Seattle’s KIRO TV made undercover visits to Office Depot stores in Washington state and Oregon and asked the technicians working in the store’s “PC Health Check” to evaluate a working, uninfected PC; four out of six times, Office Depot technicians diagnosed nonexistent virus activity and prescribed $200 worth of service to get rid of it. (more…)
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Office Depot techs accused of faking malware infections to meet sales targets
On The Tonight Show last night, Metallica, promoting their new album ” Hardwired…to Self-Destruct ,” played their old ditty “Enter Sandman” in an entirely new way. We’re off to never never land. James Hetfield – Vocals, Toy clarinet Jimmy Fallon – Vocals, Bass Drum, Casio Keyboard, Kazoo Lars Ulrich – Fisher Price Drum, Toy Cymbals Kirk Hammett – Melodica Robert Trujillo – Baby Electric Axe Questlove – Hand Clappers, Kazoo Kamal Gray – Xylophone James Poyser – Melodica Captain Kirk – Ukulele Tuba Gooding Jr. – Kazoo, Banana Shaker, Apple Shaker Mark Kelley – Kazoo Frank Knuckles – Bongos Black Thought – Tambourine, Brown Hat
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Metallica and The Roots play "Enter Sandman" on toy and classroom instruments
Michèle B. Nuijten and co’s statcheck program re-examines the datasets in peer-reviewed science and flags anomalies that are associated with fakery, from duplication of data to internal inconsistencies. (more…)
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Statcheck: a data-fakery algorithm that flagged 50,000 articles
Lyon, France-based tattoo artist JC Sheitan Tenet has no right arm. In place of his right hand, he wears custom tattoo machine prostheses he developed with biomechanical sculptor Jean-Louis Gonzal. According to Great Big Story, “the device can pivot 360 degrees and allows Tenet to create abstract designs unlike anyone else.”
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Tattoo artist with missing arm wears tattoo machine prosthesis
With Putin and Russia in the news more and more thanks to Trump and Steven Seagal, maybe it’s high time to learn how to pronounce Russian text. Thanks to the instructor’s lovely accent in this ten-minute tutorial , you’ll be pronouncing (if not understanding) in short order. (more…)
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Learn the Russian alphabet in ten minutes
I’ve been into old-fashioned mechanical keyboards lately; Sonder’s e-ink model promises to bring the fetish into the 21st century. Each key is both mechanical and a tiny e-Ink display that can change on a per-application basis. The Sonder Keyboard combines a sleek new design with a built-in rechargeable battery and enhanced key features. With an improved mechanical mechanism beneath each key for increased stability, as well as optimized key travel and a lower profile, the Sonder Keyboard provides a remarkably comfortable and precise typing experience. It pairs automatically with your Mac, so you can get to work right away. And the battery is incredibly long-lasting — it will power your keyboard for about a month or more between charges. The styling is minimal and Apple-oriented. Sonder’s keyboard uses Bluetooth, but comes with USB and a lightning port too. It’s $200, which seems reasonable for such a specialized device: compare to Art Lebedev’s Optimus Popularis color LED model, still a pricey curiosity at $1500.
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e-ink keyboard changes for every purpose
Hillary Clinton’s email woes won’t die . Federal investigators today obtained a fiercely-sought warrant to begin searching a large cache of emails sent to or from Huma Abedin, longtime confidante and senior aide to Hillary Clinton. Federal law enforcement officials told reporters the warrant was in on Sunday, as prosecutors with the Justice Department and agents from the F.B.I. rushed to review as much of the emails as possible before Election Day, which is now only one week away. (more…)
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FBI gets warrant to search Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s email
The stolen emails recently published by WikiLeaks reveal that President Barack Obama’s email address during the presidential transition at the end of the 2008 campaign was bobama@ameritech.net. (more…)
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WikiLeaks reveals President Barack Obama’s personal email address
Projection mapping is one of the most profound visual effects that computers can generate; themepark fans will have seen it in effect on the revamped opening scene to the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland and in the night-time shows that involve painting the whole castle with light (projection mapping is also used to generate the rear-projected faces of the animatronic figures in the new Snow White ride). (more…)
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Projection mapping on a moving surface with a high-speed projector
Skyler Johnson created an interactive infographic that charts the use of magic in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels . The spells are organized by count or time, with instances color-coded by the book they appear in. Hover over each use and you even get the quote, for context! [via Tor and Metafilter ] Emily Asher-Perrin writes: Perhaps not surprisingly, the spells that we see used most often are commonly used by Harry and his friends as means of non-violent resistance; Expecto Patronum; Expelliarmus; Stupefy. The Killing Curse appears sixth down on the list, which is fascinating–it is technically speaking the “most evil” of all the dark magic spells, and it is the most often used.
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Magic use in Harry Potter novels charted