Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Pioneer One: crowdfunded science fiction TV series Royal Navy ejector seat for sale as office-chair Occupy Wall Street: Protests travel to homes of ultra-rich OccupyStream: live streaming video of the "Occupation" More than 100 arrested at Occupy Boston Portraits from Occupy Wall Street (Boing Boing Flickr Pool) Again with the Sony hacking! Intruder tried to access 93,000 accounts for Playstation, other networks Should you get an Apple iPhone 4s? If so, which carrier? Mountain biker taken out by Red Hartebeest buck during race in South Africa What's the best way to escape the police in a high-speed car chase? Subpoena for AG Holder imminent in "Fast and Furious" guns-for-narcos investigation Iranian mullah-narco terror plot to kill Saudi ambassador with cartel hitman and Mexico-laundered cash is so obviously ripped from Breaking Bad Get hacked, don't tell: US Air Force base didn't report drone virus Bank robbers who ill-advisedly stop for lunch Lucy Knisley's fun presentation on autobiographical travelogue comics Art show in NJ to benefit Jack Kirby Museum, October 15, 2011 The Wage Slave's Glossary: exclusive preview The QDrive: a "radiation pressure imbalance" drive for space travel Old Superhero costumes John Waters on coming out Custom Viewmaster reel wedding invites Mixtape of the Lost Decade Ruben Bolling wins Society of Professional Journalists award for Tom the Dancing Bug comic Occupy the World Mexican Narcogangs' War On Digital Media Jean-Luc Godard's WEEKEND, 1967, returning to theaters in a new 35mm print Xeni speaking at Harvard: Shorenstein Center 25th Anniversary, on Press, Politics and Public Policy Cloud Cities art installation of giant plastic bubbles Macrame with brass hexnuts Faces of Occupied Wall Street: Molly Crabapple Pioneer One: crowdfunded science fiction TV series
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 10:05 am Jamie writes in about Pioneer One, "A drama series with a sci-fi bent, made independently and distributed online. It gained some notoriety for being the first 'TV show' to be distributed through BitTorrent via VODO.net and has thus far been funded entirely by donations from its viewers. If you're looking for breakneck action and glitzy ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 06:59 am When It's Gone It's Gone, an online one-of-a-kind store, is selling this Royal Navy ejector seat that's been fitted with legs for use as an office desk-chair. Not sure what the ergonomics are like (I assume that a pilot's seat has to be at least moderately comfy, though!), and as for price, it's a strictly ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 05:45 am A doorman looks out the entrance to a Park Avenue building as members of the Occupy Wall Street walk past in protest through the upper east side of New York October 11, 2011. The Occupy Wall Street movement took protests to the New York homes of super-wealthy executives on Tuesday as rallies against economic inequality ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 05:39 am Over the past week, I've been tuning in to various live video streams from cities around the US on OccupyStream. An excellent resource for "live television by the people," from protests all over. When the police in Boston cracked down on demonstrators last night, arresting more than a hundred, all of the action was live-streamed ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 05:29 am Video Link: "Occupy Boston 10/10/2011: Police show their presence at new campsite." Hundreds of "Occupy Boston" protesters were arrested last night, as police moved in on demonstrators who refused to leave a park. From the Boston Globe: At 1:20 a.m., the first riot police officers lined up on Atlantic Avenue. Minutes later, dozens of sheriff ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 05:13 am Boing Boing reader Joe Holmes shares this set of portraits of Occupy Wall Street participants, in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 02:36 am From Reuters: "Sony said on Wednesday that a third party had tried to sign in to 93,000 active accounts on its PlayStation and other networks this month." What's funny is not that Playstation users are under attack again, but that there are any Playstation users left.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 01:57 am From the looks of all these iPhone 4S reviews suddenly hitting the web, it seems Apple's press embargo has just lifted. TL;DR consensus is that the latest revision of Apple's dominant device is really, really good. Brian Lam wrote a helpful buying guide over at Wirecutter, with pros and cons of going with Sprint, AT&T, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 01:47 am [Video Link] Evan van der Spuy, a mountain biker with Team Jeep South Africa, is thrown from his bike in this video during a cross-country race by a Red Hartebeest buck. His teammate Travis Walker shot the video from his bicycle on a GoPro Hero Camera (those things are awesome). Buck Norris! Mr. van der ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 01:43 am An ex-cop answers that question here. At last, I've figured out what Quora is good for! (thanks, Todd Lappin)
Read in browser Subpoena for AG Holder imminent in "Fast and Furious" guns-for-narcos investigation
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 01:08 am (Eric Holder. Photo: REUTERS) A congressional subpoena directed to Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to be issued soon, according to CBS News, and will order him to hand over documents to lawmakers showing when he became aware of "Fast and Furious," a "gunwalking" operation that supplied guns to Mexican drug cartels. Snip from CBS: ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 12:42 am (Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to the United States Adel al-Jubeir speaks to the media at the Mideast Peace Conference in Annapolis, November 27, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed) This alleged Iranian terror plot the FBI reported today is really quite something. It reads like any one of the 419 scams in my spam folder meets an episode of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 12:32 am Danger Room reports: "Officials at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada knew for two weeks about a virus infecting the drone "cockpits" there. But they kept the information about the infection to themselves — leaving the unit that's supposed to serve as the Air Force's cybersecurity specialists in the dark. The network defenders at the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 12:23 am Lowering the Bar, a legal humor blog, has a look at bank robbers who stop for lunch at nearby restaurants. Most recently, there was Henry Elmer, who allegedly robbed a Wells Fargo in Yuma, AZ, then strolled to a pizza joint in the same mini-mall and ordered a beer and a pizza. The local police ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 11:17 pm Life is the Story from Lucy Knisley on Vimeo. I've written about the talented cartoonist Lucy Knisley before. Here she is giving a presentation about one of my favorite types of comics, the autobiographical travelogue. Life is the Story (Via Drawn)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 10:56 pm This Saturday (October 15) at 5pm, legendary rock club Maxwell's in Hoboken will open its Kirby Enthusiasm art show in its front room. More than 30 visual artists have contributed work paying tribute to "The King of Comics."At 7pm, in the back room, the Kirby Enthusiasm rock show will start, with WEEP (featuring the Venture ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 10:43 pm My friends Joshua Glenn and Mark Kingwell wrote a gem of a book called The Wage Slave's Glossary, which was designed and edited by the great cartoonist Seth. They've kindly permitted me to run a few entries from their very entertaining little book. The Wage Slave's Glossary (Biblioasis) criticizes and analyzes what the Lowell Mill ...
Read in browser The QDrive: a "radiation pressure imbalance" drive for space travel
By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 10:18 pm Our friends at House Industries designed the logo for the QDrive, some kind of "radiation pressure imbalance" drive for space travel. I don't understand it, but it looks nifty! The QDrive is a resonating cavity with design features that redirect the radiation pressure exerted in the cavity to create a radiation pressure imbalance on the ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2011 10:00 pm This small gallery of "original" superhero costumes have a nice tactility to them, looking like they've been crafted from naturally occurring fibers, a far cry from the seamless, shiny lycra aesthetic of contemporary superhero getups.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 09:44 pm [Video Link] John Waters being as brilliant and funny as ever.Paul Gallagher of Dangerous Minds says: It’s National Coming Out Day and to celebrate, here is John Waters - a man who knew he was gay as a child, from the moment he saw Elvis Presley on television - explaining in his inimitable style, what ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2011 08:37 pm Etsy seller Melangerienyc makes custom Viewmaster reel wedding invitations, which are nicely packaged with a lot of associated printed matter. Not cheap ($3450 for 100!), but they sure are purdy. (via Super Punch)
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 11, 2011 08:03 pm Of those who remember, some reveal our secret history through unusual media such as fashionable tumblogs and private filesharing forums. By sharing elements of an intricate and rigorous symbology drawn from the lost decade, this cabal works quietly to prepare us to learn the truth and its astonishing consequences.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 11, 2011 07:40 pm Congrats to our friend and colleague Ruben Bolling for winning the Society of Professional Journalists Award for his Tom the Dancing Bug comic strip! "Combining rapier wit with an astute sense of kitsch, Ruben Bolling's weekly comic strips play on (and play with) conventions of American pop culture and psychology as well as any artist ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 11, 2011 07:28 pm Reuters: "Tahrir Square in Cairo, Green Square in Tripoli, Syntagma Square in Athens and now Zuccotti Park in New York -- popular anger against entrenching power elites is spreading around the world."
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 11, 2011 07:09 pm Neal Ungerleider interviewed me for a (very good) piece in Fast Company about drug cartels in Mexico, and a new assault on digital media: "The factors that are remarkable about the narcoblog phenomenon don't exist together in any other current expression of media," Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, who has reported regularly on narcoviolence, tells Fast Company. ...
Read in browser Jean-Luc Godard's WEEKEND, 1967, returning to theaters in a new 35mm print
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 11, 2011 06:47 pm Above, the original, rarely-seen French release trailer for Jean-Luc Godard's WEEKEND, which is now touring again in a new 35mm print via Janus Films. That opening shot with the slow pan accross the traffic jam is so amazing. Everything about this trailer, and the film itself, is amazing. I can't wait to see it in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 11, 2011 06:37 pm I will be joining a group of speakers in Boston on Friday and Saturday for the Shorenstein Center's 25th Anniversary Weekend, at Harvard. Others on the bill whose names have appeared in Boing Boing before include Ken Auletta (The New Yorker), Vivek Kundra (Former U.S. CIO), Miles O'Brien (PBS NewsHour), Clay Shirky (New York University), Rebecca MacKinnon ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 11, 2011 06:31 pm This is Tomás Saraceno's Cloud Cities, a massive art installation at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof museum. Twenty huge bubbles are suspended inside the massive hangar former train station. It reminds me of 1970s space colony paintings! Lying On A Giant Bubble (My Modern Met, thanks Mike Liebhold!) Tomás Saraceno's Cloud City (Architizer)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 11, 2011 06:29 pm Brass nuts make this macrame bracelet into a beautiful, industrial fashion statement (via Craft)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 11, 2011 05:54 pm Molly Crabapple's "Faces of Occupied Wall Street."
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