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Like blood and spooge shot from a cannon, more details have come spewing forward about GWAR’s impending restaurant. GWARbar opens later this year in Richmond, Virginia, and promises to serve its patrons “intergalactic junk food” like “house-made hot dogs, freshly ground burgers, and ‘nuggets’ marrying duck and chicken meat,” according to the Washington Post. That should come as a pleasant surprise to patrons, who might have expected the band to force them to eat bull testicles or drink bowls of duck guts. Chef and GWAR guitarist Mike Derks—also known as Balsac The Jaws Of Death—says he’s “making foodie food for people who aren’t foodies,” and was inspired to open the restaurant by his relationship with fellow D.C. chefs Bryan Voltaggio and Mike Isabella (who have both appeared on Top Chef). Voltaggio also turned up, alongside other D.C. chefs, in a mock interview clip ...

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MonkeyParking, the Italian startup that allows iPhone users to auction off public parking spaces via its smartphone app, announced that it is temporarily suspending operations in San Francisco.

The move comes just one day before the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office said it would sue the firm if it did not stop its activities in the city. Last month, the city sent the firm a cease-and-desist letter informing the company that what it was doing violated local law.

The company insisted that what it was doing was legal and that it would not shut down. But in a statement Thursday, MonkeyParking said it was altering course.

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The Gliese 581 system, as it looked before the recent paper.

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Two exoplanets, once considered excellent candidates in the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, do not exist, according to a new study in the journal Science. Both non-planets, Gliese 581d and 581g, were thought to be part of the Gliese 581 star system, located only 20 light-years away.

To those familiar with the history of the Gliese 581 system, the news comes as little surprise. Claims have been repeatedly made regarding the likelihood of habitability for some planet in the system, only to see that likelihood vanish upon closer scrutiny.

Excitement about Gliese 581 first peaked in 2007 when planet c was discovered. As one of the first exoplanets found in its star’s habitable zone (the region around a star where the temperature is ‘just right’ for liquid water to exist), planet c seemed a good candidate for life. So good that, in 2008, a high-powered digital radio signal, dubbed “A Message From Earth,” was sent in the direction of planet c. (It will arrive there in 2029, and, if anyone’s there to respond, we can expect a reply 20 years after that).

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Suburban Express CEO Dennis Toeppen's mug shot at his booking at the Champaign County Sheriff on July 9.

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Dennis Toeppen, infamous former cyber squatter and current owner of the Illinois shuttle bus service Suburban Express, rose to further notoriety last year for his attempts to silence social media critics on reddit and Yelp through legal threats and alleged online intimidation. Those critics were responding to Suburban Express's policy of suing students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in an out-of-county court to coerce them into paying penalties when they didn't follow draconian passenger policies. Unsurprisingly, the situation didn't work out well for Toeppen, resulting in a massive Streisand Effect (including drawing attention from Ken “Popehat” White, who offered pro bono legal help to a redditor threatened with a lawsuit).

Yesterday, Toeppen added another chapter to his strange story when he was arrested in Champaign, Illinois on two counts of "Harassment through electronic communications," a class B misdemeanor in Illinois, according to a spokesperson for the Lake County State's Attorney's Office. By this morning, he had posted the $10,000 bond and was free awaiting arraignment, according to a spokesperson for the Champaign County Sheriff's Office where Toeppen was booked.

Toeppen frequently posts “dirt” about his competitors and detractors on his company’s website, and he actively defends his reputation on Yelp and reddit by engaging posters of negative reviews. In last year's public incident, Toeppen eventually dropped his legal threats against a redditor and then had over 100 lawsuits against students that he filed in Ford County dismissed. (Toeppen later filed to vacate their dismissal, however, so that he could re-file them elsewhere.) He has continued to aggressively go after people who express negative opinions since, as Na’ame Firestone of Oakland, California recently experienced on Yelp:

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Microsoft suspected some of our customers were abusing our service for malicious purposes. However, instead of reporting the malicious activity to our abuse department or law enforcement, Microsoft decided to secretly sue us in civil court.

By filing an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO), No-IP was prevented from having any knowledge of the case or offering any support in stopping malicious activity. Had Microsoft submitted evidence of abuse at any time, No-IP would have taken swift action to validate the claims and ban any accounts that were proven to be malicious. Instead, Microsoft wasted many months while malicious activity continued.

To state this as emphatically as possible — this entire situation could have been avoided if only Microsoft had followed industry standards. A quick email or call to the No-IP abuse team would have removed the abusive hostnames from the No-IP network.

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Monika Horčicová is a Czech sculptor/installation artist who constructs human skeletons with 3-D printing in a very surreal juxtaposition. Many of her structures presents itself through a repetitive cycling pattern as well as experimental evolved mutations.

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As Google’s top hacker, Parisa Tabriz thinks like a criminal—and manages the brilliant, wonky guys on her team with the courage and calm of a hostage negotiator.

From 3D printing a rapid prototype to casting high performance urethane plastic, this video demonstrates how to use Mold Star 20T to make a silicone mold of extruded PLA. Mold Star 20T has virtually no shrinkage and a fast, 30 minute cure time.

Benefits of Making a Mold of 3D Printed Prototypes:
* Faster production of multiple copies.
* More material options for finished part.
* Ability to cast in a wide range of colors and finishing effects without specialized equipment or additional print media/filaments.

Benefits of Mold Star 20T Silicone:
* Easy to use 1A:1B by volume mix ratio: no gram scale necessary.
* Low viscosity: no need to vacuum degas.
* Make molds fast! Rubber cures in 30 minutes.
* Ultra low shrinkage.
* Very long library life.

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Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!

Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!

The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!

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NEW PRODUCT – Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy by KTOWN

You’re interested in what all this BLE stuff is about, anyways? Let Adafruit’s lead Engineer, Kevin “KTOWN” Townsend (a.k.a “50 Ohm”) guide you in this detailed tome. KTOWN teamed up with Akiba (a.k.a “Wireless EL blinky guy”) to throw down all their knowledge in this book. Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy: Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking by Kevin Townsend, Carles Cufí, Akiba & Robert Davidson is the only BLE book you’ll ever need at your side.

With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), smart devices are about to become even smarter. This practical guide demonstrates how this exciting wireless technology helps developers build mobile apps that share data with external hardware, and how hardware engineers can gain easy and reliable access to mobile operating systems.

This book provides a solid, high-level overview of how devices use BLE to communicate with each other. You’ll learn useful low-cost tools for developing and testing BLE-enabled mobile apps and embedded fimware and get examples using various development platforms–including iOS and Android for app developers and embedded platforms for product designers and hardware engineers.

• Understand how data is organized and transferred by BLE devices
• Explore BLE’s concepts, key limitations, and network topology
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• Get examples for connecting BLE to iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and sensors
• Develop code for a simple device that transmits heart rate data to a mobile device

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A class of pesticides linked to colony collapse disorder in bee colonies has now been linked to a dramatic decline in insectivorous bird populations. Disturbingly, this could also mean that other animals along the food chain are at risk as well.

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Boyer — who camped outside the Green Leaf dispensary for 19 hours in order to be the first person to legally purchase recreational pot in Spokane — says his employer requested he take a drug test within 24 hours.

The 30-year-old, who says he's worked as a security guard "on and off for 12 years," had signed an agreement several years ago agreeing to the drug ban. (It's unclear which security firm had requested the drug test; Boyer did not immediately return a request seeking clarification.)

Activists championing organic foods have found support among preppers. They're sympathetic to the "government is a conspiracy and corporations are evil" idea. But what really made preppers into anti-GMO food activists is their desire to have a healthy post-apocalyptic lifestyle.

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It looks like Goonies rumors never say die. Goonies director Richard Donner has been vocal about a sequel lately, and it looks like he might not have been just playing with our emotions. Now there are rumors that Chris Columbus, who wrote both The Goonies and Gremlins, is on board to produce sequels to both of the `80s classics.

It originally looked like Gremlins would be a remake of the original, but new information says that both movies will be sequels.

According to /Film, the Gremlins sequel will follow the “30 years later” story continuation format that’s been rumored for the Goonies sequel. The Gremlins sequel has been in the works for a while, and when Columbus was asked about it a few years ago, he said:

I think it’s impossible to recreate in a CGI environment. I think it will inevitably lose some of its charm. Those are edgy Muppets in a sense and you don’t want to lose that sense of anarchy that those gremlins had, because behind the scenes are 25 puppeteers making them to come to life.

So hopefully we won’t have any CGI gremlins to worry about, because CGI Yoda really doesn’t give me great confidence about how that would come off. If that’s really the case, a Gremlins sequel could probably work pretty well. It can’t be any worse than the rest of the horror genre.

Goonies, on the other hand… I loved The Goonies, but some things are better left in the past. I might be in the minority in that opinion, though, so feel free to start practicing your happy dance.

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Previously in Goonies and gremlins never say die

• We really weren’t sure if Richard Donner was serious
• Goonies (and more) sequel news
• Look at a Gremlins 3oth anniversary reunion photo

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Geez, what is up with Japanese  franchises getting turned into Hollywood movies by Academy Award nominated directors lately? First we had Spike Lee and Oldboy (the 2003 Park Chan-wook was inspired by a late ’90s manga of the same name), and now according to rumors, Gus Van Sant is going to do Death Note. Huh. How do you like them apples, Ryuk?

For those who aren’t in the know, Death Note was a mid ’00s manga about a high school student who finds a notebook that, if you write a person’s name on it, will kill that person. Naturally, he decides to become a vigilante serial killer, which prompts Interpol to bring in a super-genius mystery detective to stop him, and it becomes a very intense Holmes vs. Moriarty-style showdown. While the story gets a bit convoluted in the second half if you ask me, the concept and characters were compelling enough to sell 25 million copies and warrant an anime adaptation (fun fact! In the English dub, L’s voice is done by the actor who played Gaeta in Battlestar Galactica), an abridged movie, two live-action Japanese films, and even a video game.

An American adaptation of the series has been in the works for a while now, but according to a website called The Tracking Board (which I had never heard of before now, so take this rumor with a serious grain of salt), the acclaimed director has been asked to take over for Iron Man 3′s Shane Black. Black has been attached to the project since 2013 and wrote the most recent iteration of the script, along with Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry.

If this rumor turns out to be true, then it won’t be Van Sant’s first foray into thriller territory: he also directed  To Die For, about a news anchor who manipulates teenagers into committing murder to get ahead in her career, and Paranoid Park, the story of high school student who covers up an accidental manslaughter to keep from facing the consequences. If you combine the two, it all sounds pretty Death Note-y. Oh, and I guess there was that Psycho remake, too. Let’s just… not talk about that.

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