HOWTO make your own automated compressed earth brick making machine:

Tristan from Open Source Ecology sez, “This comprehensive, user friendly video shows you how to assembly the Liberator CEB Press; the worlds first open source, automated compressed earth brick making machine. Made from $4000 worth of parts, this machine sets a new standard in affordability, allowing users to build almost any type of brick structure out of dirt.”

The OSE Wiki page has full instructions for building your own:

CEB Press

(Thanks, Tristan!)

“As the broken city thinks big and radically about its…:

“As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city’s Belle Isle park for $1 billion to private investors who will transform it into a free-market utopia. The 982-acre island would then be developed into a U.S. commonwealth or city-state of 35,000 people with its own laws, customs and currency.”
Developer pitches $1B commonwealth for Belle Isle | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com, via Will W.

Excellent drive-thru “invisible driver” prank, caught on video:

Self-described “Magician Prankster!” Magic Of Rahat produced this clever video demonstrating an effective “invisible driver” prank to play on hapless fast food attendants. (thanks, Joe Sabia!)

[Damn. -egg]
Eric Standley’s intricate laser-cut “stained glass” paper windows:

Jane Kenoyer of Hi-Fructose says:

Eric Standley works with hundreds of layers of colored paper creating intricate laser cut stain glass windows. These beautifully constructed works are made up of interlacing positive and negative spaces that seem to “float” in a fabricated suspension. He begins with a drawing, this helps him create the complex range of imagery needed to make a workable design, before cutting and assembling the paper pieces.

Eric Standley’s intricate laser-cut stained glass paper windows

Cat plays shell game, wins every time:

(Via Laughing Squid)

[The last sentence is the interesting one. -egg]

BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the…:

BotBusters. An algorithmic web service to help you assess the likelihood of a twitter account being run by a bot. It takes one to know one. The service was used to help identify “suspicious Twitter accounts that were posting identical messages, always in support of the same political party, Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).” Source
The service is being misused by bots to measure their own bot-score, and through recursive genetic algorithms, work towards lowering that score to the human end of the scale.