Willingham's Down the Mysterly River, a kids' novel that captures the glory of Fables Woman calls man 65,000 times in one year How not to keep your wire-cutters from being stolen Transparent soft furniture Greenpeace celebrates all the corporate overlords they've upset over their 40 years Third gender option added to Australian passports Sony Tablet S reviewed: "not an iPad Wannabe" Mexico: two tortured, murdered as warning to those using Twitter and blogs to report narco-crime FBI teaching agents that "Mainstream" Muslims are "Violent, Radical" Boing Boing, Crowdfunding, and Tomorrow's Congressional Testimony Expanding the maker movement to Cairo, Egypt Programming options for kids Makers and surgical trainee team up to improve prototyping bones from CT scans with 3D printers Mexico: Twitter Terrorism, Narco-Mapping, 3BallMTY and "pointy boots" (Xeni on The Madeleine Brand Show) Love and Rockets' "Dog End Of A Day Gone By" (1985) Goldfish bowl with blown-glass mountains If Cats Ran Telecom Guerrilla planter on a bike-locking stand Kitteh on the half-shell: classic paintings in which nudes are replaced by a fat ginger tabby cat Interview with "Studies In Crap" columnist The Culinary Notebooks of Leonardo "Fat Boy" Da Vinci Glow t-shirts you drawn on with UV penlights New Jersey e-voting coverup Identifying people by their footprints Wilco invites fans to make videos of their home towns, to be projected on tour while band plays danah boyd: "Guilt Through Algorithmic Association" Tiffany Shlain's Connected, opening this weekend KCRW launches Music Mine "discovery app" for iPad Pablo Escobar tour of Medellin lets you walk in the footsteps of a banal crimelord Conflicts of interest: Arrington, Techcrunch, and the New York Times 
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Willingham's Down the Mysterly River, a kids' novel that captures the glory of Fables
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 12:37 pm Up the Mysterly River was Bill Willingham's first kids' novel, published by a small press in the 1990s, long before his multi-award-winning (and most excellent) Fables graphic novel got underway. After languishing out of print for many years, Tor Books …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 12:36 pm A Dutch woman has been charged with stalking after calling a man 65,000 times in one year. She claims she was in a relationship with him (he denies it), and that this required her to call him. A lot. The …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 12:30 pm If you want to keep your wire-cutters from being stolen, attaching them to something heavy might work -- but not if you attach them with wire. My boss was tired of our wire cutters getting stolen. I'm not sure this …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 11:51 am For Milan design week, furniture company Poltrona Frau exhibited some of its designs covered in transparent PVC without any fill, so that the structural elements were visible. I like the look of this, though it does remind me of the …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 09:59 am Brian from Greenpeace sez, "Greenpeace is 40 years old today, and one of the ad agencies we've worked with over the years made this for us. The agency asked to remain anonymous, so as not to lose any clients that …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 15, 2011 09:45 am Australians now have a third option for the "gender" field on their passports. Transgendered people and people of ambiguous gender are allowed to enter "X" for gender, rather than "F" or "M". An Australian senator, Louise Pratt - whose partner …
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 15, 2011 03:19 am Walt Mossberg reviews Sony's Tablet S, a ~$500 Android touchscreen model that isn't an iPad clone. He is quite impressed by it, in an abstract "Sony deserves credit for this" kind of way. [All Things D]
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 02:26 am In Nuevo Laredo, Mexico yesterday, bloggers and Twitter users who share information on crimes of drug cartels and related gangs received a gruesome warning. The tortured bodies of two people in their mid-twenties "hanging like cuts of meat from a …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 15, 2011 01:59 am Spencer Ackerman at Wired.com's Danger Room defense blog has a big story breaking tonight. It's a very upsetting read. If you had any doubt that racism against Muslim-Americans was institutionalized at the highest levels of our government, this should take …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 12:44 am Our friend and MAKE executive editor Paul Spinrad has exciting news: A couple of days ago, Pesco blogged the news that Obama's jobs plan includes the idea of legalizing crowdfunded securities. I think this is terrific news, and I am proud that …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 15, 2011 12:27 am I enjoyed meeting Bilal Ghalib at the Detroit Maker Faire this year. He told me about his plan to establish hackerspaces in Africa. Now he has a Kickstarter project to kick it off. A great idea. We want to organize a …
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 14, 2011 10:12 pm Cult of Mac has an item about a six-year-old girl named Lim Xin Mei (above) who is learning computer programming. The article says she was using Applesoft BASIC on an old Apple II GS. Later she started using a Power …
Continue reading → Read in browser Makers and surgical trainee team up to improve prototyping bones from CT scans with 3D printers
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 14, 2011 09:24 pm Mark Frame, an orthopedic surgical trainee at Scotland's Monklands Hospital, 3D printed a model of a bone from a CT scan, as preparation for surgery. Rather than using the local rapid prototyping shop at a university (where such an operation …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 08:34 pm (photo: Edith Valle for VICE) Snip from today's radio program summary for The Madeleine Brand Show: Thirty years in prison for tweeting? That's the maximum sentence two people from Veracruz, Mexico are facing after they created hysteria by tweeting rumors …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 14, 2011 08:33 pm Love and Rockets' "Dog End Of A Day Gone By," from their absolutely classic 1985 debut Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven. L&R fans may also be interested in Weird Pop, a brand new double vinyl compilation of Tones On Tail …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 14, 2011 08:28 pm Fishbowls are cruel (arguably), but if you're looking for an arty fishbowl for your, say, robotic fish, or a place to keep Goldie while his large, stimulating tank is being cleaned, Fishscape is a pretty cool choice. Hand-blown in Turkey, …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 08:18 pm Best cat video ever, via BB commenter GRS: Bouygues Telecom présente les Chatons Telecom - YouTube. Update: English language version below.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 14, 2011 08:16 pm On the Boing Boing Flickr Pool, Half My Dad's Age's beautiful action shot of a guerrilla planter perched atop a bicycle locking-stand on the streets of Toronto. I like the way this beautifies the lock-up without making it less useful …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 07:32 pm What is this? Who made this? Please help me understand. 世界の名画にうちのニャンコを登場させてみた（画像22枚） : デジログ！. (thanks, Antinous)
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 14, 2011 07:30 pm Alan Scherstuhl writes the terrific Studies In Crap column for the SF Weekly and other papers, in which he posts about his fabulous finds as a craphound who specializes in the weirdest books relegated to thrift stores, garage sales, and …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 07:22 pm Michelle Legro in Lapham's Quarterly on the culinary-themed writings, sketches, and opinions of Leonardo da Vinci, who was known as "fat boy" when he was a pastry-snarfing 17-year-old kitchen apprentice. Five hundred years before Modernist Cuisine's exhaustive look at molecular …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 14, 2011 07:19 pm LazerShirts are a fun idea for a t-shirt that's coated with glow-in-the-dark material. You can draw your own temporary glow design on them with a UV or LED flashlight. The creators launched a Kickstarter project to start production. For a …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 14, 2011 07:12 pm Princeton's Andrew Appel writes on Freedom to Tinker about an illegal cover-up of New Jersey e-voting irregularities. The Princeton team have done amazing technical and investigative work on electronic voting machines, and Appel's piece (the first of three) demonstrates exactly …
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 14, 2011 07:03 pm New research suggests that individuals can be identified with a very high degree of accuracy just by looking at the pressure signature of a person's foot on the ground as they walk. Researchers from Shinshu University, University of Manchester, and …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 06:49 pm [Video Link] The great American alt-country-rock-whatever band Wilco, whom I love dearly, invites their fans to shoot video of the cities they're touring in. Some of the resulting videos "may be projected behind the band during the show in your …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 06:40 pm Snip from a thought-provoking post by danah boyd: You're a 16-year-old Muslim kid in America. Say your name is Mohammad Abdullah. Your schoolmates are convinced that you're a terrorist. They keep typing in Google queries likes "is Mohammad Abdullah a …
Continue reading → Read in browser Tiffany Shlain's Connected, opening this weekend
By David Pescovitz on Sep 14, 2011 06:35 pm My friend Tiffany Shlain's new documentary feature film, Connected, opens in select theaters starting this Friday. The film is a lovely and moving meditation on technologies of connection as told through a transformative year in Tiffany's own life in which …
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 06:19 pm Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW is, in my experience, one of the best ways in the entire world to discover new music and new artists. They've launched a free iOS app, Music Mine, to guide listeners throughout the world to …
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 14, 2011 06:08 pm Walk in the footsteps of one of South America's banal monsters with the Pablo Escobar tour of Medellin. The four-hour tour culminates with a handshake and photo-op with Escobar's brother, Roberto, who will answer your questions. You could ask him …
Continue reading → Read in browser Conflicts of interest: Arrington, Techcrunch, and the New York Times
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 14, 2011 05:56 pm Steve Myers at Poynter has a detailed piece on disclosing potential conflicts of interest, and says the New York Times shouldn't throw stones at Michael Arrington and TechCrunch. I'd like to take this opportunity to disclose that Boing Boing invests …
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