Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% WIPO's secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting Complaining letter that got toilets installed on India's trains Super Barrio and "Occupy Together" in Mexico Pete Seeger, 92, marching and singing with Occupy Wall Street protesters in NYC DEA bans the building blocks of Bath Salts Space Shuttle Progrumkin John Lennon's tooth at auction Science Book Club: The Siesta and the Midnight Sun Zombie Shultz by Rev. Dave Johnson The Someday Funnies - an exclusive Boing Boing preview HOWTO make a Frankenstein hat Paranormal Activity 3 reviewed at The Awl Expired patent of the day: Lego Fine art recreated with plastic tchotchke assemblages Sprint kills unlimited 4G data plans 1980s cartoon heroes as persons of leisure Keep Calm and Konami Code Improv in Toronto: DARE TO FIGHT!? Burger King billboard gets diabetes graffiti Anatomical kitchenware Second City musical director Fred Kaz The Iraq War Is Not Over Red Light Properties: spooky and bawdy serial webcomic about realtors who specialize in haunted houses Gaddafi is not Santana, and Santana is still alive. Sponsor shout-out: Watchismo Tim Biskup's new painting show, Former State, opened in Los Angeles The Unconsumption Project Vintage circus photos On Tea Univac ad, 1956 WIPO's secret, corporate-run trademark enforcement meeting
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 11:15 am The World Intellectual Property Organization is hosting an off-the-books meeting in the Philippines on trademark enforcement, with speakers from Louis Vuitton, Chanel, the Swiss Watch Federation. The meeting wasn't announced on WIPO's website, and it exclusively features speakers who support greater enforcement, with no one speaking for moderation and balance. WIPO's own "Development Agenda" requires ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 22, 2011 06:41 am This 1909 letter from Okhil Chandra Sen to the Sahibganj divisional railway office in West Bengal is credited with instigating the practice of installing toilets on India's trains. The image presented here is the version displayed at India's Railway Museum. (via Neatorama) My belly is too much swelling with jackfruit [lettersofnote.com]
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 05:02 am The popular Mexican social activist and superhero "Super Barrio," who says he wants to improve the financial situation of the working class and the poor and homeless, stands outside the Stock Exchange building in Mexico City. Super Barrio and members of the "Occupy Together" movement stuck a banner, reading "Closed" in Spanish, outside the building ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:51 am As I publish this blog post, the iconic American folk singer Pete Seeger is marching and performing with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York City. There's video at Livestream.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:47 am An emergency measure put into place by the DEA on Friday places mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and methylone under the most restrictive category of drugs for at least a year, while the agency studies whether the chemicals should be permanently banned. They're used to make so-called "bath salts," which mimic the effect of stimulants like cocaine ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 22, 2011 04:35 am Forget it, everyone: there can be no greater jack-o'-lantern theme for 2011. Robert Pearlman tweets this snapshot of a pumpkin carved as an homage to the Space Shuttle Program, which ended this year.
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 22, 2011 04:20 am John Lennon's tooth will be on the auction block November 5. Omega Auctions placed a reserve price on it of approximately $16,000. "So, any road, we went to see the dentist instead Who gave her a pair of teeth which wasn't any good at all So I said I'd marry, join the fucking navy and ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 22, 2011 03:34 am Why did you choose go to sleep last night at the particular time you did? Maybe you were just plain tired. But, chances are, there were other factors involved in that decision, as well. Where you hoping to get a certain number of hours of rest before you had to get up and go to ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 21, 2011 11:07 pm This gag by the talented Rev. Dave Johnson made me laugh.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 21, 2011 10:42 pm Forty years in the making, The Someday Funnies is a 12" x 16", 215-page book containing color comic strips about the 1960s. They were created by famous cartoonists in the early 1970s for a Rolling Stone project that never materialized. Finally, these comics are seeing the light of day! The Someday Funnies is the long-awaited ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 08:57 pm Delia Creates made this awesome kids' Frankenstein's monster hat for her son, Owen. She started with an off the peg Frankenstein suit and then modded for great excellence. (via Craftzine) Hey Frankie! [deliacreates.blogspot.com]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 08:22 pm The only one you need to read.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 08:07 pm Godtfred Kirk Christiansen et al, filed Jul 28 1958 [US Patent Office/Google Patents via 365blanc] Previously: The Lego brick turns 50; Lego cannot be trademarked, European judges rule.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 07:57 pm Tom Deininger is an assemblage artist who arranges bewilderingly large collections of odd plastic tchotchkes into gorgeous pieces, including this Monet-like masterpiece. (via Craft) Tom Deininger - Stroking Monet [tomdeiningerart.com]
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 07:54 pm It applies to hotspots and tablets, not smartphones, but haha, wasn't that fast?
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 07:35 pm Obviously, Fab Ciraolo's newly-recovered illustrations of Oldschool Heroes provide more evidence of the ruthless looting of 19A0s culture by the subsequent memetic counterrevolution.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 07:11 pm Dann Matthews' variation on the Keep Calm poster is one I can live with. Prints are available for $15 and up. via GamOvr.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 21, 2011 07:09 pm [Video Link] Good times at Improv in Toronto. Imagine this. A single ninja, standing silently by himself. Beside him sits a sign urging people to fight. Walking along the pathway, you notice said ninja, the sign, and lastly a foam sword laying at your feet. You pick it up. Seemingly from thin air, ninjas appear. ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 21, 2011 07:04 pm The Consumerist: "Someone has graffitied this Burger King billboard in downtown Seattle to transform it into criticism about how sugary fast food contributes to diabetes and the obesity crisis."
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 06:57 pm Christine Chin's "Sentient Kitchen" sculptures imagine a whole set of kitchenware sculpted to resemble body parts. The hairy nostrils are a really good touch -- indeed, the whole collection uses sparse hairs to great effect. (via Street Anatomy) Sentient Kitchen: Fleshy Kitchen Accessories [people.hws.edu]
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By Jason Weisberger on Oct 21, 2011 06:51 pm I'm thrilled to be able to share the new website of Jazz and Improv legend Fred Kaz. For the better part of my life Fred's wisdom and music have been a guiding force in the lives of hundreds of the most creative people on Earth. As a young man Fred played with many of the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 21, 2011 06:27 pm Spencer Ackerman at Wired News: "The fact is America's military efforts in Iraq aren't coming to an end. They are instead entering a new phase. On January 1, 2012, the State Department will command a hired army of about 5,500 security contractors, all to protect the largest U.S. diplomatic presence anywhere overseas."
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 06:22 pm Dan Goldman's Red Light Properties is a serial webcomic about a Florida real-estate brokerage that specializes in exorcising haunted houses and then listing them for cheap. Goldman (who created the fantastic 08 graphic novel) takes a somewhat lighthearted premise and uses it as contrast to make the fundamental spookiness of his stories stand out in ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 21, 2011 06:18 pm Important news: "Despite confusion, Carlos Santana is NOT Muammar Gaddafi; still very much alive." Via Tim Heidecker. Image Credit: l-r: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images; Richard Drew/AP.
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 06:13 pm Our thanks to Watchismo for sponsoring Boing Boing Blast, our daily delivery of blog headlines to your inbox. BoingBoing readers can get an additional 25% off with the coupon code CLOCKTOBER on any of the new mechanical Uhr-Kraft Time Machine watches or other select German watches in stock. Originally priced up to $1500, these Helicop ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 21, 2011 05:49 pm Tim Biskup's new solo show just opened at the THIS Los Angeles gallery. The Los Angeles I'm Yours blog has a slew of striking images from the exhibition, titled Former State. "Tim Biskup's Former State at THIS" (Thanks, Greg Long!)
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 21, 2011 05:37 pm Our friend Rob Walker, author of Buying In and a contributor at Design Observer, has spun off another brilliant branch of the Unconsumption Project: The Unconsumption project that I co-founded, which is based around a group Unconsumption Tumblr and focuses on mindful consumption and creative reuse, has embarked on a really cool side project that ...
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 21, 2011 05:19 pm How To Be A Retronaut posted a series of lovely vintage circus photos, all from Dominique Jando's The Circus Book: 1870-1950. (via @wonderosity)
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By Rob Beschizza on Oct 21, 2011 05:16 pm Consider yourselves informed.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 21, 2011 05:14 pm From the Aug, 1956 issue of Scientific American, this sweet advertisement for the Univac: "Leading companies throughout the country have learned that Univac has become synonymous with enlightened management. And Univac savings more than justify its use for electronic control of management problems. Find out how typical users have put Univac to work in virtually ...
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