Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Steve Jobs, nightmare sitter Famous cartoon characters' eyes Daffy Duck, famished from his latest quest Asus ZenBook Ryanair declares war on bodily fluids, vows to remove toilets Was the U.S. military drone virus caused by pilots playing Mafia Wars? Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer Escher/Portal remix Comic about the complexity and decline of copyright Insufferable Coffee Snobs video Lawrence Lessig at Occupy Wall Street Balloon Tardis Top Gun: new 360-degree flight simulator for fighter jet pilots unveiled Dogs styled as My Little Pony Bankers' salaries vs. everyone else's Core77 Design Awards trophy is a crayon mold FBI arrests Florida man in "Operation Hackerazzi" for hacking Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera, other celebs The Moon Jumper, made by the makers of the Bubble Fort Commodore is beautiful Alleged Iran/Mexico narco-mullah assassination plot is a head-scratcher Bop 'em beep-and-blink punching toys Facebook's misleading "log out" button and the future of privacy legislation Victoria Jackson Goes to Occupy Wall Street Matt Taibbi's suggested Occupy Wall Street demands TOM THE DANCING BUG: Definitely-Not-Gay-Man Meets His Arch Nemesis!! Using chocolate to teach calculus Ry Cooder's Los Angeles Stories: excerpt Turkey Terror Tape: Increasingly hysterical TV news producer films turkey attack on self US citizen accused of spying on Syria protesters in US for Syria Fallows: WE WUZ HACKED Steve Jobs, nightmare sitter
By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 12:48 pm Apple's co-founder and longtime CEO was a "very challenging photo subject." Photographer Albert Watson, however, once heard that his 2006 photo of Jobs--currently serving as a memorial at Apple's homepage--was the entrepreneur's favorite.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 12:28 pm Prints are available for $16. Designer Yoni Alter also published a cheat sheet, if you can't figure them all out!
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 12:19 pm Do you like Daffy Duck? Do you like 1970s-style fantasy-themed heavy rock? Then you will like this. [Merrie Melodies via Flooby Nooby]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 11:54 am The ZenBook, from Asus, is a Windows 7 "ultrabook" hewing closely to the MacBook Air's mold: an 11" or 13" display, teardrop shape, SSD as standard, and i5 or i7 processors from Intel. Previous challengers to Apple's popular laptop (and subnotebooks of yore) suffered from uncompetitive prices; this one, however, matches it at $999 for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 07:05 am Discount airline Ryanair continues to wage war on dignity and comfort with a plan to remove all but one of the toilets from its aircraft, leaving 200+ people to share one bog: The prospect of only one toilet being shared by 195 passengers and six crew caused alarmed in the travel industry. A spokesman for ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 13, 2011 04:36 am The malware that infected unmanned aerial drones in the US Air Force "is routinely used to steal log-in and password data from people who gamble or play games like Mafia Wars online," notes the Associated Press, citing an anonymous defense official. "That official did not explain why drone crews were playing Mafia Wars or similar ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 13, 2011 02:19 am Computer scientist Dennis Ritchie is reported to have died at his home this past weekend, after a long battle against an unspecified illness. No further details are available at the time of this blog post. Wikipedia biography here. He was the designer and original developer of the C programming language, and a central figure in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 01:01 am Here's a nice gallery of video-game-themed fine art remixes, including this curiously appropriate Escher/Portal remix. (via JWZ)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 12:25 am Sam sez, "Copyright laws are supposed to spur innovation by protecting creators' rights. But after 400 years of legal wrangling, and the complexities of new technology, the law has become muddied. Instead, it's now being used to protect powerful corporations and maintain monopolies. This new Appropriart! shows the story of copyright law's decline."
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 11:58 pm Jeff Simmermon says: I am not sure if you saw this Funny or Die clip about insufferable coffee snobs -- but it REALLY reminded me of the whole "iced-espresso" incident I wrote about that you promoted on BoingBoing all those years ago. That's pretty much what those bozos were like, too.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 11:31 pm [Video Link] Here's Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig in Boston NYC: "If this movement can be identified as a fight against the corruption that our political system has become, then it has the potential to bridge left and right in a way that could become much more generative, much more important, because people on the left ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 11:25 pm In a remarkable feat of balloon twistery, Twisty Kristy made this full-sized balloon Tardis for eAtomic Comics at Chandler Fashion Square Mall. (via Neatorama)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 11:17 pm Geert Matthys, research and development manager at Barco, a Belgian company specializing in high-definition projectors and displays, gives an explanation inside a fully immersive 360-degree flight simulator in Kuurne October 11, 2011. Barco has unveiled what company executives claim is the ultimate fighter jet training tool designed to reproduce reality exactly as a pilot sees ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 11:11 pm Here's a poodle styled to look like My Little Pony. Visit The Telegraph to see more full-size photos of the creature.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 11:01 pm This just isn't fair. Wall Street bankers are making less today than they were in 2007! Bankers’ salaries vs. everyone else’s
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 10:45 pm This year's Core77 Design Awards trophy is a mold. The winners also get a supply of crayons to melt for casting. This year we invited New York design team Rich Brilliant Willing to create the first trophy. Their approach was to design an artifact that could be employed in the creation of multiples, honoring the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 10:39 pm The feds believe they've nabbed the man who hacked into the personal e-mail accounts of celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, whose nude pics were then spread out all over the web. His name is Christopher Chaney, and he's from Jacksonville, FL. He is charged with accessing protected computers without authorization; damaging protected computers without authorization; wiretapping; ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 10:39 pm Watch the creative Needham brothers (who built the underwater bubble fort that Maggie wrote about in August) demonstrate their awesome moon jumper on tonight's episode of National Geographic's Mad Scientists. Host John Bowler tries out the Needham brothers' Moon Jumper invention. The Moon Jumper is a prototype, which can be very dangerous. For the tests, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 10:35 pm Boing Boing reader Byron shares this photograph of one of our ancestors in the National Museum of Scotland: An old Commodore PET computer (complete with tape deck for loading and saving programme and a built in monitor). I think this model was the very first home computer (as we know them) that I ever saw, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 10:08 pm From the FBI website, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, center, joined by Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant Attorney General for National Security Lisa Monaco at a press conference about an alleged Iranian assassination plot Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Sebastian Rotella at Pro Publica: The alleged Iranian plot to use Mexican cartel gunmen to assassinate ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 10:05 pm This 1966 ad for "beep n' blink" Bop 'Em punching bags is interesting: I remember nearly identical ads from the mid-1970s, when I was old enough to pore over the Consumers Distributing catalog and show my folks what I wanted for Christmaskah. Funny to think of an electronic toy whose design and marketing hardly changed ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 09:03 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Activism Director Rainey Reitman has an in-depth analysis of how Facebook continues to track its users even after they've taken several affirmative steps to log out of the service, and how this may interact with eventual privacy legislation. This newest privacy snafu could prod legislators into moving on one of the ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 08:45 pm [Video Link] (I recommend skipping to the 2 minute mark so you don't have to watch her taking a cab ride into the city.) Former Saturday Night Live regular Victoria Jackson does a fine job of not responding to the people she interviews at Occupy Wall Street. Instead, she sticks to her script of questions ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 08:13 pm Matt Taibbi, the Rolling Stone columnist who has produced better coverage of Wall Street corruption and government collusion than just about anyone, has a list of suggested demands for the Occupy Wall Street movement; as you'd expect from Taibbi, they're informed, uncompromising, and bang on target: 1. Break up the monopolies. The so-called "Too Big ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 12, 2011 07:09 pm Tim Chartier, an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Davidson College, has a series of ingenious and delicious methods for illustrating fundamental concepts from calculus using chocolates. I had a brilliant calculus teacher, Alvin Anson, but I think a little chocolate would have improved even his techniques: Where's the chocolate? Rather than shading a square, we ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 12, 2011 07:02 pm Last month Cory reviewed Ry Cooder's album, Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, describing the songs as "a combination of Mexican-style corridos, stomping blues, shitkicking C&W tracks, and other forms of great American music." Cooder has also written a book of short stories, Los Angeles Stories, and the publisher has given us an excerpt. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 06:44 pm [Video Link] "The camera is shaking because I'm shaking. And I'm shaking because I'm SCARED OF THAT TURKEY."—Duffy Kelly, Sacramento, CA television news producer, who was terrorized by a turkey. Read her full account here. (thanks, Joe Sabia)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 06:35 pm A federal grand jury has indicted 47-year-old Syrian-born Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid. He is an American citizen who lives in Virginia. Soueid is accused of spying for Syria: collecting info on protesters inside the US who challenge the rule of Assad of Syria. Specifically, the DoJ accuses him of gathering video, phone numbers, and e-mails, ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 12, 2011 06:32 pm Over at The Atlantic, columnist James Fallows shares a cautionary tale that should serve to remind you to have lots and lots of strong passwords for all the internet-connected services and sites you use. "Hacked!."
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