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- A farewell to Leon Botha from Die Antwoord's Ninja and Yo-Landi
- Careers in PLASTICS, 1947
- Using clickfraud on Google ads to amass shares of Google
- Comparative analysis of leaked Sony and Gawker passwords
- 1950s AT&T film: How to dial your phone
- China's Politburo warns Google not to be "political"
- Figure Drawing For All It's Worth: prized instructional art book by Andrew Loomis back in print
- TOM THE DANCING BUG: Sarah "Wadsworth" Palin recites "Paul Revere's Ride"
- HOWTO make tame lightning and possibly kill yourself
- The "1-10-100 Principle" for experimenters
- Guerrilla camper re-opens shuttered Michigan public campsite
- Talk-o-Meter shows how much each person in a conversation talks
- Record industry lobby says it no longer supports 3-strikes copyright termination laws
- Nathan Myhrvold's bible of molecular gastronomy
- In memoriam: Leon Botha, South African artist, DJ, and wonderful human being.
- Death threats for Aussie climate scientists
- Artists build house where it rains inside
- Boing Boing Live at Apple WWDC keynote
- Itty bitty 3D printer
- Picture disc 78s from the 1940s
- Wedding-dress made from life-saving parachute
- Video from the 1940 Macy's Thanksgiving parade
- Imaginary Polish covers for classic books
- Counterfeiting can be good for luxury goods sales
- Rather impressive vinyl collection
- Sprouts might not have caused German E. coli epidemic after all
- Danish DIY rocket has first successful launch
- How doctors first noticed the existence of AIDS
- HOWTO make a Joule Thief and get all the power you've paid for
- Level Up: Gene Yang's comic about destiny, games, and filial piety
| A farewell to Leon Botha from Die Antwoord's Ninja and Yo-Landi Posted: 07 Jun 2011 05:24 AM PDT  Ninja and Yo-Landi of Die Antwoord share the following memorial to their friend Leon Botha, who died Sunday at age 26 of complications from progeria. (Translations: JOL - Party; CHOMMIE - Best friend). Ninja and Yo-Landi write: In 2008, before DIE ANTWOORD was known outside of Cape Town, we threw our 1st ZEF RAP-RAVE JOLS at a dodgy little club called the Purple Turtle in Long Street (CT). The line up was our chommie, DJ SOLARIZE (Leon Botha), our chommie JACK PAROW, DIE ANTWOORD and our other chommies, THE WEDDING DJ'S.
These special little zef jols we threw with Leon back in 2008 sparked a tough little fire that later spread all over the world!
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| Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:18 AM PDT  Anticipating "The Graduate" by 20 years, the January, 1947 ad from Mechanix Illustrated asks, "Have you considered a career in PLASTICS?" YOU MAKE THINGS-To give you practical experience in working with plastics, we supply handsome, colorful, rods, sheets and tubes of plastics from which you can if you wish, make useful, attractive creations. You cement, saw, buff, form, dye, decorate, cast and laminate various types of plastics. You design plastic articles--develop your own ideas. You may earn money while learning.Have you considered a career in PLASTICS? (Jan, 1947) |
| Using clickfraud on Google ads to amass shares of Google Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:13 AM PDT  Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) is an art/economics project/prank/criminal enterprise that uses a network of hidden sites that register fraudulent clicks on Google Ads. The revenue from these ads is used to buy shares of Google. At the present rate, the organizers estimate that they will own all of Google in about 200,000 years. They pledge to then turn the company over to the public. We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!GWEI (via Reddit) |
| Comparative analysis of leaked Sony and Gawker passwords Posted: 06 Jun 2011 06:45 PM PDT While it's pretty awful that a million Sony users' passwords and 0.25 million Gawker passwords were published online, it has made for an interesting comparative analysis of the weaknesses in password protection, a subject near and dear to many security researchers' hearts. Troy Hunt has published one such analysis, and it's a fascinating read, full of real, verifiable stats about the problems users have managing their passwords (for example, 67% of users with accounts on both Sony and Gawker used the same password for both). A brief Sony password analysis (via Some Bits) |
| 1950s AT&T film: How to dial your phone Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:30 AM PDT Dr2717 sez, "In the mid 1950s, switchboards were giving way to self-dialed phones. AT&T, playing the role of the geeky kid who teaches Mom how to use the new computer, created this film to show people how they would make their own telephone connections using a rotary dial. Lessons taught in this film, among others, include 'Wait for the Dial Tone,' and 'The Difference Between Ringing and Busy Signals.'" This film opens with the demonstrator pointing out the importance of correctly using the dial telephone. Correct dialing techniques are demonstrated, with an emphasis placed on the following:Now You Can Dial (Thanks, Dr217!) |
| China's Politburo warns Google not to be "political" Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:27 AM PDT Phil sez, "After Google revealed that its recent major hacker attack originated in China, the PRC is making not-so-thinly veiled threats to Google about being "political" and how that might 'hurt their business.'" "Google shouldn't engulf itself in the international political war as a tool for political gaming," said the commentary, written by editor Zhang Yixuan. If there is "any change in the international atmosphere, I am afraid Google will become a target to be sacrificed by politics, and also will be discarded by the market.China Warns Google Not to Be Evil |
| Figure Drawing For All It's Worth: prized instructional art book by Andrew Loomis back in print Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:27 PM PDT  Andrew Loomis was an American illustrator whose work appeared in many magazines in the mid-20th century. In addition to his beautiful editorial work for magazines, Loomis also wrote and illustrated a half dozen or so instructional drawing books, and for the last 30 years or so they've been in great demand, even though they've been out of print. About 15 years ago I went to a used bookstore here in Los Angeles, and when I asked the owner if he had any Loomis books for sale he told me that the Disney studio had a standing order for any Loomis books that came into the store. Many professional illustrators have told me that their Loomis books are the most valuable teaching tools they own. I eventually got my hands on a couple of his books, paying about $100 per copy. These were beat up copies, without the dust jackets. (If you want a Loomis illustration book in good condition, you can expect to pay a few hundred dollars or it.) It's easy to find Loomis's books as PDF files online, but the quality isn't that great. Fortunately, Titan Books just released a new edition of Figure Drawing For All It's Worth, one of Loomis's best-known instructional illustration books. This hardbound edition is a facsimile of the original edition, which came out in 1943. Since I have the earlier edition as well as the new one, I was able to compare them side-by-side. The new version is much better. The original edition was printed on cheap, thin paper. The new edition is much thicker, and the pages are whiter. The quality of the printing in the original (top) is very slightly better than in the new edition (bottom). The new edition is a touch more harsh than the original. The original has more shades of gray. But the overall difference is very minor. Like I said: I paid about $100 for my beat-up copy of Figure Drawing For All It's Worth, and I feel it was money well spent. The new edition is $23.49 on Amazon, which is an outright steal. |
| TOM THE DANCING BUG: Sarah "Wadsworth" Palin recites "Paul Revere's Ride" Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:24 PM PDT
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| HOWTO make tame lightning and possibly kill yourself Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:23 AM PDT  Here's a delightfully dangerous HOWTO from the July, 1937 issue of Modern Mechanix giving directions for making your own tame lightning wiht a giant Oudin Coil. As Charlie Shopsin notes, "When even a DIY article from 1937 peppers its instructions with warnings, it's probably best to be very careful." THE apparatus about to be described is capable of throwing a spark four and a half feet long. In spite of its deadly appearance, this spark is quite harmless. The operator may hold a metal rod in his hand and let it jump to the end of the rod and run through his body to ground, not only without harm, but without any sensation of shock. A rather spectacular stunt is to hold one wire leading to an incandescent light, and bring the other end near the coil. The lamp will be lighted by the current passing through the body and may in a few minutes even be burned out. A mystifying trick is to hold a short length of neon tube in one's hand, and approach the coil. Long before there is any sign of a spark jumping to the tube, it will light with its characteristic glow.MAKE Artificial LIGHTNING WITH GIANT OUDIN COIL |
| The "1-10-100 Principle" for experimenters Posted: 06 Jun 2011 02:06 PM PDT  Above: Scott Weaver came to Maker Faire to show how he makes incredible toothpick sculptures. The "1-10-100 principle" applies to his art, I'm sure. Peter Tu of GE Global Research went to Maker Faire in San Mateo in May and wrote a piece about what he witnessed there. Like many others, he was impressed with Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe's talk about the "1-10-100 Principle" for experimenters. Two of the stars of the event were Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe who are famous for their viral Coke and Mentos videos. I enjoyed a talk they gave on their approach to innovation as it applies to performance art. Their method follows the 1-10-100 principle. It takes one experiment to spark a concept. By experiment 10 one should have fleshed things out and have defined a direction. By experiment 100 one hopes to have found something that is sublime… The four rules that they espouse are: 1) seek variation – explore the possibilities. 2) be obsessive – keep focused until one finds something special.3) be stubborn – don't give up until you work through the problems. 4) set limits and work within them – unconstrained innovation meanders and wonders, only by setting limits does it force one to dive into the depths of a concept. Their thoughts are somewhat reminiscent of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", where the key idea is to have an obsession with quality and to always have a good pot of coffee close at hand.GE and Maker Faire: a match made in nerd heaven |
| Guerrilla camper re-opens shuttered Michigan public campsite Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:20 AM PDT Persons unknown recently re-opened Michigan's West Branch State Forest Campground, mowing sites, moving the boulders that blocked the entrance and breaking into the bathrooms. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources speculates on the guerrilla camper's motivations, suggesting that s/he was either just eager to camp, or wanted to protest the planned closure of more Michigan campsites. But recently, perhaps over the Memorial Day weekend, someone illegally re-opened the campground. Grass at two of the campsites had been mowed, as well as along a short path toward the river. The campsites are nearest restrooms, which had their door handles and locks broken away.Campground closed in 2009 illegally reopened (via Consumerist) |
| Talk-o-Meter shows how much each person in a conversation talks Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:53 PM PDT  "Talk-o-Meter is a new chat-monitoring iPhone app that shows when someone is dominating a conversation. After brief calibration, the app can recognize who is speaking and keeps track of each person's talk time." Talk-o-Meter: Monitoring Flow and Balance In Conversation |
| Record industry lobby says it no longer supports 3-strikes copyright termination laws Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:15 AM PDT Following a UN report condemning laws that require ISPs to disconnect households accused of copyright infringement, the Australian record industry lobby has declared that it does not support the practice anymore. Recording Industry Steps Back From Piracy Disconnections (Image: hadopi_logo, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from 30468198@N08's photostream) |
| Nathan Myhrvold's bible of molecular gastronomy Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:24 PM PDT  Smithsonian profiles Microsoft billionaire Nathan Myhrvold, author of Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, the new multi-volume bible of molecular gastronomy (although they don't like that term): Food Like You've Never Seen Before (Smithsonian) |
| In memoriam: Leon Botha, South African artist, DJ, and wonderful human being. Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:09 PM PDT [Video Link] Leon Botha, a South African artist and DJ who became widely known through his association with the band Die Antwoord, died on Sunday from complications related to progeria. He was 26. He died one day after his birthday. Botha was one of the longest-living persons ever to have been diagnosed with this rare disease. Word spread online last night. Leon had been struggling with increasing physical challenges in recent months. He shared some of that experience with me, along with news of his creative explorations, in occasional emails. Boing Boing pal Griffin of the South African counterculture blog WatKykJy today confirmed the sad news for us: Leon's condition became grave last week, and he died Sunday from a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot on his lungs). Leon was working on a new painting of Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er of Die Antwoord just this last week, Yo-Landi tells us. "He was an angel," she said today. I did not know Leon as well as Ninja, Yo-Landi, and other friends in South Africa's art and DJ circles, but I would like to share a little of the interaction I had with this gentle and singular soul by way of Boing Boing.
I first became aware of Leon through his appearance in some of Die Antwoord's early music videos; he appeared in them as a DJ/"hype man," and his unusual physical appearance made him instantly unforgettable. At the time, I didn't know his name, or anything about him beyond that physical appearance. For many, that first physical impression, what progeria does to the human form, defined him. But Leon did not want to be defined by this difference. We ended up becoming internet pen-pals of a sort. Through this, and through some of his friends (who all expressed great affection and protectiveness toward Leon) I learned more about his visual and performance art work. In that work, in his written word, and in some of the incredible monologues you can find from on YouTube, his presence radiates. All who knew him, and all who were touched by his spirit through those videos, will know what I mean when I say that he emanated deep sincerity, gentleness, a serenity and quiet wisdom. Leon was aware of his own mortality in ways most people are not. He transformed that awareness into a sort of mindfulness of how vast and awesome life is. One day over email, Leon shared with me that the passing mentions of him that existed on Wikipedia were upsetting to him. He was mentioned only on the page for Die Antwoord, and under the page for the disease he had, progeria. "I was a bit paranoid that my art wouldn't be in there, in case something happened to me," he said. Leon was very mindful of the value of the internet as a reflection of human life, and an archive of the living after they die. He wanted to be understood as a complex, self-determined, thoughtful creator and connector and thinker. Not as a disease, and not as a footnote in someone else's better-known story. He wanted to be known for who he really was while he was alive. He wanted us to respect him, and his work, after he was gone.
Recently, our email exchanges seemed to include news of greater physical hardships for Leon. He never complained, but when I asked after longer silences, he shared. I cannot imagine the physical suffering he endured.
How are you holding up, I asked him once after he went through a particularly painful medical procedure. Things were not sounding good. I am here, he said. "I am trying to work and focus, not letting the outer world speak more loudly than my inner. Because I think we tend to forget. Have a great day, peace."
Below, I will paste without edits the autobiography he sent me in 2010, when he was frustrated by Wikipedia. These words, his own words, best defined who he was and what he'd accomplished so far, in that last year of his life.
Leon Botha was born on the 4th of June, 1985. Brought up and still living in Cape Town, South Africa. He started drawing at the age of three. And was diagnosed with progeria around the age of 4 years. He took art in high school. Painting and Jewelery design for two years. He did not receive any formal training, and did not study art any further.
Here is Leon's Wikipedia page now. He seemed pretty happy with how it represented him in the end, thanks to the thoughtful work of dedicated Wikipedia editors who took the task of crafting a living person's biography seriously. It's funny how something as simple and transient as a page on Wikipedia can have significance in someone's life.
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| Death threats for Aussie climate scientists Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:09 AM PDT Leading Australian climate scientists have received death threats and harrassing messages over social media. This is in the context of a controversial carbon tax proposal, being advocated by Australia's climate scientists and government following a year of record storms and floods that made Australia seem like a version of Sim City set on "insanely difficult." Young said that scientists had been threatened with assault if they were identified in the street. Among those targeted is Prof Will Steffen, ANU's climate institute director.Australian climate scientists receive death threats |
| Artists build house where it rains inside Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:36 AM PDT  Nicolai Lorenzen photo Australian art/design collective The Glue Society built a house where it rains inside. Continuously. It reminds me of San Francisco's kitsch equivalent, The Tonga Room tiki bar in which there are regularly-scheduled rainstorms over the artificial lagoon. More photos over at Hi-Fructose. The Glue Society's "I Wish You Hadn't Asked" |
| Boing Boing Live at Apple WWDC keynote Posted: 06 Jun 2011 12:05 PM PDT  [ Update: 10am PT: the BB 2011 WWDC liveblog is under way. ] I'll be at the Moscone Center in San Francisco this morning for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, and will be live-blogging photos and tweets from the event on the Boing Boing Liveblog.The keynote is scheduled to start at 10am Pacific time (1pm ET, or GMT-7) today Monday, June 6, 2011. Word is that Steve Jobs himself and various Apple execs will be introducing Mac OSX 10.7 (Lion), iOS 5, and iCloud at the 2011 WWDC. Along with questions about how each of these new products will interrelate, we're all wondering about what hasn't been teased: maybe a new iPhone? We'll all find out soon enough, and I'll be alerting you as fast as my fingers can tweet and my wireless-connected digital camera can publish. If you have questions, or are curious about anything in particular in the keynote, please send me a tweet so I can look into it and take some pictures for you! |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:15 AM PDT  Bruce Sterling calls this tiny 3D printer "Cute and eerie."
High-quality 3D printing at home has just come one step closer. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria have presented the smallest 3D printer to date. At the size of a carton of milk and weighs 1.5 kilograms, it currently costs around €1,200 but the makers expect the price to drop quickly.The World's Smallest 3D Printer |
| Picture disc 78s from the 1940s Posted: 06 Jun 2011 10:08 AM PDT  A progenitor to the vinyl picture discs that were popular in the 1980s, Vogue Picture Records are 10-inch, 78 RPM records with an illustration on paper embedded in transparent vinyl. From the Association of Vogue Picture Record Collectors: Vogue Picture Records (via Collectors Weekly) |
| Wedding-dress made from life-saving parachute Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:59 AM PDT  From the Smithsonian's collection of remarkable artifacts, a wedding dress made from a B-29 pilot's life-saving parachute: In August 1944, Hensinger, a B-29 pilot, and his crew were returning from a bombing raid over Yowata, Japan, when their engine caught fire. The crew was forced to bail out. Suffering from only minor injuries, Hensinger used the parachute as a pillow and blanket as he waited to be rescued. He kept the parachute that had saved his life. He later proposed to his girlfriend Ruth in 1947, offering her the material for a gown.Parachute Wedding Dress |
| Video from the 1940 Macy's Thanksgiving parade Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:20 AM PDT Here's what I learned. In 1940: Learning is fun! Submitterated by Standard |
| Imaginary Polish covers for classic books Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:20 AM PDT   Poland has a long history of innovative book jacket design, as evidenced by a new book titled 1000 Polish Book Covers. To shine a light on this rich tradition of design, 50 Watts held a contest asking contestants to "design the 'Polish' edition' of their favorite book." Above left, the winner, Ben Jones's design for George Orwell's "1984." Above right, Marc Storrs and Rob Murphy's cover for Bernard Heuvelmans' "On the Track of Unknown Animals." "Polish Book Cover Contest Winners" |
| Counterfeiting can be good for luxury goods sales Posted: 06 Jun 2011 04:06 AM PDT  A pair of studies, one of US consumer and one of Chinese consumers, show that counterfeiting of high-end branded goods can generate more sales. The Slate article discusses the notion of counterfeits as gateways to the real thing, and of successful strategies for distinguishing fakes from licensed goods. But there's another dimension to the relationship of counterfeits to luxury goods. "Positional goods" are products whose value is derived in part from what they say about their owners ("I can afford to buy this expensive thing"). When a positional good -- this year's Prada handbag -- is knocked off and widely distributed, the legit goods no longer convey their intended message. For people who scrimped and saved to buy their one real handbag, this is terrible news. But cost-insensitive (rich) customers, who are the core market for luxury goods, are spurred to go out and buy this year's Prada bag, to distinguish themselves from the hoi polloi. But a dirty little secret is that Prada rip-offs can also function as free advertising for real Prada handbags--partly by signaling the brand's popularity, but, less obviously, by creating what MIT marketing professor Renee Richardson Gosline has described as a "gateway" product. For her doctoral thesis, Gosline immersed herself in the counterfeit "purse parties" of upper-middle-class moms. She found that her subjects formed attachments to their phony Vuittons and came to crave the real thing when, inevitably, they found the stitches falling apart on their cheap knockoffs. Within a couple of years, more than half of the women--many of whom had never fancied themselves consumers of $1,300 purses--abandoned their counterfeits for authentic items...The Highest Form of Flattery (Thanks, TimHarford) |
| Rather impressive vinyl collection Posted: 06 Jun 2011 09:03 AM PDT  While searching for storage solutions for my LPs, I came across this terrific photo of DJ Moncef Belyamani. IKEA should hire Moncef as their poster child for Expedit bookcases. Me? I just need one of the small units. Well, half of one actually. But I can always dream. |
| Sprouts might not have caused German E. coli epidemic after all Posted: 06 Jun 2011 01:14 PM PDT German officials still haven't definitively traced the source of the E. coli outbreak that's killed 22 people and sickened thousands. Over the weekend, preliminary tests suggested that the culprit might have been a bad batch of organic sprouts. But as those tests have continued, the connection is starting to look more tenuous. More testing will be done on the sprouts and officials are still looking for alternative sources of the disease. |
| Danish DIY rocket has first successful launch Posted: 06 Jun 2011 08:49 AM PDT Copenhagen Suborbitals—I posted about them here last year, and Pesco gave them a write-up in 2008—is a Danish team that's been working for several years on a DIY rocket they hope will one day send humans into space. Yesterday, they had their first successful test launch. Don't get too excited. The only passenger was a dummy, and the rocket only made it two miles up (it would need to hit 62 miles high to qualify as "spaceflight"). But, for volunteers (albeit, highly trained volunteers) working on a hobby, this is still a damned impressive feat. In the video above, you can watch the flight from the point of view of the crash test dummy riding in the Tycho Brahe rocket's cockpit. There are lots more videos up on the Copenhagen Suborbitals website. Or you can watch the inevitable remix, that crosses the Tycho Brahe cockpit cam with "Double Rainbow"-esque audio. Submitterated by snarf |
| How doctors first noticed the existence of AIDS Posted: 06 Jun 2011 07:57 AM PDT  Although AIDS, and the virus that causes it, had been quietly at work around the world since, probably, the 1950s, yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the public health community's discovery of the disease. Science journalist Maryn McKenna marked the occasion with a fascinating, heart-wrenching excerpt from her 2004 book Beating Back the Devil, about the Epidemic Intelligence Service disease detectives. These men and women are on the front lines of spotting and (ideally) stopping outbreaks early. Naturally, when AIDS cases began to cluster in Southern California in 1981, the EIS were among the first to know about it.
30 Years of AIDS, and How It Began Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Image courtesy Flickr user TimoStudios via CC |
| HOWTO make a Joule Thief and get all the power you've paid for Posted: 06 Jun 2011 03:56 AM PDT  This wee beastie is a Joule Thief, a device whose sole purpose in life is to exhaust the power remaining in batteries that are too weak to do anything else. Simply build these and affix them to your "dead" batteries and thrill to the spectacle of the power you've paid for being available to you, right down to the last dribble. Make a Joule Thief (via Red Ferret) |
| Level Up: Gene Yang's comic about destiny, games, and filial piety Posted: 25 Mar 2011 03:51 AM PDT  Gene Luen Yang (author of the brilliant graphic novel American Born Chinese") returns to long-form work with Level Up, illustrated by Thien Pham. Level Up is the story of Dennis Ouyang, a Chinese kid growing up in America, obsessed with video games and at war with his father, who wants him to "eat bitter" and grow up to be an academic success. When Dennis's father dies of cancer, Dennis flunks out of college and makes ready to tell his mother (and break her heart). But that's when Dennis's life gets weird: a quartet of greeting-card angels appear on his doorstep and announce that they are there to help him fulfill his destiny: to be a gastroenterologist. Dennis recognizes the angels: they graced the greeting card his father gave him on the occasion of his being made valedictorian of his eighth grade class (and later took back when Dennis struggled with poor grades). These angels are sweet but very firm: they get him reenrolled in college and ride Dennis until he graduates with good grades and is admitted to medical school; they cook his meals and wash his clothes, they prepare flash-cards and alternately chide and praise him all the way along. Now in med school, Dennis begins to realize that his "destiny" isn't what he wants from life -- he misses his video games, and senses a yawning chasm between the life he is being dragged into and the life he needs to live. What happens next is touching, surprising, and extremely satisfying (and I won't give it away). Yang's got a gift for characters who understand their duty but don't fully believe it; Level Up is a great example of that dilemma. It's a manifesto for everyone who's ever wrestled with the expectations of their family, their friends, and their society (and who hasn't?), and it's ultimately both humane and inspiring. |
In short, half of the passwords had only one character type and nine out of ten of those where all lowercase. But the really startling bit is the use of non-alphanumeric or characters: 
Speaking with SMH, MIPI general manager Sabiene Heindl, today said that while MIPI supports "mitigation measures" for dealing with persistent illegal file-sharers, "such measures would not include termination of Internet accounts." 
Myhrvold, (famed modernist chef Ferran) Adrià and other chefs reject that label as inaccurate. Besides, as a phrase to lure restaurant customers it's not exactly up there with Steak Frites. But I think it captures Adrià's unique perspective, his ability to transcend the inherent attributes of vegetables and cuts of meat. For most of human history, cooks took their raw ingredients as they came. A carrot was always and forever a carrot, whether it was cooked in a pan with butter or in the oven with olive oil or in a pot with beef and gravy. Modernist cooking, to use Myhrvold's term, deconstructs the carrot, as well as the butter, olive oil and beef, into their essential qualities—of flavor, texture, color, shape, even the temperature of the prepared dish—and reassembles them in ways never before tasted, or imagined. It creates, says Myhrvold, "a world where your intuition fails you completely," where food doesn't look like what it is, or necessarily like food at all. One of its proudest achievements is Hot and Cold Tea—a cup of Earl Grey that by some chemical magic is hot on one side and cold on the other. "It's a very odd feeling," says one of Myhrvold's two co-authors, a chef named Chris Young. "Kind of makes the hairs stand up on the back of your head..."
Vogue picture records were produced by Sav-Way Industries of Detroit, Michigan. The first 10-inch Vogue picture record (catalog number R707) was released to the public in May 1946. Production ceased less than a year later in April 1947, with Sav-Way entering into receivership in August 1947. During this time, approximately seventy-four different 10-inch Vogue picture records were released... | 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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