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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 14, 2011 12:58 pm Holy Smokes is a company that will load cremains into shotgun shells and standard-caliber cartridges for you. [Wired]
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By Paris Match on Oct 14, 2011 12:47 pm Illo: Rob Beschizza. Photo: Frederic Poirot Author William Gibson discusses Victorians, John Shirley and the early days of his career. A longer version of this interview appeared in the 197th issue of Paris Match INTERVIEWER Do you think fiction should be predictive? GIBSON No, I don't. Or not particularly. The record of futurism in science ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 14, 2011 03:08 am Rome Sweet Rome, a historical sci-fi saga published as comments at Reddit, was snapped up today by Warner Brothers. In answer to a question -- "Could I destroy the Roman Empire ... with a U.S. Marine Battalion?" -- author James Erwin posted his reply in the form of a short story. Just a few hundred ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 14, 2011 02:21 am An unwise individual has made a wager that involves inserting a cotton bud soaked in the world's hottest pepper into his rectum. He has asked Reddit how to minimize the harm that might arise as a consequence of this undertaking. Redditors have reacted with a perfect mixture of horror and fascination, as you might expect. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 10:12 pm If you thought your mobile carrier was a pile of shit, it's understandable -- after all, the phones themselves are festering hives of E coli: Researchers said that 16% of the devices were contaminated with E coli, which can cause food poisoning, most probably because people fail to properly wash their hands after going to ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 08:37 pm Seattle prosecutors decided not to press charges against Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones. As I posted yesterday, Jones was arrested over the weekend for allegedly pepper spraying a group of people. His "spokesman" says he was attempting to break up a fight. From CNN: "If you see something that warrants calling 911, call 911. You don't ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 13, 2011 08:05 pm [Video Link] I couldn't figure out how he did it. I had to watch the video below to learn the trick. (Via TYWKIWDBI)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 13, 2011 07:52 pm [Video Link] This police helicopter has gee-whiz visioning technology that makes it easy for the pilot to pinpoint a moron who flashed him with a green laser. Laughing Squid: Man Aiming a Laser Pointer a Police Helicopter Is Quickly Arrested
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 13, 2011 06:42 pm [Video Link] It's fun to watch this fellow drop a magnet on a large disk of copper. I have no idea why he is talking about a Brazilian X-rated website. That's just a bonus feature.
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 05:29 pm The publication of Walter Isaacson's highly-anticipated, authorized bio of Steve Jobs, formerly titled iSteve (like iWoz?) and now titled, er, Steve Jobs, has been moved up to October 24 and Sony Pictures is reportedly buying the movie rights. "Who should play Steve Jobs in the movie?" (CNN) Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Amazon)
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 05:20 pm Santa Cruz, California police are testing prototype software that predicts where crimes may be committed in the next few days. The deputy chief of police thinks that it may help police patrol areas that aren't hotbeds of shady activity. Santa Clara University mathematician George Mohler developed the algorithm. From New Scientist: Some crimes follow potentially ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 13, 2011 05:12 pm On his blog, Frazetta historian and collector DocDave Winiewicz shares a wonderful story about the above artwork. (To see the whole NSFW painting, click the link below). [In 1994] Alex [Acevedo, owner of the Alexander Gallery in NYC] was quite interested in buying the Tarzan meets La of Opar watercolor. Frank would not sell it ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 05:07 pm Instructables user makendo created this wonderful Rubik's Cube chest of drawers for his children. This cubic piece of furniture has only one of the three required axes of rotation, so is unsolvable in the conventional sense, but can be arranged in any configuration you like by non-sporting means. The drawers do pose a brain-bending challenge: ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 05:02 pm No, Linus, THIS is the great pumpkin. Greg Ruffing took this photo of Tim Parks harvesting last year's entry into a contest held by the Ohio Valley Giant Pumpkin Growers club. Amazingly, he didn't win. Smithsonian magazine has a feature about competitive pumpkin growers, illustrated by Ruffing's photos. The "holy grail" in this game is ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 04:52 pm MTV has relaunched its classic 1990s animation showcase Liquid Television as an online venture. Ah, Aeon Flux, Beavis and Butt-Head, and Dog-Boy… Original trailer above. Liquid Television
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By Amy Seidenwurm on Oct 13, 2011 04:42 pm Sound It Out #2: Tame Impala "Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?" I'll admit to being a latecomer to Tame Impala, and for the stupidest reason: based on their name, I assumed that they were a bunch of pretentious trendmonsters and wrote them off without a listen. Silly, foolish me. Maybe you already know ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 04:40 pm Have you seen this gentleman? This is Gregory Liascos, 36, of Portland, who was arrested last year for allegedly trying to cut a hole in the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals to break in. He skipped out on his trial this week and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. From the ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 13, 2011 04:35 pm Do you have anything to declare? Yes, moon dust and moon rock. This is the customs form filed by NASA for the astronauts entering Honolulu after departing from the moon. The Atlantic recently posted it but Space.com has the full story in this 2008 article. Apparently, it was done more as a fun ritual than ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 04:05 pm Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen and AI scientist Mark Greaves are pessimistic about the prospect of a technological singularity in the intermediate future: "If [it] is to arrive by 2045, it will take unforeseeable and fundamentally unpredictable breakthroughs." [Technology Review]
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 03:59 pm T4obrien has uploaded files to create a laser-cut cardboard Tardis to Thingiverse: This detailed and thoughtfully laid out laser-cuttable cardboard version of a TARDIS by t4obrien totally qualifies as awesome. I don't own a laser cutter, but I just found the perfect excuse for buying one. And, if you don't glue the pieces together, you ...
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By Jeff Reifman and Thomas Linzey on Oct 13, 2011 03:53 pm Photo: Lucas Jackson / Reuters The history of populist uprisings like Occupy Wall Street isn't a reassuring one. The last one to have any staying power was the populist farmers revolt of the 1800's, and it was aggressively dismantled by everyone from the two major political parties to the banks and railroad corporations of its ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 02:41 pm A Closed World is an JRPG-style flash game, whose androgynous hero faces up to the oppressive attitudes of his/her hometown by leaving it. "[It's] a digital game with LGBTQ-friendly content, something that's very uncommon in games right now," writes the creators at Gambit. "Game designers and marketing professionals alike have cited a number of reasons ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 02:25 pm RIM's service troubles roll on: "I'd like to give you an estimated time of full recovery around the world, but I cannot do this with certainty". [Ars Technica]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 13, 2011 02:03 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. This special edition version of Mr. Jones Watches 'The Last Laugh' features artwork by British Tattoo artist Adrian Willard. He works in a traditional old-school style using simple, bold lines and just 3 or 4 colors in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 13, 2011 01:38 pm Agatha H. and the Airship City is the first prose novel about Agatha Clay, the heroine of their Hugo-winning webcomic Girl Genius. I've been reading the Foglios since I was a sprout poring over Dragon magazine, and doting on Phil Foglio's back-page comic What's New? with Phil and Dixie; and I've always loved the Foglios ...
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