That's known as the "reverse hover hand".

"In 2006, Belgian Conceptual Artist Wim Delvoye introduced the world to his "Cloaca Machine", a mechanical art work that actually digests food and turns it into excrement, finally fulfilling Vaucanson's wish for a working digestive automation. Many iterations of the Cloaca Machine have since been produced; the current…

Good thing I've got 16GB in all my machines, then.

Any idea if he allows visitors? I live in Santa Fe, and I'd love to see this in person.

You're right that the tool's master is the problem, not the tool. But what happens when the master isn't human? We may never intentionally give control of our war machines to an AI, but superintelligences are, by their very nature, incredibly unpredictable. We can't even begin to fathom the ways in which an AI with…

I originally dropped Gizmodo (largely, but not entirely) for The Verge, because their comments section used to be civil and interesting, and I was tired of flame wars. Now their comments are, if anything, worse, so I visit both sites pretty much equally now. I still think their feature stories are better, though.

It's not even over yet, actually. I think he still wants to write something like four more books.

It's got nothing to do with this! Fuck science!

I recently went on a multi-leg trip and passed through airport security four times. I forgot completely that I had a giant buck knife in the front pocket of my carry-on, and the first three airports missed it completely. Of course, I nearly got arrested when the fourth place finally discovered it, but I managed to…

Hella reference to the Bad Lip Reading GoT video in the background. Awesome.

The problem with Bitcoin. Is it really a "resource" if it doesn't actually exist?

I'm sure it depends on the state you file in. I was thinking the same thing when I read that line, and wondering where she filed.

Cylinder = trash can. Got it.

Is there a problem with that?

This. Several of these have no doubt hit in the last 100 years and gone completely undetected, because over 70% of the planet is ocean and most of the land is uninhabited too.

The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck off the coast of the Yucatán.

Whenever there's a post about anything related to 4K content on the Web, there's always a bunch of people crowing about how none of us can see it anyway because we don't have 4K screens. This may be technically true, but I think they're missing something important: high-resolution laptop screens. If you've got a…

I think that's really only a concern for cameras with large lenses, like DSLRs. It has to do with the lens focusing the light on the optics.

I'm a hobbyist designer, and I do have and use all of those programs, but if I were to apply for a graphic design position I'd probably tout my experience with Illustrator over my Photoshop credentials. I guess they'd both wind up on the resume, though. Still, my point was that Pixelmator has no vector-editing…

Truth stung a bit, eh?