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Steve Anderson at The Independent:

Pope Francis has said that atheists should be seen as good people as long as they do good, in a move to urge people of all religions - or no religion at all - to get along.

Click for full size. Text lifted from Fengi. It's shopped, you can tell by the pixels. No apologies whatsoever to the Holstee Manifesto.

A team from the University of Sichuan won the Red Dot Design award for a concept design called "Lumigrid" -- a bike-light that projects a grid on the ground ahead of the rider, making terrain irregularities easy to spot:

Lumigrids can project a grid onto the ground. On a flat road surface, the grid will consist of standard squares. On a rough road surface, the grids will deform accordingly. By observing the motion and deformation of the grids, the rider can intuitively understand the landforms ahead. In addition, the luminous grids can make it easier for nearby pedestrians and vehicles to notice the bicycle, reducing the likelihood of collision.

Lumigrids can be fixed onto the bicycle’s handlebars. Its power is supplied by either an internal battery or by the rotation of the bicycle’s wheels. It has only one button so that the rider can easily use it while riding. The first press will turn on the power, the second press will change the mode of projection, and holding the button down for two seconds will turn the power off. Lumigrids has three modes with different grid sizes that can be used to adapt to different situations: normal mode (140x180mm), high-speed mode (140x260mm), and team mode (300x200mm)."

Lumigrids (via OhGizmo)

The Spanish firm Arbore offered these custom Escher-inspired floor tiles back in 2011; from the looks of things, they're still available. It's a very well-executed conceit, done in hardwood.

Diseño geometrico inspiración Escher (via Geekologie)

In case you missed this classic Jon Stewart segment on Peggy Noonan from this week (the excerpts from one of her audio books on Reagan are worth it all by themselves):

When life gets hectic or crazy (and we've all been there), take some of the stress off by finding comfort in the mundane—even in routine chores like shining your kitchen sink.

"When life gets messy, shine your sink" comes from a blog post by Courtney Carver on Be More With Less. It reminds us that no matter how scrambled you might feel, you can still do just one small thing to center yourself.

• If you get lost, do the laundry. You know how to do that. You don’t need input or direction. Just do it.
• If you feel scattered, wash the dishes. Turn off your dishwasher and wash each dish as if it’s the most important thing you have to do.
• If your mind is racing, hang out by the spin cycle. Let the background noise quiet your mind.
• If you are anxious, sweep the floor. Sweep up your worry along with the dust (and dog hair in my case).
• When things get messy, shine your sink. If your to-do list is out of control or your mind is full of idea and you don’t know where to start, clean your sink.

The link to the FlyLady's instructions for shining your sink is very appropriate, since the foundation of the FlyLady's philosophy of chaos-busting is baby steps, starting with a shiny sink.

Simplify Your Life and Quiet Your Mind on The Spin Cycle | Be More With Less

Photo remixed from an original by Nomadic Lass.

The Association for Computing Machinery's annual SIGGRAPH conference is where you will find many of the most incredible, edgiest developments in computer graphics research. Above is the video trailer for this year's "Technical Papers" program. SIGGRAPH 2013 takes place July 21-25 in Anaheim, California.

This excerpt from neurologist-philosopher Daniel Dennett's new book Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking lays out a set of rhetorical habits that I immediately aspired to attain:

How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1. Attempt to re-express your target's position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: "Thanks, I wish I'd thought of putting it that way."

2. List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).

3. Mention anything you have learned from your target.

4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.

And if that wasn't enough: "whenever you see a rhetorical question, try – silently, to yourself – to give it an unobvious answer. If you find a good one, surprise your interlocutor by answering the question." And then, "A good moral to draw from this observation is that when you want to criticise a field, a genre, a discipline, an art form …don't waste your time and ours hooting at the crap! Go after the good stuff or leave it alone."

Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking (via O'Reilly Radar)

When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.

Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner on Exploring Female Friendship in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’

On November 26, 2012 id Software released the source code of Doom 3 BFG edition (only one month after the game hit the stores). The 10 years old idTech 4 engine has been updated with some of the technology found in idTech 5 (the game engine running Rage) and it was an interesting reading session.


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A team from the University of Sichuan won the Red Dot Design award for a concept design called "Lumigrid" -- a bike-light that projects a grid on the ground ahead of the rider, making terrain irregularities easy to spot:

Lumigrids can project a grid onto the ground. On a flat road surface, the grid will consist of standard squares. On a rough road surface, the grids will deform accordingly. By observing the motion and deformation of the grids, the rider can intuitively understand the landforms ahead. In addition, the luminous grids can make it easier for nearby pedestrians and vehicles to notice the bicycle, reducing the likelihood of collision.

Lumigrids can be fixed onto the bicycle’s handlebars. Its power is supplied by either an internal battery or by the rotation of the bicycle’s wheels. It has only one button so that the rider can easily use it while riding. The first press will turn on the power, the second press will change the mode of projection, and holding the button down for two seconds will turn the power off. Lumigrids has three modes with different grid sizes that can be used to adapt to different situations: normal mode (140x180mm), high-speed mode (140x260mm), and team mode (300x200mm)."

Lumigrids (via OhGizmo)

Do you want to run multiple operating systems from a single USB stick? Perhaps boot into a live environment, or even install the operating system? Learning how to boot from USB is easier than you’d think!

Multiboot USB drives can host live Linux distributions and installation media for Windows. That is small operating systems explicitly designed to provide maintenance to a computer from outside of the computer’s operating system.

In this article, we’ll look at several free Windows programs that can create dual-boot and multiboot USB media. Be sure to use a high-quality USB drive, preferably one that’s larger than 8 GB!

1. WinSetupFromUSB

WinSetupFromUSB is a highly recommended pick for installing Windows from a USB and multiboot USBs. It’s an intuitive multiboot software option. However, WinSetupFromUSB is only compatible with Windows 2000/XP and later, as well as Linux and BSD.

Using WinSetupFromUSB is easy. Open the software, and select your USB disk from the dropdown menu.

Next, check the button next to your preferred operating systems.

Then you’ll need to browse to the volume containing the operating system you wish to install on your multiboot USB. When you’re ready, click the Go button.

If you’re interested, check the option by Show Log to view detailed information on what’s going on.

Finally, when installation is complete, you’ll see a Job Done message.

Overall, WinSetupFromUSB is pretty simple to use and features a quick write time. It’s also got a QEMU mode, and it’s a small, portable app.

Download: WinSetupFromUSB (Free)

2. MultiBootUSB

MultiBootUSB is a pretty popular program for just this kind of task. The software is also a portable application, it’ll run from your USB drive, and you do not need to install it. This gives you a great deal of flexibility, should you want to change things up but you aren’t at your home or office computer.

Adding multiple bootable OS distros is easy, browse under Select image and choose your ISO. Note that while MutiBootUSB runs on Windows and Linux, you can only create Linux Live USB systems.

Once you’ve clicked chosen your image, select your desired amount of persistence if you want to be able to save files on the partition, and click Install distro.

A great feature of MultiBootUSB is the addition of QEMU virtualization software, which allows you to test both individual Linux ISOs and your USB stick without restarting the computer.

For a simple way to put multiple Linux distributions on a USB stick, MultiBootUSB is a great lightweight option.

Download: MultiBootUSB (Free)

3. XBoot

XBoot has a lot more documentation than MultiBootUSB, but both programs don’t require a lot of instruction to use. XBoot provides a similar experience and is also portable media making it handy to use on the move.

Installation of XBoot is pretty straightforward. Double-click the executable file, and it opens in seconds. From there it’s quite simple to add your ISOs – drag and drop them into the main box.

Next, click on the Create USB button. The program will prompt you to select the USB drive that you wish to install the ISOs on and to select the kind of bootloader that you want to use. If your USB stick is formatted to FAT32, XBoot recommends Syslinux. If the USB stick is formatted to NTFS, Grub4DOS is recommended. You could also select Do not install any Bootloader, but since you want the USB stick to be bootable, you’ll probably ignore that.

Click OK and we’re on the way!

Xboot also has the same QEMU features, where you can boot a live CD ISO or boot the USB that you just made.

Despite being a slightly more substantial program, XBoot works a little faster than MultiBootUSB. Another nice touch is the ability to download ISO files directly via the XBoot downloader.

Download: Xboot (Free)

4. YUMI: Your Universal Multiboot Installer

YUMI is a well-respected tool, which is not as feature rich as others in this list but a solid choice for creating multiple booting USB drives.

YUMI has a slightly different workflow. You choose which distro you want from the list, before browsing to the ISO on your hard drive, or following the provided link to the home page of your chosen distro.

Select your distro, in this case Lubuntu, and locate the ISO on your hard drive.

When you are ready, click Create. It’ll take a few minutes. Then you can repeat the process to add further OS images to your drive.

Additionally, YUMI doesn’t have the QEMU tools of MultiBootUSB or XBoot. What it does have, is the support of countless network administrators and tech workers who use it in their daily work lives!

Download: YUMI (Free)

One USB for All Your Operating Systems

To use the USB drives you create, it’s worth knowing how to change the boot order on your PC so you can choose which one to boot from each time.

Multi OS USB sticks might be overkill for many users, and you might be better off with a simple bootable Windows USB stick.

Read the full article: How to Install Multiple Bootable Operating Systems on a USB Stick

by funnyguy

photo by Paul B. Southerland/The Oklahoman

On April 22, 2013, the Century Chest, a time capsule that had been sealed for 100 years, was opened during a ceremony at the First Lutheran Church of Oklahoma City. Onlookers and historians were astonished by the pristine condition of the contents: an untarnished desk telephone, a shiny pair of women’s shoes, a Kodak camera, and much more. The Century Chest was originally buried under the church on April 22, 1913 as part of fundraiser to pay for a church organ (the organ is still in use). The opening ceremony was captured on video for posterity. The actual opening occurs at the 1:10 mark. For photos of the contents, check out this gallery on the Downtown OKC Facebook page.

photo via Downtown OKC

photo via Downtown OKC

photo via Downtown OKC

photo via Downtown OKC

photo via Downtown OKC

via Twisted Sifter

video via OETA-The Oklahoma Network

Name:

Hani & Andrew

Location:

New York, NY

Square Feet:

440

Division:

Tiny

What I Love About My Small Home:

We love the organic modern feel and our art, including a prized secret ceramic glaze recipe from our dear friends at KleinReid. The built-in shelving connects to two distinct living areas -- we especially love the vintage jar collection that we use for our pantry to elegantly extend the tiny kitchen into the dining area while the opposite wall is filled with books and functional items and connects into the living area. For dense city living, we're also lucky to have an incredible view of a brick wall covered in Boston ivy that changes fiery red in the autumn, instead of facing another apartment window or an alley. We love the live "tree-light art" that we wake up to in the morning on the balcony doors, and enjoy our six distinct living spaces all within one rectangular room: dining room, living room, bedroom, kitchen bar and workspace, a cozy reading chair, and a balcony cafe.

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So there’s this Tumblr, where comedians and other folks put baguettes in places they shouldn’t be, and then take nice pictures of it.

And that’s it.

I don’t know what else you would want. Also, congratulations, Yahoo!.

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It's not the most comforting thing in the world to have the director known for killing off his characters remind you of your own mortality. But Joss Whedon's speech at today's Wesleyan University commencement wasn't about comfort; it was about accepting contradictions and learning to listen to dissent from ourselves and others.

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Hamburg writes "Stack Exchange launched a new site for network engineers. It's in question and answer style, content is tagged for filtering and subscribing to topics. A voting system supports quality of posts, leading to so called reputation scores which determine moderation capabilities of the users. It's now 18 days in beta, at this early stage users decide which way it will go, from quality and kind of contributions up to the future design of the site. People there discuss mainly professional subjects such as the best dual-provider design for the enterprise, when to choose fiber instead of copper cabling, and efficient ways for troubleshooting switching loops."

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Hairstylist Janet Stephens was unable to replicate a Roman statue's complex bun in the salon, leading her to solve the ancient mystery of how it worked: "I got deeper and deeper into it ... it took about seven years, and my article was published in the Journal of Roman Archeology." [PDF]

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Brian Ashcraft updates us on the astounding foam-art of Osaka barista Kazuki Yamamoto. Yamamoto has now mastered 3D foam, and is blowing my mind. Ashcraft has a series of posts documenting the journey of Yamamoto to undisputed novelty foam king of the Pacific Rim.

3D Coffee Art Reaches New, Dizzying Heights [Brian Ashcraft/Kotaku] (via Geekologie)

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MY SCHOOL DID THE JEOPARDY MUSIC THING

So did mine.