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firehosevia Rosalind
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"Hell on Earth: 1) TED talk about one-man show 2) one-man show about TED talk"
Watch all 30 minutes of recovered Return of the Jedi footage
firehoseit's all Yoda's death scene, though it's surreal to watch Yoda take stage direction (Frank Oz sometimes stays in character)
A few weeks ago, drips of lost footage filled with cut takes from Return of the Jedi began appearing online. Now you can see all 30 minutes of the recovered footage, compiled into a single video.
    
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Venezuela Releases US Journalist After 2 Days - New York Times
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Venezuela Releases US Journalist After 2 Days New York Times Published: November 9, 2013. CARACAS, Venezuela — The Venezuelan authorities on Saturday released an American journalist who had been detained and questioned by military intelligence officials. World Twitter Logo. Connect With Us on Twitter. Miami Herald reporter released from Venezuelan detentionMiamiHerald.com US Reporter Detained by Venezuelan AuthoritiesABC News Venezuela releases Miami Herald reporter detained for two daysChicago Tribune Sunshine State News -Perth Now all 87 news articles » |
Three 20-year-olds build their own version of Healthcare.gov
firehose"However, HealthSherpa only addresses one small aspect of Healthcare.gov — and it's not even bug-free"
also it's called "HealthSherpa"
A trio of programmers in San Francisco have built their own version of Healthcare.gov, the federal insurance marketplace that has had serious technical issues since launching on October 1st, over the course of "a few late nights."
HealthSherpa allows users to browse health insurance plans available in their zip code, and even calculates what federal tax subsidies they may be eligible for. The government site does not allow users to browse plans like this, instead requiring everyone to register and fill out an application.
The site does not attempt to do most of the complex functions of Healthcare.gov, including verifying identity and submitting applications. It's more of a demonstration of how one aspect could have been designed better.
"They got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front," Ning Liang told CBS News. "They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision."
HealthSherpa only addresses one small aspect of Healthcare.gov
The federal site was built by 55 contractors that were managed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency within the Health and Human Services department.
At first, the project by Liang, George Kalogeropoulos and Michael Wasser seems to show that a Silicon Valley-style startup mindset would have gotten the health insurance marketplace built better and in less time.
However, HealthSherpa only addresses one small aspect of Healthcare.gov — and it's not even bug-free. While The Verge was able to get quotes for plans in California and was correctly redirected to the state exchange for New York, a Virginia zip code produced zero results. Time for a tech surge?
- Via CBS News
- Source HealthSherpa
- Image Credit CBS News
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Doctor Who (Classic), “The Web Of Fear”
“The Web Of Fear” (season 5, episodes 25-30. Originally broadcast Feb. 3-March 9, 1968.)
Happily enough, both of the long-lost Doctor Who serials rediscovered and re-released this year are pretty much must-see stories if you have any interest at all in the late-1960s period of the show. But not for the same reasons.
“The Enemy Of The World,” which I wrote about last time, is Second Doctor-era Doctor Who at its least formulaic, with a terrific dual performance by Patrick Troughton and a story that both homages and subverts James Bond-style spy movies, with plenty of action and lots of unexpected, audacious twists. It’s terrific, if not terribly representative of what the show was usually doing at this time. (But that in itself delivers on the show’s early and largely abandoned premise that it could throw the Doctor into any kind of genre, not just science fiction.)
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Upstagram – live photos from a tiny house floating over Paris
This is just gorgeous. A hand-made, tiny version of the house from Pixar’s Up, a bouquet of helium balloons, a Raspberry Pi, and Paris.
This beautiful bit of hackery uploads photos to Instagram as it flies over the Paris skyline. Valentin Squirelo, one of the founders at HackerLoop, an innovation lab based in Paris and San Francisco, mailed me to let me know about the project; you can read more at the HackerLoop website. Meanwhile, here are some pictures of the build, and some more which the Pi sent to Instagram – look out for the Eiffel Tower and Sacre Coeur.
Minnesota breaks Governor's Victory Bell trophy after beating Penn State
College football rivalry trophies are cool, especially in the tradition-heavy Big Ten. However, some of them are kind of silly.
Silliest are the trophies Penn State plays for, invented when they entered the conference. One of these is the Land-Grant Trophy, with Michigan State,which is just a hunk of things cobbled together. One of them is the Governor's Victory Bell, which they play for with Minnesota. This trophy shouldn't exist because Minnesota and Penn State are, like, 800 miles apart from each other, and now it barely exists because the two teams are in different divisions.
They played for the first time since 2010 today, and MInnesota won. They were so thrilled, they broke the damn trophy:
When you only play for a trophy once every 17 years or so, you don't realize how structurally unsound the trophy is.
And now Minnesota is 8-2! Not quite sure when and how that happened.
crabby - Wild Guns (Natsume - SNES - 1994)
firehosegiant enemy crab?
crabby - Wild Guns (Natsume - SNES - 1994)
Cosmonauts Take Olympic Torch On Its First Spacewalk
Brazil Has The World's Weirdest Carbon Footprint
firehose"most of its emissions don’t result from energy use. Instead, the bulk of Brazil’s emissions come from what’s referred to as land-use change and forestry. In Brazil, that largely amounts to deforestation of the Amazon. ... Brazil has drastically cut its carbon footprint over the past couple decades but not because it’s cutting back on energy production or industrial output, but because the country’s rate of deforestation has fallen considerably since 1995."
How Trolling Took Over The Internet
firehosespecifically Thought Catalog
Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi can now let fliers receive texts and calls in the air
firehoseboooooo
no calls booooo
Gogo's inflight Wi-Fi is starting to roll out a major new feature: the ability to send and receive text messages and phone calls while up in the air. Call and texts over Gogo's new Talk & Text service have to be made through its iOS or upcoming Android app, but Gogo says that they'll all be made using the phone's own number, so nothing will change for people who contact you. The feature isn't available on any consumer flights just yet — and it's only launching with a few business partners — but Gogo says that it's in talks to get it up and running on commercial airlines.
Commercial fliers will still have to wait
Expanding the service onto commercial flights should be easy, as Gogo doesn't have to install any new equipment. But while Gogo says that the service could be bundled in with its traditional Wi-Fi offering, it sounds as though pricing will be left up to the airline.
Interestingly, Gogo's chief marketing officer, Ash ElDifrawi, says that the company expects most people to use the service for text messaging. "While we see this as more of a text messaging product for commercial airlines in the United States, the phone functionality is something that some international air carriers and our business aviation customers are asking for," ElDifrawi says in a statement. Running texts and calls through an app certainly isn't a perfect solution, but it'd still be a big perk if bundled in with Gogo's existing inflight Wi-Fi.
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Google patents a throat tattoo with a built-in lie-detecting mobe microphone
firehosevia Albener Pessoa: "Not from The Onion. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?"
Maybe your boss (or spouse?) will want you to wear it:
And then there’s the lie-detector feature. “Optionally,” the filing muses, “the electronic skin tattoo can further include a galvanic skin response detector to detect skin resistance of a user. It is contemplated that a user that may be nervous or engaging in speaking falsehoods may exhibit different galvanic skin response than a more confident, truth telling individual.”
There is more information here. The pointer is from Charles C. Mann.
Terrible Human Finds A New Way To Scam Kickstarter
firehose"It's since deleted Farhan's account, canceled his ongoing pledges, and banned him from the site. But not before he'd successfully scammed 100 projects."
The Probability Of Drawing A Given Word From A Bag Of Letters In Scrabble
So cozy
firehosevia Osiasjota
So cozy