The Multi-State Lottery Association announced today that parolees in member states will receive free weekly Powerball tickets if they voluntarily submit to electronic monitoring.
(Suppose they offer this to one-armed bandits? Do you feel lucky? Har har.)
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Telepresence is expected to be the most popular medium for this year’s Gundam Triathlon (scheduled to take place 14 July (cue La Marseillaise) at Vinson Massif) according to Nielsen Media Research.
Estonia is expected is expected to continue to lead the world in telepresence viewers per capita (population 1.3M, TP viewership of last year’s GT estimated 0.8M!) but South Korea (population 48.4M, TP viewership of this year’s GT predicted 29M! Go Rotem!) is expected to narrow Estonia’s lead.
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The Department of Health and Human Services today announced a joint-venture with Google, with DHHS offering vouchers to all qualified patients good for free Lasik vision-correction surgery if the patient agrees to occasional context-appropriate banner ads. “This is a tremendous opportunity for the vision-impaired, and a tremendous savings opportunity for the American taxpayer,” DHHS spokesperson said.
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Glenn Jensen in Kneeland, CA has put together a clever app consisting of a camera, a display, some sweet photo-interpolation software and a big-ass knob. At setup time, you feed in dated photos of yourself at all ages—from baby photos on up. At runtime, it’s an adjustable mirror: Crank the knob all the way clockwise, and see yourself in all your current glory. Crank counter-clockwise, and wind yourself all the way back into the womb, if you like.
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knob image from Surplus Sales of Nebraska
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Mutwa, Dabir and Izri ride into the desert looking for Indrajala.
In addition to my work here, I will now be blogging from the future at http://www.orrot.org. Please head over there and comment like crazy. We need moral support!
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According to this article in International Leisure World (“Russia’s Annual Catalogue of Luxury Travel”), the Arend M. Agter Clinic in the Cape Town suburb of Newlands has begun offering guided vacations into your own memories. They don’t specify what technologies are being used (hypnosis, lucid dreaming, deep brain stimulation, SP-17?) I wonder whether they offer souvenir photos?
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By rights I ought to be opposed to any one-(wo)man band that doesn’t include leg straps, a hi-hat and a big bass drum, but I find myself charmed soppy by this.
Full disclosure: My friend Jan from Spare Snare (new album out April 20, preorder now!) collects Stylophones (now back in production and only $20!) so I suppose that helps, and Tenori-on (which I first heard about via BoingBoing, same as you) resembles 1981 ELECTRONIC LIGHTFIGHT GAME of DUELING LIGHTS Milton Bradley #4144, the only game I’ve ever been any good at (which is a little like being vain about your elbows), but there’s something really good going on here. Well played, Little Boots!
Via Gibson Blog and (I notice belatedly) Palm Sounds (which I will now stay away from before I buy an ass-load more musical gear and cause my house to subside). (On 24th St. in Mpls today, an old man with a Stratocaster and a tiny battery-powered amp said he had been playing for forty-two years and was just beginning to figure it out. He blessed me and Andrew, and I felt genuinely blessed.)
Story idea I’ve been playing with for years. I came up with a log line for it yesterday, and I have to testify!
Twins from Matsu, feel each other’s pain, separated at birth, one goes on to spy for the mainland, the other to spy for Taiwan, brought into conflict, fail to recognize each other, love triangle, fight with guns and kung-fu, kill each other in the end.
Shakespearean Espionage Kung-Fu Tragedy.
Say it with me now!
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Back when Rachel’s brother Anders lived with us, I baked a Tarte Tatin every monday night. Here is the pâte sucrée recipe I use for a single tart. (I just measured the lovely Le Creuset Tarte Tatin pan Rachel bought me, and it’s 9 1/4 in. internal diameter.)
1 1/2 c flour
1/2 c salted butter
2 tbsp sugar
1 egg
5 tbsp water
Dump everything into a mixer bowl and mix with the paddle until everything draws up into a ball. Place ball in a Ziploc bag or some plastic wrap and chill for a couple of hours. (Chilling isn’t strictly necessary, but it makes the dough easier to work.)
That’s it!
If I were doing this without a mixer, I’d probably do it cookie-style: Soften the butter a little, cream it together with sugar, add the egg and water, stir in the flour a little at a time. The pre-chilling consistency turns out pretty much exactly like cookie dough (same ingredients minus the leavening.)