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Scott Thill: '“Anyone who loves comics and sees them as a vital art form capable of telling unique and challenging stories must recognize that [the industry's] business corpse has to be put out of its misery so a new one can be built,” said Pizzolo, a publisher and filmmaker who has been busy engineering the transmedia spine that will take comics into the future' ...
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The chemical secrets of a concrete Roman breakwater that has spent the last 2,000 years submerged in the Mediterranean Sea have been uncovered by an international team of researchers led by Paulo Monteiro of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Delete the scoop?
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Joss Whedon may be the new hardest-working man in show business. The director, who’s about to unleash The Avengers and is putting the finishing touches on his whirlwind production of Much Ado About Nothing, plans to produce a new installment of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog very soon.
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VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.
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Think of it as one-stop shopping for all your downloads. I label this a 'must-have' for the savvy internet user. Delete the scoop?
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It's unlikely LEGO will ever produce an H.P.
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A Russian entrepreneur and founder of the avatar 2045 Initiative says humanity is only a step away from immortality. Via CatherineFitzpatrick
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A real-life take on the Futurama conceit of heads-in-jars. Can we go straight to Avatar D? Delete the scoop?
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With Google+ sporting a brand new look, here's how marketers should adapt their playbook. Via Baochi Delete the scoop?
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SL eBooks Turns Hollywood's Best Unproduced Screenplays Into E-Books
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SL eBooks, has stumbled upon a clever way to repurpose quality content that almost no one has ever read. They work with various managers and agencies in the film industry in an effort to find readable screenplays that, for one reason or another, were either sold, optioned or overlooked by the studios before being given the green light that turns a script into a silver screen feature. Those screenplays are then massaged into e-book novellas, as the company is calling them. Delete the scoop?
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Yep ... the 'plus' is all about Google's bottom line. 
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May 12, 10:52 AM
Google doesn't care, because G+ is merely a means to corral everybody into using one sign-on for all Google products so they can scrape data. Delete the scoop?
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Because our SimCity -- the new SimCity -- is really about getting these agents to move around, it's much more about flows. Things have to be in motion. I can't look at anybody's city as a screenshot and tell you what's going on; I have to see it live and moving before I can fully understand if your roads are OK, if your power is flowing, if your water is flowing, if your sewage is getting dumped out, if your garbage is getting picked up, and so on. All that stuff depends on trucks actually getting to the garbage cans, for example, and there's no way to tell that through a snapshot. 
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May 11, 9:34 PM
Fascinating interview with the lead developer of the new Sim City game and how they used Google Earth and Netflix offering to inform the game design. Delete the scoop?
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One recent Thursday morning, I logged into my email and made an alarming discovery. Instead of opening my inbox, Google directed me to a notice: “Account has been disabled. Via CatherineFitzpatrick
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A good (cautionary) tale, and a constant reminder: when its free, you are the product. Delete the scoop?
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Some days, the hardest thing in the world to do is create content. It seems that no matter how Herculean the effort, the words just sit there like a lump. Via Baochi
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The Bullitt Center building in Seattle generates its own electricity, composts its waste and uses natural ventilation to keep the building comfortable. They hope this will serve as a model for future buildings.
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Proof-of-concept that living buildings are attainable. Delete the scoop?
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Google engineers are looking at ways to stop using passwords, which they believe are no longer enough to keep users safe.
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This might make sense for companies, think RSA only more secure. Though its unclear what you do if (when) someone loses the key. For ordinary people, its another attack on privacy. Say goodbye to pseudonyms. It's nymwars all over again, just much worse. Delete the scoop?
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Last year we saw what may be the coolest application of a Kinect ever. It was called Kintinuous, and it's back again, this time as Kintinuous 2.0, with new and improved features. When we first learned of Kintinuous, we were ... Via Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist 
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June 9, 4:02 PM
In the video for Kintinuous 2.0, you can see a huge scan over 300 meters in length with two loops automatically stitched back into a continuous scan. An amazing feat, especially considering the computer is processing seven million vertices in just a few seconds. Delete the scoop?
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June 12, 9:40 PM
I have been testing it for a bit and pretty pleased with the results. Looking to expand a bit more before fully committing but almost there. 
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June 16, 9:09 PM
Now I know why my google alerts are hit and miss...time for a "cool change". 
Ajaan Rob Hatfield's curator insight,
June 17, 9:06 PM
Thank you Robin for sharing. I use the site for my research. I set my key research terms. Talk Walker Alerts works great! Delete the scoop?
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SteamPunk Magazine #9! This long-awaited issue is our thickest yet, coming in at 118 pages of mad science, history, interviews, fashion, and fiction!
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As always, there's a free download!
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May 28, 3:35 AM
This issue covers such subjects as: dieselpunk, anti-fascist fashion, DIY miniature airships, paper dolls, the New Orleans general strike of 1892, loaded dice and swindles, the Red Fork Empire, surrealism, machine intelligence, and post-mortem communications! Click above and hit the "web" button. Open the PDF in your web browser and save it - If you like you can buy the printed version. Delete the scoop?
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Miral Sattar: 'At every writers conference or self-publishing panel the question that almost always inevitably comes up is: "How much will self-publishing really cost me?"' Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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It really is a very comprehensive 'how-to". 
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May 17, 9:45 PM
Publishing and copyright are aspects of the creative process for making scripts story boards.Adaptations on themes are too common..
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Savvy authors know that publishing isn't done at the five and dime. Get smart; get realistic; get planning. Delete the scoop?
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she objected to her CEO not only hanging this picture in their offices, but treating it practically as an object of worship, which he made his employees sign and hung in a central location.
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The writer is speaking at the Women in Secularism conference, which starts on Friday in D.C. (There’s still time to register: http://action.centerforinquiry.net/site/Calendar?id=103061&view=Detail) Delete the scoop?
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Tor Books' reflections on going DRM-free, one year later
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“We’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year,” UK editorial director Julie Crisp wrote on Tor’s website. Delete the scoop?
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Ghost in the Shell Arise Anime's 1st Full Trailer Streamed
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This fan video of Nicki Minaj's "Starships" — packed with clips of your favorite spaceships and their crews — will fill you with love for the great, big universe.
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Is is a tribute to my nerdiness that I knew every one of the scenes in this? It is really good ... have a watch! Delete the scoop?
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Joe Berkowitz: "Filmmakers like Michael Bay are usually interested only in going bigger--trying to top themselves with set pieces and spectacles that succeed through excess. In the technology space, however, there is a constant race to make things smaller." Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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Gesture controlled user interfaces are without a doubt the next generation of communication channel between humans and machines.
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The video is really amazing. This is way more interactive than the usualy scanner! Delete the scoop?
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The power of EVE Online doesn’t come from scripted missions or a predetermined storyline, but the interactions between the players in the massive sandbox that CCP has created. Player-controlled corporations control huge swaths of space, and clash against others when they try to expand or defend their territory. It’s a system that creates drama, and the stories that emerge are organic and compelling. CCP wants to bring the EVE universe to a wider audience, and they need stories to do so. Instead of hiring writers, they’ve decided to crowd-source story development, asking the players for the most dramatic moments of their time in the game. These will form the basis of an upcoming comic book, television show, and other projects that have yet to be announced.
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They've set up a site where users can share their tales and vote on those of others. CCP has partnered with Dark Horse Comics to make a comic book out of the stories, and with a production company to make a live-action TV show. [Thanks, SlashDot!] Delete the scoop?
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