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[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels.  The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones.  On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30).  To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.     Laurie Anderson's commencement speech on art, science and space Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors The sordid history of a perfect poison Cool collages made from vintage science media How to: Use math to win at Battleship Open Goldberg Variations: free, open source recording and modern score of classical masterpiece What's your diameter breast height? What the heck is this thing? Game of Thrones recap: The Rains of Castamere Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered Quebeckers take to the streets with pots and pans: a charivari Innovation Under Austerity: Eben Moglen's call to arms from the Freedom to Connect conference CPU Wars: Top Trumps with CPUs Bruce Schneier explains security to a neurologist who believes in profiling Muslims at airports   Laurie Anderson's commencement speech on art, science and space By Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2012 12:14 pm Gayle from the School of Visual Arts in NYC sez, "Acclaimed multimedia artist Laurie Anderson gave the commencement address this year at the School of Visual Arts' (SVA) graduation ceremony, held at New York City's Radio City Musical Hall on May 10. In a speech that was at turns thoughtful and lighthearted, she interwove stories ... Read in browser Security researcher: I found secret reprogramming backdoors in Chinese microprocessors By Cory Doctorow on May 28, 2012 08:58 am Sergei Skorobogatov, a postdoc in the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge has written up claims that reprogammable microchips from China contained secret back-doors that can be used to covertly insert code: Claims were made by the intelligence agencies around the world, from MI5, NSA and IARPA, that silicon chips ... Read in browser The sordid history of a perfect poison By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 28, 2012 07:54 am Suxamethonium chloride is a common hospital anesthetic that has, off and on, moonlighted as murder weapon. Used to paralyze patients so that doctors can more easily put insert a breathing tube, the drug can kill very easily if the person who gets a dose of it doesn't have access to things like respirators, or a ... Read in browser Cool collages made from vintage science media By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 28, 2012 07:49 am Artist Peter Madden builds these cool collages out of photos he cuts from back issues of National Geographic, vintage encyclopedias, and old nature books. They're really lovely! Via Thisiscollossal, thanks to Steve Silberman Read in browser How to: Use math to win at Battleship By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 28, 2012 07:38 am It takes an average of 66 moves to win a game of Battleship. But that's only if you stick to random guessing. With the help of a computer algorithm, the tech consultant at a data mining company was able to win the game in an average of 44 moves. Read in browser Open Goldberg Variations: free, open source recording and modern score of classical masterpiece By Rob Beschizza on May 28, 2012 07:30 am Performed by Kimiko Ishizaka on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial in Berlin's Teldex Studio, there's already plenty to love about a new cut of Bach's Goldberg Variations. But this one is also the first fan-funded, open source, and completely free recording of it. "Every part of it is free for you to use, share, and copy," ... Read in browser What's your diameter breast height? By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 28, 2012 07:30 am Scientists measure trees for a wide variety of reasons. When I visited the Harvard Forest last week, I measured them as part of studying carbon sequestration by plants. But you can't just go out into the woods with any old tape measure and expect to collect some significant data. That's because where you measure the ... Read in browser What the heck is this thing? By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 28, 2012 07:22 am Marine biologists think they can identify this strange, blobby creature that floated up out of the ocean depths and was captured on an oil drill video. That, alone, is not terribly surprising. Marine biologists know a lot of weird ocean creatures. But would you believe they identified it by its gonads? Read the rest of ... Read in browser Game of Thrones recap: The Rains of Castamere By Leigh Alexander on May 28, 2012 03:30 am   It's a funny thing, those who begrudge others the modern privilege of simultaneous participation. Fans of Game of Thrones waited for the epic Battle of the Blackwater for weeks – it's one of the few occasions in the books when a decisive battle involving major characters is shown directly in realtime, instead of as ... Read in browser Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 08:45 pm A reader writes, The Canadian government is slowly doing away with Canada's ability to access its own history. Library and Archives Canada's collection is being decentralized and scattered across the country, often to private institutions, which will limit access, making research difficult or next impossible. It should be noted that Daniel Caron, the new National ... Read in browser Quebeckers take to the streets with pots and pans: a charivari By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 06:00 pm Here are Montrealers engaged in charivari, a form of protest involving beating pots and pans in the streets. They're out protesting the new law 78, which prohibits public gatherings without police approval, and gives the police the power to arbitrarily declare approved protests to be illegal ones midstream. The law was passed amid a long, ... Read in browser Innovation Under Austerity: Eben Moglen's call to arms from the Freedom to Connect conference By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 04:55 pm Last week saw the latest installment of David Isenberg's Freedom to Connect conference in Washington, DC. One of the keynotes came from Eben Moglen, formerly chief counsel of the Free Software Foundation, now the principle agitator behind the Software Freedom Law Center. Eben's keynote is one of the most provocative, intelligent, outrageous and outraged pieces ... Read in browser CPU Wars: Top Trumps with CPUs By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 03:46 pm CPU Wars is a Top-Trumps-style game whose play-tokens are cards bearing the likeness and specifications of various CPUs (what else?) through the ages, from 8088s up to contemporary 64-bit multicores. It was produced with the help of a successful Kickstarter, and is now available as a normal object of commerce, with regular expansion packs. CPU ... Read in browser Bruce Schneier explains security to a neurologist who believes in profiling Muslims at airports By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 03:19 pm Sam Harris, a neuroscientist, challenged Bruce Schneier to a debate on whether Muslims should be singled out for additional screening at airports. Schneier patiently, and repeatedly, explains why (apart from the unconstitutionality and moral repugnance of this), it would be bad security practice. Harris changes the subject. A lot. But Schneier presents a model of ... Read in browser More to read: Leveson Inquiry cakepops Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames Magazines from Blade Runner Peckniffian cant banned in Parliament Pop and politics collide at Europe's awesomely trashy song contest  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe immediately. 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[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels.  The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones.  On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30).  To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.     Leveson Inquiry cakepops Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames Magazines from Blade Runner Peckniffian cant banned in Parliament Pop and politics collide at Europe's awesomely trashy song contest The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks XOXO: a Kickstartered "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland UK politician finances scandal of the day Stray dog joins cyclists on 1700km race Masonite ad in 2.5D Caturday Gothurday SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison)   Leveson Inquiry cakepops By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 10:19 am The redoubtable Miss Insomnia Tulip has created a calorific tribute to the Leveson Inquiry, in which Lord Justice Leveson is interrogating the state of the nation's newspapers, phone hacking, and undue political influence. There are cakepops for all of the players in the inquiry, including one for Rebekah Brooks's LOL Blackberry. Leveson Enquiry Cake Pops!!! Read in browser Jewelry made from 19th century clay pipes washed up on the Thames By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 10:12 am Today I found myself at a street-market in Soho (the one in London), at a stall belonging to Amelia Parker, a jewelry maker who salvages fragments of century-old clay pipes from the banks of the Thames. Clay pipes were once the equivalent of cigarettes, cheap, semi-disposable tobacco-distribution systems, and as they were very brittle, they ... Read in browser Magazines from Blade Runner By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 09:10 am Here's a collection of humorous, futuristic magazines displayed in the background of the news-stand scene in Blade Runner -- documented in Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon: Turning down the block and ducking into a futuristic newsstand revealed the most humorous touches of layering, for it was here that this ... Read in browser Peckniffian cant banned in Parliament By Cory Doctorow on May 27, 2012 05:05 am The UK press has been alive with talk of the Prime Minister calling Ed Balls, the Labour Shadow Chancellor, a "muttering idiot" during a session of Parliament. The the Speaker of the House forced him to withdraw the remark. In The Observer, Gaby Hinsliff and Quentin Letts' debate includes some other language prohibited in Parliament, ... Read in browser Pop and politics collide at Europe's awesomely trashy song contest By Leigh Alexander on May 27, 2012 03:34 am Loreen of Sweden performs her song, "Euphoria", after winning the Eurovision song contest in Baku. Photo: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters You know the Ameri-centricism Europeans make fun of? I might have been an example of that, having not really heard of the Eurovision Song Contest until 2010 – and even then, the only reason I'd ... Read in browser The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:00 pm VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, "Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, who cites a Vatican source called "Maria" for leaking sensitive letters address to Benedict XVI. Now police have arrested a man whom the press identifies ... Read in browser XOXO: a Kickstartered "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 06:00 pm Andy Baio and Andy McMillan have announced XOXO, a SXSW-like "disruptive creativity" conference in Portland. They're pre-selling the tickets on Kickstarter, and if they don't sell enough, they're not going to do it. They've made and shot through their targets already -- don't worry! We'd confirmed most of the entire lineup by Monday, including the ... Read in browser UK politician finances scandal of the day By Rob Beschizza on May 26, 2012 05:10 pm The BBC reports that top UK politician Baroness Warsi failed to declare substantial rental income from property she owned. The baroness had declared the property on the register of ministerial interests, and it had been cleared by the Cabinet Office and HM Revenue and Customs. But she failed to inform the register of Lords' interests ... Read in browser Stray dog joins cyclists on 1700km race By Rob Beschizza on May 26, 2012 04:25 pm From the BBC: "A stray dog has completed a 1700km journey across China after joining a cycle race from Sichuan province to Tibet. ... He ran with them for 20 days, covering up to 60km a day, and climbing 12 mountains." Read in browser Masonite ad in 2.5D By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 03:00 pm There's something weirdly atemporal about this isometric Masonite ad, like a secret society of time-travelling Sims players. Masonite Read in browser Caturday By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:43 pm Benjamin G. Levy Boing Boing reader Benjamin G. Levy shares this image in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool and says, Today's Kitten of the Day is Helen, named for Helen Keller because she's had troubles with her eyes. Helen moved in last Sunday! Helen would rather that I not send email. Read in browser Gothurday By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:41 pm REUTERS/Thomas Peter Revellers attend the Wave and Goth festival in Leipzig, on May 25, 2012. The annual festival, known in Germany as Wave-Gotik Treffen, features up to 150 bands and musicians playing Gothic rock and other styles of the "dark wave" music subculture attracting a regular audience of up to 20000, according to organizers. The ... Read in browser SpaceX mission control vs. NASA mission control (photo comparison) By Xeni Jardin on May 26, 2012 01:35 pm Boing Boing reader Michael Smith-Welch shares this image, and says, Why did I see so many binders (presumably filled with paper) on the desks of the engineers at NASA's Mission control yesterday when they were docking SpaceX's Dragon module to the Space Station? In contrast, the SpaceX folks had (almost) none at there mission control ... Read in browser More to read: Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week Skinless My Little Pony made from bacon Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton 3D printed, pre-assembled robot hand  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe immediately. 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[Sponsor] Much like the iconic double decker buses in the UK, this British-designed limited edition Storm Trilogy Watch has two levels.  The top floor is a traditional three-handed clock bolted onto the bottom floor, where two totally different one handed displays display two other timezones.  On the right, one features a simple single hand for hours (if it lies in the middle of the 8 and 9, it's showing 8:30).  To the bottom left, an obscured viewing area offers a unique way of displaying the time: a single double-sided hand points to the hours in two rows, with the shorter side pointing to the hours after 3 o'clock and the longer side pointing to the hours after 9.     Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week Skinless My Little Pony made from bacon Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton 3D printed, pre-assembled robot hand Tech entrepreneur secretly lives at AOL HQ for two months Manatee and kid Letterpress edition of Pride and Prejudice seeks funding Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster Lady Gaga, Queen of Demon YouTube launches new Human Rights channel with Witness.org and Storyful Father John Misty: "This Is Sally Hatchet" (music video) On the importance of audiobook performers Steampunk bicycle from Roger Wood Arthur, Animated: Stop-motion progression of crocheted portrait (video) The secret world of swamp mud Tron: Uprising first episode online If Tetris was a (stupid, Battleship-style) movie Robert Johnson meets the Devil, or not Philip K. Dick Festival coming to San Francisco, September 22-23 Google publishing data on all copyright takedowns it receives Boars Gore and Swords Season 2, third best Game of Thrones podcast Life before plastic What the hell is going on in Quebec? Poland's future of copyright Penn Jillette's rant against Obama's drug policy Stalking the Paparazzi Every Heath Ledger scene in Dark Knight Chris Ware interview 80-year-old skydiving first-timer falls out of tandem harness   Anno NTK: get a fifteen-year-old tech newsletter delivered fresh each week By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 12:00 pm NTK was once the greatest weekly tech newsletter in the universe -- snarky and funny and informative and just great. It's been dead for a good long while now, and this being the fifteenth anniversary of its founding, it's time for a revival. Danny O'Brien, one of the NTK originators, has announced a retro NTK ... Read in browser Skinless My Little Pony made from bacon By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:42 am On Deviant Art, BAwesome-BAcon has crafted a pork-product pony to die for: "I have recently taken my love of My Little Pony and combined it with my love of bacon. The result, something that is borderline awesome with a hint of crazy and a smidget of cute." Bacon Pony (via Neatorama) Read in browser Greatest wedding proposal ever: the lip-dub By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 09:16 am Isaac wanted to propose to his girlfriend, so he enlisted over 60 friends to stage a Busby Berkeley street-show lip-dub extravaganza ambush. What follows is five minutes of heart-stoppingly sweet and romantic wedding proposal. I mean: Z. O. M. F.G. On Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012, I told my girlfriend to meet me at my parent's ... Read in browser Zoetrope cake pays tribute to Tim Burton By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 01:11 am Confectioner Alexandre Dubosc made this Tim Burton themed zoetrope cake, which animates to display iconic imagery from many of Burton's best-loved films. There's even a sneaky Jack Skellington up top. The Caketrope -- Making of (Thanks, Kim!) Read in browser 3D printed, pre-assembled robot hand By Cory Doctorow on May 26, 2012 12:00 am Chris writes, "The Anthromod Mk2 hand is a robotic hand where everything, apart from the tendons, are 3D printed. Unlike other printed hands the Mk2 requires minimal assembly, and is also available from the online 3D printers Shapeways. This is an ongoing project and later designs will plan to add greater functionality such as sensing. ... Read in browser Tech entrepreneur secretly lives at AOL HQ for two months By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 11:04 pm An enterprising young fellow named Eric Simons secretly lived at AOL headquarter for two months. He was given a badge while working a short stint at AOL's Imagine K12 incubator event for young education entrepreneurs. He really enjoyed his visit, so he just stayed, and his badge kept working. He used the company showers and ... Read in browser Manatee and kid By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:46 pm CMGW Photography snapped this beautiful shot, "First Contact," in which a young girl and a manatee share a moment through a pane of glass. First Contact Read in browser Letterpress edition of Pride and Prejudice seeks funding By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 09:00 pm James sez, "The Bowler Press is taking on printing a letterpress, three-volume edition of Pride & Prejudice, and they are trying to fund the costs of getting the materials to do so with crowd sourcing. The link is to the IndieGoGo crowd funding site for the project, where folks can donate to the project and ... Read in browser Critical Mass 20th anniversary poster By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 08:00 pm Hugh sez, "San Francisco muralista Mona Caron has created a stunning to poster to mark the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass in San Francisco this September." Critical Mass 20th Anniversary Bike Angel Poster by Mona Caron (Thanks, hughillustration!) Read in browser Lady Gaga, Queen of Demon By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:57 pm Muslim women hold posters during a protest objecting to U.S. singer Lady Gaga's Indonesian concert, at Jakarta's business district May 24, 2012. Pop star Lady Gaga has been refused a permit to perform in the Indonesian capital on June 3 over security concerns, police said last week. Three Islamic groups have expressed their opposition to ... Read in browser YouTube launches new Human Rights channel with Witness.org and Storyful By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:43 pm This week, YouTube announced the launch of a new Human Rights channel in partnership with advocacy nonprofit WITNESS, and social news-gathering service Storyful. The new channel is "dedicated to curating hours of raw citizen-video documenting human rights stories that are uploaded daily and distributing that to audiences hungry to learn and take action," and "aims ... Read in browser Father John Misty: "This Is Sally Hatchet" (music video) By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:36 pm [Video Link] Above, a new video from Father John Misty's "Fear Fun" album on Sub Pop Records. Video directed by Grant James. Richard Metzger first turned me on to Father John Misty (the new project by J. Tillman), and writes about this video, "I have no idea what the fuck is going on here, although ... Read in browser On the importance of audiobook performers By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 07:15 pm In the New York Times, John Schwartz writes about audiobook performers, who may be "little known outside of the community of devoted listeners," but serve an important role. "If somebody's going to spend 10 or 20 hours in my ears, turning me into a local jogging spectacle, I'd better enjoy the experience," writes Schwartz. "That ... Read in browser Steampunk bicycle from Roger Wood By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 07:13 pm The latest from Roger Wood of Klockwerks: "I was asked to make a kinetic Steampunk sculpture for a show in New York; here it is." Read in browser Arthur, Animated: Stop-motion progression of crocheted portrait (video) By Xeni Jardin on May 25, 2012 06:54 pm [Video link] Fiber artist Jo Hamilton says, This is a stop motion video I made to document my process of crocheting one of my larger than life portraits in yarn from start to finish. In my work I use a traditional basic crochet technique taught to me at an early age by my Gran. I ... Read in browser The secret world of swamp mud By Maggie Koerth-Baker on May 25, 2012 06:24 pm Earlier this week, I showed you how scientists can use a simple, hand-operated tool to collect stratified core samples of mud at the bottom of a swamp. The deeper the samples go down, the older the mud is—until, eventually, you're looking at 6000-year-old muck, the remains of a lake bed that filled in with sediment ... Read in browser Tron: Uprising first episode online By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 06:16 pm Tron: Uprising premiers on June 7 on Disney XD. They've posted the first episode, titled "Beck's Beginning, in its entirety to YouTube. I think Alberto Mieglo's fantastic art direction is in the tradition of Peter Chung's "Aeon Flux" and Bruce Timm's "Batman: The Animated Series." Mieglo posted some stunning production art on his personal blog. Read in browser If Tetris was a (stupid, Battleship-style) movie By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 06:10 pm Warialasky's trailer for a big-budg apocalyptic science fiction movie based on Tetris is all too plausible in the era of Battleship: the Movie: "Official Tetris Teaser Trailer. The invasion is beginning. It is inevitable. You created them, you can destroy them! I did not create Tetris, I was but the messenger. Tell me how to ... Read in browser Robert Johnson meets the Devil, or not By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 05:51 pm It's perhaps the most famous story in the history of the blues: In the 1920s, a mediocre guitarist named Robert Johnson went to a Mississippi crossroads at midnight where the Devil "tuned" his guitar in exchange for Johnson's soul. Assuming that the story may be, well, apocryphal, who made it up? Radiolab investigated. "Crossroads" (Radiolab) Read in browser Philip K. Dick Festival coming to San Francisco, September 22-23 By David Pescovitz on May 25, 2012 05:37 pm The Philip K. Dick Festival, scheduled for September 22-23 in San Francisco, is sure to be a heady, reality-bending time. Organizer and Total Dick-Head blogger David Gill informs us that he's lined up presentations by Jonathan Lethem, Erik Davis, Paul Sammon, and many other big thinkers on such subjects as self-induced amnesia, computer simulations, mysticism, ... Read in browser Google publishing data on all copyright takedowns it receives By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 04:47 pm For many years, Google has published a "Transparency Report" with the number of non-copyright-related takedown notices it receives from governments, police, courts, individuals and corporations. Now, the company have added copyright takedowns to the mix. Sadly (and weirdly), this part of the report isn't searchable, as Alan at Copyfight notes: "I cannot search to see ... Read in browser Boars Gore and Swords Season 2, third best Game of Thrones podcast By Jason Weisberger on May 25, 2012 04:45 pm I recently spent a couple of days catching up on my absolutely favorite podcast: Boars Gore and Swords. San Francisco based comedians and hosts Ivan Hernandez and Red Scott are back; making getting it wrong so very right. The dynamic duo started podcasting in Season One; half enamored and half bewildered by HBO's Game of ... Read in browser Life before plastic By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 04:00 pm Stewart Brand sums up Susan Freinkel's Long Now talk: "What Common Objects Used to Be Made Of," a history of the world before plastic: "Bakelite was invented in 1907 to replace the beetle excretion called shellac ("It took 16,000 beetles six months to make a pound of shellac."), and was first used to insulate eletrical ... Read in browser What the hell is going on in Quebec? By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 03:48 pm (Photo by Philip Miresco) Quebec is in the throes of mass protests. A prolonged student strike over tuition hikes triggered a law placing broad restrictions on the freedom to protest, and giving the police the power to arbitrarily declare even "approved" protests to be illegal. Over 500 were arrested in a single Montreal protest, after ... Read in browser Poland's future of copyright By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 03:00 pm The Modern Poland Foundation held a future of copyright contest, which invited short stories about copyright's future. They've published the winners in a free ebook. Read in browser Penn Jillette's rant against Obama's drug policy By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 02:25 pm [Video Link] Penn's excellent rant against Obama's ruinous drug policy that keeps 750,000 non-violent people in prison. He points out that if Obama had been imprisoned for his admitted drug use, his life would suck right now. And yet, Obama supports a policy that make good people's lives suck, wastes billions of dollars, and nurtures ... Read in browser Stalking the Paparazzi By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 02:10 pm [Video Link] A young celebrity lives four houses away from us, and our street is often filled with paparazzi. Two days ago, the cops came twice to deal with these jackasses. Vice made a video about them, called "Stalking the Paparazzi." (NSFW language) Read in browser Every Heath Ledger scene in Dark Knight By Cory Doctorow on May 25, 2012 02:00 pm The Cussing Channel has produced a Dark Knight Joker supercut, featuring all the on-camera Heath Ledger scenes. It rather stopped me in my tracks -- Ledger really put in an astounding performance, something that is underlined three times in red by ten straight minutes of Ledger doing his thing. Rules: Just The Joker, just the ... Read in browser Chris Ware interview By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 01:59 pm [Video Link] An interview with Jimmy Corrigan creator, Chris Ware. (Via Drawn & Quarterly) Read in browser 80-year-old skydiving first-timer falls out of tandem harness By Mark Frauenfelder on May 25, 2012 01:52 pm [Video Link] She obviously didn't want to jump. I wonder if the skydiving company charged extra for the extra thrill. (Via Geekolgie) Read in browser More to read:  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Sent by 2012 Boing Boing, CC. You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe immediately. Our mailing address is: Boing Boing 905 Wettach St Pittsburgh, Pa 15122 Add us to your address book  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences