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This pretty piece is was fashioned from old radio and camera parts, and submitted to the Make Magazine Flickr Pool. [Make on Flickr via Make]

I ran across this scene today outside Park Avenue Audio on 29th and Park in Manhattan—a shop that caters to A/V junkies (I bought my Grado SR60s there), and it's a shipment fresh from Japan. The guys at Park Ave. say that it's becoming quite a battle to secure whatever Kuro inventory remains, but they've got a source that should keep them in Kuros for at least a little longer.

If you're just joining us, Pioneer's Kuros have been the King of All Plasmas for the last several years, with blacks blacker than the depths of cold space. Park Avenue is moving the final generation Elite Pro 111FD 50-inchers for $3,500 and the 60-inchers for $5,000, which is a bit of a markup from the best prices you could find online right now (from the few retailers that still have any stock), but not horrible for an audiophile-centric brick and mortar. Those prices are sure to go up as supply becomes scarcer, though, so if you want to save this dodo from extinction before you'll have to proffer some rare golden doubloons for the privilege, act fast.

Oh hey, there we are, hanging out over on the Opinion line. Wait what, opinion? I thought Gizmodo only trafficked in pure, unadulterated fact? Oh well, we're honored.

There'a a high-res (6740 x 4768) image over on Flickr, and a cool zoomable flash viewer at Zoomorama.

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Things get a little less lighthearted when you realize that the Faina was filled with Soviet T-72 tanks that may have been bound for the shitstorm that is Southern Sudan. A ransom was parachuted down the Faina's decks in a cargo container (which is the ransom delivery method of choice), and the pirates escaped.

The Big Picture today has this and many, many more photos of Somali pirates, detailing what is one of the more fascinating stories around right now. Even more fascinating when you consider who all is making money from this old-world meets new-world banditry. [Big Picture, image: HO/AFP/Getty Images]

Hey, all you endoskeleton people—calm down. Take a deep breath. It's OK. John Mahoney and I actually had the same conversation, and he convinced me. In our books, it's an exo because it's really the outside of the camera, supporting and protecting the entire gadget, just coated a thin layer of paint (or in some parts, plastic). If you still aren't convinced, we can agree to disagree. Or you can go fuck yourselves. Either works.

It's actually an UV view of the tattoo on Otzi's right ankle, the Stone Age warrior who was found by tourists on the Alps, over the Italian-Austrian border.

Otzi was frozen 5,300 years ago and he was found in an unprecedented conservation state for its age, complete with soft tissue, hair, and utensils. It can now be seen with the creepiest detail in a new web site, after researchers took 150,000 high definition images from 12 different angles, including 3D and UV views. Using an interface similar to Google Maps, you can now pan around and zoom in and out to see the tiniest details of its body.

For the pervs out there, no, his schlong wasn't neither frozen or Dr Manhattan blue. It just wasn't there. [Iceman Photo Scan]

Actually, it's Google Maps "mapplet", like Ground Zero, the nuke your fav city app. It shows air traffic in the US based on the data from FlightView, a page that tracks air traffic in real time. You can see it using three different criteria. The first is altitude—which is the one you are seeing here. The darker blues indicate higher altitude, while the lightest blue indicates take off and landing.

This is the model view, showing 543 different airplane models, each with a different color.

And here are the airplanes sorted by manufacturer.

It's not as awesome as the amazing air/ground/sea traffic visualizations done by the BBC, but it's cool to be able to zoom in and access this data in real time. I just wish it was animated. Check the mapplet here. [Wired]