You know what are awesome? Keyboard demo songs. Here’s the one from the Casio CT-770.
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A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
In honor of Presidents Day here in the United States of somethingorother, here’s a photo by Jacquelyn Martin for the AP. Here’s the caption from MSNBC’s PhotoBlog:
A three-story sculpture “tower of books” representing over 15,000 titles that have been written about Abraham Lincoln, are part of an exhibit at the Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership in Washington on Wednesday. The new museum, located across from Ford’s Theatre and next door to the house where Lincoln died, will open in time for President’s Day.
Western canon to be rewritten as three-volume graphic novel
Western canon to be rewritten as three-volume graphic novel
Alison Flood, The Guardian:
From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Infinite Jest via Dante, Dangerous Liaisons and Dubliners, the western canon is set to be turned into a 1,344-page, three-volume graphic novel.
The ambitious project from New York press Seven Stories is being hailed as the “graphic publishing literary event of the year”. Each of the 189 works of literature covered is being interpreted by a comics artist, with 130 illustrators contributing to the project including Robert Crumb, Will Eisner and Hunt Emerson. The first volume of The Graphic Canon – “From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons” – is out in April, to be followed by the second (“Kubla Khan to the Brontë Sisters to The Picture of Dorian Gray”) in July and the third (“From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest”) in October.
My original reaction to this was going to be “what the dickens,” but then I realized what I did there and shot myself.
Remembering India’s first woman photojournalist
Remembering India’s first woman photojournalist
Natalia Jimenez of msnbc.com wrote a nice piece for MSNBC’s PhotoBlog on Homai Vyarawalla, who is considered to be India’s first female photojournalist. The old photos accompanying it are quite good. Read it; love it.
83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible
83 year-old woman got 3D printed mandible
3ders.org translation of a story from the Dutch newspaper De Pers:
The University of Hasselt (Belgium) announced today that Belgian and Dutch scientists have successfully replacing a lower jaw with a 3D printed model for a 83 year-old woman. According to the researchers, It is the first custom-made implant in the world to replace an entire lower jaw.
The lower jaw of the elderly woman was badly infected and needed to be removed. Considering the age of the patient, a “classical” microsurgical reconstructive surgery takes too long time and can be risky. Therefore a tailor-made implant is the best choice.
Normally it takes a few days to produce a custom implant, but with 3D printing technology it takes only a few hours.
Medicine is one of the most exciting applications of 3D printers.
Resident Evil ‘Revelaitons’ misprint makes it to retail
Resident Evil ‘Revelaitons’ misprint makes it to retail
JC Fletcher for Joystiq:
Capcom made an embarrassing printing error on the spine of the Resident Evil: Revelations box sent to reviewers — one made more embarrassing by the “revelaiton” today that it’s still on the version of the art sent to retailers in advance of Tuesday’s release.
Reader Zach shared this picture of the stock at the Prescott, AZ store, showing “Revelaitons” all the way down — Joystiq has since confirmed the error with the store.
Whoopsie!
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Gene Hackman and Mr. T
Are you man enough to wear silverware around your neck?
I am not. :(
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Here’s Shock G playing a keyboard arrangement of “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Excellent.
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Kristen Bell is really, really excited about sloths. (Don’t miss the actual home movie footage of her having a sloth-induced freak out.)
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Douglas County Assemblyman Kite wants to bring back ‘Brianna’s Law’ for 2013 Legislature
Douglas County Assemblyman Kite wants to bring back ‘Brianna’s Law’ for 2013 Legislature
One of the most contentious crimes in recent Nevada history was the murder of Brianna Denison, a young woman who was killed by serial rapist James Biela. In response to the case, a bill dubbed “Brianna’s Law,” which would require anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony (not necessarily convicted) to have their DNA sampled, was introduced in the Nevada Legislature in 2011. It blasted through the Assembly, but it wasn’t taken up by the full Senate largely because of privacy and financial concerns. Samantha Stone wrote up a long piece on the bill for Nevada News Channel if this actually interests you.
The Nevada legislature meets only every other year, so the next time the bill can be reintroduced is 2013. According to Reno Gazette-Journal political reporter Ray Hagar, Assemblyman Kelly Kite of Minden plans to do just that if he’s re-elected:
“My grandson is in Afghanistan right now and they took his fingerprints and DNA and he will never have a chance to get that taken out of the file,” Kite said. “If you are arrested for a felony, I don’t see where you would have more rights than someone defending our country.”
Hey jackass, maybe we should just not treat our veterans like shit, how about that.