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(TheAntiMedia) A bizarre was photo taken at the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center in Arkansas, and it has been obtained from a FOIA request and released on the internet, currently going viral.

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“Boston Layer-Lapse” is a short by photographer Julian Tryba that explores the historic American city through layered time-lapse footage that doesn’t adhere to a standard narrative timeline. The result is simultaneously chaotic, beautiful, and mesmerizing as different portions of the same scene experience different times of day.

Traditional time-lapses are constrained by the idea that there is a single universal clock. In the spirit of Einstein’s relativity theory, layer-lapses assign distinct clocks to any number of objects or regions in a scene. Each of these clocks may start at any point in time, and tick at any rate. The result is a visual time dilation effect known as layer-lapse.

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Paste Magazine editor Sarah Lawrence had the bright idea to turn a music festival schedule into a temporary tattoo so she wouldn’t have to carry a flimsy paper version outside in the elements — or rely on a questionable smartphone battery.

Simply cut out your top picks, lay them on your arm in order (probably the most complicated part), and hold a wet washcloth on for thirty seconds. This is easy to do in your tent, or in the car on the way to the festival. Want to do the whole festival in one go? Stick ‘em on your knees, on your other arm, on a friend (but don’t lose the friend).

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A giant green macaron was offered as the prize for second place in the recent Sumo Senshuraku tournament in Japan as part of the France-Japan Friendship Cup. The enormous dessert was prepared by acclaimed French pastry chef Pierre Hermé, and it is the second time a large macaron has been awarded as a prize in the sumo tournament.

photo via Japan Sumo Association

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We have covered Grace Hopper a few times on our blog, and considering her greatness, we will continue to do so. NPR’s Laura Sydell recently published a great piece on women in computing that discusses Ada Lovelace, Jean Jennings Bartik and Grace Hopper and their incredible contributions to modern technology.

…She found a way to program computers using words rather than numbers — most notably a program language called COBOL.

“You would be using a programming language that would allow you almost to just give it instructions, almost in regular English, and it would compile it for whatever hardware it happened to be,” explains Isaacson. “So that made programming more important than the hardware, ’cause you could use it on any piece of hardware.”

Hopper retired from the Navy Reserve as a rear admiral. An act of Congress allowed her to stay past mandatory retirement age. She did become something of a public figure and even appeared on the David Letterman show in 1986. Letterman asks her, “You’re known as the Queen of Software. Is that right?”

“More or less,” says the 79-year-old Hopper.

But it was also just about this time that the number of women majoring in computer science began to drop, from close to 40 percent to around 17 percent now. There are a lot of theories about why this is so. It was around this time that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were appearing in the media; personal computers were taking off.

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October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day! Today the world celebrates all of the accomplishments of women in science, art, design, technology, engineering, and math. Each year, Adafruit highlights a number of women who are pioneering their fields and inspiring women of all ages to make their voices heard. Today we will be sharing the stories of women that we think are modern day “Adas”. We will also be referencing women from history that have made impacts in science and math. Please promote and share #ALD14 with your friends and family so we can promote and share with all of the world wide web!

Today everything in the Adafruit store is 10% off, just use the code ALD14 on checkout! Today’s the perfect day to spark the imagination of a future “Ada” with a gift from the Adafruit store!

Lenore Edman is the Co-founder of Evil mad Scientist Labortories making and blogging about awesome creations such as EggBot, BristleBot, BarBot, etc. Video via Extremelearners

Lenore M. Edman (mrswho (_at_) evilmadscientist.com), a veteran bike commuter, used to live in Portland, Oregon, where her son Chris got to ride in her bike\’s sidecar. Abandoning wet for warm, she moved to Austin, Texas, where she designed and sewed her own wedding dress. Later, as a regular of the Boulder, Colorado weekly cruiser bike ride, she overhauled a mid-century Hawthorne ladies bicycle (named Stella) which she has only crashed once– and it wasn\’t her fault. Since moving to Sunnyvale, California, she has helped to popularize edible origami and has learned to make some wicked curries. Her college studies in classical Greek prepared her well for her career working with professors, librarians, engineers and scientists.

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October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day! Today the world celebrates all of the accomplishments of women in science, art, design, technology, engineering, and math. Each year, Adafruit highlights a number of women who are pioneering their fields and inspiring women of all ages to make their voices heard. Today we will be sharing the stories of women that we think are modern day “Adas”. We will also be referencing women from history that have made impacts in science and math. Please promote and share #ALD14 with your friends and family so we can promote and share with all of the world wide web!

Today everything in the Adafruit store is 10% off, just use the code ALD14 on checkout! Today’s the perfect day to spark the imagination of a future “Ada” with a gift from the Adafruit store!

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In March, Newsweek came roaring back to the print world with a tech-themed cover story. The publication said it had discovered "the face behind Bitcoin"—an unemployed engineer living an unassuming life in a Los Angeles suburb.

Within days of publication, critics began pointing out that the magazine's case that Dorian Nakamoto was actually Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto was based on circumstantial evidence. The 65-year-old Dorian Nakamoto, who has no background in cryptography at all, denied the story after it was published. Newsweek and author Leah McGrath Goodman did not apologize and instead doubled down on their thesis, putting out a statement that "the facts as reported point toward Mr. Nakamoto's role in the founding of Bitcoin."

Now, Nakamoto and his lawyer Ethan Kirschner have made clear they'd like to sue Newsweek over the story—but they need more money to do it. The two have created a website called "Newsweek Lied," which lays out their grievances and features a photo of Dorian Nakamoto holding a sign saying "Newsweek's article hurt my family."

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How did a little known Philadelphia artist end up painting the only authorized portrait of one of America's most famous inmates?

"is this seriously the ONLY picture the media has of Chelsea Manning?"

In the year since it emerged, that crude selfie has appeared on CNN, the Huffington Post, New York Times, New York Post, BBC, the Wall Street Journal, and countless other outlets. There’s a reason for the ubiquity of the photo: Under Army Regulation 190-47, prisoners of the Army Corrections Systems — where Manning is serving her 35-year sentence —  "will not be photographed, except in support of medical documentation and for official identification purposes." The want of Manning portraits hasn’t gone unnoticed. As one Gawker commenter recently asked, "is this seriously the ONLY picture the media has of Chelsea Manning?"

Surprisingly, the answer to that question is no. Since last spring there has existed an alternative to Manning’s selfie: an official, full-profile, color portrait of Chelsea Manning created with her own authorization from inside Ft. Leavenworth. Except it’s not a photograph — it’s an illustration created by a relatively unknown Philadelphia-based artist.

By day, Alicia Neal is an image-quality editor for a cable service provider, sourcing and coordinating up-to-date pictures for video games and TV shows. But by night, Neal — who holds a BFA from The University of the Arts — is an artist: she paints colorful, strange and sweet portraits: pieces like "Cuddles," in which a bearded man spoons a furry centipede; and "A Colorful Imagination," where a beautiful woman in a white dress sits cradling a blue brain in her lap. Neal shows her work in coffee shops, sometimes by herself, sometimes as part of group shows.

Then last spring Emma Cape, a campaign organizer of the Chelsea Manning Support Network who heard about Neal from a friend of a friend, reached out to her. Would the illustrator, Cape asked, be interested in creating an official portrait of Chelsea Manning? "I was super nervous," Neal says, but she agreed to submit a test sketch.

Manning doesn’t like the widely circulated black-and-white photo

Chelsea Manning is acutely aware of the way she is depicted in the media. "I wouldn’t mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much," Manning wrote to Adrian Lamo, who eventually reported Manning, in the spring of 2010. "If it wasn’t for the possibility of having pictures of me… plastered all over the world press… as boy [sic]…"

Manning doesn’t like the widely circulated black-and-white photo says Cape, who speaks with the inmate once a week. "[Manning] says that that was a selfie, that it was never meant for public consumption…she sent it to one person, not expecting that the whole world would get to see it."

In an attempt to "humanize" Manning and offer news outlets an image that takes into account how Manning would like to be represented, the organization decided to create a new profile for her. But the restrictions of her incarceration meant that Manning couldn’t have a new picture taken. The organization struck on the idea of a painted portrait, but even that would be difficult. Because of restrictive visitation rights at Ft. Leavenworth military prison, the portrait would have to be sent back and forth for revisions through the mail.

Manning drew a rough self-portrait of herself and sent it to the Support Network. There, they scanned the image and sent it out to a few artists for their renditions. Those artists included recognizable names like Molly Crabapple, as well as less widely known artists like Neal.

Manning’s original self-portrait was "really, really simple — maybe what you’d expect from a high schooler."

Manning’s original self-portrait, Neal told me, was "really, really simple — maybe what you’d expect from a high schooler." She was told that Manning wanted "black-framed glasses and more feminine features, like lipstick." Neal’s painting was the one Manning liked best, and so she was chosen to paint Chelsea’s first — and so far only — authorized portrait.

"I had some performance anxiety," Neal says. "Normally when I work with a client, I get to speak to them directly to get their opinion. Not being able to speak with Chelsea directly was even more nerve-wracking." Over the next two months, Neal sent drafts to Cape, who would forward them onto Manning for notes and wait for a response before relaying edits back to the artist. "The direction they wanted to go in was sort of a political portrait," Neal says. "They wanted something that was professional, but also casual."

Three iterations later, they landed on a final version: Manning sports long, loose blonde curls; a white shirt, the top button undone; and a surprisingly generous smile for someone facing decades in prison. The portrait was first used for a press release prior to San Francisco’s 2014 LGBTQ Pride Celebration, where Manning was named Honorary Grand Marshal. Media outlets have been slow to adopt the depiction. The Guardian recently used it for an editorial piece Manning wrote, but countless other publications still rely on the selfie.

Painting the sole authorized portrait of one of America’s most famous inmates hasn’t brought Neal as much attention as one might expect — she told me I was the first reporter to reach out to her. But there is a more personal reward for being involved in this project. "I have transgendered friends," Neal says. "I’ve watched them go through their transitions and how hard it is… I felt really honored to be able to help her with that." At the same time, she worries what Manning thinks of the final portrait. "Maybe she hates it, and that’s really scary."

As for Manning, Cape says that she’s largely pleased with how the portrait turned out. Apart from one point. "The only criticism Chelsea had," Cape says, "is that since she’s been in prison, she’s been working out every day. Now, she has a slimmer-looking face."

All artwork by Alicia Neal

Durdana Habib is the Chair of Women in Engineering at IEEE and led a team of all female engineers to developed one of the world’s highest density media processor SOC designs.

In 1983, Durdana Habib became the first Pakistani woman to receive a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore. Her first job in industry, at Carrier Telephone Industries, began after a four month struggle with a management team reluctant to hire a woman into an all-male company. Today, Durdana is the Chair of Women in Engineering at IEEE and mentors several student branches of IEEE. On top of participating in technical conferences, she has mentored female students, helped them find internships and organized industry forums.

During her career in industry, Durdana started a Yahoo group of women engineers, whose participation at ICWES12 enabled them to join the International Network of Women Engineers & Scientists (INWES). Durdana served two terms as Board Director of INWES (2005-2011) and participated in many ICWES conferences. She filed the petition for WIE Affinity Group, IEEE, Islamabad Section and led as Chair (2008-2010).

In 2000 Durdana joined Communications Enabling Technologies where she led software development on System-On-Chip (SOCs) designs. Her team of many motivated female engineers developed one of world’s highest density media processor SOC designs and filed several US patents. Prior to this, she worked at Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POFs), where she received an honorarium and commendation certificate for her performance on defense-related projects.

Durdana recently completed her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences after working with the Center for Advanced Research in Engineering for five years. Previously, Durdana received her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology in 1998.

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October 14th is Ada Lovelace Day! Today the world celebrates all of the accomplishments of women in science, art, design, technology, engineering, and math. Each year, Adafruit highlights a number of women who are pioneering their fields and inspiring women of all ages to make their voices heard. Today we will be sharing the stories of women that we think are modern day “Adas”. We will also be referencing women from history that have made impacts in science and math. Please promote and share #ALD14 with your friends and family so we can promote and share with all of the world wide web!

Today everything in the Adafruit store is 10% off, just use the code ALD14 on checkout! Today’s the perfect day to spark the imagination of a future “Ada” with a gift from the Adafruit store!

BeerTab is designed for beer enthusiasts that don’t need a social network to keep tabs on amazing beers. It was designed for the sole purpose of rating beers…

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The Heat star was able to fade into the background with LeBron James on his team. Now, he must reassume the leading role four years and several injuries later. Can he do it?

What more could Dwyane Wade want? After two first-round exits in the 2009 and 2010 NBA Playoffs, Miami's favorite two-guard seemed doomed to superlative individual performance on teams with no shot at winning titles. Something had to be done. A decision had to be made.

LeBron James proved to be just what the doctor ordered, making life easier for Wade in a multitude of ways. In the past, Wade was tasked with do everything. He brought the ball up the court, defended the opponent's best wing player and executed the offense in crucial situations. As he grew older and James continued to rise, Wade also played less minutes than before. Last year, you could argue he used the equivalent of paid time off during the regular season.

It's not a stretch to say no superstar had it made more than Wade. With four NBA Finals appearances and two more rings, Wade etched in stone his case as a first-ballot Hall of Famer and his team's all-time greatest player without actually shouldering the burden of carrying the franchise. He lived one helluva life for four years.

Then, James decided to take his talents back home. In the span of a few months, the Miami Heat went from reloading their super team to rebuilding the foundation of the roster to save face. After four years of sitting in the passenger seat of LeBron's powerful Batmobile, Wade now takes the keys of his used Nissan Maxima. It's a nice car and it was hot four years ago, but it's not the Batmobile. Nothing's like the Batmobile.

This is life for Dwyane Wade, a 32-year old with almost 900 games and 32,000 minutes on his timecard. Four years after he ceded the role to LeBron, he must once again become the leader of men in Miami.

There are some areas of continuity for Wade to use. Many other key parts of the last four years still remain on the roster, parts like Chris Bosh, Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen. Bosh will now be sitting in the front passenger seat alongside Wade, but Bosh too will have the opportunity to take the wheel like he did in Toronto four years prior. This may be more of a dual partnership than a Batman-Robin situation.

Moreover, this Miami roster has been rebuilt to be leaner and faster. Role players like James Ennis, Shawne Williams and rookie Shabazz Napier will be called on to run the wings on fast breaks and defend on the perimeter in ways LeBron and Wade used to when at full strength the last four years. It's asking a lot for the Heat to be as cohesive "on a string" like they were before, but it's a focus head coach Erik Spolestra must take on if Miami has any hope of being a formidable team come playoff time. That means Wade must play closer to his All-Defense first-team level from years past instead of being dazed and confused on lost rotations.

It's certainly tough to count the guy out. Regardless of how one feels about Wade today, he deserves a ton of credit for being the league's most unstoppable force eight ears ago in winning his first NBA title. If anything, Wade deserves even more credit for adapting his game and being a secondary star to LeBron. Superstar teams don't always end well, but Miami did in large part because Wade ceded control when many thought he couldn't.

But asking Wade to play a leading role he hasn't owned in four years, all while constantly monitoring his physical limits and adapting to new teammates and a tweaked style of play, is asking a hell of a lot. On some nights, we'll see the old Wade of 30+ points and double-digit free throw attempts. But on many other nights, we'll be reminded of the Wade that looked incapable of finishing around the rim in the Finals. We'll understand more easily why LeBron decided to take a second stint in Cleveland.

In a dream scenario, Miami finds a way to squeeze one or two more years out of Wade and Bosh starring like it's 2010. But of the two players, Bosh is the more likely to revert to his pre-Heat form. He's younger and has much less of an injury history.

Wade's climb, on the other hand, is an uphill one. At 32 and with many miles on his body, it's going to take a major effort to avoid turning into a mere jack-of-all-trades player for a second-tier team in a pedestrian Eastern Conference. The Heat's modest hopes depend on Wade proving that statement wrong.

TrackingPoint's ShotGlass wearables.

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When we last visited Austin-based TrackingPoint in August, the company was keen to show off some as-yet-unnamed preproduction wearable technology that was still in development. At the time, this took the form of a somewhat difficult-to-see Android-powered screen mounted on some ski goggles. The tech mirrored the image on a TrackingPoint Precision Guided Firearm directly into your eye, enabling the weapon’s user to do some fancy "no-look" shots.

The wheel has turned, and a few months later, the goggles have evolved into a set of sleek sunglasses with a new name: ShotGlass.

ShotGlass has kept its Android-powered core, but it has gained quite a few features from the prototype model we used a few months back. In addition to being able to display and record the output of the rifle’s scope (transmitted via Wi-Fi), ShotGlass has its own microphone and forward-facing camera to record what the wearer sees and hears. When added to the rifle’s own audio and visual recordings, ShotGlass has the potential to capture a considerable amount of information about each and every shot taken.

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A simple, self-contained, command-line program able to convert markdown files into self-contained HTML pages, automatically embedding all the needed fonts, stylesheets and images.

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There are many reasons to love college football. Tradition, school ties, the joy of watching bad defenses keep nearly every game within reach ... But why we really follow the sport is chaos. Pure chaos. The purest form of said chaos? Everyone finishing with a .500 conference record in the ACC Coastal.

The Coastal is one of college football's most balanced (read: mediocre) divisions, without any superb team standing above the rest or dreadful team bringing the division down. Instead, there's a whole bunch of average going on, and the chances of a seven-way tie, however slight, are just too delightful to pass up.

So how could we achieve such a feat? Duke's win over previously undefeated Georgia Tech helped, but we need more upsets.

And the biggest issue is finding four wins for North Carolina. The latest projections find the Tar Heels, among others, are not cooperating with our plan.

Will #UNC step up Sat and keep the dream alive of all ACC Coastal teams going 4 and 4? @HollyAnderson pic.twitter.com/cWRspyrJ0v

— CFB Leaderboard (@cfblb) October 13, 2014

But there's hope yet! Here's one somewhat reasonable scenario that could see the Coastalpocalypse unfold:

Week 8

Virginia Tech (2-1) defeats Pittsburgh (1-2)

Virginia (3-0) defeats Duke (1-2)

North Carolina (1-2) defeats Georgia Tech (2-2)

Week 9

Miami (2-2) defeats Virginia Tech (2-2)

North Carolina (2-2) defeats Virginia (3-1)

Pittsburgh (2-2) defeats Georgia Tech (2-3)

Week 10

Georgia Tech (3-3) defeats Virginia (3-2)

Boston College defeats Virginia Tech (2-3)

Miami (3-2) defeats North Carolina (2-3)

Pittsburgh (3-2) defeats Duke (1-3)

Week 11

Florida State defeats Virginia (3-3)

Duke (2-3) defeats Syracuse

Georgia Tech (4-3) defeats NC State

Week 12

Florida State defeats Miami (3-3)

Clemson defeats Georgia Tech (4-4)

North Carolina (3-3) defeats Pittsburgh (3-3)

Duke (3-3) defeats Virginia Tech (2-4)

Week 13

North Carolina (4-3) defeats Duke (3-4)

Virginia Tech (3-4) defeats Wake Forest

Pittsburgh (4-3) defeats Syracuse

Virginia (4-3) defeats Miami (3-4)

Week 14

Virginia Tech (4-4) defeats Virginia (4-4)

NC State defeats North Carolina (4-4)

Duke (4-4) defeats Wake Forest

Miami (4-4) defeats Pittsburgh (4-4)

There you have it -- everyone is 4-4 in conference play. Who would make the conference title game, likely to face Florida State? The first tiebreaker is record among the tied teams, aka the entire Coastal. In this scenario, Miami and North Carolina (!) have the best inter-division records among the bunch at 4-2, so they advance to the next tiebreaker. The Hurricanes defeated the Tar Heels in our scenario (and would have the better overall record), and would therefore win the Coastal crown.

This is all assuming, of course, that East Carolina doesn't just up and pillage the whole dang division. Arrrrrrrrr.

Two Sun Belt teams give college football fans something to do on Tuesday night.

Thanks to the Sun Belt, college football fans can get a jump on Week 8 action on Tuesday night with the UL-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns and Texas State Bobcats. The Bobcats host the Ragin' Cajuns in San Marcos, where Texas State has collected two of its three wins on the season. UL-Lafayette has yet to win on the road, dropping its first two chances to Ole Miss and Boise State.

Texas State enters the matchup coming off two wins, the most recent a 35-30 victory over Idaho. The Ragin' Cajuns, meanwhile, are coming off a 34-31 win over Georgia State. Both UL-Lafayette and Texas State are 1-0 in Sun Belt play, so a win for one team would do well to keep pace with conference leaders Georgia Southern and Arkansas State, who are 4-0 and 2-0 in Sun Belt play, respectively.

Both teams are among the conference's top rushing offenses, though Texas State is better at scoring points. The Bobcats average 38.6 points per game, which is second in the Sun Belt. The Ragin' Cajuns, on the other hand, put up 24.6 points per game, eighth in the conference.

How to watch, listen, and stream

Game time: 8 p.m. ET

TV: ESPN2

Radio: Texas State, UL-Lafayette

Online streaming: WatchESPN

The numbers

Rankings and records: Texas State is 3-2 (1-0 Sun Belt) and unranked. UL-Lafayette is 2-3 (1-0) and unranked.

Vegas: Texas State opened as a 1-point favorite.

Weather forecast: 72 and clear at game time.

Two things at stake

Tuesday's game will be the second between the two teams. Lafayette won the first last season, 48-24. As mentioned above, the winner would move to 2-0 in Sun Belt play.

One big matchup

Texas State running game vs. UL-Lafayette defense. Terrence Franks amounted for 288 of the Bobcats' 466 total yards in their win over Idaho, with 284 of those yards coming on the ground. Texas State averages 259.8 rushing yards per game, good for 16th in the country. UL-Lafayette ranks 92nd in rushing defense, allowing 185.8 yards per game on the ground. Franks could be in for another productive rushing game, and his backfield mate, Robert Lowe, could bounce back from a knee injury and a season-low 43 yards against Idaho.

Further reading

For more on Texas State, UL-Lafayette and Sun Belt football, check out Underdog Dynasty.

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