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Last night's Colbert Report was devoted to The Great Gatsby, only one problem — Stephen's never read the book! When he goes to his good friend (and Gatsby star) Carey Mulligan for help, he makes a terrible discovery. Not only has she never read it either, but she can't read at all. Who can help them out of this terrible quandary? (Spoiler: It's this guy.)
    
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The time has come. Hive is ready (mostly) for you, the awesome people, to use it. All the core features are in: subscribing to sites, reading those sites, sharing stories, commenting, liking, staring and xml import from google reader. The UI/UX is awesome and getting better. There are still some features I am adding/fixing and I will be doing that forever. Really excited to put this in your hands right away and get feedback.
Announcing the closed beta of HiveReader
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firehoseWho's the best "innovation superhero": wealthy white male alcoholic, or wealthy white male psychopath
Right now, Iron Man has the #1 movie in America. But is he the superhero who best exemplifies the inventive spirit of American science and engineering? Or is that Batman, whose Batsuit and nearly limitless supply of gadgets are a constant inspiration?
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Wowee, this is something I need to magic up a fortnight for. Since 2009, the OpenXcom project has been unhurriedly continuing in its quest to make the original X-COM more contemporaneous, – a standalone version that doesn’t require DOSBox, that makes the interface a little more modern, that offers more rule-tweaking for those that want it, that finally kills some of the bugs which have dogged the original for the past two decades, and even one that scales up to mega-resolutions impressively convincingly. As of the new version 0.9, it’s basically got everything working, and you basically get an in theory improved, but faithful, X-COM to play right now.
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It's not the first time that Kwikset's dabbled in wireless locks, but today the company's introducing Kēvo, a smartphone- (and tablet-) friendly lock powered by UniKey. The concept is pretty simple: pair a handset (running a special app) with Kēvo via Bluetooth, and simply touch the deadbolt to lock or unlock your door. A keychain fob is also available for those who have not yet joined the smartphone revolution. Kēvo only responds to touch when an authorized device or fob is detected nearby. A triple tap lets anyone lock your door, which is useful if a visitor leaves after you. The deadbolt is battery-powered using four AA cells that last more than a year with normal operation. It features a ring of RGB LEDs for feedback and a standard physical key for backup.
Most of the magic is made possible by tech developed by UniKey. The key (natch) to the entire system is the Kēvo app which lets you manage eKeys. Once logged into the app, you can send and delete eKeys, or transfer them to another device (this also deletes the eKeys associated with a lost handset, for example) -- you can even create eKeys that only work once. Currently, the app is only available for iOS, which is a major limitation, but it supports push, email and SMS notifications and keeps a detailed log of which eKeys have accessed Kēvo and when. Pricing and availability remain a mystery, but all in all the system looks pretty clever. Stay tuned for more details, and check out the link below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Household, Tablets, Wireless, Software, Mobile, Apple
Source: Kwikset
Civil liberties and civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate made this video to show you how to protect yourself from FBI agents who will interview you, then claim you lied so they can threaten you with imprisonment unless you become their puppet.
The message from Robel’s prosecution and Silverglate’s advice is clear: do not talk to the FBI without your lawyer present. If Harvey’s decades long experience is any indication, chances are that the agents will politely decline to interview you if you and your attorney insist on creating an accurate record of an FBI interrogation.(Thanks, Tim!)
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Maybe you live in Toronto. Maybe you’ll be at the Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend. But if you won’t be in the upper part of the North American continent over the next few days, you won’t be able to see some incredible video game art. But we can show some of it right here.
Running this weekend, the Comics vs. Games 2 showcase will feature awesome new work from creators from both mediums. Part of the associated events will be an art show with eye-popping work from Zac Gorman, Corey Lewis, Chris Furniss, Asid Siddiky, Jacob Frerguson and more incredible illustrators.
Toronto is a hotbed of indie game creativity that companies like Capybara Games, Drinkbox Studios and many other developers call home. That means that if you’re at TCAF and go to the Bit Bazaar zine/arcade event, Comics vs. Games 2 gallery show or panel talk with Scott Pilgrim creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, you will probably meet someone who’s made something you like a whole lot. The rest of us will have to pine away from afar. Tell us how it all goes down, won’t you?
TWO CITIES, TWO SHOWS, PART TWO: TORONTO & TCAF [Attract Mode]
PSA: System Shock 2 on Steam, 30 percent off until May 17 originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 10 May 2013 15:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
With Google I/O just a few days away, the Chrome team has added push alert support for apps in its browser or Chrome OS. Google Cloud Messaging for Chrome is designed to let apps receive notifications from outside Chrome and respond to them more efficiently. Before introducing Cloud Messaging for Chrome, apps that wanted to respond to an outside trigger — like a news alert or a message that the user has sent — would have to keep checking back with a server, using more data and power. Now, developers can have the app request a token, then have their server post a message with said token to Cloud Messaging. From there, as long as the user is signed into Chrome, it will alert the app and deliver the message.
Essentially, this is a way to let Chrome apps only run when they're needed. So soon before Google's big event, though, it's also tempting to connect this kind of upgrade to a future launch of Google Now for Chrome, which has been strongly hinted at in Chromium and Chrome OS updates. Either way, developers can check out the Cloud Messaging page now, and a Google blog post explains a little more about what's behind the process.
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story lede: "No, not really"
No, not really. But for two years, researchers at Los Alamos National Labs have been working on something they call network-centric quantum communications — and this could usher in the next generation of hyper-secure, scalable, and affordable quantum cryptographic techniques. We spoke to the lead researcher to find out more.
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firehoseTW: hate speech
direct links:
http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html#
http://www.floatingsheep.org/2013/05/hatemap.html
for once, it's not a map of population centers
'Over at the interactive map, viewers can see similar maps for racist and ableist tweets, and even parse the data to examine the geographic distributions of individual words. The results were compelling. "Even when normalized," write the researchers, "many of the slurs included in our analysis display little meaningful spatial distribution" '
This is The Geography of Hate – a cartographical collection of every geotagged tweet in the continental U.S. between June 2012 and April 2013 in which the word "chink," "gook," "nigger," "wetback," "spic," "dyke" "fag," "homo," "queer" or "cripple" was used in an explicitly negative way.
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this fucking guy
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder told USA Today that the team will not change its name, despite increased calls to do so.
“We will never change the name of the team,” Snyder said. “As a lifelong Redskins fan, and I think that the Redskins fans understand the great tradition and what it’s all about and what it means, so we feel pretty fortunate to be just working on next season.”
Lawmakers have recently called on the NFL franchise to change its name, including Washington’s city council, its congressional delegate, and its mayor. A recent Associated Press/GfK poll found that 79 percent of Americans support the “Redskins” name, while 11 percent oppose it and think it should be changed.
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“Four years after the MIT faculty adopted their Open Access Policy, a significant new milestone has been reached: Papers made openly available through the Open Access Articles Collection have been downloaded over 1 million times. Total downloads from the collection of just under 9,000 papers reached 1,045,518 by the end of April.” (via MIT Libraries)
firehose'Rabinowitz in his statement warned against "extremists" hurting the wall -- language he has previously used to criticize Women of the Wall.
"I beseech you, the silent majority, for whom the Western Wall is close to your heart, to stop extremists from all sides from changing the wall into a ground where brothers fight," he said.
Meanwhile, thousands of girls from haredi Orthodox seminaries in Jerusalem will protest the Women of the Wall service with their own prayer services held at the same time. The girls were instructed to participate in the services by Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, the head of the Lithuanian Orthodox community, Haaretz reported Thursday.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the Sephardic haredi Orthodox Shas party, also is calling for Orthodox women's prayer at the Western Wall on Friday morning.
Israel Police are expected to call in extra officers to manage the situation.'
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) -- The rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, called for calm and Jewish unity as Women of the Wall prepared to hold its monthly service there. "The Western Wall is the one uniting place we have left," Rabinowitz said in the statement issued ... and more » |
firehoseenjoying this The Onion on Github trend
The Onion has created fartscroll.js, a script that makes web pages fart as you scroll. It’s available to download from Github.
image via The Onion
via Metafilter
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firehose'We're even imagining in the future cars would be able to ask other cars, "Hey, can I cut into your lane?" Then the other car would let you in,' said Jennifer Healey, a research scientist with Intel.'
somehow I doubt that's what it'll be used for w/r/t cutting into a lane
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Does anyone want to hire me to make a video game?
“Oppress”
(I can’t stop laughing)
@LoraNorda
Oppress-60-65-85
(Nickname:Hachigo)
・is the No.4
・is short tempered
・is brave.
firehose"57,000 of those (email users) are Boston public-school students who have addresses on city systems"
The mayor's office announced today city government will be moving from its current legacy applications - such as Microsoft Exchange and Outlook - to Google Apps.
In addition to making legally required e-mail retention easier, the move will save money and free city MIS from the task of maintaining creaky legacy applications, by handing the thing over to Google:
"By bringing city government into the cloud, Boston continues to modernize our technology while saving taxpayer dollars and freeing up city workers to focus on the vital work of helping people. Our technology experts will now be able to focus on moving the city forward, rather than maintaining servers," Mayor Menino said. "I applaud the vision of our technology leadership and the efforts of all those involved in this process."
In addition to Gmail, the move, expected to happen this summer, will give city workers access to Google Hangout, Google Docs and Google Drive. The city has hired San Francisco-based Appirio to manage the transition and to oversee ongoing support and security for the new system.
The city claims 75,000 e-mail users, although roughly 57,000 of those are Boston public-school students who have addresses on city systems.
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Mysterious aircraft puzzles Quincy residents
QUINCY —
The Federal Aviation Administration knows what’s up there but it’s not telling the public.
A slew of Quincy residents have been complaining and calling police and the city about an aircraft that appeared about two weeks ago and has been taking wide, repeated loops in the air, between about 7 p.m. and 4 a.m.
Residents from Wollaston to West Quincy describe a low-pitch humming sound coming from the aircraft. Some have said it’s reminiscent of a drone, which is an unmanned aircraft operated by remote control.
“It’s not a drone,” FAA spokesman Jim Peters said. “It’s an authorized flight and we are aware of it.”
