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Etsy Find of the Day: The iPad Typewriter

Shoshana Berger — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Sigh: touchscreen keyboards. Those tiny letters. The complete absence of charm. If only our shiny new gadgets could incorporate some of the clackety clack of those old Royal Portables.

Raccoon Sex Tape Is Sad Barometer of Good Taste

Jakob Schiller — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Shaun Pendergast was working away at his Portland apartment when he heard a strange noise. He walked to the window and saw two raccoons expressing their love for each other on his roof.

May 18, 1980: St. Helens Blows Its Top Off

Wired — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Washington state?s Mount St. Helens volcano explodes in a cataclysm that pulverizes its top 1,300 feet, deforests nearby valleys, sends ash 12 miles into the air and kills 57 people.

Meet the Man Who Invented the Instructions for the Internet

Cade Metz — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Steve Crocker was there when the internet was born. The date was October 29, 1969, and the place was the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker was among a small group of UCLA researchers who sent the first message between the first two nodes of the ARPAnet, the US Department of Defense?funded network that eventually morphed into the modern internet.

Review: Awesome Action Barely Keeps Battleship Above Water

Angela Watercutter — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:30:00 +0000

Battleship starts like Top Gun, morphs into Transformers and ultimately ends up somewhere in the neighborhood of Independence Day.

Leaked Docs: 300-HP Fisker Atlantic on Sale in 2014, Priced From $50K

Damon Lavrinc — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:15:00 +0000

The Fisker Atlantic ? the compact follow-up to the high-style Karma ? debuted early last month to a fair amount of fanfare as early adopters heralded the new range-extended EV as more proof that affordable electrics are on their way. But according to leaked investor documents secured by InsideEVs, the Atlantic won't go on sale ...

How Filmmakers Al and Al Tackled the Story of Alan Turing for The Creator

Wired UK — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Al and Al tackle the story of the English computer scientist after realizing they are in love with their computers. The filmmakers talk about their upcoming movie, The Creator, and Turing's lasting impact on culture.

Autonomous ‘RoBoat’ Making World Record Attempt

Damon Lavrinc — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000

The aptly-named "RoBoat" has been taking home the World Robotic Sailing Championship (WRSC) crown for three years, but this July the team behind the world's winningest autonomous watercraft will attempt to snag another record for the longest robotic sailing expedition. The Austrian Society for Innovative Computer Sciences (INNOC) has been tweaking and iterating the RoBoat since ...

Spime Watch: Spime Script

Bruce Sterling — Fri, 18 May 2012 09:04:00 +0000

*I don't have to believe it to admire it, folks. http://smartdisorganized.blogspot.com/2012/02/spimescript.html (...) "So, I want to return to one part of that 2006 presentation which I still find relevant - the formation of Spime Script. We're entering a phase where hardware will become increasingly as malleable as software which leads to a problem of choice - if I ...

Meet Facebook’s Secret Propaganda Arm: The Analog Research Lab

Mike Isaac — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:30:00 +0000

Facebook's got it all -- 845 million users, a $104 billion valuation, blackmail-worthy pics of everyone born in the '90s, and a screen-printing studio. Yup, that's right, the social-media behemoth houses a basement art studio, the Analog Research Lab, where designers Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak churn out hand-screened posters that go up all over Facebook's 36 global offices.