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You MuhamMAD, bro?
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It is not necessary for me to recount for you the events in Paris, the controversy that led up to them, or the consequences in the last week. This you already know. The whole world knows. It is enough to say that, in the name of Islam, terrorists murdered. In response to satire, terrorists, attacked. In the presence of free speech, terror tried to silence.
As the millions marching in Paris and other cities around the world yesterday attest, the free nations of this earth are not prepared to give up their freedom. Not just yet.
The artists at Charlie Hebdo may offend you. They may offend me. But they are free to do so. They were free to do so. And now that they have died in defense of that freedom, we must expect our own press to step in and with defiance reject the command to desist or die. There can be no better expression of that defiance than to reprint the images that so offend, or to create new ones. Because it is only in that act that you are truly defiant. An expression of solidarity is a toothless gesture without it. Moreover, if we are to stand shoulder to shoulder with those who would stand against terror and tyranny, then we must aid them in their defense, too, by spreading the risk around. The fewer who stand, the quicker they fall.
An artist in France, in keeping with that spirit, is compiling a project. He is reaching out to artists and editorial cartoonists around the world, asking them to submit their own tributes to Charlie Hebdo’s brave fallen; A noteworthy project that will probably garner much attention, including unwanted attention for those who participate. But participate they are. One of those willing to put his name and face in front of that cause is Mort Todd.
Todd is an artist living in the United States. He is notably a former Editor in Chief of Cracked Magazine, one of America’s own fearlessly satirical publications. You are also, no doubt, familiar with top Cracked competitor MAD Magazine. Perhaps in a show of common purpose, or perhaps with a bit of mischievous needling of his former competitor, Todd chose to make his homage in the form of an awesome satire of a MAD magazine cover.
Todd’s image is powerful for three reasons. In the first and obvious case, for the risk of depicting Mohammed, or indeed any part of Islam, in a satirical or farcical manner. In the second case, it is hilarious and pretty much dead solid perfect. It really feels like a MAD cover.
But the third is that it is not only a depiction of Islam, but a stab at the relative cowardice of American publications that have refused to show the cartoons for which the Hebdo victims died, in some cases, even blurring out the covers when reporting on the story of the attack.
That step, that concession to the demands of madmen is the first foot backward. To respect their wishes is to concede their morality. If you choose not to offend now, after murder and destruction, then you are choosing to concede not just defeat, but our entire point of view. It is saying the terrorists are right. It is saying they have a point.
Mort Todd doesn’t think the terrorists have a point. He is not laying down his pen. One hopes others will follow his lead.
Je Suis Charlie, they say. It has to mean something. If it doesn’t, it is an insult to those who have died at the hands of a hateful, vile, despicable ideology.
Find Caleb at RabbleWriter.com or on Twitter @CalebHowe.
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When customs officers at Futian Port in China saw a males passenger with "weird walking posture, joint stiffness, muscle tension..." they got suspicious. Turns out, he was attempting to smuggle 94 iPhones into the country—all of them strapped to his body.
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted, the "procedurally-generated British horror in which tweed-wearing robots hunt you for sport," is on sale for $4 on Steam until Tuesday morning.
It's a lovely combination of terrifying and hilarious, like if the xenomorph in Alien: Isolation slipped on a banana peel before eviscerating you and also was British. I've not made it very far yet--it takes some working out--but love the tension and menace. Maybe you would, too.
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The B-52H Stratofortress is a quarter of a million pound aluminum Cold War era pterodactyl, and its durability is as legendary as its striking power. To call the big jet's flight control system precise would be a blatant lie and pilots have told me that muscling the jet around at low-level is the most exciting upper-body workout around, as you can see in the video above.
For a tiny Yorkie, holy shit my dog has some ball on him
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StabStab says FML
Today, my girlfriend accused me of being insecure and feeling threatened by the fact that she has a daughter from a previous relationship. She's vaguely right; I feel threatened, but mainly because the psycho keeps threatening to stab me to death when her mom isn't around to hear. FML
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Massive Tesla Coil Plays Music in the Snow
One of our tipsters stumbled across a pretty impressive video of a giant Tesla coil playing music — in a snowy forest! The forum showing off the video is in Finnish but Google Translate does a pretty good job getting the point across.
This massive Tesla coil dubbed the BiggerDR was built by [Kizmo], who lives way up north in Finland. He was originally inspired by another build and decided to try his hand at making one. The Tesla coil, detailed in another forum post (in English this time) has some pretty impressive specs. The coil alone has 1550 wraps! Not too mention a pretty impressive bank of capacitors in series…
His YouTube channel has some great videos of the build — in fact, he’s been messing around with Tesla coils for at least 7 years already — stick around after the break to see BiggerDR in action.
Our first snowy and electrical musical debut is the classic and venerable Imperial March.
And of course, the Benny Hill theme.
[Thanks for the tip, Aleksin!]
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A Shark Has Been Gnawing At Underwater Internet Cables – Thankfully Google Addressed The Problem
A shark has been gnawing at underwater internet cables. So Google has come up with an ingenious solution to address the problem. The search giant clad the cables with an additional protective layer made of Kevlar. The solution, albeit expensive, seems to have worked well.
If you have been experiencing painfully longer ping times or hair-pulling latencies in your internet, you might have to blame someone else other than your internet service provider. As it turned out, a shark had been angrily chomping on the underwater cables that ferry data across the continents.
Over the past two months, ruptures have been appearing in the submerged Asia-America Gateway (AAG) cable system that supplies a huge section of Southeast Asia with its daily dose of internet, reported Science Alert. However, all these seemed trivial in comparison to a hole that was so severe, it brought the majority of internet users in Vietnam to their knees. This hole caused millions of residents of the country to deal with speeds that were similar to dial-up, and a connection that was frustratingly sporadic.
Underwater technicians zeroed-in on the massive rupture located on the S1H section of the AAG, which is just off the coast of Ba Ria, in Vietnam’s coastal city of Vung Tau. This pipeline supplies about 20 percent of the internet to the 93 million people in Vietnam.
Speaking about the breaks, which are agonizingly frequent, Martin Anderson at The Stack said, “Other recent breakages in the 12,000 mile (20,000 km) trans-Pacific cable have been responsible for similar network blackouts or slow-downs in Asian locations including Hong Kong, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore and Thailand, as well as Vietnam, in one case requiring 20 days to repair”
Commissioned and opened for business in 2009, the AAG cable system has been experiencing far too many tears to be considered as mere accidents. Underwater cameras managed to capture the culprit who was having a go at the cables. The shark — drawn by electromagnetic waves, which these cables emit — was attacking them with a strong vengeance. Though the authorities are glad it wasn’t foul play, they are still concerned about how to dissuade the shark from attacking the cables.
Though Expensive, The Kevlar Sheathing Protects The Internet
Fortunately, Google came up with a simple, ingenious, and expensive solution to accord protection to the cables. Double-sheathing the cables with the same material that goes into making bullet-proof vests – Kevlar – now protects them from being damaged by the shark.
[Image Credit | Shutterstock/Google, PNRM]
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