William Cormier III was convicted this week of killing journalist Sean Dugas, burying his body in a concrete-covered pit in Georgia, then selling off his rare Magic: The Gathering playing cards , part of a set valued at $100,000. Defense attorneys said during closing arguments that prosecutors didn’t prove that Cormier killed Dugas, and instead suggested his twin was responsible. Cormier’s twin brother, Christopher, pleaded no contest to charges of helping his brother move Dugas’ body from Florida to Georgia. Christopher Cormier has not been sentenced yet. Dugas’ body was unearthed more than a month after his 2012 death in the backyard of Cormier’s father’s home in Winder, Ga., which is about 300 miles northeast of Pensacola. Cormier was the only witness to testify for the defense. He told jurors Wednesday he was acting under the direction of his twin and that he did not know Dugas’ was dead when he sold more than $12,000 of his cards and cleaned out his home.
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Murderer buried victim in concrete and sold off his Magic: The Gathering trading cards, then blamed twin
From preparing the bomb to dropping it—the explosion is a few seconds after 8:40. [ Video Link ] This silent film shows the final preparation and loading of the “Fat Man” bomb into “Bockscar,” the plane which dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. It then shows the Nagasaki explosion from the window of an observation plane. This footage comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory. I have not edited it in any way from what they gave me except to improve the contrast a little — it is basically “raw.” I have annotated it with some notes on the bombing and what you can see — feel free to disable it if you don’t want it. I suggest leaving them on. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a video benefit from YouTube annotations! [via Nuclear Secrecy and MeFi ] 
Please enjoy this awesome GIF of an octopus oozing through a small hole. 
Naoki Hiroshima had a rare and valuable Twitter handle, @N . It was extorted from him , he claims, by a scammer who figured out that PayPal reveals part of one’s credit card number during security verification—and that GoDaddy accepts the same part of the number during security verification. I asked the attacker how my GoDaddy account was compromised and received this response: From: SOCIAL MEDIA KING To: Naoki Hiroshima Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:53:52 -0800 Subject: RE: …hello – I called paypal and used some very simple engineering tactics to obtain the last four of your card (avoid this by calling paypal and asking the agent to add a note to your account to not release any details via phone) – I called godaddy and told them I had lost the card but I remembered the last four, the agent then allowed me to try a range of numbers (00-09 in your case) I have not found a way to heighten godaddy account security, however if you’d like me to recommend a more secure registrar i recommend: NameCheap or eNom (not network solutions but enom.com) GoDaddy outright refused to help him at first, too. It’s shocking how weak account security is there, and at PayPal: “Don’t let companies such as PayPal and GoDaddy store your credit card information,” Hiroshima writes. 
There’s not much stigma attached to meth use in harsh North Korea, writes Los Angeles Times reporter Barbara Demick. Some take it to treat colds or boost their energy; students take it to work late. The drug also helps curb appetites in a country where food is scarce. It is offered up as casually as a cup of tea, North Koreans say. “If you go to somebody’s house it is a polite way to greet somebody by offering them a sniff,” said Lee Saera, 43, of Hoeryong, also interviewed in China. “It is like drinking coffee when you’re sleepy, but ice is so much better.” More: LA Times . 
In this talk from Maker Faire New York, Bunnie Huang of Chibitronics gives an amazing run-down of the on-the-ground reality of having electronics manufactured in Shenzhen, China. It’s a wild 30 minutes, covering everything from choosing a supplier to coping with squat toilets and the special horrors awaiting vegetarians in the Pearl River Delta. There are some dropouts at the start of the video that you’ll need to scroll past, but it’s well worth the hassle. Getting it Made: Stories from Shenzhen ( via Make ) 