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morthern:

a monster sailor moon!

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artdecoblog:

The Skyscraper by paul.malon on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Bernard McMahon, 1930’s.

posthawk:

Pierrot le Fou (1965), dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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zerostatereflex:

Hexapod Robot

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akeppleaday:

"Happy" World Cup, Brazil.

(Here are some sources.)

damnthatswhack:

You what your dog?

akeppleaday:

I can’t imagine why Google prefers their FIFA World Cup Doodles over my well-researched one. Oh well, their loss I guess.

flowergirlrobichiko:

the only acceptable reason

niiice

It's a lot of speculation right now, but the buzz in a new NASA study is Pluto's largest moon (Charon) could have a cracked surface.

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puke-kitten:

my outfit everyday

This visualization, created by UC Berkeley astronomer Alex Parker, is one of the most beautiful representation of alien worlds we've ever seen.

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We’re reading a very detailed account of the theft and exploitation of a 3D model theft that recently took place - and was successfully resolved. 

The case was presented by 3Dprintler Labs, an Ottawa-based 3D model and print service company. To their surprise, they found one of their designs being sold by another retailer. 

The case involved a 3D printed modification to a DJI Phantom quadcopter, where the original 3D model was posted to Thingiverse. The Thingiverse posting included the standard Creative Commons license, which specifically meant it could be used for noncommercial purposes so long as attribution was credited. 

That wasn’t the case when 3Dprintler discovered their modification being sold by several online Drone retailers. That’s definitely commercial use. Upon contacting one of the offending vendors, they discovered that the vendor had been sold the design by a third party, having been told it had approval from the designer. But they had not. 

A lawsuit was launched against the product seller, his organization and the retailer, which was quickly settled out of court. While minor damages were awarded, the major outcome was the firing of the seller. You can read the whole story in glorious pictorial detail at the link below. 

We’re thinking there are more outcomes to this case. First, it adds to the legal momentum growing around the ownership of designs. Previously, designs seemed to be “free for all” in some quarters. That quarter should now be shrinking.

Secondly, we suspect events such as this will discourage some from posting their potentially valuable designs to Thingiverse or similar repositories, for fear of similar happenings. We may see a drop off in publicly available interesting designs. 

Finally we could see some movement towards streaming 3D print solutions such as Authentise or Secure3D, both of which are apparently being considered by 3Dprintler. 

Someone always spoils it for everyone else. 

Via 3DPrintler

The planet Mercury (circled) was seen for the first time from Mars by Curiosity on June 3, 2014

NASA’s Curiosity rover may be busy exploring the rugged and rocky interior of Gale Crater but it does get a chance to skygaze on occasion. And while looking at the Sun on June 3, 2014 (mission Sol 649) the rover’s Mastcam spotted another member of our Solar System: tiny Mercury, flitting across the Sun’s face.

Silhouetted against the bright disk of the Sun, Mercury barely appears as a hazy blur in the filtered Mastcam image above. But it was moving relatively quickly during the transit and passed the darker smudges of two Earth-sized sunspots over the course of several hours. It was the first time Mercury has ever been imaged from Mars, and also the first time we’ve observed a planet transiting our Sun from another world besides our own.

Read the rest of my article (and watch a cool animation of the transit) on Universe Today here.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M

Three months ago, the White House halted construction on a plutonium recycling facility where gross mismanagement had led to lengthy delays and billions of dollars of added expenses. Yet, this week, the House approved $345 million to continue building the plant, which will produce nuclear fuel that nobody wants.

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IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary.

What could’ve been another landmark for Watson — being able to participate and enjoy in a full conversation using natural, informal human language — turned out to be a step in the wrong direction.

Watson may have learned the Urban Dictionary, but it never learned the all-important axiom, “There’s a time and a place for everything.” Watson simply couldn’t distinguish polite discourse from profanity.

Watson unfortunately learned all of the Urban Dictionary’s bad habits, including throwing in overly -crass language at random points in its responses; in answering one question, Watson even reportedly used the word “bullsh*t” within an answer to one researcher’s question. Brown told Forbes that Watson picked up similarly bad habits from reading Wikipedia.

In the end, Brown and his team were forced to remove the Urban Dictionary from Watson’s vocabulary, and additionally developed a smart filter to keep Watson from swearing in the future.

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All Our Patent Are Belong To You – Tesla Motors.

Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.

Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

It begins. Smart companies will insert their name here [COMPANY NAME] will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.

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error888:

Boba Fett unmasked on the set of the additional Jabba’s Palace scenes filmed for the Star Wars special editions - Imgur

1000% supercanon

oh my god

time enough

floopydisc:

gimme dat

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If you haven’t heard the news, The Magic School Bus is coming back! Netflix is bringing a modernized version of the series to its streaming service in 2016. To celebrate the return of a wonderful educational series, let’s look at how to make a Ms. Frizzle costume. Valerie Felicity Frizzle is an eccentric and awesome teacher, and her outfit says a lot about her personality. Serendipitous Discovery put together the cosplay with a button-up dress she found at Goodwill for $6, an old sheet covered in planets and stars, and a few other accessories. She started by cutting planets out of the sheet:

I unbuttoned the dress, and laid it out on the table. I did this, to try to make sure I wasn’t gluing the dress together when I was gluing on the planets. So, the next part was just placing the planets on the dress, trying to not have two of the same ones next to each other. Next, I applied an even coat of fabric glue to the back of the planets, and stuck them back down.

Fabric glue is very fluid, so you want to make sure you aren’t dripping it on the fabric. Especially with a material such as sateen, which isn’t very forgiving. The fabric glue takes about 2-4 hours to dry, so I hung it up on a hanger, to let it dry.

She modifed a bright color of pumps (also from a thrift store) by putting fabric planets on them, added globe earrings – which you can make or buy, and carried a book. I think this costume needs to go on my list.

Read more at Serendipitous’ blog.