Prankster reimagines 3-yr-old eyesore construction site as giant happy playspace Report: Ex-Wikileaker Domscheit-Berg deletes large cache of unreleased leaks Rebels reach Tripoli; Gadaffi reportedly flees Caturday: naked edition Science Saturday: Nuclear energy, melting ice caps, and human adaptation Noted Nostradamus scholar incarcerated Bachmann warns of Soviet rise Presenting the Hoosier Hotshots: comedy lyrics and hot klezmercountryjazzswing German Pirate Party poised to win first federal electoral contest Understanding the Nym Wars Journalism school teaches students pre-digital newspaper production techniques Bruce Sterling's Augmented Reality project Old ad: Drink sugary drinks before meals to lose weight! HOWTO make a metapizza out of pizza-flavored snack items 90 percent of US net users don't know from crtl-F 
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Prankster reimagines 3-yr-old eyesore construction site as giant happy playspace
By Xeni Jardin on Aug 21, 2011 02:08 am (Photo: courtesy John Creed, via My Green Lake, a Seattle area neighborhood blog.) In the Seattle neighborhood of Green Lake, a three-acre empty lot known to locals as the "Big Hole" has been reimagined as an awesome and ginormous play …
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 21, 2011 01:39 am Der Spiegel reporter Holger Stark tweets that an old cache of unreleased Wikileaks leak documents is "gone forever." Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left Wikileaks after a heated dispute with founder Julian Assange, told Stark today "that he has destroyed it." After …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 21, 2011 01:03 am Amid reports that Gadaffi and his family have already fled, Libya's rebels reached Tripoli today and took control of a military airport there. Neighboring Tunisia recognized the rebellion as Libya's government hours ago. [Reuters]
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By Xeni Jardin on Aug 20, 2011 06:04 pm "Sidney," A photo contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr pool by Adam Baron Photography. This kitty is a Sphynx, or Canadian Hairless.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Aug 20, 2011 03:49 pm I was on Bloggingheads.tv Science Saturday this week, talking with Jessa Gamble, a science journalist and the author of Siesta and the Midnight Sun, a book about how culture and biology effect the way we experience time. Jessa was in …
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 20, 2011 03:48 pm Dave Mabus, a Nostradamus crank known for unceasing and threatening rants directed at scientists, journalists, atheists and so forth, is apparently under arrest after widening his list to include law enforcement. [Ars Technica]
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By Rob Beschizza on Aug 20, 2011 02:52 pm From USA today: "What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 02:41 pm Continuing to document the music that's keeping me going through one of the worst bouts of jetlag I've ever made it through, allow me to present the Hoosier Hotshots, who combined incredibly silly comedy lyrics, klezmer-inflected country swing (yes, that's …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 02:01 pm Germany's Pirate Party is kicking major electoral ass, holding 50 local elected offices across the country, and are now poised to win their first federal electoral contests: "We are delighted that our demands for more transparency, participation and democracy for …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:55 pm Here's a pair of great (JWZ) posts (Kevin Marks) on the Nym Wars, in which Googlers, net users, and sensible people try to convince the G+ team that it's insane to tell people that they must socialize using their "real …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:51 pm Students in the Florida Atlantic University J-school produced a newspaper using (mostly) pre-computer technologies, composing on manual typewriters, pasting up with X-Acto blades and rubber cement, shooting on film and developing in a darkroom: While archeologists try to recreate what …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:33 pm Bruce Sterling has launched an augmented reality product with Layar coder Menno Bieringa, German media artist Aram Bartholl and Layar artist-in-residence Sander Veenhof: "With Sterling's 'Dead Drops Layer,' users can scan the horizon for handy Dead Drops that might be …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:30 pm A group called "Sugar Information" ran ads in the late 60s and early 70s promoting soft drinks as a way to fill up and suppress your appetite. I suspect that people who followed this advice were disappointed -- the sugar …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:17 pm Kari Schuster constructed a "pizza" out of pizza-flavored snack-foods harvested from gas-stations and grocery stores. The process stained her fingers orange and clogged her nostrils with the "gentle aroma of fake cheese and tomato." She claims it was delicious. It …
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By Cory Doctorow on Aug 20, 2011 01:11 pm Dan Russell, one of Google's anthropologists, conducted a largeish survey of user behavior and discovered that 90 percent of American Internet users don't know that crtl-F will let them search documents including Web pages. I recently discovered that a smart …
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