Beever

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Halloween costumes for programmers

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Pixel the Zombie Fighter

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Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t celebrate Halloween…

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Maddie with her OWN spin on Halloween.

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5 High-Tech Ways to Scare Anyone This Halloween

There might have been a time when throwing on a white bedsheet with two little round holes for Halloween could pass as quite scary. However, the very nature of celebrating those “things that go bump in the night” has always been about making the supernatural as super-realistic as possible. At parties, for instance, awards for the best costume typically go to the most detailed and impressive fabrications. A costume, after all, is only as frightening as it is believable. Even haunted houses today have become extravagant and sophisticated showcases that rival some Hollywood productions. “In the beginning, people would joke about spaghetti for brains and grapes for eyeballs,” haunted house producer Steve Kopelman told NBC News in a recent report. “Now you have animatronics [and] dramatic advances in technology … so you get the realism you couldn’t have until the last decade.” But since we can’t all go all out like that neighbor with the Wi-Fi networked robotic zombies in his front yard, here are five high-tech suggestions for keeping up with the Uncle Festers this Halloween.

 

Astronaut USB Light

A flexible light that can be pointed in any direction (towards the keyboard generally works best) and switched on and off easily.

 

Neil Armstrong’s Spacesuit Was Made by a Bra Manufacturer

No one knows what Columbus was wearing when he set foot in the New World, but on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong took his “one giant leap” onto the Moon, he was clad in this custom-made spacesuit, model A7L, serial number 056. Its cost, estimated at the time as $100,000 (more than $670,000 today), sounds high only if you think of it as couture. In reality, once helmet, gloves and an oxygen-supplying backpack were added, it was a wearable spacecraft. Cocooned within 21 layers of synthetics, neoprene rubber and metalized polyester films, Armstrong was protected from the airless Moon’s extremes of heat and cold (plus 240 Fahrenheit degrees in sunlight to minus 280 in shadow), deadly solar ultraviolet radiation and even the potential hazard of micrometeorites hurtling through the void at 10 miles per second.
 The Apollo suits were blends of cutting-edge technology and Old World craftsmanship. 

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St Jude's storm in pictures

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'Biggest wave ever ridden', caused by storm

Brazilian Carlos Burle took on the monster wave - created by the St Jude storm - at Praia do Norte, near the fishing village of Nazare. Estimated at nearly 100ft, it is believed to be the biggest wave ever ridden.

 

Fishermen net roles as extras in Hollywood films

A group of fishermen have found success in unlikely sideline careers as actors after their seafaring looks helped them get roles in Hollywood films alongside the likes of Johnny Depp.
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A new piece by British artist Banksy in Coney Island, New York.

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Great escape for getaway goat

A pygmy goat becomes the ultimate escape artist, using just some steps and a neighbouring donkey to break free. The animal, which shared an enclosure with the donkey, spots some steps and uses them to jump onto the back of its unsuspecting accomplice. As the donkey starts to move the goat makes a break for freedom and jumps from the donkey's back on to the other side of the pen.

 

Sea Otters Are Jerks.

I’m going to ruin sea otters for you. 

Or at least I’m going tarnish their reputation as some of the most charming little beasties in the seas. For as cute as they are while intertwining paws at an aquarium, frolicking among the wafting fronds of California kelp forests, or smashing sea urchins open with stones, some sea otters have developed the disturbing habit of humping and drowning baby seals. When I first heard about the behavior from a marine biologist friend of mine, I didn’t quite believe sea otters could be so diabolical. Maybe the bad behavior was just a rumor. But no, the strange sea otter attacks on baby seals are a reality and have even made their way into the technical literature. In 2010, California Department of Fish and Game biologist Heather Harris and colleagues reported 19 individual cases of male sea otters trying to mate with, and often fatally injuring, harbor seal pups in the Monterey Bay, Calif. area between 2000 and 2002 alone.

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More human than human

An aspiring wildlife photographer has put together an astonishing collection of photographs which reveal the close similarities between humans and primates. Joshua Arlington, 22, took the pictures on a visit to his local zoo in Erie, Pennsylvania.

 

Obamacare joke

“Today there were more problems with the Obamacare website. It seems when you type in your age, it’s confusing because it’s not clear if they want the age you are right now, or the age you’ll be when you finally log in.” – Jay Leno
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What Happens To Your Brain When You're Scared Out of Your Mind

As explained by Bytesize Science—with the help of Abigail Marsh, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Georgetown University—there are actually a few different chemicals at play when your brain is gearing into "OH CRAP" mode. Of course there's trusty adrenaline, but cortisol and glucose play a big roll too, priming both your brain and your body to get the hell out of dodge in case that creak at the door is actually an axe murderer. Of course, knowing how all this works doesn't let you stop it, and these ancient chemical wheels will still get set in motion the next time someone sneaks up behind you and yells in your ear. But at least it'll give you something to think about while you try to calm yourself down.

 

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It was a good day!

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No Woman, No Drive

This weekend a handful of women in Saudi Arabia defied a ban on driving and took to the wheel - many posted videos of themselves on YouTube - but what got the biggest response on social media was a video made by a Saudi comedian. Who is he, and what does the video mean?

 

How Lou Reed shaped rock

In a career spanning many decades - both in the band The Velvet Underground and his subsequent solo career - he had a huge influence on the shape of rock music. Born in Brooklyn in 1942, as a teenager he became a fan of early rock 'n' roll, playing the guitar in several high school bands. After attending Syracuse University, Reed moved to New York City and worked as a songwriter before meeting the Welsh-born musician John Cale, with whom he would form The Velvet Underground. The pair, who were interested in combining rock music with the avant-garde, recruited guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Maureen Tucker. With Reed at the helm, they stretched the boundaries of rock 'n' roll.

 

Lou Reed dies aged 71

Lou Reed, lead singer of the Velvet Underground, chronicler of life's wild side and one of the most influential and distinctive songwriters of his generation has died at the age of 71.

  

Trick or Treat !

I carved this myself. From the inside.

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"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give." Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his championing of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of Gottlob Frege's predicate calculus (which still forms the basis of most contemporary systems of logic), his defense of neutral monism (the view that the world consists of just one type of substance which is neither exclusively mental nor exclusively physical), and his theories of definite descriptions and logical atomism. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made significant contributions to a broad range of other subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political theory, educational theory and religious studies. In addition, generations of general readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics in both the humanities and the natural sciences. Like Voltaire, to whom he has sometimes been compared, he wrote with style and wit and had enormous influence. After a life marked by controversy—including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York—Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97.  more