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Robotic sculpture plays the violin RO-BOW is Seth Goldstein's exquisitely-engineered kinetic sculpture that plays the violin. Read the rest... Paul Schweitzer, 76, is a typewriter repairman. Still. Over at Backchannel, Mary Pilon on the last of the typewriter men who are fighting against obsolesence. In addition to repair, Schweitzer restores and sells machines, a shelf of them gleaming as though fresh from the Sears Catalog. Read the rest... 1973 Turkish action film stars a villainous Spider-Man I would rather watch 3 Giant Men (AKA: Captain America and Santo vs. Spider-Man) than any modern day superhero movie. Read the rest... Help me pick a dumbphone My anti-boredom lightbox has become a psychic vampire. So I'm going back to a plain "feature" phone for a while, just to see what life is like outside of cyberspace. Read the rest... Horrifying knit goods Brooklyn's Knitrocious creates nightmarish knit goods, such as the goat balaclava and the horror clown balaclava. I regret to inform you that you've missed your chance to get a knit facehugger. The seller promises not to judge you for whatever rituals you practice while wearing these, by the way. (via Mitch Wagner) Read the rest... Music: "Dance Across the Floor," Jimmy Bo Horne (1978) Evidently KC and the Sunshine Band with Jimmy Bo Horne. (Thanks, Electric Disk!) Read the rest... College dean receives fake IDs meant for student named Dean A college student in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania ordered some fake IDs for himself and some friends from China. Problem is, the student's name is Dean and the package was accidentally delivered to... Read the rest... Buy Kurt Cobain's credit card Kurt Cobain's Visa card is up for auction. It's probably maxed out though. Still, it is "accompanied by a King of Clubs Slot Club credit card holder." Kurt Cobain Credit Card (Paddle8 via CNN) Read the rest... Pedal Genie stomp box Pedal Genie is a Netflix-like service for guitar pedals. It's great. But my first experience was offputting. A strange generic metal box arrived in the mail with a lot of unidentified knobs. Read the rest... Taylor Swift karaoke album pairs well with parody lyrics I still, secretly, have my daughter’s long-neglected Taylor Swift records on my phone. What’s better than singing those keening harmonies? Singing them wrong, on purpose. Read the rest... Young heavy metal shredder also a screaming-fast texter It’s a marvel to watch 26-year-old guitarist Nili Brosh tap 64th notes in her guitar solos, then scoop up her phone and tap messages at the same tempo. Her gates-of-hell texting work starts at 4:01. Read the rest... Robot will feed you tomatoes while you run His name is the Tomatan, and he sits on your shoulders. The idea is that long distance runners will wear this little guy so they can consume, mid race, the anti-inflammatory nutrients in tomatoes. Read the rest... Enjoy this video of the fabulously weird snake-necked turtle Shot at a zoo in Costa Rica, this footage gives a little glimpse into the hypnotic spectator sport that watching these little guys could be. Read the rest... One Take, All Bowie Should we ever need to explain David Bowie to aliens, and have less than a minute to do it, we are covered. Read the rest... Help these young dames get to the Game Developers Conference Toronto-based nonprofit Dames Making Games runs events and programs for women, non-binary, queer, trans and gender non-conforming creators who want to get into game design. Read the rest... Citizenfour takes Oscar for Best Documentary Citizenfour, Laura Poitras's brilliant documentary about Edward Snowden, won the Best Documentary Academy Award last night! I have a very small personal connection to the film: my novel Homeland has a cameo in the movie, as Snowden packs his overnight bag for his flight from Hong Kong. Read the rest... Record player in a tree trunk slice Silvan Audio Workshop is a father-son shop of "wood-savvy audio nuts" who customize high-end Rega RP1 turntables by mounting them in a plinth fashioned from a full slice of tree trunk. Read the rest... Counting the homeless in San Francisco: imperfect and imperative In a reported comic, journalist and cartoonist Susie Cagle follows volunteers as they attempt to count the homeless on the streets of San Francisco, a city where the median cost of a one-bedroom apartment is $3,410. Read the rest... Guiding a flock of birds through the sky is surprisingly emotional Behold The Sun, a simple, lovely interactive experience created by Cameron Kunzelman where you guide a growing flock of birds through the sky as the sun slowly sets behind them. Read the rest... San Francisco's Philz Coffee to Go National San Francisco's favorite chain is hitting the big show, with plans to expand by 50% over the next year, according to TechCrunch. Read the rest... Mr. Spock: Ladies man? Nope. Spock may still be my favorite original Star Trek character, but some episodes age better than others. This is why Captain Kirk got all the ladies; by comparison, he's basically the woman whisperer. Read the rest... Jews vs zombies and aliens vs sexual abuse Lavie Tidhar writes, "Jews vs Zombies and Jews vs Aliens will be published as e-book originals on March 19th, and are currently available for pre-orders (a limited paperback will follow)." The two anthologies irreverently explore the links between speculative fiction and Judaism. Read the rest... Less time, more packaging: Amazon Prime Now tested Even though Amazon Prime Now has been reminding me to “order now and get it by 3 pm” since I first opened the app, the checkout interface tells me I have to pay an extra $7.99 to get it within an hour. Read the rest... Links: Superfish is everywhere; social media sucks at jihad; breathtaking copyfraud; Florida jail records attorney/client conversations ☣SSL-busting code that threatened Lenovo users found in a dozen more apps [Ars Technica]Komodia, Superfish's malware-disguised-as-adware, wasn't just used by Lenovo -- a dozen companies ship code that bundles Superfish, leaving users wide-open to fraud. Read the rest...