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Engineers just do things differently, which is why this hack makes a lot of sense to us. Instead of choosing a platform like Open Office to maintain his resume [Campbell Hennessy] renders his employment and references using LaTeX.

We separate content from styling on the web all the time using CSS and content management systems (Hackaday uses WordPress). And with the online component of employment history and job applications becoming progressively more important it makes a lot of sense to prepare your CV accordingly.

LaTeX is a markup language that makes graphically pleasing typesetting effects a snap. We’ve seen it used to label resistor storage tubes and server side hacks to embed the markup in HTML. If you haven’t tried it out yourself just grab your resume (which probably needs updating anyway), a LaTeX rendering tool of your choice, crack those knuckles, and follow along with [Campbell's] experience.

In the quest for the ultimate Android device, [白い熊] on the XDA developers forum created an awe-inspiring monstrosity that gives his Galaxy Note II 288 Gigs of storage and enough battery to theoretically last three and a half months.

First, the storage: the phone can now store movies, videos, apps, and music on an incredibly capacious 256 Gig SD card. Yes, this card currently sells for about $500, but having that much storage space effectively turns the Note into a portable hard drive running Android.

The battery comes direct from an eBay listing that advertises 8500 mAh inside a huge Li-ion battery. It’s extremely doubtful this battery will live up to the stated rating, but even if the new battery has twice the capacity as the stock battery [白い熊] is looking at about 10 weeks of standby time.

Yes, it’s just parts bought online and thrown together, but you really have to admire the sheer ostentatiousness of this phone.

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Apollo Mission Control Console, Houston, 2012. All Images © Dan Winters/ Courtesy Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Dan Winters offers an exclusive view on America’s space shuttles and space exploration through his most recent work, Last Launch, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition opens tomorrow, July 11 and runs through August 31. With special access, Winters photographed NASA’s Space Shuttle program’s last launches of space shuttles Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour which took place from February to May of 2011. He takes viewers on exclusive tours inside and outside the shuttle, even placing automatically-controlled cameras around the launch pads. See more of Winters’ work here.

Armstrong’s Lunar Glove, July, 2012

Discovery Flight Deck (aft view with robotic arms control), Cape Canaveral, 2011

Endeavour on her pad, May 15, 2011

Rubber Stamps, 2012

A clever little invention by a company called Smiirl lets you display your FB page’s likes as a physical flip-board. Kinda silly but I could see boutiques using the novelty to increase their following. Watch the video below to see it in use!

View the whole post: “fliike” Real-Time Facebook Like Counter By Smiirl over on BOOOOOOOM!.

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The spreading of a craving/desire for a specific food or restaurant from person to person. Usually spread almost instantaneously after leaving someone's mouth.

Person 1 "I could really go for some Qdoba right now!"
Person 2 "Thanks for the food herp, now I really want some to!"

In March, China began regulating the number of properties families could buy, prompting couples around the country to file for divorce so they could buy more properties. In Nanjing, the schools available to children were tied to household registration, causing another wave of divorces in that city (we wrote about this one, citing Louis CK). So what’s a poor government to do in the face of that terrible loophole to its policy?

More regulations! No more divorces for you, Nanjingers. Reports Global Times:

The Nanjing-based newspaper Modern Express reported on Monday that the marriage registration office of the Gulou district in Nanjing first started such a restriction policy in early March, as the number of divorce cases the office was handling far exceeded expectations.

The rate had been spiraling out of control.

Ma Hong, an official from Nanjing Bureau of Civil Affairs, said some 18,311 couples had filed for divorce in the first six months this year, 1.7 times the number from the same time last year.

We’re not entirely sure how one now files for divorce now. Via lottery, like with license plates in Beijing? Can you imagine wanting to leave a psychologically draining, life-sapping, spiritually abusive marriage, but being told you can’t because that dipshit over there also wants to end his marriage so he/she can increase the family’s material assets?

There is, of course, a Louis CK joke for the occasion again:

Nanjing limits divorce applications in reaction to property, school rule evaders (Global Times)

L’artiste Brad Downey joue avec l’espace urbain qu’il transforme grâce à ses interventions amusantes.

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Pour sa série « Pierres vivantes » le photographe Alexander Semenov a réalisé ces images en gros plans de divers coraux pour montre leurs textures uniques.

If you have the special misfortune of being photographed or filmed pooping in public, you’re basically guaranteed to make the news. That we would see, once again, someone pooping on public transportation is not at all surprising or noteworthy.

Sina English’s write-up, however, is exceptional.

Here’s how it began:

Whoa. Call it like it is, Chinese media. How unlike you.

“A woman shit on a bus in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on July 4,” so goes the story’s lede.

Followed by:

It was reported the old woman suffered a suddenly pain in the stomach and shit on a dustbin.

The woman reportedly apologized to fellow passengers and cleaned up after herself, so really, she probably deserves none of the ridicule that’ll go her way. Let’s see how you handle bowel pain, eh?

But man, Sina… “Woman shit on the bus in Sichuan” is really… bad. Minging, one might say. Fetid.

In case the story gets amended by a native-English-speaking editor, here is the original in full:

(H/T Alicia)

The above picture comes via George Ding of the Beijinger (you might remember him as our first Three Shots guest). He writes:

If the cars going west hadn’t initially blocked the intersection, this wouldn’t have happened. Had the cars going north and south not rushed in and just waited one cycle for the intersection to clear, this wouldn’t have happened. Had the cars going east not rushed in to be blocked by the cars going north, this wouldn’t have happened. And had the cars going west not rushed in only to be blocked by the cars going south, well, you get the idea.

Yeah, we get the idea all too well. Fucking traffic, man. Fucking fuck.