English cops arrest man for planning water-fight via Blackberry Messenger UK gov asks MI5 asked to crack encrypted Blackberry messages to help police nail rioters BART's YouTube anti-protest video PR campaign, ripe for remixing Thermal Urinal Fly — "In males there is a deep-seated instinct to aim at targets." Anonymous protests BART (happening now) Firsthand from Fukushima: Xeni on The Madeleine Brand Show (radio) Seth's Jocko gumball machine comic book FCC looking into BART mobile communications shutdown Tweet softly, carry a big stick: LA Sheriff's Dept. admonishes celebs after "The Game" pulls prank How to get a job without leaving the house New paper explorations by Nicole Aptekar Low Poly Maru Hipster ipsum: filler text for your next design project Internet dude named Jon counts to 100,000 (video) Apply for free trip to San Francisco's Science Hack Day Dutch rap from 1986 Church in a tree What sulfur particles in California can tell us about Fukushima I am Maru: bio-book on world's most internet-famous cat, now in English Anthony Ausgang's reinterprets the SF Chronicle's famed "Little Man" cartoon 10 anagrams of "Google Motorola Mobility" Tiki Room resurgent HOWTO make comedy facial prostheses out of fruit Help find the stolen scripts for GAME OF THRONES Ready Player One: the best science fiction novel I've read in a decade Inventors killed by their own inventions What a meteor looks like from space Gweek Podcast 012: Tom the Dancing Bug creator Ruben Bolling Sex, drugs, and 16th century witches How beautiful space photos are made 
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English cops arrest man for planning water-fight via Blackberry Messenger
By Cory Doctorow on Aug 16, 2011 07:41 am Police in Essex, England have charged a 20-year-old man with "encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence" (under the 2007 Serious Crime Act) because he used Blackberry Messenger to encourage people to attend a public water fight. It's …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 04:12 am Phone hacking, indeed. Britain's intelligence agency has been asked by the government to decrypt mobile messages, particularly those sent via BlackBerry Messenger, to aid police in prosecuting looters. The move represents a change as officially MI5 is tasked with ensuring …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 03:47 am [Video Link to "BART TV" PR video.] "They're flying in from all over the country and they want to do surprise attacks, basically, on BART riders." You know who else attacks BART riders? BART. (via @DarthNader @jilliancyork)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 16, 2011 01:11 am Life's too short for ordinary urinal flies. Insist on a thermal urinal fly.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 16, 2011 12:14 am Image: SFSlim. Live coverage of the Anonymous protest at BART's Civic Center station in San Francisco: SF Appeal, Ustream, AnonOps on Twitter, ioerror's feed, and #opBART hashtag. Mission Local has another video feed and liveblog here. CNN, AP have reports …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 11:23 pm [Photos: iPhone snapshots I took in Japan in August, 2011.] Today I joined the Madeleine Brand Show (a daily radio news program based in Southern California) to talk with host Alex Cohen about my recent trip to Japan, with PBS …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2011 10:43 pm Where does one get Seth's Jocko gumball machine comic book? (Via Librairie Drawn & Quarterly)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 10:37 pm "The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is looking into last week's shutdown of mobile phone services on a San Francisco commuter train line." More at IDG News.
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 10:33 pm "The message for the public and in particular celebrities and other notable persons who have a large following is that this is a public safety issue and to tweet wisely to their many followers. It's important that they respect the …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 10:22 pm [Video Link] On Pink Slipped at Forbes.com, Susannah Breslin writes about "how to get a job, and how to get hired, and why being unemployed is so hard." Today's installment involves the gentleman playing guitar in the video Susannah shot, …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 10:00 pm [photo by Nicole Aptekar] Coilhouse has published an interview with artist, photographer and Syzygryd co-designer Nicole Aptekar, whose "New / Exploration / Paper" series recently opened at the Satellite66 gallery in San Francisco's SOMA district. Nadya Lev of Coilhouse describes …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 09:45 pm Wonderful homage by Ted Martens for Maru the Cat (as mentioned today, the famous internet cat has a new book out). The artists explains, "I'm trying to get more 3D work in my portfolio. Here's a low poly scene of …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 09:31 pm "Do you need some text for your website or whatever? *sigh* Okay… " Hipster Ipsum generates "artisanal filler text for your site or project." (via @sfslim)
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 09:28 pm [Video Links: part 1, part 2.] My question isn't so much "how high he can go," but how high he is. (via Joe Sabia)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2011 09:09 pm Want to set up a Science Hack Day in your city? Would you like to be flown to San Francisco's Science Hack Day on November 12-13 to get inspired? As I posted last month, Institute for the Future (IFTF) and …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2011 08:52 pm [video link] 1986: Hilversum's favorite sons MC Miker G (Lucien Witteveen) and Deejay Sven (Sven van Veen) perform "Holiday Rap." (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2011 08:36 pm This is Chêne Chappelle, a large tree holding a small church in the French village of Allouville-Bellefosse. Today, worshippers entered the tree for the Assumption of the Virgin. From Garden Design (photo by Ji-Elle/Wikipedia): Locals will also tell you that …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2011 08:30 pm During the early weeks of the Japan 3/11 crisis, after a tsunami critically damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, we talked on Boing Boing about why Americans on the West Coast didn't need to worry about exposure to radioactive …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 15, 2011 07:49 pm One of my greatest regrets about my recent trip to Japan? I didn't manage to meet Maru. Today, there's news that provides some consolation. The story of Maru, a Scottish Fold cat of great internet fame, will soon be available …
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By David Pescovitz on Aug 15, 2011 06:56 pm My pal David Katznelson has a deep appreciation for the history of San Francisco. In fact, he's the founder of the San Francisco Appreciation Society! One iconic bit of SF culture that David appreciates is cartoonist Warren Goodrich's iconic "Little …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 15, 2011 05:50 pm Mobile Morality? GOOG Loot. Olé, gloomy Litigator! Boom! Loom, imitator! Lo, Be Googly. Obligatory: oil Moto golem. A gloomy imbroglio, Tootle. Go to moral limbo, etiology. Lo, google Immortality. Boo! A motlier gigolo lobotomy. Room to obligate gloomily. Google moor …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2011 05:45 pm FoxxFurr, my favorite design writer and the Disney parks' most insightful critic welcomes back the restored Tiki Room at Walt Disney World, and puts it into its larger context: "It's snappy with a fighting weight and it's appropriate for a …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2011 05:44 pm Abrobbins's series of "World's Funniest Dinner Trick" videos present three techniques for fabricating new comedy facial prosthesis from bananas, oranges and lemons. Assuming your dinner table has all three, it's well worth watching this fourth video, in which he puts …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 15, 2011 05:44 pm George RR Martin puts the word out that some lightfingered postal worker apparently stole the HBO Game of Thrones scripts that had been mailed to him so that he could sign them and donate them to a charity auction. He …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2011 05:42 pm (Read a PDF with the first three chapters of Ready Player One.) It seems like every decade or so a science fiction novel comes along that sends a lightning bolt through my nervous system: Philip Jose Farmer's To Your Scattered …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2011 05:33 pm Wikipedia's list of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions. AKA: Further evidence that the biography of Thomas Midgley, Jr. would make a great opera. (Via Paul Kedrosky)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2011 04:19 pm Speaking of awesome space photos, check out this shot of a meteor, taken by NASA astronaut Ron Garan from a window on the International Space Station. That meteor was part of the Perseid shower, which peaked on Saturday. Got any …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Aug 15, 2011 04:12 pm Gweek is a podcast where the editors of Boing Boing and guests talk about comic books, science fiction and fantasy, video games, board games, tools, gadgets, apps and other neat stuff. Our guest this week is Ruben Bolling, creator of …
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2011 04:07 pm The amazing true history of witches on drugs.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 15, 2011 04:06 pm The Hubble Space Telescope doesn't just produce glossy, full-color posters on its own. It takes a little work to get from raw images to the photos we gawk over on the Internet. This video takes you through the process of …
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