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- Apple bans EFF RSS feed display-app from iPhone store
- Limo with a sink on the fender, 1940
- Space monkeys appreciated
- Classic Nokia games made of people
- Custom sonogram cufflinks
- Spirograph business cards
- Send headshot to get portrait painted
- Obama Supports New Law to Suppress Detainee Torture Photos
- Sell Your Gold Teeth
- Your photo on a shower curtain
- Treehouse restaurant
- Dave Cooper's video for Danko Jones tune
- Star Wars Lucha Libre Masks
- Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii
- David Lynch's Interview Project begins today
- Zombie haiku contest winner!
- What plagiarism looks like
- Khaan! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told
- BB on GOOD: The “Twitter Revolution” - Social media meets social unrest in Guatemala
- FDA approves implantable total ankle replacement
- Man wore beer carton on head to rob store
- Recently on Boing Boing Video...
- Guatemala: Welcome to Paradise (Alejandro Marré)
- Recently on Offworld
- Winners and Losers: case-studies of businesses that thrived or failed in the Internet Age
- Spinal Tap finally record "Saucy Jack"
- Mapumental: visualise any neighbourhood in the UK by transit times, house prices and "scenicness"
- Docs to WHO: publicly condemn homeopathy for dangerous diseases
| Apple bans EFF RSS feed display-app from iPhone store Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:54 PM PDT Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, "Apple has rejected an iPhone application that exclusively displays content from EFF's RSS feed. Apparently it objects to an EFF blog post that linked to Brad Templeton's Downfall remix (also mentioned on Boing Boing last week, BTW). The parody includes the fleeting appearance of the f-bomb in a subtitle." This is just the latest example of the failings of Apple's iTunes App Store approval process, which has been revealed to be not just anti-competitive, discriminatory, censorial, and arbitrary, but downright absurd. Just last month, Apple was widely criticized when it rejected the Eucalyptus e-book reader because it could access the public domain translation of the Kama Sutra (Apple quickly reversed course on that one).Apple Rejects EFF Updates App, Claims Parody Content Is Objectionable (Thanks, Corynne!) |
| Limo with a sink on the fender, 1940 Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:51 PM PDT In 1940, "foreign limousines" came with hot and cold running water in a washbasin on the front fender: Where Do They Keep The Towels? (Feb, 1940) |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:29 PM PDT National Geographic celebrates the first monkeys in space with a photo-feature of the poor little primates in their capsules: SPACE MONKEY PICTURES: 50-Year Anniversary (Thanks, Marilyn!) |
| Classic Nokia games made of people Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:26 PM PDT Nokia's Get Out and Play campaign is that rare beast: a marketing-driven viral Flash/video thinggum that's actually clever and wonderful! It's an implementation of classic Nokia games (Snake, Breakout) as stop-motion-animation 2.5D playable games and videos, made using people. To play the Breakout game, click through below, then watch the video, then play away! Get Out and Play (via Red Ferret) |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:23 PM PDT  These custom sonogram cufflinks let you show off photos of your little bun-in-oven as you go about your daily round in French cuffs. Previously: |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 11:36 PM PDT  Adafruit Industries' Limor Fried used her lasercutter to make plastic business cards that can be snapped apart into a miniature spirograph. "Adafruit business cards - Laser cut SPIROGRAPH cards!" Previously:
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| Send headshot to get portrait painted Posted: 01 Jun 2009 09:06 PM PDT   Anne Sage, of fantastic design blog The City Sage, points us to the "Send Me Your Head" project. Artist Karen Schmidt is seeking headshots for 3" x 3" paintings. "A portrait a day, maybe," Schmidt says. Send Me Your Head |
| Obama Supports New Law to Suppress Detainee Torture Photos Posted: 01 Jun 2009 06:55 PM PDT Glenn Greenwald's appropriately angry screed on Obama's support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law. I say +1, every word. For shame. Snip: The White House is actively supporting a new bill jointly sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman -- called The Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009 -- that literally has no purpose other than to allow the government to suppress any "photograph taken between September 11, 2001 and January 22, 2009 relating to the treatment of individuals engaged, captured, or detained after September 11, 2001, by the Armed Forces of the United States in operations outside of the United States." As long as the Defense Secretary certifies -- with no review possible -- that disclosure would "endanger" American citizens or our troops, then the photographs can be suppressed even if FOIA requires disclosure. The certification lasts 3 years and can be renewed indefinitely. The Senate passed the bill as an amendment last week.Obama's support for the new Graham-Lieberman secrecy law (Via Daily Siege) |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:25 PM PDT  Need cash? Got a gold grill taking up unnecessary space in your mouth? SellYourGoldTeeth.com is a single-page site representing a buyer of teeth, caps, and crowns. (Thanks, Syd Garon and Greg Long!) |
| Your photo on a shower curtain Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:11 PM PDT  BBG's Joel spotted a site that will print any photo on a shower curtain. I would go with a still from the Psycho shower scene. |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 03:04 PM PDT  The Yellow Treehouse Cafe is built around a redwood tree near Auckland, New Zealand. It was designed by Pacific Environment Architects as part of a marketing campaign for the area's yellow pages. It's no longer open for dinner but will be available for party rentals. Yellow Treehouse (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!) |
| Dave Cooper's video for Danko Jones tune Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:51 PM PDT Gama-Go's Greg Long says: Dave Cooper's one of my most favorite artists ever. He just did this unbelievably awesome video for one of my most favorite bands ever, Danko Jones. Check it and be thrilled. |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:46 PM PDT  These Star Wars Lucha Libre Masks are available for your printing (and pummeling) over at StarWars.com: Ever wonder what it would be like to see a tag-team wrestling match with Darth Vader and Darth Maul against Boba Fett and General Grievous? We do too, and better yet, they should be wearing Lucha Libre (Mexican wrestling) masks!Star Wars Lucha Libre Masks (Thanks, Mark Dery!) |
| Microsoft "Project Natal" invents a better Wii Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT  Microsoft had a killer day today, revealing all sorts of updates to the Xbox 360, including full retail game downloads, 1080p live streaming of movies and TVs, and most notably "Project Natal", an attempt to beat the Nintendo Wii at its own game by creating a virtual reality interface that doesn't use control hardware at all, but instead does real-time motion capture using an array of cameras. It actually looks pretty amazing. Brandon's got everything you need to know, including video, over at Offworld. |
| David Lynch's Interview Project begins today Posted: 01 Jun 2009 02:17 PM PDT  David Lynch has started a project to interview people and post a video every three days for a year. Jess was our first interview. We found him sitting on the side of the road during the middle of the day. He told us he was waiting for his trailer to be repaired so he could go live alone in the desert. Although hesitant at first, Jess agreed to spare a bit of his time and talk to us. His rugged delivery and appearance soon gave way to a gentle man who was just looking for some peace in his life. After leaving Jess we headed further easy into Arizona to look for our next interview.David Lynch's Interview Project begins today |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:09 PM PDT  Last week we held a contest for the best zombie-themed haiku. It was very hard choosing a favorite, because most of them were really good! The winning entry was penned by vekuum: You lopped off my arms!Vekuum wins the game of Plants vs. Zombies, plus a copy of Ryan Mecum's book Zombie Haiku (shown above). Here are the runners-up (sorry, no prize): Gray rain falling down Brains are like candy, The radio told Though dead, it lives on. Budget for plastic crunching through his brain Within the coffin Groaning getting loudThanks to everyone for playing! |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 01:10 PM PDT  Michael Leddy of Orange Crate Art writes: Some enterprising readers (faculty? student-journalists?) have gone through the dissertations of Carl Boening and William Meehan, highlighting every passage in Meehan's that can be found, word for word, in Boening's. Neither the University of Alabama (which granted Boening and Meehan their doctorates) nor Jacksonville State University, where Meehan is president, has chosen to take up the obvious questions about plagiarism that Meehan's dissertation presents. As another recent story suggests, plagiarism seems to be governed by a sliding scale, with consequences lessening as the wrongdoer's status rises.What plagiarism looks like |
| Khaan! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:12 AM PDT LA Weekly reviews the screening of a Daniel Martinico's 15-minute movie, Khaan!, which is a loop of James Kirk winding up to scream the name of his nemesis in The Wrath of Khan. The two-minute clip above, according to reviewer Mark Mauer, "doesn't begin to do justice to the size, sound and hypnotic power of the real thing." Last week Machine Project in Echo Park showed Martinco's 15-minute meticulously re-spliced creation in a never-ending loop that transforms the moment from one of anguish (or snickering for the the audience) into a meditation, maybe even a mantra.Khaan! The Greatest Syllable Ever Told (Via Joshuah Bearman) |
| BB on GOOD: The “Twitter Revolution” - Social media meets social unrest in Guatemala Posted: 01 Jun 2009 09:50 AM PDT  I've been traveling in Guatemala for the past few weeks, and following (and blogging) the ongoing political crisis here. BB editors are contributing periodic essays to GOOD Magazine, and the so-called "Twitter Revolution" taking place in Guatemala is the subject of my latest contribution, from the road: Despite widespread fears the protests would turn violent, and even with government-organized pro-Colom demonstrations just blocks away (the administration is said to have spent millions of quetzales in public funds to organize the events, pay poor participants, and bus them in by the thousands from the country's interior), street activity has been peaceful so far.GOOD: The "Twitter Revolution" - Social media meets social unrest in Guatemala (Image by Guatemalan photographer and blogger Surizar) Previously:
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| FDA approves implantable total ankle replacement Posted: 01 Jun 2009 10:00 AM PDT Medgadget reports that the FDA approved Small Bone Innovations' implantable ankle. FDA approves implantable total ankle replacement |
| Man wore beer carton on head to rob store Posted: 01 Jun 2009 09:51 AM PDT  I'm surprised that David missed this story about a gentleman in Nebraska who covered his head with a beer carton to rob a convenience store of cigarettes. Police spokeswoman Katie Flood said Tuesday morning that the robbery was captured on video. She said the man also dropped the empty 12-pack box as he fled, and it will be checked for fingerprints.Man wore beer carton on head to rob store |
| Recently on Boing Boing Video... Posted: 01 Jun 2009 09:29 AM PDT * Dance Dance Immolation: Flames! Games! Dames! Experience the funky flaming glory that is DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, a pyro-parody of the popular arcade game in which one jumps around on touch-sensitive pads underfoot in rhythm with music. (Download MP4 / Watch on YouTube)
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| Guatemala: Welcome to Paradise (Alejandro Marré) Posted: 01 Jun 2009 06:51 AM PDT  (I'm traveling and blogging from Guatemala right now, so expect a number of posts from me specific to this region. - XJ). During a recent (and all-too-brief) visit to Antigua, Guatemala, I stopped by an exhibit at the Centro de Cooperación Española, which included some recent works by the Guatemalan artist Alejandro Marré. My favorite in his "series of interventions on Guatemalan traditional paintings" above, more images on his blog. The visual joke here is that one encounters folksy little oil paintings that look just like this for sale as tourist mementos on the cobblestone streets of Antigua -- minus the Teletubbies, Star Wars characters, and other hacks the artist has added.
Here are a few crude snapshots I took of external details -- the site served as the town's central marketplace for about 200 years. This sign points you to what things you could once find for sale in which sections of the building: vegetables, salted meats, clay cooking pots, whatever the average Guatemalan home in the late 1800s might require. I can't quite make out what all of them say, or mean, but as I read the list I found myself imagining what kind of activity -- and foods, and other products -- I might have encountered if I were standing in this spot 200 years ago. |
| Posted: 01 Jun 2009 07:14 AM PDT  What role does morality and choice play in our videogames? Recently on Offworld, Simon Parkin takes a deep look into Sucker Punch's just-launched PlayStation 3 debut inFamous, where the "villainous choice in any moral decision the strategically superior one", and talks to Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking about a future of games where creators can "model a system wherein the player is able to be or not be racist or violent and see the repercussions of those decisions." We watched Japan based designer Mark Cooke's recent Tokyo Pecha Kucha presentation in which he attempted to create 10 games in 10 hours and mostly got there (and will be expanding one idea into an official game), and discovered both a wonderful repository of hi-res artwork from Fumito Ueda's PS2 masterpiece Shadow of the Colossus, and the possibility of an Ico/LittleBigPlanet crossover (above). We also saw the first video teaser for Harmonix/TT Games' fantastically unlikely Lego Rock Band game, saw a homebrew version of Mega Man enter a new dimension, and new open-source software to turn your NES into an art gallery, and spotted Etsy designer's SaltyandSweet's home-made Team Fortress 2 mobile. And our 'one shot's for the day: Tom Gauld's terrifying end of level boss, circa 1865, and the posthumous regret of not bringing your Game Boy to the grave. |
| Winners and Losers: case-studies of businesses that thrived or failed in the Internet Age Posted: 01 Jun 2009 06:18 AM PDT  I thoroughly enjoyed Kieran Levis's Winners and Losers: Creators and Casualties of the Age of the Internet, a collection of case-studies of businesses that have thrived or tanked as a result of their relationship to technology. From record companies to IBM, from Sony to Webvan, from Google to Nokia, Levis examines the clunkers and the strokes of genius (or luck) that made headlines for each firm as it coped with the 'net's disruptivity. After each case-study, Levis tries to extract the principles embodied by the decisions that led to the companies' fate. These principles contradict themselves: be big fast (Amazon); don't get too big too fast (Webvan); do the right thing and figure out the business later (Google); change fast (the record companies); content is king (BSkyB); content is a boat-anchor (Sony); and so on. The takeaway for me was that different circumstances demand different strategic responses (duh), and by getting all this meaty context about what worked and for whom, I felt better equipped to make decisions about my own strategies in the future. Winners and Losers: Creators and Casualties of the Age of the Internet (UK) Winners and Losers: Creators and Casualties of the Age of the Internet (US) |
| Spinal Tap finally record "Saucy Jack" Posted: 01 Jun 2009 06:11 AM PDT  Brendan sez, "I saw the 'Unwigged and Unplugged' show starring Spinal Tap members Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest on Saturday in Chicago. Aside from all the expected stuff they played from Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and other movies, they also sang 'Saucy Jack,' which you will remember David and Derek discuss at the end of the film _This is Spinal Tap_ [ed: It's the title track from their unproduced rock-opera about Jack the Ripper]. Then, they announced that you could download the track for free from the Spinal Tap website. I thought other Boingers out there would enjoy it." You're a naughty one Saucy Jack! You're a dirty one Saucy Jack! Saucy Jack' (Thanks, Brendan!) Previously: |
| Mapumental: visualise any neighbourhood in the UK by transit times, house prices and "scenicness" Posted: 01 Jun 2009 05:51 AM PDT Tom Steinberg from MySociety sez, "We've just launched Mapumental, which is an a realtime version of our lovely transport journey time maps which BB has covered before. As well as being realtime generated, they include house price and 'scenicness' data, generated by the web game ScenicOrNot. Beta's private at the moment but we're handing out invites in exchange for declarations of love." I got to play with this last week and my jaw dropped -- what an amazing way to visualize your home and the regions around it! Say hello to Mapumental (Thanks, Tom!) |
| Docs to WHO: publicly condemn homeopathy for dangerous diseases Posted: 01 Jun 2009 05:47 AM PDT A coalition of young doctors and medical researchers have written an open letter to the World Health Organization asking it to publicly condemn the use of pseudoscientific homeopathic remedies for the treatment of serious diseases, especially in the developing world: The letter:Homeopathy urgently condemned for serious diseases |
A squirrel monkey named Baker peers out from a 1950s NASA biocapsule as she's readied for her first space mission. Baker and a rhesus monkey named Able launched aboard a Jupiter AM-18 rocket on May 28, 1959 -- 50 years ago this week. The pair returned to Earth alive after a 15-minute flight, becoming the first primates to survive a trip into space. Miss Baker, as she came to be known, spent the latter part of her life at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. She died of kidney failure in 1984 at the ripe old age of 27. 
This implantable total ankle replacement system is intended for use in patients where there is severe arthritis or other deformities that hinder the range of motion of the joint. 
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