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Viscera Cleanup Detail points out a longstanding social implication buried within some of our favorite shooters: Who cleans up the blood, guts and flesh left behind by our violent rampages through facilities invaded by hostile aliens? In this game, it's you.

Viscera Cleanup Detail is a first-person space-based janitor simulator, starring you as a rubber-gloved person tasked with cleaning up the remnants of an epic battle, including chunks of meat, pools of blood and bullet shells. It comes out of a 10-day game jam from developer Runestorm, and it's available in alpha for PC right now.

"It was a long and horrific battle as the survivor dueled with all manner of horrific life-forms and alien mutations, but our hero won out in the end and destroyed the alien menace!" Runestorm writes. "Humanity was saved! Unfortunately, the alien infestation and the heroic efforts of the courageous survivors have left rather a mess thoughout the facility. As the janitor, it is your duty to get this place cleaned up."

Viscera Cleanup Detail hopes it can clear away a spot on Steam Greenlight.

Viscera Cleanup Detail is the next ridiculous game you'll have to play originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Night Stroll is a lovely animated short by Tao Tajima. Various light figures are seen interacting with locations around Tokyo, I can’t begin to guess how this was all planned, shot and animated and there is almost no information about it online, but it’s remarkable nonetheless. (via be con in riot)

Scarfolk Council is a hilariously twisted blog of 70s-era posters, ads, product labels, book excerpts, and other media from Scarfolk, a town in Northwest England. The town and its prodigious output of nonsense are from the imagination of Richard Littler, a designer and screenwriter. Highlights include textbook excerpts on male and female reproduction systems, a twisted auto safety poster, and the “Don’t” campaign.

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An intern was blamed for incorrect — and racist — names airing on a Oakland local television on Friday

On Friday afternoon, Oakland, Calif. Fox affiliate KTVU broadcast what it thought was a list of the flight crew for Asiana flight 214, which crashed while landing at San Francisco's airport Sunday afternoon, killing two passengers immediately and putting 10 others in critical condition. A third passenger has since died from injuries.

What was so strange about KTVU's broadcast was the names attributed to the flight crew. Each was a phonetically spelled-out phrase meant to look like a name. You can hear the anchor read each on the video above. Read more...

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Jemima the goat has a nice dinner at the table, with utensils, red wine, and a tasty newspaper. -via Daily Picks and Flicks

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Gertie Cleary of Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, saw a raven perched on her fence with porcupine quills stuck in its face. The overly-friendly juvenile raven had a run-in with a porcupine, then made a better choice to let the woman get close. Cleary, wisely wearing loves, did what she had to do.

The bird, clearly in pain, waited for Cleary to get each one of the quills out. Cleary says she didn’t think twice about helping the animal in distress.

“It reminded me of a child with a splinter and when you pull a splinter out, they holler and screech and pull their hand away,” says Cleary.

Once the quills were out, Cleary carried the bird to her daughter’s house, where she fed him dog food and water.

She let the raven, named Wilfred by the Cleary family, outside the next day, and he hung around for a while before flying off. Let's just hope the bird learned his lesson about porcupines. Link  -via Arbroath

By Henry Dalziel
Information Security Blogger

Tor (which used to be called The Onion Router) has become more popular following the PRISM scandal for being able to hide your identity online. This post outlines a brief background and some pros and cons of Tor and the Tor Network.

What is Tor?
Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide network which is managed and set-up by activists or volunteers. According to their website they currently (July 2013) have a network of almost 4,000 relays that essentially jumble up the route an Internet connection, or ‘journey’, makes. The best way to describe the Tor network is using an analogy of traveling. Imagine that you want to fly from New York to London. Well, 99% of people will fly direct from New York to London, but using the Tor network, instead of flying direct you’d fly to Miami, then Havana, then Nigeria, then the the UAE and finally you arrive at London!

The main point of the Tor network is to mask a user’s location or Internet usage from people whom they suspect might be viewing their traffic activities. Using Tor does not make you completely invisible but it certainly does make it more difficult to trace an end-users Internet activity.

The main principle and purpose of Tor is to protect users’ personal privacy and freedom, and ensure their right of privacy. This is somewhat achieved by Tor through their relays that their Internet activities from being monitored.

What is “Onion Routing”
You’ll see the onion symbol over Tor, and no, they are not French, rather, the term “Onion Routing” refers to the layers of encryption used by the program. When data is sent through the Tor network the data is encrypted and re-encrypted several times as is passes through randomly selected Tor relays. Each relay adds a “layer” of encryption which changes as it arrives at the next relay in the network. One of the main benefits of the encryption is that the routing is hidden.

However, Tor does not protect the actual communications content once it leaves the Tor relay network. In short, Tor is best used in combination with other encryption tools. Worth mentioning that Tor can be slow. Owing to the random relay routing and encryption the service can often respond much slower than a regular unencrypted traffic behavior.

Tor and Anonymity
The Tor network is unable to address completely all anonymity concerns since the open source project us really focused on the protection of relaying data from ‘traffic analysis’. Tor must be used with caution however, because, for example, you shouldn’t provide your name or other revealing information in web forms and the network does not protect against all attacks. The main cyber threat that you would encounter whilst using Tor would be that an ‘attacker’ or anyone wanting to snoop on you can watch the traffic coming from your computer, and, also the traffic arriving at your destination. A sophisticated spying agency could put the beginning and end bits together and establish that the activity was initiated by your online activity.

Summary
We have only just scratched the surface with Tor. There are other products that Tor has created, notably the Tor Bundle, which is a browser addon (side note: if you are interested in pentesting and security Firefox addons look here). Suffice to say that following the PRISM and NSA revelations, the interest in Tor and closed peer-to-peer communication tools are growing in popularity as are search engine interfaces like duckduckgo and Start Page. Anonymity and secure encryption, like Tor, can be used by the cyber criminals (of all shades) just as easily as by free speech activists and human rights activists. What do you think? Do you rate Tor? What is the future of this technology? Can you see it growing in acceptance? We’d love to hear your comments and update this post over time with added comments.

Also! We if you are interested in this subject then we would really encourage you to check out our NSA Spying Concerns? Learn Counterveillance! course.

The post What is Tor and the Tor Network? The Good and the Bad… appeared first on Concise Courses Information Security Blog.

Microsoft has cut the price of the Surface RT, its tablet computer that's supposed to fight the iPad. 

The new price is $350. It was originally $499. Microsoft really pushes its touch cover keyboard, so add another $120 to that price, and you're closer to the final tally. 

Microsoft's Surface RT has not been much of a factor in the tablet market. The RT runs on ARM chips, and can't run all Windows apps. 

Microsoft doesn't reveal sales numbers, but in March, Bloomberg reported sales were just 1.5 million units since its launch in October. There's no reason to believe sales picked up after March. 

For context, Apple 19.5 million iPads in the first quarter of the year. 

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Travel was once the epitome of luxury. People dressed in their finest clothes to go to the airport. Ships and planes were things of glamor. In that era, the posters that advertised luxe journeys were just as lovely as the journeys themselves.

The Boston Public Library's Print Department has an extensive collection of these travel posters. Here's what the library's archivists have to say about them:

Railways opened up America and Europe, luxe ocean liners introduced elegance into overseas voyages, and drivers took to the road in record numbers in their new automobiles. By the mid-1940s, new airlines crisscrossed the globe, winging adventure-seekers to far-flung destinations.

Travel agents and ticket offices during this period were festooned with vivid, eye-catching posters, all designed to capture the beauty, excitement and adventure of travel and to promote a world of enticing destinations and new modes of transportation. Individual artists gained fame for their distinctive graphic styles and iconic imagery, and many posters from this era still remain important works of art long after their original advertising purposes have faded.

Fast forward to 2013, and travel is expensive, crowded, and invasive (we're looking at you, handsy TSA pat down). But forget for a minute where things are now and remember what things once were, through the lens of these beautiful, artful travel posters of yore.

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Cruises in the early 1900s were the epitome of luxury. Now they're just floating Lord of the Flies barges.

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This 1935 print made Palestine look utterly divine.

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Artist Robert Falcucci created this 1932 advert for a French vacation. It looks like a piece of pop art.

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This early 1900s poster is a reminder that France has an unfair advantage in the beauty, culture, and scenery department.

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This poster depicts jet travel as a heavenly experience—with none of the crappy peanuts and bad service that await you today.

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Yes, this poster would have enticed us to go to the 1936 Olympics. If only the whole Nazi thing hadn't been a factor.

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This Japanese Public Railways ad still works today.

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This captures exactly what you'd imagine the French Riviera to be like in person.

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The Switzerland of the South? Artist Harry Kelly's rendering of Tasmania's Lake St. Clair has our attention.

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We don't need much more convincing on the winter in Austria idea.

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You can go fast as hell on the Autobahn—as illustrated in this tourism poster by German artist Ludwig Hohlwein.

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Artist Dorothy Waugh touts what Ken Burns famously called "America's best idea."

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Artist Edward Vincent Brewer's rendering of Yellowstone.

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Edward Eggleston captures the glamor of Atlantic City.

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Not just for TV antennas, or rabbits for that matter, any more.

“This is Sabrina, a 5 month old German Shepherd pup who lives in Washington, D.C. with her big brother Tio - the cat. She brings joy to us and we hope seeing her face and bat ears will bring joy to you too!” -Sarah B.

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Louis Genasi put together this video featuring all the stand-up done by Louis C.K. throughout the first season of his TV show Louie.


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Waterspouts, like hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and Godzilla, are all God's way of saying, "Hey, remember me? You live in MY Sim City, punks!" Just kidding, they're natural phenomena and don't let anybody tell you otherwise (unless that person is me after changing my mind). This is a shot of the giant waterspout that popped up over Tampa yesterday.

A waterspout is a weather phenomenon that happens when a combo of air and mist form a potentially dangerous vortex. This particular one actually came ashore which is unusual as they usually stay over water. No one was injured but it did cause a lot of property damage.

When reached for comment, one fish that got caught in the waterspout had this to say, "I'M FLYING, JACK!" What? You think fish haven't seen 'Titanic' -- are you kidding me? They love that movie because they consider it payback for all of their friends that we eat. Hit the jump for a local news report about the spout.