC:
My wife hated having the old ugly tower case in our living room, and I really wanted to do something special for my HTPC. So when my mother law was heading up to Chicago to stop by Ikea I saw my chance. This is a Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz, 2gb ddr2, 500gb HD, ATI HD2600 w/DVI-HDMI adaptor, audio is DTS through digital coaxial. Right now I'm just running XP, while trying to pin down my favorite Media Center front end. I decided to go with no input devices. NO KEYBOARD, NO MOUSE. I use VNC via either my Nokia 770 tablet, or our laptop. The Nokia makes a great remote control using VNC. If anyone has any questions at all just let me know, this is my first instructable :). Oh! One thing that's not in the pictures is that I ended up having to add some 1/8 inch holes in the pattern of a fan intake above the processor so more air can be pulled in.
The Inglewood Police Department's 1960s video, "LSD: Trip or Trap?" is a classic of the genre. Alex sez, "It's a story of two friends who enjoy flying model planes, except that one becomes an 'acidhead' so he can be 'groovy' with the other acidheads. The other does research into LSD and decides it's a 'bummer'."
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The Worth1000 folks have just shipped A.viary, a powerful, simple online image editor optimized for making photoshopped mashups of two or more images. Shown here is a Hillary/Obama mashup, created with A.viary (see video link below to see how it worked). A.viary is still in private beta, but they're offering free signups to the first 100 Boing Boing readers who follow the link below. Go make stuff!
Link to A.viary, Link to video demo of A.viary in action
By Katherine Leal Unmuth, The Dallas Morning News Feb. 19--Irving school officials may buy smaller, PDA-like laptops to cut the cost of their novel practice of providing a computer to every high school student. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), Washington, D.C., announced new industrywide buying guidelines for placing online advertising and marketing materials on third-party Web sites to meet the industry's 70 percent 21 years of age and older demographic standard. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By O'Malley, Donna L This article reviews the use of journal literature databases including CINAHL, EMBASE, and Web of Science; summarizing databases including Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, online textbooks, and clinical decision-support tools; and the Internet search engines Google and Google Scholar. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Anonymous * Denotes new listing. March 2008 2-5, Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada International Convention and Trade Show 2008, Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Canada. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Mike Allen mike.allen@roanoke.com 981-3149 A Bedford man pleaded no contest Friday to soliciting a minor for sex over the Internet. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By The Dallas Morning News Feb. 19--A middle school student was arrested Friday after being accused of threatening to kill a female student, Plano police said. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
By Wong, Hon This article is a case study of the strategy used by innovative developers to design a social networking Web site. They used leading- edge technology and pioneered a new deployment process for quick availability of a high-performance site. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 8:00 am
A Norwegian prison has suspended yoga classes for prisoners because the intense emotions evoked by the exercises caused the inmates to become restive and violent. I kinda get this: when I started doing yoga, I would sometimes get into a pose and experience a great upwelling of sadness or anger and have a vivid flash of some past unpleasant experience. The yogic explanation is that the memory is "stored in your muscle," something I treat as allegorical (along with all the business about chakras, prana, etc). I practice yoga every day now, and credit it with keeping me sane and supple.
"The reactions we received from the prisoners who participated in the classes were very varied, ranging from completely positive to completely negative," Mr Hagen reportedly wrote in a letter to the group.
On the negative side, the yoga had provoked "strong reactions: agitation, aggression, irritability, trouble sleeping and mental confusion", he said.
During the 2006 "Cyber Storm" military online wargame, players had to be disciplined by the referees for attacking the systems that game was running on:
However, the government's files hint at a tantalizing mystery: In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous players and sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked "IMPORTANT!" reminding them not to probe or attack the game computers.
"Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do,'" said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official who oversaw Cyber Storm. "Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players."
Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker's rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview. "We... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:10 am
Microsoft Corp. is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 7:08 am
juct writes "A label on the box reading 'AES' does not ensure that your data are protected. heise examined a hard drive enclosure with an RFID key that is typical of many similar products. They found that the 128-bit AES hardware encryption claimed in advertisements was in fact a simple XOR encryption that they were able to break easily with a known plaintext attack." The manufacturer of the drive examined has announced that the product is being retooled and will be reintroduced later this year, presumably with actual AES encryption.
Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker's rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 5:19 am
Microsoft Corp. is giving students free access to its most sophisticated tools for writing software and making media-rich Web sites, a move that intensifies its competition with Adobe Systems Inc. and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 5:19 am
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c83196) has announced the addition of "High-Brightness Light Emitting Diode (LED) Industry: A Panel Discussion among Seven Experts on LED Technology and Rubicon Technology Corporation's Competitive Position" to their offering. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Bungee Labs™ today released a new version of the Bungee Connect™ web application development and hosting platform and opened its Public Beta program to all developers, becoming the most extensive implementation of a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
I have been following your continuing expos on the activities of our Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District. While this agency's policy manual went "missing," three board members with the majority vote changed existing policy to the financial benefit of a select group of top employees. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 19 Feb 2008 | 5:00 am
Go from a gentle boil to cool nonalcoholic refreshment. Follow our recipe and learn how to make your own batch of ginger beer in your kitchen. Get started on a serious soda mission at Wired's How-To Wiki.
An anonymous reader writes "There have been complaints within the World Health Organization of some oddly familiar-sounding tactics and attitudes by the Gates Foundation. Scientists who were once open with their research are now 'locked up in a cartel' and are financially motivated to support other scientists backed by the Foundation. Diversity of views is 'stifled,' dominance is bought, and Foundation views are pushed with 'intense and aggressive opposition.'" The article tries hard for balance. It notes that the WHO official who raised the alarm on the Gates Foundation's unintended consequences on world health research is "an openly undiplomatic official who won admiration for reorganizing the world fight against tuberculosis but was ousted from that job partly because he offended donors like the Rockefeller Foundation."
Wikileaks, the whistleblower site that recently leaked documents related to prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, is taken offline by its U.S. host after posting documents that implicate a Cayman Islands bank in money laundering and tax evasion activities. Kim Zetter reports.
Thomas Nybergh lets us know about the secret list maintained by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation, containing an estimated 1,700 foreign "child pornography'" sites. These are mostly in the US and the EU, and certainly not all of them contain child porn or even links to it. Finnish ISPs are required by law to block access to sites on the list, according to The Register. Finland's EFF has information about the block list, which reportedly includes a musical instrument store, a doll store, and a site of Windows tips in Thai. Recently added to the list — which by law should contain only child pornography sites — is the text-only site of a Finnish free-speech advocate who criticizes the censorship law. Evading the ISPs' block is trivial, of course.
Why does it often seem that men enjoy playing video games more than women? Perhaps because they do. A new study finds that when men play the games, a part of the brain involved in feelings of reward and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 2:36 am
The free-love, extraterrestrial-themed Raelian Movement made headlines with its dubious claims of successful human cloning. Now it's enlisted top reconstructive surgeons in its latest cause: to restore women in Africa who've suffered genital mutilation.
An anonymous reader writes "Amateur satellite watcher Ted Molczan notes that a "Notice to Airmen" (NOTAM) has been issued announcing restricted airspace for February 21, between 02:30 and 05:00 UTC, in a region near Hawaii. Stricken satellite USA 193, which the US has announced plans to shoot down, will pass over this area at about 03:30. Interestingly, this is during the totality of Wednesday's lunar eclipse, which may or may not make debris easier to observe."
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Now that a small Texas company has a patent on scanning and archiving checks — something every bank does — that has survived a USPTO challenge, lawmakers feel they have to do something about it. Rather than reform patent law, they seem to think it wiser to protect the banks from having to pay billions in royalties by using eminent domain to buy the patent for an estimated $1 billion in taxpayer money, immunizing the banks. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)."
People with extra kidneys are often oblivious to their excess baggage, and only discover it after an ultrasound scan or surgery for a more urgent medical problem Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 19 Feb 2008 | 12:02 am
Why does it often seem that men enjoy playing video games more than women? Perhaps because they do. A new study finds that when men play the games, a part of the brain involved in feelings of reward and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 18 Feb 2008 | 11:36 pm
TechDirt has an interesting article about a UK-based company that is trying to work with ISPs to make use of user surfing data to serve targeted ads. "Late last year, we heard about a company that was trying to work with ISPs to make use of that data themselves to insert their own ads based on your surfing history -- and now we've got the first report of some big ISPs moving into this realm. Over in the UK three big ISPs, BT, Carphone Warehouse and Virgin Media have announced plans to use your clickstream data to insert relevant ads as you surf through a new startup called Phorm."
The Register is reporting that Mozilla's handling of a recent security exploit that affected both browsers has drawn an unhappy response from the Opera team. "Claudio Santambrogio, an Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a security issue only a day before publishing an advisory. This gave the Norwegian software developers insufficient time to make an evaluation. [...] Santambrogio goes on to attack Mozilla's handling of the issue, arguing that it places Opera users at unnecessary risk."
Heartless Gamer writes to tell us that Gen Con LLC announced late last week that they have filed for Chapter 11. This move will not affect the still profitable Gen Con Indy event which will still happen August 14-17, 2008. "This action became necessary as a result of significant unforeseen expenses associated with attempts to expand its core business to encompass externally licensed events. [...] The protections afforded by Chapter 11 will allow Gen Con to further its efforts to address its liquidity needs, preserve value for its creditors and explore strategic alternatives for the business." Evan writes to add that this is the result of LucasFilm suing GenCon.
While treatments have multiplied, the operations and processes for delivering those medicines haven't kept pace, slowing health improvement in developing and developed countries. Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston.
Alexis Madrigal reports from the AAAS annual meeting in Boston on the goings-on on the convention floor, where the booths are filled by scientific projects and resources doing their best to illuminate or explain some corner of the universe, body, or planet.
The focus on Guantánamo as a creative subject can lead to distortions, Admiral Buzby said. “It’s as if someone turned up the gain on our life to make it sound really bad.”
Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read the faintest inscriptions that once covered the outer casing of the machine. Detailed imaging of the mechanism suggests it dates back to 150-100 BC and had 37 gear wheels enabling it to follow the movements of the moon and the sun through the zodiac, predict eclipses and even recreate the irregular orbit of the moon. The motion, known as the first lunar anomaly, was developed by the astronomer Hipparcus of Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction, the scientists speculate.
The Worth1000 folks have just shipped A.viary, a powerful, simple online image editor optimized for making photoshopped mashups of two or more images. Shown here is a Hillary/Obama mashup, created with A.viary (see video link below to see how it worked). A.viary is still in private beta, but they're offering free signups to the first 100 Boing Boing readers who follow the link below. Go make stuff!
Link to A.viary, Link to video demo of A.viary in action
"The reactions we received from the prisoners who participated in the classes were very varied, ranging from completely positive to completely negative," Mr Hagen reportedly wrote in a letter to the group.
