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hate1wetbackhate3queerhate2For the last year, assistant geography professor Dr Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University and Floating Sheep, and her team have been researching ‘geographic user-generated content including the gendered divisions in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), digital divides, and online censorship of social media.’

The results have generated a series of Google Map visualisations called The Geography of Hate, mapping more than 150,000 geotagged tweets in North America that contain homophobic, racist or ableist language.

The Floating Sheep team includes former Trinity College, Dublin lecturer Mark Graham who, incidentally, is looking for a researcher to join him at the Oxford Internet Institute for studies on Wikipedia and digital engagement in Britain.

MORE ANALYSIS: The Geography of Hate (Floating Sheep)

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Too lazy to rise from your squalid sofa to change an XBox game?

Relax, degenerate, and behold this fully-functioning but deeply silly App-controlled XBox disc autochanger built by LEGO nut Zwekka from 3,000 parts including three LEGO Mindstorms NXT micro-computers, seven NXT servos, an R/C motor and a light sensor.

The carousel holds 32 discs and the average change-out time is 42 seconds.

Plenty of time for you to take a wazz into that empty Fanta bottle without getting up.

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The first test firing of a (mostly) plastic gun dubbed Liberator which was printed using a second hand Stratasys Dimension SST 3D printer with a small nail being the only metal part.

The gun did explode on a second firing with a higher caliber bullet.

Nothing to worry about.

Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World’s First Fully 3D-Printed Gun

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