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  • Things banned by the Bible punishable by death

    76 things banned in the Bible, most of which are punishable by death Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net An oldie but good­ie single-purpose Tum­blr list­ing things banned in Leviti­cus, the banny-est of all scrip­tures. The sex stuff you can imag­ine (no bonk­ing ani­mals, dudes if you are a dude, divorcées, your grand­moth­er, or your own chil­dren… RT…

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  • Location based culture data app

    Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sun­light Foun­da­tion that helps you to learn more about your sur­round­ings in sec­onds. Sitegeist takes pub­lic data about the peo­ple, hous­ing, his­to­ry, envi­ron­ment and thing……

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  • Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)

    iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Mir­ror­Case for the iPhone lets you take pho­tos while hold­ing the phone flat, like an old-timey cam­era. It seems like a good way to shoot video of your­self, too – just set it on a table and do your thing.…

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  • A bike horn that helps you avoid homicidal drivers

    Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net An out­stand­ing Kick­starter project – a bike horn that is as loud as a car horn! Cycling in traffic can be frightening and dangerous. The Loud Bicycle horn prevents accidents by alerting motorists with a familiar sound. The safety benefits of … RT @BoingBoing: Loud…

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  • Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

      Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics…

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  • Why steam punk is a usability testing tool for new technologies

    Being More Human | Next | Output Kathleen Holt, oregonhumanities.org Being More Human Intel’s res­i­dent futur­ist on how the steam­punk cul­ture offers clues to build­ing a bet­ter tomor­row East­er week­end 2011, I was at the bar of the Dou­ble­tree Hotel at Sea-Tac Air­port watch­ing a parade of sorts: a… Being More Human | Next |…

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  • Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria

    Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook. Google ruined every­thing. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employ­ees eat gourmet food for… RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The…

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  • Demographics and info-graphics: how to understand America

    Infographic: Animated Maps Of America’s Shifting Demographics By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At what rate are Americans coming, going, living, and dying? These animated maps tell a fascinating visual story. Most of this elec­tion sea­son’s post­mortems have focused on demo­graph­ics, a vague phrase that refers to the chang­ing face of t… RT @FastCoDesign: Infographic: Animated Maps…

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  • LittleBits: learn to make things this Christmas

        LittleBits, A Starter Kit For Aspiring Engineers And Makers By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com It’s like your momma always said: Life is like a box of adorable electronic components. It’s a ques­tion that comes up fair­ly often in inter­views with tal­ent­ed engi­neers: How did you get inter­est­ed in elec­tron­ics? The answer usu­al­ly… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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  • Car deaths by time of day

    Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abun­dance of data visu­al­iza­tion projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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  • Transit apps and commuter happiness

    Study: Transit Apps Make Us Happier Commuters By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A study of two crowdsourcing apps suggests that a better digital infrastructure for commuters could improve urban transit overall. We know that we tend to be hap­pi­est when we’re com­mu­ni­cat­ing with and help­ing those around us. But could th… RT @FastCoDesign: Study: Transit Apps…

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  • Vietnamese architect designs $4000 houses for low income families

    For Less Than $4,000, A Permanent Home For Low-Income Families By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A young Vietnamese architect works to solve a growing problem for families along the Mekong Delta. Design­ing low-cost hous­ing is a series of com­pro­mis­es between dig­ni­ty and prag­ma­tism, a dance between what a fam­i­ly needs and what it c… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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