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The Stoner Channel: Legalizing Hemp, Finding Fewer Fields, and Other Things to Make a Federal Case Out of
Fistful of Rupees—The Zelda Western Needs more violin medley. [Kotaku] https://gizmodo.com/the-stoner-channel-octopipes-hobbit-pipes-and-the-fo-5931712 Bipartisan Effort Introduces National Hemp Legalization Bill While it may look suspiciously similar to its stonifying cousin, getting you high is pretty much the only thing hemp can’t be used for. That’s why three US senators believe that the American people deserve the opportunity … Continued
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What a Picture in a Picture in a Picture in a Seemingly Endless Loop of More Pictures Looks Like
How to have fun on the Internet: when a friend takes a picture with a picture of a girl inside a monitor, you take a picture of that picture and you make someone else take a picture of your picture and keep going on an endless loop that’ll be like a picture in picture in … Continued
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Find Out How Early You Signed Up for Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and More
For me, signing up for any new social network goes something like this: Hear about it and ignore it. Hear about it again and then make fun of it. Hear about it again and wonder if I should sign up. Sign up. Do nothing until I hear about it again and remember I have an … Continued
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Antony and the Johnsons: Cut the World
Originally composed for Robert Wilson’s play “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović,” this Antony and the Johnsons song is melancholy, maudlin, and will make you feel emotions. Beautifully bleak. The new video—directed by Nabil and starring Willem Dafoe, Marina Abramović, and Carice van Houten—is rather like a supershort film against which the song, “Cut … Continued
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In Anticipation of the iPhone 5, Sprint Is Slashing Prices and Waiving Fees on its 4S
With the highly anticipated next generation iPhone—iPhone 5—only a couple more months away, now is a pretty silly time to throw down a few hundred bucks for Apple’s smartphone. No sense in buying something that’s about to be outmoded; if yours was recently broken or snatched, use a burner and wait it out. Then again… … Continued
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Apple and Amazon Know About a Massive Hack Exploit—And Have Done Nothing (Updated)
Gizmodo alumnus Mat Honan got hacked this weekend. It was bad. But that’s not the worst part. Worse is that Apple knows exactly how easy this is, and hasn’t done a thing to stop it. And Amazon accounts are in just as much danger. How It Happened Honan has a chilling account of Apple and … Continued
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First Video of Curiosity Rover Shows Its Exciting Descent to Mars
This video covers the last two and a half minutes of Curiosity’s descent from her point of view. It’s made of 297 frames captured during the landing. You can see the thermal shield being jettisoned and the wheel of the rover as it’s being dropped by the skycrane. There’s a lot of dust at the … Continued
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First High Resolution View By Curiosity Shows Impressive 3-Mile-Tall Mount Sharp
Here you have it. It’s not the super-HD panoramic image that everyone is eagerly awaiting for, but this is the first high(ish) resolution image of the 3-mile-high Aeolis Mons, commonly known as Mount Sharp. These photos are being taken not by the main cameras, but the hazard cams (Hazcams), which will help scientists to drive … Continued
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Crazy Message Left On Broken Wing By Alaska Airlines’ Maintenance Crew
It may look like a joke played on passengers, but it’s not: an Alaska Airlines’ maintenance crew servicing a Boeing 737 cut out part of its wing and then wrote “We Know About This” next to it. Then, they sent the jetliner on a flight. Imagine being a passenger on that plane and noticing the … Continued
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Pining After New Knives? Wüsthof’s Sharp New Collection Is a Pretty Good Deal
We asked you last week to tell us what the one kitchen utensil or gadget you can’t live without. Most of you agreed—you must have a nice chef’s knife. Now you have another option with a new six-piece set from Wüsthof. https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-one-gadget-tool-or-utensil-you-absolutely-ca-5930299 The Precision Knife Collection has slanted bolsters that give it a slightly different … Continued
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This Resilient Flexible Battery Could Power eReaders of the Future
If there’s one advantage paper, magazines, and softcover books have over high tech alternatives it’s that they aren’t rigid and can take a little bending here and there. Flexible batteries like this one might help even the score. Created by Professor Keon Jae Lee at the Korean Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology, this flexible … Continued
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Iran Is Quitting the Internet Because It’s Afraid of America
After being dominated by weaponized trojan horses on two different occasions, nuclear loudmouth Iran says it’s had enough: it’s unplugging from the Internet, hiding, and making its own. The Telegraph reports Iran’s telecommunications minister has had enough of all this US/Israeli nonsense—he wants an Internet free from Stuxnet, Flame, and all the cyber weapons sure … Continued
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Obama for America: Stay Up on the Latest Presidential Dispatches
Election day is still three months away, so if you haven’t picked your pony, it’s almost time to put your money on either Obama or Romney. Just in time to help you decide, the incumbent has released a new app. And hey! He didn’t even misspell America! https://gizmodo.com/mitt-romneys-new-app-misspells-america-twitter-goes-wi-5914154 What does it do? It discusses the … Continued
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US Army Changing Bayonets For Tomahawks
The Department of Defense officially calls their new invention the Inverted Multi-Purpose Ballistic Tomahawk Bayonet. They seem to be half weapon, half Swiss Army knife. In fact, they are so deadly and useful that they’re replacing bayonets in some special units “currently fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan.” Bayonets—the traditional stabbing blade usually fixed … Continued
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Watching Tanks Racing Through the Beach Is Surprisingly Fun (If You’re Not There)
Apparently, if you go to some beaches on the Baltic Sea you will see this show quite often. Since the beach itself is not a virgin paradise, the local authorities make these armored columns go through sand instead of breaking the roads’ asphalt. I really need to go to Russia. [English Russia]
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Windows 8 May Force You To Boot Into the UI-Formerly-Known-As-Metro
Don’t like Windows 8’s new, currently-unnamed, obviously-tablet leaning interface? Too bad. Microsoft is apparently going to make you love it, and step one of the process is forcing you to boot into it, claims ZDnet. Citing Rafael Rivera, Windows enthusiast and co-author of “Windows 8 Secrets” Rafael Rivera, ZDnet says that Windows 8 users will … Continued
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Why Apple Ditching Google Will Make Your iPhone So Much Better
After a frosty five-year relationship—and on the heels of the highly publicized Maps breakup— YouTube and iOS have filed for divorce. And you know what? It’s the best thing that could’ve happened for Apple, for Google, and most of all for you. https://gizmodo.com/apple-has-its-own-killer-maps-with-turn-by-turn-navigat-5917324 YouTube first fell into the iPhone’s sweet embrace back in the summer … Continued
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Would You Rather Know the Origin of Life or Watch People Run Faster Than Others?
People are making a lot of comparisons between the cost of the Mars Curiosity Rover—incidentally, the cost was all spent in our economy not sent to Mars in a bag—and other events and projects. Among them, the cost of the olympics, as shown above. https://jalopnik.com/why-its-great-we-send-robots-to-mars-and-why-people-sho-5932213 Would you rather spend more money on the science that … Continued
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What Will iOS 6 Use Its New ‘Bluetooth Sharing’ Feature For?
There has been a slew of news today about the newly released Apple iOS 6 beta, and here’s another interesting if mysterious, bit. There’s a new tab called “Bluetooth Sharing” under the iOS privacy settings. It seems the new OS will allow apps to share more types of data over Bluetooth than before. What are … Continued
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Toilet Paper: A Brief and Sometimes Painful History
Seinfeld excelled at criticism of the everyday. A few months ago, in a fine essay in the NY Times, Sam Anderson suggested that Roland Barthes was the father of pop cultural criticism and that we are all now cultural critics in the Barthian vein, “decoding everything.” Perhaps. But if Barthes gave us serious criticism of … Continued
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