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- Von Braun's Moon Suit
- What it's like to be a cocaine submarine captain
- They don't make disturbing broccoli ads the way they used to
- Killer Carrot: the lure that attracts the killer app
- Sweet memoir of a golden age of toy design
- Google Street View privacy-filter blurs out tiki head on restaurant roof
- Wikileaks.org domain 'killed'
- Murder in Disney's planned new-town
- Russia and Qatar to host soccer's World Cup
- Amazon: Wikileaks has no right to publish the leaks
- And I Am Not Lying -- live show this Sunday (12/5/2010) in NYC
- Respect the Internet live feed tomorrow 12/3/2010
- Clarion 2011 open for submissions: boot-camp for SF writers
- UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day
- Open thread for science and math jokes!
- Leather spider-eye mask
- Schneier's modest proposal: Close the Washington monument!
- More fun with setting things on fire, ostensibly for science
- Disneyland Paris under ice
- Why I am not a herpetologist
- High school prom "dancing guidelines"
- We Liked Your Earlier, Funnier Interviews Better
- KKK snowman
- "Lone Deadman" Oswald's coffin for auction
- Weird life found on Earth—kind of, maybe
- Letterpress A-Go-Go
- Yoshitomo Nara exhibition and book
- Black and White and Read All Over
- Twitter, Where's My Car?
- Tea Party Nation President proposes taking vote away from tenants
| Posted: 03 Dec 2010 12:06 AM PST  Paleofuture brings us these delightful moon-suit scans from 1960's "First Men to the Moon" by Wernher von Braun -- [insert wry remark about slave labor and von Braun's design sense here]. [Sorry, I went to the Imperial War Museum's Auschwitz exhibit yesterday and I'm not up to it.] |
| What it's like to be a cocaine submarine captain Posted: 03 Dec 2010 01:52 AM PST A former Columbian narco-sub pilot anonymously recounts his life captaining a homebrewed semi-submersible filled with millions of dollars' worth of cocaine, at gunpoint all the while: Former Drug Smuggler Tells His Story (via Beyond the Beyond) (Photo: Luca Zanetti/DER SPIEGEL) |
| They don't make disturbing broccoli ads the way they used to Posted: 02 Dec 2010 11:15 PM PST  The model in this Andy Boy broccoli ad looks like the one of the bizarre beehived green go-go dancers that Captain Kirk romanced in the original series. |
| Killer Carrot: the lure that attracts the killer app Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:50 PM PST David "Everything is Miscellaneous" Weinberger has reports on a useful neologism: "The Killer Carrot." A term we should already have had (Image: Happy Carrot, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from kyntharyn74's photostream) |
| Sweet memoir of a golden age of toy design Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:45 PM PST  Prolific 1970s toy designer Mel Birnkrant wrote an absolutely charming, lengthy memoir of his history in the field (including the unlikely story of how he got into the business). It's called, "The Colorforms Years," and it's free to read. I remember the moment the Outer Space Men were conceived as clearly as if it were yesterday. The heavily armored big front door of our NYC apartment opened into a tiny hall, hardly bigger than a phone booth. And a phone booth, in a manner of speaking, is, more or less, what it turned out to be. It measured 3'X3'. The door, when swinging open, barely missed the walls, one of which was a closet with sliding doors. The other was the portal that led to a small kitchen, hardly bigger that the hall. The third side opened out to the front room and a primitive early version of the toy collection wall, that later grew to gargantuan proportions, when recreated in the house we live in now...Mel Birnkrant, The Colorforms Years (via MeFi) (Photo: Mel Birnkrant)
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| Google Street View privacy-filter blurs out tiki head on restaurant roof Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:39 PM PST  "The Goof" is a weird tiki sculpture on the roof of the beloved Bali Hai restaurant in San Diego -- despite his odd mien, he's apparently lifelike enough for the Google Maps privacy engine to have auto-blurred his face. Bali Hai/Google Street View (Thanks, Dan!)
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| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:31 PM PST  Wikileaks.org is currently dead, and the organization claims the U.S.-based service which provides domain name service "killed" it due to attacks, presumably of the denial of service variety. I wonder if that would be a TOS violation, technically? (Note that this doesn't mean wikileaks has actually lost its domain: they lost DNS service, but EveryDNS isn't the managing authority of the .org TLD. So Wikileaks should be back as soon as new DNS records propogate) |
| Murder in Disney's planned new-town Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:18 PM PST Celebration, the Jane Jacobs/New Urbanist-inspired town built by Disney at the edge of the Walt Disney World property, has experienced its first murder: "The community's famous friendliness is what brought investigators to Matteo Giovanditto's body: Neighbors hadn't seen him for days, so they filed a missing person's report, then went into his condo a day later and found him." (Thanks, Mike!) |
| Russia and Qatar to host soccer's World Cup Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:12 PM PST  Photo: Rob Gallop Fifa, soccer's international governing body, has awarded the 2018 football World Cup to Russia and 2022's to the tiny middle-eastern state of Qatar. Russia, described by the LA Times as "particularly ill-prepared to stage" the massive event, beat out a bid from rich, safe England, which is full of brand-new Olympic venues. And tourist-flogging Qatar, where alcohol is banned and air conditioned stadiums will have to be built, won over the U.S. England's bid slipped out of favor after the BBC televised a perfectly timed corruption investigation into Fifa. Fifa is incredibly, spectacularly corrupt. So much so that the bid organizers' anger at the show's timing seemed almost reasonable: England having paid $15M to submerge itself into the proverbial hot tub, to suddenly point out the smell right before the moment of climax does seem a little mischievous. Russia will probably do fine, though, now they have it. As for 2022, you could say that it seems the only people who know why Qatar got the competition are those who have been on junkets to Qatar. Russia and Qatar Win World Cup Bids [NYT] |
| Amazon: Wikileaks has no right to publish the leaks Posted: 02 Dec 2010 07:27 PM PST  Amazon claims that Wikileaks doesn't have rights in the leaked material, and hence was in violation of its terms of service. Here's its statement: There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate. There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDOS attacks. That too is inaccurate. There were indeed large-scale DDOS attacks, but they were successfully defended against. Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis. AWS does not pre-screen its customers, but it does have terms of service that must be followed. WikiLeaks was not following them. There were several parts they were violating. For example, our terms of service state that "you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content... that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity." It's clear that WikiLeaks doesn't own or otherwise control all the rights to this classified content. Further, it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted in such a way as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in jeopardy. Human rights organizations have in fact written to WikiLeaks asking them to exercise caution and not release the names or identities of human rights defenders who might be persecuted by their governments. We've been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that's perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere. We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months. -- Amazon Web ServicesDoes this add up? Amazon just happened to take an interest in the intellectual property status of government documents after being called by the same U.S. Senator who another company reports was explicitly demanding the removal of Wikileaks material? A Senator who was able to make a public statement about Amazon's removal of the material, as the removal occurred? Doesn't this affect Kindle editions of everyone who has run some of this content? Aren't a significant number of books at Amazon also in violation of this rights problem with 'state secrets'? Books about Wikileaks and these events will soon appear: will Amazon refuse to sell those which include text from the cables? Indeed, is it even the case that the government has the rights Amazon speaks of? According to the Copyright Act, Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government: there is no state copyright in documents made by government employees. They belong to you. Even if Werner Vogels really was sauntering carefree through the halls of Seattle singing "Doo de doo de doo OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT RIGHTS ISSUE," it's funny that this reasoning -- no-one has the rights to publish the government's secrets -- is only a little less creepy than the acquiescence to censorship his firm was accused of. Bear in mind that while leaking classified information is a crime, receiving and publishing it is not. Oddly, the same "IP rights" terms-of-service excuse was offered by another company for removing Wikileaks-related material, even though the material on their servers were merely visualizations of data that would not fall under copyright any more than an unemployment infographic. The fact that Amazon threw in a 'Plan B' rationale about the impossibility of redacting the documents, and marketing for forthcoming new products -- is just a bit odd! I imagine Amazon will regret this rather ham-handed defense, even if the PR damage it suffers could never match the legislative damage that Joementum could inflict on it for refusing to comply. Message [Amazon] |
| And I Am Not Lying -- live show this Sunday (12/5/2010) in NYC Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:14 PM PST  Boing Boing fave Jeff Simmermon says: "This Sunday we are attempting to turn And I Am Not Lying into a live show featuring storytelling, burlesque, art, and magic. Show's in the East Village of New York City. As far as I know this is the first blog-to-live show that's ever happened and I think it should be worth the trip." And I Am Not Lying, Live: Hopefully, Not Average At All |
| Respect the Internet live feed tomorrow 12/3/2010 Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:11 PM PST I'm speaking tomorrow in New York at Ketchum's day-long conversation / debate "about the role companies can (and should or should not) play in shaping online culture." There will also be speakers from ROFLCon, Buzzfeed, VICE, Gawker Media, MIT, and Harvard. My talk is going to be about DIY innovation and why it's smart for companies to become "maker friendly." It should be interesting! You can watch a live feed of the event here. Speakers: Mark Frauenfelder, the editor of Boing Boing and MAKE Magazine Jonah Peretti, founder of Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and founder of Breadpig Tim Hwang, co-founder of ROFLCon Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of the highly-praised book Chief Culture Officer Alex Pasternack, editor of Motherboard.tv, VICE Magazine's science and technology culture site Irin Carmon, blogger for Jezebel Christina Xu, co-founder of ROFLCon and of Breadpig Jeff Simmermon, Director of Digital Communications for Time Warner Cable Scott Heiferman, co-founder & CEO of MeetUp.com N'Gai Croal, founder of Hit Detection, video games expert & blogger for Newsweek Patrick Davison, one third of MemeFactory, researcher at the Web Ecology Project Joe Brown, blogger and reporter for Gizmodo and WIRED Greg Leuch, the genius who created "Shaved Bieber" & a member of F.A.T. Lab Mike Rugnetta, one third of MemeFactory, the definitive performance art piece about internet culture Lilit Marcus, co-founder of Save The Assistants, editor-in-chief of TheGloss.com If you are interested in attending the live event in NYC tomorrow (it's free but space is limited), reserve a spot here. (password is "ketchum") |
| Clarion 2011 open for submissions: boot-camp for SF writers Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:24 PM PST The Clarion 2011 workshop at UCSD La Jolla has just opened up for submissions from writers. Clarion is the original boot-camp-style writing program for science fiction, fantasy and horror writers, with alumni as diverse as Bruce Sterling, Nalo Hopkinson, Jeff VanderMeer, Octavia Butler, Kathe Koja, James Patrick Kelly -- and me! The workshop runs for six weeks, and most students write a story every week; all student work is critiqued by the other students and the in-residence instructors, who also meet with each student one-on-one. Only 18 students are accepted each year. Here's the FAQ. (Disclosure: I am an unpaid, volunteer member of the board of directors of the Clarion Foundation, a 501(c)3 charity that oversees Clarion; I am also a sometime Clarion instructor) |
| UNC team builds 3D model of Rome using Flickr photos on a single PC in one day Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:16 PM PST A UNC team has written an engine that scours Flickr for photos of a city, figures out which ones are images of the same place, analyzes them, and uses the results to build amazingly detailed 3D models -- all in less than a day, using a single PC. Flickr Hack Makes 3D Model of Any City in a Day (Thanks, MooseHP, via Submitterator) |
| Open thread for science and math jokes! Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:14 PM PST  It's Thursday afternoon and I'm feeling a bit silly, so I'm putting out a call for everyone to share their favorite groan-inducing, head-slapping, pun-laden science and math jokes. Here's a couple to start us out: From The Republic of Math on Twitter
I can't remember where I heard this joke, but as the wife of an engineer, it amuses me. Your turn! Image: Some rights reserved by the mad LOLscientist |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:54 PM PST  The latest mask from Ukrainian steampunk/fetish leatherworkers Bob Basset: "Spider eyed custom leather mask." |
| Schneier's modest proposal: Close the Washington monument! Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:49 PM PST No price is to high to pay for security: The empty monument would symbolize our war on the unexpected, -- our overreaction to anything different or unusual -- our harassment of photographers, and our probing of airline passengers. It would symbolize our "show me your papers" society, rife with ID checks and security cameras. As long as we're willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety, we should keep the Washington Monument empty.Close the Washington Monument |
| More fun with setting things on fire, ostensibly for science Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:47 PM PST Last week, we carefully observed the interaction between fire and steel wool. Much important data was gathered. I think we all learned something. Now, it's time to progress our research. Up next: What happens when you use a laser to ignite a piece of paper that's been suspended inside a clear balloon? The slow-motion replay is really the key in this experiment. Don't miss it. Thanks to WorldScott for putting this timely and relevant study on the Submitterator! |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:46 PM PST  This frozen view of Disneyland Paris's Phantom Manor shows you what Disney had in mind with their old "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House" album! |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:35 PM PST Kate Jackson is a herpetologist. Specifically, she is an expert in snakes. I am not. And my distinct discomfort while watching the snake-y parts of this video confirm that this was a sound decision on my part. What prompts some people—like me—to dislike snakes? Here, Kate Jackson is at a loss. She loves snakes and loves her job, and it's a real pleasure to listen to her talk about her work. (If you want to understand the enthusiasm that drives people to become scientists, this is the video to watch.) Some research suggests that the widespread tendency toward ophidiophobia may have its roots in the fact that humans, historically, got a bit of an evolutionary advantage from avoiding snakes. I'll tell you what, though. I think it's the lack of legs that's the real trouble. I harbor no ill-will towards the lizards Jackson shows off. But I am very skeptical about that skink. And, as Jackson says, "You could say the skink is a lizard on its way to becoming a snake." Thanks to Hamish Grant for Submitterating! |
| High school prom "dancing guidelines" Posted: 02 Dec 2010 06:37 PM PST  I'd imagine this is pretty common these days, but students at DW Daniel High School in Central, South Carolina had to sign a contract in order to attend their Winter Semiformal and Prom dance. Along with agreeing to a no-drug/alcohol policy and dress code (nothing see-through, no ball caps, no low-cut dresses, must wear shirts, etc.), they must abide by the following "Dancing guidelines (applies to dancing on and off the dance floor)": No straddling legsAlso, no Elvis the Pelvis shall be played. OK, I'm kidding about that. I think. (Thanks, Steve Marks!) |
| We Liked Your Earlier, Funnier Interviews Better Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:38 PM PST  Steve Martin isn't the same wild and crazy guy he used to be, according to Manhattan's 92nd Street Y. The New York Times reports that the Y offered to refund all 900 attendees their $50 entrance fee to an interview of Martin by Times writer Deborah Solomon. Why? Because they talked about his new book, Object of Beauty, and about art. Martin has been collecting art in a studious and intelligent manner for decades. According to the story, the Y sent up a note asking for less art talk, apparently responding to emails from those watching a remote broadcast. This is odd, because the 92nd St Y is known for bringing damned intellectuals together to talk about damned intellectual stuff. Go figure. Martin noted in Twitter, So the 92nd St. Y has determined that the course of its interviews should be dictated in real time by its audience's emails. Artists beware.Extra points for identifying the headline's paraphrase. Update: A number of people who say they attended the event, including some commenters on this post, explain that the problem wasn't Solomon and Martin talking about art and the new book, but Solomon making a hash of her role as interviewer. Martin Schneider wrote in with a link to his lengthy analysis of the evening, which concludes with a fascinating paragraph that encapsulates the broad issue of spectatorship and reporting: A counter-narrative has arisen that is in complete conflict with this picture of events, a narrative that serves Solomon and Martin's agenda. It would be a disgrace to let that counter-narrative become the final word on this fiasco. Do not believe it. |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 11:40 AM PST Inspired by the joyous holiday season, one resident of Hayden, Idaho made this delightful snowman in his front yard. And yes, that's a noose in its hand. From KXLY.com: "KKK Snowman Spreads Holiday Hate In Hayden " |
| "Lone Deadman" Oswald's coffin for auction Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:48 AM PST  Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin is up for auction. This is the pine box that held the lone deadman from his burial in 1963 to exhumation on October 4, 1981. From Nate D. Sanders Auctions: "Lee Harvey Oswald's Original Pine Coffin That Held His Body From His Burial" "No Conspiracy: Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin for Sale" (AOL News) |
| Weird life found on Earth—kind of, maybe Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:46 AM PST We all saw the hype. So, now, what's actually going on? In a nutshell, there are certain chemicals that are—based on everything we know about life on Earth—assumed to be necessary for the development of life anywhere. When scientists talk about which planets could harbor life, part of what they're basing that speculation on is the presence of these chemicals. At the same time, though, scientists do have active imaginations, and have long cherished the possibility that Earth life (as we know it) isn't necessarily the same thing as life, itself. This new paper, set to be published in Science, might be the first evidence of weird life in action. (Quick clarification, though. This is not evidence of a shadow biosphere or Second Genesis on Earth. More on that below.) A couple of years ago, scientists found bacteria in California's Mono Lake that used arsenic compounds, rather than water, as an ingredient of photosynthesis. In fact, there's been a lot of weird life research centered around Mono Lake. Hot, salty, low in oxygen, and high in lots of other useful chemicals, the Lake has been described as a here-and-now model of the old primordial soup. (It also tastes terrible, as you can see around 4:00 minutes into the video I linked above.) This new study is different, in that it is trying to show that certain bacteria can not only eat arsenic, they can use it in their DNA—completely replacing phosphate, which is one of those chemicals we thought was necessary for life to happen.
Not everybody agrees that this research proves the bacteria are capable of replacing phosphate with arsenic. You can read more about that debate in the really nicely done article at Nature News that I'm quoting above. Also, even if this is proof that phosphate isn't necessary for life, we still don't know whether the bacteria in question actually replace their phosphate in the wild. Right now, this is something humans are convincing it to do in a petri dish. That's why it's not entirely fair to say that weird life has been discovered—all this paper does (if it stands up to the coming onslaught of scrutiny) is show that weird life is, in fact, possible. But that's still a pretty big deal. However you slice it, this is an extremely interesting little bacterium. It isn't alien. It still has the same basic DNA structure we all know and love. It just might be able to use different chemicals to build that old, familiar structure. And that's pretty cool on its own. There are some implications when you start thinking about how said bacterium might expand the list of planets that could potentially harbor life. That, I can only assume, is what got NASA's press release writers so excited to begin with. However, as far as astrobiology goes, what we have here isn't an answer, so much as it is a prompt for a lot of other really interesting questions. Nature News: Arsenic-eating microbe may redefine chemistry of life A Bacterium That Can Grow by Using Arsenic Instead of Phosphorous in the journal Science (Not available yet, but should be later this afternoon, they tell me.) (Thanks to David Dobbs, Lee Billings and Adam Rutherford for their help putting this together. Rutherford, by the way, is the guy drinking Lake Mono water in the video. He says, "I had to drink about 18 cups of Mono Lake. I can exclusively reveal it tastes bloody awful.") |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 10:29 AM PST Kyle Durrie, a letterpress printer, wants to put a portable press in the back of a bread truck, travel the country, and teach about printing. It's a charming idea, and she's already beat her Kickstarter fundraising goal. |
| Yoshitomo Nara exhibition and book Posted: 02 Dec 2010 09:40 AM PST    Last weekend, my family and I visited the Yoshitomo Nara retrospective "Nobody's Fool" currently at New York City's Asia Society. I'd seen many reproductions of the art over the years but I was utterly blown away by the original marvelous paintings as they hung on the wall inches from my face. Nara's imagery may appear delightfully cute and poppy on the surface, and it is, but behind these works is a punk artist struggling with anger, loneliness, and confusion in a hyperreal society. While I've known about Nara's punk/rock influences and mindset, those dimensions were loud and clear in this new exhibit. Along with nearly 100 of Nara's paintings, the exhibit includes three large-scale installations, including a miniature "home," a combination drawing room, carnival tent, and stage, and a series of small doors leading to tiny differently-lit rooms housing a variety of drawings and paintings. If you can't make the exhibition in person (and even if you can), I highly recommend the beautiful exhibition catalog, "Yoshitomo Nara: Nobody's Fool." It's hardcover, wonderfully designed and presented in a slipcase, and is now one of my favorite art books I've seen this year. Yoshitoma Nara: "Nobody's Fool" (Amazon) |
| Black and White and Read All Over Posted: 02 Dec 2010 09:18 AM PST Who is the most-read person in the world? It's not Dan Brown nor J.K. Rowling (or God): it's likely Matthew Carter, the designer of the Georgia and Verdana typefaces, Bell Centennial used in phone books, and a host of others. I interviewed the 73-year-old type maven about his recent MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award, unusual at his age, and his continuing passion at the Economist. |
| Posted: 02 Dec 2010 08:50 AM PST Seattle police use a dedicated Twitter account to report the details of verified car thefts. It's crowdsourcing police work! Police in other cities have tried this, but Seattle has a bizarrely high car theft rate, partly due to a logistical problem in the courts in which car thieves are routinely charged with misdemeanors and released. |
| Tea Party Nation President proposes taking vote away from tenants Posted: 02 Dec 2010 08:37 AM PST Populist Tea Party Nation President Judson Phillips wants to take the vote away from almost all Americans: "the founders of the country originally put 'certain restrictions on who gets the right to vote. One of those was you had to be a property owner. And that makes a lot of sense, because if you're a property owner you actually have a vested stake in the community. If you're not a property owner, you know, I'm sorry but property owners have a little bit more of a vested interest in the community than non-property owners.'" We could also apportion votes based on how much property you owned -- if you owned a hundred houses, you could get a vote for each of them. (Thanks, CliffLandin, via Submitterator!) |
At a meeting about the possibility of making some data available, Patrick Yott of Northeastern suggested that instead of looking for a killer app that uses the data, we ought to be talking about a killer carrot. A killer app attracts users. A killer carrot attracts those who enable killer apps. 
Clarion is widely recognized as a premier training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction short stories. The 2011 writers in residence are Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, David Anthony Durham, John Kessel and Kij Johnson. Each year 18 students, ranging in age from late teens to those in mid-career, are selected from applicants who have the potential for highly successful writing careers. Students are expected to write several new short stories during the six-week workshop, and to give and receive constructive criticism. Instructors and students reside together in UCSD campus apartments throughout the intensive six-week program. 
The homeowner who had the offensive snow sculpture in front of his home is Mark, who was 
Amidst conspiracy theories that a look-alike Russian agent was actually buried in place of Oswald, a fierce legal battle erupted between Robert and Marina Oswald with the former trying to stop the exhumation and the latter pushing it forward. Marina's side prevailed, forcing an exhumation to determine who was actually buried in Oswald's grave. As Lee Harvey Oswald's coffin was lifted, evidence of extensive water damage to the casket was apparent -- the cover was weak in many areas and in one place had caved in partially exposing the remains. The coffin's wood exterior was very soft from moisture damage, and had dark areas of discoloration. Visible along the sides were the tarnished original metallic ornamentation. The interior of the casket also showed splotchy dark discoloration and moisture-softening of the wood. A portion of the original fabric that lined the top of the casket had fallen upon the decomposed remains. After a thorough medical examination, the pathologists assigned to the case officially identified the body as Oswald's as dental records positively matched. At a press conference later that day the following famous statement was made, "The remains in the grave marked as Lee Harvey Oswald are indeed Lee Harvey Oswald." After the news conference, Oswald's remains were transported back to Rose Hill Cemetery for re-interment in a new casket and vault. The original deteriorated coffin offered here, measures 80" long x 24" deep, with the thickness of the sides of the casket approximately one inch. Sitting on wood crate which measures 84" x 24". Accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity by Funeral Director Allen Baumgardner, who assisted at the original embalming of Lee Harvey Oswald and later purchased the Miller Funeral Home along with all of its property.| You are subscribed to email updates from Boing Boing To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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