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Plastic made from fish-scales

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 04:22 AM PDT


Royal College of Art student Erik de Laurens created a new plastic entirely out of fish-scales for his grad project. Fish scales are a waste-product of the fisheries industry, and are discarded in great quantity. De Laurens’s plastic was used to fashion spectacles frames, drinking glasses, and (naturally) swim goggles. He’s seeking funding for further development.

Dezeen » Blog Archive » The Fish Feast by Erik de Laurens

(via Make)

Ousted EMI boss: pirates are our best customers, suing is bad for business

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:34 AM PDT

Douglas C Merrill, who left his job as Google’s CIO to be EMI’s Chief Operating Officer of New Music and President of Digital Business has given a speech in which he claims that EMI’s own research confirmed that P2P music downloaders were the label’s best customers. Merrill, who was one of many tech executives to be recruited by EMI in recent years (one friend of mine left after a few months, visibly shaken, claiming that it was impossible to get the business to see reason), was keynoting the CA Expo in Sydney when he said that LimeWire users were the biggest iTunes customers, and that the record industry’s strategy of suing downloaders “is like trying to sell soap by throwing dirt on your customers.”


"For example, there's a set of data that shows that file sharing is actually good for artists. Not bad for artists. So maybe we shouldn't be stopping it all the time. I don't know," Merrill said.

"Obviously, there is piracy that is quite destructive but again I think the data shows that in some cases file sharing might be okay. What we need to do is understand when is it good, when it is not good…Suing fans doesn't feel like a winning strategy," he concluded.

Former Google CIO: LimeWire Pirates Were iTunes' Best Customers

(Image: Dowload this song., a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from freeflyer09′s photostream)

Paper false eyelashes with wildlife

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:02 AM PDT

These paper-cut false eyelashes are so weirdly striking that I’ll even forgive the vendor for claiming that they are “steeped in Chinese symbolic meaning.” I can’t claim to have much direct experience with false eyelashes, apart from a brief, early-teens fixation with Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange adaptation, but if I saw someone wearing these at a fancy occasion, I think I’d be very impressed.


Inspired by the art of Chinese paper cutting, these delicately pretty and intricately cut paper eyelashes are so utterly exquisite. They come in a really neat little box with a display window and can be reused over and over again and they also make a fabulous and surprising gift and are just plain fun to wear.

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(via Neatorama)

Jeff Sharlet on Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Jeff Sharlet, who has been studying American right-wing movements, spent a good chunk of today live-tweeting his reading of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik’s writings and manifesto. Among other insights: Breivik saw his attack on the youth summer camp as a preemptive strike against future traitors.



A gallery of dull, curious or odd book covers

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:55 PM PDT

Bookride, the wonderful book dealer’s blog, has a fun gallery of “dull, curious or odd book covers.” Here are a few:

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The Joy of Dullness

Bike ride and food tasting in MPLS/St Paul

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:51 PM PDT

Twin Citians: My husband noticed this nifty upcoming event—Bike and Bite is a group ride/local food tasting. It happens August 13th and tickets start at $10

Dissecting the brain of a football player

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:48 PM PDT

In this video from The Guardian, researchers slice into the brain of former NFL player Dave Duerson.

Duerson struggled with the mental health effects of football-related brain injury, finally killing himself in February of this year. Before he died, he asked that his brain be donated to an organization known as the “NFL Brain Bank,” where researchers the brains of deceased sports stars to study what happens to people when their heads are struck over and over and over again.

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy – a research facility so clunkily named that it’s unsurprising Duerson used a semi-accurate abbreviation, “the NFL’s brain bank” – sits in the pleasantly green and airy grounds of the Bedford VA medical centre in Massachusetts, about an hour’s drive outside Boston. It was set up three years ago by concerned former athletes who joined forces with Boston University scientists to grapple with the long-term effects of concussions on sportsmen and women, soldiers and other people subjected to brain injuries.

In this morgue the world’s largest bank of athletes’ brains is being stored on dry ice. It has grown exponentially in the past couple of years to include 75 brains, mostly of American football players but also of hockey enforcers – the tough guys who do the bare-knuckle fighting – and of former soldiers caught in bomb blasts. A further 400 living athletes have promised to donate their brains upon death, including some of the biggest names in their sports. They include “Irish” Micky Ward, the boxer played by Mark Wahlberg in the film The Fighter, and American footballers Matt Birk (Baltimore Ravens), Lofa Tatupu (Seattle Seahawks) and Sean Morey (Arizona Cardinals).

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(Via Brian Malow)

Online class to teach Dwarf Fortress

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Gweek listener Nekomancer says: “If anyone is interested in learning Dwarf Fortress, I am teaching a class on how to play from the basics to the advanced aspects over at University of Reddit. All are welcome!”

Dwarf Fortress Basics is a class for beginner to intermediate players. I will be covering all aspects of the Fortress Mode from world generation, to more advanced topics such as military and nobles.

Class begins August 3rd!

View class: Dwarf Fortress Basics.

Airships vs. Trains

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:36 PM PDT

The airplane may have overtaken the zeppelin for some good and practical reasons, but do newer, better airships have a future? Former Scientific American editor John Rennie has been investigating this in a series of blog posts and stories for Txchnologist. One of the more surprising points he brings up: Airships might actually burn more fuel than trains that travel at a similar speed.



Enormous dribble-tie

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:35 PM PDT


If a necktie that makes women do your bidding isn’t your cup of tea, then how about this little number, “made from heavy awning cloth”?

THE DRIBBLE BIB (Nov, 1951)



Finding the source of migraines (and fifty useless migraine drugs)

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:30 PM PDT

My favorite n=1 experimenter, Seth Roberts, wrote about how someone managed to greatly reduce her migraines by avoiding certain household chemicals.

Sarah MacDonald (pseudonym) started getting migraine headaches the summer before she started college. During her first year of college, she was in a car accident and hit her head. Her migraines got much worse. More than once a week, she had to stay in bed all day, in darkness and silence, not eating anything. She tried pain killers. None worked. “They spread out the pain,” she said. “They made me totally stupid.” The only relief was sleep.

The summer after her freshman year (2004), she stopped getting her period. In November, she saw a doctor near her university (Mount Allison, in New Brunswick). Blood tests showed that her prolactin was way off. The likely cause, said the doctors, was a tumor on the pituitary. But CAT scans and MRIs found nothing. The tumor must be small, her doctors said. It would grow and become visible.

She waited for this to happen. Her doctors kept ordering new scans, looking for the tumor. Eventually she had two CAT scans and five MRIs. None found a tumor. During the year of waiting, she tried about fifty different drugs. None helped. I’m getting desperate, she told her doctors. “You need to give the medicine more time to work,” they said. It was almost a requirement of treatment that she start taking birth control pills. Over the same year that she tried fifty drugs for her migraines, she tried thirteen different birth control pills, hoping to find one that was tolerable and made  her migraines better. She never did. None of them made her migraines worse, but some caused nausea.

In January 2006, unhappy with lack of progress, she stopped taking all medicines, including birth control pills. Her migraines didn’t change. In April 2006, she moved to a new apartment. Because she didn’t have a roommate, she had total control of her living space. She had been reading about environmental causes of migraines. She was especially impressed with Annie Bond‘s story. Bond lives in upstate New York. In the 1980s, after the restaurant where she worked had a gas leak and her apartment building was fumigated. Bond started having all sorts of health problems. They turned out to be due to chemicals in household products. Perhaps the conjunction of gas leak and fumigation made her hypersensitive.

Bond’s story, plus other stories Sarah found on the Internet, suggested that three sorts of chemicals were dangerous:

1. Sodium lauryl sulfate (a foaming agent).
2. Methyl and ethyl parraben (preservatives).
3. Artificial fragrances.

Sarah purged her apartment of anything that contained them or similar chemicals: bodywash, makeup, shower cleaner, laundry detergent, all cleaning products, deodorant, anything that went on her body. She decided there were five household products she couldn’t live without: moisturizer, deodorant, laundry detergent, dish soap, and toothpaste. She got new versions of them at a health food store.

This helped a lot. “That summer [2006] I missed only four days of work,” she said. “It was miraculous and totally shocking.” In the summer, she didn’t have exams, which were stressful. Maybe the decrease in migraines had been due to less stress. When school resumed in the fall, however, her migraines continued to be relatively rare, about two per month. The elimination had really helped.

During the 2006-7 school year, she had a roommate. They fought about cleaning. Her roommate liked the lemon scent of Mr. Clean. But something in Mr. Clean caused trouble. “If she cleaned the bathroom, I’d have a migraine the next day,” said Sarah. Because the time between exposure and the resulting migraine was short, she was able to figure out which chemicals caused migraines. Over the school year, she introduced, one by one, dozens of cleaning products, usually ones her roommate wanted. She figured out that artificial fragrances were bad, as she had guessed, but that sodium lauryl sulfate and the parrabens were okay so long as she did not have direct contact with them. If her roommate used her own dish soap, laundry detergent, toothpaste, and body care products (shampoo, soap, moisturizer), Sarah was fine.

After graduation, she moved to Kentville, Nova Scotia. She had to move her medical records, too, so she brought them to a general practitioner. He looked at them. “We’ll need to have MRIs done,” he said. I’m done with that, Sarah told him. It didn’t go over well. Because of  her GP’s insistence — she was still getting two migraines/month — she saw another round of specialists: endocrinologist, gynecologist, ear nose and throat doctor, neurologist. The endocrinologist said, “There’s a lot of scare stuff on the Internet. It’s hard to pick out the good science. Most of it is placebo effect. You just think it works.” He said this after Sarah had been immensely helped by “stuff on the Internet” and not helped by dozens of drugs. The (male) gynecologist insisted she take birth control pills. “You’re being an idiot about this,” he said. “You’re 23 and you don’t want to have kids.”  Sarah refused. The estrogen in birth control pills can make migraines worse, she said — and she was seeing him because she had migraines. They argued so loudly the office manager could hear them. The gynecologist gave her a birth control prescription anyway, which she ignored. The neurologist did a 45-minute physical. When he was done, he said, “Yes, you’ve got migraines. Have a good life,” and left the room.

In 2008, her oldest brother, an acupuncturist, told her she should have a cleanse to get the toxins from the drugs out of her system. She decided to see a naturopathic doctor. (Naturopathic doctors are closer to conventional doctors than other naturopaths.)  She saw Dr. Susan Ritcey, of Hawthorn Naturopathic Clinic, who specializes in migraines. Dr. Ritcey did something the conventional doctors had never done: study Sarah’s tracking records. Sarah had recorded her periods, migraines, chemical exposures, and other things for several years. The doctor noticed there was a fixed period between the timing of Sarah’s remaining migraines and the start of Sarah’s periods, which she interpreted it to mean Sarah’s progesterone levels were low. A saliva test confirmed this. (Conventional doctors, in Sarah’s experience, never did saliva tests, although they were covered by her insurance. Researchers have used them to measure sex hormones, such as testosterone.) Dr. Ritcey prescribed a topical cream of wild yam to increase progesterone. Sarah applied it daily for three weeks before her period for three months. Her progesterone level became normal — and her migraines less frequent.

By now, they were almost gone — less than one per month. She found that several triggers around the same time were required to produce one. Triggers included a drop in air pressure, exposure to cleaning chemicals (e.g., at school), and perhaps fluorescent lights.

Everyone understands that conventional doctors can’t always help. What’s striking about Sarah’s story is how easily she did better. Sarah’s conventional doctors had gone to medical school, passed a licensing exam, trained as residents, and accumulated years of clinical experience. The research behind their recommendations cost billions of dollars (developing fifty useless drugs, for example). Sarah was an undergrad cognitive science major. Her research was free. Her conventional doctors would have discouraged her from seeing a naturopath. The American Cancer Society says that “available scientific evidence does not support claims that naturopathic medicine can cure cancer or any other disease.” Yet her naturopathic doctor greatly helped her, while her conventional doctors arguably harmed her. The year she took their advice was a year she made no progress — a year of excruciating and frequent migraines and fifty useless drugs.

Swim goggles made from fish scales

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:24 PM PDT

Neat post about an experimental plastic substitute made from fish scales over at Brian Lam’s ocean-themed blog Scuttlefish. So far art student Erik de Laurens “has made not only goggles, but eye-glass frames, drinking cups, and a wooden table with a fish scale inlay” from fish scales.

Summer in the Bronx (BB Flickr Pool photo)

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:05 PM PDT

“Damian and Wayne 2: Point Morris Bronx,” Photo contributed to the BB flickr pool by Chris Arnade.



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Explaining “adverse possession” — squatter’s delight

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:59 PM PDT

Christopher Maag wrote a fascinating piece for Credit.com about the little-known legal claim called “adverse possession” that allows people to take possession of abandoned property.

Here's the basic version of how it works:

1) Someone owns a property, whether it's a house, a condo or just a strip of ground.
2) If the owner isn't using the property, somebody else can come in and use it, without the owner's permission.
3) After some amount of time (in Texas it’s three years; in New York State it’s ten), the squatter can claim ownership free and clear.
People have been making adverse possession claims for decades. The most famous cases happened on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1980s and ’90s, when artists, punks and homeless people squatted in vacant buildings and brownstones.

Squatters Unite! McMansion Squatter Becomes Part of National Movement.

Oslo: Thousands of people raising roses to commemorate the dead

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT

Here’s a video by @morganflame of thousands of people raising flowers in the air, as a gesture to honor the victims of the recent bombing and shooting in Oslo.

Why air conditioning is to blame for Transformers 3

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:40 PM PDT

“In 1902, a 25-year-old engineer from New York named Willis Carrier invented the first modern air-conditioning system. The mechanical unit, which sent air through water-cooled coils, was not aimed at human comfort, however; it was designed to control humidity in the printing plant where he worked. In 1922, he followed up with the invention of the centrifugal chiller, which added a central compressor to reduce the unit’s size. It was introduced to the public on Memorial Day weekend, 1925, when it debuted at the Rivoli Theater in Times Square. For years afterward, people piled into air-conditioned movie theaters on hot summer days, giving rise to the summer blockbuster.” — From Will Oremus’ recent Slate.com article on the history of the air conditioner.



After Jobs, who?

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:36 PM PDT

John Gruber speculates on who might succeed Steve Jobs at Apple, assuming it looks outside the company. He’s right in that all of them look like bad ideas, but what’s really interesting is who isn’t on the list: no-one from a dedicated consumer electronics company. The last 10 years has made the idea of an Apple led by someone like Gerard Kleisterlee (Philips) or Howard Stringer (Sony) extremely odd.

Boingers on Google+

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:49 PM PDT

If you’re using Google+, you can find a number of Boing Boing contributors there. Maggie Koerth-Baker, Rob Beschizza, Dean Putney, Mark Frauenfelder, and Xeni Jardin, for starters. When Google+ rolls out support for businesses and organizations, you’ll be able to find Boing Boing there, too.

Photography-themed Rube Goldberg machine

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:33 PM PDT

Canada’s 2D Photography created this amazing Rube Goldberg device out of photography stuff of all descriptions, and made the whole thing so witty and fun that I watched it twice in a row.

Rube Goldberg

(via Make)

Project Nim: heartbreaking film on animal ethics, and academic arrogance

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:11 PM PDT

[Video Link] I went to see the documentary Project Nim last night at the advice of a friend, and would like to recommend it to all who read Boing Boing. James Marsh (Man on Wire) directed. Be prepared to cry or require hugs afterwards. Above, the trailer. It’s in theaters throughout the USA now.

I was talking about it with Google+ followers last night, and one shared this review which squares with my own reaction. You can watch the first 6 minutes of the film here. The film is based on Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human, by Elizabeth Hess, who consulted on the film.

Without spoiling too much, I’d just like to share that the most upbeat takeaways for me were: Deadheads really can be awesome people. And, chimps like weed.

Birds-eye view of 6,000 airports around the world

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:01 PM PDT

This may be advertorial (and not for Boing Boing, we’re not involved)—but it’s really good stuff. GE produced a satellite, birds-eye view of the 6,000 most popular airports around the world. Filter by busiest, most scenic, interesting geometry and check out photos tagged to location. (thanks, Colin James Nagy)

Augustus Gladstone shows his library

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:48 AM PDT

[Video Link] Augustus Gladstone, the gentleman who lives in an abandoned hotel, has a new video in which he shows his large library of files and drawings from a lifetime of collecting.

Japan: angry Fukushima citizens confront government (video)

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:36 AM PDT

The video above documents what I am told is a meeting between Fukushima residents and government officials from Tokyo, said to have taken place on 19 July 2011. The citizens are demanding their government evacuate people from a broader area around the Fukushima nuclear plant, because of ever-increasing fears about the still-spreading radiation. They are demanding that their government provide financial and logistical support to get out. In the video above, you can see that some participants actually brought samples of their children’s urine to the meeting, and they demanded that the government test it for radioactivity.

When asked by one person at the meeting about citizens’ right to live a healthy and radioactive-free life, Local Nuclear Emergency Response Team Director Akira Satoh replies “I don’t know if they have that right.”

Boing Boing reader Rob Pongi spotted this online and sent this in to us. I asked him for more info.

The current evacuation zone in Fukushima is only 20-30 kilometers. The Japanese government has compensated the evacuees from inside that zone and has financially supported them in moving out of it. However, as more and more high levels of radiation are being discovered outside of the evacuation zone, many more Fukushima residents (and many others located nearby Fukushima) want the government to also help them logistically and financially so that they can move out further away from the nuclear plants. Especially since many children are now being exposed. But the government does not want to do this at all and many people are getting very upset.

This video was filmed in Fukushima at the Corasse Fukushima Building on July 19, 2011. The meeting was entitled “Japanese Government Discussion – Demands for Evacuation Authority”. This meeting was attended by residents of Fukushima and some Representatives for the Nuclear Safety Commission Of Japan. It was filmed by some anonymous members of the “Save Child” website. This site includes Japanese news about the Fukushima Nuclear disaster, advice on how to avoid contamination, and many, many related videos. This site is much like enenews.com on steroids! I checked domaintools.com and the name of the registration is private. You can see the original Japanese videos of this meeting on the Save Child website here (English), and on Youtube here. This video was translated by pejorativeglut. And, for sure, the English subtitles are correct. I was not involved in the production of this video.



Washington DC’s Soap Box Derby

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:31 AM PDT

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(photo by Joe McCary, DC Soapbox Derby)


Last month was the 70th Greater Washington Soap Box Derby, one of the oldest soap box derbies in the country having first been held in the capital in 1938. Smithsonian reports from the roadside:

In 1933, Myron Scott, a photographer for the Dayton Daily News in Ohio, came across three boys racing hand-made, motorless cars down a local hill. Tickled by the sight, he invited the boys to come back a week later, with friends, and he would officiate a more formal race. Nineteen hardscrabble racers showed up. Feeling encouraged, Scott approached his editor. "My boss agreed, somewhat reluctantly, to let me promote a race," Scott once told a reporter. With $200 from the paper, he hosted a larger derby in Dayton on August 19, 1933. A total of 362 kids brought cars with chassis made of fruit crates and scrap wood propped up on wheels pilfered from baby buggies and roller skates. According to police estimates, 40,000 people gathered to watch the spectacle.

The success of Scott's inaugural race prompted Editor & Publisher, a monthly magazine focused on the newspaper industry, to run a story, and newspapers across the country took Scott's lead, sponsoring their own soapbox races. In April 1938, the Washington Star announced in its back pages that it and the American Legion were sponsoring the first derby in the nation's capital…

The Greater Washington Soap Box Derby, which has had stints on different hills throughout the city, was moved to Capitol Hill in 1991, in large part to gain more exposure. Congressman Steny Hoyer of Maryland is a loyal supporter, having sponsored the bill to allow the event to take place on Capitol grounds for 20 years now. "The soap box derby is not just a race," he said on the House floor in 2009. "It is an enriching way to engage our youth, and teach them the importance of ingenuity, commitment and hard work." And yet, this year, the event's officials scrambled to recruit 12 stock drivers, 12 super stock and six masters—the minimum number of racers in each division for it to count as a "local" and send three division winners to Akron. A couple of years ago, in an effort to make the All-American more relevant, its board considered adding a category at the world championship in which older kids raced wind- or solar-powered vehicles uphill.

The History of Soap Box Derby

Thumbtack Press relaunch: cool affordable framed art prints

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:10 AM PDT

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Thumbtack Press, which sells framed and unframed art prints (including some of my art), has relaunched with lots of great new art. They also have a “virtual room” feature that gives you an idea of what a print will look like on a wall. Above, “Atlas,” by Candykiller.

Thumbtack Press relaunch

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NASCAR prayer (video)

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:43 AM PDT

[Video Link]

A pre-race prayer at the NASCAR Nationwide series race in Nashville Tennessee, on July 23, 2011.

“We want to thank you, Lord, for these mighty machines…. Lord I want to thank you for my smokin’ hot wife…. Boogity Boogity Boogity. Amen.”

(via Tabitha Hale on Google+)

A bowl of dancing squid in Hokkaido, Japan (video)

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:38 AM PDT

[Video Link]. How does this work? The YouTube comments point to the basic idea being that the sodium in the soy sauce causes the legs to move, even though the squid is dead, by some definition of death, anyway… From the YouTube description:

There’s still some question as to whether or not it’s officially “dead” at the time of serving. The brain is probably still in the body, but a significant part of its nervous system, the giant axon, I believe extends into the mantle, which has been cut. I’m not an expert on squids so I can’t really come to a definite conclusion about that.

As you can see in the beginning, it’s not moving at all when it’s brought out so I assume that signals around the body have stopped, whereas a fresh intact squid out of water would constantly move around. This doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s “dead” but it seems to me that it’s at least incapacitated.

Paging Boing Boing science editor Maggie Koerth-Baker to the comments, please!

Over at G+, Dustin Hoffman described it as “a culinary seizure.”

(thanks, Miles O’Brien)

Time lapse video of the NYT homepage

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Set to music by Justice, this time lapse video of the New York Times‘ homepage covers stories, pics and otherstuff from September 2010 to July 2011.

Chow makes a video of Mark making sauerkraut

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT

The friendly folks at Chow came to my house to learn how I make sauerkraut, and what I like to do with it after I make it. They shot a video, which you can see at Chow.com.

When Mark Frauenfelder, editor in chief of MAKE Magazine and cofounder of Boing Boing, isn’t busy making organic-peanut-butter-mixing machines, he is mixing up family-friendly projects like this, his version of sauerkraut. We visited this tin-can guitarist and king of the geeked-out project at his home in Los Angeles.

Mark Frauenfelder's Go-To Cooking Project

HOWTO build a road-sign fence

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 03:20 AM PDT


Designer/architect Wholman made this fence out of discarded, recycled road-signs in Greensboro, AL, along with the local YouthBuild chapter (a Department of Labor project “that provides low-income young people a chance to study for their GED and acquire trade skills, all while earning a small stipend for their labor”). He’s posted an Instructable so you can do it, too (this may just be the coolest fence I’ve ever seen).

The local county and state highway engineering offices donated old road signs, which we then cut, sanded, filed, and drilled to create pickets. Using jigs and a self-organized assembly line, the students manufactured nearly a thousand pickets for roughly 225 linear feet of fencing. By cutting and randomly re-assembling the signs, the graphics were broken and rebuilt into a new collage of abstract symbol and color.

Sad endnote: Congress has shuttered YouthBuild, even though “YouthBuild generates $9 of economic output for every $1 spent on it.”

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