Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Cellphones still don't cause cancer Will Wright's business card Nokia N9 is beautiful, flawed, doomed Ice Cream Sandwich Periodic table of swearing T(ether) turns iPad into VR interface Clockwork Fagin on Escape Pod How-to: cross-stitched cell phone case 8-bit creatures in a music video by Anne Lucht Late Libyan leader lacked SEO Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, hacker in AT&T iPad case, on Occupy Wall Street Tom Watson to attend NewsCorp board meetings with "details of previously undisclosed surveillance methods" Gaddafi snuff shots, and why we love the porn of war To do this weekend: the Orionid meteor shower Revenge Of The Electric Car [Theatrical Trailer] Pizza Buddy Bumper Ball Lubbock, Texas dust storm similar to Dust Bowl-era events Adorable baby alligators 8-bit remakes fix the past The Day Gaddafi Died: Photos (warning, graphic content) Choose MIT's Energy Night for Friday night fun Ask the Smithsonian to withdraw copyright claim on public domain images MakerBot is hiring Hitler finds out Gaddafi has been killed Muammar Gaddafi killed Naomi Wolf arrested at OWS event for violating terms of an imaginary law Scrutinizing mobile apps: privacy violations, bloat, and poor security Canadian Tories admit that Canadians don't want DRM rules, push for them anyway Trebuchet attack! Elementary school kids build castle siege demonstration for school Cellphones still don't cause cancer
By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 01:01 pm A new Danish study finds no causal association between cellphone use and increased risk of brain tumors. [British Medical Journal]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 12:54 pm This is the business card of game designer Will Wright, interviewed for The Atlantic by Alexis Madrigal. Naturally, the country that minted the note no longer exists.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 12:48 pm This is my Next's Vlad Savov reviews the Nokia N9, "one of the most fascinating phones of the last few years." Beautifully designed and toting a linux-based operating system that can actually scroll smoothly, it is a dead end thanks to Nokia's decision to switch to Windows Phone. The Nokia appstore is "Chernobyl" and the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 12:35 pm Gadget Lab's Mike Isaac take a "deep dive" into the latest version of Android, with the platform's chief engineer as tour guide.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 12:30 pm The Periodic Table of Swearing isn't just a saucy JPG: it's a real-life interactive box that gets down and dirty with everyday English. It was built by Modern Toss—the duo of artists Jon Link and Mick Bunnage—with the design studio Clay. Made with buttons from eightliner-style U.K. fruit machines, the phrases included offer the fullness ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 12:19 pm T(ether) from Matthew Blackshaw on Vimeo. T(ether) is a display that sees you. With motion capture cameras embedded in a special glove and headset, it tracks the user's movements and allows them to manipulate objects on-screen using gestures and movements. From Creative Applications: The motion capture system consists of 19 cameras mounted on a frame, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 11:57 am My steampunk YA short story, "Clockwork Fagin" (about the children who are mangled by the machinery of the industrial-information revolution, who murder the orphanage's cruel master and replace him with a taxidermied automaton that they use to fool the nuns who oversee the place), has been turned into a podcast by the good folks at ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 21, 2011 12:55 am Haley Pierson-Cox of CRAFT found a tutorial from Wee Little Stitches to make a personalized cross-stitched iPhone cover. It uses this terrific Justice League of America Cross Stitch Pattern. How-To: Cross-Stitched Cell Phone Case
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 20, 2011 11:28 pm [Video Link] If you like this, be sure to check out the fun companion iPhone app. Anne Lucht's visual music clip takes you for a trip round the town of Düsseldorf, Germany - the place where electronic music made some huge leaps 30-40 years ago with bands like Can, Neu! and Kraftwerk. A low-res alien ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 11:11 pm Khaddafy. Gadhafi. Gaddafi. Qadhafi. Qaddafi. el-Qaddafi. "Good luck googling his obituary." (Rachel Maddow Show)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 10:57 pm [Video Link] In the video above: Noted troll Andrew Escher Auernheimer, aka weev of Goatse Security, on his federal case and why Occupy Wall Street matters to him: "I've had a strong decade of infuriating rich people," he says, "I am the 99%." Among other things, weev speaks about his friend Ari Douglas. He also ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 20, 2011 10:43 pm Tom Watson, the Labour MP who's tirelessly hounded Murdoch's News of the World over its illegal spying, has flown to the USA to attend the NewsCorp's shareholder meeting (he's got the AFL-CIO's proxy) to reveal that NewsCorp's sins go much deeper than the odd bit of mass-scale crude voicemail hacking. This is a pretty plausible ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 10:28 pm Susannah Breslin in Forbes: "Really, there isn't much of a distinction left between porn and snuff, between selling sex and selling death, between the world's desire to see a dead person dragged through the street by a hooting mob and the media's desire to give us what we want no matter what it is."
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 10:27 pm From NASA: "Earth is about to pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, source of the annual Orionid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Saturday morning, Oct. 22nd, with more than 15 meteors per hour. Earth isn't the only world in the debris stream; NASA researchers will also be watching ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 20, 2011 09:33 pm [Video Link] The documentary Revenge Of The Electric Car opens in the US beginning Oct. 21. Looks like fun. Revenge Of The Electric Car follows 4 larger-than-life entrepreneurs at the forefront of the electric car race. First, there's Bob Lutz -- Mr Detroit himself, the cigar-smoking vice-chairman of GM, who has been making gas-guzzling cars ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 20, 2011 09:21 pm I'm not sure I have any comment for this, other than to say how pleased I am that puns work just as well in math. Via Vincent Knight
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 20, 2011 09:11 pm There are many pretenders to the throne of Violet Beauregarde. Buddy Bumper Ball
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 20, 2011 08:30 pm Whenever you see a dust cloud, there's an almost instinctual reflex to start talking about The Grapes of Wrath. It's natural. But it's often misplaced. Your average cloud of dirt is less apocalyptic than the dust storms that ripped across the Central Plains of the United States during the 1930s. They can also have different ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 20, 2011 08:15 pm They said it couldn't be done. But National Geographic Traveler's Andrew Evans seems to have invented the Alligator Chaser. As a bonus: Check out this 2007 research paper, published in The Journal of Experimental Biology. It marks the first time that anyone sat down and figured out the physical mechanics of the alligator "death roll"—the ...
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 20, 2011 08:03 pm Back in the day, home versions of arcade hits were often disappointing: low-res screens, tiny sprites and tinny music. At the time, this was seen as the result of computers and consoles lacking the originals' cutting-edge tech. This is true enough; accurate living-room clones of coin-op hits weren't common until the 16-bit era. But expert ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 07:52 pm An anti-Gaddafi fighter shows the media what they say was the golden pistol of Muammar Gaddafi, near Sirte October 20, 2011. Gaddafi was killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over. Details of ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 20, 2011 07:41 pm I can't make this, but if you're in the Boston area tomorrow, you should consider spending your Friday at MIT's Energy Night. The event starts at 5:30 pm, it's free and open to the public, and you'll get a chance to see 70 cool energy projects that some of the smartest people in America are ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 20, 2011 07:35 pm Creative works published before 1923 are legally part of the public domain. Beyond that, the federal government can't copyright anything, except in very specific circumstances. So why is the Smithsonian Institution claiming copyright on a collection of 19th-century seed catalog images? What Would Luther Burbank Do? is a project aimed at convincing the Smithsonian to ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 20, 2011 07:07 pm A sweet gig for NYC-based makers and hackers and 3D printing enthusiasts: MakerBot is hiring support technicians: "To work for support is to be right in the thick of all that is MakerBot — if you find 3d printing exciting, this is the place for you. Send your resume today — that is, if you've ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 06:36 pm [Video Link, thanks @demarko]
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 06:34 pm [Video Link] Libyan leader Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed today when rebel fighters battling what was left of his regime took over his hometown of Surt. Since no-one has created a "Hitler Finds Out Gaddafi is Dead" video yet, I dug up the strangest thing I could find: this raw footage of the despot relaxing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 20, 2011 06:05 pm Writer Naomi Wolf attended a HuffPo event in NYC where Governor Andrew Cuomo was expected to attend, and which had attracted a group of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators who wanted to address the governor. Seeing the demonstrators penned up far away from the area where it would be lawful to protest, Wolf asked the police ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 20, 2011 05:17 pm Troy Hunt installed the HTTP proxy Fiddler on his network and used it to examine the way that iPhone apps performed. What he discovered was a series of shockingly poor implementation decisions that massively bloat the bandwidth needed to load and use apps (important for users whose mobile phone plans contain strict bandwidth caps); poor ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 20, 2011 04:07 pm Canada's Parliament is debating bill C-11, the latest incarnation of a "modernisation" copyright bill, which contains a very controversial US-style "digital locks" (DRM) rule. Under C-11's digital locks rules, it would be illegal to remove any sort of anti-copying technology, even if you're doing so for a lawful purpose. For example, if a store sold ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 20, 2011 03:58 pm [Video Link] Boing Boing pal Mike Outmesguine shares this excellent video of his son Mikey and his classmates putting on a demonstration for his school. Mike is a wireless technology expert and a fun-loving explorer of DIY-hacker-maker culture, and his son Mikey appears to be following in his father's footsteps. Mike explains: His class created ...
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