«If only you could write the next great American novel while taking a walk in the park. Well, now, you still can’t, but you can take a walk in the park in these kick-ass QWERTY kicks. Features include a sole that looks like a keyboard. Features sadly don’t include a Caps Lock key that forces you to stomp around until you manage to land on that precise button again, a space bar that moves you forward a step without you actually walking, or a delete key that can destroy all enemies in your path. I’m assuming those are all coming in the second generation.»

Source: geekosystem.com

This is a video that starts slow, but around 3 minutes in… well. It shows every nuclear bomb explosion on the Earth from 1945 — the US test before the bombs dropped on Japan — to 1998, when India and Pakistan joined the madness.

Source: discovermagazine.com
and also: ctbto.org

«Financial and environmental pressures on modern agriculture have sparked new interest in vertical farming. With global population expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050, competition for land to grow both food and energy crops will become increasingly fierce. Four-fifths of us will live in dense urban areas, and increasing awareness of the carbon and water footprints of well-travelled food will have pushed locally grown produce even further up the list of desirables.

So it’s easy to see the appeal of a system which, its proponents insist, can surpass the productivity of existing agricultural spaces by up to 20 times, while using less water, cutting mileage and energy costs, and delivering food security..»

Source: guardian.co.uk

See also: techyou.fr

Quand BP cherche à faire taire les scientifiques (slate.fr)
Le déclin du plancton menace l’espèce humaine (slate.fr)
Un programme sans précédent pour élucider la surmortalité des abeilles (lemonde.fr)

«A beer served in bottles made from stuffed animals has been criticised as “perverse” and “pushing the boundaries of acceptability”.

The End of History, made by BrewDog of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, is 55% and £500 a bottle. The bottles have been made using seven dead stoats, four squirrels and a hare, said to be roadkill..»

Source: bbc
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«THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world’s most outrageous pranks. This peer-to-peer special edition of the film is unique: it is preceded by an EXCLUSIVE VIDEO of the Yes Men impersonating the United States Chamber of Commerce.»

Source: vodo.net/yesmen
P2P Blocked ? Web download (1.4GB)

«Kids around the country are getting high on the internet, thanks to MP3s that induce a state of ecstasy. And it could be a gateway drug leading teens to real-world narcotics.
At least, that’s what Oklahoma News 9 is reporting about a phenomenon called “i-dosing,” which involves finding an online dealer who can hook you up with “digital drugs” that get you high through your headphones. And officials are taking it seriously.»

Source: wired.com
See also: i-dose.us

ARPAgeddon: Approximately 350 days until IPcalypse.

JavaZone: The World’s Geekiest Movie from Ibrahim Nergiz on Vimeo.

starring Scala Johansson and William Windows …
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