Watchismo Vintage & Modern Horology - Our watches will improve your self esteem by 7% Fruit labels that dissolve into fruit-wash Remarks by the President on a series of uprisings Debunking the OccupyLondon "empty tents" story Occupy Oakland: Riot police use tear gas, other nonlethal weapons on protestors after chaotic day of evictions, arrests (UPDATED) Cain Train: Herman Cain campaign ad by Tim Heidecker EFF report: How often is SSL attacked? Creative Commons fundraising drive Listomania: A World of Fascinating Facts in Graphic Detail, exclusive Boing Boing preview Pop-up ghosts and the Haunted Mansion: transcending a spook-house tradition Great old letters: 19th-c. Smithsonian Institution Secty. on "superior excellence" of a good cup of coffee Tabletop gaming: modeling tips and tricks Rogue Drummers, Disobedient Cops, Oakland Evictions: An Occupy Round-Up Rick Perry and the Birthers that just won't die 1955 predicts 1965 The world's most controversial Lego model Robin knee-socks with capes Maker Faire and the growth of DIY Yet another weird Herman Cain campaign ad: "He Carried Yellow Flowers" Today in lost diversity The Northern Lights meet the Mason-Dixon Lamps made from plumber's pipe and fixtures Xeni on Madeleine Brand radio show: "Wikileaks struggles to survive financial blocks" A new system for studying the effects of climate change Coffee: An antidepressant and religion preventative? TV tuffets: you know, for the kids! Occupy the laboratory What good is half a wing? Brain Rot: Charles Darwin on Pro Wrestling The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: writers produce "official" stories to go with the much-loved "Mysteries of Harris Burdick" illustrations URGENT: Restricted Access to Public Data in the UK Fruit labels that dissolve into fruit-wash
By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 05:57 am Scott Amron's Vanishing Fruitwash Labels are a concept design for a water-soluble, adhesive-backed fruit label that is impregnated with "fruit wash" -- a detergent engineered to remove wax and pesticide residue. They also spare you the hassle of trying to peel labels off your fruit. Amron's VANISHING FRUITWASH LABELS (via DVICE)
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 04:52 am "Square by square, town by town, country by country, the people have risen up to demand their basic human rights. (...)The United States supports a set of universal rights. And these rights include free speech, the freedom of peaceful assembly..." Remarks by the President on the Middle East and North Africa | The White House. ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 03:04 am Writing in the Guardian, Patrick Kingsley debunks the attempts to smear Occupy London protesters as "part-timers." Local councillor Matthew Richardson has been widely quoted in the press saying that the police's thermal imaging showed 90 percent of the Occupy tents are empty overnight -- but when Kingsley tried to verify the statistic, he discovered that ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 02:47 am Photo: Adreadnonymous. Protester in wheelchair at Oakland protest, tear-gassed. [Video Link: Oakland police throwing tear gas bombs at protesters.] From Oakland North blog: Vowing to reoccupy Frank Ogawa Plaza, hundreds of Occupy Oakland protestors marched through the streets of downtown Oakland late Tuesday afternoon, chanting "Fight back!" as police followed and a helicopter buzzed overhead. ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 26, 2011 02:38 am [Video Link]. What could possibly top the horrible and weird and real campaign videos for horrible and weird and real presidential candidate Herman Cain? Why, a horrible and weird and fake campaign video by Tim and Eric's Tim Heidecker. "Thanks to great folks at Cain USA 2012 I got change to make this song and ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 26, 2011 12:38 am The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Peter Eckersley has been monitoring the revocation of SSL certificates as a way of figuring out how often the 600+ certificate authorities are hacked. A hacked CA is bad news, because bogus certificates issued by these compromised authorities can be used to undetectably trick your browser into thinking it has a ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 11:33 pm Jane from Creative Commons sez, Today marks the official launch of the 2011 Creative Commons Annual Campaign! Please join us in powering the future of openness! This year, we are offering a limited teal edition of the CC "I love to share" t-shirt to everyone who donates $50 or more (until supplies run out). For ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 25, 2011 11:20 pm The 9 Most Lucrative Heists. 10 Unsolved Mysteries. 13 Fad Diets. 7 Things Made From Insects. If these pique your interest, you'll enjoy the new book Listomania: A World of Fascinating Facts in Graphic Detail. My friend and old Wired colleague Hollis Heimbouch, who is at HarperCollins, sent me the book with a note promising ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 10:46 pm Passport to Dreams Old and New -- the smartest Disney blog I know of, and some of the best design criticism I've ever read -- discusses the role of pop-up ghosts in American spook-houses and ghost trains, and how the original designers of the Disney Haunted Mansions incorporated them into their design, borrowing from the ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 25, 2011 09:45 pm Samuel P. Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Photograph by R. H. Lord. Boing Boing pal Isabel Lara of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum sends along a fantastic little gem from the museum's Archives Division, unearthed during their ongoing epic move to the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Within their collection of the aeronautical ...
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 25, 2011 09:32 pm Our friend Gareth Branwyn (editor-in-chief of Make Online) has written a wonderful and detailed "Skill Builder" article on tabletop gaming. In the early aughts, I ran a popular and well-regarded tabletop wargame modeling and converting site called 40K Konversions. It was dedicated to all forms of modeling related to the Warhammer 40,000 universe. For those ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 25, 2011 09:32 pm "Occupy protests are tough to keep up with, having spread across the four corners of the nation, and beyond them into the net," Quinn Norton writes at Wired Threat Level blog. And she's right. But she's doing a great job with these live-blogs.
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 25, 2011 09:28 pm On the subject of Obama's birth certificate, presidential candidate and noted douchebag Rick Perry seems essentially to be saying, "it's a theory that's out there." (thanks, anonymous!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 08:12 pm Paleofuture features "If Today Were 1965!" -- a 1955 publication of the Reading Automobile Club Magazine, published a year before the Federal Freeway Highway Act. It's an interesting mix of humility and hubris, prescience and silliness, and is as sobering a memento mori for anyone thinking of getting into the prediction game as you could ...
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By John Baichtal on Oct 25, 2011 07:43 pm My friend and MAKE colleague John Baichtal co-wrote an upcoming book called The Cult of Lego. I liked it so much that I wrote the foreword to it. As you might guess, John knows a great deal of Lego lore, and I have invited him to share some of it with the readers of Boing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 07:37 pm These (sold out, sob!) ladies' Robin socks come with capes, which is nothing less than a stroke of genius. Robin Socks w/Capes Jr Women Knee-Highs (Sold Out) (via Geekologie)
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Oct 25, 2011 06:54 pm (Photo by Jeffrey Clark) Gwen Moran of Entrepreneur magazine interviewed me about MAKE and Maker Faire. The article came out today (and so did the paperback edition of my book Made by Hand). The Maker Movement is also touted as a boon to education because of the science, technology, engineering and math components necessary for ...
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 25, 2011 06:53 pm [Video Link, via Tim Heidecker] This one's classic, meaning it came out back in August when no-one was paying attention. Herman Cain sings Lennon classic "Imagine There's No Pizza ... Visualizing Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan to redistribute wealth from the ... Herman Cain sings God Bless America New Hermain Cain campaign video is, uh, well, ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 06:50 pm It's October 25, 2011, and another subspecies of the Javan rhinoceros has gone extinct. There's only one subspecies left, and it's down to 50 individuals.
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 06:42 pm How do you know that you just experienced a more-impressive-than-average display of the Northern Lights? When somebody can take a picture like the one above in freaking Arkansas. Arkansas, people. Photographed by Brian Emfinger in Ozark, Arkansas, these auroras were triggered by a big coronal mass ejection—a burst of energy from the Sun that can ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 06:37 pm Etsy seller ZALcreations makes crazy-wonderful lamps. My favorites are the ones that run their wiring through plumber's pipes and use faucets as on/off switches, but then there's the skateboard vanity light. Woah. (via Core77) ZALcreations [etsy.com]
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By Xeni Jardin on Oct 25, 2011 06:27 pm I joined the Madeleine Brand Show today for a discussion about the latest Wikileaks news. On Monday, Julian Assange said—for the second time in as many years—that the organization known for leaking government secrets will stop publishing because it is broke. Download the MP3 here. Wikileaks struggles to survive financial blocks | 89.3 KPCC. Related ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 06:25 pm I've talked here before about how difficult it is to attribute any individual climactic catastrophe to climate change, particularly in the short term. Patterns and trends can be said to link to a rise in global temperature, which is linked to a rise in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. But a heatwave, or a ...
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 06:09 pm A recently published study found a correlation between higher rates of coffee drinking in women and decreased risk of depression. Naturally, that finding made headlines. But blogger Scicurious has a really nice analysis of the paper that picked up a significant flaw in the way the data is being interpreted. There was a correlation between ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 05:33 pm These genuine Hollywood TV Tuffets are not only good for parking your drooling tot in front of the goggle-box, but can also do triple-duty as unsafe car-seats and precarious booster-chairs. Watch out for spiders! Little Miss Muffet - Now you know. [vintage-ads.livejournal.com]
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 05:26 pm In Baltimore, scientists have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement. They're worried about the lack of job prospects for Ph.D.s, but they're also worried about what that lack of jobs says about a society that's no longer interested in funding discovery and expanding human knowledge. (Via Bora Zivkovic)
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By Maggie Koerth-Baker on Oct 25, 2011 05:20 pm One of the most common arguments you'll hear against evolution (or, at least, one of the most common arguments I heard growing up amongst creationists) had to do with transitional forms. An eye is a valuable thing, this argument goes. But half an eye? That's just a disability. Like many of the really common arguments ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 04:49 pm Today marks the publication of The Chronicles of Harris Burdick, an anthology of short stories inspired by The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, a much-loved book of illustrations and titles for short stories that never existed. For decades, writers young and old have produced their own stories to accompany the illustrations. Houghton Mifflin commissioned a variety ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Oct 25, 2011 04:31 pm Nishma from the Open Rights Group sez, "The Public Data Corporation consultation could mean access to public data is restricted only to those who can afford it. This could mean that data on weather and climate through the Met Office, data on land ownership through the Land Registry and data on mapping and planning through ...
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