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U.S. policy and the market for zero-day exploits: blowback fears grow inWashington

Security researcher Charlie Miller sits in his home-office in Wildwood, Missouri, April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Sarah Conard.

Face morphing mirror at Maker Faire2013

One of my favorite exhibits at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 (held last weekend) was Alex Andre's Metamorphosis Project. It's a six-foot-diameter spinning disc with a hand crank. The disc is made of clear glass and mirrors in alternating quadrants.

NYT lawyers to indie dev: "you need to remove any reference to The New York Times from yourwebsite"

Cody Brown, developer of software that makes it easy to generate classy website news features in the style of The New York Times' "Snow Fall", made a mistake: he used photos from that legendary web layout in a youtube demo. The NYT sent a cease and desist letter, and he took it down.

FabergéFractals

Here's a mesmerizing gallery of "Fabrege Fractals" created by Tom Beddard, whose site also features a 2011 video of Fabrege-inspired fractal landscapes that must be seen to be believed. They're all made with Fractal Lab, a WebGL-based renderer Beddard created.

Chronology of the Canadian Conservative government's war onscience

No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as Stephen Harper's Conservatives. John Dupuis has assembled a brief, brutal chronology of the ways that the Tories have attacked Canadian science.

Teacher suspended for touching girl inappropriately with banana duringclass

A teacher in Florida has been disciplined for reportedly touching a female student inappropriately in the head and neck area with a banana.

Book review: information security forlawyers

On Slashdot, a reader called benrothke reviews a book called Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers.

Scotty Albrecht: new art show in Brooklyn with DamianSilver

Designer/woodworker/typographer Scotty Albrecht has a new show of wood and paper works opening at Brooklyn's Colab Projects this Saturday, May 25. The show, titled "Wood & Pulp," is a two person exhibition that pairs Albrecht with Damion Silver.

HOWTO make a "Swiss Army knife" keyring

I have an annoyingly bulky key ring. I frequently clip it to my belt like a janitor, but this DIY "Swiss Army Key Ring" seems like a nice alternative. However, it does mean giving up car remote fobs.

Utah wants to tax power consumed by the NSA's massive, illegal data-processingfacility

Remember the gigantic data-center that the NSA is building in Utah in order to (illegally) process the electronic communications of the whole world? Turns out that the state of Utah plans on taxing the titanic amounts of electricity it will consume at 6%. The NSA is pissed.