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Tens of Thousands of Wild Horses Are Causing a Crisis Out West 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm
Photo via Flickr What’s the American West if not a place where mustangs run wild and free through the open land? Unfortunately, the post-Cowboy 21st century reality of the situation is less idyllic. ...
Haters Gonna Hate Because They're Haters, Says Science 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Image: Flickr Finally, we have proof that people are just self-absorbed douchebags who don’t really like, or dislike much, they just sort of walk around reacting like they’re predisposed to. It’s not...
The Deep Web's Newest Drug Mecca Is the Facebook of Virtual Black Markets 27 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
Image is a screen shot of Atlantis's video ad spot. The Deep Web, or Darknet, is on the minds of many in this post-PRISM world. A virtual underworld where all is allowed, and Big Brother cannot so e....
When This Amazon Data Center Sneezed, Instagram, Vine, and Others Got Sick 27 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
Photo via labsji/Flickr Sunday afternoon, around 4 EST, Instagram, Vine, Netflix, Airbnb all snagged, slowed, and left their users waiting for log-in pages that never seemed to load. It sure ruined m...
Google Palestine Was Hacked in a Plea for Statehood 27 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
The local domain for Google Palestine, google.ps, was hacked this afternoon by Palestinian supporters. The defaced webpage showed a message reminding Google "that the country in Google Maps is not cal...
The Giant Magellan Telescope Will Capture Earth-Sized Planets and the Earliest Stars 26 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Images: GMTO.org It was a busy weekend at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. On Saturday, the lab's technicians cast 20 tons of molten glass into an ultra-precise parabolic mirror—the third of seven...
A Chat with the Icelandic MP Who Wants to Ban Porn 26 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
The last time we touched on the proposed Icelandic porn ban, we asked if it really matters. This time around, we catch up with Ögmundur Jónasson, an Icelandic MP and the former interior minister who i...
Anyone Can Legally Be a Gaymer Now 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Image via Wikimedia Commons Trademarks can be a tricky situation, especially when it comes to moving a word from the vernacular to a brand–and it gets even trickier when its the handle for a budding ...
The World's Smallest Autopilot Aircraft Can Fit In Your Front Pocket 26 Aug 2013 | 10:15 pm
image via TU Delft The Micro Aerial Vehicle Laboratory at TU Delft has designed and built the world's smallest, open source, autopilot, and (*gasps for air*) unmanned aircraft. The Micro Aerial Vehic...
Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California 26 Aug 2013 | 08:51 pm
Image: Flickr Nobody seems to like fracking these days, so maybe they'll like dropping acid better. That's actually the strategy a crop of oil companies are planning to use to get at the vast store o...
