Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour: exploring magic's roots in China, India and Egypt Silicone ice-sphere mold Danish comedian explains Norwegian swimming rules Cash Cats Photos from North Korea's Mass Games VLC coming to Android Bunnie Huang: the best days of open hardware are yet to come Five human heads found at Acapulco, Mexico primary school, in presumed drug cartel mass killing Thunder(LOL)Cats Don Draper pitches Facebook Timeline Airline pilots march on Wall Street Introducing Gamewave, video games delivered right to your door (parody video) Saving is easier when you have a single goal in mind NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover as Art Football-shaped wad of weed thrown over border fence by Mexican drug dealers (photo) Attack of the killer cantaloupes: listeria death toll from melons hits 15 SLR lens-thieves steal pricey optics from around your neck Pet a Kitty iPad App Stephen Fry and Brit talk-show guests marvel at American prison system's brutality Muppeteers sing Henson's favorite songs at his memorial service Wooden Shjips video for "Lazy Bones" Brazilian woman found alive in morgue by daughter Bacon eating ghost dog Rick Perry: "Save a pretzel for the gas jets" (Lots of) Earth-like planets are very likely Glitch: free-to-play, whimsical, delightful MMO from Flickr co-founder Lil Johnson's 1936 musical raunch Swaygo Caving Pack When the Bush family loved Margaret Sanger Oddities' Ryan Cohn's apartment 
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Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour: exploring magic's roots in China, India and Egypt
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 12:47 pm We just watched Penn & Teller's Magic and Mystery Tour, their 2003 documentary on traditional magic in China, India and Egypt, and really enjoyed it. Penn and Teller resolve to track down performers who are still doing the street magic that inspired western magicians in years gone by -- the Indian Rope Trick, the Egyptian ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 10:59 am If you love Japanese ice-spheres in your booze, but don't want to spring for a pricey bespoke machine to accomplish the trick, you can always pick up one of Muji's silicone ice-ball molds, a steal at £7.50.
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 05:31 am In this video, a Danish comedian does a convulsively funny routine about the swimming rules posted by Norwegian beaches. The subtitles were done by someone whose English is a little imperfect, but combined with the translator's footnotes and the comedian's affect, it's still pretty goddamned hilarious. (via Making Light)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 28, 2011 03:54 am CA$HCATS.BIZ, via demarko
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 03:43 am Sam Gellman's tourist photos from North Korea's Mass Games are wonderful and weird studies in repetition at scale, where all sorts of pomp and spectacle are performed with thousands of identically dressed performers in close-order drill, which echoes the enormous housing blocks and all the other mass-scale motifs of Stalinist bureaucracy. (via Kottke)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 03:31 am The open Android ecosystem keeps on getting more interesting. Austen Dicken, a key developer on the CyanogenMod project, is making great strides in porting VLC Player, the best, most versatile media player in the universe, to run on Android handsets and tablets.
Read in browser Bunnie Huang: the best days of open hardware are yet to come
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 28, 2011 02:40 am Bunnie Huang blogs his recent Open Hardware Summit talk on the future of open hardware. Bunnie says that open hardware stands to grow from a niche in the global hardware market to an important segment, thanks to phenomena like "heirloom laptops" (and boy, isn't that a provocative coinage!?). Someday, you cannot rely on buying a ...
Read in browser Five human heads found at Acapulco, Mexico primary school, in presumed drug cartel mass killing
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 28, 2011 12:57 am Photo: A relative reacts after his arrival at a crime scene where a man was shot dead in Acapulco two days ago. According to local media, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a DVD and music salesman. The next day, the charred and headless remains of five people were found in the same city. And today, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 28, 2011 12:35 am [Video Link]. From the Cartoon Network show MAD (via @evanatwired/@waxpancake).
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 28, 2011 12:31 am [Video Link]. (via @antderosa)
Read in browser Airline pilots march on Wall Street
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 28, 2011 12:05 am Dan Nguyen shot this photo and shared it in the Boing Boing Flickr pool today. Here's a related shot. He explains: Hundreds of pilots from United/Continental showed up in full dress and made a show in support for their union during an ongoing labor dispute. They stood in an area on Broad Street, near Wall ...
Read in browser Introducing Gamewave, video games delivered right to your door (parody video)
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 27, 2011 11:55 pm Video Link. "Video games delivered to your door! What more could you ask for!?" (NSFW for repeated use of the word "vagina." Thanks, Jesse Thorn!)
Read in browser Saving is easier when you have a single goal in mind
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 11:49 pm "The Fewer the Better: Number of Goals and Savings Behavior," (PDF) a study from University of Toronto's Rotman School of Business on consumer savings strategies, concludes that it's better to have a single thing that you're saving for, rather than multiple savings goals. Consider two hypothetical individuals, Tom and Jerry, who have both been recently ...
Read in browser NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover as Art
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 27, 2011 11:40 pm Here's a neat gallery of Curiosity as Art (Facebook, may prompt for login). Images of the next Mars rover created by space-fans. Shown here, "What if Warhol had painted Curiosity?," Used with permission of the artist, Astro0 from UnmannedSpaceflight.com. (thanks, Stephanie L. Smith)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 27, 2011 11:30 pm Here is what authorities are describing as a "football-shaped" bundle of marijuana, confiscated by the Santa Cruz Metro Taskforce in Arizona. Mexican drug traffickers routinely toss packages like this over the 18-30 foot tall fence that separate Nogales, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona in the United States. Honestly, this thing looks more like a super grande ...
Read in browser Attack of the killer cantaloupes: listeria death toll from melons hits 15
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 27, 2011 10:43 pm A still-widening outbreak of listeria food poisoning tied to contaminated cantaloupes has killed at least 15, according to state health officials in the US. Dozens more have been sickened, and cases are still coming in.
Read in browser SLR lens-thieves steal pricey optics from around your neck
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 10:39 pm This video from the BBC's "The Real Hustle" show a re-enactment of what is purportedly a real con whereby a fingersmith pretending to be a tourist approaches a mark with a large-lensed SLR around his neck and asks for directions, brandishing a map. While they pore over the map together -- and under its cover ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 27, 2011 10:34 pm Here is a video demo for Pet a Kitty, a new iOS app. You pet the virtual cat, and it purrs, stretches, and miaows accordingly. Like a cat cafe for your iPad! It's not out yet, but I'll certainly be downloading it as a slightly creepy but also undeniably cute stress reliever. (via @glennf).
Read in browser Stephen Fry and Brit talk-show guests marvel at American prison system's brutality
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 10:31 pm In this clip from QI, the talk/quiz/comedy-show that Stephen Fry hosts, Fry asks the participants "where one percent of Americans can be found." The correct answer is prison, and the contests proceed to make a series of horrified remarks and jokes about this startling fact. (via Sociological Images)
Read in browser Muppeteers sing Henson's favorite songs at his memorial service
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 09:44 pm In this sweet, melancholy, raucous video, several of Jim Henson's Muppeteers perform Henson's favorite songs at his 1990 memorial service. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Read in browser Wooden Shjips video for "Lazy Bones"
By David Pescovitz on Sep 27, 2011 09:19 pm Dig the video for Wooden Shjips' "Lazy Bones," available on their new album West, out now from Thrill Jockey. The band's sound is an epic trip induced by 1960s psych, avant-garde minimalism, and the f/x-drenched guitar of Spacemen 3, whose Peter "Sonic Boom" Kember mastered this album. The West vinyl sold out in a split ...
Read in browser Brazilian woman found alive in morgue by daughter
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 27, 2011 09:11 pm "The doctor felt no vital signs, ran tests and pronounced Rosa Celestrino de Assis dead. She was taken to the morgue and spent at least two hours in a plastic body bag. "'I went to give my mum one last hug, and I could feel that she was breathing. I screamed out - my mum ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 27, 2011 09:05 pm Radley Balko shared this amazing photo in his Morning Links.
Read in browser Rick Perry: "Save a pretzel for the gas jets"
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 27, 2011 08:53 pm [Video Link] He must've been coached. (Via Dangerous Minds)
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By David Pescovitz on Sep 27, 2011 08:16 pm About one-third of sun-like stars are predicted to have at least one terrestrial planet in a habitable zone, says California Institute of Technology astronomer Wesley Traub after studying data from the Kepler orbiting observatory. (Thanks, Ariel Waldman!) (Also, as Rob previously pointed out, astronomers recently found more than 50 new exoplanets including 16 super-Earths, one ...
Read in browser Glitch: free-to-play, whimsical, delightful MMO from Flickr co-founder
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 08:04 pm Glitch, the whimsical free-to-play MMO game from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield, is now open to the public. Glitch's developer team includes Katamari Damacy creator creator Keita Takahashi, and is as filled with delicious awesomeness as you could possibly hope for. They're overwhelmed with signups, so it might be a few hours before you're confirmed, but ...
Read in browser Lil Johnson's 1936 musical raunch
By David Pescovitz on Sep 27, 2011 07:42 pm On Saturday night, some friends and I visited a collector of rare 78s and he played this delightfully raunchy 1936 tune "Get 'Em From The Peanut Man (Hot Nuts)" by Lil Johnson. Another one of Lil's lovely ditties, also from 1936, is "Press My Button (Ring My Bell)" with the fine lyrics of "Come on ...
Read in browser Swaygo Caving Pack
By Cool Tools on Sep 27, 2011 07:40 pm Caving is one of my weirder hobbies. But spending time underground has introduced me to a fascinating array of tools. This includes one of my favorite possessions: the incredibly durable waterproof roll-top caving pack from Swaygo. On any trip underground you're almost guaranteed to ruin one piece of gear or clothing. It's a tough environment, ...
Read in browser When the Bush family loved Margaret Sanger
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 27, 2011 07:33 pm Back in the Nixon administration, George Bush (the elder) congratulated family planning advocates on all their successes: As United States Ambassador to the United Nations under the Nixon Administration, President George H.W. Bush (the first President Bush) wrote a letter to Alan Guttmacher (founder of the Guttmacher Institute) congratulating him on creation of a "family ...
Read in browser Oddities' Ryan Cohn's apartment
By David Pescovitz on Sep 27, 2011 07:19 pm I'm not surprised that Ryan Cohn, who co-hosts The Science Channel's "Oddities," and I have very similar taste in decor. Above is his dining room. Below, his living room mantel. The lovely photos are by Sergio Royzen. From Collector's Weekly: Ryan Matthew Cohn, who co-hosts "Oddities" with Obscura owners Mike Zohn and Evan Michelson, says ...
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