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Metafilter MeFi: Another step towards children making LEGO AI autonomous killer drones BBC: Lego has unveiled Smart Bricks - tech-filled versions of its small building blocks - which it says will bring sets to life with sound, light and reaction to movement. However, the new product range is causing unease among play experts, who say…

January 6 2026, 9:43am | Comments
Bookmark You're (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth | WIRED
The mouse didn't look like much. It had the same red beady eyes and white fur as any other laboratory mouse. Sure, its DNA had been tweaked to make it ideal…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark 10 Bizarre and Horrifying Sex Patents (NSFW)
Depending on who you talk to, the future of sex may be teledildonics. Or virtual reality. Or painfully hot fleshlights. But the one thing almost everyone can agree upon? The future…

February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments
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Software archaeology of the GIF by Matthew Fuller

November 18 2012, 11:25pm | Comments
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Buying the Body of Christ

April 8 2012, 1:06am | Comments
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Digging in the Gates: The Digital Socratic Shift

April 3 2012, 12:26pm | Comments
Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant
The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola and Seph Rodney

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Bookmark From Eternity to Here
The arrow of time points in one direction only, from past to present to future. Now there's a fact—rather like Wittgenstein's observation "A is the same thing as A"—that is so…

January 12 2010, 2:15am | Comments
Bookmark Michael Jackson's patented "Smooth Criminal" leaning shoes
Patent number 5255452, filed in 1992, shows how Michael Jackson and his dancers could lean at 45-degree angles during live performances of the song "Smooth Criminal". 1. A system for engaging…

June 27 2009, 4:38am | Comments
Flickr McMoon

September 21 2008, 9:42pm | Comments

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