Eric Hines' Light Sky Lego greenhouse uses bricks as growing medium ROFLCON in Portland The 1,000 Words Rule of Blogging (Book Excerpt) Report: world's "most irritating instrument" not very irritating Rejected designs for the Federal Housing Finance Agency seal 747s as flying Unix hosts: SCADA in the sky Dance-battle between pole-dancing champs Videos show police brutality at Occupy Wall Street protests Washing machine/stand up video game WiFi firmware that can detect and route around interference from non-WiFi devices Rubber bookshelves 
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Eric Hines' Light Sky
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 26, 2011 12:15 pm Eric Hines' beautiful photos of the stars at night have won much acclaim. But his
other landscape photos are no less spectacular.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 26, 2011 06:04 am Sebastian Bergne's Lego greenhouse isn't merely an enormous structure made from transparent legos*, it's also a functional greenhouse that apparently uses legos as a growing medium. LEGO commissioned the award-winning designer, Sebastian Bergne, to create a public installation using the iconic bricks, as part of the London Design Festival 2011. Entitled the "LEGO Greenhouse", this ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 26, 2011 01:32 am The ROFLCon Summit, a celebration of internet culture, is to be held next weekend in Portland, Oregon. There, I'll be joining a fantastic cast of panelists that includes Chris Poole, Andy Baio, Sherrod DeGrippo, Aaron Peckham, Patrick Davison, Jason Scott and more. The centerpiece of the event is apparently going to be a six-foot papier-mâché ...
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By John Biggs on Sep 26, 2011 12:08 am Want to be a successful blogger? Every new endeavor requires a period of ascetic dedication. You must write a minimum of 1,000 words a day. Some bloggers make this their ceiling, but many make it their floor. Either way, you must produce on a daily basis. How do you do this? You can crank out, ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Sep 25, 2011 10:59 pm Boing Boing reader Brian won the eBay auction for a device touted as the "World's most irritating musical instrument". He finds it not particularly irritating at all: "an incredible waste of $81.95, but I have no regrets!" You can't just expect to be an instant expert, Brian! Practice is everything: 10,000 hours, according to Mr. ...
Read in browser Rejected designs for the Federal Housing Finance Agency seal
By Rob Beschizza on Sep 25, 2011 10:32 pm The Federal Housing Finance Agency was formed in 2008 amid the housing panic. Among other functions, it is the regulatory organ overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It has not escaped notice that the agency has one of the blandest seals in the federal sector, a design realm traditionally adorned with wreaths, garlands and star-studded ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 10:02 pm From Craig S Wright, vice president of Global Institute for Cybersecurity + Research, a look at the use of SCADA systems that are connected to the Internet. You probably remember SCADA from the starring role it played in the Stuxnet worm. For those who do not know, 747's are big flying Unix hosts. At the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 07:43 pm Oona Kivela, winner of the I Pole World Cup, and Grazzy Brugner, organizer of Miss Pole Dance Brazil, held an impromptu dance-battle at Rio's Up Dance Studio, performing crazy, acrobatic routines that stagger the imagination and inflame the senses. It may be NSFW, but it's pretty wild acrobatics. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 25, 2011 05:45 pm Protesters at the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations in and around New York City's Financial District are being met with increasingly harsh police response. A growing number of videos show clashes between NYPD and activists, with police using tasers and mace on demonstrators. Here are several of the videos making the rounds today: one, two, three. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 05:38 pm Lee Wei Chen, a Masters student in design at Kingston University, created this hybrid washing-machine/arcade game that only washes your clothes if you're winning: 'I realised that the skills I had developed in the virtual world were useless in the real world. I wanted to make them useful,' says the 27-year-old. The machine looks like ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 03:34 pm In Airshark: Detecting Non-WiFi RF Devices using Commodity WiFi Hardware (PDF), researchers from U Wisconsin (Madison) document a firmware for WiFi access points that can detect and dynamically adjust to interference from vacuum cleaners, baby monitors, and other non-WiFi devices that operate in WiFi's radio spectrum. This kind of thing is the backbone of the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 25, 2011 01:25 pm Luke Hart created these rubber bookshelves for The Sculpture House. They have the delightful impracticality of all the everyday objects crafted from rubber that appear in old Warner Brothers cartoons, and the bright red coloring is an especially nice touch. (via Bookshelf)
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