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Not in my house: how Vegas casinos wage a war on cheating
A fascinating article in The Verge looks at the history of casino cheating and talks to Ted Whiting, director of surveillance at the Aria casino in Vegas, who specced out a huge, showy CCTV room with...
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The Space Food Systems Laboratory
The Space Food Systems Laboratory (SFSL), which is the sector of NASA responsible for preparing and concocting the food for astronauts, has a very clear mission: provide high-quality flight food...
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Extremely Trivial Police Reports
Extremely Trivial Police Reports is a fairly new blog by an emergency medical worker who combs public information records for trivial but amusing reports. There’s also the occasional photograph of...
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Google Street Scene
Who needs those fancy movie cameras? To make a movie, all you need is a Google Street View car. Google Street Scene is a site filled with movie scenes as seen through Google Street View. Click the pic...
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FourSquare Travel guides.
Finally, a ‘best of’ guide based on where people actually go. Social network FourSquare has crunched over 3 billion check-ins and tens of millions of tips to bring you the most awesome places in...
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Eye charts for drones
Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG ruminates on optical calibration targets, weird landscape relics scattered across military bases made to check the resolution of cold war era photograph-snapping spy planes....
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Disney’s 1956 Illustrated Propaganda for Nuclear Energy
In 1956, just over a decade after the atomic bomb showed the world the devastating power of nuclear weapons, Walt Disney partnered with German physicist Heinz Haber, a professor at USC and personal...
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Computer Chronicles – 1995
Hey internet, what was life like online way back in 1995? Well, it was a strange, scary place where ageing TV presenters tried to convince a sceptical public that the world wide web wasn’t a place for...
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Patrick Bateman business card
A brand new musical, based on the iconic novel ‘American Psycho’ by Bret Easton Ellis, is coming to the Almeida Theatre in London this December. They’ve decided to raise some funds over on...
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As the pace of invention accelerates, more and more objects are cast into the annals of history. Some to be held up at as milestones in man’s ongoing technological quest for quicker, smarter, and...
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