HOWTO erase about 15 drives Boeing workers busted in drug sweep. Don't worry, they were only making aircraft for Iraq, Afghan wars. HOWTO bake an apple pie with no apples Percussive high-speed garlic-peeling made simple Goodbye letter from Borders employee(s) (?) spills secrets of bookselling trade Salvador Dali Gets Surreal with Mike Wallace (1958) Indiana police seize California woman's medical marijuana Being Elmo: documentary on Elmo's human Fractal Menger sponge made from Post-Its Watch the Ig Nobel Awards, live Broken-hearted boat-builder seeks garage Send a free get-well Postagram to Photojojo's Amit Gupta Yes Men plan to publish "Occupy Wall Street Journal" Encoding text with GM bacteria Chewy Vuitton In India, the sari with a mobile phone pocket Privacy and security implications of Amazon's new "Silk" browser Imaginary images PR firm boss will fire you if you don't replace milk in fridge after using the last drop Pilot hits wrong button to open door for co-pilot returning from toilet, sends plane into nosedive Hunky librarian catalog to benefit It Gets Better Project Wall Street people in suits drink champagne as protests rage Occupy Wall Street protesters to focus on NYPD next Sony to cinemas: no more free 3D glasses The Ig Nobel Awards on BoingBoing Meet a paleontologist Why I love Kate Beaton's "Hark! A Vagrant" At Moscow's Alternative Hair Show, hairstyles you would never be able to pull off Red Shirt insignia depicts the fate of all redshirts Washington Monument engineers, rappelling way up high 
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HOWTO erase about 15 drives
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 05:13 am A Slashdot user posed a question: how to conclusively destroy 15-some hard-drives without spending big bucks on a degausser or wasting a lot of time waiting for DBAN to run. I like this response from Plover (who also recommends protective gear): If you're looking for fast production-line destruction, take a three pound hammer and punch. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 30, 2011 04:25 am Dozens of current and former Boeing workers were arrested today in a federal drug bust. The workers are accused of illegally dealing prescription drugs (including Actiq, Oxycontin, and Xanax) at a plant that makes aircraft used in America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The DEA press release is here, and FBI press release is here. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 04:02 am Stephany Aulenback tried out a recipe for "Chemical Apple Pie," a beloved science experiment that uses cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate) to trick the human tongue into tasting apples, though no apples are, in fact, used in the pie. The pie tasted pretty good, and Aulenback unearthed a lot of interesting history of the dish: ...
Read in browser Percussive high-speed garlic-peeling made simple
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 02:52 am Here's Todd Coleman, exec food editor for Saveur, explaining a 10-second percussive method for separating garlic peels from the cloves. Handy! (Thanks, Fipi Lele)
Read in browser Goodbye letter from Borders employee(s) (?) spills secrets of bookselling trade
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 02:02 am A large handwritten poster (purportedly) from a laid-off employee of the defunct bookselling chain Borders entitled "Things we never told you: Ode to a bookstore death," reveals several key truths of bookselling (and some cranky griping): Things we never told you: Ode to a bookstore death • We hate when a book becomes popular simply ...
Read in browser Salvador Dali Gets Surreal with Mike Wallace (1958)
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 12:29 am [Video Link] This Mike Wallace interview is a beautiful performance by Dali. From Open Culture: In 1958, [Mike] Wallace tried to demystify "the enigma that is Salvador Dali," and it didn't go terribly well. It turns out that surrealist painters give surreal answers to conventional interview questions too. Pretty quickly, Wallace capitulates and says, "I must ...
Read in browser Indiana police seize California woman's medical marijuana
By Mark Frauenfelder on Sep 30, 2011 12:21 am The TSA and airport police in Indianapolis saved the world from total annihilation this week by seizing a breast cancer patient's medical marijuana. Indiana police seize California woman's medical marijuana (Via The Agitator)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 30, 2011 12:09 am Being Elmo is a documentary on the live of Kevin Clash, who was raised on Sesame Street and dreamed of being a Muppeteer with Jim Henson. He went straight from high school to New York to throw himself at the Henson studios, came up with Elmo, and the character became his life. The film has ...
Read in browser Fractal Menger sponge made from Post-Its
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 11:32 pm Nicholas Rougeux made this fabulous Menger sponge fractal out of mini Post-its, which he swears by for erecting fractals: Each Post-It was torn into 16 equal squares, then folded into units and assembled into the sponge. Post-its offer surprisingly structural durability and are easy to get in large quantities making them ideal for assembling structures ...
Read in browser Watch the Ig Nobel Awards, live
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 29, 2011 11:28 pm The Ig Nobel Awards honor scientific research that is simultaneously silly-sounding and thought provoking. This years' awards ceremony, in Boston, is sold out. But you can watch the whole thing here, starting right ... about ... now (7:30 Eastern). If you miss the show, never fear. The YouTube video embedded here will automatically switch from ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 11:26 pm A broken-hearted person in Heather's neighbourhood is building a boat. He wants your help, your garage, and your company.
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 11:10 pm Doc Pop shares the news that our mutual friend Amit Gupta (founder of the terrific online photography shop Photojojo, and lots of other cool photography-related projects) has been diagnosed with leukemia. "There's a big push on the blogosphere to keep Amit's hospital room filled with postcards and we wanted to help out," Doc writes, "So ...
Read in browser Yes Men plan to publish "Occupy Wall Street Journal"
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 10:56 pm The group of merry populist pranksters The Yes Men have a Kickstarter going to raise funds for Occupy Wall Street Journal, "a four-page broadsheet about the 99% represented at Liberty Plaza." (NYO)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 10:14 pm Science Now reports on a project from David Walt (Tufts) and George Whitesides (Harvard) to come up with a steganographic text-encoding scheme that uses bacteria to encode messages and selective antibiotics to reveal them. It was conceived of in response to a DARPA challenge to devise non-electrical text-encoding, but its applications include adding text-based information ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 09:09 pm Nice one, MyGayDads! (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 08:21 pm Old meets new in Chennai: "The sari with a pocket – pre-stitched and embroidered, appearing just below the waist on the left – that can carry a mobile phone or even the stray iPod or lipstick." (NYT)
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By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 08:19 pm "Amazon will capture and control every Web transaction performed by Fire users. Every page they see, every link they follow, every click they make, every ad they see is going to be intermediated by one of the largest server farms on the planet. People who cringe at the data-mining implications of the Facebook Timeline ought ...
Read in browser Imaginary images
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 08:15 pm "A Terry Richardson photo of Jay-Z and Thom Yorke dressed in tuxedos eating Swedish fish while wearing Hulk hands"—one of an infinite number of images that would be awesome, if they existed. (via @nopattern)
Read in browser PR firm boss will fire you if you don't replace milk in fridge after using the last drop
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 08:12 pm "I am gravely serious when I write this - if I catch someone not replacing the milk, or at least, in the case where the downstairs store has close [sic] already, not sending an email to the office so the first person that arrives (usually Christa or me) can pick one up upon arrival - ...
Read in browser Pilot hits wrong button to open door for co-pilot returning from toilet, sends plane into nosedive
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 08:10 pm Derp. "A Japanese airline says one of its jets nose-dived and rolled almost upside down earlier this month because the co-pilot hit the wrong controls while trying to open the cockpit door so the captain could return from a restroom break." (via @nickbilton)
Read in browser Hunky librarian catalog to benefit It Gets Better Project
By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 08:05 pm "Men of the Stacks" is a beefcake calendar featuring hunky librarians, with proceeds to the It Gets Better project. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)
Read in browser Wall Street people in suits drink champagne as protests rage
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 07:52 pm Ken Layne at Wonkette points to this provocative video. Not entirely sure of its true provenance, or who's doing what, but it's definitely struck a popular chord, and gone viral. I remember protesting on Market Street in San Francisco a decade ago or so, near financial firms, and seeing bankers and business-folk sneer and mock ...
Read in browser Occupy Wall Street protesters to focus on NYPD next
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 07:49 pm The activists behind Occupy Wall Street plan to demonstrate Friday on the streets outside the New York City police department's operations center. They're adding "excessive police force against protesters and police treatment of ethnic minorities and Muslims to its grievances list, which includes bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment."
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 07:07 pm Now here's some good news for movie-goers: Sony has informed theatrical exhibitors that it will no longer pay for 3D glasses, and will now expect the cinemas to pay the $0.50/customer for the specs, presumably passing this on to cash-strapped customers who are already paying a $3-4 premium to see movies in 3D. Why is ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 29, 2011 06:37 pm Check back here tonight to watch a live broadcast of the Ig Nobel Awards, starting at 7:05 Eastern time.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 29, 2011 06:33 pm What does a scientist do all day? The Smithsonian's Matthew Carrano explains his job as a paleontologist, what he hopes to discover, and why he made a career out of dinosaurs.
Read in browser Why I love Kate Beaton's "Hark! A Vagrant"
By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Sep 29, 2011 06:23 pm On April 6, 1909, Robert Peary claimed to be the first person to reach the North Pole. Of course, there were some issues with his claim. For one thing, Inuit had almost certainly been through the area before. For another, a guy named Frederick Cook said he'd reached the Pole in 1908. And, last but ...
Read in browser At Moscow's Alternative Hair Show, hairstyles you would never be able to pull off
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 06:10 pm Above and below: models at the Alternative Hair Show in Moscow's Kremlin, September 28, 2011. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)
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By Cory Doctorow on Sep 29, 2011 06:04 pm Love this Ian Leino Red Shirt t-shirt design, whose Star Trek insignia bears a frank and unmistakable icon depicting the fate of all redshirts in the landing party. (via Making Light)
Read in browser Washington Monument engineers, rappelling way up high
By Xeni Jardin on Sep 29, 2011 05:55 pm Dan Ruff shot this wonderful photograph of structural engineers rappelling down the face of the Washington Monument to inspect possible earthquake damage. More shots here. Shared in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool. Maggie wrote about this the other day, but it's neat to see a Boing Boing reader out on the scene taking photos!
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