http://vimeo.com/93299391 Lawrence Lessig is kickstarting a SuperPAC to end all SuperPACs. Join us at http://MayOne.US/ Description Government has failed us. More than 90% of Americans link that failure to the influence of money in politics. Yet the politicians ignore this influence. While America founders, they spend endless time with their funders. These funders hold our... Continue Reading →
New Report Calls For Overhaul Of Failed US Prison SystemA new report from the National Research Council has reviewed mounds of criminological data and come to the conclusion that current incarceration costs far outweigh the benefits. This leads to the suggestion that the US must drastically overhaul its failing criminal justice system, making an effort to significantly... Continue Reading →
New Report Calls For Overhaul Of Failed US Prison System
Watch SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket In All Its Futuristic, Hovering Glory
http://youtu.be/ZwwS4YOTbbw SpaceX has been working on a reusable rocket since 2011, and things have been going pretty well for them. A few days ago, the company ran a successful test run of its Falcon9R rocket, and it looks like the future. Check out the video to watch it take off, hover at 3,280 feet, and... Continue Reading →
Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland Security Congress
http://youtu.be/EyaZlt-Xr_A The culture jamming activist group The Yes Men have struck again. Earlier this week, members of the group spoke at the Homeland Security Congress posing as U.S. government officials. At the conference, they announced a fictitious new U.S. government plan called "American Renewable Clean-Energy Network" to convert the United States to 100 percent renewable... Continue Reading →
Improv Everywhere Participants Handcuffed After Prank Goes Awry
http://youtu.be/B3FCpirYMKQ An Improv Everywhere prank at a Manhattan Gap store earlier this month featured some unexpected players after a manager called police to report a flash mob. Participants entered the store's Fifth Avenue location wearing white Morphsuits underneath Gap-style clothing to imitate mannequins. All 40 people were instructed to zip up the suits at a... Continue Reading →
Watch: Premiere of Joelistics – ‘Everyone Everything’
http://youtu.be/PE8tvB-cf34 Welcome to the weirder side of the new Joelistics’ record. Everyone Everything is a stream of consciousness ride across stark break beats and shifting musical landscapes. As Joelistics explains “‘Everyone Everything’ was written with Ptero Stylus after gorging on old Beastie Boys, El-P and Serge Gainsberg. We wrote the track like an experiment.Making four... Continue Reading →
This Is What A Holographic iPhone Might Look Like
http://vimeo.com/40056491 Lasers. Infrared sensors. Parabolic mirror assemblies. These are the technologies that could allow iPhones of the future to project holograms from 3-D screens, according to a new Apple patent application. Now, whether or not Apple will actually make such a device, no one knows. It’s perfectly common for the company to patent technologies that... Continue Reading →
Bitcoin 'Banks' Are Trying to Rebrand Cryptocurrencies for the MainstreamBitcoin ATM company Robocoin has announced that, from summer, it will introduce bitcoin bank branches—at least, that’s what it’s calling them.In a release, the company explained that they’re introducing online banking and converting their ATMs into “Robocoin bank branches integrated with Robocoin Online Banking.” On their website, they... Continue Reading →
Bitcoin ‘Banks’ Are Trying to Rebrand Cryptocurrencies for the Mainstream
Massive Solar Wind Energy Tower Proposed for the U.S.-Mexico Border
http://youtu.be/rMMlmqohOJs A Maryland-based energy company plans to build a 500-megawatt tower that would combine solar and wind power to generate energy. The Solar Wind Energy Tower will be located on the Arizona-Mexico border and will be the second-tallest structure in the United States. The company plans to start construction by 2018. The tower is likely... Continue Reading →