Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Ghost in the Machine: steampunk Hallowe'en ball in London, Oct 29 Excellent tees from illustrator Pat Dorian Neuroscience explanations are more believable than mere psychological ones Intel's "Tomorrow Project" -- public conversations about the future of technology I Fight Dragons' tutorial for making chiptunes Did an NYPD officer run over this National Lawyers Guild legal observer with a scooter at Occupy Wall Street? Brave NYPD "white shirt" heroically punches protester at Occupy Wall Street American Made in China, by Randy Regier Breaking: Wrong People Arrested on Wall Street The Sound of Sport Plants and Animals, a photocollage series by Stephen Eichhorn Epic Blackberry outage leads to epic turd-FUD headlines like "Welcome to the World Of Cyber-Terror Vulnerability" Student kicked off of campus after protesting debit card that doubles as student ID is reinstated Penguins need sweaters Saddam Hussein "porn double" escapes violent gang of Egyptian porno kidnappers. For the second time. Portraits of Occupy Wall Street: "OccupiedNYC" Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: a chapbook in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series Canadian government advice defines abortionists as terrorists Maggie in DC, talking about the future of energy Suggest a new name for the Very Large Array Beautiful short film about decomposition of a whale carcass At a Tokyo radiation hotspot, weirdness abounds NYC backs off Occupy Wall Street "cleaning" Paris flooded and abandoned in short film Fire Spotter notebook Ghost in the Machine: steampunk Hallowe'en ball in London, Oct 29
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 12:52 pm Toby Slater sez, "London, UK steampunk extravaganza White Mischief hosts 'Ghost In The Machine', a Halloween ball on Saturday 29th October. Headlining is Abney Park, arguably the world's most famous steampunk band; compere is Professor Elemental, the pith-helmeted chap-hop MC. Also performing are The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, notorious for releasing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 12:43 pm Seen at New York Comic-Con, which I'm presently attending: illustrator Pat Dorian's excellent t-shirts, which took top honors in my personal "t-shirt I would buy if I didn't have about 40 times more t-shirts than I could possibly use" competition.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 12:19 pm "The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations," published in 2008 in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, experimentally verifies the hypothesis that laypeople find explanations for psychological phenomena compelling because adding "neuroscience" makes them sound true: In line with this body of research, we propose that people often find neuroscience information alluring because it interferes with their ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 15, 2011 11:04 am Forbes has a good article on Intel's "Tomorrow Project," wherein Intel Chief Futurist Brian David Johnson gets science fiction writers and technologists to produce materials about the future of technology as part of the company's future product development plans. I've contributed a short story, Knights of the Rainbow Table (about the moment when human-memorizable passwords ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 15, 2011 12:13 am [Video Link] Brian from the band I Fight Dragons generously made a tutorial that explains how to create your own chiptunes (music made on old videogame soundcards). Many of you have asked how we do what we do, so now we're starting a series to explain the inner workings of our tech for those of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 15, 2011 12:05 am [Video Link] This disturbing video is making the rounds today, and there are conflicting reports of what it documents. The man on the ground has been identified as 32-year-old Ari Douglas, a legal observer at the Occupy Wall Street protests for the National Lawyer's Guild. The video appears to show a police officer running over ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 11:53 pm [YouTube video link.] This YouTube video title misidentifies the person being punched as female. The person is Felix Rivera-Pitre, reports Gothamist. He tells Gothamist that he is HIV positive and is a former dancer: [Rivera-Pitre] tells us he was walking a little bit in front of the police on William Street, and admits he "shot ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 14, 2011 11:42 pm Here's Randy Regier's latest artwork. I don't know if it's the size of a matchbook cover or a blimp hangar door, but its terrific. Randy Regier's "Fisher Fire Fly" model spaceship kitRandy Regier's Shokor Robot toyRandy Regier's toy sculpture: "Fast Asleep"Photos of amazing NuPenny toy store in Portland, MaineNuPenny Store in Wichita is never openRandy ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 10:54 pm From Borowitz Report: "NYPD spokesman Frank Hannefy explained the controversial decision to arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters while leaving the people who had brought the nation's economy to the brink of Armageddon unmolested. 'As far as soulless individuals pillaging the country for their personal gain, that's none of our business,' he said. 'But we'll be ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 10:51 pm The latest episode of the consistently great podcast 99% Invisible is particularly great: a profile of Dennis Baxter and Bill Whiston, sound designers for televised sporting events. (thanks, Jesse Thorn)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 09:33 pm More here. Artist Stephen Eichhorn lives and works in Chicago, IL, and is represented by EBERSMOORE gallery. (via Susannah Breslin via @superanne)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 09:11 pm I didn't think it was possible to think any less of disgraced former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. But then, sweet fancy Jesus, I read her analysis of the Great Blackberry Outage of 2011. For Fox News. I present to you the pull quote: Cyber- and germ terrorism are quiet killers, and therefore, threats ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 08:42 pm A North Carolina college student who was angry at what he believes is the forced use of a school-branded debit card that also doubles as college ID was kicked off campus after ranting about the policy on Facebook. He suggested that other students reading the Facebook post find "good viruses" to send to the school, ...
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By Dean Putney on Oct 14, 2011 08:40 pm Look at 'im in 'is widdle swedder. Just look at 'im. Seriously, though, apparently penguins caught up in oil spills sometimes need sweaters to keep them from preening their feathers and ingesting toxic oil. The Skeinz yarn store is looking for people to knit penguin sweaters. They even provide instructions on how to do it. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 08:26 pm Photo: Ahram Online. Mohamed Bishr was minding his own business last Sunday, walking to a local cafe in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, when three black-suited guys grabbed him and shoved him in the back of a van. They kidnapped him and beat him, and planned to force him to perform in adult films because ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 14, 2011 08:02 pm Fetzer, 51, From Waitsboro, North Carolina. Military Veteran, Arabic Linguist. Boing Boing reader Eddie McShane, aka Macdawg, has been doing an amazing portrait series of people at the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. He shared some of the photographs in Boing Boing's Flickr pool. I spotted them while skimming the pool for ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 14, 2011 04:13 pm I've just put up the site for my latest book, a slim chapbook in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series called The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. The book contains a novella ("There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life"), an essay on futurism, the transcript of a lecture on copyright and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 14, 2011 04:03 pm From the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, a helpful banker's guide to spotting "single-issue terrorists," which includes (apparently) abortionists and ecological extremists. It also groups attacks on property with attacks on people, and sales of books and literature with sales of false identification documents. Counter-terrorism specialists define single-issue or special interest terrorist ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 14, 2011 02:47 pm I'll be speaking next Wednesday, the 19th, in Washington DC, as part of a one-day conference on the future of energy. What Will Turn Us On in 2030? is part of Future Tense, a series of events sponsored by Slate.com, Arizona State University, and the New America Foundation. It's free, and open to public if ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 14, 2011 02:30 pm The Very Large Array is a spectacular piece of a scientific equipment with a less-than-compelling name. Located in New Mexico, you've seen this radio observatory pop up in the background of movies, album covers, and on Carl Sagan's Cosmos. This year, the Very Large Array, which has been around since the 1970s, got some much-needed ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 14, 2011 02:08 pm When an animal as big as a whale dies, its body becomes a whole new ecosystem. One whale carcass can support other forms of life for 50-to-75 years—basically as long as the whale itself lived. This gorgeous video (I am not kidding. You will not need a unicorn chaser.) illustrates how that cycle works, using ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 14, 2011 01:48 pm Officials were worried this week, when they discovered a radiation hotspot in Tokyo, kicking off readings as high as 3.35 microsieverts per hour. (For context, a dental x-ray is about 5 microsieverts. This wasn't a massive amount of radiation, but it was concerning. The AP reports that readings of that level have been found in ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 14, 2011 01:34 pm The Awl offers a selection of photos and videos from the early hours today, in which the city of New York's deadline for clearing out the park (so it might be "cleaned") passed.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 14, 2011 01:15 pm This strangely affecting short of Paris, abandoned under a yard of water, is by Olivier Campagne & Vivien Balzi. Brice Tillet made the music. [Video Link via Laughing Squid]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 14, 2011 01:07 pm Field Notes' lovely but inexpensive pocket jotters now come in stiff-cover red.
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