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Snopes: True –  On September 12, 2001 and for several days following Brother Steve worked 12-hour shifts alongside other firefighters digging and sifting through the rubble from the World Trade Center looking for survivors.

Very few photographs and no interviews exist because he declined them. He wasn’t there for the publicity.

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Origami cranes are cool, but do you know what’s cooler? Origami cranes dancing to the beat. That’s the challenge [Basami Sentaku] took on when he created Dancing Paper (YouTube link). You might remember [Basami] from his 8 bit harmonica hack. In Dancing Paper, paper cranes seem to dance all on their own – even performing some crazy spinning moves. Of course, the “magic” is due to some carefully written code, and magnets, lots of magnets.

Using magnets to move objects from below isn’t a new concept. Many of us have seen the “ice skating pond” Christmas decoration which uses the same effect. Unlike the skating pond,Dancing Paper has moving parts (other than the cranes themselves). Under the plastic surface are a series of individually controlled electromagnets. Each of the supporting dancers has a line of four magnets, while the featured dancer in the center has a 5×5 matrix. The 41 electromagnets were wound around bolts with the help of a Tamiya motor and gearbox.

The actual dance moves are controlled by C code which appears to be running on an Atmel microcontroller. Of course a microcontroller wouldn’t be able to drive those big coils, so some beefy TO-220 case transistors were employed to switch the loads. The cranes themselves needed a bit of modification as well. Thin pieces of wire travel from the neodymium magnets on their feet up to the body of the crane. The wire provides just enough support to keep the paper from collapsing, while still being flexible enough to boogie down.

Click past the break to see Dancing Paper in action!

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I almost forgot about those pesky little frogs in Final Fantasy VII that transform party members into frogs, thanks videogamedunkey for the reminder.

Even without the frogs, dunkey's new clip must be the silliest take on the game and its story.

It's Final Fantasy VII so watch out for all the spoilers. Even a crazy trip like this will have some:

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This weasel riding a wood pecker is the wind beneath our wings.

The now-famous picture taken by Martin Le-May that soared around the Internet on Monday night inspired plenty of laughs — and, of course, memes

It's entirely possible that the weasel was just looking for a fast meal rather than a ride to work, but it's so much more inspiring to imagine a tiny woodpecker version of The NeverEnding Story.

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Mere days ago, I hoped out loud that 2015 would become the year of clay for videogames, and now there's an announcement for a remaster of ClayFighter. Shame it won't be out until 2016.

Interplay and Drip Drop Games (who?) are promising "the best of all previous ClayFighter titles" as well as "remastered audio and high resolution visuals." Also, curiously, new mechanics: double jumping, air dashing, counters, and reversals. Claytality moves return, though perhaps they shouldn't, and there will be 20+ characters (including Earthworm Jim and Boogerman) and stages.

My memories of this series are strongly linked to Blockbuster rentals and, truth be told, I think I ended up preferring the box art to the actual games. I was more of a Primal Rage guy back then.

Several years back, there was going to be an updated ClayFighter 63 1/3 for Wii and DSi but the game was canceled. We'll see if this remaster has better luck.

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The all-IP, gigabit dream is within reach... just buy our kit

MWC 2015 The big infrastructure vendors all made significant announcements in advance of Mobile World Congress, holding their beauty parades before the distractions of the event itself. While there was a lot of the inevitable "5G" vision-making on show, the main focus was on something more real: new platforms which could be deployed in a one-to-two-year rather than a five-year timeframe.…

Dropbox just scored a huge deal that will not only put its cloud storage in front of a lot of people, but help you safeguard your smartphone's data. The company has forged a partnership with Vodafone that both gives the carrier's Android and iPhone u...

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Because losing Spock already has us eating our feelings, why not cook foods exclusively made in his likeness?

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So, this is a GIF of a small child trying to find the correct naked dad to shower with at high speed. 

Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad #gamedev #indiegame pic.twitter.com/zrgvaYRQ7t

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The GIF is from an indie game called Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad and we know very little else at this stage.

Oh, the indie developer @bonerman_inc found the souls of the damned trapped in his ice cream a couple of months back, too. Perhaps he sold his soul to the devil for a head full of quirky indie game concepts. Who knows.

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While browsing his local Ikea for functional furniture at reasonable prices, Redditor voodoocode snapped a shot of some of the company's upcoming lineup of fake placeholder video games. I would pay $100 for Grand-ma's Auto.

Ikea is famous for its meatballs. Also it tends to make fake video game consoles, video games, computers, books and more to fill out its lavish, gravy and ligonberry-stained displays. They should really consider selling these. Call Your Mutti (slang for mother): Say "Oops, I'm Sorry" is truly inspired.

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