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1. Easter Bunny beats up Florida man
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... when he saw a man and woman fighting. He said he jumped in and tried to pull the man off the woman. Lindsey Edwards, who provided WESH 2 News with cellphone video of the fight, said that just before the ...

2. How to turn a Raspberry Pi into an open source media center
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OSMC is an open source media center for Linux computers that works with the Raspberry Pi. This video from ETA Prime shows you how to install and configure the software. The Air Mouse looks like a good ...

3. Exclusive: "More Data": Negativland's video short about data privacy and surveillance
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... characteristically trenchant video about data privacy and surveillance; see below for notes from Negativland's Mark Hosler. -Cory] When did online life become a non-stop Turing test? And when did humans ...

4. The weird beauty of fungi: time-lapse videos
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... This Boing Boing exclusive excerpts beautiful and creepy time-lapse videos of day-glo colored slimes and glistening tentacled mushrooms as they erupt, spread, and decay. The highlight of the video is the ...

5. Incidente col monopattino elettrico [Video]
(Italiano/Ecoblog)

Anche un semplice monopattino elettrico, per essere condotto, richiede un minimo di perizia. La stessa che sembra mancare alla protagonista del video odierno, che ci mostra un incidente...green. Sono... ...

6. Copyright filters are automatically removing copies of the Mueller Report
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... newscasters routinely upload their entire evening broadcast to Youtube's Content ID filter, meaning that any public domain footage or third-party materials (including clips from Youtube videos) are marked ...

7. Make and share your own GameBoy adventures without learning to code
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GB Studio is a "free and easy to use retro adventure game creator for your favourite handheld video game system." Use a modern visual scripting interface to create Zelda-style 2D role-playing games that ...

8. Christchurch shooting videos are still on Facebook over a month later
(English/engadget)

Current methods for filtering out terrorist content are still quite limited, and a recent discovery makes that all too clear. Motherboard and the Global Intellectual Property Enforcement Center's ...

9. Thief sucked used Burger King grease into 1,600 gallon truck container to resell for biofuel
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... ABC7 obtained a search warrant that shows Alvaro Mendez Flores admitted to the April 4th theft. Surveillance video showed the 3:30 am crime—the driver backing up a white box truck, hooking up a green hose, ...

10. Review units of Samsung's $2000 folding phone are failing after hours of use
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... I never removed the protective film or used the device outside any way a normal user might. The Verge titled its video review "after the break" and awarded it the not-so coveted "Yikes" rating. Whatever ...

11. Facebook AI turns real people into controllable game characters
(English/engadget)

Facebook's AI Research team has created an AI called Vid2Play that can extract playable characters from videos of real people, creating a much higher-tech version of '80s full-motion video (FMV) ...

12. John Oliver tackles the Sacklers: the litigious, secretive billionaires whose family business engineered the opioid crisis
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... out in his latest segment, not many of us will sit still to listen to a talking head read a court record, and the Sacklers have blocked every attempt to get the video of Richard Sackler's deposition released. That's ...

13. We lost the fight for balance in the EU's Copyright Directive, but here's what we won
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... incredible political malpractice from European politicians who continue to treat the internet as though it were a video-on-demand service, or a jihadi recruiting tool, or a pornography distribution system; ...

14. You can use a mini bluetooth game controller as an iPad hotkey gadget
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Check out this video of artist TerraTerrific using the miniature 8bitdo Zero game controller as a bluetooth hotkey gadget on the iPad, executing commands like "undo" and switching tools without having ...

15. Facebook slashes price of its creepy Portal home surveillance telescreen
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... reports Matt Navarra. Details: No, you’re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you’re reading — Facebook really does sell a video chat camera adept at tracking the faces ...

16. Games with dogs you can pet
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Twitter is appalling, but I finally found an account I like: Can You Pet The Dog? A catalog of pettable and non-pettable dogs in video games. Manual input resulting in visual representation of petting ...

17. Get the gist on hundreds of books in 12 minutes apiece
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... service built specifically for people who need the big ideas boiled down into a compact presentation. In 12-minute animated videos and summaries, Readitfor.me gives you the big takeaways from bestselling, ...

18. Video from inside Notre Dame after the fire
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19. Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
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... News (@Reuters) April 15, 2019 The entire structure is involved. The spire has collapsed. This is the worst day for France since June 14, 1940. Patrick Galey of Agence-France Presse shot photos and video ...

20. Support Rudy Rucker's new science fiction novel!
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... a fun video trailer for the book at the top of the Kickstarter page, so if nothing else, take a look at that. It's fast-paced. And the permanent Million Mile Road Trip home page is http://www.rudyrucker.com/millionmileroadtrip.  ...

21. Mechanical calculators have the BEST divide-by-zero errors
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

In a delightful short video, Klara Sjöberg demonstrates the extreme and alarming freakout that you can trigger in a mechanical calculator by trying to divide a number by zero; in a followup, Lynn Grant ...

22. BTS smashes YouTube record one week after it was set
(English/engadget)

... their "Boy With Luv" music video within its first 24 hour... Read all  ...

23. Weed is worse than murder, if you're selling a video game
(English/engadget)

Developers at Polish studio Vile Monarch had never made a tycoon game before Devolver Digital tapped them to build Weedcraft Inc. -- a business-simulation title about the legal cannabis market. Weedcraft ...

24. Watch clips from Breathe, a lovely "water opera" in a pool
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... pool. (The video above is from a previous performance at Middlebury College's Natatorium). From Fox Cities Magazine: Lawrence University’s Margaret Sunghe Paek, professor of dance and curator of Dance ...

25. Master web development with this JavaScript master class
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... essential frameworks that work with it. That's where the Full Stack JavaScript Developer E-Degree Bundle comes in. This online course package includes more than 55 hours of videos, lessons, and projects ...