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boogie king - Faxanadu (Hudson Soft - NES - 1987) 

“Computers have gotten incredibly complex, while people have remained the same gray mud with pretensions of godhood."

It's all about intergenerational wealth transfers.

Check out Raquel Meyers‘ awesome art made using a hacked commodore 64! from TheCreatorsProject.

One such artist, Raquel Meyers (the Hack n’ Trade member known as AcidT*rroreast), performs her solo work at festivals and museums worldwide. On top of creating richly textured C64 pieces that stitch together like Mexican or Navajo Indian weavings, she also equips another dated technology, Teletext, to help her create the glitch-art universes that are unmistakably hers.

We decided to a feature a few of these works, in GIF, still, and video form. Check them out below. And if you’re in Israel next week, you can catch her performing her Teletext performance Thread of Fate live at the Musrara Mix #14 Festival, in Musrara.

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Illustrated Police News, late 19th century or early 20th century

Some members of staff of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wellcome Libray, ca. 1915

At 81, the Godfather of the Synth Is Still Shaping Sound @ Motherboard.

One of the innovators of the first synthesizer, and often called the father of modern electronic music, Morton Subotnick was a leader of the West Coast synth movement in the late 60s. Now 81, Subotnick is still touring, and I recently had the chance to catch up with him when he visited his former home of San Francisco.

OZY has a great feature on Helen Grainer, creator of the Roomba and her new venture into the skies.

Helen Greiner lives less than an hour’s drive from Boston. So on that April day last year when the city went into lockdown, two unapprehended terrorists loose on the streets, the then-45-year-old engineer reacted the way most people in the area — and the country — did: surfing the Internet to try and figure out what the hell was going on.

That’s how she came across a tweet with a picture of the Tsarnaev brothers’ car, abandoned, windows blown out, after their fateful shoot-out with police in Watertown, Mass. Approaching the car in the picture, silhouetted by a spotlight, is a robotic contraption that looks a bit like WALL-E, but with a flatter base and much longer, hinged metal neck protruding skyward, a camera on top. It was, in fact, Greiner’s robot, or at least one she’d helped design, build and market during her 18 years at iRobot, the company she co-founded straight out of MIT.

“I was just so proud the Packbot was helping in such a chaotic and risky situation,” she said when recounting the story in a TEDx Boston talk later the same year.

Greiner and her colleagues made their names with Roomba, the “vacuum cleaning robot” that zips around your home and sucks up dust bunnies without your having to lift a finger. But it’s Packbot — one of the earliest robots the military used to do surveillance and detect hidden bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan — that’s been her biggest source of pride. Well, up until about a year and a half ago.

That’s when Greiner’s new company, CyPhy Works, unveiled the latest members of her growing robot family — EASE and PARC. Like Roomba and Packbot, they’re both compact-sized robotic devices that are remotely controlled by their human users. But unlike their land-bound predecessors, EASE and PARC are taking to the skies, part of the wave of unmanned aerial vehicles, more popularly known as drones, being developed for military and, increasingly, commercial use.

Greiner’s always been in love with robots, ever since her parents took the Long Island 11-year-old to see Star Wars and she first glimpsed R2D2 mixing it up on-screen. Fortunately, she had a natural aptitude for math and science, which she’d need in spades to complete her undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and her master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science, both from MIT. She also had parents — a chemist-turned-businessman father and a nursery-school-teacher mother with an interest in science education — who nurtured those skills…

…It’s the same sort of progression the drone industry, in general, is following. Start with the U.S. military, CyPhy Works’ current client, where the company’s small drones, affixed with video cameras and other data monitoring devices, can be used for what she calls “protection and inspection” out in the field. Then expand into the private sector, which the company is starting to do now, though Greiner won’t disclose whom they’re working with. What she will say is that there’s a wide range of industries where her drones can be used, not just for inspection of, say, a cell tower or oil rig, but also regular monitoring of a private facility, whether that’s a warehouse or a field of cabbage. Down the line, she expects the industry will arrive at Jeff Bezos’ much-hyped vision — delivery drones and other urban uses.

Greiner says she became attracted to the idea of drones after years of working with ground-based robots — and seeing their limitations.

“There’s all the things on the ground that impede your space,” she points out. In contrast, “If you get up to 8 feet high” in the air, “it’s pretty much free space.”

Read more.

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Welcome to drone day on the Adafruit blog. Every Monday we deliver the latest news, products and more from the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), quadcopter and drone communities. Drones can be used for video & photography (dronies), civil applications, policing, farming, firefighting, military and non-military security work, such as surveillance of pipelines. Previous posts can be found via the #drone tag and our drone / UAV categories.

A board game based on Continental Drift. Has anyone ever played it? No word so far. Your copy will be missing one white pawn, because, well. This is a good excuse to dig up that Wite-Out (TM) your parents gave you as a graduation gift.

There are four chances left to win dubious prizes during Give Away May!

Obama blames Founding Fathers' 'structural' design of Congress for gridlock Washington Times President Obama is taking a swipe at the Founding Fathers, blaming his inability to move his agenda on the “disadvantage” of having each state represented equally in the Senate. At a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, Mr. Obama told a small ... and more »

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“911 emergency” “Yes hello my boyfriend is trying to explain to me the differences between the X-Men movies and the comic books”

“Ramen is one of the most minutely documented foods in Japan,” Solt writes. A number of geopolitical and economic factors—the reindustrialization of Japan’s workforce during the Cold War, the redefining of national identity during twenty years of economic stagnation—all combined to elevate ramen from working-class sustenance to a dish that is internationally recognized, beloved, and iconic.

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Fourth victim dies after shooting at Jewish Museum in Brussels The Times (subscription) A fourth victim has died after a shooting attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels that Israel blamed on unckecked anti-Semitism in Europe. Belgian police are hunting a lone gunman who shot dead a French woman volunteer and a couple from Israel who ... and more »

entjadun:

zenpencils:

ULTIMATE WARRIOR: Legacy

"Gaying doesn’t work" - Ultimate Warrior

1959 - 2014

Draw a fucking comic around that one, zenpencils.

(side note: if someone were to actually draw a zenpencils-style comic around the “load the spaceship with the rocket fuel” Ultimate Warrior promo, I would probably pay them, like, 20 United States dollars for a print)

+ftn

mrspoonsi (2955715) writes "A German amateur photographer has found out after his ex-girlfriend took him to court, which ruled that the subjects of smutty pictures can withdraw their consent if they're naked. [News release in German.] The shutterbug was able to keep the clothed pictures, however, as they weren't considered to compromise the reputation of the woman in question."

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givemesomethinganything:

blacksupervillain:

bookishandi:

jennyquantums:

themyskira:

Wonder Woman vol. 2 #210

#this is THE most important moment in comics to me #this is THE defining moment of diana #not only of wonder woman #but of d i a n a #there is NO hesitation #there is no mourning #there is no fear #there is what is right #there is what needs to be done #and there is a HERO who bears the pains #for the human race so they wont have to #diana will sacrifice EVERYTHING #and she wont hesitate to do it #y’all can fucking keep batman #but i’ll stay with diana any day

WAIT, THIS DOESN’T SHOW JUST HOW AWESOME DIANA IS.

This is from ruckawriter's run on WW (the best ever, imho). Medusa turns one of Diana's employees into stone (Diana is a full-on ambassador as well as superhero) and then challenges Diana to a fight. Diana is skeptical, but Aphrodite pretty much says, “Listen, we're not gonna take this shit from Medusa, you gotta fight her.” So Diana shows up pretty ready, blindfold, armor, all that. But it turns out Medusa has manipulated the event to be televised, so that after she defeats Diana, she can look into the screen and turn all the people watching into stone. 

Just TAKE THIS SHIT IN FOR A HOT SECOND (all images courtesy of scans_daily)

Then the stuff above happens. YES, BITCHES, DIANA—WHO HAS RECENTLY HAD A SWORD RUN THROUGH ONE OF HER KIDNEYS— TAKES ONE OF THE SNAKES SHE CUT OFF MEDUSA’S HEAD WHILE BLINDFOLDED AND SQUIRTS THE POISON IN HER EYES SO SHE IS BLIND SO MEDUSA CAN’T FUCK WITH HER.

Why? BECAUSE SAVING AND AVENGING EVEN ONE MORTAL LIFE IS WORTH HER OWN GODDAMN VISION THAT’S WHY. 

But after that badass “Never?” THIS PHOTO SET LEAVES OUT THE BEST PART. WONDER WOMAN IMMEDIATELY CHOPS OFF MEDUSA’S HEAD. NO HESITATION. NO NEGOTIATION. NO DESTROYING A WHOLE CITY JUST TO BEAT HER UP A LITTLE MORE. CHOP AND DONE.

And then?

DROP THAT MIC, DI.

DROP IT LIKE THE MAGMA-HOT SHIT THAT IT IS. 

To Rucka’s credit, this wasn’t no false-ass sacrifice, either. She stays blind AND STILL SAVES EVERYONE’S ASSES.

How does she get her sight back? She does something for Athena and Athena grants her one boon. So what does our Diana do? Ask for her sight back?

NOPE. SHE ASKS FOR LIFE TO BE RETURNED TO A CHILD KILLED BY MEDUSA.

And Athena was like, “Shit, Wonder Woman, you’re better than all of us, I guess you can have your sight back, too.” And Diana’s pretty much like, “Fine, that’s cool I guess, I was still getting shit done without it.”

THIS IS WHY I HAVE A LOT OF GODDAMN FEELINGS ABOUT WONDER WOMAN.

And David Goyer is writing her first film appearance 

This is all awesome until that last comment brought me down

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Walking Dogs With Drones.

dberl:

jthenr-comics-vault:

Doom!
THE AVENGERS #1.5 (Dec. 1999)
Art by Bruce Timm
Words by Roger Stern

Doom with that Cobra level mask technology

girlgamemaster:

coldwindandiron:

Want.

Note to self drink out of bottles more