UK riots: Manchester police "embrace" social media—"We said we were coming for you!" BART statement on killing wireless service in stations on Aug. 11, in anticipation of civil unrest Religion, vegetarianism, and law square off in New Jersey samosa skirmish Mexico: Huichol Indian bead-dazzled Volkswagen Beetle Nanny of the Month: the vegetable garden forbidder Fun kids' book: You Might Be a Monster, by Attaboy UK riots: Wall of looted store transformed into Post-It messages to looters Amazon's Cloud Reader designed to avoid paying Apple a 30% cut Shinji Saito, World YoYo Champion Dave Allen (Gang Of Four bassist) on UK riots today vs. UK riots of '70s-'80s punk era Google+ nymwars rage on, pseudonymous celebrity users are immune A charming comic about an ugly animal Interview with a one-year-old (video) Friday Freak-Out: The Left Banke's "Walk Away Renee" (1966) GOPokemon: an odd poetic quotation from Herman Cain Antimatter ships: Still a long ways away The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses Listen to Perseid meteor shower Suicide by nail gun more common, less successful, than you might guess Shutting down cell service to prevent rumored protest Hardware hacking hubs Sponsor Shout Out: Watchismo How language affects color perception Michael Lewis on Germany and the Europocalypse Doctor tried to cure homosexuality by tasping gay man while he had sex with female prostitute SF in SF reading series: Tad Williams & Deborah Beale Stasi spywear: the inept art of commie disguise HOWTO farm with dynamite, the Art Nouveau edition CC-friendly photographer offers free courses 1968: when Britain's Daily Mirror tried to overthrow Parliament 
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UK riots: Manchester police "embrace" social media—"We said we were coming for you!"
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 13, 2011 06:24 am [Video Link: "Operation Valant Arrest," a video uploaded to YouTube by the UK Manchester police division.] Fiona McCann, on Storyful: Manchester Police have been using social network to help them in their crackdown against looters and rioters, and publishing the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 10:21 pm (Image contributed to the BB Flickr Pool by Bhautik Joshi) Finally, here is BART's cop-out explanation for why they shut down wireless service in Bay Area stations on Aug. 11. BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 09:47 pm (Image: Golden brown (samosas), a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (2.0) image from jakerome's photostream) A legal case in New Jersey in which a group of Hindu religious vegetarians were served meat samosas has become an interesting test of religious rights …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 09:43 pm People look at a 1990s Volkswagen Beetle named "Vochol" during an exhibition on Huichol culture at the Museum of Puebla, near Mexico City August 10, 2011. The name "Vochol", was conceived from a combination of "Vocho," a popular term for …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 12, 2011 09:30 pm [Video Link] Here's Reason TV's take on the Nanny of the Month. The winning loser this time is Oak Park, Michigan City Planner Kevin Rulkowski who wanted to jail a woman for growing vegetables in her front yard. See also: …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 12, 2011 09:25 pm Our friend Attaboy has a new kids' book out, called You Might Be a Monster. Atta's creepy cool monsters are an insane delight. They'll leap off the page, squirm through your kid's optic nerve, and haunt her brain forever. You …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 09:24 pm Local residents posted hundreds of messages on a looted storefront in Peckham, southeast London, on August 12, 2011. Associated Press: "Thousands of extra police officers were stationed on Britain's streets Friday, as the country faced its first weekend since riots …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 12, 2011 09:10 pm The new Kindle Cloud Reader web app is an end-run around having to pay Apple's 30% cut of stuff sold through iOS apps. Today, Amazon.com announced Kindle Cloud Reader, its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 09:00 pm Video Link: "Shinji Saito 1st Place 2A World YoYo Contest 2011." Old Skool Flavor is right! Dig the D&B track he's spinning to. (via Andrew Baron/G+)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 08:23 pm [Video Link: Gang of Four, "I Found That Essence Rare," Peel Sessions, 1990] Aim for politicians fair who'll treat your vote hope well The last thing they'll ever do act in your interest Look at the world through your polaroid …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 07:40 pm +Soulja Boy, +T-Pain, and other pop celebrities won't have a problem using Google+ with their stage names, but internet-eccentrics who've been known in the world by non-normal names for years can't get a break—in some cases, even when those "weird" …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 12, 2011 07:35 pm Why you gotta hate on the hagfish?
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 07:34 pm Video Link. From YouTube vlogger Arturo Trejo. (via Sean Bonner/G+)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 12, 2011 07:34 pm [video link] Friday Freak-Out: The Left Banke performs "Walk Away Renée" (1966), co-written by keyboardist Michael Brown who was then just 16-years-old. The tune is available on CD and vinyl on a release combining their two essential baroque pop masterpieces, …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 07:24 pm GOP candidate Herman Cain at last night's debate: ""A poet once said, 'life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it's never easy when there's so much on the line.'" That poet? The lyricist for the themesong to …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 12, 2011 07:23 pm "The most abundant source of antiprotons near the Earth" contains exactly 28 antiprotons. Which suggests, says Jennifer Ouellette, that it's going to be a while before we're flying to the stars—Star Trek-like—on antimatter-powered ships. (Via Hi, I'm Monkey)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 12, 2011 07:20 pm I'm really digging the look of Dr. Paul Koudounaris' new book, The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses. Don't yet have a copy in my hands (it's not out 'til October), but I've pre-Amazonned one …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 12, 2011 07:17 pm Photographer Travis Morisse took this great shot of a meteor streaking across the sky near Hutchinson, Kansas. Which reminds me, the Moon may obscure your view of the Perseid meteor shower, but you can still listen to the meteors. It's …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 12, 2011 07:05 pm Vaughn Bell pointed out this case study of a patient who tried to commit suicide via nail gun, and how medical personnel decided to treat the injury. The case study is impressive, but so is the addendum: Nail gun wounds—specifically, …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 12, 2011 06:47 pm Yesterday, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system had word that a protest in the system was planned to rally against a BART police shooting last month in which a man was killed. To nip any protest in the bud, BART …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 12, 2011 06:39 pm Over at the Life Scoop site, I posted about several hubs of hardware hacking online. BB readers will be familiar with most of the communities I mention, but hopefully it's a decent starting point for new makers fighting against planned …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 12, 2011 06:00 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Watchismo is the first in the world to offer the latest XXL watches from the Diesel Franchise Collection including the unusually large …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 12, 2011 05:58 pm This segment of an episode of Horizon, called "Do You See What I See?" shows how language has an effect on how people see color, especially when comparing colors. The Himba of northern Namibia categorize colors differently than English speakers. …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 05:50 pm Michael "Big Short" Lewis continues his tour of the imploding Eurozone (previously: Ireland) with a stop in Germany, who hold all the cards in the European financial crisis. As always, Lewis is lucid, persuasive, entertaining and controversial. It's a long …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 04:21 pm Dr. Robert G. Heath's 1972 paper Pleasure and brain activity in man: Deep and surface electroencephalograms during orgasm details an insane experiment in which a suicidal, drug-addicted gay man was wired up with deep-brain stimulators; the good doctor then paid …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 03:40 pm This week's installment of San Francisco's brilliant science fiction reading series, SF in SF, features Tad Williams & Deborah Beale. It's this Saturday, Aug 13, and as always, doors open at 6 at The Variety Preview Room Theatre right in …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 02:56 pm A trove of photos from an East German secret police guide to disguise reveal an ineptitude that borders on the comical. No wonder these guys managed to miss the fact that the wall was about to come down, despite having …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 01:43 pm Lakelady sends us, "a complete online text for how and why farming with dynamite is a good idea written by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder Company. Published in 1910. Note the lovely art nouveau embellishments on some of the …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 01:08 pm Here's a great piece on Jonathan Worth, an English photographer who has embraced Creative Commons and who offers free, CC-licensed photography instruction. The breadth of content and openness of the class is enough to make any online education junkie salivate. …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 12, 2011 10:29 am Ben sez, "This Adam Curtis documentary (he posted the rough cut of his new one) is pretty incredible. It features the story of the head of the Daily Mirror in 1968, attempting to organize a coup of the British Parliament, …
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