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Archive for the month “April, 2013”

08 Apr 2013

Church in Cairo Under Siege

Armed civilians have laid siege to the seat of the Coptic church in Cairo, killing one person and injuring at least 21, as a funeral for four Christians killed in sectarian clashes on Saturday descended into chaos. Thousands of mourners were attacked as they tried to leave Egypt’s largest cathedral, forcing them back inside the cathedral precinct and sparking a siege that lasted all afternoon and stretched into the night. Police fired teargas over the cathedral walls and stood by as unknown men armed with birdshot, knives and petrol bombs scaled nearby buildings to attack those inside the church grounds.

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08 Apr 2013

Post-it Note Arcade

Michael Birken created this stop-motion tribute to his two favorite old-school arcade games based on actual recorded game footage. The recordings were printed out, one frame at a time, and transferred by hand to various walls around his office floor using thousands of Post-It Notes. The process consumed weekends and holidays for the past 11 months.

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07 Apr 2013

True Facts about the Hedgehog

This was the very first of Ze Frank’s “True Facts” series. As the first, it had a smaller audience than the installments that followed, so it’s deserving of a second look.

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07 Apr 2013

Israel Gears Up for Hackers

Israel is busy changing passwords, increasing bandwidth and strengthening computer firewalls in preparation for an assault by the cabal of hackers who call themselves Anonymous. The collective has announced it will target Israeli websites, not only those of the government and military but also banking and commercial interests.

One wonders: Does Anonymous hide behind the cloak of secrecy because the hackers fear reprisals, or because it’s a front group performing dirty tricks for some sovereign nation? If it later turns out these hackers are stooges for Vladimir Putin, no one should be surprised or shocked.

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07 Apr 2013

Fort Hood’s Unsung Heroes

Col. Allen B. West remembers the 2009 Fort Hood tragedy, and his personal connection to the Texas military installation. The United States has determined that those wounded or who lost their lives at the hands of Major Malik Nidal Hasan should not receive the Purple Heart. Hear why Col. West thinks that this decision does not recognize the realities of the 21st battlefield.

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07 Apr 2013

Voyager Journey to the Stars

Cosmic Journeys examines the immense promise of the Voyager mission and where it will lead us in our grand ambition to move out beyond our home planet. The two Voyager spacecraft are now tens of billions of kilometers from Earth. As the spacecraft streak out into the void, what will we learn about the galaxy, the universe and ourselves?

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07 Apr 2013

The Machine Masters

“Will computers replace teachers? Dear god I hope so,” says Katherine Mangu-Ward, managing editor of Reason magazine. At Reason Weekend 2013, Mangu-Ward discusses the future of education, how technology can change the classroom for the better and why she loves computers more than people.

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07 Apr 2013

The K-Pop Effect

In South Korea, more youngsters are electing to have plastic surgery so they can look like their K-pop music idols. Dateline reporters from Australia examine this trend.

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07 Apr 2013

Made in Ladakh

Here’s another in our ongoing series of time-lapse videos showcasing beautiful and exotic places around the world. Ladakh is a remote region in northernmost India, bordering Tibet and flanked by the Himalayan Mountains. Panidhar Revanur shot and edited this short, highlighting such locales as the Likir Monastery, Moonland, Tsomoriri Lake and the Chang La Pass. H/T Kuriositas

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06 Apr 2013

Hanzi’s Video Reviews

What”s the best way to make video reviews? Steal them, of course. Hanzi spills the secrets of the trade in this Glove and Boots satire.

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