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Dainty Drone Detector Warns When To Put Down The Bong, Stop Putzing Around In The Buff – and Draw Your Blinds

from US News Tiny Device Will Detect Domestic Drones Worried about an unmanned plane looking into your window? This small detector could alert you when robot planes buzz past By JASON KOEBLER The company’s founder says he thinks people will attach the Drone Shield to their fences or roofs to protect their home from surveillance. Worried [...]

Stop-action Carbon Monoxide

from AP via Pioneer Press IBM makes tiny movie by pushing molecules around Associated Press WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels. IBM says it has made the tiniest stop-motion movie ever—a one-minute video of individual carbon monoxide molecules repeatedly rearranged to show a boy [...]

Lorien Legacies Publication Order @ GoodReads

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When Toby Ate Mice And Men

from BuzzFeed 20 Literary Facts To Impress Your Friends With 8. John Steinbeck’s original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog. Steinbeck’s puppy, Toby, was left alone one evening and effectively ate some really important homework. Steinbeck wrote of the incident to his agent and said, “I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have [...]

West Hollywood Pole Dancing

from The LA Times Pole art popularity outstrips its origins By Mikaela Conley (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / April 22, 2013) Sergia Anderson climbed high up a pole as Bjork‘s “Hyperballad” blasted through Circus Disco, a West Hollywood nightclub. Spinning and twirling, legs straight and toes pointed, she hung perpendicular to the ceiling, holding the pole with [...]

100 Landmark Cameras

from Pop Chart Lab A Visual Compendium of Cameras A meticulously illustrated catalog of 100 landmark cameras, culled from over a century of photographic history, depicting both professional and consumer models and tracing photography’s history from the first models to today’s digital wonders. 18″ x 24″ Each print is signed by the artists and numbered [...]

Bleecker Bob’s Gone

from The Hollywood Reporter The Record Store Day After: New York’s Iconic Bleecker Bob’s Closes by Mitch Myers Paul Familetti What becomes of the vinyl faithful now that the Greenwich Village mainstay — in business since 1967 — has shut its doors? File under: just another nail in the coffin. Downtown New York City’s Bleecker [...]

“Walking & Stalking” the Squalid Underbelly

from The New York Observer A Tour of New York’s Squalid Underbelly, at the Tip of Your Fingers By Matthew Kassel On any given block in New York, it’s safe to assume that you are walking past the scene of some former crime–a murder, a beating, a robbery. And if you like knowing about New York’s squalid [...]

The Power Of Six also for Audi

from The New Indian Express Audi presents special power of six By Ammar Alvi Latest to hit the road is a very special edition of its flagship premium sedan A6 which celebrates the sale of 6,000 cars in India since its launch. To commemorate the sale of 6,000 A6 models in India, German auto giant Audi [...]

Less Than Zero Tolerance – Bret Easton Ellis Banned by GLAAD

from The Hollywood Reporter Bret Easton Ellis: ‘I’ve Been Banned by GLAAD Media Awards’ by Seth Abramovitch UPDATED: GLAAD responds to the author’s claims that he was told he couldn’t come to the swanky event honoring Bill Clinton. There will be stars galore on Saturday evening at the Los Angeles GLAAD Media Awards, a swanky [...]