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12.16.2009
11:27 am
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.16.2009
11:27 am
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Second-grader suspended over drawing of Jesus
12.16.2009
12:59 am
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imageA Taunton father is outraged after his 8-year-old son was sent home from school and required to undergo a psychological evaluation after drawing a stick-figure picture of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The father said he got a call earlier this month from Maxham Elementary School informing him that his son, a second-grade student, had created a violent drawing. The image in question depicted a crucified Jesus with Xs covering his eyes to signify that he had died on the cross. The boy wrote his name above the cross.

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.16.2009
12:59 am
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12.15.2009
07:35 pm
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Posted by Jason Louv
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12.15.2009
07:35 pm
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Hazel Hill: Living on the Edge
12.15.2009
07:27 pm
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Hazel Hill, the designer of Thee Psychick Bible and one of the masterminds of Show Cave, showed this video to an awe-struck crowd this weekend at her art space. Jaws dropped.

(Via Made of This)

Posted by Jason Louv
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12.15.2009
07:27 pm
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1950 GE Play-Talk Turntable Tape Recorder
12.15.2009
06:31 pm
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From Pea Hicks, The king of the Optigan.

This is a GE Play-Talk from 1950. It’s a kid’s toy, but it’s actually pretty advanced for the time, since tape recorders were just starting to become available. This is a tape recorder / record player hybrid. The paper disc is coated with magnetic tape and the tonearm has a tape recorder head on it. The little plastic disc that goes over the “tape” disc has a spiral groove for guiding the tonearm. The speaker serves double duty as the microphone. All tube electronics.

What’s great is the way you can play/record in random access mode. There’s no erase head, so the sounds just keep building on top of each other until you erase the disc with a bulk tape eraser.

In the 2nd part of the video, I use another fantastic GE toy- the Tote-A-Tune keyboard from the early 70s. I record a scale onto the disc, then attempt to play a tune by manually moving the tonearm over the disc. Lots of creative lo-fi applications for this sucker!!

Posted by Brad Laner
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12.15.2009
06:31 pm
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I Will Fear No Celeriac
12.15.2009
04:38 pm
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Never mind its off-putting appearance, what with its Cthulhu like tentacles and weird lil’ miniature celery tops (not too nice to eat those), the celery root or as the French know it, celeriac, is a multi-faceted delight once you get to know it. Chop all the nasty bits off (it’s easier than you would think) then dice into cubes and basically treat it as you would a potato, turnip or any other root vegetable. Roast in the oven, saute with garlic and olive oil, puree into soup, eat raw in a salad, you can’t go wrong. What you taste is the essence of celery-ness but with heavier presence and substance than your standard stalk variety. It’s in season now until spring, so harass your grocer !
 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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12.15.2009
04:38 pm
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Sketchy Santas
12.15.2009
11:42 am
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Sketchy Santas is a WONDERFUL photoblog dedicated to evil mall santas. Ummm… Err….
 
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.15.2009
11:42 am
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Twinsies: Robots Custom-Built to Look Like Owners
12.15.2009
02:41 am
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Pink Tentacle has a creepy post about Sogo & Seibu announcing plans to build “robot doppelgangers.” Ack!

Pink Tentacle says:

The mechanical doppelgangers are available for a limited time as part of a special New Year?

Posted by Tara McGinley
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12.15.2009
02:41 am
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The Beatles as seen from the distant future
12.14.2009
09:23 pm
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I find this totally plausible.
 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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12.14.2009
09:23 pm
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Flying The Stressful Skies: Drone-Pilot Burnout
12.14.2009
06:24 pm
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Jane Meyer‘s excellent New Yorker article, The Predator War, suggests that the U.S. reliance on drones to carry out overseas assassinations may be quick and efficient, but it’s hardly without consequence.  Sticky moral issues aside, delivering death from above—and beyond—has been taking a toll on the drone pilots safely ensconced at their video feeds thousands of miles away. 

I found it oddly telling that pilots sometimes feel compelled to, “wear flight suits when they operate a drone?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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12.14.2009
06:24 pm
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