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Two percent of adults have more than half of the world’s wealth, including property and financial assets, according to a study by the U.N. development research institute published on Tuesday.

Fantastic aerial photos of complex highway on/off ramps and spaghetti junctions.

And say goodbye to the right to public assembly. “According to documents obtained for Wired News under federal sunshine laws, the Air Force’s Active Denial System, or ADS, has been certified safe after lengthy tests by military scientists in the lab and i

Bill Willingham’s Fables graphic novels – based on fairytales and folklore.

Like the jackalope and the flatbed truck-sized trout, the long-horse became extinct around the same time that the black-and-white postcard went out of vogue.

If you flip through old photos, you might be lucky enough to run into this now-extinct “long horse”. It was strong, handsome and could carry up to four people at one time but, because of overwork, the horses tended to die young and, to put it bluntly, the

Vintage pictures of long horses collected by Hardy Burmeier.

Even more evidence of the “long horse” species.

Title Credits from the tv show Bewitched. I loved the credits cartoon – I’ve created a few designs that are an homage to it.

A Platform for RFID Security and Privacy Administration is a paper by Melanie R. Rieback and Georgi N. Gaydadjiev that proposes a “firewall for RFID tags” — a device that sits on your person and jams the signals from all your personal wireless tags.

The wovel is a show shovel attached to a big wheel. Not practical at our house — we have 10 snowshovels already.

Using a geometric shape called a Reuleaux triangle, it’s possible to drill square holes.

SketchFighter 4000 Alpha is a video game that looks hand-drawn – like the doodles on your paper edges come to life.

A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works.

An analysis of the various timelines in the movie Back to the Future, and how they were erased and rewritten.

Interesting analysis of what it might mean when people express racist thoughts.

Some heterosexual couples, mostly in their in 20s and 30s, are protesting the inability of gay and lesbian couples to marry by putting off their own marriage. Unless wedded bliss is available to everyone, in every state, they say, they want no part of it.

Technological suggestions for missing persons searches – getting a lot of people involved in looking at photos.