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Submission + - DIY Explosives Experimenter Blows Self Up, Contaminates Building. (fdlreporter.com)

hey! writes: Benjamin D. Morrison of Beaver Dam Wisconsin was killed on March 5 while synthesizing explosives in his apartment. The compound in question has not been named in news sources, but the accident has left the apartment building so contaminated that it will be demolished in a controlled burn today (Thursday), and residents are not being allowed in to retrieve any of their belongings.

People who knew Morrison say he was unlikely to be a bomb-maker; given his background as a pre-pharmacy major with a chemistry minor he may well have been experimenting with explosives synthesis.

Submission + - Meet the hardware artisans keeping video games alive (fastcompany.com)

harrymcc writes: If you want to play classic Nintendo games, you could buy a vintage Super NES. Or you could use an emulator. Orâ"if youâ(TM)re really seriousâ"you could use floating point gate arrays to design a new console that makes them look great on modern TVs. Over at Fast Company, Jared Newman profiles Analogue, the company that did just that, along with some of the other folks using new hardware to preserve the masterworks of the past.

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