There’s getting served, and then there’s this:

The US Department of Homeland Security is warning its employees that they can be punished for opening up this Washington Post article, which includes a classified slide (above) illustrating how the National Security Agency spies on communications:

An internal memo from DHS headquarters told workers on Friday that viewing the document from an “unclassified government workstation” could lead to administrative or legal action. “You may be violating your non-disclosure agreement in which you sign that you will protect classified national security information,” the communication said.

The memo said workers who view the article through an unclassified workstation should report the incident as a “classified data spillage.”

Currently under development at the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo, the Dynamic Target Tracking Camera System can track a fast moving object while keeping it perfectly centered in the middle of a screen. The device consists of two mirrors for pan and tilt, and a group of lenses that move at extremely high speeds to track and film objects at a rate of one image every 1/1000th of a second. Not only can the camera film them but it can also dynamically project images onto them as demonstrated in the video. Slow motion playback in sports will never be the same. (via booooooom)

Designers David Okum and Javier Palomares joined together earlier this year to form a little design studio called Okum Made. The duo are releasing a number of functional home objects made of wood and other materials including this new series of clocks called O’Clock. There are currently four different designs including American Walnut, Hard White Maple, Douglas Fir and Cork and you can pick them up over in their shop.

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This comic inspired by @americanbeetles

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This is a great high speed capture by photographer Arvin Rahimzadeh who snapped a photo of this spinning, water-soaked tennis ball that exemplifies the geometry behind a golden Logaritmical spiral. Neat!

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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPsuperpower

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s tag was #WHPsuperpower, which asked participants to show off their superpowers with photos and videos. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

Korean artist U-Ram Choe lives and works in Seoul where he creates highly ornate kinetic sculptures that mimic forms and motions found in nature. Choe uses various metals, motors, gears, and custom CPU boards to control the precise motions of each sculpture that are at times perfectly synchronized and other times completely random. With names like “Unicus – cavum ad initium” and “Arbor Deus Pennatus” it’s clear the artist treats each new work like a brand new species.

The artworks are so complex each “organism” is shipped with a manual to show collectors and galleries how to maintain and fix various components. Choe tells the Creator’s Project in one of the videos above how some of the works in his studio live a complete lifecycle where they are at first born and put on display, but after time begin to degrade as certain parts stop working. Eventually he raids old artworks for parts and uses them to build new ones.

Watch the videos above to see a good sampling of his work both old and new, and he has a huge archive of videos for nearly 50 artworks over on Vimeo.

Video camera technology has improved immensely in recent years, allowing scientists like lightning physicist Vladislav Mazur and meteorologist Tom Warner to analyze high speed footage of these captivating bolts of electricity in the sky.

In this video, Incredible Slow Motion Lightning Strike, via sagansense, we see just 1 second of lightning slowed down into 3 minutes. Yes, 1 sec = 3 mins.

One more to watch: a downward lightning negative ground flash captured at 7,207 images per second. 

Spaced
#observatory #hawaii @brentnorris #maunakea #Caltech #Submillimeter #bigisland #2009 #trip #travel #rtw @princessfyza #canon #powershot #sd960is

"I’m ashamed at how long it took me to realize why so many people in my family have been consumed with looking church-ready when they step out the door regardless of time or day."

That Facebook quote came from Phyllis Fletcher, an African-American colleague at KUOW in Seattle. And it reminded me of something my sister once told me when a white friend teased her about taking too long to get ready when they went on joint shopping expeditions. “Why are you getting all dressed up? Just throw on some jeans, like me, and let’s go."

"You can do that," my sister pointed out. “Not me." She would then explain that unless black shoppers look, essentially, church-ready, they are served very casually — often after others who came after them — or followed about not-too-subtly by salespeople who insist on “helping" them instead of allowing them to browse on their own until they need help.

There is a version of this that black mothers tell their sons: Don’t go out of the house with your hoodie flipped up or your pants on your hips. “Their white friends can do it, sure," one mother told me a couple of months ago, “but these young black boys think they live in a world where everything and everyone is the same." On the one hand, she doesn’t want to burst that bubble. Things are better than they were when she was growing up. On the other hand, she wants him to live long enough to understand the wisdom behind her worry.

Saturday night was one of those times, when black parents ponder what they’ll say when they have that hard conversation with their male children — especially their young men moving toward adulthood. On social media, there is a lot of public agonizing that it has come to this, especially for parents whose children live very integrated lives. But the sad fact remains, the tweets, the Facebook posts say: black boys are still more suspect, and less valued. So looking church-ready may be what saves their lives one day.

They feel a Florida jury has just reinforced why there is a continued need to point this out.

via http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/07/14/201946194/with-fla-verdict-is-protective-clothing-still-required?ft=1&f=1001

finding the right running shoe is a complicated affair.

he promises they come in something other than pink.

Lotus Flower
#lotus #flower #fiji #2009 #water #plant #beautiful #pink #green #yellow #suva #travel #trip #rtw #worldtour #canon #powershot #sd960is

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burningmanproblems:

fighting against the empire with the perfect soundtrack

[@cate_gary]

Our last Flickr Friday theme was #Yesterday.

Yesterday isn’t just a placeholder that moves as time marches onwards; it’s also an idea that evokes the larger past—a duality which this week’s photos showed beautifully. Some of you captured the previous day’s photo as a snapshot of your life, and some chose to reach even further into the years to emphasize how much things have changed. Explore more of the wonderful submissions for this theme in the Flickr Friday group pool.

To take a nautical tack for the coming week, the new Flickr Friday theme is #OnTheWaterfront. No need to find an actual ocean if a nearby river or pond will do. (Water, it’s everywhere.) A selection of your shots will be showcased right here on the Flickr Blog late next week.

Photos from Gabbbbbbbbbbb, Bryen., mreastwood, lenfels, Laurarama, Ivana Vasilj, Historias Visuales, BlueDog_1199, Giulio Magnifico, and Ainslie!.

#FlickrFriday is a weekly photography project that challenges your creativity. For a chance to be featured on FlickrBlog, follow @flickr on Twitter & like us on Facebook and look for the weekly theme announcement every Friday. Browse the Flickr Friday category for more.

Brisbane Wheel
#brisbane #australia #2009 #trip #travel #rtw #worldtour #blue #lights #ferris #wheel

Stefaan duPont over at SDPNT is making some wonderful one-of-a-kind cuffs from old camera lenses. Every bracelet is completely unique and can’t be duplicated. The store opened for the first time about two hours ago, so check it out. (via notcot)

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