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The Humble Bundle has a 'Super Nebula Author Showcase' going: pretty good deal for those who enjoy reading from an ebook or tablet, etc.

Authors of interest to me are:
Harlan Ellison,Greg Bear, George RR Martin

There was one that caught my attention, then made me mad: the new thing to push books by unknowns...

Arthur C. Clarke's 'Venus Prime'
and underneath, 'Venus Prime', Arthur C. Clarke, Winning Author
**But it was written by Paul Preuss (who as far as i can tell is not a pen name that Clarke used and is NOT an award winner).

I hate this sort of thing, and have seen a lot of it sold under names like:
Clive Cussler and James Patterson

I know it's a way of getting known, but sheeesh.

Anyways, looks like a good bundle but i find i am one of those people turning against ebooks, sadly... i just find, i dunno, inconvenient or something.

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You were (spoilers) warned. Now it begins. The Garden Bridge has gone down in flames!

• Evening Standard
• The Guardian
• Washington Post
• Curbed
• Motherboard
• BBC News

Holographic microscopy has been made a reality that can create 3-D images of living cells, almost in real time, and track their reaction to various stimuli without the use of contrast dyes or fluorophores.

The resolution is less than 100 nanometers using a low-intensity laser that scans the sample, numerous images extracted by holography are captured by a digital camera, assembled by a computer and "deconvoluted" in order to eliminate noise.

As a comparison the diameter of the DNA helix is 2 nanometer and a myoglobin protein is 4.5 nanometer in diameter.

DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.329 "Marker-free phase nanoscopy"

(from 2012 but interesting as it enables researchers to essentially "debug" cells..!)

A California family that used the seat their 18-year old son didn't use because he left with an earlier flight. Made use of it for their child instead were forced off the Delta Air Lines plane and threatened with jail after refusing to give it up on the crowded flight. The Delta (DEL) share price has taken a -0.86% dip today.

View all the raw glory or do it with some commentary.

In other news don't use the bathroom, ask for water, or be autistic.

Last time it was United Abuses.

After years of warnings, mobile network hackers have exploited SS7 flaws to drain bank accounts. SS7 is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, to handle the public switched telephone network (PSTN), SMS etc. The attackers first spammed malware to victims computers, which collected the bank account balance, login details and passwords for their accounts, along with their mobile number. Then they purchased access to a rogue telecommunications provider and set up a redirect for the victim's mobile phone number to a handset controlled by the attackers. Next, usually in the middle of the night attackers logged into their online bank accounts and transferred money out. When the transaction numbers were sent they were routed to the criminals, who then finalized the transaction.

So any security that depend on PSTN-SS7 security is proven to be crap.

I have set up my raspberry pi with a plex server, and can stream shows from it to my laptop (will try to get it on the Roku when i get a chance).

My question is:
Does anyone know a good powered USB hub to run (stream from) 4 external hard drives from a raspberry pi 3 (i didn't know the raspberry pi would only run from certain hubs).

So:
1. Must have enough power to run at least 3 external hard drives for streaming from all 3 (power all 3 at once, but only stream from one at at time (but from more than one at a time would be cool)

2. Must be raspberry pi3 compatible

3. Profit???

Further to my rant about the speed of current versions of Firefox, I'd like to add one about LibreOffice. At the same time I upgraded Firefox, I upgraded from LibreOffice 4.0.x to 5.2.x and the difference was spectacular.

Now, I have to wait while I watch the buttons on the GUI being repainted.

I think I'll change to Siag Office. Bah!

According to Fox News via Twitter,

.@POTUS has proclaimed May 1 to be 'Loyalty Day' #ProudAmerican

They also have a story about the proclamation (archived copy).

Wikipedia has this to say about the event:

The holiday was first observed in 1921, during the First Red Scare. It was originally called "Americanization Day" [...]

During the Second Red Scare, it was recognized by the U.S. Congress on April 27, 1955, and made an official reoccurring holiday on July 18, 1958 (Public Law 85-529). President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1, 1955, the first observance of Loyalty Day.

This year it is being observed on 30 April in Bradley, Illinois; on 29 April in Kansas City, Kansas; on 7 May in Brandon, South Dakota; on 1 May in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (pay-walled) and on 28 April in Brinnon, Washington. Loyal Americans, mark your calendars!

Update: on 29 April .@POTUS held a "Saturday night rally in Harrisburg." The Los Angeles Times reported:

When Trump hammered the media, people in the crowd turned around to jeer and boo at reporters typing in their laptops in the press area on the arena floor.