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— Ben Swain (@TheBenSwain) March 13, 2015

BOOM! TRIPLE FLAG! Take a photo of this flag, make it a new flag and fly it from the highest point you can find. It's everything the ACC was build and nurtured on: Cold beer, Bojangles and North-by-god-Carolina.

Spend more than an hour in this state and you know this sucker should be flying from the top of every municipal building around.

Wait ... did they just print "COLD BEER" on a Netherlands flag?

Juliana Brown Eyes-Clifford was one of the people I wrote about in a feature story this week that outlines the many ways in which Facebook's "authentic names" policy penalizes people with Native American names. The social network has suspended Natives' accounts because it deemed their legitimate names as fake. Facebook has also arbitrarily changed Native users' names. In one case I found that white supremacists triggered the suspension of a high-profile author's account by reporting her name as fake. They called it "ghost activism."

The bass guitarist for the rock group Scatter Their Own says she had her name challenged by Facebook about two years ago. To submit her government-issued ID to the social media network for reinstatement Brown Eyes-Clifford had to leave the Pine Ridge Reservation and purchase a printer/scanner. Facebook accepted her ID, but changed her last name. She's listed as "BrownEyes-Clifford," not Brown Eyes-Clifford.

On Thursday, just a day after Colorlines published the story that includes Brown Eyes-Clifford, her Facebook account was once again disabled. Here's a screenshot she provided Thursday from her cell phone:

Brown Eyes-Clifford contacted me, saying, "I feel as if I am being deliberately targeted again because I spoke out against Facebook." Brown Eyes-Clifford lost access to two pages she administers on Facebook, including the Scatter Their Own fan page. Her husband, Scotti Clifford, is technically an administrator on the page, but he also lost access to it since it was his wife who first created the page. Scatter Their Own is currently touring and is headed to SXSW. Losing access to its Facebook page meant losing access to contacts, dates and confirmations. "Our SXSW tour is about to begin and I handle all our marketing and social media promotion for our band Scatter Their Own," Brown Eyes-Clifford said on Thursday. "I just don't know what to do."

All the communication I'd had with Brown Eyes-Clifford on Facebook was also deleted from my personal message box. 

On Thursday Brown Eyes-Clifford stopped what she was doing in the middle of her tour to re-submit her government-issued ID to Facebook. Today at about 11:30 a.m. ET, Brown Eyes-Clifford received a notice that her Facebook account had been reinstated. Her name remains misspelled.

When asked why Brown Eyes-Clifford's account was suspended, a Facebook spokesperson who had previously talked to me on grounds that we not use their name emailed me today that the company doesn't comment on individual accounts.

A Kappa Sigma fraternity member at University of Maryland, College Park is being investigated by the university for a racist, sexist email sent to six other students at the school over a year ago. Early this morning, the university’s president put out an official statement about the school’s response to the email, which references raping women during rush week and uses offensive language to describe black, Indian and Asian women.

President Loh followed that tweet with others, which he said were not him speaking as college president, but “as a person.” This is what he said:

Then Loh asked for student input.

The main photo in this post is by Flickr user Chris Hsia. The image has been cropped.

tailsofwonders:

A fantastic tour of White Temple in Thailand - the craziest buddhist temple I’ve seen.

Louisiana to students at a troubled charter: You have a week to find a new school.

Preschool Mastermind is a Brooklyn-based preschool experience for adults. The project was founded by Michelle Joni and is a month-long program Joni says is an effort to get “grownups to re-learn the basics, and experience the ::magic:: of life as it was originally intended.”

Potential students must fill out and turn in an application by hand, and are asked to select the price for the course on a sliding scale from $333 to $999.

Joni was interviewed for a special report by Barcroft TV that looks inside the school–which is based in Joni’s Brooklyn apartment.

photos via Michelle Joni

via The Village Voice

The scale model chefs at Miniature Space are at it again, this time preparing a tiny strawberry cake using layers cut from a slice of bread. Tiny strawberry triangles are then sandwiched between the bread-cake, which is frosted, topped, sliced, and served on a tiny plate.

via Tastefully Offensive

The tiny veiled chameleon hatchlings who were recently born at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia have made a gigantic impression on all who have encountered them despite their diminutive size.

Taronga has welcomed more than 20 baby chameleons, with the last of three clutches of eggs hatching this week. About 5cm long, the hatchlings are the first born at the Zoo in over five years. Currently housed in a special temperature-controlled area behind the scenes at Taronga’s Reptile World, the hatchlings have begun feeding on crickets and turning on a bright green colour display for keepers. Reptile supervisor, Michael McFadden said the chameleons, which are native to Yemen and Saudi Arabia, would be mature and able to showcase their full colour palette within a year. “Veiled Chameleons are a visually amazing species that we’re fortunate to have at Taronga. While they’re not endangered, they do play an important educational role in helping us to get people excited about reptiles and reptile conservation.

images via Taronga Zoo

via Daily Mail, Bored Panda

An American team of archaeologists have discovered two ancient Egyptian tombs near Luxor. Incredibly, its beautifully adorned walls, though 3,500 years old, have retained their vivid colors, allowing us to see these amazing murals in what is practically their original glory.

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The Ztylus is a case for the iPhone 6 that features three rotating lenses and a filter designed to improve upon the phone’s built-in camera, including macro, wide-angle, fish eye, and a circular polarizing filter. The lens attachment can also be slipped off and replaced by a metal kickstand. The case is currently available for 30% off at the Laughing Squid Store.

images via Ztylus

My Retro Game Box is a monthly subscription service by Katy and Stu in Scotland that sends out a random assortment of retro video games to subscribers. Games are chosen based on cost and which consoles subscribers have, but the process is a little more complicated than that.

We have developed a system with full, emotional artificial intelligence, and named it Katy.* She will strike up a conversation with you via email after you subscribe, to find out what consoles you have, what games you already have in your collection, and what kind of games you detest. We want you to help us make good choices for you, but we draw the line at giving us a wish-list, otherwise it just isn’t a surprise.

image via Retro Game Box

via Scott Nichols

In this very silly spoof by Yes.It’s Funny, celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal demonstrates a quick and easy recipe for “Space Chips” using potatoes, lots and lots of alcohol, a purple Dyson vacuum cleaner and a highly-decorated Space Bag. Like the Gordon Ramsay parody, the video cuts together original comedic content with footage from Blumenthal’s cooking show on Channel 4.

Celebrity chef, Heston Blumenthal, shows us his unique three step process to making the perfect ‘space chips’. His scientific approach involves potatoes, alcohol, a hoover and the most important ingredient, space bags.

We all agree that Hollywood is probably too quick to reboot film franchises. However, if there was a scifi property actually ripe for a reboot, it's Flash Gordon, whose last real outing was as a movie in 1980. So of course, instead, Hollywood suddenly wants to make a sequel to the the 35-year-old film.

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Though I have fond memories blasting through some of those old demos, I never actually saw the one for Xenogears until last night, when Kotaku reader Michael Eamma brought it up in a conversation on Twitter. The chat got me googling... which led me to this gem. Really, all you need is the first 40 seconds. If you've played Xenogears but have never seen the demo, you are in for a mindfuck, grammatical errors and all.

An update to a number of Panda antivirus programs Wednesday mistakenly flagged core files as malware, putting them in quarantine. In doing so, the antivirus system ceased working.

Why Spider-Man is a city person.

theladydamfino:

THIS SPECIAL IS SO IMPORTANT.

A group of barnyard hens curiously examine a little baby wearing an adorable lamb costume who’s sitting among them, carefully pecking at the bright shiny plastic of the costume while safely avoiding the infant completely.

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datjewfro:

John Oliver, Richard Ayoade and David Mitchell in their Cambridge days

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ai2html:

ai2html is a script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator document into html and css.

Satelliten – a machine tracking activities in lower earth orbit from Quadrature on Vimeo.

Satelliten is an Arduino and Raspberry Pi controlled machine that shows the movement of satellites at scale. via creativeapplications

Created by Berlin based studio Quadrature, Satelliten is a custom build machine that brings the invisible movement of passing satellites in lower orbit to a tangible medium and scale.

For a long time, maps and atlases used to be one of the only sources for geographical knowledge. Now the paths of the satellites start to form on top of the familiar neighbourhoods, thus setting the normally invisible traffic in relation to our usual habitat. But as time passes the lines of the satellites will obliterate the well-known streets and cities, overwriting not only the information the map originally contained but as well the marks left by the preceding satellites. 

The paths these satellites form on top of the familiar neighbourhoods but majority of these objects revolve our planet in 200km to 2000km height, with an orbital period of 90 to 130 minutes and they are most of the time invisible to human eye. Their positioning data is well known and in a square of approximately 10cm², the Satelliten machine traces their lines in real time until the far away object leaves our horizon again. After a while only a black square is left forming a temporal window, showing the seemingly arbitrary but highly structured activities in lower earth orbit.

Created with Arduino and Raspberry Pi.

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Each Friday is PiDay here at Adafruit! Be sure to check out our posts, tutorials and new Raspberry Pi related products. Adafruit has the largest and best selection of Raspberry Pi accessories and all the code & tutorials to get you up and running in no time!

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