Beautiful “Hemlock” CGI Animation

Animator Tyson Ibele created this magnificent and haunting CGI animation for a recent CGSociety animation challenge. The animation, titled “Hemlock”, was created for the “Steampunk – Myths and Legends” challenge.
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Mandelbrot the Fractal Bear

Crafty blogger Captain Mouse created this stunning fractal bear as a gift for her brother. She does not have any for purchase right now, but you might be able to get some in the near future.

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UPDATE: San Francisco station officer executes 22-year-old unarmed man

On Janurary 1, 2009, 27 year-old BART police officer Johannes Mehserle shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant as he was being detained. According to the official reports, Oscar was detained as part of 2 groups of young men who were possibly involved in an altercation with each other. Police officers at some point pushed Oscar [...]

Cute Star Wars ABC

Artist Michael Fleming of tweedlebop illustrated a super-cute Star Wars alphabet set. Greatest part about it is that it uses the Aurebesh language rather than English to teach kids how to spell “Bantha” or “IG-88“.

Original on tweedlebop | Photoset on flickr | via BoingBoing

Voters defrauded with ‘invisible ink’

So on the voter defraud front – it’s only the primaries and we’ve already had recounts, Diebold (I mean, Premier Election Solutions) vote flipping uncovered publicly, Diebold using the same already-hacked keys in their current machines, and voting machines from Sequoia not counting votes…it’s time for another episode of Election Officials are F*cking Crazy!
From Chicago, [...]