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Hunger’s latest fashion editorial serves up a delicious helping of what we’re always craving: creativity ! Playful paper drawings are a stroke of genius in the Lukasz Dziewic-shot story, while an inspired palette of vibrant jewel tones sets the mood for modern, mashed up glamour; Karina, Ewa, Magda, Nadia, Nicole, Sonia and Irina all star in the Robert Kielb-styled, Magdalena Pankiewicz-illustrated story.

photography Lukas Dziewic
illustration Magdalena Pankiewicz
stylist Robert Kielb
photographer’s assistant Pawel Derkacz
make-up Adrian Swiderski and Kasia Zaremba
hair Kajetan Góra and Michal Maliszewski
models Karina, Ewa, Magda – Model Plus Nadia, Irina – Rebel models, Natalia – D’ Vision, Nicole – Neva Models,
Sonia.

James Joyce in 1931, going over his manuscript for Finnegan’s Wake, and totally rocking a “bathrobe with tie" look. 

The San Antonio Spurs invite back 11-year-old boy Sebastien De La Cruz to sing the national anthem again after racist reaction online to his first performance. Watch.

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There are two things in life that I am truly passionate about: Comics, and honey.

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Freshly Exhumed writes "Dave Siever always fancied himself as something of a musician, but also realized he did not necessarily sing or play in perfect key. Then he strapped on the electrodes of a device made by his Edmonton company, and zapped his brain's auditory cortex with a mild dose of electricity. The result, he claims, was a dramatic improvement in his ability to hear pitch, including the sour notes he produced himself. 'Now I tune everything and I practise my singing over and over and over again, because I'm more sensitive to it.' Mr. Siever was not under the supervision of a doctor or psychologist, and nor is he one himself. He is part of an extraordinary trend that has amateur enthusiasts excited, and some scientists deeply nervous: do-it-yourself brain stimulation." With studies suggesting that small doses of electricity can: increase your memory, help you learn new tasks, make you better at math, turn you into a sniper in minutes, and most importantly make the ugly seem attractive, we can expect a lot of brain zapping in the next few years.

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Sesame Street recently launched a multimedia initiative for children who have an imprisoned parent. Entitled “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration,” the initiative includes videos of Sesame Street characters discussing issues surrounding incarceration, as well as activities and guides for teachers. It may sound like an odd subject for Sesame Street, but according to a 2010 study by The Pew Charitable Trusts, more than 2.7 million American children have a parent in prison.

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This summer and fall the Palace of Versailles will be home to the incredible tree sculptures of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The wood, stone, and marble sculptures are on display in the palace and surrounding grounds through October 30, 2013.

photos by Tadzio

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CBC Music has edited a supercut video of Late Show host David Letterman asking one key question of musicians on his show, “Are those your drums?”

David Letterman is really into drums. There’s a thing he sometimes does after a band plays on his show: he walks up to the drummer, compliments them on their drums and asks if they’re rentals. We noticed it happening often enough that we combed YouTube for a few dozen instances and created this supercut of Letterman talking to drummers. We also threw in the occasional cellist and harmonium player for good measure.

video via CBC Music

There’s a big difference between bringing down a currency and simply trying to regulate it.

Today a top US financial crime official said digital currencies like bitcoin shouldn’t fear government plans to regulate them like regular old financial institutions.

“Administrators or exchangers of virtual currencies have registration requirements and a broad range of [anti-money-laundering] program, recordkeeping, and reporting responsibilities. Those offering virtual currencies must comply with these regulatory requirements, and if they do so, they have nothing to fear from Treasury,” said Jennifer Shasky Calvery, director of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCen, in prepared remarks for a conference on the virtual economy.

They probably shouldn’t, even though government-skeptic digital currency fans may not believe it. We’ve said the same before, but to make the point clearer, let’s look at what the US does when it really wants to destroy a currency.

Last week, the Treasury announced a new package of sanctions targeting Iran’s currency, the rial. The US has decided to make the country’s currency “useless” as a way to squeeze its economy and squelch its nuclear program. (Whether economic sanctions actually influence Iran’s plans is unclear).

The value of the rial has already been dropping for the past two years, due to an international sanctions regime that has slowed trade with the country and caused prices to rise. With fewer US dollars entering the country, the price of the dollar relative to the rial has risen sharply:

In an attempt to reverse the trend, Iran has sought to control the official rial-dollar exchange rate. The unofficial exchange rate for dollars on the black market is high as 36,000 rials.

But the United States still isn’t satisfied. US President Barack Obama announced on June 3 that any institutions merely holding the Iranian currency or making large transactions in it would be unable to do business or hold assets in the United States. Since most global financial institutions want to maintain their US business, it essentially makes the rial illegal, at least in the West.

Now, compare those draconian policies to what the government is asking of bitcoin and other virtual currencies: Keep track of who your customers are and whether they are trying to perform illegal transactions. That’s not so bad, is it?

Aardappel writes "TreeSheets has been available as freeware for Windows / Linux / OS X since 2008, but is now also Open Source (ZLIB license). TreeSheets is a cross between a spreadsheet (you can create grids) and an outliner (you can create grids inside grids) allowing you to create almost any structure to organize your data in."

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There seems to be no end to the uses creative people can find for NextBus feeds. This from Bostonography:

This map shows point-to-point speeds for MBTA buses across the Boston area. Like a stoplight, red lines are the slowest, green are the fastest. While the content of the map is unsurprising (freeways and tunnels make up the fastest segments, downtown streets and major intersections the slowest), this type of visualization is valuable because it takes the seemingly mundane function of a complex transit system and transforms it into a beautiful, comprehensible piece of art.

When we talk about beauty in transit, its easy to get stuck on the characteristics of the vehicles themselves: that shiny streetcar, or the sexy new buses for a branded express service. Properly displayed by someone with a sophisticated design sensibility, the mobility and access that a transit system can provide comes into focus as a dense latticework of possible trips. Local bus service might seem mundane when seen on the street, but visualized in terms of its utility as a system enabling people to get where they are going, it can be be a thing of beauty. 

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This image of a defaced Xbox One advertisement was spotted at LA's JW Marriott hotel by CAG's own CheapyD, who promptly posted it to Twitter for us all to see.

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A Promise of Changes for Access to Secrets New York Times WASHINGTON — The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged from a classified briefing on Thursday about the leak of top secret surveillance programs and declared that Congress would soon consider legislation to sharply limit the access ... Top Republicans say those who want to harm US change tactics after NSA leaksWashington Post US Senator Feinstein eyes limits to NSA contractorsReuters Want proof that NSA snooping thwarts terror plots? Stand by, senator says.Christian Science Monitor Politico -Hilton Head Island Packet -San Jose Mercury News all 62 news articles »

Today the UN released a chilling and very specific number of people who have died in Syria since violence broke out there in March 2011. 92,901 people are dead as a result of the Assad government crackdown on rebels. To get a number this exact, you need to use science. Call it the demographics of death.

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Is that a revolver on that knife? Yes. And it’s a functional .22.

Thanks in part to Smithsonian Affiliations, this object and 63 others from the National Museum of American History’s National Firearms Collection are being loaned to the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.

Read more about this “Mother of all Swiss Army knives”:http://s.si.edu/lcOD2

More about the loan: http://s.si.edu/lcOJ7

Photo: Hugh Talman, Smithsonian

(Image and text via the Smithsonian page on FB)

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MapKit on OSX is for App Store apps only. All interest I had is immediately lost.

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I laughed out loud for real.

Separately, a group asks the Pentagon to stop selling porn on bases, cites sexual assault crisis.

The Zipster Tie is a giant zipper that doubles as a necktie. It is available in a variety of bright colors and can be trimmed to the appropriate length.

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