Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Scored: pulse-pounding/thought-provoking YA novel about surveillance Connectors Quiz! Background image by "WhishingOnAsTar!" Wood wristwatches JPEG artifact humor Scratchbuilt motorcycle Narco Polo comic: Marijuana Promotes Creativity Scientology investigates South Park Garbage omelette Insane shop-window sign Understanding the hyperrich through the lens of tomorrow's history Context essays on Command Line podcast Teller working on stage production of The Exorcist 7.2 earthquake hits Turkey, more than a thousand feared dead DARPA wants vampire satellites to harvest parts from dead sats prior to decommissioning Apple's iPod turns 10 years old today Post-it watches Scored: pulse-pounding/thought-provoking YA novel about surveillance
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 24, 2011 12:59 pm Scored is Lauren McLaughlin's latest YA science fiction novel, a remarkable book about surveillance, class, and culture. It's McLaughlin's third novel, and her best so far (though the previous two were very good). In Scored, the American middle class is no more, wiped out by economic catastrophe. Social entrepreneurs bent on restoring class mobility have ...
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By David K. Israel on Oct 24, 2011 12:35 pm Twaggies presents another quiz, which this time will have you in knots of frustration behind the media center.
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By Dean Putney on Oct 24, 2011 10:12 am Thanks to Boing Boing reader "WhishingOnAsTar!" for submitting today's background image to the Boing Boing Flickr pool!
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By David Pescovitz on Oct 24, 2011 05:48 am I was at a friend's birthday dinner when he received a WeWOOD wooden watch from his wife. Everyone at the table was quite impressed. The wooden watch is very striking, elegant, and solid. WeWOOD timepieces come in a variety of colors and each one is slightly different because, well, they're wood. The dual movement watches ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 24, 2011 05:19 am B3ta user Limpfish's "Lossie" graphic is great JPEG artifact humor -- and other B3tans took up the challenge with similarly altered movie posters. Home » Messageboard » Message 10579834 [b3ta.com]
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 24, 2011 01:20 am Pere Tarragó built this MV Agusta 750 S. For the fun surprise, click here.
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 24, 2011 01:15 am Here's the latest Narco Polo comic by Rob Arthur, a a former inner-city teacher and public defender and author of one of my favorite books, You Will Die: The Burden of Modern Taboos. The astronomer and author, Carl Sagan, attributed numerous insights to marijuana and has defended this inspiration from those who call it illusory. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 07:59 pm Leaky ex-Scientology bigwig Marty Rathbun reveals that the Church of Scientology has been running deep "public records checks" (including dumpster-diving and investigating friends) on South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, looking for damaging/discrediting material: "Scientology's standard procedure would be to put its private eyes on a complete check of these people and their ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 06:45 pm Spotted in the Clinton Station Diner in Clinton, NJ: a "garbage omelette" with "anything the cook can find." Check out the omelette I'm too scared to order at the Clinton Diner. (It's the last on the list.) [twitter.com]
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 05:41 pm Spotted in @carriebish's Twitter, this insane and menacing shop-window sign about an improbable sky-diving trip and a fraught marriage. Just about the amazingest craziest sign I've ever seen [twitter.com]
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 04:37 pm Charlie Stross goes on a tear with "A cultural thought experiment," looking at what the wealth of the 1 percent means, what it can't buy them, and how it might be viewed from a future society. The diminishing marginal utility law dictates that the more money we have, the less utility we get from any ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 04:02 pm Thomas Gideon at the Command Line podcast has done me the honor of selecting a couple of essays from my new collection Context for his latest podcast.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 03:02 pm Teller (of Penn & Teller fame) is working on a stage adaptation of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist. Teller's got an eclectic, less-well-known scholarly/serious bent, having contributed to peer-reviewed work on the neuroscience of magic as well as directing an acclaimed performance of Macbeth. From the early notes, it sounds like this adaptation will play ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 23, 2011 02:54 pm A man carries an injured girl after an earthquake in Tabanli village. REUTERS/Abdurrahman Antakyali/Anadolu Agency. Turkey's Kandilli Observatory estimates that 1,000 or more people were killed today in a powerful earthquake in southeast Turkey's Van province. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay told reporters some 10 buildings had collapsed in Van city and around 25-30 ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 02:03 pm A new DARPA solicition seeks "swarming robot space vampires" (in JWZ's evocative phrasing) to disassemble and harvest valuable components from decommissioned satellites before they're decommissioned, to use as spare parts for the stuff that's still functional: More than $300 billion worth of satellites are estimated to be in the geosynchronous orbit (GEO—22,000 miles above the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 23, 2011 01:35 pm On October 23, 2001, Steve Jobs and Apple unveiled the first iPod: 5GB of music packed into a white box no bigger than a deck of cards. More on the history, and Tony Fadell's role in developing the device: Macworld.
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 23, 2011 01:10 pm PA Design sells die-cut post-its shaped like wristwatches, gummed so they can be joined at the wrist. A cute way to put notes where you're sure to glance at them. Montre Post It Pense bête [pa-design.com]
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