The Latest from Boing Boing

---

• Burk Uzzle's photos of Woodstock
• ATMs that spray attackers with pepper-spray
• Captchas vs. Robots
• Howard Rheingold explains 21st Century Literacies

Burk Uzzle's photos of Woodstock Posted: 18 Jul 2009 10:27 PM PDT In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, New York's Laurence Miller Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Burk Uzzle's magnificent photographs of the event. The iconic images can also be seen online. From the gallery site: Burk Uzzle shot the festival from the vantage point of a participant. In one particularly telling photograph, a sea of humanity as dense as a carpet of wildflowers in a meadow spills over a hillside; in another, a young hippie couple standing in a tender embrace under a grandmother's quilt became the icon of a generation. Rather than document the music, Uzzle chose to focus on details of living, existence, and enjoyment over that three day period. In so doing, he captured the spirit of the festival and ultimately an era. Burk Uzzle Woodstock: 40th Anniversary

ATMs that spray attackers with pepper-spray Posted: 18 Jul 2009 07:36 AM PDT Some South African ATMs have pepper-spray squirters that are intended to debilitate anyone who tries to tamper with them or install a card-skimmer. The idea is that spray incapacitates you while the cops come out. Unfortunately, they've also been known to incapacitate the poor bastards who install them by randomly firing capsaicin at them. The extreme measure is the latest in South Africa's escalating war against armed robbers who target banks and cash delivery vans. The number of cash machines blown up with explosives has risen from 54 in 2006 to 387 in 2007 and nearly 500 last year. The technology uses cameras to detect people tampering with the card slots. Another machine then ejects pepper spray to stun the culprit while police response teams race to the scene. But the mechanism backfired in one incident last week when pepper spray was inadvertently inhaled by three technicians who required treatment from paramedics. Pepper-spray defence means South Africa robbers face loss of balance at cash machines (via Schneier)

Captchas vs. Robots Posted: 18 Jul 2009 11:06 PM PDT In this old Apokalips webcomic, the convergence of captchas, robots, and tragic dodgy tattoos. Prove You're Human (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)

Howard Rheingold explains 21st Century Literacies Posted: 18 Jul 2009 11:03 PM PDT Howard Rheingold sez, "I spoke about 21st century literacies at the Reboot Britain event in London, July, 2009. (About 40 minutes)" 21st Century Literacies (Thanks, Howard!)

You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610