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It’s like Burning Man, but with ice, and in China

Above and below: tourists look at ice sculptures during a light testing prior to the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The bricks look like pixels, don’t they? The event opens on January 5, 2011, according to…


How Developers Are Playing Us for Fools – Minyanville.com

Minyanville.comHow Developers Are Playing Us for FoolsMinyanville.comOperating systems, web browsers, online marketplaces, media players, BitTorrent clients, virtually every program …


XWave Lets You Control iPhone Graphics with Your Brain

What if you could visualize what your brain was doing on the screen of your iPhone? That’s the promise of XWave, a strange-looking contraption you clamp onto your head that reads your mind.You can see the results of its brainwave-reading magic on …


NYT on Banks and Wikileaks: “a troubling prospect”

A New York Times editorial today on the recent actions of Bank America, Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard to block payments to Wikileaks says the moves raise “troubling questions,” given the fact that Wikileaks has not been charged or convicted of any crime…


Pilot raided for YouTube video exposing airport security flaws

Antinous sez, “An anonymous airline pilot posted cell phone video of security lapses at SFO to YouTube. Federal air marshals and the sheriff’s department showed up at his house to take his gun away.”

“Well, folks, I just wanted to give you an idea…


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