China’s building boom has created a ton of abandoned cities and massive ruins — most of which are brand new, and have never had people living in them. Here are the deserted Chinese cities, mostly built in the last 10 years, which could be sets for your next dystopian movie. Read more…
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China’s brand-new abandoned cities could be dystopian movie sets
Via Reuters “The Justice Department said it would refocus marijuana enforcement nationwide by bringing criminal charges only in eight defined areas – such as distribution to minors – and giving breathing room to users, growers and related businesses that have feared prosecution.”
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Obama administratrion permits states to manage marijuana
The BBC’s Natalie Donovan breaks down the £8 that one pays for a music CD in the UK : 30% to the label, 17% to the retailer, 13% to the artist, 8% to manufacturers, 7% to distributors, and 5% on “administering copyright.” The rest appears to be eaten by taxes.
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You buy a music CD. Who gets what?
If you haven’t been able to convince publishers your life would make for an awesome comic book, and can’t draw more than a crude stick figure facsimile of yourself, you can thank the imaging researchers at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. They’ve created a fun system that can automatically generate manga-style comics starring anyone striking a pose in front of its camera. Read more…
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You No Longer Need To Be an Artist To Appear In Your Own Comic Book
This Must Be the Only Fantasy is a Dungeons & Dragons style collaboration between fashion line Rodarte and photographer Todd Cole. The short movie is packed with amazing unicorns, badass ear cuffs, Elijah Wood drop ins, and self important pauses. But it does 100% feel like the 80s. Read more…
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Get your 1980s retro Dungeons & Dragons fix with this crazy short film
I’ve been hoping that the compact but powerful new Mac Pro, recently announced by Apple, would come in at about the same price as the current model.
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The Mac Pros are "going to be expensive"
Randall Munroe has finally finished Time , his 3, 000+ frame slow-motion animation that began life as wordless, enigmatic single-panel XKCD installment .
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Randall Munroe finishes "Time," the 3,099-panel XKCD serial
“For the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps,” reports David Kravetz at Wired.com , citing a report by the U.S. agency that oversees federal courts. This report also shows that authorities armed with wiretap orders are encountering increasingly more encryption.
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Feds say encryption to foil wiretaps is on the rise
Britain’s largest ISP, British Telecom, has ragequit Yahoo! after learning that the internet giant had bought beloved microblogging site Tumblr. Just kidding! It’s actually sick of its customers’ Yahoo-provided email accounts getting hacked. [Telegraph]
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British Telecom quits Yahoo!
Make Games! published a huge list of indie titles , many of them free or trivially inexpensive, made using the wildly popular game-making software Unity —I know what I’ll be doing next weekend! If you’re feeling inspired, Make Games!’ getting started page, links to essential article and Unity alternatives for developers of any skill level.
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Indie games made with Unity