New look Hulking computing engines of Toronto's yesteryear Inside a clandestine Mexican meth lab (big photo gallery) Mexico: Drug cartels shift threats to social media John Hodgman's presentation at Maker Faire New York (Video) LulzSec suspect arrested in Arizona wanted a job at DoD Yahoo's for sale after all, according to leaked Jerry Yang memo FCC publishes Net Neutrality rules, lawsuits a-comin' Brain scans reveal our mind movies? Megan Amram, funny lady on Twitter: Nightmare Hipster Comedy and why Rosie O'Donnell hates her profile pic Should we worry about cyberwar? New canvas prints by Mitch O'Connell Hell is Syria: 18-year old woman dies gruesome death in detention Coroner's verdict: Spontaneous combustion 3D printed nylon bicycle that's "as strong as steel" Bearded scientists: Will they kill us all? Neutrino jokes Cowboys vs. Wolves: Snapshots, and Xeni and Miles on "The Madeleine Brand Show" What makes us worth defending Three Stooges-esque beer heist The MIT Chorallaries perform "The Engineers' Drinking Song" Science museums are failing grown-ups Elizabeth Warren explains why taxing the rich isn't "class warfare" Library defender runs for City Council in Troy, MI DoJ audit: meeting served $16 muffins and $8 coffee EXCLUSIVE space photo of the falling NASA satellite that might kill you today Hunting Space Invaders Big Data and privacy Sponsor Shout-Out: Watchismo Pentecostal minister Becky Fischer teaches kids how to raise the dead 
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 24, 2011 06:13 am Having moved Boing Boing to WordPress, the old design hung loose on its bones. It's time for an update! The revision is simpler than before, with a smaller bandwidth "footprint", less clutter, and more whitespace. Boing Boing now has a fluid layout that adapts to different browser and device sizes, instead of serving a separate ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 24, 2011 06:10 am Blogto's Derek Flack went spelunking in the Toronto Archives for photos of old computers in situ, from the days when installing a monsterscale computing engine was cause for bringing in the photographer for a bit of posterity. I remember my dad taking me to some computer rooms in this era, though his facial hair was ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 01:01 am Boing Boing readers following the violent convulsions of the drug war in Mexico, and fans of the AMC narco-drama Breaking Bad, will likely find these photos from a secret Mexican meth lab to be of interest (particularly in light of the TV show's most recent episode, "Salud.") I can't find Jesse, Mike, Gus, or Heisenberg ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 24, 2011 12:48 am A forensic worker walks at the city's morgue past the recovered bodies of people that had been dumped around Veracruz September 22, 2011. At least 11 more bodies were dumped around the Mexican city of Veracruz on Thursday, according to local media reports, two days after the discovery of 35 other corpses in the once-quiet ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 24, 2011 12:13 am [Video Link] Here's John Hodgman's excellent presentation at World Maker Faire last weekend: "Are Magic Tricks Really Magic?" It is adapted from his forthcoming book, That Is All.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 10:04 pm "I hope that I'll be able to work for the Department of Defense. From what I hear, they're pretty good at what I want to do."— Cody Andrew Kretsinger, the LulzSec/Anonymous suspect arrested this week in Arizona.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 10:02 pm Pssst! Hey, kid. Wanna buy a Yahoo?
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 09:31 pm "The FCC has finally officially published long-delayed rules prohibiting cable, DSL and wireless internet companies from blocking websites and requiring them to disclose how they slow down or throttle their networks." More at Wired.com, and the Net Neutrality Rules are here (PDF).
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 23, 2011 09:28 pm UC Berkeley researchers used brain scans of the visual cortex and computational models to reconstruct what the individual is seeing. From UC Berkeley: As yet, the technology can only reconstruct movie clips people have already viewed. However, the breakthrough paves the way for reproducing the movies inside our heads that no one else sees, such ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 09:26 pm "Rosie O'Donnell once told me over the Internet that I should change my profile picture. She pretty adamantly was like, 'You're a pretty girl, why are you doing this? People are gonna wanna hear you less if you have that weird picture that looks like a disabled person.'" Read an interview with Twitter's Megan Amram ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 09:17 pm Pithiness from Bruce Schneier: "I'm not worried about cyberwar, but I am worried about the proliferation of cyber weapons. Arms races are fundamentally destabilizing, especially when their development can be so easily hidden. I worry about cyberweapons being triggered by accident, cyberweapons getting into the wrong hands and being triggered on purpose, and the inability ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 23, 2011 09:17 pm My old high school buddy Mitch O'Connell, who used to wow us in art class with his Conan drawings, has a line of products for sale at Retro A-Go-Go, including some cool canvas prints that you can trick people into thinking are original paintings. Mitch O'Connell at Retro-A-Go-Go
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 09:16 pm According to Amnesty International, an 18-year-old woman was killed in a Syrian prison to pressure her brother, a political activist. Her body had been decapitated, the arms cut off, her skin removed. "If it is confirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the most disturbing cases of a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 23, 2011 08:48 pm Somebody in the Galway, Ireland, coroner's office hasn't been watching Myth Busters. (Thanks, Tim Heffernan!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 08:44 pm This 3D printed bicycle, exhibited at this week's London Design Festival, is claimed to be as strong as steel. It was printed from layers of fused nylon, using a technique more commonly deployed in satellite manufacture. Launched this year by a team of development engineers, the bike is made up of successive layers of fused ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 23, 2011 08:16 pm This image comes from "Microbiological laboratory hazard of bearded men," a peer-reviewed research paper concerning the risk bearded scientists who work with bacteria and viruses might pose to their families. Published in 1967, the study tested whether bearded men were more likely to accidentally "carry" microbes home with them. You can read the whole study ...
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 23, 2011 07:35 pm One of many highlarious jokes making the rounds about those crazy neutrinos traveling faster than light. (Thanks, Ariel Waldman!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 07:29 pm MP3 Download Audio (MP3) PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien and I had a conversation with The Madeleine Brand Show (a Los Angeles-based radio show on which I'm a regular guest), to discuss Miles' recent PBS NewsHour report on the return of wolf hunting to the American West. I traveled with Miles and producer Jenny ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 23, 2011 07:26 pm Senator John Pastore: "Is there anything connected with the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?" Physicist Robert Rathburn Wilson: "No sir, I don't believe so." Pastore: "Nothing at all?" Wilson: "Nothing at all." Pastore: "It has no value in that respect?" Wilson: "It has only to do ...
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 23, 2011 07:16 pm These three young gentlemen, all 19, were arrested in Covina, California after allegedly shoplifting a 30 pack of beer (Tecate) and then turning their escape into a comedy of crime errors. Employees of the grocery grabbed one of the fellows on his way out. Another crashed his getaway car after an employee jumped on the ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 23, 2011 07:00 pm Possibly NSFW in parts. Thanks, Jon Hiller! Video Link
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 23, 2011 06:50 pm Last month, Armando Herrera Corral was wounded when a package delivered to his office at Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education turned out to be a bomb. Nobody knows who sent the package. But someone posted a manifesto online, taking credit for the attack and explaining why they targeted Corral. The terrorists, by ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 06:36 pm In this widely circulated video from the campaign trail, Massachusetts Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, explains the taxation bargain that the state strikes with its citizens: in order to allow entrepreneurs to thrive, the state pays for police (to create stable property relationships), education (to create skilled workforces) and infrastructure (to create the means ...
Read in browser Library defender runs for City Council in Troy, MI
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 05:56 pm Neil sez, You may remember 2 months back when the Troy, Michigan Public Library faced closure due to declining revenue. It was particularly sad given that this libary only recently celebrated its fortieth anniversary. It is home to some amazing letters from some of the most prominent authors and people of the day when it ...
Read in browser DoJ audit: meeting served $16 muffins and $8 coffee
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 05:31 pm A DOJ Office of Inspector General report released this week found that DoJ conferences were a source of major waste, with insane catering bills that charged the public $8 for a cup of hotel coffee and $16 per muffin. It'll be interesting to see how different ideologies filter this news: is it proof of government ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 23, 2011 05:12 pm And NASA has more here on the re-entry of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, which is expected to return to Earth's atmosphere late Sept. 23 or early Sept. 24 EDT. That's six years after the end what was a productive scientific life. "Although the spacecraft will break into pieces during re-entry, not all ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 23, 2011 04:41 pm Isn't augmented reality cool? Awesome photoshop work by Ryan Snieder.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 23, 2011 04:31 pm Earlier this week, I gave a talk on the way that "Big Data" is underpinned with a kind of myth about how users trade privacy for services. Ciara Byrne from the NYT's VentureBeat interviewed me afterwards about it. I think she did a really good job of condensing a hard, nuanced question into a brief ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 23, 2011 04:30 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. Watchismo is offering BoingBoing readers a 10% off BOINGISMO coupon code for the newest release, the Vestal USS Observer chronograph watches - Inspired by commissioned naval ships from the United States Navy, the USS Observer Chrono is ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 23, 2011 04:28 pm [Video Link] Pentecostal minister Becky Fischer teaches kids how to raise the dead. At the six minute mark she explains that kids can successfully pray their dead pets back to life. Good luck, kids! (Via Dangerous Minds)
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