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Biogeographers Found Osama bin Laden Two Years Ago, Sort Of
Forget about informants and spy satellites and millions in bounty money, implies a recent piece at the journal "Science":http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/05/geographers-had-calculated.html?ref=hp, reblogged "lots of places":http://www...
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.3.11
videos

Oral History of Gaming: Ralph Baer, Inventor of Video Games
Back in the late 60s, German-born gadgeteer Ralph Baer began inventing what later became known as video games.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
5.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: Oral History of Gaming: Ralph Baer and his All-Purpose Boxes
Back in the late 60s, German-born gadgeteer Ralph Baer began inventing what later became known as video games. Over the ensuing decades he would develop Pong, the precursor to the Duck Hunt shotgun, and the germ of countless other important concepts that
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
5.3.11
Art

A Guide To Enjoying (And Making Your Own) GIF Art
Epileptics, beware. You may want to stick to painting and skip this post.
Julia Kaganskiy
5.3.11
Takeshi Murata

Get Your Ass To Mars: New Work From Takeshi Murata
On view at Ratio 3 in San Francisco through June 11th.
Kathleen Flood
5.3.11
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Osama Fakery: The Boogieman Rises, a Skeptic Winces
If the wingnuts of the world can manufacture something like the Birther “debate” and serve it to a willing mainstream media, then expect due credence to be given to the Osama-bin-already-dead conspiracy or the Osama-bin-an-agent-of-the-U.S.-government...
Michael Byrne
5.3.11
Fashion

Sew Your Own "Smart" Pocket Square [Instructables How-To]
Inspired by Studio Nancy Tilbury’s Fashion Phreaking denim line, we bring you a DIY proximity-sensing handkerchief.
Kathleen Flood
5.3.11
Art

Beyond Entropy Translates Energy Into Its Artistic Form
New exhibition uses multi-disciplinary collaborations between scientists, architects, and artists to explore energy in its many guises.
Kevin Holmes
5.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Falling Down the Tone Matrix Hole (Again)
How's this? With no instruction beyond "click a square," you are now your own favorite musician. This is the Tone Matrix, a "simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer," according to its developer, Andre Michelle. "Each...
Michael Byrne
5.3.11
Motherboard Blog

VBS TV: "Gun Markets of Pakistan": Where the Taliban Goes Shopping (+ Slideshow)
"But how do they get all these AK-47s out there?" I asked a D.C. cab driver last year, while he was telling me about the violence that's kept his familial village and much of the rest of Pakistan's hilly tribal northwest in the stone ages.
ALEX PASTERNACK
5.3.11
Art

Static Media, Kinetic Ideas: Q&A With Hunter Jonakin
Using mediums and media as a means to an end.
Kathleen Flood
5.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros 5/3/11: Birth Certificate Be Damned, Peak TV, OBL's a Twit-lebrity
_"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. - Guy Debord_
h3. ONE: Obama and his posse watched bin Laden raid first-person shooter style ("The Telegraph":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/848935...
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