If you want to add books you don’t purchase from Apple into your iBooks library, you have two main methods: sync with iTunes or sync with the iBooks app in Mavericks. They’re both not the most intuitive things in the world though, so if you’re sick of bothering with them, Cult of Mac points out that sending an email with an Epub attachment does the job. Read more…
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Skip iTunes and Add Your Own Books to iBooks with an Email
In Japan, engineers are attempting to contain radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant by freezing the ground around it into “ice walls” that will remain frozen for years . At Nova, Jessica Morrison writes about this weird technique, which has been around for over half a century and is more commonly used as part of massive construction projects with large underground components, including Boston’s Big Dig.
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How engineers freeze soil to create structurally sound solid walls of earth
MuckRock News reports that Freedom of Information Act requests faxed to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) started coming back as undeliverable a couple weeks ago.
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DoD office can’t process FOIAs because fax machine broken, no money for new one
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
At CNET, Declan McCullagh reports that the U.S. government has demanded that large Internet companies provide them with users’ stored passwords, which are typically encrypted.
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Feds tell major internet companies to decrypt and hand over users’ account passwords
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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The new US$100 bill will go into circulation on October 8, 2013. New security features include a “3-D Security Ribbon” woven into the paper. The image changes from bells to 100s with the viewing angle, and “color-shifting” bell graphic that changes from copper to green, “an effect which makes the bell seem to appear and disappear within the (copper-colored) inkwell.” ” The Redesigned $100 Note ”
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New US$100 bill in circulation 10/8
“At the close of 1998, there were 23 known weblogs on the Internet. A year later there were tens of thousands. What changed? ” [Mat Honan / Wired]
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The blogging family tree
Police leveling a homeless campsite outside of Kansas City discovered a “hidden community” of transients living in an elaborate series of tunnels , reports KMBC.
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“Homeless city” in tunnels beneath Kansas City
Getting too juiced up on caffeine happens. Maybe you made a pot and nobody wanted it but you. Perhaps you got lost in a great conversation. In any case, baristas and amateur nutritionists suggest one possible remedy: eat a banana. Yes, a banana. More »
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Eat a Banana to Remedy Over-Caffeination