Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Virgin Galactic launches world's first commercial spaceport with performance by gravity-defying Project Bandaloop Gweek 21: I Go Pogo! Occupy My Life: guy proposes to girlfriend over "human microphone" at Occupy Wall Street Customize your door with colored lenses Scandalus Olympus: ex-CEO alleges financial fraud Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses: a Tumblog of Greatness Nun becomes ninth Tibetan to self-immolate as protest against Chinese military repression Dean at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Interview with Futility Closet blogger Greg Ross Adventures in self-publishing: Why I took a year's work and tried my hardest to give it away Just when you thought you couldn't loathe Limbaugh more, he defends The Lord's Resistance Army Advice for protesters with cellphones, from the EFF Letters of Note, the book Instapaper 4 Taibbi: Occupy Wall Street is Bigger Than Left vs. Right Occupy protests around the world: 951 protests in 82 countries "French Spiderman" Scales Hotel in Bucharest (Big Photo Gallery, Not Safe for Acrophobics) Blackberry maker RIM offers customers free apps after outage; RIM stock continues to drop anyway How Occupy Wall Street Is Like the Internet, or a tale of a randomly-blogged funny protest sign Chomping Pacman costume Death Cab for Cutie remixes Herman Cain sings Lennon classic "Imagine There's No Pizza" National Radio Quiet Zone a haven for people who say wireless signals make them sick MAKE Volume 28: Toys & Games Texas officials edited climate change out of environmental report Cyclops shark fetus Yachtsman eaten by cannibals. Or not. Does light make people safer? Maybe. Maybe not. Sea slug steals plant genes Dance your Ph.D. thesis: Teaching a robot to appreciate beats Virgin Galactic launches world's first commercial spaceport with performance by gravity-defying Project Bandaloop
By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 11:44 pm [Video Link] Man, if there's one thing Richard Branson knows better than anyone, it's how to put on an amazing launch event. Above, video from the Virgin Galactic kickoff for the world's first commercial spaceport, Spaceport America (alternate link), today in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Project Bandaloop did an aerial choreography performance from the side ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 11:08 pm Gweek is Boing Boing's podcast about movies, science fiction, games, comics, books, gadgets, and other cool stuff. In episode 21 Rob reports back from ROFLCON and Respect the Internet. Also! • Rob presents the Boing Boing redesign -- fewest complaints yet! • Mark reviews the forthcoming Pogo anthology, and discusses the novelization of The Settlers ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 10:18 pm I like these lenses. If I tried to install them in a pattern like the one shown above, the lens holes would be non-collinear and unevenly spaced, and I would have to buy a new door. Craft-Modern introduces the Doorlenz. Made of anodized aluminum and tinted acrylic, the Doorlenz requires no additional hardware to hold ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 10:07 pm Michael C. Woodford (shown above), the former CEO of Olympus, says the Japanese technology company is involved in a whole lot of financial hanky-panky. The Olympus board says the 51-year-old British national, the first non-Japanese CEO in the company's history, was a bad manager. But he claims he was forced out when he began asking ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 09:35 pm TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NOSES, by Simon Fletcher. "GOD IS THE ARTIST. I JUST FIND THE NINJA TURTLE IN HIS WORK." (thanks, Joe Sabia)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 09:28 pm Tenzin Wangmo, a 20-year-old nun from Dechen Chokorling Nunnery in Tibet, is the ninth Tibetan to commit self-immolation since March, and the fifth of those to die. They are protesting repression by Chinese security forces. More at Free Tibet.
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By Dean Putney on Oct 17, 2011 09:28 pm I'm at the Web 2.0 Summit for the next couple days. You can follow along with me as I tweet my notes and thoughts on the event or watch their live stream. It's already heating up!
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 09:13 pm Futility Closet is a blog about surprising passages found chiefly in out-of-print books. It's one of my favorite blogs. Greg Ross, who runs it, describes it as "An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements." Mark Frauenfelder You find such wonderful material to post on Futility Closet. Where do you find it all? Greg Ross Most of ...
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By Bill Barol on Oct 17, 2011 08:26 pm [I am reading Bill's novel now and really enjoying it. Look for a review from me soon -- Mark] When John F. Kennedy was asked how he became a war hero, he's supposed to have replied: "It was involuntary. They sank my boat." That's how I became a self-published novelist: A large number of New ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 08:02 pm PHOTO, click for larger size without mosaic: Jean-Marie Anigbishe, 45, who was attacked by Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels near Ngalima sits with gaping head wounds at hospital in Ngalima in northeastern Congo February 21, 2009. Anigbishe was fleeing LRA massacres and left for dead on the road after he and his brother were ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 07:35 pm The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a helpful legal checklist for people participating in the "Occupy" protests (and any other form of civil disobedience likely to draw the attention of law enforcement). Read it: "Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else)."
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 07:31 pm Above, a rare letter by Walt Disney, featured on Letters of Note, a neat blog that gathers and sorts fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Shaun Usher, the guy who runs Letters of Note, wants to produce a book. A Letters of Note book. A beautifully bound, satisfyingly weighty book filled with many of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 17, 2011 07:28 pm Best-in-class "Read Later" app Instapaper hit version 4 today, featuring redesigned navigation and much else besides. [Marco Arment]
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 07:22 pm At Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi on right-wing efforts (yeah, including Breitbart) to turn the "Occupy Wall Street" movement into a liberal-left conspiracy. "Don't fall for it," he writes. (via Dan Gillmor)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 07:19 pm The Guardian is mapping "Occupy" protests around the world.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 07:06 pm French urban climber Alain Robert, also known as the French Spiderman, climbs to the top floor of a 22-story hotel building in Bucharest October 14, 2011. Robert's climb was part of an advertising campaign for a local electronics retailer. Robert first climbed a building at the age of 12 when he got locked out of ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 06:45 pm Shares of beleaguered Blackberry maker Research In Motion dropped more than 5 percent today after the company tried to make up for a four-day BlackBerry outage by offering customers $100 worth of free apps and technical support. That outage was a quiet killer. But what should they have offered their loyal users? Other than an ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 17, 2011 06:36 pm Conor Friedersdorf, an associate editor at The Atlantic, shares a strange but true story of how his words wound up on a protest sign 3,000 miles from his home: "How Occupy Wall Street Is Like the Internet." The short version: over the weekend, I blogged this snapshot taken by BB reader Ben Furnas of an ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 05:36 pm [Video Link] Make: Projects has complete instructions to make a chomping pacman costume.
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 17, 2011 05:28 pm Last night, I saw Death Cab for Cutie perform an epic, sublime set at the Treasure Island Music Festival. I'd never caught them live before but their musicianship and the energy behind it was really quite phenomenal. Today, DCfC have released another new track from their forthcoming Keys and Codes Remix EP, a collection of ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 17, 2011 05:20 pm In this performance from 1991, presidential candidate Herman Cain sings (splendidly) a version of Imagine in which the lyrics have been changed to be about pizza. [via Gawker]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 05:14 pm Bennie says: "The National Radio Quiet Zone is a 13,000 square mile area located in parts of West Virginia and Virginia. Some find the silence soothing; others because they suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. Whatever the personal reasons, more people are flocking here because of the lack of cellphone signals." Here's The Daily's Ashley Kindergan on ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 17, 2011 04:43 pm [Video Link] Becky Stern says: "MAKE Volume 28 hits makers’ passion for play head-on with a 28-page special section devoted to Toys and Games, including a toy “pop-pop” steamboat made from a mint tin, an R/C helicopter eye-in-the-sky, and a classic video game console. You’ll also build a gravity-powered catapult, a plush toy that interacts ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 17, 2011 04:33 pm Texas scientists wrote a report detailing the state of the environment in Galveston Bay. Rick Perry-appointed officials from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality went through the report and systematically deleted every mention of changes to Bay ecology that could be attributed to climate change. Now the scientists are rebelling. All the authors have asked ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 17, 2011 04:22 pm This is an incredibly rare cyclops shark embryo. Sadly, this dusky shark never even had a chance to live. A fisher caught its momma in the Gulf of California and when cut her open, he found the curious creature inside. From National Geographic: Once (Interdisciplinary Center of Marine Sciences biologist Felipe) Galván-Magaña and colleague Marcela ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 17, 2011 04:15 pm In 2008, Stefan Ramin was on a global sailing trip when he and his girlfriend landed on the remote French Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva. He was never heard from again. and ashes, believing to be his, were recently found there. For some reason, it was initially reported that cannibals probably hacked up his body, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 17, 2011 04:14 pm One of the cool things about LED lighting is that it provides opportunities to bring some of the benefits of big, modern infrastructures to developing countries without having to actually build the big, modern (and expensive) infrastructure. A couple of years ago, I wrote a story for ArchitecturalSSL magazine about people installing solar-powered LED streetlights ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 17, 2011 03:55 pm A species of sea slug can become photosynthetic by eating plants. The creatures eat algae for two weeks when they're young, and are then capable of surviving off the algae's photosynthetic abilities for the rest of their year-long lives. (Via Jurgen Hubert)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 17, 2011 03:45 pm Every year, intrepid Ph.D. students face off in a high-stakes competition for honor, glory, and the intermingling of science and art. The goal: Dance your Ph.D. thesis. I showed you the finalists last year. This year, Science magazine has posted all 53 entries online, before the finalists are chosen. I'll confess, I've not yet watched ...
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