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One of our Powers covers dedicated to film Noir movies- can you name this one?

that’s probably going to be on my headstone :)

Laura spotted this yard sale sign outside Peet’s Coffee Shop in Portland, Oregon.

Peter spotted a similar sign in his Long Island neighborhood a while back.

related: Garage sale drama

“Our organization recently moved most of its employees from several small offices into one large office,” writes our submitter in Vancouver. “It only took five months for the kitchen conflict to ramp up into a full-blown note war.”

related: Let the rest of us eat cake.

LANVIN SS 2012

Cheetah-cub (credit: A. Sproewitz et al./International Journal of Robotics Research)

Thanks to its cat-modeled legs, EPFL’s four-legged “cheetah-cub robot” is small, light and the fastest in its category (small quadruped robots under 30Kg): it can run 5 kilometers per hour (3.1 mph) — nearly seven times its body length in one second. .

Developed by EPFL’s Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob),  biomechanics, the robot will serve as a platform for research in locomotion and biomechanics.

Robots developed from this concept could eventually be used in search and rescue missions or for exploration.

Although not as agile as a real cat, it still has excellent auto-stabilization characteristics when running at full speed or over a course that included disturbances such as small steps. It’s also extremely light, compact, and robust and can be easily assembled from materials that are inexpensive and readily available.

Faithful reproduction of a cat

The design is based on the meticulous observation and faithful reproduction of the feline leg. The size of a domestic cat, the number of segments — three on each leg — and their proportions are the same as they are on a cat. Springs are used to reproduce tendons, and actuators — small motors that convert energy into movement — are used to replace the muscles.

“This morphology gives the robot the mechanical properties from which cats benefit … a marked running ability and elasticity in the right spots, to ensure stability,” explains Alexander Sprowitz, a Biorob scientist.

According to Biorob director Auke Ijspeert, “the long-term goal is to be able to develop fast, agile, ground-hugging machines for use in exploration, for example for search and rescue in natural disaster situations.”

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CHRISTOPHER KANE SS 2010

Hunger’s latest fashion editorial serves up a delicious helping of what we’re always craving: creativity ! Playful paper drawings are a stroke of genius in the Lukasz Dziewic-shot story, while an inspired palette of vibrant jewel tones sets the mood for modern, mashed up glamour; Karina, Ewa, Magda, Nadia, Nicole, Sonia and Irina all star in the Robert Kielb-styled, Magdalena Pankiewicz-illustrated story.

photography Lukas Dziewic
illustration Magdalena Pankiewicz
stylist Robert Kielb
photographer’s assistant Pawel Derkacz
make-up Adrian Swiderski and Kasia Zaremba
hair Kajetan Góra and Michal Maliszewski
models Karina, Ewa, Magda – Model Plus Nadia, Irina – Rebel models, Natalia – D’ Vision, Nicole – Neva Models,
Sonia.

Products are named after Marc Jacobs’s tattoos.

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“It would appear my co-worker is sensitive to her plant being moved,” writes Claire in the U.K.

Meanwhile, in New York…

And in Baltimore…

related: Pigs do not eat bacon

Fabienne Hurst writes:

When the then-Berlin-based drug maker Temmler Werke launched its methamphetamine compound onto the market in 1938, high-ranking army physiologist Otto Ranke saw in it a true miracle drug that could keep tired pilots alert and an entire army euphoric. It was the ideal war drug. In September 1939, Ranke tested the drug on university students, who were suddenly capable of impressive productivity despite being short on sleep.

From that point on, the Wehrmacht, Germany’s World War II army, distributed millions of the tablets to soldiers on the front, who soon dubbed the stimulant “Panzerschokolade” (“tank chocolate”). British newspapers reported that German soldiers were using a “miracle pill.” But for many soldiers, the miracle became a nightmare.

As enticing as the drug was, its long-term effects on the human body were just as devastating. Short rest periods weren’t enough to make up for long stretches of wakefulness, and the soldiers quickly became addicted to the stimulant. And with addiction came sweating, dizziness, depression and hallucinations. There were soldiers who died of heart failure and others who shot themselves during psychotic phases. Some doctors took a skeptical view of the drug in light of these side effects. Even Leonardo Conti, the Third Reich’s top health official, wanted to limit use of the drug, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Full Story: Der Spiegel: WWII Drug: The German Granddaddy of Crystal Meth

(Thanks Trevor)

See also: An Interview with Infamous Meth Chef Uncle Fester

Too Much To Dream author Peter Bebergal interviews Alan Moore for The Believer:

BLVR: So in writing, whether you’re trying to inhabit a metaphysical being or trying to inhabit someone living in a poor neighborhood, unless you can inhabit them with compassion, and inhabit them with understanding, they’ll never be a believable character otherwise.

AM: Right, the character will be limited, and so will you. When I was doing V for Vendetta years ago, and I started to introduce the Nazi heads of this totalitarian state in the far-flung future of 1997, I’d been marching against the National Front and taking part in the Rock Against Racism marches, and I realized that I can’t just portray Nazis as bad guys, because everybody knows that, and you’re not saying anything. You’re contributing to the myth that they were somehow separate from the rest of humanity, which they weren’t. The Nazis were just ordinary human beings who got caught up in something very bad and, at the time, rather unprecedented. This is not to excuse their behavior, obviously, it’s simply to point out that it doesn’t do you any service to demonize any group of people. It’s much better to try and understand from the inside.

There was a scene in Promethea where the character is confronted by a horde of demons, and the way that she decides to deal with them is by owning them, by identifying each demon’s qualities and saying, “Yes, I’ve done that; yes, I accept responsibility for that,” at which point she actually physically eats the demon that she’s referring to. What a lot of magic is about is coming to your own individual terms with the universe, which is to say yourself, given that the entirety of the universe that is observable to you or me is that which actually exists inside our heads. And coming to an understanding of those things made me a little bit bigger because I had a part of my mind that could look with compassion at a class of people that I had never been able to do that with before. Not to like them any more, but to understand them.

Full Story: The Believer: Alan Moore

Jon Smith has a big load of new art prints up for sale. The first two represent a new, more psychedelic direction he’s moving in, while the next ones show his cute side. These are all screenprinted, limited, and cost $15-$30 (and include stickers and mini prints). Visit his shop.

Jermaine Rogers will release his new Primus poster today. It’s a 23″ x 28″ screenprint, has an edition of 200, and will cost $50. The yellow variant has an edition of 50 and will cost $60. The sparkle foil version has an edition of 30 and will cost $80. These go up today (Tuesday, May 28th) at 3pm Eastern Time. Visit JermaineRogers.com.

Whatever small quibbles I have with digital comics at the moment, and most of them having to do with quote unquote adult content being threatened by knee-jerk corporate culture, the fact that between digital and Amazon’s increasing wide grip on the planet has made anyone who wants to get their hands on our books able to get their hands on our books.

 I love print media and I love my local comic book store but facts are facts and the facts are most of the late part of the 20th century was me hearing from people who had no access to a comic book store and just couldn’t find a way to get their hands on our comics… and it always broke my heart

and I am telling you those days of the wanting reader have completely disappeared.

 we now have readers all over the world able to get whatever they want whenever they want it. to quote my dear friend Matt fraction: everybody has a comic book store in their pocket, what could possibly be better than that?

 as far as the Marvel AR product, I love it. I love director’s commentaries and bonus features and all those whistles and bells on my DVDs and Blu-ray’s and I always wondered how we would ever be able do that to our comics on top of creating that section in the back of our trades filled with all of the scripts and sketches. we have just  begun to discover what we are going to be able to do to make these digital experiences something special. so I love it.

we have a marvel retreat in a few weeks and I’m already planning what I’m going to be doing with my marvel AR recording time