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ANIMAL and Pig Destroyer proudly present you the official Pug Destroyer t-shirt, now available for pre-order on Pig Destroyer’s online store.

Last week, we created a video for a parody band called Pug Destroyer, in which screeching, squealing pooches provide lead vocals on a brootal death metal jam. A few days later, Pig Destroyer–the very real and very awesome grindcore band that partially inspired our video–saw the clip and liked it enough that they contacted us about making some pug-themed merch. And at only $18, the shirt is a steal, and it’s for a good cause: all proceeds will benefit Pug Rescue of Florida.

And just in case you missed the video the first time around, or if you just can’t get enough of these heavy metal canines, here’s it is again for your listening pleasure.

Put ‘em on your Christmas lists, people.

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[Update Below] We didn't think bad theater behavior could get much worse than having a cellphone go off in the middle of a play but clearly we weren't thinking, or drinking, hard enough. Because last night a theatergoer vomited over the balcony and into the orchestra section during a performance of the new Paul Rudd play Grace. Still, the show must go on! [ more › ]

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This black orb created by Japanese artist and musician Yuri Suzuki is no ordinary sphere. It’s a geo-specific sound map that plays sound-bytes and music collected from around the world. Oh yeah, and its vinyl.

The sculptor-cum-engineer worked with a team of specialists in Tokyo to develop a software enabling him to inscribe sounds into the orb’s glossy surface, creating the world’s first 3-dimensional LP.

The music is played back through a stylus that tracks an uninterrupted winding groove winding down and up the circumference of the globe from pole to pole, taking the listener on what Suzuki calls “An aural journey around the world in 30 minutes.”

“I’m always travelling,” explained Suzuki in an interview with the Guardian, recently returned from Sweden and Belgium. Oslo, Lausanne and Tokyo are up next. “I take a dictaphone wherever I go, and this project was a way of bringing all these sounds together.”

Over the course of four years, Suzuki continued globe-trotting and collecting traditional folk music, national anthems, popular music and spoken word broadcasts for his ghostly playlist.

“The Sound of Earth” isn’t his first experimentation with record-players and cutting edge technology. Suzuki has previously given us a touch-screen synthesizer, a five-armed turntable and even a wearable record-player you play with your finger.

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Lydia Calas, the ASL interpreter at New York mayor Mike Bloomberg's side during tonight's Sandy update was like a human emoticon for one of the nation's most expressionless mayors. Now she has internet fans, animated tribute GIFs, and her very own fan-tumblr.

(Via instacane)

Because there aren't enough ways to feel like you're being judged by Williamsburg scenesters the moment you step off the L train, the fashion police have installed a webcam on a Bedford Avenue building. Mounted "a block from the hellmouth" of the Bedford L stop, the "Styleblaster" motion-sensor camera enables the whole world to enjoy an endless, real-time parade of precious hipster runoff. Each photo has a time-stamp showing when it was taken, and you, the Internet, get to decide if the subject is worthy of a "top hat" signifying whether the individual is "stylin'." The site's operators declare: [ more › ]

Joshua K. Pinney is charged with attempting to defraud a Bank of America branch in Des Moines into issuing him a bank card in the name of a man whose wallet had been stolen. To help with his ruse, Pinney allegedly conceived of this clever disguise, including whitening his beard, hair and eyebrows, and swathing his head and body in elaborate "bandages" to make it seem that he'd been injured in a recent accident as a way of explaining other physical differences between him and the victim

Here's more from Rose Egge in the Des Moines KOMO:

Prosecutors say Pinney presented the identification of an Oregon man to the bank manager and asked for a new debit card. The actual man on the ID was a client at the bank whose car had recently been stolen and his identification was missing. The victim had flagged his account to prevent anyone from using it.

Pinney told the branch manager that he was on a business trip in Washington and needed a new debit card, according to the police report. He also asked the branch manager if he could sit down and requested a glass of water, claiming he was in pain from a recent accident.

When confronted by police, Pinney stuck with his story and said he was at the bank to replace his debit card, documents said.

The police officer looked at the Oregon ID that Pinney had given the bank manager and asked the man if he was seriously trying to pass as the man in the picture. Court documents report Pinney hung his head and said “I know.”

Is it too late to make this my Hallowe'en costume?

Man's identity theft attempt falls flat at Des Moines bank (via Accordion Guy)

(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

The population of the world has been over 7 billion for about a year now. But those seven billion aren't distributed equally around the globe. 1.2 billion people — about  in India alone (despite it havingjust 2% of the world's land area). At the other end of the spectrum, the entire continent of Australia houses about 0.3% of Australia.

So what would the world look like if we divided it into continents not by political or geographic boundaries, but by population? For the sake of argument, what if the Earth were divided into seven continents of a billion inhabitents each? Armed with MS paint and Wikipedia's table of country populations, Redittor delugetheory drew this map:

Each color on the map represents 1 billion people. The continent of Africa, neatly, already has a total population of around a billion, as do North America and South America combined. (For some reason Greenland and Australia/NZ, with comparatively negligible populations, got thrown in Continent Green as well). For the rest of the world we need some judicious reassembling of the continents. 

While this map was assembled by hand, it would be interesting to see what map an algorithmic approach would create. It would be kind of like a 7-way knapsack problem, I guess. Unfortunately, you couldn't just use country populations as the basis, since China and India already have more than 1 billion inhabitants and need to be split apart. I guess you could arbitrarily break them up into 2 countries each, or perhaps work from the city population list (and distribute the remaining population in countries uniformly over their area). Any R programmers up to the task of automating this problem?

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Never quit

Друзья! Сегодня перевернулся мой мир. Знакомьтесь – сотрудница Укрпочты в кофте АСОС, мужской, М размера. В кофте, которая мне должна была приехать месяц назад, но так и не доехала!! Сегодня я зашла спросить за посылки на почту, и не смогла отвести от неё глаз.

Юрий Гагарин ответил на вопросы заданные Ричардом Димблибай (Richard Dimbleby), научным редактором газеты "Санди Таймс" Томом Маргерисон (Tom Margerison) и сотрудником Советского телевещания Юрием Фокиным во время прямой передачи с Российской выставки в Earls Court (пригород Лондона) в 1961 г.

“ah, mein arsh”

A delicious and affordable dinner of onions, garlic, green chili peppers, and fresh mushrooms from the backyard sent a Connecticut family to the hospital and almost killed one of them last week. It all seemed so normal at first—matriarch Shah Noor, 40, picked the mushrooms and included them in a meal everyone agreed was delicious. But the next morning her husband, Musarat Ullah, and her daughter Aiman Bibi, 21, experienced extreme stomach pains. They went to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, where they realized the severity of their situation: [ more › ]

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An article at The Verge discusses a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art which traces the history of photo manipulation, starting in the mid-1800s. Early photographers used simple techniques like painting on their negatives or simply forming a composite image from many painstakingly framed shots. That period of time even had its own approximation of modern memes: "A large number of prints from that era — featuring decapitated subjects holding, juggling, or otherwise posing with their own heads — might be seen as the lolcats of their day, owing to an alluringly macabre and widespread fascination with parlour tricks and stage magic." However, lying with pictures really took off when business and government figured out how effective it could be as a tool for propaganda. The exhibit has many examples, such as President Ulysses S. Grant's head superimposed onto a soldier's body and a different background, or another of Joseph Goebbels removed from a photo of a party. The article likens these manipulations to more recent situations like the faked pictures of Osama Bin Laden's corpse, and often-hilarious altered ads featured on Photoshop Disasters. The article ends with a quote from photographer Jerry Uelsmann: "Let us not delude ourselves by the seemingly scientific nature of the darkroom ritual. It has been and always will be a form of alchemy."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Can You Really Achieve Your Goal?: Make sure you’re not succumbing to one of these five common fallacies:

1. The Hard-Work Fallacy: Believing that determined effort will compensate for your shortcomings
   
2. The Smarts Fallacy: Thinking that general intelligence translates into specific skills
   
3. The Magnification Fallacy: Assuming that your particular talent is somehow more special than your peers’
   
4. The Passion Fallacy: Believing you’re good at things just because you really enjoy them or because they are immensely important to you
   
5. The “Wishing Will Make it So” Fallacy: Convincing yourself that success (for you, anyway) will be easy
   

No, You Can’t Have It All

Моллюск-паразит приманивает потенциального хозяина уникальным способом.

First time accepted submitter drichan writes "Those of us who watched the live feed of last night's Falcon 9 launch could be forgiven for assuming that everything went according to plan. All the reports that came through over the audio were heavy on the word "nominal," and the craft successfully entered an orbit that has it on schedule to dock with the International Space Station on Wednesday. But over night, SpaceX released a slow-motion video of what they're calling an 'anomaly.'"

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A Canadian musician called DJ Kid Koala has released a new album called 12-Bit Blues that comes with a kit for building your own miniature cardboard turntable, and a bonus two-track flexidisc to play on it. You spin the disc by hand, choosing the tempo that feels best to you. Here's a description from Springwise:

Although the record is being released on CD and LP – as well as digitally – those purchasing a limited edition physical copy will also get a flatpack kit that will enable them to construct a miniature working turntable and speaker resembling a gramaphone. The device is made of only cardboard and a sewing pin that acts as the needle. The package also includes a flexidisc containing three bonus tracks, which can be played on the turntable by rotating the disc by hand. The album itself is a nostalgic take on blues and hip-hop and the turntable addition is designed to invoke the old-time aspect of blues music and toy-building activities reminiscent of childhood, as well as forcing the listener to put in some work and attention in order to hear the music.

Musician offers working DIY cardboard turntable with album

Buy 12-Bit Blues

(via Techdirt)